A/N: So you may have noticed I started another story. Before you get on my case I feel that I have every right to work on NMMS because my best friend gave me the idea for it near the beginning of last year (when I had just started 'Star Troubled'). I told her that I would dedicate the whole story to her and feel that I waited too long for her story to be posted. Now that you understand, on with chapter 10. Also things in italics is Lyla's thoughts.
Disclaimer: Do I have to repeat myself? That's not happening anymore. I own nothing. I'm not saying it anymore. You all know this.

Chapter 10

(LPOV)

Forest drove us to the movie theater and bought us tickets to see To Save A Life. After the movie we went to Red Lobster, where Forest had a reservation. He planned this. The hostess lead us to a booth near the back of the restaurant and handed us menus. Ah, no kiddie menus so we can color? Reading my mind, Forest asked for two kiddie menus. The look on the hostess's face was priceless.

"What would you like to drink?" Our waiter asked a few minutes later.

"We're ready to order now. I would like the snow crap legs and a Mountain Dew, and she will have the same thing with endless shrimp scampi." Forest ordered for us. He knows me so well. I started giggling at my thought. "What's so funny?"

"It's just, usually, during this part of the first date you're trying to get to know the other person. We don't need to do that because we've known each other for our whole lives." I answer looking up from my blue lobster. Forest saw my lobster and chuckled.

"So true, so what should we talk about?" Forest rested his right elbow on the dark brown, wood table and rested his chin in his hand. The light from the lamp above us made his honey brown hair shine.

"I'm curious, when did you start liking me?" I grabbed the orange crayon from across the table and began to color my dolphin. As Forest opened his mouth to say something, our waiter came back with our food. Forest didn't continue until he had finished a crab leg.

"I finally admitted to myself that I liked you, the night of your end of tour concert."

"Admitted wha-"

"In reality, I've liked since the first time I saw you." My heart started beating twice as fast and a chill ran down my spine. That was years ago. "I gave you my favorite blanket, one that I couldn't sleep without, that day without a second thought because I knew that if you had it, I would see you again." If I thought my heart couldn't beat any faster, I was so wrong.

"You liked me all those years and you didn't tell me. Why?" I whispered not paying any attention to the things going on around me. It was like we were in a world that only consisted the two of us. I looked into his eyes and fell into a sea of blue.

"It's complicated." Forest replied breaking eye contact with me. Suddenly I noticed the world around me once again. "Will you give me the green?" I handed him the crayon and we finished our food in silence. The drive home was filled with silence also, but I had a feeling Forest wanted to say something. He finally talked when we stopped on my front porch. "So how would rate our first date? One is the worse and ten is the best."

"Ten. Here's your present." I handed him my picture from the restaurant. Forest smiled and handed me his picture. "See ya." I began to turn around but Forest took my right arm and spun me around. Slowly he leaned down and gently kissed my lips. On contact a familiar shock ran through my entire body. All too soon Forest broke the kiss showing no sign that he felt the shock.

"See ya." He smiled before getting in his car and leaving.

Three Weeks Later

Forest walked me to my door and, like always, he kissed me before leaving. Every time we kissed a shock ran through my body warming me from head to toe.

I walked up to my room and lay on my bed. That shock seems so familiar. I thought lightly touching my lips with the tips of my fingers. Where did I remember it from? Then it hit me. The first time we met! When I took Forest's hand to get up. I remembered as soon as our hands touched a shock went through my entire body.

I got up and opened up my lap top to check my email. Why he didn't tell me he liked me? What did he mean by 'it's complicated'? Yeah, he's not really good when it comes to talking about feelings, but he could have found some way to tell me. I wrote a song to tell him how I felt and I did that in less than a month. He has had years, unless something stopped him. No, that can't be it, could it? I quickly stood up and wrote a note to Uncle Shawn before going back downstairs and putting on my jacket.

I made sure I had my cell before leaving. I quickly locked the door behind me and began running to Forest's house.

I made it to the house horribly out of breath. I took a minute to catch my breath before walking up to the door. The house is three stories tall with brick siding and a maple wood porch. The door is navy blue with the Redclaps' crest surrounding the peephole. The crest is a heart-shaped diamond with a heart-shaped ruby in the middle surrounded by an exotic pattern of lighting bolts, making the heart look like it was on fire.

I rang the doorbell. I heard a shuffle as someone came to the door. The door opened to reveal Mr. Redclaps.

"Hi Mr. Redclaps, may I talk to Forest?" I asked. He let me in and lead me to the living room. Forest looked up from the couch where he was watching t.v. Mrs. Redclaps was sitting in the maroon love seat. Forest got up and walked over to me.

"Lyla, what are doing here, not that I'm not glad?" He asked.

"We need to talk." Forest lead me over to the couch and had his parents leave the room. Forest sat down next to me facing me.

"What do we need to talk about?"

"Remember, on our first date, when you told me that you liked me ever since we first met?" Forest nodded eyebrows pulling together. "Remember how I asked you why you never told me and you said that it was complicated?" Forest nodded again with a worried expression. "It can't possibly be that complicated, you could of found some way to tell me, but something must have been keeping you from telling me."

"Lyla, it is complicated."

"How complicated can it be?"

"Very."

"Is 'complicated' another way of saying that your parents don't want us together? Because if it is that makes no sense, you used to have a different girlfriend every other week and I'm pretty sure they never even met them." I could feel tears pooling in my eyes.

"That's not it exactly."

"Then what is it? Forest, we've known each other our entire lives, you should know by now that you can tell me anything." I felt hurt that he would think he couldn't tell me something. There's not one thing about me that Forest doesn't know. Forest ran a hand through his hair and shook it out.

"I'll be right back." He said before he got up and left. A few minutes later Forest came back with his parents in tow. Forest sat next to me again and took both my hands in his. "Lyla, I don't just like you, okay, I am in love with you, and what I'm about to tell you is a secret that you can't repeat to anyone at all. I'm telling you this secret because you are firstly my best friend and you always will be." He loves me? I looked into Forest's blue-gray eyes and saw unconditional love for me. I thought back to the years of playing at the park together, helping each other with homework, vacationing together, hard break-ups, and then I thought about the past three weeks as a couple. Oh my God, I'm in love with Forest.

"I won't tell anyone, you know that."

"Promise me that you will listen to all I have to say before judge, okay?"

"I promise with me whole heart."

"Lyla, my parents and I aren't what you think we are. We are part of the Night World."

"What's that?"

"The Night World is a secret society for non-humans. My parents and I are vampires. In the Night World there are two types of vampires: made vampires and lamia. Lamia are born vampires, we age like humans but we can stop aging when we want. Lamia can also have children. Made vampires are humans who were changed into vampires they never age and they can't have children. Werewolves, shape-shifters, and witches are also part of the Night World. I never told you because the Night World only has two laws: never tell a human about Night World and never fall in love with a human, if you do, you're killed."

Forest is a vampire. He's apart of this, I guess, under ground society called Night World where there are also werewolves, witches, and shape-shifters. If you tell a human, me, about it or fall in love with a human you're killed. And Forest has broken both rules. Oh God.

A/N: Thank you Chocolate Heals All Wounds for your review if you notice I tried using your advice. Also I deleted all A/N chapters because I hate those things and I told you I wasn't going to update with them. For now on if I need to tell you guys something there will be some of the story with it even if it's just a sneak peak.

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