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Chapter 3
Jade
"Where have you been?" Asked Zoey, as I kicked open the door. Zoey was the only one in the parlor, I couldn't hear anybody in the house besides her and me. I walked around the couch, seeing a book in Zoey's lap.
I threw my jacket on the floor, jumping onto the couch. I never minded Zoey, she was always nice, well most of the time she was. If no one touched her Jake then she could be an angel. One that in enjoys killing people for there blood.
"No where." I said, grabbing the book out of her hand. I read the cover and almost laughed. It was a mushy Nicholas Sparks book, The Last Song. Love stories always left me feeling sick. They were just so unrealistic. Ok maybe for a human it wasn't but for me it was nearly impossible. How can a monster like me, who only cares about blood and my next meal, love? It's just doesn't happen. Unless your like Zoey and Jake, apparently.
"Why are you reading this human trash?" I asked, throwing the book at her. Zoey caught it, cradling it in her arms as if she was protecting it from my words.
"It's not trash, its literature." Zoey said, holding the book a little to hard. Her fingers indenting in the pages.
"Literature?" I asked, shaking my head. "You don't know literature. Classics like Shakespeare are literature, not this book."
Zoey snorted, everyone knew my feelings on love. I didn't make it private. "Shakespeare is as romantic as The Last Song. Did you forget Romeo and Juliet?" She said, getting up as graceful as a ballerina. She walked over to the fireplace, putting the book there.
"Nope, Shakespeare is tragic. Love caused them to die. That has a great lesson behind it and is a good reading. Not that shit." I said. "You only like that book because of your silly love for Jake."
Zoey turned around, narrowing her eyes. I touched a sensitive spot. "No one is ever going to love you with that attitude, Jade." She said, before leaving me alone in the parlor.
I frowned at her back. So what? Why should I care I if I was unlovable. I knew that, Mom and Dad made that very clear. Angry and frustrated I left the house. Why would I want to be stuck indoors to wallow in my own self misery.
Walking out the house, I head towards the beach that was a short walk from the house. I walk to the beach slowly, in no rush. My thoughts kept going back to that stupid baby, my sister. They loved her, but they could careless about there missing daughter. Where was the justice. I have come to realize that love and happiness were nothing but a fairytale, stories told to children to make them feel better.
When I got to the beach I had lost it, drowning in my own misery. I sat down on the cold sand and looked out at the dark ocean. There was no hope for me. I was stuck as a monster, an unlovable one at that. I wrapped my arms around my legs, dropping my head in my arms. Hot, bloody tears fell down my cheek, just proof of the horrible thing I became. Vampires tears were blood, the very thing we crave.
I don't know how long I sat there crying but it must have been a while. I would of stayed there longer if I didn't hear the snaps of twigs behind me in the forest. My head shot up and I jumped to my feet, ready to fight like always. I felt a hiss building in my throat. I didn't like being caught in a weak moment. The person making the noise stepped out from behind the trees. The moment he did a strange scent came rushing towards me. He smelled…odd. Not like any other human. They usually smelled somewhere between steak and cookies, but not this guy. He smelled like woods or a nice perfume. Not eatable, which was beyond weird.
He was gorgeous too. He had curly brown hair that framed his beautiful face. It was hard to see his features in this dark, even for my eyes. I could see that his eyes were golden but it was hard to figure out anything else. His skin was a light tan color, like he might be Spanish or something. He was a huge guy, his muscles look like they were going to burst out his shirt but what I noticed most was the way his shoulders sagged, as if he was miserable to.
"Sorry." He mumbled. He was paying as much attention to me as I was to him. We saw each other as a threat, something off about the both of us. Like me though he seemed unsure what was wrong. I just couldn't come up with a reasonable answer for his odd smell. Maybe I was losing it.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, controlling myself. I didn't want to expose myself to this guy, especially when I couldn't understand him. I always depended on my enhance senses that it was weird when they didn't help me.
"Looking at the ocean." He said, his voice husky. "Is that a crime here?"
I fought back the urge to shred his throat into pieces. I wonder if he noticed how dangerous I was. Did he know how easily I could kill him? Humans noticed that sometimes when they looked into my eyes or teeth to long.
"Watch it." I said, through clenched teeth. Surprisingly instead of running away the boy actually sat down next to me.
He must have been crazy if he sit next to someone like me. His smell wasn't the only thing wrong with him. "Look I am sorry for being nasty its just I have been having a bad day." He said, putting his face in his hands.
