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Chapter 1: The Break-Up
She was walking very firmly away from something. She turned her head around every few seconds to look behind her, to make sure she was not being followed. "Clever girl," thought Nico, walking behind her in the shadows. She got to her car and fumbled in her bag for her keys. Nico was now standing a few feet behind her. She got the keys and then dropped it. She bent to pick it up and turned around once more to check. She had seen Nico's figure. She started breathing rapidly.
"Um, hi," she said, squinting her eyes, "can I help you? Are you lost?"
Nico walked forward to her and she took a step back.
"Hi," he said.
Xia's POV
Stupid fool Damien. That's all he wanted from me. Another boy, dumped, because of the same dumb-ass reason. Urgh, I am ready to kill somebody. Is that really all boys care about? What a girl has to offer them. I thought he was different. Well, thought planted a feather. I just wanted to get home and sleep. Maybe sleep would ease the….frustration. Yes, that's the word. Frustrated. I was frustrated out of my mind. Frustrated, infuriated, agitated, irritated and annoyed. I kept turning around to make sure Damien wasn't following me. I got to my car. My trusted yellow Beetle. I got it for my sixteenth birthday. I searched through my bag for my keys and I dropped it. Typical. I bent down to pick it up and I turned around. Don't ask me why. I felt like I had to. Someone was standing there.
"Um, hi," I said, squinting my eyes, "can I help you? Are you lost?"
He came towards me.
"Hi," he said, "are you okay? I um I saw you running away from those boys, that one boy. Did he hurt you? Can I help you?"
Okay this was seriously weird. This guy has been watching me. Freaky stalker dude.
"No I'm fine, thank you. Yeah he's just an ass."
"Yeah well he is Damien Stone. He's kinda notorious for being a bastard."
Whoa, now he knows Damien. And his insulting him. I could learn to like this guy.
"You know Damien?"
"Yeah, I go to your school. I've been there for the past month. You're Alexia Milano, right?"
"Xia, actually. Wait, that means you're Nicholas Rasmussen? I think we have English together. Or some language."
This was just getting weirder and weirder. We went to the same school.
"Yeah that's me. Uh call me Nico."
"Nico. Well Nico. I best be off. I just wanna get home. I'm really tired."
"Of course. Uh, be safe, kay?" He was gonna walk away.
"Wait. You care about my safety? Why? We just met."
"Nobody deserves to be treated the way Damien treats you. And besides, we don't need another guy coming up to you and asking for the same thing."
"Wow," I said, smiling, "you're a great guy. And for the record I just broke up with him."
"Bye Xia. Don't let him bring you down."
"I'll see you around right?" I asked, taking my chances.
"Yeah, definitely."
He was gone. That was so…odd.
…..
It was still light when I got home.
"Mom," I yelled, flinging my bag onto the sofa, "I'm hungry."
I walked into the kitchen and she wasn't there. I walked up to my younger sister's room.
"Callie, where's mom?"
"She went to that very important meeting she's been telling us about for weeks."
"Oh yeah. My bad. Don't you have fencing today?"
"I do Xia. You were supposed to take me."
"Oh shit. Callie you need to remind me these things in the morning."
"I try and I try Xia." My sister was too clever for her own good.
"Well are you ready? I can take you now."
"Yeah let's go. Oh by the way, there's last nights lasagne in the microwave."
Nico's POV
Well, great. I'm gonna be stalker guy from now on. And I meant to feed on her. Something stopped me. There was innocence in her eyes. She'd been through so much already. That's what you get for being a vampire with feelings…
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