A/N: I just want to say thanks to CatsXO for the help on my grammar for the last two previous chapters. From now on could you tell me more specifically what is wrong, it might be helpful…so thanks Also to Banks .Inc in the last chapter of my book I put her name out their and I think she was a bit surprised maybe? I'm not sure but she was the first one to tell me about fanfiction so she deserves it I wouldn't be writing if it wasn't for her.
Now back to my story! This is chapter ten and a tiny bit is revealed from Jake's past! I hope you like this chapter it is six pages long on Microsoft word. If it's to long let me know what a good length is for everyone. THANKS FOR READING MY STORY!
After Natalie fell back to sleep on me I checked my phone to view the text that I had got before.
It read: u want ur lil nat to survive thn think straight figure out who killed the ol doorman
Returning my phone to my pocket I put my head back down on Natalie and closed my eyes.
I heard absolute quite for a good hour until I felt Natalie rise from the bed. Opening my eyes after a few minutes I sat up out of bed to see Natalie gone and hearing the shower now running.
Getting off the bed I walked over to the door of the bathroom and knocked then said through the sound of the shower "Ash brought over some clothes that you can wear for now".
Replying Natalie said "Okay thanks you can put them on the counter by the sink".
Grabbing some clothes that wouldn't look bad on Natalie I walked into the bathroom placing them where she asked for them to be. Returning back to the main part of our room I decided to reply to the text message I had received from earlier.
Typing on my I-phone I wrote: And how am I supposed to figure it out?
It seemed right after I touched reply I got an instant message back to mine. Whoever this is must be pretty quick at texting, so quick on the hands…good with typing…computers maybe?
Touching the view button I read: those drawings tht u do ey mean somtin figure it out
Somehow since I was ten I always thought my drawing meant something. Before that when I was younger I had no clue I would just forget about them a few seconds later. But as I got older I figured it out, whatever I drew came true, it happened. For instance I drew my brother in a forest, looking scared and afraid. A few days later I remembered Jesse ran away from home, that drawing helped my family find him.
So what this guy who is texting me is basically saying that I'm right my drawings do mean something, I'm drawing the future then.
Wait how would this guy even know about my drawings? I don't think I ever told anyone except Ash that is, he wouldn't tell though I know he wouldn't!
Responding I wrote: How do you know about any of this?
Their reply read: stop questioning me now think
This time I wrote: Okay? Well how do I figure it out?
Finally realizing that the running water from the shower had stopped I looked up to see Natalie standing in front of me.
"Hey how do I look?" she asked turning around for me to see her new clothes.
Putting my phone down I said "Oh uh you look great".
By the look on her face I figured I must have said something wrong. But what wrong with saying you look great right? Should have I said you look perfect, beautiful, amazing? What was it that she wanted to hear from me?
"Okay Natalie what wrong? I said you look great…didn't I?" I said confused.
"Jake do you really care. Cause obviously your phone is more important then me, since you were on it when I came out" Natalie replied not pleased with me.
"No Natalie I don't care, you should know that. It doesn't matter to me what you wear it could be a paper bag and I would still think that you're the most beautifulist person on earth. My phone means nothing its just about some stupid text messages that I have been getting a lot of lately okay. If you have to question your importantance to me it means far more then anything else. You're the most important thing in my life and that isn't going to change, ever. I love you Natalie always and forever" I told her confidently.
Walking over towards me Natalie put her arms around my neck whispering "Thanks Jake that's just what I wanted to hear".
Then she kissed me, not just a peck on the lips either it was a real kiss. I'm not sure how long it lasted but that was the best thing I've experienced, ever. Don't get me wrong it's not like I've never kissed a girl before trust me I've done that, loads of times actually. When I kissed those girls before though they never had a true meaning to me, the only purpose of them was to fill up space in my life. Make it less boring I suppose or was it just because I was lonely, I'm not really sure. But this time with Natalie was different it made feel like I actually have meaning, that I was meant for Natalie.
