It had been a week since my encounter with Lydia and all the while my mind had been solely on her. The fiery redness of her hair that ran to her waist in waves that contrasted beautifully with the cream colour of her skin. Her small nose and full strawberry coloured lips and those pure black eyes with an average height and thin body. She was unlike anything I'd ever seen and could never forget, it was like her face had been burn into my brain ever since I looked into her eyes and felt something snap together inside of me.

I could still hear the words "Count on it," ringing through my head and the jaw dropping smile she had given me before taking off deep into the forest back to the other vampires that lived here. Jordan had caught her scent on my clothes and I had no choice, but to explain. Jordan asked me question after question of what she looked like while Mason, Mel and I fought about what the next move should be. Mason suggested that we leave while Mel decided that we should scope them out and strike before they get a chance. I had panicked a little which hadn't gone unnoticed by Mel who had watched me closely the entire night, but I had managed to convince them that leaving wasn't the best idea until we knew if they were a threat to us and that we wouldn't hurt them in the mean time.

I rolled over in my bed and felt the creeping sense of loneliness that I'd felt since meeting Lydia, but that was forgotten when I heard Mel scream. I went flying out of bed, nearly pulling my door off the hinges as I ran to see what was happening as my stomach plummeted thinking the worst. What if she told the ones she was with? What if they had come to take us out? I whipped around the corner just in time to see Mel shoot like a bullet at Jordan knocking them both to the ground as she hissed, growled and clawed at him while he attempted to push her off, yelling out before he saw me watching and pleaded for me to help but, when Mel turned her bright red eyes on me she lifted her lip to show her teeth, growling and silently daring me to make a move to help. I breathed out a sigh of relief before turning back to my room.

"Dorian! Get her off me!" Jordan screamed as he tried to dodge her nails as the raked across his face.

"Sorry man, you brought this on yourself." I laughed as I stepped out of view.

"Dorian!" He yelled.

Closing the door to my room I could still hear Jordan begging for Mel to let him go apologizing for I felt bad for leaving him, but he knew better than to get her riled up. I laughed loudly and walked over to the glass doors that were on the far side of my room leading to the backyard and looked out towards the mountains, with my hand resting on the cool glass I started to think of Lydia while trying to pinpoint the spot we'd met. I was overcome with the urge to go back there with the feeling that she too would also be there. Quickly I showered and dressed before running out of the house.

I flew through the forest much faster than I would have on a normal day, but still it didn't seem fast enough. I slowed down as I finally reached the spot where she had slammed into me. Part of me expected that to happen again, but it didn't. I could smell Lydia's scent as I walked at human pace around trees and seen her. I stopped and rested my back against a tree just across from her watching for a moment before she whipped around and looked straight at me, her face saddened for a minute and then surprised.

"Hello Lydia." I waved at her.

"Hello Dorian." Lydia said giving me a smile just as beautiful as the last time I'd seen her.

"Its good to see you." I said to her, which it really was.

"Its good to see you too." She said softly.

"Strange that were both here at the same time again." I smirked.

"It is." She agreed, but narrowed her eyes at me as if she was trying to figure something out.

"I had a feeling you would be here." I confessed.

"So did I." Lydia admitted, hesitantly before taking a step.

They were slow as she approached me until she was standing just a foot away from me, with the overwhelming urge to touch her. It shocked me as I couldn't understand where the user came from as it took everything I had not to pull her in and close the distance between us, but I stayed still not wanting to scare her off. Though I could see in her eyes she was waiting for me to do something.

"What are you doing?" I whispered.

"Trying to figure out if you would hurt me." She answered honestly.

"Why would you want to do that?" I said with an eyebrow raised at her confession.

"My family thinks its best to stay away from you, but I can tell you won't hurt us." Lydia said with absolute certainty.

Anger shot through me at the thought of her being told to stay away from me and the more I though about it the angrier I became. Would they force her to stay away? Would they leave if they found us together right now? Would it turn into a fight? The what if's ran through my mind over and over, but three things that were absolute. One I would never hurt her, two I wouldn't let anyone else hurt her and three that I wanted to be around her, no matter what anyone says.

"I was told the same thing." I admitted calmly.

"Looks like were going to have to keep meeting here, if thats what you want?" Lydia asked, leaving it up to me.

"Like this time tomorrow?" I suggested.

"Yes, that would be perfect." She smiled.

"So this is goodbye?" I asked.

"Until tomorrow." She said stepping away from me.

"Don't be late." I said smiling.

Bye Dorian." She laughed before taking off.

I stood there for a while after Lydia had left before I realized I had to get back home as well, soon all three of them would be searching the mountains for me and who knows what they would do if they caught Lydia's scent. The run was short as i stepped out of the trees into the wide stretch of the property, we had cleared the snow all the way to the tree lines so it was nice and flat with an inch or two of snow that remained coating the ground.

"Well, look who finally decided to come home. Where were you?" Jordan called over to me form the other side of the yard.

"Enjoying some peace and quiet." I winked at him.

"He can get really annoying, can't he?" Mel said from the front porch, biting her lip as she tried not to smile.

"I think you're both tied." I laughed as they faked hurt expressions.

"You saw the vampire girl again, didn't you?" Jordan asked as he got closer to me.

Out of the corner of my eye I seen Mel's narrow on me. I had just stopped myself from rolling my eyes as I could feel the waves of jealousy rolling off her. Since Mason had turned me, Mel was always trying to get me to admit I had a thing for her but, she's always been nothing more than a sort of sister to me. Plus Jordan was the one who had a thing for her. I couldn't blame him though Mel was by far one of the most beautiful vampires I'd come across, her skin was a shade darker than what it normally was for other vampires due to her heritage. With dark brown eyes and full dark red lips, she stood about 5 foot 11 with a thin frame but, had a large chest that Jordan often looked at and with short honey blonde hair and high cheek bones she often became the centre of attention when we would come across other vampires.

"I thought Mason said to stay away from them." Mel asked with ice in her voice.

"Leave him be. We've been here for not even a month yet and you already meet some vampire chick while on a run not once, but twice. I wish I was as lucky as you, so are you finally going to spill and tell me what she looks like?" Jordan asked me again.

As we walked towards the house something about Jordan's words had stuck with me, why was I the one to meet her? All of us had run the mountain many time over in the short amount of time we'd been here. It seemed a little strange, but even more so was how I knew she would be waiting for me to show up again and now I how wanted nothing more than to be back with her, holding her. Something was happening, but I had no idea what it was yet.

"Average height with a thin body, really long red wavy hair and these beautiful pure black eyes." I answered him but, out of the corner of my eye I could see Mel's head whip in our direction.

"Interesting combination." He mumbled.

"You have no idea." I muttered.