I couldn't catch a break, it wasn't anybody I recognized and they didn't look like they were from Bon Temps. Definitely not with that ostentatious-a word I learned on my word a day calender- car. It was large Ford Truck. It was a large man with a clip board in his hands.

"Are you Sookie Stackhouse?" He asked stopping in front of me.

"That's me. Please don't tell me that, that car is for me." I said from my chair I felt pretty silly laying there in a polka dot bikini.

"It isn't. I do have a package for you though." He said gruffly, I could barely understand him from his muffled words behind his mustache and beard.

"What is it?" I asked suspiciously, I looked over his shoulder at the truck and get a shiver down my spine what was kind of package was I receiving?

"It's a vampire." He replied shoving a clipboard towards me. "Sign this and I need to know where I can put it."

The way he called the vampire an 'it' told me he wasn't too fond of them. "Is it Eric?"

The man shook his head, "No, the sheet says it's some guy named Godric, and get this. The sender says , handle with care!" He began to tremble with laughter and I had to think before signing off to accept Godric. First I didn't know who the hell the vampire was, second Eric never told me that he would be sending him to me!

"Sonufabitch." I groaned, signing the paper and handing it back to him.

"The guys in the back have to do some stuff to the room before they put him in it so he won't burn to death if something was to happen." He told him, I read his name tag and found out his name was Sal.

"Follow me." I sighed.

I directed them to my old room upstairs that I wasn't occupying since my grandmother died. They boarded the windows up and took all the lights in the room out because they were too bright and they were cautious. After they left I wanted to peek into the coffin and see who the hell was in my house. Instead I took my behind right back to my chair and relaxed.

I really did try my best to ignore Jason but he was blocking the sun! On purpose I bet. So I let out a hefty exhale, and pushed my glasses up to the top of my head. "What is it?"

"They just put a vampire coffin in your room! I mean what if there's a vampire in it?" Jason asked worried. Good thing he didn't know that there was in fact a vampire in that coffin.

"It's empty. I don't know why he sent the damn thing here, but it's empty so it's fine. Go to work and don't worry about it." I told him, "And don't go around town telling people about it either. I have enough people in my business."

"I have no choice but to worry about you Sookie, your my sister."

"Yeah but you don't have to worry about this, a little past nightfall and it'll be gone." It better be gone by then, I didn't have time to worry about a damn vampire and whatever hospitality it needed from me. Like if it wakes up thirsty, I didn't plan on giving up a drop of my blood.

With protest Jason left for work, and I pushed the coffin out of my mind. Focusing on relaxing which wasn't helping me at all because Eric was on the fringe of my mind. So relaxing wasn't helping at all. I got off my ass and went back inside trading my bikini for a pair of old jogging pants and a over sized t-shirt. I grabbed my grandmother's old gardening tools and I went to work on the garden.

First I cleaned out all the leaves, and junk that had polluted the garden and then I began pulling weeds out. Which required me to use both hands, struggling with the thick weeds I used all my pent-up anger to yank each and every one out of the ground. Most of them were dead except for the rose-bush. It still stood it's ground, not succumbing to wither like the others. so I took it out and replanted it in the ground with fresh soil I found in the shed. Afterword I was sweaty, dirty, and out of breath. When I finished the garden, I decided to tend to the entire yard. Raking leaves, throwing away crap kids had thrown in the lawn and mowing the lawn. Something my brother should be doing to help out but whatever it was my house and I was responsible to do it.

I felt like I was on an adrenaline high, for some reason I had more energy than I ever had in my entire life. I cleaned the entire house, top to bottom. And then when I was done doing that I didn't stop. I washed my new car off, and then when I couldn't find anything else to do I showered, cooked dinner, ate, and fell asleep.

I woke up to a knock on my door, I'm pretty sure if it were Eric he wouldn't wait on my doorstep. No he was a man who liked to push boundaries; I would've woken up to him giving me a bubble bath or something. Which would've been a bit creepy, and hot. When I opened the door I found a girl. She was tall with blood red hair, baby blue eyes, and was pale as milk.