Once the kiss ended Natalie whispered "Always and forever right?"
Smiling I whispered back "Yah always and forever".
"Okay good" she said while returning to the bed.
Following her I layed down beside her, holding onto her as we lay in silence. Best morning ever I thought smiling to myself, hoping nothing would change that. With the way yesterday went today shouldn't be any better, the only thing that well make it worthwhile is Natalie, my soul mate.
Everything changed that moment my cell phone rang breaking our perfect moment. Natalie passed me my phone off the bedside table. Looking at who was calling I saw James' number on the screen, this must be urgent James never calls me.
Answering my phone I said "James what happened".
"Jake someone's been killed!"He said.
"What who?" I asked alarmed.
"A girl who was a shape shifter she was out at a club, when she got murdered. There were a few eye witnesses who say that she went to a room with vampire and never came back. Later they went to find her and found her dead, with the vampire gone" James explained.
"Okay did they have a description of the vampire that went with the girl" I asked trying to gather more information about the situation.
"Yes they did they said that he had jet black medium length hair sweeping across his face, black leather jacket with a white stripe down the right arm, black jeans that had a gold chain on his left pant leg, a white t-shirt and black gloves on, and one of them being torn" James said.
After James finished the description I had the weirdest feeling that I drew that guy after he killed the girl. In my drawing the guy had the exact same qualities except he had blood dripping of his hands, meaning I drew him after he killed the girl. But Thierry said that the picture looked like me and with the information about the killers hair… it sounds like mine minus the colour, since my hair is brown. Oh my gosh what if people start thinking it's me, I have to do something!
"James does anyone know about this" I demanded
"Yah by now I'm sure the word has got out" he responded.
"What about what the vampire looks like is that out" I demanded again.
"Oh yah I think mostly everyone knows, as they should to be alert for this guy" James replied.
"Oh" I was about to go on but I was too shocked at the moment "Thanks" I said finishing what I was about to say before.
"No problem, just thought you should know" James said.
Hanging up I put down my phone on the bed and looked over at Natalie. I could tell she was aching to find out what went on with my phone call.
"What is it" Natalie asked looking like she was going to strangle me if I didn't tell her, even though really that isn't possible at all.
"Another person got killed; I have to go somewhere though now. I need you to go find Rashel and stay with her until I'm done. I'll go with you to find her okay" I said not really stating it as a question.
My plan was to talk to Ash about my drawing, maybe he would know what to do. I needed to know if it looked like me, before word really got out.
"Uh… Yah I can do that" Natalie told me sounding really confused by my reaction.
"Okay let's go" I said getting up to get my sketch book, then already at the door before she even could blink.
Waiting for Natalie to catch up to me down the long narrow hallway, since with my nervousness of everybody finding out that I looked like the killer I walked even faster then usual. As soon as she caught up I went just the same speed as before rushing down the hallway to the stairs to get to everyone before figured out the similarities I shared with the killer.
"Slow down Jake! I want to find out about this murder just as bad as you, just slow down okay" Natalie called after me as I turned to head down the stair case.
Ignoring her I didn't slow down not until I got half way down the stair case I waited for Natalie to catch up to me. Once she was behind me I kept going in no time we made it to the first floor of the building.
It was almost the same as yesterday morning, a little less people though seeing as there wasn't a bloody corpse lying on the floor. Everyone was there, even some people that I had no clue who they were. Almost the crowd of people I spotted Rashel standing beside James and poppy. Leading Natalie in there direction I stopped near Rashel.
Turning around to see us Rashel said "Hey guys I guess you heard about the news".
"Yah we did and I was wondering if you could stay with Natalie for a bit?" I asked.
"Oh sure, bye Jake then" Rashel replied.
Before leaving to go find Ash I whispered in Natalie's ear "stay safe okay".
She nodded in response, and then went into conversation with Rashel about something that I didn't get to hear as I darted of in the other direction.
