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"Text" = Speech
The scene opens to the sound of feet crushing grass and leaves beneath them, accompanied by the sound of heavy breathing, with a distant sound of feminine laughter. A teenage looking boy comes running into the scene, wearing very dirty looking clothes, that are slightly bloody.
(I need to get out of here, if I don't, that blood sucker's gonna drain me dry!)
With that thought, the boy breaks into an all out run through the forest that he is in. As the forest rushes past him, the laughter grows louder as the fore-mentioned vampire begins getting closer. He runs through bushes and trees and eventually, they begin noticeably dwindling until they had completely disappeared, revealing a road, and a big house at the end of it. It looks quite old, around maybe one hundred or more years old. The lawn is clean, cut and it is wide and open, but aside from that, it looks pretty ordinary.
"Thank God!" The boy yelled as he ran towards the house, his face looking frantic.
He reaches the house's front door, and he starts to bang on it and yell.
"Please! I need help! Someone!"
The laughter begins to get even closer and sound even more insane and maniacal. The boy begins banging on the door harder and faster, after a few more moments of this, the sound of a door lock turning is heard and the boy stops bashing on the door, and instead looks around anxiously, in order to look out for the vampire. The door opens and a woman, who is around the boy's height, around 6 feet, is standing in the door way. Her hair is golden blonde and cascading down her back. She's wearing an open-cut blouse that shows off her bikini top she is sporting, probably in an attempt to keep cool in the boiling hot weather, and even at night it was still hot. She also had on a pair of short jeans that revealed he thin, slightly muscular legs.
"Can I help you?" She asked, looking a bit shaken up herself, probably from the unexpected bashing on her door.
"Please let me in, there's a vampire chasing me and she's gonna kill me if you don't!"
The girl instantly grabs the boy's wrist and yanks him inside while looking around outside her door.
The boy quickly turns around and lets a sigh of relief escape his mouth.
"Thank you so much! Now that I'm inside, she can't get me"
"Well it's good that you came across my house then, I don't even want to think of what might have happened if you hadn't" the girl says, quickly closing the door and locking it, then turning around to give the boy more of a look over.
"You poor thing! You must be hungry, and you need new clothes, those things are so old and dirty." She cried, her southern accent more apparent then when she first spoke.
"Well…I am kind of hungry, but I really couldn't impose on you anymore then I already have, I mean, you let me into your house…without asking any questions which brings to mind how you could have known I wasn't a vampire."
The girl smiles a warm and inviting smile.
"Let's just say I'm good at reading people, besides, I doubt if you were a vampire, you would have let me live this long." She explains, reason lacing her voice.
The boy was silent while the girl turned away from the door and into another room of the house, her voice reaching his ears.
"Now come in here and let me give you something to eat."
(Well no point in fighting her, I doubt I would be allowed to leave without eating anyway.) He thinks as he walks into a kitchen that was somewhat small but also had a lived in quality to it, making it seem like this was the most used room in the house, it smelled of a faint trace of perfume and had the smell of food, a roast maybe, in it.
"Come on, sit down and we can get introduced while I get you your food."
Sitting down, the boy rests his head in his hands, elbows touching the table while the girl walks about the kitchen.
"So, what's your name?" She asks as she sets a few slices of meat on a plate.
"Well, how about you tell me your name first, so I can properly thank you?"
"It's Sookie, Sookie Stackhouse."
"Well Sookie, Thank you for letting me into your home. My name is Axel Twilight."
Sookie turns around and walks over to the kitchen counter and begins cutting a few pieces of meat off of a roast that is sitting there on a cutting board and places the meat pieces on a plate, setting them in front of Axel.
"Thank You." He says as he takes the fork and knife she set down in front of him and begins eating the meat.
Sookie pulls out a chair from the table and sits down, looking at Axel with a curious look on her face.
"So, how did you end up getting chased by that vamp anyway? In fact, where are your parents?" She asked, which results in Axel ceasing his eating and looking down at his plate with a sad look on his face.
(Great, we're on this conversation now. Now she's going to call social services and I need to get out of here before they get here, I don't wanna go to a foster home.)
