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Kaylie Holiday placed the plate of pizza rolls in front of her cousin, Brittany, who looked at them skeptically. She picked up one, and turned it between her fingers, held away from her face as if scared that something would pop out and kill her.
"What kind of pizza rolls are these?" Brittany asked, breaking the roll open.
Kaylie rolled her eyes at her cousin. "Don't worry, they don't have any pork in them. They're cheese."
Brittany licked the inside of the one she had torn open, hesitantly, before smiling, satisfied, and leaning back on the couch. Kaylie shook her head.
"So, I hear you're getting a foreign exchange student comin' to live here." Brittany murmured, almost absentmindedly, looking around the living room.
Kaylie nodded. "The wind speaks the truth. Actually, it's Brooklyn's older brother's best friend. He's coming in tomorrow, and Jenna's flying in later today."
Brooklyn was her older brother, Christopher's girlfriend. Truthfully, Kaylie wondered why he couldn't stay with her, but either way, Chris had said yes, and now they were stuck with him.
Jenna was Kaylie's older sister, who was finishing off her second year in college.
Brittany had blonde hair and kitten blue eyes, and was insanely beautiful. Not that Kaylie was a slouch, herself. She, with her brown hair, and brown eyes, looked pretty good, too. In fact, you may even consider her pretty, if you didn't know her dirty little secret.
Kaylie Holiday had a birthmark right under her left eyebrow.
It didn't really matter. Nobody could see it, anyway, as long as she hadn't just gotten it waxed, but she still hated it. She'd tried to get it removed three times, and it had come back all of them.
Brittany sighed, and looked away, her eyes were distant.
"What's wrong, B?" Kaylie asked.
Brittany sighed again and shook her head. "Nothing, KK." KK was Kaylie's nickname, that only Brittany got away with calling her. "It's just-Andrew's been so distant these past few months. I-I worry about him."
Kaylie laughed, at her cousin. "So, he's finished off his first year of college, and he has a girlfriend. I think he has his reasons to be distant."
"It's not that-it's just… oh, I don't know…." Brittany bit her lip, and looked away for a second. Kaylie began to worry about her cousin, before she turned back. "KK, have you ever heard about the apocalypse?"
Kaylie moaned, and shook her head. "Don't tell me you're all worried up about a stupid movie. Brittany, you know that it's not true."
God, Kaylie wondered why in the world her uncle would let his daughter watch that movie. He knew how over-reactive she could get. Then again, Kaylie, herself was only a few years older then the blonde, at sixteen.
Brittany shook her head, rapidly. "It's not that. It's just-oh, I don't know how to explain it to you! I can't explain it to you, that's the problem!"
Kaylie scooted over, to wrap her arm around Brittany's shoulders. "Hon, you can tell me anything, you know that."
"Yeah, well, this doesn't count as just 'anything'." Brittany mumbled to herself. Then she smiled at Kaylie. "You're right, I'm probably just over-reacting. I mean, it isn't even as freaky as when you kept asking for my hand in marriage, and my father for his blessing."
"Oh, that was funny." Kaylie softly hit her.
A while back-well, okay, a few months back-Kaylie had gotten into this craze where she had to freak people out. And Brittany had always been the easiest to freak out. So, she had decided to start treating Brittany as if she wanted to marry her. Kaylie would ask for her father's blessing, and at one point, she even had given her an expensive looking ring that she had found in a cereal box.
"That was creepy." Brittany shot back, with a smile. She reached out to grab another pizza roll, just as the door bell rang.
The two of them looked at each other, before shrugging and going to see who it was that had interrupted them. Kaylie opened the hand crafted wooden door, to reveal a guy with bright blonde hair, and blue eyes. Oh, and did Kaylie forget to mention drop dead gorgeous?
"Yes?" she asked, raising an eyebrow up at him.
