Chapter Three:
Amy's POV
We were all at the boardwalk when Laddie and I started to have an ice cream craving. So while Marko, Paul, Dwayne, and David stayed at the bikes Laddie and I went around to find an ice cream place.
We eventually found one and looked at the options.
"So what flavor do you want, Laddie?" I asked him. "There's vanilla, rocky road, chocolate, cookies and cream, rainbow sherbert, and cotton candy."
"I don't know mom, they all look really good." He paused for a minute. "I'll have cookies and cream, please." I smiled at his manners and kissed the top of his head.
"Good choice." Then I turned to the lady behind the counter. "One medium cookies and cream and a large rainbow sherbert." She nodded and got to the cones.
"Why medium for me?" He asked curiously.
"Because I know you'll practically inhale the ice cream." I said.
"True." He said nodding. I laughed and ruffled his hair. We got our ice cream and sat at a table.
Then three girls around my age came up.
"Aw he is so adorable." One of them commented. She had black pin straight hair with blond strips and brown eyes. She wore jean cutoffs, a white crop top with a rose on it, and converse.
"Thanks, this is my son Laddie. I'm Amethyst, but call me Amy." I said shaking each of their hands.
"I'm Selene, these are my best friends Allison and Venus."
"Aren't you a little young to be a mother?" Allison asked. She had grey eyes and light brown curly hair. She wore ripped jeans a black tank top and a denim vest.
"Yeah, but when I first met him when he was with his brothers, I hung out with him and thought of him as a son." I explained.
"Ah, that makes sense." Venus said. She has jet black hair that is teased up a bit and she wore black skinny jeans, a red shirt that says 'vampires are sexy' and black boots.
We finished our ice cream and I led them to meet the boys. We got to the bikes and I greeted Marko with a kiss.
"Guys this is Venus, Allison and Selene. Girls this is Dwayne, David, Paul, and my boyfriend Marko."
I saw that Venus was mostly looking at David, Selene at Paul, and Allison at Dwayne. Oooh, I think my brothers found their soul mates.
'Is this kinda like what happened with me and you?' I asked Marko through our mind connection.
'Yeah, it's a vampire thing. Sorry I forgot to mention it.' He responded apologetically.
'It's fine, and I'm glad it led me to you.'
"Nice to meet you." David said, mostly to Venus who smiled at him a little. I saw that Paul and Selene were already flirting, smiling, and laughing. Allison and Dwayne were acting a little shy to each other but got along very well.
"You girls wanna come with us?" David asks the girls.
"Sure." Venus said smiling to David.
"Yeah." Selene said. Allison nodding, smiling.
"Great, hop on." Paul said. Selene got on the back of Paul's bike. Allison rode with Dwayne and David gladly went with Venus.
I hopped on my bike and Laddie got on back. Yelling, laughing, and whooping, we all rode to Hudson's Bluff and back to our cave.
"This place is amazing." Venus said once we got into the cave.
"You guys actually live here?" Selene asks.
"Oh yeah, we eat, sleep, drink, smoke, and do what we want. But we mostly look out for each other." Marko told them, putting his arm around me.
"What about your parents?" Allison asks, sitting next to Dwayne on a couch.
"Our parents were jerks to all of us, and our only father figure is Max who owns the video store. He knows we live here and often checks up on us." David explains.
"Well, our parents are the same so we live together in our apartment." Selene says, Venus and Allison nodding.
We spent the night drinking, smoking, laughing, and joking around. While I was talking with Allison, I heard moaning and turned to see Paul and Selene making out against the cave wall. I laughed and shook my head.
"Never being able to keep it in his pants." I muttered.
"I can tell that Selene really likes Paul already. The way she was smiling whenever they spoke to each other, how she would hold his arm, and how her eyes glistened a little." Allison listed.
"Well Paul really seems to like her. I don't think you noticed the way he was looking at her because you were too busy looking at my brother." She blushed when I said this. Dwayne was currently play fighting with David right now.
"Was it that obvious?" She asked me.
"To Marko, Laddie, and I it was. But seriously, what do you think of Dwayne?" I ask her.
"He's sweet, funny, smart, drop dead gorgeous, and I feel this connection with him. I can't describe it but when I'm near him I feel whole."
"That's how I feel with Marko. He's my everything." I say softly with a smile.
"You really love him, don't you?" I nodded quickly.
"When I first saw him, I felt like I was meant to be with him for eternity. I looked into his eyes and couldn't help but get lost in them."
