House of Night love

Chapter 8- Complicated

Zoey stood by helplessly as Erik kicked Stark in the stomach, and punched him in the face. Zoey tried unsuccessfully to grab Erik and pull him off of Stark. But there was no stopping Erik.

It was then that Stark thought: 'What am I doing? I'm not that helpless!' and started fighting Erik off of him. The crowd around the scene gathered as the two vampires fought. Eventually, Stark was able to stand up, and get Erik off of him.

"This isn't over, bitch!" Erik yelled, pointing to Stark.

"It never even started," Stark said with a cocky smirk.

"SHUT UP!" Erik yelled.

"Leave me and Stark alone, Erik! Just face it! I'm not your girl!" Zoey yelled.

"Yes you are, and you know it!" Erik yelled in reply.

"Just give it up, and in the mean time, find out how to treat me," Zoey said.

"There's no way you like this ass hole over me!" Erik yelled.

"I'm not saying I like him like a boyfriend, Erik. I'm just saying we're over. We've been over for a long time, now," Zoey finished, and started walking the other direction.

Zoey then walked out to the nearby field, and sat down by a tree. Stark sat in front of her, and flashed a smirk.

"Nice move, Zo. He deserved it," Stark said.

"I know. It just hurts to know that we're over," Zoey replied.

"He had it coming. There's no need to be sad," Stark said.

"I know, but I didn't want you to get hurt," Zoey said.

"I'm not hurt. Just a couple bruises. Not much," Stark said.

"Really? He didn't hurt you that bad?" Zoey asked.

"Z, I'm not flimsy. I'm alright," Stark said sarcastically. Zoey laughed.

"No, I guess you're not. But I don't want anything bad to happen because of me," Zoey said.

"Not much happened, though. Just the occasional beat down I received," Stark replied.

"Again, sorry about it. I didn't want you to get hurt," Zoey said.

"And again I say, I'm not hurt. A couple bruises and scrapes, but I'm okay," Stark replied.

"Scrapes?" Zoey said, with raised eyebrows.

"Yeah, he cut my skin open a couple times. But it's no big deal," Stark said.

"No big deal?! Stark, he could've killed you!" Zoey exclaimed.

"Let's not get carried away," Stark said, raising his hands in defeat.

"You're right. I just wish he wasn't such a…such a…" Zoey started.

"Jerk?" Stark offered.

"Yeah, I guess so," Zoey replied.

"Oh, look, here comes the jerk now," Stark said.

Erik walked up to Stark furiously, nothing but pure hate in his eyes. He shoved past Zoey and looked Stark straight in the eyes.

"It's over for you, bitch," Erik said, and kicked Stark in the stomach over and over again. Stark started coughing up blood from the hard kicking. Before Stark and Zoey could react, Erik had knocked Stark down, and started beating him, yet again. Stark fought back, but it took all of his energy to fight back.

Erik was beating him and beating him until Stark lost the energy to fight back. Zoey eventually got past shock, and pulled Erik off of Stark. Stark then lay there, motionless, but his eyes were still open.

"Erik, what the HELL is the MATTER WITH YOU?! WHAT THE HELL?!" Zoey yelled.

"I told you it wasn't over, Zoey!" Erik said.

"Don't be beating on Stark just because you think he caused this!" Zoey yelled.

"Zoey-" Erik started.

"STOP!!! I have enough things to worry about besides YOU! NOW LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!" Zoey yelled.

"Zoey, don't fall for this bitch! He's no good!" Erik yelled.

"Don't make decisions for me! I'm 16, I make my own decisions!" Zoey replied.

"FINE! JUST FINE!" Erik yelled, and walked off.

The scent of blood brought Zoey out of her thoughts and she bent down to see Stark. It took all of her strength to hold herself back from drinking his blood.

"Stark, oh my God, are you okay?" Zoey asked, panicked.

"No…" Stark said weakly.

"I'll get someone to help," Zoey said, and stood up halfway. Stark grabbed her forearm, and shook his head for her not to leave him.

A nurse soon came, and brought Stark to the hospital wing. Zoey followed them, trying to see what was wrong with her friend. The nurse did some tests.

Stark's point of view

I knew I was hurt. I just didn't want to say it. I wasn't going to let this Erik character bother me. But let's face it. My stomach REALLY hurt, and I was really tired. Especially of the struggle. It was hard just to stay awake.

You know what else I knew? I knew that Zoey was having a really hard time trying to keep herself from sucking my blood. She was a vampire fledgling, after all. So was I. But she's special, you know, so it's harder for her. I was tempted to just tell the nurse to go out of the room and give Zoey what she wanted, and I gave into my temptation.

The nurse went out of the room, and I turned to Zoey.

"Suck my blood," I said hazily.

"What? Stark, I can't. You're so weak," Zoey replied.

"Just do it. It'll stop my bleeding," I said.

"Well, okay. But only because you insist," Zoey replied.

I arched my neck back, and she opened her mouth. Sure, I've had my blood sucked before (yeah, no lie.) but that didn't mean I was used to it.

She then began sucking my blood, and I had a weird feeling to it. I knew she liked it, but I couldn't help but try to make sense of this. Here I was, a new kid, a fledgling, a new kid who didn't fit in with anyone else besides archery because they didn't understand me, and here I was, letting someone suck my blood? Sure, it wasn't human blood, but hey, can't give her anything else.

When she was done, I felt so drained, you have no idea. I just wanted to go to sleep and forget the whole thing. Yes, we were friends, and nothing more. Or, at least, that was what I told myself.

And, without a blink, everything went black.