*** Chapter 2 ***
"What happened to me?" Jared thought. "Where is Jillian, oh god my Elena, where is she!? WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?" Jared starts breathing quickly, and throws his eyes open.
He tries to adjust his eyes when he sees the dust particles moving in the air, he sees every thread of silk in the bed spread that is not his.
"Jillian?" he speaks
Slowly Jillian comes back to him; he reaches for her soft, cool, delicate, and now shaking hand and places it on his face.
"What happened?" was all he simply said to her.
Jillian didn't quite understand the next few moments.
"Jared . . . I'm a vampire" and that was it. Jared was suddenly gone. His eyes went blank and the past 4 days for pain and transformation, blew through him like a knife stabbing him through the heart. His life came shattering down on him.
Flashes. Jillian's smooth hands, her silky hair, her golden eyes, a kiss that could make a grown man cry, or at least lose his breathe. The first date. The first kiss. AH the key. "Remember the first kiss Jared" cried in his head! Jared then ran through the last human memories, and moments of his life.
He opened Jillian's car door and took her gently from the car. Slowly she rose and her eyes met his with piecing passion. He took one deep gulp and walked her to the door. "Wait, why are we here at my house? I was dropping Jillian at home" he thought. But Jillian kept staring. Slowly, as in a trance, they made they wait up there old creaky steps of the Miller farm. Jared took Elena's hand and kissed it, like the good southern man he is. She smiled at him in a way that should be illegal. He rose to his feet and leaned in slowly to kiss Elena goodnight.
Blank.
"What happened" he whispered out loud. "The kiss, the kiss?" He started biting his lip, and it clicked! He ran his knew canine tooth over his lips slitting a layer of skin open to reveal a drop of blood.
"YOU!" he roared and Jillian. "You did this to me! I bend down to give you a kiss and you bit me, I remember now. You started shaking and then something happened, you moved your head to my neck and started sucking it. I don't remember everything because I..... WHERE IS ELENA? I swear if you touched a single hair on that child's head I will" but Jillian stopped him
"Elena is fine. I erased her memory so she would remember seeing you" Elena whispered, tears falling once again, and a piece of her heart breaking off and falling to the floor. Never had she wanted to hurt him. She watched him for months, and he never knew. Every night. Reading Elena a story, working out in the field, sitting on the porch weeping that "she" wouldn't have left him alone. "Elena is so small, you left me with our baby. I need you here" he would repeat in his head. Jillian's heart broke whenever she listened to his mind. "So full of sadness and lost". She watched a single tear threaten his eye when she knew that he needed her.
"Well, where is she then?" "ELENA? ELENA, WHERE ARE YOU?" he searched franticly. Jillian simply looked down and walked out of her room. She motioned him to follow her. Lying on the couch, the small child had her thumb in her mouth -the way she always did- and was fast asleep. Jared ran to her and picked her up.
Jillian went to him again, determined to make things right, well at least better between them.
"Jared, I'm so sorry, I never meant to do this. Here is the truth. I had been watching you since the day your wife died and" he cut in, not letting her finish.
"You killed her didn't you!?" he accused,
"NO I didn't!" she said threw her teeth. The look in her eyes made it clear she was being honest. Jared relaxed and she went on. "As I was saying, I knew you, everything about you. Something about you called out to me, and drew me near to you. I had to watch you. And as the months went on, you started becoming human again. Going to actually see Elena at your mother's house. I knew you needed someone, and someone to keep you safe and I thought I could handle the blood, but that first kiss I couldn't.... "She broke off crying.
Jared looked at her then slowly spoke. "You tricked me into thinking I loved you, didn't you?" that was all he needed to understand. She wasn't the one he thought she was, she was a Vampire, and not something anyone could love.
*** read tomorrow for the next chapter ***