"That's exactly how I feel when I saw Dwayne." Allison said. I saw that Paul and Selene stopped making out and David and Dwayne stopped fighting. Dwayne came over and sat with Allison and Marko sat in between my legs on the floor. I put my arms around his neck and rested my head on his shoulder. Laddie was sitting next to me.
"Now girls, we have something very important to tell you. And please, can you promise not to scream?" David asked. They were confused at first but promised.
"Thing is, we're different from other people." He said standing in the middle of all of us.
"Different how?" Venus asks.
"We're vampires….."
"Really?" Venus asks in more awe. David nods. "Can you show us?" She asks us all.
All five of us vampires morphed and showed them our faces. They didn't seem scared, more in amazement. Each of the girls held their mates faces and smiled.
"Amazing." Venus said standing in front of David. We all changed back to normal and got ready for their questions.
"Why is Laddie a vampire?" Allison asks.
"He drank Davids blood but he's only half right now. Until he's older, he'll be able to feed and become a full vampire." Paul spoke up, sounding smart for once.
"So what are the perks of being a vampire?" Selene asks.
"Well, we sleep all day and hang upside down like bats up there." Dwayne says pointing up to the bars. "We can still eat, drink, and smoke but we also need to feed on blood. We can fly and our minds are connected so we know what each others thinking or feeling."
"Which in my opinion is a little creepy." I speak up, making everyone laugh.
"So what does this have to do with us?" Venus asks. We all hesitated, and I decided to take over.
"Vampires have this thing that leads them to the person they're meant to be with for the rest of eternity. When you look into their eyes for the first time, you instantly feel a connection with them. Something you've never felt with anyone else." When I finished, I looked down at Marko and we both smiled.
"Is that what I feel with David?" Venus asked.
"And me with Paul?" Selene said.
"And Dwayne?" Allison spoke up. The three boys mentioned nodded.
Then Venus kissed David, Selene and Paul started to make out, and Allison kissed Dwayne and then hugged him close.
I smiled at the sight of my brothers with their mates. It made me happy to know that we would all have someone with us for the rest of eternity. Everything was falling into place.
"Are we going to become like you guys?" Selene asks.
"Yeah, we can't live without our mates. If we find them and they are gone, it eats us up and we have the urge to kill ourselves." David explains. "Marko knows, he saw Amy get stabbed once and he was a wreck for a whole five minutes."
"It was horrible." Marko started. "When I saw Amy fall to the floor unconscious with a stake in her stomach, I literally felt myself break into thousands of pieces. All I could do was hold her as David pulled the stake out. Then Paul brought the kid who stabbed her and I cut his wrist open. She had to feed to heal. As she drained the kid and healed, all I could do was hold her as she was gasping for air." He said sadly.
I frowned and wrapped my arms tighter around him, telling him I was here and not going anywhere. He put his hands on my arms and laid his head back on my shoulder.
"So when do you guys want to get turned?" Paul decided to ask.
"I want to do it now. No time like the present." Selene answered.
"I agree, I'll do it now too." Venus said as David put his arm around her.
"I want to get turned now too. I don't think I could wait any longer." Allison spoke up.
"Laddie," I said. "Could you be a dear and get the bottle?"
"Sure mom." I smile when he calls me mom. It always brighten my day when he calls me mom. Laddie jogs out and comes back with the bottle.
"Now, once you drink it, you'll fall asleep till tomorrow night. When you wake up, we're going to take you to feed." David said uncorking the bottle and handing it to Venus.
She took it and drank three gulps, she gasped for breath and smiled. "Holy shit that was good." She passed it to Paul who gave it to Selene.
She took three gulps and passed the bottle to Allison then gave Paul a peck on the lips. Allison took a few gulps as well and gave me the bottle. David tossed me the cork and I closed the bottle up, setting it down beside me.
Venus, Selene, and Allison sat down beside their mates on the couch and slowly fell asleep.
"Now we wait." David said, pushing a strand of hair out of Venus' eyes.
"And now we wait." I said. The boys brought their mates to Davids bedroom where they could sleep for now.
I brought Laddie to his room and helped him take off his jacket. He hopped into bed and I covered him with his blanket. Giving him one last kiss on the head, "Sleep tight, Laddie."
"You too, mom." Then he relaxed and fell asleep.
I smiled at his sleeping form and walked out of his room. Us vampires flipped up and hung on the bars, letting sleep take over quickly.