Sookie's face changes to one of understanding and slight amusement.
"Don't' worry Axel, I won't call social services, not if you don't want me to." She says with a wink.
"Oh… that's good." He responds. His head snaps up and his eyes go wide. "Wait…You…You can read my thoughts?"
Sookie nods as she smiles.
"Well then, seeing as how we are deciding to surprise each other, would you believe me if I told you I can too?"
Sookie's face lights up and she nearly jumps on the table but barely manages to contain herself. "Really? You're a telepath too? That's amazing, I've never encountered another telepath before." She cried, happiness more than evident in her voice.
"Yeah, have been all my life."
"Wow, so how has life been for you then? It must be hard, I can totally understand."
Axel sighs and looked at Sookie with a sad look in his eyes.
"Well honestly, life hasn't been all that great, my parents died about four years ago so I've been on my own because I couldn't stand living in a foster home that does nothing but pity you." He explained, putting down his fork and knife on his now empty plate.
Sookie takes the plate and stands up, and she gives Axel an understanding glance, then puts the dishes into the sink, where it would later be washed.
"Well I can definitely see where you're coming from, my parents died in a flash flood when I was seven and I was raised by my grandmother along with my brother, Jason. My Grandmother…passed away last year so It's been just me and Jason ever since….well that and my boyfriend Bill." She explained, walking over to the table again and sitting back down, cupping her head in her hands and resting her elbows on the table.
Axel slowly nods and then begins to rise from the table.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sookie inquires, not moving from her current position.
Axel stands where he was and looks at Sookie.
"Well I can't very well stay here, I would feel too bad for imposing on you and I couldn't stand staying here out of pity so I need to move on."
Sookie shakes her head, her arms crossing over her chest.
"I am NOT letting you leave, at night, while there is a vampire that could very well still be out there waiting to kill you. You're staying here and that's final. It's no imposition at all so why don't you sit down while I go upstairs to see if I have any of Jason's old clothes for you to use, we need to get you out of those rags." And with that Sookie left the room, her footsteps sounding through the house as she went up the front door stairs. The sound of a door being opened was all that was heard to signal she had reached the room she was going too.
(Well I guess I should have at least expected her to not let me leave, if she was nice enough to not call social services on me, she was probably not gonna throw me out either.)
Sookie's footsteps were able to be heard again as she walked back down the stairs and into the kitchen, hold a pair of faded blue jeans, some boxers and a shirt with a black and blue checker pattern on it.
"I hope these are okay." She said, setting them down on the table and in front of Axel.
He looked at her with a shocked expression on his face.
"Are you serious? These are the first real clothes I've gotten since I was a kid, of course they're alright Sookie. Thank You so much." He replied, making Sookie blush.
"Uh yeah, I guess they would be, I'm just so used to wanting to be able to please everyone that I just ask that out of habit."
(I wonder how many times she has to make sure everyone's happy if she asks it out of habit?)
"Well let me see, there's my boyfriend Bill, Jason, My boss…you get the picture." Sookie replied, a coy grin gracing her gentle face.
Axel smiles a little and even lets a short laugh escape his lips as he stands up and picks the clothes off the table, letting them rest on his arm.
"This mind reading thing is going to be a bit of a problem…" He sighs.
"Oh well, if you don't want me reading your mind, I could just block your thoughts…that's what I usually do anyway."
"Are you serious? You can block a person's thoughts?"
Sookie nods in response, looking quite proud of herself.
Yeppers, if you wanted, I could teach you how!"
Axel begins nodding his head in response with a smile on his face.
"Absolutely!"
Sookie smiles in response and gets up from her chair.
"Well then, if you want me to teach you, you need to stay here with me…as I assume that you don't have a place to go since you're wearing those clothes…which reminds me. Go change into those clothes I brought you and then I can show you around the house."
Axel, the smile still on his face, stands up from his chair, picking up the clothes from the table.
"Here, I'll lead you to a bathroom so you get changed." Sookie explains as she begins walking out of the kitchen, with Axel following close behind her.
End Chapter.