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Mistrust

Chapter 4

The doorbell rang throughout the house. I expected Chris to rush to answer it as he usually did so I couldn't but I guess he couldn't hear it from the basement. He had been down there for two hours now and he wouldn't tell me anything about what he was doing. He had been acting really strange recently and at first I feared that he had found out what that women had said to me, but it didn't seem like that's what it was, so I pretended that it never happened. We had been arguing quite a lot recently, I was getting annoyed with having to stay in the house all the time and Chris was beginning to get agitated with my constant questions.

I pulled open the door and was greeted by five surprised teenagers. After a moment of silence I decided to say something as they obviously weren't going to.

"Can I help you?" I asked them.

"Can we help you?" They returned my question and I gave them a confused look.

"Who are you?" I asked them.

"We could ask you the same thing." They replied and I rolled my eyes. "We're here to see Chris." One of them said.

Chris appeared at my side not looking pleased and turned to our guests.

"I wasn't expecting you until next week." He said to them.

"Chris, what is going on?" One of them asked.

"I can't explain right now." He replied.

"You didn't did you?" Another asked.

"Chris what are they talking about?" I asked him.

"Er, they are on about our way around the rules of course." He told me but he didn't meet my eyes.

"This can only end badly Chris; we've told you this before." One of the people on our doorstep said.

"Rose, why don't you go feed? It's not wise to wait much longer." Chris pointed out and I raised my eyebrow and his blatant attempt to get rid of me.

"Fine! Don't tell me then." I said annoyed and stormed off towards the feeding room. I kept my hearing sharp as I was walking away just in case they thought I was already out of ear shot. There seemed to be a lot that Chris wouldn't tell me. And I was getting annoyed with him keeping me cooped up like this. I had to find some answers, and soon.

I reached the feeding room without being able to overhear anything. Damn. I fed from the women that told me I couldn't trust Chris a few days ago, just to see if she would tell me something else, anything else.

"You need to get in to the basement." She whispered in my ear as I took some of her blood. I pulled away.

"But how? He's always around." I asked her quietly.

"Well you'll need to find a way. He's got to go out without you at some point; he'll need to in order to set up the marriage ceremony." She told me.

"What marriage ceremony? Who's getting married?" I asked her.

"You are of course." She said and I stared at her in shock.

"He's going to ask me to marry him?"

"He has to, in order to complete his mission." She told me.

"Mission? What are you talking about? I don't understand."

"Wow you really don't know anything about this do you?" She asked and I shook my head. She sighed and looked me dead in the eye. "I'm sorry but you are going to have to find out the rest by yourself. I cannot tell you anything else. It is of the upmost importance that you find out as soon as you can. Do you understand me?" I nodded.

"Rose, are you done?" Chris called me from the hall. I walked out of the feeding room and he pulled me in to his arms for a hug. "I'm sorry about that; I don't mean to seem so secretive. You know I love you right?" He asked. I would usually say yes, but after what the women has been telling me I'm not so sure anymore. I've never been very good at lying and I didn't trust my voice so I just nodded and smiled up at him. "Now come on, I want you to meet my friends, who are basically like my brothers and sisters." He introduced me to the guests that had arrived earlier and we spent the evening making small talk with me pretending not to notice the looks that his friends kept sending Chris' way. There was definitely something going on here, and I had to find out before it was too late. For I feared if I waited too long then something bad was going to happen.

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