Chapter 2: New places, new faces.
So there we were in the butcher shop. Stephan looked around, there was no one in there so I didn't see the need to check the place out. But I suppose for safety he decided to. We went into the back room, there was a huge freezer, it was the size of a master bedroom. We walked in there, I was expecting to be cold, but shockingly, I wasn't. I felt realtivley normal.
The freezer was covered with animal meat hanging off of hooks from the ceiling. And there was even some on little shelves. Every piece I could smell. It was unbareable, and the burning in my throat was excruciating. I looked over at Stephan and he was walking towards me with something in his hand. He was also smirking a bit. He handed me this fairly large piece of raw meat. I took it in my hands lifting it up smelling it. It made me close my eyes for a moment, just embracing the smell of it. My mouth was watering now. I raised the meat up to my mouth taking a bite of it, and chewed it slowly. It was the most amazing thing I had ever tasted in my life, if you could even call this a life. Before I realized it I had eaten the whole chunk of meat. I looked down at my hands and they were covered in blood, and sticky from the meat. Stephan looked at me. "Just wipe them on your pants lad, it won't kill you." he said and chuckled. ".. Oh and wipe your mouth, you have some leftovers on it."
I wiped my hands on my pant leg, and wiped my mouth on the sleeve of my shirt. Stephan was walking towards the door. "Come along. We don't want to be late getting in." he said. I looked confused for a moment, what could we possibly be late for? I didn't say anything, yet. I walked behind him out the door of the shop and we were back on the streets of London.
We walked down the side of the concrete sidewalk, and I felt something like I had never felt before. It was like a sensation. I sped up a little closer to Stephan. "Um, Stephan?" I said. "Yes?" "Um, what is this sensation I am having? It feels as if something is rising in my gut." He was still waling in front of me. "It's the sense telling you the sun is about to rise. Which is why we can't be late getting to our hideout."
HideoutI thought. I have to hide myself now? I just walked with my head tilted down a bit. I was in a shock due to everything. "Ok, this would be a good time to explain to you your speed." "Speed?" "Yes, running. It's basic. Just run as if you had when you were a mundane. You will certainly be faster than you ever were that's for certain." he said and chuckled. I just laughed with no humor, just going along with his laughing. "So when I say let's go, we run. Understand?" I nodded my head. "Just stay behind me and you'll be fine. Let's go." And in an instant we were off. I was shocked at the speed I was going, I had never thought of anything in my life going this fast. I was following behind Stephan when he stopped, and I stopped as well.
We had reached a house in the foggy, dark night. It was sitting on a hill, there was a gate closing it off and it was in the middle of no where. I suppose that is why he called it a hideout. "Now, there are many others in here that are like you and I. They should welcome you in a mannerly way." Stephan said smiling. I smiled nervously and we made our way up to the door and went inside.
The inside of the house was nothing like the outside. It had lights, and it was brighter. It was like it had life to it. I suppose it was the only life that would ever happen for, well, vampires. I was greeted by a rather large man, height way that was. He was about six foot tall, and had muscles lager than my head, but they didn't buff out, but they flexed as he moved his arms and hands. He was pale, and had black hair as dark as the night sky, his eyes were as blue as the morning sky. To be frankly honest, I have seen everyone, but I yet to see myself. I was truley curious of my looks. "My name is Alexander. It is a pleasure to see you are here and not out wandering around looking for trouble new one." he said. His voice was deep, but it was warming as well. I spoke up. "The, pleasure is all mine I suppose. I'm Jaden Daniels." I said in a nervous tone. "Yes, I know. Stephan here has told me about you. He has been following you for quite sometime, you are a very dark person." I looked down realizing I knew what he was talking about. "Yes, well you would too if you lost your wife. She was the only thing that mattered to me in this world and she was taken away from me." I said in a flat and cold tone. "I see that. And I too have lost my love, but that is for another time." He said and smiled crookedly. I nodded.
I was staring at him and from behind him appeared a young girl. She reminded me of my Izabelle. She had blond hair, but it wasn't curly, it hung loosley and wavy. Her eyes were a bright blue, and when she walked it was like she was basically dancing. Her body was so rhythmic. She stunned me. Alexander looked at me. "This is Anna, she will show you where you will be staying." he said. She smiled and giggled from beside him. I just smiled and stuck my hand out. She grabbed it and I kissed the top of it like any gentlman. She giggled a bit and I smiled at her. "Well, let me show you to your room." she said. Her voice sounded of that of an angel, it was sweet and honey like.
