Chapter 3
He didn't stay the night, which is to say, not how I imagined my first time. Then again I never thought I would be seduced by a vampire and would be taken hostage in Italy. Goes to show what I know. I woke up in an empty bed, I vaguely remember Alec kissing my forehead and leaving me to sleep. I was half asleep when that happened though and I could have easily imagined it. I stretched; I was a little sore from last night but yet I felt so good. I stared up at the canopy, just feeling happy. A knock sounded from the door. I jerked up with the bed sheet. A woman entered the room, it wasn't Greek Goddess Katie. This one had long brown hair and skin that seemed to be the exact shade of her hair. She was tall and wore a business suit like Katie but her face seemed softer. She stared at me, wrapped in bed sheets and smiled politely.
"I'm sorry miss; I thought you would be up by now." I didn't respond, her voice was very throaty and quite soothing, she seemed uncomfortable with the silence, "I'll go start you bath."
She walked into the bathroom and I took that moment of privacy to change into a nightgown. I checked myself in the mirror; my hair was beyond ruffled and looked like a rats nest. I had a faint bruise on my check and chin and my lips were swollen.
"Miss? Your bath is ready," she gestured into the bathroom, like I didn't know where the tub was. The happiness was mostly gone now, in fact I felt rather depressed. I had just given up my virginity to a virtually complete stranger. I felt cheated, like I could have prevented this from happening. I rubbed at my arms and winced as I hit another bruise. I walked over to the lady and promptly took off my nightgown. I almost dove into the tub. The water was just the right temperature, I didn't like it.
"Make it hotter," I ordered the girl. Hot water gets rid of germs, right?
"But miss-."
"No 'buts' just do it," I snapped.
She looked frightened as she turned the hot water on full blast. She unplugged the tub so it wouldn't over flow. Once it was at a scaling temperature I told her to turn it off. She complied and tried to wave off some of the steam that was clouding her vision of me. I grabbed a wash cloth and put almost half of the bottle on it. I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed, determined to get rid of him on me. I dunked my head under the water and scrubbed that too. My fingers were starting to wrinkle and the water was slowly turning colder, but I continue to scrub. My fingernails were softened and they soon broke off. My skin had turned pink. The woman started to fuss.
"Miss I really think-."
"Don't."
"But miss I really think that is quite enough-."
"No."
She put a restraining hand on me, "Please step out of the tub. You won't be able to get him off of you." She left no room for argument as she undid the plug. I glared at her; I won't be able to get him off of me? What the hell? I'm sure with just the right amount of soap I would be able to get his touch off of me.
"Now you've already missed breakfast, but I think I can smuggle you a roll or two," She held up the towel for me and I gratefully wrapped it around my person.
"I'm not hungry," I mumbled as I went back into my room.
"Of course you aren't," she said.
I shuffled listlessly though my clothing choices, but found none. In the end I just grabbed a pair of jeans at random and blindly took a shirt. I slipped into them, trying my best to ignore the little pin pricks I got as I slid but my underwear. I noticed that I had more bruises on my upper half than my bottom as I poke at them. The woman handed me a hairdryer and I dried my hair. She didn't talk much and I was grateful for it. She left the room, presumably to get me a snack. I walked over towards the bookcase and grabbed the novel I was going to read last night. I was cold so I grabbed a blanket from the bed, which somehow made its self when I was in the bath, for some odd reason the headboard looked newer. She returned a half an hour later, with a couple rolls in her hand.
"Dinner will be in a few hours," she informed me, "I hope this holds you off until then."
I stared at the rolls on the plate, my stomach growled in appreciation but I made no move to get them. I felt worse than dead, I felt dirty and wanted to use the sink to try to rid myself of them, but the lady locked the door before she left so I wasn't allowed into the bathroom. Finally my stomach won out, I grabbed the rolls off of the plate and ate it in one bite.
"Do try not to choke," she said lightly as she picked up my clothes.
