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"Hello? Myrnin are you there?" Claire shouted out into the dark lab, Myrnin probably forgot to turn on the lights, as he has super vampire senses…
"Claire?" The lights flickered on to reveal Myrnin stood in the middle of his lab wearing knee length green shorts, flip flops and an open bright green, flowered shirt. Defiantly not looking like he belonged in a lab frozen in the Victorian times.
"Yes. It's me." Claire walked into the lab. Myrnin stood watching her.
"Why did you put the phone down yesterday?"
"Erm, sorry I didn't feel liking talking to anyone."
"Well if you hadn't hung up on me then you would have known that Amelie has changed the days of which you need to be at my lab. You didn't have to come in today."
"Oh." Claire silenced and stood still. I'm not wanted anywhere. "I'll go then." She hastily turned and walked towards the closed door, her eyebrows lowered in dejection.
A cold hand gently clutched on to her bare shoulder. "Wait, don't go. You can stay if you want to."
Claire paused for a moment. "Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"Thanks, I have nowhere else to go really, Shane broke up with me, so I don't really want to go back home anytime soon" Claire genuinely had no idea why she had just confessed this to her boss, her insane vampire boss.
"Oh. I'm sorry." Myrnin turned Claire around. He looked down at her, the hurt in little Claire's eyes made him angry. Why would anyone deliberately want to hurt Claire? Shane would not know what had just hit him if he ever accidentally bumped into Myrnin anytime soon.
Claire stood there looking troubled, her eyes slowing filling with tears. Damn, now I'm about to start crying in front of my boss… Claire thought to herself, using all her emotional strength to will her tears away. Then Myrnin did the most astonishing thing. He lent down and hugged Claire, in an attempt to comfort her. Claire froze, her tears had gone and emotions now replaced with shock.
She patted his back awkwardly, not quite knowing what to do. What do you do when your crazy vampire boss tries to be sympathetic and suddenly hugs you without warning? He kept hugging her for about a minute before he pulled away and smiled at her. Not an insane smile which he loved oh so much, but a kind of normal smile which transformed his face. He was actually really handsome when he wanted to be.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Myrnin asked, still trying to sound concerned. He chuckled faintly at the astonishment on Claire's delicate face, which managed to make Claire look even more shocked.
"No, not really." Claire had to smile; she'd never seen Myrnin look so … interested. Although she really didn't want to talk about what happened, especially not to Myrnin. She didn't want Shane to suddenly go "missing", even if she did hate at this moment in time. But life at the Glass house probably would be less awkward. Claire's heart sunk when she thought about going back home and facing everyone, Shane in particular.
A silence filled the lab; neither of them particularly knew what to say. Claire was still drowned in her thoughts and Myrnin didn't want to pull her from them. Her eyes, usually bright and cheerful, now looked hurt. It made Myrnin's heart hurt to see her like this.
"Claire…" Myrnin placed his hand on Claire's left cheek and brushed away a strand of her soft, wavy brown hair which had fallen onto her face. "Please cheer up."
Claire would usually have been panicked by the affectionate gesture Myrnin had just made, but she didn't, she felt alarmed to admit it, but she actually rather liked it.
He left his hand there, cupping her cheek, for a few short seconds, and then he slowly removed it.
She snapped out of the trance Myrnin's touch had led her into, and looked up to see Myrnin staring down at her, desire in his dark eyes. Now she was out of her trance, his expression started to panic her. She gently stepped back, dazed at how close her and Myrnin had been.
"Oh! Look at the time… I'd better go now, you don't need me here. When is the next lesson?" Claire tried to change the mood, and stop Myrnin looking so…strange.
He straightened up, towering over Claire. "Tomorrow" He sighed. He'd freaked Claire out, and now she wanted to leave.
"Right okay, I'll see you tomorrow then. Bye." Claire turned and hurried towards the door.
She didn't want to go home, but she also didn't want to stay in Myrnin's lab any longer. He kept making her feel strange. This confused Claire.
She stepped through the door out into the darkened ally, and walked out onto the street. The sun was rising slowly and gave out a radiant orange glow. It was an extremely hot morning and the sun burned down gently on Claire's back.
I apologise again for how long it's taken for me to update, and sorry this chapters only short, the next one will hopefully be longer. I'm finding it difficult to think of what to put! Please please please please review! I'll try update faster if I get more reviews :)
