Chapter Two: New City, New Life

Emma's POV:

It was a nice sunny day out with a light breeze. Toronto was nicer than I expected. The sun didn't kill vampires like everyone thought. Granted we are pretty pale and we don't really tan but the son doesn't cause us to burst in flames. It does, however, weaken us and make us tired but not enough to where we cant function in it. That's why most of us lead normal lives, you know aside from the whole: blood drinking thing. Made vampires could only drink blood to survived, but born vampires could survive for a few days on human food. Of course it makes you extremely weak and tired, like the sun, but it helps keep up appearances. Plus se human food was actually tasty. Like Ice Cream.

Crosses didn't affect us but silver stakes, wooden stakes, and holy water did. Those were the things we needed to take caution too. If you were a made vampire a wooden stake to the heart was the only thing that could kill. For born vampires it was a silver stake. All of us got burned when we touched holy water though. Oddly we didn't have a problem with churches or crosses though.

We ended up packing most of our stuff but left the furniture. Apparently Radditch got us a pretty nice house just a few blocks away from the high school my brothers would be going too. It was a three bedroom, two bathroom house with a roomy kitchen and living room. The boys were bunking in one room, so Spike and Snakes four year old son could have his own room. I was bunking down in the basement just until I could find my own place or grab a dorm at the University of Toronto. Apparently the college was only an hour away. Somehow I think Radditch did that on purpose. The good thing was Spinner lived two blocks away in his own house living with his girlfriend, Jane. Another member of the Toronto coven. She was nice though. A bit punkish but we get along. At least I can escape there when things get annoying here. He has a pool. Back in Quebec I had my own place as I went to college and worked at the coffee shop on campus. It was refreshing being on my own. Snake and Spike trying to act like my parents always suffocated me and made me want to act out more. It made the guilt I had for not being able to save them even more unbearable. Now it seems I'm going to have to deal with that all over again until I figured everything out.

Right now we were all busy shuffling our stuff into the house. I had just got my last box out of my red Dodge Challenger and was shuffling inside. The car had been an eighteenth birthday present from my dad. Apparently he had it in his will before he died and it was sent over the night of my party. Along with some very tasty snacks. Deciding Id finish packing later I got dressed to go out and explore Toronto a little closer.

Since it was such a nice day out I changed into my black lacy patchwork embroidery hollow-out grenadine t-shirt that hung off one shoulder. Since it was see through I wore a black lacy strapless bra under it. The shirt was so long it covered my high waisted Jean shorts, stopping just before the hem. The shirt was long sleeved but the shorts showed off my long legs. My long blonde hair fell around my shoulders in waves. I finished off the outfit with a brown leather watch and black sandals. Smirking I grabbed my purse heading upstairs.

Spike was feeding Jack some kind of human baby food in the kitchen as Snake put dishes away. Her mouth fell as soon as she seen me.

"Emma." She scoffed, "Where are you going, dressed like that?"

Raising a brow at her I smiled innocently, "I was just going to go to the Dot to see Spin. Relax."

"Emma." Snake barked, "That's- not appropriate. The Jeremiah's are coming over for dinner tonight."

"I'll change when I get back then." Grumbling and rolling my eyes I headed out the door to be stopped by Blue, "Your not going without us, right?"

I frowned. His eyes were screaming for me not to leave them. Spike and Snake were great but sometimes they got a little to pushy with the step-parent thing. Especially with the boys since they were under aged and still lived with them. I guess they didn't want them to turn into a loose cannon like I did. That's usually when I would come and pick them up. The Step-Parents hated that. The crowd I hung around with at college in Quebec wasn't the best influence. They were party hard, human using, no fucks giving, vampires. Probably not the best people to introduce to my little brothers but we all needed to let loose once in awhile right? KC rushed down the stairs and out the door, Blue following, before I could answer. I caught Spike and Snakes glare before giving them an innocent smile and running after the boys to my car.

When we pulled up to the dot it didn't seem really packed. Which was good. The lest humans the less blood I'll smell. Speeding into the parking lot I parked next to an orange civic and got out with my brothers. Rolling my eyes when I seen KC had brought his school bag.

"KC, seriously, don't you ever stop and take a breather? It's spring freakin break man!" Blue teased and I giggled at him but then frowned.

I seen so much of myself in him at that age. I tried to stay the book worm smarty pants everyone expected but I could forget everything so much easier when I partied.

He raised a brow, "We're starting a new school next week, in the middle of the school year. I don't want to fall behind. You shouldn't either." He snickered, "Snakes teaching there so I'm sure he'll be watching."

Blue scoffed, "Why worry when I have you little brother?"

