Chapter Five: After Midnight strolls

When she finally reached her room she collapsed on her bed breathing heavily.

"What did he mean by the 2:55 thing?" Andrew asked, Reeka looked up at him her breath still ragged and fast.

"I have no idea." She lied to him; in fact she knew exactly what he had meant.

"Are you gonna be all right tonight or do you want me to stay with you?" He asked.

"No that's ok it's pretty late." She glanced at her clock it red 2:37. 'Maybe I should ask him to stay. No there's no point, and what if he pulls something like last night? Ok I guess I won't ask him to stay. Good girl.'

"All right then I'll see you later ok." He kissed her but didn't pull back. He licked her bottom lip begging for entrance, but she wouldn't allow it. She pushed him back.

"I'm sorry Andrew but after last night I cant."

"Whatever. I'll wait for you but I can't wait forever." He stormed off and slammed the front door. Hard. Thank god her parents weren't home yet. She glanced at her clock 2:48. She sighed hoping that he wouldn't show. Reeka pulled off her dress, underwear, and bra, and threw it in her hamper. She then put on a spaghetti strap shirt and a pair of boxers. She laid down in her bed and once again looked at her clock. She sighed; it now read 2:55 in bright red letters.

She closed her eyes, and as soon as she did her window opened letting in the cold that chilled her down to the bone even though she was snuggled under think blankets. She squoze her eyes shut tightly. Reeka herd her window close so she opened her eyes only to see Pip standing next to her bed with Mr. Bear in his hands examining it closely. She sat up and yanked it out of his hands.

"Don't touch him." She said angrily. Pip shocked look changed into a smirk.

"Hmm a bear...interesting." She sat up in her bed, her blankets slipping down to her waist.

"What do you want with me?" She asked innocently.

"I'm not sure."

"Then why don't you leave me alone?"

"Because you...interest me." He said shrugging slightly.

"Your psycho you know that, if you're gonna kill me do it and get it done and over with." Pip cocked his head to the side and asked:

"Do you wish to die?" She looked away.

"Why do you care, just do it and get it over and done with."

"Perhaps I don't want to kill you."

"Then why are you stalking me?"

"I already told you why."

"Ok well then tell me, how do I interest you I'm just a teenager?"

"Yes I know you are but for some unknown reason you just do...You shouldn't wear a bra more often you look better with out it." Reeka quickly covered her breasts with the blanket.

"You're a pervert." He smiled like a proud 2 yr. old who just used the big people's potty for the first time.

"Yep!!!"

"So if your not gonna kill me...your not gonna you know change me are you?" Pip had to think for a minute to realize what she had just said.

"No, no, I couldn't do that to anyone." Reeka let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding.

"Well that's good….ok so uumm is it something I do that interest you?"

"I really don't know what it is about you." He said thoughtfully.

"Sorry, I just was trying to help figure out why."

"Its ok, you don't have to apologize…..Hey I figured it out."

"What is it?"

"I'm liquid gold and your murder gray." Reeka laughed.

"Nice…." A comfortable silence fell over them. Reeka stared to play with her necklace, and Pip noticed.

"Where did you get that necklace?"

"I don't know, I've had it as long as I can remember I've asked my parents but they always change the subject...it's rather strange actually, but I never gave it much thought."

"That is kind of strange."

"Why do you ask?"

"I recognize it from somewhere but I can't for the love of me remember where."

"I've never taken it off, my parents told me not to, but I still don't understand why. They said even if I tried I wouldn't be able to remove it anyways. You know you can sit if you want."

"Thank you." She moved over and he sat on the edge of her bed. She snuggled closer to Mr. Bear.

"So what's with the bear?" Reeka looked down at Mr. Bear.

"He's my bear what's not to understand?"

"Aren't you a little bit old for stuffed animals?"

"No, and besides I can't sleep with out him…" There was another long pause before she asked. "Are you really a vampire?"

"Yes I am."

"Can you prove it?" He smirked.

"Well there are several ways I can prove it but each will have a different out come and I don't think you'd like some of them."

"Eheh…" She chuckled nervously. "Can't you show me some way to prove it? With out doing anything I wouldn't like very much?"

"Well if you'd like I can name off some things and you can pick witch one you like the most. How does that sound?"

"Good, start dishing it."

"Ok well I could eat someone infr-" She interrupted him.

"NO, NO!!!" She said frantically, while waving her hands in front of her to stop him, not noticing her breasts bounced at her action, but Pip noticed. "Sorry that's just a bit too much for me."

"No its ok I understand. Well I could bite you, but that's out of the question." He added the last part hurriedly so she didn't get mad, or upset. "Hhmmm let me think for a second…" He cutely put one finger on his chin and tilted his face upwards. Reeka smiled slightly. "Aha!!" He pointed the finger that was on his chin up in the air above his head in triumph. "I got it!" Before she could protest he had grabbed her hands and pulled her up and off of her bed to a standing position.