"Are you Sookie?" She asked doubtfully.

"That's me." I answered.

"Well can I come in? I have to bring that Godric guy back to Fangtasia with me . Eric was going to send Chow 'cause Pam's busy but he didn't think you'll like that much." She said with the cutest southern drawl I'd ever heard.

I stepped back so she could come in and said the 'magical words'. "You can come in." She walked in hesitantly and then when she saw that no one was there she sauntered in and plopped down on my couch.

"Hm, where is he? The sun set a long time ago, what's he doing?" Jessica asked curiously. It was a fantastic question, what was he doing?

"I'll go check and see if he's out...of his coffin." I paused before mentioning the 'coffin' because I was still a bit freaked out that, that myth was true about vampires. Did they really only sleep in coffins or did he come here that way as a why to travel without being burned? I wanted to ask Eric but I didn't believe that he would tell me because it was secret for all vampires.

When I reached the outside of my old bedroom I heard movement from behind it. So I opened the door and found a short boy sitting cross-legged on the floor flipping through a photo album of Jason and I as kids. "Hello, Sookie."

"Hi, Godric." I replied softly, "How long have you been up?"

"Since the sun fully set. You weren't up so I didn't come downstairs. I didn't want you to wake up afraid." He said simply, smiling at the picture of Jason and I in our Halloween costumes. "You were a cute Cinderella." He noted quietly.

"Eric sent someone to come bring you to his club." I told him.

"Eric didn't come himself? He's still upset with me, hm." He thought to himself absently like I wasn't even there. Godric was gorgeous; he had short black hair, stony eyes, and a face carved by an artist that had a masterpiece set in its mind. His build was muscular and powerful.

"You can stay as long as you want, but Jessica's waiting downstairs.." A guest was a guest, and Godric was. My grandmother taught me better manners than to turn one away.

He chuckled catching my lie instantly. "You don't want me to stay."

"Honestly, I don't know you so I'm uncomfortable with having you here. Especially since you're a vampire but you're here and if you want to wait until Eric comes to pick you up instead of Jessica then you can." I said, and I meant it.

Godric nodded to himself, "Eric was right about you. You are...different."

"Eric talks about me to you?" I asked.

"Eric...Eric hasn't felt love in a very long time Sookie. You have to understand that, so when he feels emotions like love, kindness, and joy he sometimes doesn't know what to do with it. Humans talk to their mother and father when they need advise. Vampires...loyal vampires go to their makers."

"HELLO? I'M STILL DOWN HERE! SHIT IF YOU AREN'T COMING, I'M LEAVING!" Jessica screamed up the stairs.

"That girl is going to get herself killed one of these days. It'll from my fangs if she doesn't learn her manners soon. Bill needs to tighten her leash."

"What? The girl looks like she was changed into a vampire still in her teens. Of course she's going to act like a brat, and who does she hang around all day? Bill, Eric, Pam, and you? Yeah perfect role models."

"Maybe she can learn some things from you." Godric said, I could tell from his eyes that his gears were already running with possibilities.

I changed the topic back to him leaving or not. "Are you leaving?"

"Yes. I don't want to over stay my welcome." He sighed, standing to his feet.

We joined Jessica downstairs and she rolled her eyes when she laid eyes on Godric. "Finally." She mumbled irate. Godric's hands balled into fists at his side and I knew if I didn't help her understand that disrespecting older vampires like Godric would get her killed (again) no one will. "Can we go now?"

"Yeah, do you live with Bill?" I asked her.

"Uh, yeah. I was only made a few months ago so I'm still with him to at least I learn how to live in this world without him." She explained.

"Would it be alright if I stopped by sometime?"

Jessica looked downright dumbfounded. "For me? You want to come over my house?"

"I mean we're neighbors, you live by here don't you? I remember Eric mentioning that Bill was in that old house across the way."

"Uh-huh." She answered staring at me oddly.

"Okay, then expect me over then."

"I'll...I'll uh, yeah okay." She said, and I knew if she was still alive she'll be blushing. I was probably going to be this girls first friend.