Shaking my head I led the way into the diner. I was actually super excited to see Spinner. Aside from Blue and KC I was really close to Spin. He use to be the one I would go to for advice when I lived with them until he moved away. There were phone calls here and there but not a lot. That was my fault. I fell into the wrong crowd according to Snake.

The place was actually really packed. More than I initially thought. Which was probably bad for me since I haven't fed in three days. Geeze the smell in here was incredible! All the young blood! I could practically hear the it pumping through their bodies. My fangs almost dropped right then and there.

Blue nudged me scowling, "Calm down, Em. Your eyes are turning red. Focus on the food smell. The human food."

Clearing my throat I snapped out of it, "Sorry, sorry." I shook my head, "I must be hungrier than I thought."

"Em?" I herd from across the diner from the one and only Spinner Simpson.

I squealed and ran over to him hugging him tightly. He laughed hugging me back, "I can't believe you actually came! I expected you to stay in Quebec!"

My other brothers walked up behind us smiling. Spinner caught sight of them and smiled wider slapping hands with both of them.

"Couldn't leave Blue and KC. How would they have any fun?" I giggled at him

"Right, right. Fun. Dads told me just how much fun you've been having." He raised an eyebrow going back behind the counter to clean some glasses, "Hanging out with Lucas's crew again are we?"

I rolled my eyes in annoyance taking a seat at the bar with the boys, "Lucas isn't bad. He just hates Radditch and all of his rules." I raised a brow at him leaning closer, "Which is why we're friends."

Spinner growled lowly at me, "Emma. Stop saying stuff like that." He leaned over to me seriously, "Lucas is bad news. He's a loose cannon, so is his crew and eventually Radditch is going to have to handle them."

I scowled back at him, "Spinner you use to hang out with him when you lived there. Now, all of a sudden, your anti Lucas. Yet you're dating his sister. What gives?" I rolled my eyes dramatically, "It's not like we're going around exposing our selves."

"I grew up." He pursed his lips nodding over to the boys who were attempting to flirt with the human waitress, "You have those two who look up to you, Em. They don't need to be out doing all of that shit with Lucas, or seeing all of the stuff your putting yourself through." He returned my glare, "Are you still dating his little side kick? Damian?"

"Define dating."

"Emma!" He growled, "Jesus. You're twenty two, get a grip."

I went to argue with him again, and to remind him he's my brother not my father but was interrupted when three figures walked over to us. Three humans and one of them smelled absolutely fucking delicious. Like nothing I've ever smelled or encountered before in my life. I swallowed hard. Spinner smiled tightly at them sending me a worried glance.

"Spin! Why don't you introduce us to your friend?" The pretty dark haired girl said smiling. She had dimples that showed proudly making her look more exotic, "I'm manny."

Smiling back I took a deep breath shaking her hand, "Emma." Nope. Not her.

Spinner nodded his head at them but still looked at me intently, "These are some friends of mine. Manny, Jay, and Sean. This is my sister, Emma."

The one with grey eyes and backward hat nodded down at me smirking. He was pretty cute and he had the vibe of a bad boy. Jay I think his name is. He was holding hands with Manny so I'm guessing they were an item, "Sister huh? Thought the only sister you had was Queen Stick In The Ass."

I laughed, knowing he was talking about Paige. I mean who else? She was a hard cookie to get use to. Pointing to myself I rose a brow, "Step sister actually."

Jay and Spinner started saying something about Paige but I was completely distracted when I locked eyes with the third human that walked up. Sean. He was already staring right at me and when we connected eyes goosebumps ran up my arms. He was gorgeous. I mean I've seen some good looking guys, but this guy was like the definition of Sexy. He had flawless white skin, a hard jawline, dimples that were the cutest, and piercing blue eyes that seemed to burn into mine. His light brown hair fell in waves to his shoulders which made me want to run my fingers through it, and he showed off his hard big muscles with a wife beater and tight button up black shirt with jeans. He looked like he was gonna burst through that shirt though. My eyes drifted down his to his neck and stared longingly at that creamy skin again. It was like it was begging me to bite into it. His heartbeat was echoing in my ears and so was the sound of his blood pumping. The incredible smell that I noticed when they walked up was obviously coming from him. I literally had to grip the table to not jump him right there. My feelings were completely surprising me to no end. This guy was human! And I'm freakin attracted to him?! Like sexually?! I mean I could feel my body getting all hot and bothered under his curious gaze. That's so wrong! Not to mention illegal! Humans were food, friends maybe, but they we were never supposed to have relations with them. I've never even been attracted to one before. I mean he's a definite bad boy I can see that but he's human! The guys that I've always gone for were bad boys like Lucas, once upon a time, and recently Damian but ALWAYS vampires! What the hell is wrong with me today?

