Sorry it's taken so long guys… a lot of bad stuff going on in my life but it's finally here…
Betty walked slowly down the street after she had gotten out of the taxi. It had been a long drive to where Gio told her to meet him. He was stood there smiling that dazzling smile at her. "Hey," she said as he hugged her, "What we doing here?" Gio smiled down at her. "Do you trust me?" he asked. He turned to look at her with a wistful expression. The golden eyes held hers, and she lost all train of thought. She stared at him until he looked away. Betty nodded her head. "Okay then. Hop onto my back." And with that he ran off. Betty had never seen anything like this in her life. She had only read about it.
Gio helped Betty off of his back and then stood in front of her. He stood infront of her. "What the hell, Gio? What was that?" she asked shocked. He looked down at her disappointed in himself. "Betty, I have something to tell you. Promise to listen all the way through?" he asked as she nodded, "I'm the world's best predator. Everything about me invites you in — my voice, my face, even my smell. As if I need any of that!" Betty interrupted him at this point. "Gio, that's a line from Twilight." Gio groaned. "Please Betty, listen. I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don't know how it's tortured me. The thought of you, still, white, cold… to never see you blush scarlet again, to never see that flash of intuition in your eyes when you see through my pretenses… it would be unendurable. You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever. Betty, everything you read in that book. It's true. I am one of them. I should know. While I was in Italy, I got changed by some newborn. Someone helped me, that would be the infamous Edward Cullen. He pushed the newborn off of me and tried to get the venom out of me, but there was too much. He took me back to his family and then explained everything to me. I am a "vegetarian" vampire too, like the Cullen's.
Common sense told Betty that she should be terrified. Instead, she was relieved to finally understand. And she was filled with compassion for his suffering. "Betty, please say something. Please?" he pleaded, his golden eyes staring into hers. She nodded. "I understand completely. I trust you with my life Gio. I'm here… which, roughly translated, means I would rather die than stay away from you. There is no point to my life without you," she said as she walked towards him.
He hesitated — not in the normal way, the human way. Not the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than the kiss itself. Gio hesitated to test himself, to see if this was safe, to make sure he was still in control of his need. And then his cold, marble lips pressed very softly against Betty's.
"This is awesome!" Betty exclaimed, "I have a sexy vampire boyfriend now!" Gio laughed. "So does your body actually, you know, sparkle?" Betty asked. Gio nodded his head and walked out into the sunlight. Gio in the sunlight was shocking. Betty couldn't get used to it and didn't think she ever would. His skin literally sparkled, like thousands of tiny diamonds were embedded in the surface. "You're beautiful!" Betty exclaimed. Gio laughed. "Let's go home," he said as he placed Betty on his back and ran back to their apartment in the city.