I don't know how long I was out for, but it must not have been long though, because when I woke up Samuel was holding onto me.
"Ally. Ally are you alright?" his face was unbelievably close to mine, and I realized what happened.
"You...made me....faint..." I said slowly.
"Whoops, my bad." He chuckled. And out of a reflex, my hands wrapped themselves around his shoulders. His arms were already around my waist supporting me up so I wouldn't fall off the skateboard. And for the first time in my life, I smiled.
"So you do smile." He said with a smirk. I almost chuckled at that but didn't.
"Don't get used to it buddy." Because although I smiled this once, didn't mean I would do it more often.
"Okay then, I won't. Now can I kiss you again or are you going to faint?" So that's what happened. He had kissed me and I fainted because of it. Holy crap if Angie had seen that she'd have been chewing me out for fainting.
"I think I'm good." I replied with a smirk, and almost instantly his lips were against mine. I was a lil surprised, his breath was cold, and tasted like flowers, like an essence of roses and lilacs. I felt like I was lightheaded, had a million butterflies in my stomach, and was in the most perfect place in the world all at the same time.
And for the first time in my life...I think...I was in heaven....which was a first for me due to the fact my dream was me escaping from heaven. But the thing about that was, I wasn't escaping from heaven, I was escaping to heaven.
He pulled back slightly and stopped, as did I, and we just stared at eachother, saying and doing nothing. Until he finally snapped out of it and said
"Everyone's leaving. I should get you home. I don't want your dad to be worried about you." He slowly got up and brought me up with him. I didn't know what else to say so I just whispered
"Okay..." And took my place on his skateboard. His arms wrapped around my waist but he held me slightly closer this time. And we skateboarded home.
My dad was waiting in the living room for us to get home. He wasn't one of those dads who were over reactive, but he was just being a good dad. Making sure I got home at the right time and making sure I was okay. I said goodbye to Samuel at the door but ended up kissing him again. This time he pulled me close to him and I was glad. I stopped first this time, although I would have given anything to be able to stand there kissing him for hours.
"I really need to get inside..." I actually did need to get inside before my dad came outside and saw us.
"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow." He smiled that heart breaking smile at me and this time I almost did melt. He kissed my forehead and left and I walked inside after I had caught my breath and stopped blushing. I said hi to my dad and he asked only a few questions.
"So how was the moon?"
"It was okay."
"How long did it last this year?"
"Ten minutes. Not long."
"Anything big happen tonight?"
I thought about my answer, Making sure I didn't tell him about Samuel.
"Not tonight. Probably tomorrow."
"Oh. Okay. Night Aleena."
"Night dad." And I walked upstairs. Too tired to take a shower this time, I threw my hoodie and hat on the floor, changed my pants, and went to bed. I laid there for quite a while, thinking about numerous things. Probably too many things to list. Until I heard something on the window. I got up and threw on my hoodie, due to the fact that it was pretty cold out and I had forgotten to turn on the heat, and walked to the window. I would have screamed if I hadn't had my hand over my mouth. Because there on the tree branch just outside of my room, was Samuel.
"What are you doing here?!" I whispered as I opened the window and let him in. I have no idea why I did that. Any other girl would have screamed and gone to tell their dad...but I didn't. I must have been going crazy. He climbed in so swiftly I didn't even see him get off the branch.
"What I always do." He said, closing the window silently and quickly.
"What do you mean 'What you always do.'?" He gave me a minute to think, saying nothing. And I figured it out.
"You've been watching me?!" I yelled. It wouldn't wake up my dad and Kate though. The walls were reinforced with extra thick dry wall. He looked very serious, a first for me, because every time I had seen him he had been smiling.
"Aleena I've been watching you for quite a while. Ever since you moved here. Word travels fast around this small town, especially if your father is the best doctor we have." He paused for a minute letting me take in his words. He had been watching me for over a month. So that's what those noises were every night outside my window. They were him... Then he continued explaining.
"Aleena do you believe in ghost stories?"
"Wh...What do you mean?" I was confused and surprised all at once. I sat down on the floor when my knees gave way. He just casually sat in front of me, looking me in the eyes.
"I mean myths and legends. Ghosts, werewolves, vampires. Stuff like that."
Was he kidding? I loved vampires. Of course I believed in them. So I slowly nodded.
"Yes...yeah I do..."
"Do you believe they literally exist?"
I thought about it. I had always said I believed in vampires, but literally exist?...
"Yes...."
Samuel didn't look too happy about that, but he continued on.
"What if I told you......I was a vampire?"
I didn't know what to say to that. Was her serious? Or pulling my leg? I was surprised at myself, but I trusted him. I hadn't trusted anyone since I was two, and out of nowhere this boy steals my heart in a way I never thought possible, and I trust him with my life.
"I.....I'd be surprised......but I'd believe you......"
"Good. Because that's exactly what I am." He closed his eyes then and opened them again, and they were a bright, light blue instead of a chocolate brown, of which his eyes looked like at school. I was in shock. Just staring.