"I could do that," I volunteered as she put all of them in a hamper. I felt bad for her, not too much though because I was still wallowing in self pity.
She smiled at me, "its all right dear, you just relax."
I was about to protest when my door slammed open. Nadine stood there looking pissed. I looked around me for something to protect myself with. A bible or some holy water would probably do the trick.
"You!" she pointed an accusing finger at me, "WH-where in the 'ell have you been?" she stomped into the room like an avenging goddess and stopped right in front of my chair.
"Leaving me alone with Cory all day, worrying about you. And 'ere you are just sitting in your room, eating biscuits." She grabbed my hand and I lost the much needed roll. Her posse was standing in the doorway, glaring at me like I was the reason she had to overact to everything.
"I'm sorry?" I stammered as she dragged me out into the hallway. I stumbled slightly over the blanket that was still wrapped around my body and managed to kick it off before I caused serious bodily harm to myself.
"O, you should be," she mumbled angrily. I was seriously considering jumping out of a window to escape her wrath. We passed a few vampires in the hallway. I thought it was a bit strange that they weren't the less bit concerned that my life was in jeopardy. They just looked amused and back up into the wall to let us pass. I tried to send an S.O. S to one but Nadine pulled at my arm. We arrived in the sun room, Nadine waited until all of her entourage was in before she yelled at them to close the door. I was thrown into a chair as she towered over me. Her hands were on her hips and she glared wordlessly down at me. I saw Cory behind her raise an eyebrow and mouth 'Ten'
"Do you have any idea how worried I was?" Nadine yelled at me.
"Um."
"I thought you died. I thought Alec lost control and killed you. And you are my only friend 'ere!" she ranted.
Cory held up her hand, showing five fingers.
"You were very selfish to do that to me,"
Four fingers.
"I mean you could 'ave at least come to breakfast, then you could 'ave reassured me that you were safe."
Three fingers.
Nadine started to talk in rapid French. I tried to understand her, but soon gave up.
Two fingers. Nadine's eyes started to water and she sat down in the chair across from me.
One finger.
Nadine burst our crying, "'ow- 'ow could you?" she wailed.
I sat in shock for a moment. I hadn't realized that I meant this much to her. Her group seemed at a lost as to what to do. Cory rolled her eyes and went back to reading her novel, a new one I noted. I got out of my chair and patted Nadine on the back awkwardly.
"There, there. I'm sorry I worried. I promise I will never be that selfish again."
"R-really?" she sniffled as she looked up at me.
"Really," I promised her.
She regained her composure after a while. "I am sorry, these 'ormones, they are 'orrible.
I nodded my head like I actually knew what she was going through. She winced and put a hand on her stomach and murmured some comforting words to her son. I wanted to distract her so I brought up the only topic I knew she enjoyed.
"So how do you know it's a boy?"
"Oh well, when ma Maman was pregnant with my brothers she always craved grease food. When she was pregnant with me all she wanted to eat was fruit. I think I have inherited that from 'er. Plus I just know." She rubbed her belly and smiled, "One day you will understand."
I nodded; with any luck I would be infertile. Although they probably wouldn't have picked me if I was. Nadine stared off into space for a moment until her eyes zeroed in on me.
"So 'ow was it?" she asked coyly.
"How was what?"
"You know very well 'ow what was,"
That's when I realized she wanted to talk about my sex life. I could feel the blush turning my cheeks into fireballs. "Oh that."
"Yes that! Details now," she leans forward eagerly.
I was a little hesitant to give out the detail and she could see that also, "O come now. I'm sure Alec is chatting it up with his friends right now, giving all the details. Come on!"
"I- you really think he's telling all of his friends?"
"Well I know for a fact that they have to report back to our masters after every first night."
Somehow the idea of a bunch of vampires that I didn't really know talking about my sex life unsettled me.
"Well... Um it... Um was nice?"
