Ok, I have to say it, I am very dissapointed! No reveiws!!! But 'cus I'm nice I am posting anyway :P
I hope you all in enjoy!
2.
Even though we don't sleep we need somewhere to hide out from the sun. I share my house with Nicolette, Nick, Will (the ones I could hear while I was burning) and Jess Maykar. Nicolette and Nick are like my parents I guess. They explained everything when I woke up, the blood red eyes, the granite hard, sparkling skin, the need to 'keep the secret' and all the rest. Will and Jess are practically my brother and sister. Jess and I are best friends, too. No love-hate relationship here! Will is great, he acts like a douche bag most of the time but really is smart, funny and really, really good at sport, so at least I have some competition! It was a bit weird at first but I eventually got used to the fact that they were together, as in together, together, like Nicolette and Nick.
On the second day after my change Jess took me around town and introduced me to everyone. It was strange, they all new me (But you know how quickly gossip spreads in a small town!). It was weird, like I was friends with them before. The vampires that seemed to be the most welcoming included Alex, Amie, Hannah, Mel, Josh, Liam and Daniel. I remembered the rest but it turns out 100 is a lot to list in one go! One guy seemed really bitter, his name was Nathan I think. I asked Jess why and she explained that before she and Will were together they were really good friends. Then one day Jess told him that she liked him but he turned her down. Now because he has to see how happy she is with Will, and how happy he can never be he is always very . it must be a whole Jealous male thing...
Some days Jess and I go down to the creek for a swim, just like today. I love the way the ripples feel against my skin, and the way the water sparkles nearly as much as me.
Will decided to tag along... Oh, Joy...
'Girls! Wait Up!' Will was about 16 when he was changed... and his maturity level hasn't improved much in the last sixty years, according to Jess.
I kept walking, at human pace for a change, and Jess stopped all together. He caught up soon enough; super speed was just another perk of being a vampire.
'What 'cha doin' ladies? Going for dip? Let me accompany you,' he insisted, taking a huge sweeping bow.
'What are you doing Will! And what are you wearing?' Jess giggled.
Now that I actually paid any attention, I realised that he does actually look quite ridiculous, dressed in black, full length board shorts and a black bow-tie, with his blonde-brown, beach-y looking hair slicked back, making him look like a wanna-be-waiter. He has a body rather like the life guards on Bondi Beach in Sydney, now that I think about it.
'Oh you know, thought I'd better look half decent, this place you go to must be pretty classy for Ladies such as you pair.'
I snorted.
'Now Zahli, my dear, lead the way would you please,' he bowed ridiculously again and I just nodded and began to run to the spot we always went swimming.
After about thirty seconds at a leisurely pace (for us any way, must have been around 100kmp/hr) we arrived at the hidden-away swimming hole Jess had taken me to after about 2 weeks of being in the town.
It was surrounded by around thirty tall gumtrees and had a small stream trickling down towards the main creek. We figured that the water must come from a hot spring below the earth, as the water was always warm and the sun only reached it for an hour, around midday, our favourite time to visit. Jess and I ran forward and dove in, knowing the exact places where the sharp rock jutted up in the water, and were the stream of water that had been flowing for years had worn down the rocks enough so that it was safe enough for even a human to dive in.
Will stood there in awe, obviously oblivious that the place even existed. It was amazing. The sparkling water, huge ancient gum trees, the gentle music-like trickle of the stream and the laugh of kookaburras in the background made the place beautiful, relaxing and peaceful. It was ours. I understood how he was feeling.
We swam around as our 'waiter' inspected the area. Eventually he decided that it was up to his standards and slid into the water quickly.
'Not what you were expecting?' I questioned him quietly from behind.
'Err, not exactly. I was sort of expecting more of an, I don't know, Posh setup for you ladies,' his joking manner returning as he gazed around our little clearing.
As Jess and I relaxed on the rocks in the sun we started talking. About the future, about death, about morals and values, about want we wanted.
Some of it was materialistic I guess. Plasma's and mansions and things like that, but for the most part it was serious (and unrealistic). We wanted children, family, our own lives, in the city, somewhere were everything wasn't so monotonous.
We wanted Souls.