This whole problem with the Vampire Council is driving me insane and nothing has even happened yet.
With Ally still suspicious about how I exactly got her to her room that night and Aaron bugging me about loving her and warning me, I'm probably going to go nuts.
Why didn't anyone warn us about the council before? Even the vampires we knew when we changed didn't mention it.
I push all thoughts aside as the last bell of the day rings and I make my way to my locker. I get my things before I make my way to my car. As I pass, I hear something. It's Ally talking to some girl.
"I'm telling you Trish. Something's weird about that whole thing. I know for a fact that there wasn't a spare key anywhere."
"Ally why do you even care so much? I thought that you liked Austin."
"I do. I mean, he's nice, funny, and he seems like a really nice person—"
"Oh you're so in love with him,"
The conversation ends all too quickly due to me running into someone. I look down at the person and am slightly sad to find that it's just my sister. "What do you want?"
"I need a ride home." she simply states before getting into the car.
I roll my eyes as I walk around the car to get to the driver'so side before slowly getting in.
"Wow you're slow.. I think the old age has dawned on you."
"Maybe you're right. Oh wait, you're not because one, vampires don't grow old and two, we're the same age."
"Technically we're not because although we've been vampires for the same amount of time, that's adding to the age we were when we turned and you were 17, I was 15, so you're still older by two years."
I choose to not respond as she's already preoccupied with looking at herself in the mirror. "Has Aaron ever mentioned to you about what happened to his old girlfriend Claire?"
"Claire.."
"From the 60's."
"Oh, her." she says bitterly
"Yeah, her. Anything?"
"Just that she moved away." she pauses. "Why, is there something that you know that I don't?"
"Uh, no. That's why I just asked you."
We get to the house and she makes her way out of my car as quick as possible. I slowly walk inside behind her before putting my bag down and sitting on the couch. Aaron comes over and sits across from me.
"If you're about to give me yet another lecture about dating Ally or loving any human in general, just beware, I'm so not in the mood for it."
"All I did was sit down?"
"Yeah but since last week all you've done is send some not so subtle hints about the council and why they're bad news. Which I still don't get why you're telling me this because one, I'm not dating a human so I'm definitely not dating Ally and two, I don't even like her let alone love her so clearly, you have no idea what you're talking about."
He chuckles. "Why are you laughing?"
"You're so naive. Even if whoever you fell in love with wasn't Ally, the rules would still apply either way. No Vampire can fall in love with a human, it would just be bad news for the both of you." he starts walking away so I follow in suit.
"What makes you so sure I'll fall in love with a human, huh?"
He turns around. "Most vampires usually do go for humans. It's a well-known fact. Humans are in a sense, more attractive to us than fellow vampires are."
"Well couldn't they give a pass to some people?"
"No, they don't give 'passes' to anyone. Vampires cannot date Humans and that's never going to change. But tell me, if you're so sure that you don't have feelings for this girl, why do you care so much?"
He got me there. Why did I care so much? It's not like I'm planning on dating Ally or any human in general in the future. Although I will admit I do have a certain fascination with dating a human. Maybe that's why I'm so curious.
Granted, when I was a human myself I wasn't
exactly Mr. Hot Guy. More or less, I was a loser.
I walk away from Aaron and grab my keys, hoping to get out of that house as fast as possible. I drive about ten minutes before I come across this local park.
I've never seen this place before. It probably wasn't even created or built when I was a kid, a real kid.
I get out and make my way to a vacant swing set before I sit down and gently rock the swing back and forth with my foot.
Before I came back to this town everything was so much more simple. I didn't have Aaron constantly worrying, Payton a constant pain in my ass, and I didn't have a bunch of human girls that I have to steer clear of.
One things for sure is that when I first became
a vampire, I didn't know things would be this tough. Hell, I didn't even know about a vampire council until last week.
I just wish I could turn back time. Turn it all back before I became what I am. Change the events of that night. I wouldn't be alive today but at least I wouldn't have so much drama going on in my life.
I could live as a normal teenager. To even think that makes me want to scream. I can't change what I am. I can't change the night that had happened because it was 130 years ago. I would honestly rather die and stay dead then live this life; A life where I drink human blood to survive, and never grow old, never die.
Never be able to have a family. I always wanted to have kids someday but unfortunately, that's not possible because vampire's can't have kids. I'm sure there's some rule for that too.
I was knocked out of my thoughts by a constant call of my name. "Austin, are you okay?"
I look up and see Ally. "Ally? What are you doing here?"
"What am I doing here? What are you doing here?"
"Uh, I," I swallow. "My brother, was on my case and I just needed to get away for awhile."
"Ah," she sits down on the swing next to me.
"So, back to the big question: Why are you here?"
"I come here to think. As cliche as that sounds, a park is a really good thinking place."
"No no, I completely get it."
"You do?" she asks, narrowing her eyes at me.
"I do."
We sit in a comfortable silence before I decide to start up a new conversation. "Has this park always been here?"
She giggles. "As far as I can remember, I think. I thought you said you lived here before?"
"I did," I laugh nervously. "I just can't remember it because I was only about three or four when I was here last."
"So, are you liking the school so far?"
"Uh, yeah. It's okay. I'm a pretty easy guy with most things."
"Is that so?"
