Chapter 4: Just A Favor
As Candice sat in class she shifted and yawned softly when the teacher for Trigonometry was calling out names to see who was present. When the teacher announced for Evelyn Lee, there was no response. Feeling a little more than suspicious, Candice turned around to see that the desk usually occupied by the goth was empty. That was surprising even for Evelyn, seeing as much as she preferred to stay in the dark, she would never miss a day of school.. not even for something as stupid as their argument a couple of days ago.
As the teacher began to pass onto more students, Candice sighed again as she scrolled through the endless text messages coming from Adam. He seemed to be obsessed in texting her more than three times but she thought it was sweet of him to be concerned. Maybe Evelyn would show up at her house later and start babbling about Jerry again but her sudden absence left a sense of worry in her.
After Candice managed to convince her father to get her an off campus pass from a lie of her having bad period cramps, she skipped on having Adam pick her up and quickly headed over to Evelyn's house. The bright house with flowers in the garden looked so happy compared to what Evelyn's room looked like. When she knocked on the door, she was surprised to see Evelyn's attractive and natural dark haired mother in front of her. And she looked great for her age.
"Candice, how nice of you to stop by," Victoria Lee said with a bright surprise. "Hey Mrs. Lee, good to see you again." She felt a little awkward seeing as she hadn't been around the Lees in over a year and the guilt factor was starting to creep up on her.
"Please come inside, Rick, Candice is here!" Victoria called out and continued to smile as she studied the beautiful young girl in front of her with kindness. "You look great Candice, I can't believe how well you've grown up." Blushing somewhat, Candice only smiled and waved softly when Evelyn's father came around the corner, looking happy to see her as well. Her black jeggings and loose olive green top didn't seem too exposed to Evelyn's parents.
"Evie's going to be upset she missed you." Ms. Lee said brightly and Candice furred her brows before clearing her throat. "Oh? She's not here?" The question seemed a little redundant but Candice needed to know where she was or if something had happened to her where she wouldn't be home.
"Oh she leaves early. Considering how dark she looks I'm surprised she prefers to leave into the sunlight." Evelyn's father joked and Candice chuckled somewhat also. After they made some pleasantries, she asked could she just go upstairs into Evelyn's room for a quick moment to retrieve a book for Geometry. After she was allowed to do so, Candice gave them both a nice smile before heading up the white carpeted stairs slowly.
Candice crept into Evelyn's room and because her thick, fluffy black curtains were closed she took out her iPhone and turned the flash light on to see better. It didn't look much different than the last time she was here, accept it seemed that she collected a few more Slipknot and Deathnote posters on her wall. On her king sized bed were the same satin black sheets and dark red comforter. Her pillows were still the same Jack Skellington ones that Candice had gotten her for her birthday and her black shelves were still stocked with a ton of horror films - mostly slaughter - and what it looked like to be a Nightwish discography.
Candice looked and spotted a black leather notebook with skull stickers on it. Running her white manicured nails over it she opened to see a list of ways to kill a vampire and even their weaknesses. "Oh my god, Evie..." Was all she whispered as she fell into shock that Evelyn actually believed her neighbor was a vampire. Closing the book, she continued to look around before finding what it looked like real steel crosses hanging around her laptop desk and a container full of Holy water.
She took a seat down in Evelyn's fluffy black chair before she logged onto her computer still remembering that her password had been throatcuttersx for some time now. Candice looked around through her files before landing upon an interesting folder about Jerry. Clicking on it she was surprised to find various photos of his house and some of his upstairs windows but none of him in them. It had to be a coincidence, right? Jerry probably wasn't home when Evelyn had been taking these.
"God Evie, what happened to you?" Candice muttered sadly before her pretty eyes widened when she spotted Angie in the pictures with her. The both of them seemed to be shocked at the fact that Jerry wasn't in any of the photos. Not only had Evelyn completely went insane but now Angie had agreed to this nonsense and they had both been apparently stalking her neighbor. Feeling like she had enough of the photos that creeped her out, Candice locked her laptop back up before standing up.
She then spotted something near Evelyn's Violator album. She curiously picked up the gleaming necklace, recognizing it as her birthstone. As she ran her fingers over it, she remembered she had Evelyn's sketchbook so she gently placed it on her shelve. Before she even thought about putting the necklace back, she quickly tucked it into her back pocket before leaving out of the room.