I was so out of my element. I was use to humans running away from me, screaming and crying. They didn't sit next to me and tell me there life stories. It just didn't happen that way. I was unsure how to behave. I never felt so…human.
"Aren't all days bad?" I finally say after an awkward silence. Why not act human for one night. It won't kill me.
The boy lifted his head from his hands, looking at me. He was just to close for comfort. "Yeah. They are." He said, softly. "My name is Kellan."
"Jade." I said. This was just to unreal. I kept my eyes on the dark ocean, unable to stare into those strange golden eyes. Something was tugging at me, telling me something was wrong about this Kellan. I felt the strange need to run away. No human made me feel that way. I was a vampire I ate them not run.
"I hate people." Kellan said, looking at his feet. What was wrong with this picture, a vampire talking to her prey. Just something was off and it wasn't just this Kellan guy. Yes his smell was off and he didn't run from me but that wasn't the only problem. The other issue I was having was that I was still sitting here, having a conversation with this guy. The last time I talked to a human like this I was one of them. I can't talk with humans, there scents drive me to crazy to control myself.
But not Kellan.
"People hurt." I said to my shock. "So you have to hurt them back."
Kellan seemed unbothered about us talking like this. It was as if he talked like this to everyone he meets. "I wish it was that easy but I can't hurt the people who bother me."
I bit my lip, nervous. Oh what the hell, I give up. For one night I wouldn't act like a monster I was. I would be the human that I was ripped from. "How come?"
I guess all Kellan wanted to do was talk about his problem since he totally spilled his heart to me. "I am kind of the leader of my group of friends. I have to help them and be there for them but they drive me crazy. All I want to do is run away from them all and just be me." He said, looking out at the ocean. I never realized how little we made eye contact, it was as if the only way we could keep talking like this was by pretending we weren't discussing it with each other.
"So why don't you run away?" I asked, remembering how I always ran away from things I hated, the only thing I couldn't run from was me being a vampire
"Because I can't run from my reasonability forever." He said simply. "They will find me."
"At less they would come looking for you." I put my hand over my mouth, shocked at what I said. I never talk about my parents or my dark past. Not even with my clan, yet here I was telling this totally stranger who made me feel like something was wrong.
"What do you mean?" Kellan asked, looking at the side of my face. I dug my hands into the sand, pulling out shells and rocks.
"My parents don't love me. I have been missing for a long time and today I decide to visit them only to see they had another kid." I might as well tell him everything. It didn't matter, if anything I'll just kill him. Sad how killing seemed like nothing to me.
Kellan's golden eyes looked so sad and miserable, even I felt bad just for telling him. "Why did you go missing?"
"I ran away." It was more like taken away but I could honestly say that I wasn't sad when Jake told me I couldn't see my parents ever again. I knew they wouldn't miss me yet I was still horrified that they forgot me so quickly.
"Oh." It became quiet as we stared at the ocean, watching the dark waves crash against the sand. I didn't mind the quiet, quiet was safe. If only it could last forever. "I'm sorry for dumping all this stuff on you. You have your own problems to worry about."
"It's ok." I said. Strangely it was. Talking about my problems with a stranger was easier then talking about it with someone I know. Yes I was confuse as could be but at less I felt relieved. Even when he told me his problems I felt ok. Like I wasn't a monster.
Kellan got up, out of nowhere, walking towards the dark ocean. "What are you doing?" I asked as he pulled his shirt off. His chest was amazing, made out of pure muscle. I never found humans attractive yet I was amazed by him. He wasn't a normal human.
"What does it look like?" He asked, flashing me a white beautiful smile. "I'm going for a swim. Care to join me?"
I was unsure what I should do once more. This was all to new, even if I was human this would be strange to me. Being a vampire made it feel like I crossed boarder lines.
I stood up, knowing that it didn't matter what I did since I was going to be human for just this night. I pulled off my shirt and tight jeans. Kellan's mouth dropped open and he tried his best not to stare at my body. I was not ashamed of my body since I turned into a vampire. Sometimes I even used it to draw human men to me for dinner.
I jumped into the water, loving how delicious it felt against my cold skin. The water was freezing cold I know but my body didn't feel it. I looked around the sea floor, some fish were swimming around far from me and the sand was disturbed by my jump. I turned around to see Kellan under the water to, his golden eyes staring back at me. I felt something I couldn't explain spread through my body.