"It is. Which is another reason as to why I don't have many friends, I'm a loser." I whisper the world 'loser'.
"You're not a loser. I'll have you know that I can count all of my friends on one hand."
"I've got you beat, I can count all of mine on one finger," I gesture with my finger,
"Oh really, who?"
"You. Not to sound too cheesy, but you're the only person that I've enjoyed talking to without having to talk to them because of an assignment or activity."
"I must be the luckiest girl in school," she fans herself dramatically.
"Nah, no one cares for me."
"Oh yes they do. Every class of the day I hear at least one girl talk about you, and I know it's you because you're the only Austin with blonde hair and dreamy brown eyes."
"You think I have dreamy brown eyes?" I smirk.
"Hey, I was just quoting the senior girl population."
"Mhm," I mutter in disbelief. "But damn, maybe I do got it." I raise my arms to flex my muscles which causes Ally to laugh.
"You're so full of yourself,"
"Hey, a guy has to be whenever a girls around."
"But, you just called yourself a loser."
"Because it's the truth. Me being cool and 'having it' is a straight up lie. One of these days you'll notice just how much of a loser I actually am."
"Well I'll be sure to keep in fresh in my memory to watch out for any symptoms of loseridous."
"That's not a word but good job," I pat her on the shoulder.
Due to the lack of talking once again, my mind drifts off. I go back to thinking about none of than Aaron and his stupid lecture. Why did he have to say anything? I look at Ally and she's messing with the dirt and rocks under her feet.
I get this vision in my head. I'm not sure what it is but its reoccurring. All I see is a random place; not sure what place it is. "Austin?"
Ally calls me. But not in the sense of reality, but in this vision. I turn around and she walks towards me before kissing me. I'm taken aback but ease into it quickly.
It's gets more hungry by the minute. It's as if we're longing for each other, not being able to break apart. I can feel my face turning into the beast itself. As it gets worse I try to pull away but Ally makes that impossible.
It's as if she's resisting my ability of that even makes sense. I can feel the fangs coming so I quickly push myself away from her and she falls to the floor as do I. She looks up at me, frightened. "A-Austin?"
My minds thinking about a hundred different things just as fast as my heart is beating. I don't give her or myself time to think before I charge towards her and do the unthinkable.
I grab her face in my hands before I attack her neck. She screams out in pain and that's the last thing I hear before I'm knocked out of my trance by myself screaming no and me falling off the swing.
"Austin," the real Ally shouts as she gets up and kneels down next to me.
"Wha-What happened?"
"You spaced out again before screaming no and pushing yourself off of the swing. Are you okay?"
"Yeah," I get up and brush myself off.
"Are you sure?"
"Ally," I put my hand on her shoulder. "I'm fine."
She doesn't seem so certain but I assume she pushes the thought away as she asks me if I wanted to go get ice cream with her.
Of course, I say yes. Not because of the ice cream because honestly, I don't really care for ice cream. I say yes for two reasons: One, I don't want to go home and Two, I like hanging out with her.
We get to this ice cream parlor that wasn't familiar and we sit down at this booth near the window. As Ally goes to the restroom, I see the kid from school who was talking about doing things to Ally and instantly, my blood boils. He starts walking over here and I start to feel sorry for the kid. He doesn't know what he's getting himself into.
"Can I help you?" I smile.
"You," he points at me.
"Me."
"Why the hell did you punch me?"
"Well, there were numerous amounts of reasons," I stand up. "I decided to go with just one though. You don't talk about Ally that way like she's just a doll. She's a person who has feelings, not just someone you that you can mess around with. So I'll be damned if I'll let you even near her after what you plan on doing to her."
"You touch her, I will hurt you and not even think twice about it. Got that?"
Ally interrupts us by bringing the ice cream that we had ordered to the table. The kid doesn't forget to not so casually glare at me before he walks away.
"What was that all about?"
"Oh nothing, just some guy trying to cause some
trouble. No big deal."
"Some guy?" she scoffs. "That was Brett Matthews, shall I say, the king of our high school."
"What's so great about him?"
"He's the hottest guy in school. All of the girls love him."
"Eh, I'm better," I smirk.
She rolls her eyes which causes me to laugh.
"Ooh, a laugh. That's a sound that can make all of the girls forget about Brett."
"Too bad for them, I'm off the market."
She chokes on her ice cream. "Woah hey, are you okay?"
"Uh, yeah. I'm great." she wipes her mouth off. "So, who's the lucky girl?"
"What?" I ask in confusion before realizing what I had just said. "Oh you thou—no, no way. I'm single I'm just saying that I'm not in the dating mood right now. I'm single and I am happy."
"Me too. Well, I'm not single by choice. Of course I would love to be in a long-lasting, committed, relationship but that's just not happening anytime soon."
"Why not?"
She looks taken aback. "Well because, no guys like me. In the eye of the twenty first century generation I'm not exactly the, "pretty girl."
"That's totally not true."
"It totally is." she looks down before scooping some ice cream into her mouth. "Besides, I want a real relationship. All guys want these days is to get into girl's pants."
I want a real relationship. Believe me, I do.
"Well I can assure you that you're pretty and totally, uh dateable in the eye of our generation."
"Don't think so."
"I know so."
"Oh really, who? Who do you know that could possibly think I'm pretty and that would want to date me?"
"Me."