"Wait, what are you gonna do?"

"Do you trust me? More then Andrew?" He looked in to her eyes. Bright green met light blue. She saw nothing in them to make her think that he wasn't trust worthy.

"For some reason yes I do."

"Then close your eyes." Reeka hesitated for a moment. "Don't think about it with your brain, use your heart...if you truly trust me like you said then you can do it." Reeka looked at his smiling face searching for something, anything to convince her not to close her eyes, but she couldn't find anything. Reeka took one last deep breath, and then she closed her eyes. Pip pulled her closer to him then he lifted her bridle style as easily as if she didn't weigh anything, causing her to squeak.

"Please don't drop me." She pleaded.

"I won't." Reeka felt the cold air caress her body. She tightened her grip on him realizing she was flying.

"Pip?"

"Yes?"

"Can I open my eyes yet?"

"Yeah, open them." Reeka did as he said. When she did her suspicion was confirmed

"Oh my god!!" She shouted then held onto Pip as tightly as she could.

"So does this prove that I am?"

"Uhuh…Pip…I believe you, can we go back now?"

"Of course we can. Are you afraid of heights or something?"

"Not in a plane or in a tree but flying over the city-and the only thing that I can hold on to is a vampire who is stalking me and I do not know anything about him-makes me a little nervous." Reeka smiled at him, and he smiled back at her.

"Hey, I'm not stalking you."

"Ok so you just randomly pop out from behind a tree when my boyfriend tells me that he loves me. Oh and not to mention last night in that park that I've never been to before. Huh, huh answer that. Yeah not so tough now. And I bet anything that you're the one that has been watching me from my window aren't you?"

"You know it's not really smart to accuse a person-who I might remind you could let you go and you would plummet to your death-of being a stalker."

"B-but you said that you wouldn't drop me." She stuttered out.

"Reeka relax, I am just messing with you."

"Don't do that, I'm afraid ok." She wined.

"Well you should be fine now. Were back at your place." Pip let her down on to her feet, and smiled brightly, and she returned the gesture. "Better?"

"Much." Reeka and Pip herd the front door close.

"Sounds like your parents are home, I wonder how drunk they are."

"You're really creepy, you just know too much. And to answer your question there probably as drunk if not drunker then Andrew was last night."

"Hey Reeka?" Pip asked softly.

"Hmm?"

"What exactly happened last night, before I found you?" Reeka walked over to her bed and sat down, looking at the floor. Pip sat next to her. "I understand if you don't tell me, I mean we just met yesterday and I almost ate you, but it does help to talk about it, trust me I've been around for a while so I know."

"So just how old are you?"

"It's ok to change the subject, but to answer you I'm 287, but my body is that of a 17 year old like it was when I died."

"So that means that you were turned in 1736 right?"

"Yes, you're rather smart, you know that?"

"Nice to know someone notices."

"So are you going to tell me or not?" He asked trying to look into her eyes.

"All right I'll tell you…..Andrew almost rapped me last night."

"Is he the one that gave you all of the bruises?" He motioned to her arms and cheek. Reeka lowered her face. "Don't hide your face, you're the complete opposite of ugly, don't hide something so beautiful." Reeka looked back up at him and into his eyes.

"Are you just saying that?"

"No I'm not, why would I, I don't have any reason to lie to you." Reeka smiled slightly at him knowing it was true.

"Yeah he was the one."

"Then why are you still with him?"

"Because I love him, and he's never done that before, he only didn't it because he was drunk, or else he never would have, and I can just throw a two and a half year relationship away just like that."

"Reeka he'll do it again." He tolled her softly.

"You don't know that….I don't wanna argue ok?"

"Ok, I'm gonna go, the sun comes up in an hour. If its ok with you can I come back tomorrow, I'll even take you to a movie like a normal non-blood sucking person, how does that sound?"

"That actually sounds pretty good."

"Good I'll see you at sunset ok?"

"See you then."

He stood up and took a step a way from her but stopped and turned to face her. Before she could react he hugged her. It was not what she was expecting it to be at all, she thought it would have been cold and jacquard but it wasn't in fact it was warm, comfortable, and she felt as if she was sleeping wrapped in her blankets. Not fully awake and wrapped in another guys arms who wasn't her boyfriend. When they pulled away from each other he smiled and jumped out her window. Reeka smiled to her self and looked at her blue clock.

"Shit." Was the only thing she said. She got in bed and fell asleep almost instantly. She decided that she wasn't going to school tomorrow, she knew her parents were gonna sleep late, very late at that. The last thing that crossed Reeka's mind as she snuggled closer to Mr. Bear was Pips smiling face.

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