It was as if my dead, cold heart actually started beating. I never felt less like a monster. I blinked, still staring into his golden eyes. Kellan broke the trance by going up to the surface for air. Oh shit. I forgot not to stay underwater to long, being a vampire I could stay underwater for a long, long time. Hopefully I didn't expose myself.
I swam to the surface, coming face to face with him. He was so close that his breath was mingling with mine and I could feel the heat radiating from his body. His golden eyes staring into my blue vampire eyes.
Kellan face changed, his eyes narrowing. "What color is your eyes?" He asked, his voice changing from friendly to hostile. Something was wrong, my eyes troubled him. That was a normal human reaction but he didn't look like he was going to run but instead beat the shit out of me.
I backed away, feeling empty. "They change." I said, matching his tone. "Sometimes there blue or sometimes there brown. Why?"
Kellan relaxed a little, not looking in my eyes. It was as if he saw something in them that no one else did. I started feeling uneasy. He was about to say something but a sound of someone running towards us stopped him from saying anything.
Noah slowed down when he got closer to the beach. He walked through the trees, a smile playing on his lips. The moment he saw me and Kellan, both semi naked in the water, his smile turned into a frown.
"What the hell is going on?" He asked, vicious. Kellan didn't look to happy about Noah being here, if I didn't know better I think he looked sort of dangerous. Which was stupid since no human was dangerous.
"Who's he?" Kellan asked. He sounded a little possessive, that was funny. No one wanted a vampire to belong to them.
"I should be asking that same question!" Noah yelled. He walked towards us and I could see his face changing, his eyes slowly turning red. He was really going to kill this guy because we were swimming and JUST swimming.
I got out the water, meeting Noah half way. I grab him by his shoulder, pushing him as gently as I could. If I did it with my normal strength then he would fly back into the woods. "Shut up Noah." I said, my voice cruel to my own ears. Kellan must be scared now. "What I do is my own business. I don't explain myself to you."
"Jade," Noah said through clenched teeth, I could see a blood bath coming on.
"Go away Noah. Go!" I shouted, kicking him. Noah frowned at Kellan then at me before retrieving to the woods. I could tell though he was still there. I ignored him, turning back to Kellan.
He didn't look scared at all, in fact he looked like he was trying to control himself. What was going on here? What was wrong with this guy! He was not normal. Nothing about him was. "I'm sorry about that." I said.
Kellan shakes his head, his wet curls sticking to his forehead. "Your boyfriend."
He didn't say it like a question, it was a statement. For some reason this really bothered me. "No. His not. That would be one of my best friend. Can't a girl be friends with a boy?"
He smiled at me, as if I was forgiven now that I wasn't nothing to Noah. "Of course. We're friends."
I was thrown back by that. Friends? Us? I was friends with a…human? "We're not friends." I said, stunned. I was still aware of the fact that Noah was waiting for me, listening. This only made it worse.
Kellan didn't seemed hurt by my comment. He leaned close to my face, his strange, uneatable scent engulfing me. "So you go swimming in your underwear with strangers."
"Yes." I said, smiling. "I don't know you."
Kellan cheek pressed against mine as he went to whisper something in my ear. I don't feel different temperatures or anything yet I felt how hot Kellan's face was. His body was so hot that my unfeeling hard skin felt it, like the sun was against my cheek. That was not human like. "After our talk before our swim I think we would be friends. Do you mind?"
"No." I said, pulling away from him like he was radioactive. Kellan flashed me again one of his smiles, an ear to ear smile that could brighten a room.
"Good, well I should get going." He said, pulling his shirt back over his damp body. "Nice meeting you Jade. Thanks for listening."
"Your welcome." I pulled my shirt and jeans over my body as he walked away from me, heading back to the woods. It was like he was never there. My clothes felt disgusting on my skin, clinging to me but besides that I felt wonderful. I haven't carried a conversation with another human in what felt like forever. To finally meet someone I could talk to made me feel so changed. As if I was no longer a monster.
"Now tell me what that was all about." Noah said, reminding me of what I was. It was crazy how one minute I felt so beautiful and the next I was back to where I started. Angry at Noah for bringing me down, I stormed away from him.
"It was nothing you big idiot." I said, walking through the forest. Noah followed close behind me, not giving up.