"Emma are you okay?" Manny asked frowning from beside me, ripping my attention away from her friend. Jay noticed my gaze and gave me a smirk. Thank god Spinner didn't though. He was too busy taking someone's order at the end of the room.

Clearing my throat I looked at her, "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine."

She nodded taking the seat beside me as the two other guys leaned against the counter, "So where've you been? I didn't even know spinner had more than one sibling!"

I smirked at her, "Try five."

Her eyes widened, "Woah!"

"That's a pretty full house." Jay smirked, "Any room to breath or move?"

Manny rolled her eyes, "Ignore him. I'm glad there's going to be another girl in the group! I mean there's Jane but she's really-"

"One of the guys." Jay smiled at Spinners glare when he came over to catch the end of the conversation

"So Em, you gonna transfer to University of Toronto and finish here? Or what?" He asked looking around probably for KC and Blue. Those two could be trouble sometimes.

I nodded and jumped when manny squealed beside me, "Yay! I'm going there too! I'll show you around! It'll be fun! We can get to know eachother during spring break." She gave Jay an excited look and he just smiled lovingly back at her, "Hey Sean and Jay are having a party tonight at the Ravine! You should come out! Everyone is going to be there."

Pursing my lips I snuck a look back at Sean who was now smiling over to me, "Yeah, Emma, you should come."

The way he said my name made a ripple of pleasure run through me. Who was this guy?

"Aren't mom and dad having some dinner with the Jeremiah's? We all have to go. Paige is coming down." Spinner looked at me sternly raising his eyebrows

I smiled over to Manny, "I'll be there. Maybe around 10 meet me at Spins place?"

She jumped up excited, "Okay! Sounds great. We have to go but here," she wrote down her number and and handed it to me, "Call me when your ready."

With that she grabbed Jays hand and they made their way out. Jay nodded a goodbye. Sean smirked at me sexily, "See you later."

Licking my lips I watched them leave. Spinner growled from beside me, "Really Emma? When's the last time you fed?"

I raised my brow thinking he caught me staring at his friend. Close call. Shrugging I got up, "Three days. No big deal we'll just grab something on the way home. Wanna come?" My eyes sparkled up at him

"I have-"

"Pleaassse Spin?! Come on it's been so long since we all hunted together!" I bounced excitedly as I seen him breaking when I gave him my puppy dog eyes, "We can even stop by and get Jane! Yeah?!"

He sighed, "Fine, fine." He motioned for the boys to follow us out laughing slightly, "I forgot how good you are with that look." He sighed heavily, "By the way, you are so not going to that party."

Smiling a little I followed him as he led us away to somewhere safe to feed. Sure, I just wouldn't let him see me go to the party. My mind was so distracted though. I couldn't stop thinking about Sean. His smile, dimples, those muscles. Ugh. So sexy. I ached to touch him, taste his blood even. Vampires, the ones that had control over their thirst, usually didn't have to kill humans when we fed. We can easily seduce our prey into letting us bite them, take enough blood, heal the wound, and then glamour them into not remembering any of it. Control over your thirst usually came around 18 so me and Spin were okay to hunt alone. KC and Blue still had to have a chaperone to make sure they didn't kill anyone. Lately, when I've tagged along, they've been doing good. For some reason tonight though, I wasn't. I was having a really hard time controlling myself. Something told me it was because I couldn't stop thinking about Sean. Everytime I thought about him I was reminded of the scent he had and it drove me crazy when I was feeding. So crazy I nearly killed the third guy I was on. We were perched up in an alley way, his arms around me in ecstasy, my mouth drinking from his neck. I forced myself to stop when I felt him slump down and groan tiredly. Woops. Lost drained him too, and I'm still feeling insatiable. After licking his wound clean and healing him I locked my red eyes to his dark brown ones.

"You are going to go home, drink a lot of water, and go to bed okay?"

He nodded mechanically.

"You won't remember any of this tomorrow. You drank too much." I stepped back allowing him to get up, "Go." He walked off robotically

Sighing I cleaned off my face and skipped over to where Spinner was waiting with Jane, KC and Blue. Since I decided to go back for seconds, okay and thirds, they had to wait. They all eyed me warily.

"What?" I asked giving them a look as we piled in my car and headed off to the house

Blue eyed me from the passenger seat, "Nothing. You just seem more hungry than usual. What's wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong I just- um I don't know!" I scoffed, "Maybe I just miss Quebec or something."

"I know what you mean." He grumbled looking gloomily out of the car window at the darkening sky

"What's wrong with you?" Jane teased, "Girl troubles or something?"