Finally I noticed ash standing in a corner by a window talking to vampire dressed in the same outfit that Nelson used to wear.
Walking towards them I stopped and waited for the conversation to die down. Finishing up there conversation Ash said to me "Hey Jake, do you want to go talk in another room where it's not so loud?"
"Funny I was just about to say the same thing to you" I said laughing, and then realizing it probably wasn't right to be laughing after finding out somebody just got murdered I stopped.
"Well it was nice talking to you Stefan" Ash said to the other man.
Stefan said goodbye to Ash, then left.
"You know where you first found me here?" Ash asked.
"Yah I remember that room, you wanted to talk there?" I said assuming that's why Ash mentioned it in the first place.
"Nobody should be there right now, it'll be just us then" said Ash.
"Okay I think I can recall the way there" I said walking off in the direction where I thought it was located.
When we got to the room I saw Ash was right, the room was empty leaving just us. It looked the same as the last time that I was there. The comfy white couch sat against a wall, with a black coffee table in front of it, the walls were painted a dark red accenting the room really well. The only difference from the first time that I was here was a fireplace with brown bricks surrounding it was now lit with orange, yellow and red flames brightening up the entire room.
"What was it you wanted to talk about?" I asked Ash curious to find out.
"You said you had something to, so you go first okay" Ash replied.
"Okay" I said unsure where to start.
After pausing a bit I finally continued on "Yesterday when I called you to come watch Natalie for a bit, it was because I needed to talk to Thierry about something that I drew".
Taking out my sketchbook from under my arm I flipped to the page that I sketched on last night, and then I placed it on the table in front of us.
Leaving off from where I previously stopped I said "This is it, Thierry thought it was me only in the future if I take a wrong path. But this morning when I received that call from James and he described what the killer supposedly looked like, it looks identical to the description. Ash what if people start suspecting that I killed that girl? What do I do then?"
Looking at me eye to eye Ash said sternly "Jake no one is going to accuse you of killing someone, you've changed, I've seen it with my own eyes and if anyone does I'll be here for you okay that's what friends are for right?"With a laugh he said "Besides I'm sure you'd kick their butt easily, you were pretty good at that before, you were just doing it for the wrong reason".
"Thanks man! It's good to know your there for me" I said feeling more relieved then when I first told Ash.
"So… you're still doing this whole drawing thing then" Ash said dragging out the first word.
"Yah I guess I am" I replied.
"Huh so do they still come true" Ash asked.
"Still do same as they always did" I said not that all grateful of these drawings that I do, all they do is cause confusion.
"That drawing that you just showed me… it's saying something is going to happen with that guy then or that something already has" Ash said trying to figure it all out.
"Like I said I think it's about the murder that killed the shape shifter" I said.
"Okay, okay so lets say that its not you, lets say that this person" Ash said pointing to my drawing "is the one who committed the crime. Now why would a vampire want to kill a shape shifter, was it random, or was it out of revenge and the big question who?" Ash said.
"I don't think it was out of revenge or a random attack. I think whoever this vampire is wanted to kill a shape shifter, they just happened to pick that girl to kill. He planned on killing a shape shifter that night, I'm just not sure why. As for who, I think it might be Kevin" I told Ash.
"Kevin? Why would he do it?" Ash confused.
"I saw him taking blood from a witch, not long ago. It could be him then" I said finally telling someone what I saw.
"That's weird I don't know why Kevin would do that? But Jake if he was taking blood from a witch, not a shape shifter how would he be the killer?" Ash asked making my theory maybe not sound so good anymore.
"Oh… well I don't know. But there's something off about him, I can feel it" I said.
"We can watch him from now on then, we need real proof for it to actually be him though" Ash said.
"Okay we both watch Kevin then; anyone else that you think might be a suspect?" I asked.
"Nope not yet" he replied.
"I better go find Natalie, I promised myself I would try to be with her at all times" I said getting up.
"See you Jake" Ash said while getting up as well.
Leaving through the door I went off to go find my Natalie.