The hunk opened his mouth, as if to speak, but then stopped. He was staring at her, as if-as if he were seeing a ghost. But, oddly enough, wasn't scared but, actually excited to have seen her. Then, his eyes focused on her eyebrow-her left eyebrow-her birthmark, and his mouth dropped open.
"Uh-I'm Thorn." he said, finally meeting her eyes. "Brooklyn's brother's friend?"
Kaylie blinked, as it sunk in. "Oh, yes, of course." She moved aside, and opened the door, to reveal Brittany. "Um, please come in."
Thorn glared at Brittany for a second, who smiled in return, and entered. Kaylie could see all of his muscles tense up, as he walked by her.
Brittany looked over at her, then shrugged, as if saying she had no clue what was up with him. Then, something seemed to sink in, and she narrowed her eyes, turning back towards him.
For a moment they were just glaring at each other, as if having some kind of heated discussion, that Kaylie wasn't apart of. And she felt a bit out of the loop.
"Um, weren't you supposed to come tomorrow?" she asked, trying to relive the tension.
Thorn snapped out of his glare, as he turned to face her. "The flight got moved up. I thought Brooklyn told you that I would be arriving a day early."
Kaylie shook her head. "No, I never got the message. I guess Chris didn't find it necessary to." Then she held out her hand. "We haven't been formally introduced. Hi, I'm Kaylie Holiday, you're best friend's little sister's boyfriend's little sister. And that over there is my cousin Brittany Cooper."
"Pleased to meet you Kaylie Holiday." He held out his hand, completely ignoring Brittany. "If there's anything I can do, to seem like less of a burden, please tell me so."
Kaylie nodded, then smiled. He just walked himself right into a corner. "Actually, yes, there is something you can do."
"And what is that?"
"You can stop ignoring my cousin, over there."
Thorn turned to look at Brittany, and glared. "Ah, yes." He walked over to her, with a good looking smile on his lips. But Kaylie could see the disgust behind his eyes. "Sorry, miss, it's been a long flight, and I'm a bit tired. I apologize if I've seemed rude or something."
Brittany smiled tightly up at him, and pointedly ignored his outstretched hand. "You're forgiven."
Thorn turned back to look at Kaylie. "I must apologize for asking so soon, but may I use your phone? I promised my mother I'd call her, as soon as I arrived."
Kaylie nodded, and pointed up the stairs. "First door on your left."
Thorn nodded, and practically dashed up the stairs. Kaylie turned to face Brittany, eyebrow raised, as the blonde shrugged.
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Blood Stone rested his head up against the leather seat of Lord Thierry's limo. The blonde lord had so graciously lent him the black vehicle as transportation to his mansion, Circle Daybreak's hide out.
"Nervous?" Nilsson, Lord Thierry's private driver asked, glancing into the rearview mirror.
Blood shook his head, making his black hair fall in his face. "More like excited, really. I've been waiting for this day since the colonial times. Do you really think they'll be able to find her?"
Nilsson laughed. "Sir, if she's out there, you can bet that Lord Thierry's men will find her. You must be a big fan of the lord to have heard of him and Hana back in the colonial days."
Blood shrugged. "It was the only way I could think of, to make sure that others would be able to recognize her, too. And even then, he was a legend."
Nilsson smiled back at him, before going back to driving, and they lapsed into a comfortable silence. A silence that was broken, by Blood's phone going off.
"Hello?" he said, in the same instant that he put it up to his ear.
"Blood? It's Thorn."
"Oh, hi, Thorn. Are you at the house yet? Are the people there being hospitable to you?" Thorn was one of Blood's most trusted advisers, and he had been stationed at a house just a few towns away from Circle Daybreak's new location. He was sent there as an undercover mission to protect these twins that Circle Daybreak believed were in great danger from the vampires.
Blood wasn't quite sure why they needed to protect the twins, he just knew that he should follow Lord Thierry's orders.
"Yes, I'm here, and, yes, they've been very hospitable. But, listen, that's not why I called. I've found her, boss. She's here."