"Are you scared?" he asked with a smirk. "Afraid that I might bite you? Suck your blood?"
I was still staring but not as badly. I didn't know why, I guess I was crazy, but what I said was
"No........"
He tackled me then and held me down tight. I couldn't move a muscle. He was un believably strong for a boy his age,
"You should be...."
Why should I be scared of him? He would never hurt me.....would he? So I figured I would ask him.
"Why?.....Why should I be afraid?"
"Because Ally I can hurt you....even if I didn't mean to..." He picked up a metal rose I had on my dresser and closed his hand. When he opened it, the metal that had once been a black rose, was now a fine powder in a small pile. I stared wide-eyed at the pile in shock. He was stronger than most boys....because he wasn't a boy. He was a vampire...
"Whoa......" I was actually in a lot of shock but...for some reason, I expected it.
"Yeah whoa.....and that's bad..."
"Why is it bad?..."
"Because I am inexcusably and irrevocably in love with you."
My eyes grew big and my face grew hot. He was in love with me. I had never even had a boy like me before.
"You.....love...me..." I didn't know what I was feeling, but it was new, and I had no idea why, but then I did this, I wrapped my arms around his neck and whispered
"I love you too...." And I meant it. I didn't know why. But I knew it would make sense eventually.
"This is bad Ally. You shouldn't love me.....its one thing for me to love you but......you loving me in return..........that puts you in danger..."
That was it. I wanted to know everything. And I wanted to know it now.
"Samuel you better start explaining, and get off me please, before the bruises on my arms turn purple." He was holding onto my arms pretty hard. It wasn't hurting but I was sure I would have purple bruises on my arms in the morning.
"Whoops, my bad." He got up and brought me up with him and sat us down on the bed.
"Now explain." I wanted to know everything. He sat next to me and started explaining.
"Ally do you know how old I am?"
"You're 14...."
"Yes...and no...."
"Explain."
"I've been 14 for 200 years...."
That made my eyes practically pop out of my head.
"O...kay what else?"
"My 'family'? They're my best friends. Not family. My dad isn't a cop; he's a scientist...and a vampire himself. My whole family is."
I sat there just staring at him not knowing what to say....and he knew. So he continued.
"We've moved a lot, since we don't age fast anymore."
I remembered how my character Bone had become a vampire and had stopped growing, unless his hart was beating when he got excited about something.
"Is your.....heart...beating?" I was too curious, I had to know.
He shook his head.
"Not any more....it hasn't in 200 years...which is why I look the youngest, besides my friend Tyler."
"If your heart hasn't beaten in 200 years...why does Tyler look the youngest?"
"Because he wasn't 'born' very long ago. And at a very young age...."
As the night went on I learned more and more about him. I learned about his family and how they came to be. I learned about his mother who his father had saved after she had gotten shot. He said he was exiled form multiple places, due to the fact that he would save people just as they were an inch from death and a foot from the highway to hell. They called them 'The evil ones' and accused them of illegal experimentation. Technically they were right, but for the most part they were wrong.
I thought I knew everything there was to know about Vampires, but I was way wrong.
"Now back to the subject....why is it bad for me...to love you?"
I desperately wanted to know. I did love him. And I wanted to know why it was bad.
"Ally I'm a vampire, you're a human....it's against our laws in a way."
"Your laws?"
He nodded and pulled me close to him. Which made my face grow hot again.
"I don't want you to get hurt. If the Varcoliini clan found out about you....." He closed his eyes and stopped there. I put my hand lightly on his face and said nothing. He told me about his family. How every one of them had a separate power. Kevin had extreme strength, Sam had abnormal speed, Alannah could use mind control on men whenever she needed them, Faline could create a force field with her mind around whatever she needed to, no matter how far, Selina had Telekinesis, or the power to move anything she wanted with her mind, and Samuel had all of the above, including telepathy. He could read my mind whenever he wanted, and I blushed at that thought most of the time.
"I don't...care...." I honestly didn't, but I didn't know why. But as Samuel says, I would find out.
"But you should......"
I desperately wanted him to stop talking about me being in trouble for loving him, and he knew that thought. He wanted to get off the subject to, so he pulled me close and pressed his lips against mine, opening his mouth only a slight bit. His breath almost made me faint again. It was addicting. I wrapped my hands into his hair and breathed in, probably a reflex, but he didn't seem to mind. And I didn't care.
I don't know how long we were against eachother, how long I was kissing his perfect lips, but it must have been a while, because the sun was coming up. By now I was over exhausted. I pulled away and looked into his beautiful blue eyes. I stared until I couldn't keep my eyes open anymore. I put my head on his chest and closed my eyes and fell asleep. He moved so fast I didn't even know he moved. He closed the blinds so it looked like midnight and closed and locked the door and was instantly back holding me in his arms again. I fell asleep as soon as he pulled the warm comforter over us.
"I love you..." He said softly. And I heard him, but I didn't talk in my sleep and I couldn't say I loved him back but he knew...he saw it in my mind.