Candice headed home as quickly as she could, mostly because it was getting rather dark outside and she didn't want to be outside longer than she needed to be. She stepped onto her street and made a power walk to her house. Slowing down when she spotted Jerry's dark truck pulling up into his driveway, she eyed him. She was sure he didn't spot her from his tinted out windows, which gave her some sort of relief. She hurried up and grabbed the empty trash bin before tugging it behind her. Yeah she was in no hurry at all.
She set the empty but heavy trash bin by the opening of her brown fence and took in a deep breath afterwards. She turned around and nearly jumped ten feet in the air when her new neighbor casually made his way to the open gate.
"Hey Candice." Jerry said in a rather monotone voice before narrowing his eyes as he watched her almost piss herself from being scared. Taking a minute to recollect herself, Candice eyed him nervously before responding, "Hey... Jerry, I didn't see you there." She put on a small smile afterwards and nervously brushed her hands down her top.
"I didn't mean to scare you, it's a bad habit of mine. People tend to get scared around me." Jerry spoke lowly, this time smirking a little. Candice found it to be a little perverted but managed to laugh lightly without making it seemed forced. With her luck Jerry would be too into checking her out anyway.
"Anyways, could you really do me a solid?" He asked abruptly and Candice didn't know whether to be intimidated so she simply nodded. "Uh, I guess. What's up?" She tried making some distance between the two but as they were standing in the small proximity of the garbage area she tried not to look like she was too uncomfortable. After all she had seen pictures of him, well more like faceless pictures, because he didn't show up in any of them.
"I've got this girl coming over for some beer but I'm all out of beer." She almost shivered at the tone of his voice.
"That's... um, well that's not a good thing." Candice didn't know what to tell this grown man in all honesty. She didn't drink, she didn't smoke and certainly didn't know anything about inviting random people - on what she could guess for- over to her house. She waited for him to respond for a second, seeing his eyes slowly wander over her figure like he had done previously in the garage.
"Set me up, Candice. I'll pay you back two times if you want, one for you and one for you dad? I know he's been meaning to drink with me." Just hearing the nickname leer off his tongue almost made her knees go weak but she composed her inner self and smiled at her handsome neighbor, trying to look as calm as she could.
"Yeah, I, I can do that. I'll just go check and see what my dad has in the fridge." She let out slowly, this time taking a step back from him. "Okay." Jerry answered in a soft voice not moving from his spot.
"Okay, I'll get go check, then..." Candice trailed off then not taking her eyes from his until she finally turned around and headed to the back door. She could feel his eyes raking over her from behind and let out a soft breath of nervousness. Jerry didn't follow her for a minute, taking this time to smell the scent, a sudden scent that made his nostrils flare and his pupils to dilate somewhat. Jerry instead followed her from behind to the back making notes of the way her shoulders tensed and relaxed every time he got more than a step closer to her.
"I'm sure my dad'll get around to drinking with you... He's just been really busy with his real estate job that he barely has time for anything, really." She babbled on as she finally opened her back door and quickly stepped inside. Jerry slowly came to a stop, keeping his dark eyes fixated on the attractive young girl before him. He could smell her fear, her anxiousness... It was driving him insane on the inside.
Candice set her purse down on the counter before she opened the refrigerator door, hoping her dad did have some sort of beer here. Just her luck she spotted a couple of glass bottles of Budweiser and the empty cardboard box the sixer came in. "Are you... okay with Budweiser?" She knew she sounded stupid asking him the question but it came out before she even think about it. Jerry simply stared at her with a look of perverse nature before a more gentler smiled eased onto his lips.
Candice noticed the curve of his mouth. His soft looking, pouty - Stop it! She thought furiously before smiling at him.
"Yeah, that's fine with me." Resting his muscular arms on the frames on the door, Jerry continued to grin as he watched the girl fumble around. She was a cute little thing really with her bow shaped lips and a unnoticeable dusting of freckles unless you look close. So much prettier than the dancer girl from across the street. Doris? Yeah that was her name, he thought. He was sure guys liked the bubbly blonde a lot but something about Candice was far more attractive. While Doris was out flashing herself like fresh meat, this one dressed more modest but still appealing in a way.
He never noticed in the garage besides the small visible skin of her belly but she was actually well endowed in her body. Her breasts looked small maybe around an a-cup but were perky as they looked to hold up well under her shirt. She was rather slim - something he found amusing considering her father was built with muscles - and had a smooth stomach that led down to a very noticeable flare of her hips looking snug in her pants.
She looked good enough to eat.
If she had known he was staring at her maybe for the fourth time since meeting her she didn't show she noticed as she began grabbing more beers. Candice gave him a look from the corner of her eye before gasping when one of the beers slipped from her shaking fingers clumsily. The brown bottle hit the kitchen tiles so loudly it nearly caused her to jump and to possibly vomit at the disgusting smell. Now this was his chance to maybe, even possibly get inside her house.
