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Felix and Demetri came back the next day. To my surprise, they weren't staring at me when I woke up.I did my morning routine of gettting ready and walked out the door. Felix was waiting there grinning like a jackass eating bryers.

"Good morning," He greeted " I waited on you to wake up to go in your room but I assumed you wanted to get dressed alone, so I waited."

" When you assume you make and ass out of u and me." We both laughed at the little joke. "But yes. you were right. I do prefer privacy when I get dressed. Thank you."

Felix had a good sense of humor I hd observed over the last few days. It was going to be fun hanging out with him. I liked people who could just laugh at things.

I finished breakfast and we left the kitchen. I noticed we went past the third floor that my room was on. We were going to the top floor.

" Where are we going?"

" You are going to meet the wives. Sulpicia and Athenodora requested to meet you. They have heard rumors of the 'Young human girl' around here. They stay in the tower and they enjoy extra company. Especially company of young people. When you've been around for a milennia, fresher minds are...interesting. They're real nice. Nothing to get nervous about."

"But Felix, who's wives are they?"

"Aro and Caius's. Sulpicia is Aro's mate and Athenodora is Caius' mate."

"Marcus doesn't-?" I was cut off.

" Shhhh!" He turned to look me in the face. "Marcus' wife, Didyme, is deceased. She was also Aro's sister. We don't know who killed her. Didyme is a taboo word, especially around Marcus."

"Oh. I'm sorry, I'll take note of that.I thought vampires couldn't die though..."

" The only way to kill a vampire is to tear the body to pieces and burn them."

I opened my mouth to speak but we heard the dings of the elevator and the doors opened.

We stepped out of the elevator and onto the marble floor. He grabbed my arm lightly and guided me torwards a wooden door. You could here giggling on the other side of the door. Felix knocked and opened the door. He must have heard an answer with his perfect vampire hearing. We walked in. It was dim in the room but the yellow walls made it seem bright. There was a white couch lining the left wall and a vanity oposite. There was a small window on the far wall. There was a shelf with little knicknacks and exquisite jewelry here and there. A little table was in the center of room. On the couch sat two ladies in sundresses. They both had porcelean skin and rubies for eyes. One had long dark brown hair but it looked like it had a tint of red on it. It kinda looked like barbeque sauce. Then I felt bad for comparing her hair to barbeque sauce. The other lady had red hair and it was long, thick and wavy. Both women had smiles on their exquisitely beautiful faces. They looked to be in their mid to late twenties thought Felix said they were a millenia. Felix thick voice broke the sudden silence.

" Sulpicia and Athenodora, meet Jade." Both of them leapt out of their seats and I just wanted to hide behind Felix.

The one with brown hair offered her cold hand to me, " I'm Sulpicia." Her voice was soprano -like. The one I had figured to be Athenodora smiled at me over Sulpicia's shoulder " Nice to finally meet you." They seemed nice. The nausea lightened.

" Nice to meet you too." I said smiling back.

"Come sit with us." Then Athenodora grabbed my wrist lightly and pulled me towards the couch. I hadn't even noticed that Felix was gone. Sulpicia sat on the left of me and Athenodora on my right.

"So tell us about yourself, Jade. How old are you?" Sulpicia asked.

"Going on fourteen in July." I answered with more confidence.

"You're a pretty little thing for going on fourteen." Athenodora compliments me. I wanted to say 'So I've been told' but I held off and said "Thank you" Sulpicia looked at Athenodora and said " She smells good too." Athenodora just giggled. I looked up at Sulpicia and said what I've been wanting to say, " So I've been told." Both laughed at my response. They're real nice. I thought. I felt a great surge of thankfulness towards Felix for bringing me up here.

Both the wives told me stories of their human life and how they met their mates. Then both took turns playing with my hair which felt really good. I always loved it when people played with hair, I get the feeling where I want to go to sleep. Then they experimented with different shades of eyeshadow on my eyes. They settled for rose pink. They traded my skinny jeans and tank top for a flowery sundress. It was like I was their little barbie doll. Eventually they had the cook come up and bring me lunch. I didn't realize that much time had passed. Around one in afternoon, Aro and Caius came and visited thier wives. Both came and greeted thier wives with a peck on the cheek and asked the usual questions: "How is your day." or " Need anything?". I just sat with my thoughts till Aro pulled me out of them. It was like he just then noticed me sitting there.

