Vampire Kisses

Chapter 4:Love at First Bite

Wind offered his hand to me, I took it, and I stood up. He pulled me in close to him. Once again I thought that he was going to kiss me. When I looked into his eyes, those beautiful emerald green eyes, I saw a longing. This time though he wasn't holding me down, or against any walls, or pinning me to anything so I didn't think that he would bite me. He had his arms wrapped around my waist, with his hands resting softly on my midriff. Wind's arms were holding me against him, but only gently and loosely. I most definitely could have escaped his grasp, but I even more definitely didn't want to.

He was leaning into me already. I was almost completely positive that he was going to kiss me this time. But did I want him to? His face was near mine but he hadn't showed me his teeth. His face was less than an inch from my face when his took another course. He was hesitant, but he gently kissed my neck. I inhaled. A second later, I felt a sharp prick on my neck right where he had kissed me. The pain was nothing more than a pinch, but I knew that he had done. Wind bit me.

My eyes got wide as it finally sink in. Oh no. this is bad. What's going to happen now? I won't become a vampire like him, will I? He pulled away from my neck. "What happens now?" I asked worried. I didn't want to be a vampire too.

"Nothing," he said. "Unless you want something else to happen."

"But won't I...become like you?" he chuckled at me.

"No. I would have to do something much different to turn you." he looked me in the eye. "Why? Do you want to be turned?" He seemed genuine, though. I didn't think that he was trying to intimidate me or pressure me to let him turn me. He really wanted to know if I wanted to be a vampire like him, but still, I was anything but slow to answer him.

"No!" I almost yelled, then calmed myself down. "I don't. At least not now anyway." I started connecting the dots then. Is that what he meant when he said he might get something later? He must have drunk some of my blood. It's not like he would just bite me and keep his mouth on my neck unless he took some of my blood. Did he know that he was going to do that before I even got home? The thought sent a chill down my spine.

"OK. Are you alright though? He must have noticed when I got the chill. Why else would he have asked me? I started getting that fluttering feeling again.

"U-um yeah. I think so. I just got a chill." That's when I noticed that his hands were still on my lower back. He was still holding me against him. I didn't want him to let go.

"Are you sure?" he asked again. "You look kind of...faint." I felt faint, but not in a sick way. I felt faint in the way that my heart was pounding out of my chest, but I wasn't about to admit that to Edward.

"Yes, I'm sure that I'm fine. So what are some of the other conditions?" I asked smiling. I also wasn't going to admit that I actually enjoyed the bite. He half smiled.

"Those, you'll just have to wait to find out, that is if you agree." I was only a little but hesitant, but I eventually decided to go along with it, especially if it meant that that would happen to me more.

"OK. I'll agree to it then. I won't tell anyone. It wouldn't benefit me if I told someone anyway." Edward had a wide, toothy grin on his face. A grin that said "I know something you don't know."

"I'm glad that you decided on that," he told me. Then he tightened his grip on me, around my waist. When I looked up into his eyes again, the longing was gone. It had been replaced by determination. I tried to figure out what he was so determined to do, but I couldn't do it. He started to speak to me again. "You know, you really appeal to me much more than any other girl does." I wasn't quite sure what he meant by that, so I questioned it.

"What do you mean, ' I appeal to you?'" I tried to keep a straight face when I asked. He was so cute. I had never notices before that he had dimples. But only when he smiled – I loved it when he smiled. I guess I was too afraid before to notice.

"Well, for starters," he began, "you're absolutely beautiful." I blushed a deep pink. No one had ever called me beautiful to my face except my father, but that's his job. I didn't consider myself to be beautiful either, but he wasn't done. He leaned in closer to my face. "And your scent. It's amazing. It just keeps bringing me back to you." I started to smile. He really was as cute and sweet as I thought the first time I ever saw him. Before all of the fear and confusion.