"Can I help you with that?" Jerry asked rather quickly, leaning forward and gripping the door frame in almost an urgent way. She looked shocked almost, her cute little mouth falling open in surprise at his question. He noted how plump and full her naturally pink lips are too, his mind filling with many thoughts on how he could take her bottom lip between his teeth and nibble her into a whimpering mess.
But she seemed smarter than the average sex craving teenager as she stood upright in almost a defensive posture. "No! No, no, no." She didn't realize how much strain was in her voice until she stopped speaking and Jerry could almost see the realization dawn on her pretty face. She managed to find the words to correct herself because after what she had found on Evelyn's laptop, she was still slightly intimidated by this man's handsome features and the fact that he could be what Evelyn had been claiming he was. Vampire.
"Oh, I mean, sorry - I mean I got it." There! Hopefully that covered her outburst from before and she threw in a small smile at that, hoping that she could take advantage of his obvious, maybe physical, attraction to her. It seemed to work as he smiled back at her in a flirty manner but narrowed his dark eyes while doing so. He could smell the high volume of fear coming from her and knew it was because of him. He loved that scent so much but she had another sweet aroma to her that had made his senses sing and his gums ache. He had no idea what he wanted more - to sink his cock or fangs into her.
Maybe both in time. He'll just have to play it cool and wait for things eventually. He had no trouble getting both those things from Angelina and Evelyn though the blonde had been more welcoming because of the trauma she had been through. It was fairly easy to earn her affection; kissing her smooth lips, drawing her mouth open before managing to get her skirt around her hips and sink his cock into her slowly. Evelyn had been more of a challenge but the feeling of taking her blood was worth the fight. Candice, however, was different. He didn't know if she knew about him but because he actually felt drawn to her he knew he wasn't ready to take her life - yet.
Candice quickly swept up the broken glass, not realizing she had cut her thumb and some of her blood was smeared onto one of the bottles. Walking cautiously back over towards him she held the beers out for him to take. Jerry watched her with curious eyes, hoping the barrier wouldn't block him, and extended his arm as well. She held it for a moment longer before leaning a little more closer so he could take them. Jerry's breath haulted as he noticed the small cut on her thumb but managed to keep himself calm enough.
"I'm sorry it's not six but maybe that girl you have over won't mind." Knowing she sounded stupid for even saying something like that, Candice averted her eyes to the floor as he rose both dark eyebrows up somewhat.
"Well she's not here yet but I think she can wait for a little bit." The words made Candice's eyes widen and her shoulders to tense back. Was he intentially flirting with her? When he had a possible girlfriend and that her father could be on his way home any moment? What was going on here and what's up with Jerry's attitude? She knew he was a pervert maybe or even a stripper but him showing interest in her was kind of unsettling. She just turned seventeen and he was obviously in his early to mid-thirties.
"I, I'd love to stay and talk with you some more but I really have some homework to catch up on. You know, like math and all that boring stuff. I'm sure we'll have more chances to talk when you and my dad finally have that beer." Candice quickly spoke, hoping that Jerry would believe her story and head back to his house.
Jerry continued to watch her. He suddenly could sense embarrassment within her now, like his words had become a little too uncomfortable for her. Though that didn't matter to him because he thought it was rather cute.
"Thank you for the beers, Candice. I should get back and who knows, maybe I'll have that beer sooner than later." Winking at the flushing teenager Jerry smirked, showing his every bright white teeth before turning around and leaving. When he was finally out of sight and finally back to his own property, Candice quickly shut and locked the door before leaning against it and letting out a shaky, loud breath.
"That had to be the weirdest conversation I've ever had." She said to herself before her iPhone began vibrating in her purse. She jumped from it but shook her head as she pulled it out and scanned through her texts, not surprised when it was Adam. He had left her two already and was wondering if they were going to still hang out later tonight. Running a hand through her soft hair, Candice headed up into her bedroom. Hopefully spending a few hours with Adam would get her mind off her perverted neighbor.
Once Jerry was back in the dark confines of his house, he almost threw the beer bottles on the ground from trying to set them down quickly. Almost immediately he took the one bottle with Candice's blood and sucked it off frantically. Once he got a taste of her blood he licked along the glass until he was sure it was gone.
"Her blood... it's perfect." He muttered darkly and clenched his hand slowly. This was going to be fun, it was going to be amazing when he finally could get ahold of her.