"Jade! How nice to see you. I see you've met my wife." He said; loud as usual

"Yes sir." I answered looking up at him.

"And I'm sure they're being good to you." He said. I couldn't tell whether or not it was a question.

"Yes sir." I was still nervous around the elders. Felix and Demetri weren't hard to be around after a few days but it seemed the elders expected much more of me.

"Very well then. They've both drove me and Caius crazy about meeting you." I looked over at Caius who was looking at me with a blank expression on his face much different from Aro's wide grin. Just then I heard Caius speak for the first time, " At least they've settled down. She's met everyone and Felix and Demetri are supposed to be telling her about our kind." All eyes in the room were on me.

"Ahh yes. Jade, how is that coming along?"Aro asked

"Good, I suppose. They've told me about the advantages of your kind."

"Can't rely Felix and Demetri for simple task." Caius muttered.

"Calm down, Brother. She's only been here for four days, I'm sure they were just getting to that." Aro assured him. Caius raised his eyebrows and looked away.

"Well Jade, I hope your time here is becoming more enjoyable." Aro said. I nodded my response because I didn't know what to say.

Both men said their goodbyes and kissed their wives on the cheek. I waited a few minutes to ask my question (in which both women laughed at my response.)

"Is Aro always that loud?" I asked. It had been bugging me ever since I came here. Was he talking unnesecarily loud for my human ears or because he wanted attention, or is it just normal?

Sulpicia laughed before she answered, " No. Not always. He's probably talking louder for you. You're human. The only humans that are in our presence we kill."

"That's what I thought." I blushed as I realized what I said. " About him talking louder for me because I'm human." I said quickly. They must have realized the fear in my tone because Athenodora grabbed my hand and said, " Sweetheart, you don't have to worry. We won't hurt you."

"I've been told. I- I wasn't worried about that. I'm being heavily watched. I feel...protected." I looked up. Both ladies were smiling at me. I was telling the truth, I really did feel protected. I was in a house of thirty five vampires, and Felix was already starting to feel like a brother to me. My smile vanished as I was reminded of my brothers at home and so did thiers.

"Is there something wrong?" Sulpicia aasked with worry lacing her voice; worry written all over her face.

"No." I lied. Maybe I could persuade them to believe I was okay. They were being too nice to know that my being kept here was killing me on the inside. I forced the smile back on my face and decided to start another conversation. If I told myself not to think about it, I would think about home and then I would breakdown into tears again.

The rest of the afternoon with the wives was spent with different conversations on this and that. The sunlight eventually floated into darkness. Felix came to take me back to my room. Surprisingly, I didn't want to leave. Sulpicia and Athenodora each gave me a hug and told me to visit them again before I left then the floor dissapeared from beneath me and I was being carried to my room. When were in the elevator Felix set me down.

"I've missed you all day kiddo!"

"You've missed me all day?" I asked shocked.

"Yup. I've had to do little task all day. Alec asked about you too." He winked at me. My heart sped up at the mention of his name. I looked up at him with my eyebrows raised.I couldn't control my voice.

"Alec asked about me?"

"He asked where you were. I was suspicious of him..." You could tell he was smiling as he spoke. My heart fluttered like a little bird in my chest. This was something I didn't know how to respond to. I was shocked by the smallest things. We waited in ride in silence (besides the little ' dings' of the elevator). We got to my room and Demetri was already waiting there by the bed. He gave me a smile. And gestured toward the table with food on it. I automatically went to it and dug in.Good bread, good meat, good God, lets eat!

The rest of the night was spent talking about how my day was and Felix and Demetri talking too low and too fast for me to hear or understand. I eventually drifted off unintentionally trying to hear. I was half asleep when I felt somebody cover me up. Then things got quiet and remained peacful for the rest of the night.

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