"I might have the tendency to do idiotic stuff but this time something was up." Noah said, he grabbed me by my shoulder, pushing me hard against the tree, almost breaking it in half. Noah's eyes narrowed as he stared at me. His body was pressed against mine but unlike Kellan I felt no body heat or anything coming from him.
"Jade, listen to me!" Noah said, shaking me. I felt a hiss come out and my vampire inside of me coming to the surface. "Who was that guy?"
"It's none of your business!" I shouted back, pulling my leg up to kick him, but it was pointless. He had me to tight. I changed my strategy. Noah looked surprised then happy when I wrapped my arms around his neck. He probably thought I was being seductive but he was so wrong. I tighten my arm till Noah turned purple. When I knew he was suffering I let him go. I could strangle him all day but it wouldn't kill Noah, just make him uncomfortable.
Noah backed away from me, pissed off. "I was just trying to help." He said. I could hear the sounds of a human, hiking around the forest, enjoying the night air. The human was completely unaware of the two angry vampires arguing. I could hear his blood rush and his heart beat. My mouth watered but I did my best to ignore him. Noah seemed to be doing the same thing I was. "Jade do you know anything about that guy you were talking to?"
I heard whistling, the human was whistling. "I know enough." I said, toning the stupid human out.
"Really?" Noah asked, his lips curling. "Because something was off about him. His scent wasn't human and he didn't act like one either. He was not our prey, so what is he?"
Frustrated I ripped a heavy branch from the tree behind me, throwing it in Noah's direction. He dodged it but I might as well of hit him, from the look on his face I was as good as dead.
"You know what I think redhead." Noah said. "I think your becoming a softy, your trying to be human." He laughed, pleased with himself. "Who wants to prey?"
Telling the truth to Noah was out of the question. He never understand me, he would probably use what I told him against me forever. So instead I defended myself like any good vampire would. I crouched into a fighting stance, hissing. "Why on earth would I want to be prey?"
"Your saying you don't want to be human?" Noah asked, amused. I nodded my head, sending curly red hair flying all over the place. A cruel smile crossed Noah's face, making me feel uneasy. "Then go get that human that is running around the woods." I liked being human and sweet, I didn't want to lose it right away.
"I'm not thirsty." I lied. I didn't have enough to drink before I heard Anthony screaming for me about his dead lover. Noah noticed this, laughing.
"Come on human-lover." Noah said, running at an inhuman speed towards the human. I followed, unsure if I should stop him or help him. We reached the human quickly. He was an older man, a father most likely. He seemed happy and full of life as he sang a merry song about nature. I couldn't kill him. I just couldn't.
Noah pounced on the man in a smooth jump. He pinned the man to the floor, laughing the whole time. Panic crossed the man's face as he looked up at Noah's blood, red eyes. He screamed and begged, saying he had two daughters at home with no wife. He tried to fight but even though he was a big, strong man it was nothing for Noah. He realized slowly we were not normal teenage kids.
"Do it Jade." Noah said, ignoring the cry of protest from the man. "If you kill him then it prove that whatever happened with that weird guy was nothing and your not a human lover. If you don't your not one of us."
I looked into the man's panicked, brown eyes. I didn't want to kill him, I couldn't take a father from those girls. He was so happy before, how could I kill him. "Please, let me get back to my girls." The human said, his tears stopping.
I was so confused. I liked the way I felt around Kellan, so human and normal. I wanted to stay like that but if I did then I be kicked out my clan for sure. They were cold hearted killers and they didn't want no human sympathizer around them. Besides my throat was killing from being around his sweet scent, I needed blood. I couldn't deny who I was, a monster.
"I am so sorry." I said. The man let out a cry as I jumped on top of him, feeling my teeth grow. I got lost in my need for blood. I stuck my fangs into his neck, letting his sweet life come into my hungry body. I drank till he was completely drained.
I back away from the man, feeling horrible. Noah obviously didn't feel the same. He patted me on the back, proud. "Good job Jade." He said, smiling. "You proved me wrong. Lets get going now, Jake will be angry if we don't get home soon. You know how he gets about missing school."
I nodded but when Noah ran away towards our home I stayed in place. I touched the man's face, smearing blood all over it. I felt like crying again. Before I knew what I was doing I fished through his pocket, pulling out his wallet. The moment I opened it I came face to face with two beautiful young girls, his daughters.
I put the wallet in my pocket, promising myself to pay these girls a visit. It was the less I could do after killing there father. Sometimes I hated myself.
