Louis sat on his couch watching TV. It was some new documentary in the Discovery Channel but he wasn't really paying attention to it. His thoughts were elsewhere.
He was thinking about Tessa once again. Maybe he should try to see her again. She was so unlike so many of the mortals he had met around here.
But there was another factor playing into his longing to go to her as well. He was lonely. He wanted company and Tessa could give it to him.
But even as Louis thought these thoughts other thoughts would pop up to halt them.
He couldn't go to Tessa.
Tessa was interested in him already because of the Vampire Chronicles that she loved so much. He didn't want to go to her only to have her be seduced by his immortality and ask him to make her like him. He wouldn't be able to stand that. To condemn Tessa to a life like his was something that he couldn't stand.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door that jolted him from his thoughts. He stood up and went to the door curious as to who was there. He didn't know anyone well enough to have them come and visit him.
He undid the chain lock and opened up the door to reveal the very people he had run away from. "Hello Louis," Marius said. "Mind if we come in?"
"How did you find me?" Louis asked.
"We'll explain inside," Armand said. Louis stepped aside from the door letting them all inside. Once they were all inside he closed the door and locking it again. He then turned and led them into the living room where he once again sat down on the couch allowing the others to sit down or stand around him.
"So how did you find me?" Louis asked again. Instantly his mind flashed to Tessa. But she had said that she wouldn't tell anyone that she had met him didn't she?
"Your friend Tessa Hunter," Lestat said. "I asked her if she had seen you and she said no but when I read her mind I found out the truth. She didn't know where you lived though. That we had to figure that out ourselves." Louis nodded. So Tessa had kept her promise.
"It took us quite sometime to find you," Armand said. "You certainly are hard to find when you want to be."
"When I want to be," Louis agreed.
"But why?" Lestat probed. "Why didn't you want to be found?" Louis sighed. This was going to be hard to explain.
"I wanted to get away," Louis confessed. "I loved all of you but it was just something that I had to do."
"So you just disappeared on us?" Marius said arching an eyebrow. "Leaving us to panic?"
"I left you a note," Louis said guiltily.
"Yes a note that left no mention of where you had gone," Armand said.
"If I had told you, you would have followed me here," Louis said.
"He has a good point," Lestat said. Armand shrugged.
"True," He said, "but you could have at least called or something Louis."
"Sorry," Louis said. Armand sighed.
"It's alright," He said. "Just know that we're not going anywhere now."
"What?" Louis said.
"If you want to stay here then we're staying too," Lestat said. Louis groaned. He knew this would happen.
Both of these chapters are pretty short but I promise the one coming up is longer.