"Nice?" she repeated, "That is all? I think not! Was 'e gentle? Did 'e spend the night? Is 'e a screamer?"
Every time she asked a question I died on the inside, "Um he was as gentle as he could be? No he didn't. And um… no, no he's not."
"That is good, I had a boyfriend once who…"I tried my best to block out her monologue of her first time and all that juicy information. Cory nodded off in the middle of her novel, her sleeve pulled back a bit to show fresher bruise. I winced slightly and rubbed my own wounds. Again Nadine took up about three hours of talking about her unborn child. She said that they were going to move towards the coastline, so her child could grow up near the sea, like she did. I nodded my head politely and wondered how much longer till dinner. Cory twitched in her sleep and mumbled something about 'sororicide'.
"Anyway, I think yellow is a very nice color for a boy. As long as it is not too light. I guess I will 'ave to wait until 'e is born, so I can see what color suits 'im best."
"Yeah, yellow's a good color. It's actually my favorite," that warm tickling feeling in my stomach had returned.
"Oh really? Mine is red."
"Let me guess, because Santiago's eyes are red?" Cory asked from behind as she lifted her head up from her nap.
Two bright red circles appeared on Nadine's cheeks, 'O' course not! It- it is just a pretty color,"
"Whatever you say," she thought for a moment, "Mine's pink."
"Really?" I always thought it would be like grey or something dark. 'Cause y'know its Cory.
"It's the best aura someone can have."
Of course she would think of a way to weird a perfectly normal thing up. We spent the remaining time taunting each other and actually having a good time. Cory was as normal as she will ever get and even said she would give me a reading tomorrow. I still don't believe her, but it will still be fun. Our time together kind of reminded me of one of those corny movies that my friends made me watch when I spent the night at their house. I lingered a little on the thought of my friends and was a little disturbed to find that I couldn't really find it in me to miss them. Hun, weird. Dinner came and went, Nadine ordered they get some McDonalds. Which was hilarious as they tried to explain to her that nearest Mickey D's was a half an hour drive. In the end she won and we waited with her until her food arrived. I even snagged a few fries, which was just lovely because I haven't had fast food in so long. By the time she was done eating it was past time to go back to our rooms. We departed, Nadine kissed both my cheeks and Cory threatened her that if she ever did that to her she was going to find herself with no fingernails. Lovely. The Greek Goddess was back, again Lovely.
She grabbed my arm and pulled me towards my room, I stumbled slightly but she just yanked at my arm and muttered something about being late.
"Will you please chill out?" I snapped as she practically threw me into the room.
"No, I will not "chill out". You are late. If you are late, than I am to blame. If you are unhappy I am too blame. Basically if your bratty self ever say anything bad about me I get killed!" She slammed the door shut and locked it.
"You would think that would mean that she would be nicer to me," I wondered out loud as I turned around.
Alec stood against my bed his arms folded across his chest. I jumped a little, I hadn't noticed him before now, and he's so quite. His eyes shone red as he stalked towards me. I felt bad for making him wait, I wanted to hug him, kiss him. My arms just twitched at the possibility as I took a faltering step forward.
"Your late," he mumbles, he doesn't look angry and he accepts me into his embrace.
"Sorry, Nadine wanted McDonalds and I waited with her," I mumbled into his chest.
"Hm, Nadine. Promise me something Amie," God I loved my name on his lips.
"Hm?" I started to kiss his neck.
"When you become pregnant, never be that difficult," he lifted my chin and kissed me softly.
I nodded my head and whispered back, "I promise."
A/N: Hey you guys, I'm going through with some stuff right now at my house and I'm kind of finding myself drained, which means that I don't write. I'm sorry I'm trying very hard to write the next chapter I'm just finding myself a little stuck. Like I know what I want to happen I just can't get it down right, ya'know? So the next update might be a little late, but don't worry I won't leave this story. Amie would never leave me alone then!
