- Warning Author known for making corny jokes at bad moments. AND as a side note in case you were wondering it is pronounced 'May'- Mae that is. So last chapter MAE (May) WE MEET? - get it? Well okay anyway ON TO THE STORY! -RL
Chapter 2
Mae was going to be sick. Images flooded her head, swimming before her eyes. One image showed her water while she could feel the coolness and the weightlessness that came with swimming. The scene changed to trees and she felt her skin being scratched by the bark of the tree she was climbing. While her eyes showed her images, emotions tore at her heart and soft sounds filled her ears. For a split second everything stopped.
Red flashed crossed her vizion; a woman's screams fill her ears, terror and confusion mixing in her heart. Finding her voice Mae let out a scream and sat up trying to make the images of a dead girl's face covered in blood disappear.
"STOP! STOP, Please make it go away!" Her eyes darted around the room and finally came to rest on the dark girl sitting next to her. The girl reached out to quite her but Mae recoiled up against the back of the black couch she had been laying on. She half realized a blanket had been draped over her and she pushed it off as she tried to get up. Mae was half way up before her legs gave out and she toppled back on to the couch slamming her head against the end table. She drew a quick breath and fought off the rising pain in her head.
The smack had enabled her to now think straight. She gazed around the room and realized she was back in the house from last night. The dark girl retched over and gently took her arm as though she was afraid to touch Mae. Her eyes came back to the girl. She looked familiar.
"Who are you?" she asked extracting her arm. The hairs on Mae's neck stood on end and she shivered. The girl looked up and shrugged.
"Marguerite" she said holding out a glass of water that had mysteriously appeared on the table Mae had slammed her head on. "Drink this. You'll feel better." Mae took the glass and held it to her lips thinking. The smack must have messed with her head because she just realized that Marguerite had been the one to answer the door earlier. Mae furrowed her bow and thought back on the things she had seen. Then the image of Nikolas forced its way through. She dismissed him as a figment of her imagination. But she answered the door, to the house where he lives. The voice in the back of her mind said. Something caught her eye and she looked up. There sitting on the opposite side of the room was Nikolas. Nikolas the vampire. Her legs had somehow managed to hold her long enough to make it to the front door a few feet away. But he was there leaning up against the door, arms crossed over his chest.
"I don't think so hunter"
"What?" Hunter? Mae wasn't a hunter; she had barely suppressed the sobs when she had to put her dog to sleep, no way could she hunt anything. She began to back up slowly. Okay maybe if I explain everything he'll let me go. Her mind reasoned. The images of blood raced a crossed her vision. Oh God I'm going to die aren't I? Her body stopped moving as she hit the couch again. She sank into the set and appealed to Marguerite with her eyes. The dark skinned girl looked up at the vampire who hadn't moved, then to Mae, and then left the room. She was now alone with a vampire. She shut her eyes for a second to think and when she opened them he was gone.
"Name" Nikolas was sitting next to her, so close that she could feel his breath on her neck as he spoke. As though someone had set her mouth to babble she answered
"Mae" she resisted the urge to say her full name.
"And you are here why?"
"I wanted to see you" she inwardly cringed at how weird that sounded.
"To. See me?" He sounded like it this happened everyday. "You mean to kill me, don't you?" he chuckled.
"No." she didn't look but Mae could feel a slight change around him with that answer. She was right, because when he spoke he didn't sound so…cold. No he sound amused.
"You came here to see me? Not kill me?"
"Yes" Damn her tongue why could she stop talking?
"Not to kill me?"
"Yes damn it yes!" now she was getting angry at the redundancy of the conversation. What was he trying to do? Catch you in a lie said the voice in her head. Oh now that makes sense.
"Where have I seen you before?" This caught Mae off guard but before she could think of what to say her mouth was moving.
"Home" came the word effortlessly. Nikolas grew wide-eyed and Mae slapped her hands over her mouth. What had just happened? Pictures flashed a crossed her eyes again, the same she had seen before. Her hand feel form her mouth and began to speak.
"You remember don't you Nikolas? The river, Remember? Were we went swimming" the voice was her own but the words didn't make sense to her. Images flashed like a strobe light still. "Remember the one July night it was so hot? I snuck out of the house and came to your window and tapped on the glass. We went down to the river and I stripped down to my underwear and jumped in! My mama was so mortified when Nissa and Papa drug us back." She laughed. Nikolas had risen as Mae spoke and paced around the room, but when he had heard Nissa's name he stopped and faced her.
"How do you know that?!" he demanded. For once in his 300 year life Nikolas was shocked and could not control his facial expressions.
"I don't know" Mae said. She silently started praying. He was mad now and the chances of surviving a encounter with a pissed off vampire were slim to none.
"What was your name again?" his voice sounded horse.
"Abby" she said before she could stop herself.
- And so we stop here. Who is Abby? (No that wasn't a mistake) What does she have to do with Nikolas? We'll find out in the next installment of Mirror Image! LR-
-Oh a P.S. This will be it of awhile school starts in 1 and a half weeks and I really need to start doing my summer reading as much as I would like to protest it. I don't think my new English teacher would like me very much if I did that. I'll try to update after school starts but I've having trouble keeping Nikolas in character because it seems I was on some thing when I originally wrote this. Not to mention the first draft isn't even done yet. –Shrugs- I have other stuff up if you wish to take a look at it. Reviews are appreciated but not required. Thanks for reading. LR-