"Yeah... Or something." He rolled his eyes

"It's that Holly J girl." KC spoke up from behind him, "He really likes her and when he told her Radditch was making us move she totally flipped out and dumped him."

"KC SHUT UP!" He growled angrily, "She didn't dump me!"

I softened remembering that he had a date that was interrupted when we were pulled into Radditches house. When we pulled up to the house there were two other cars here signaling the dinner party had started, "Well I'm sure if you call her Blue she'd come and visit. There's no rule against that."

He grumbled, "Yeah and how is she going to get down here?"

My eyes sparkled when I got an idea, "I can call Lucas! See if he wants to come have spring break down here! They can take her and bring her back!"

Spinner scoffed, "You'd trust that guy with a sixteen year old girl?"

"Hey!" Jane scoffed at him hitting his chest hard, I smirked, "That's my brother you're talking about. He wouldn't try anything with a sixteen year old. He knows better."

Spinner softened when she glared at him, "Okay well what makes you think he'd come down here?"

"Easy." I chimed in, "Mia. She still lives here right? With Izzy?"

When I first started hanging around with Lucas and his crew, five years ago, I became really good friends with Mia, best friends actually. Or so I thought. That is until she got pregnant, broke up with him, cut ties with us, and fled to Toronto. Lucas and I were pretty torn up when she left. He lost the love of his life and his kid while just another person abandoned me. Guess that's why we turned to each other and ended up hooking up together. It only lasted a week though. We know we're better off as friends.

"Why would he come all the way out here for her, all of a sudden?" KC asked curiously, "It's been like five years."

I snickered at him as we all climbed out of my car and made our way to the house. "Mias the love of his life. Trust me. He'll show up." I winked at Blue who smiled back, "And I'm sure he won't mind bringing Holly J."

When we walked into the house I don't think any of us were really prepared for the 'Excitement' everyone was obviously having. Snake was in the kitchen with Joey getting all of the food ready. He even, apparently, brought some blood. Caitlin and Spike were enjoying a glass of wine in the living room and they smiled over when they saw us coming in.

Caitlin came over hugging all of us squealing, "I can't believe how long it's been! I can't believe you guys are actually here!" Her eyes widened at me and she hugged me again, "You've certainly grown up Emma!"

"Yes well I was only fifteen the last time you saw me." I grumbled earning an elbow from Spinner

She didn't seem to hear me though, "Craig's so excited to see you guys!" Her eyes sparkled, "I can't wait till you meet Angie either! She's sleeping at home right now with the sitter but soon."

We all nodded awkwardly until we heard yet a another squeal run down the stair. Blue, KC and I all made eye contact. Uh oh. Paige.

She ran straight into Spinners arms bouncing happily before moving onto each of us. She skipped Jane though but somehow I didn't think Jane minded. They never got along. Complete opposites those two.

My eyebrows rose a bit when I seen who was awkwardly standing behind her, sipping on a beer. Alex Nunez. Well that's odd. Alex use to hang around the group with Lucas and I. She was just as womanizing as him. It's really entertaining that she's hanging around prissy Paige. Did I miss something?

Paige glanced at what we were all staring at and smiled wider grabbing her hand, "Guys, Alex and I are kind of..."

"A thing." Alex chimed in smiled at her

"What?!" KC and Blue gasped at the same time.

Spinner and Jane already knew so they weren't shocked. I, on the other hand, wasn't really shocked either. Something about that mad since. They were opposites but opposites attract right?

Paige started to 'explain' the relationship to a very confused KC as Blue tried to stifle his laugh. Spinner went over to talk to Joey and Snake. Jane was over by Alex enjoying a beer and then there was me. Awkwardly still standing by the door. Really wanting to book it out of here. I'm not a very family dinner kind of person.

I poured myself a shot of tequila and downed it quickly. Slamming the glass down I poured another.

I turned curiously when I heard a soft chuckle from behind, "Emma Nelson. Look at you." He eyes down my body slowly as if admiring it, "It's certainly been awhile."

Downing the shot I smirked up at him, "Craig! It has been awhile." He's grown up a lot too. His muscles toned out, hairs still curly but a bit shaggier, and he had a nice layer of facial hair, "You look good." Not as good as Sean though... Okay time for shot three.

"So do you." He smiled taking a sip of his beer, "What are you up to now? Still trying to save the rainforest?"

I laughed, "Of course! Who else is going to? Its not my major anymore but its still a passion." I eyed him down, silently wishing I could just make my way to that party Manny was having, "So I hear you're some sort of Musician now? Exciting."

"Yeah actually. Finally living the dream." He smiled shifting closer to me, I tensed, "you should come see me play some time. It'll be fun."

This was going to be a long night.