We walked up a flight of stairs, but we obviously used our speed. I walked into this room, it was painted beige. It had a bed, and it had a record player, I looked at the record and it was a classical piano tune. I actually had liked this tune. I stood and looked around and then looked at the door. Anna was still standing there. I just smiled a small smile at her and she walked in and then sat on my bed. "You seem upset or something. Are you ok?"
I turned and looked at her. I chuckled with no humor at all. "No, I'm not. I am now stuck in my hell for the rest of eternity. I was ready to die. I didn't want to be dammned here forever. I didn't want to go day by day without my love. I didn't want to watch the my loved ones die. And now what? I won't be able to see them ever. I'm stuck in this body forever, eighteen years old. What good is that?"
She looked down and then looked at me. "You think that's anything? Imagine sitting there watching the one you loved being murdered. Imagine that if you said one word that your family would die. You think I wanted to live forever seeing that? Remembering that night?" she looked down and put her face into her palms.
I looked at her in a sympathetic way. "I- I apoplgize." I didn't know what else to say. She looked up at me and nodded. "He is much better off now. And so is the rest of my family. They passed shortly after that. It's just me now. Forever in this body."
I looked at her. "Just out of curiosity, how old are you?" She smiled at me. "Why, I'm eighteen. Well, really I am one hundred and five. But who's counting." she said laughing. "Wow. I don't mean to be rude but that's pretty old." She giggled. "Well I don't look it now do I?" I smiled at her. "You don't look a day over eighteen." she smiled. "Um curiosity kicking in again. Do you have a mirror anywhere?" She got up and walked me to another room. It was a bathroom of some sort. It had a mirror in it and I looked in it.
What I saw was nothing like I had expected. I was pale, stone, I looked like a statue of some sort. But I was beautiful, I didn't look like any human being. My hair was charcoal black, and my eyes as blue as the sky. I touched my face making sure I was looking at the same person I saw in the mirror.
"It's unbelievable isn't it?" I heard someone say, It was Anna. "Yeah. I suppose it is."
"You'll get use to it. Believe me." she said and smiled her sweet smile. "I'll take your word on it." I went back into my room and lounged on my bed. When I saw someone walk by. It was Stephan. "What are you doing there?" "I'm sleepy, don't you sleep in a bed for this?" he ran in my room. "No. Look under your bed, there is a passage way down there. That's where you slee. You wouldn't want to get caught by the sun. Now get under there before you fry." I did as I was told and I heard him mummbling under his breath as he walked out. I felt my eyes get heavy and everything went black. I had fallen asleep. It was one of the best thing that happened to me that night, the first was seeing Anna.
The next day, well night, came fairly quickly. I was awaken by a stomping noise of some sort. I lifted the little door that led to my sleeping area and got out. After I got up, I shook my hair a bit just trying to get it half decent. I walked out of my room and into the living area where everyone was gathered. "As you all know, we have a new addition to our household." Alexander said. I knew he was talking about me, I hated feeling like the center of attention. "So we are going to split the family into groups for hunting tonight." I saw alexander pointing directions to people, and where they would be grouped. I was actually grouped with Anna and two other younger looking people, they looked my age. "So Jaden, you're going to be hunting with us we'll show you all there is to know about getting the right meal." Anna said looking at the others as they laughed. I nodded. "Well alright then." I said. "Oh, let me tell you who we all are. You know me, And this is Roxie."
Roxie was short, well not short, but shorter than I was. She had red long hair that was wavy and hung loosley. She was slender, and lanky but she looked as if she would hurt anyone that messed with her. "Hello ma'am." I said. She giggled. "Please, you calling me ma'am? Really? Don't do it anymore." Roxie's voice was that of a normal teenage girl, cocky but yet gentle, I laughed at her comment. "Fine then Roxie." She smiled. "Better." she said. Then Anna started speaking again. "And this is Donnavan."
Donnavan, he was tall, and by tall, I mean taller than I was. He was built strong, but he was slender at the same time. He had short, brown hair with a little flip on the side. His structure to him looked as if he could snap you in half if he wanted to. "Hello Jaden." He said. His voice was warm, and strong. "Hello Donnovan." I said.
"Great, now you." Anna said turning towards me. "We've got to teach you how to hunt a human, otherwise you'll be eating out of that meat place forever. And to be honest, it smells, bad." she said giggling. I looked down. "Well yeah, but it's not like I knew what to do right after I was changed." I said flatly. "Well, that's not you're fault, so let's go shall we." Anna said looking at the group. We all nodded and left in a blur.
