Sorry I haven't been updating as much, Schools started and it's been really confusing. I'll try to update as soon as I can even if that means writing during my classes . Anyway, enjoy this chapter the next one will be out soon.

Autumn

Chapter 10

Recap-

"It's nearly dawn my little one, get some rest," he said to her in a silken voice. She laid her head against his broad chest and shut her eyes as he cradled her in his strong cool arms. Soon Alexa was fast asleep and somewhere up above two morning doves flew up together towards an early dawn that swept over the entire land.

[Dusk - Camillo

Camillo woke up and scratched his head as his eyes grew used to the darkness. For a second he couldn't remember what had happened, but as he slowly got up and stretched all the events that had passed flooded back to him. He remembered when he was in the club and he heard a scream, then Psythe told him to get away as quick as I could. They had been through this before so it wasn't like it was anything new to him. Although he did love that house they had been living in. He now resided at the Blue Water motel for the time being, he hoped that Alexa and Psythe were okay. He'd really liked Alexa. He got out of bed and went over to the bathroom to splash some water onto his face. As he slowly woke up he looked into the empty mirror where his face was supposed to be, even now, hundreds of years later, he still missed his reflection. He went into the downstairs lobby where there was a small coffee machine and pouring himself a cup. Camillo didn't really like coffee but it made him wake up quicker and made him more alert. Today's coffee tasted a lot like dirt compared to yesterday's cardboard-ish taste. Finishing off the cup he looked down at his cell to realize that it had been ringing for quite sometime (It was set to 'quiet'). He flipped it open and hit talk.

"Hullo?" Camillo said slightly groggy.

"Camillo? It's Psythe."

"Oh. OH. Hi! Are you and Alexa okay? What happened to Alexander? Alexa must be super confused! Where are you? What-"

"Jeez Camillo, Give me a break. Here, let me answer those questions of yours." Camillo let out a sigh and shut up as he waited for Psythe to continue. "Yes, Alexa and I are okay. Alexander killed a blond girl but we got away. Everything's been already explained to her. Last but not least, we're currently in the La Piet Cemetery. Alexa will be waking up soon so how about we meet somewhere, let's say … Maxim's Café?"

"Uh. Okay. Maxim's sounds good, they have great pastries there!"

Psythe smiled to himself and then said "See you in ten minutes?"

"Definitely," Camillo hung up and slipped his cell into his pocket as he threw on a clean t-shirt and the same jeans he wore last night. He checked out of the motel and then headed down the street toward Maxim's. He had nothing to worry about since Alexander usually disappeared after a while after having gone through the usual events.

Alexa's eyes fluttered open as she looked up sleepily into Psythe's admiring blue eyes. She smiled a small smile as Psythe straightened her up so she could sit upright better. "Good morning sleeping beauty. Or Good evening should I say," he said grinning down at her. Slowly she woke up and then a question came bubbling forth.

"Psythe? What happened to Alexander?" She asked innocently as she looked up at him. His arms tightened around her waist automatically at the sound of his brother's name.

"Alexander is … Well we don't know where he is and we definitely can't go back home, he could be waiting there for us. On the other hand though we're going to meet up with Camillo at a place called Maxim's Café okay?"

"Alright…" Alexa said as she sadly got up from Psythe's embrace.

Alexa and Psythe walked into Maxim's and found that Camillo was already in there sitting in a booth in the back. He was fidgeting with a piece of a napkin and glaring at the table for whatever reason, but as he heard the door open he looked up at Alexa and Psythe and smiled. Alexa scooted into the booth with Psythe following after her.

"So…" Camillo started as he looked at them, "Alexa how are you feeling about this whole thing?"

Alexa was currently eyeing a large cookie that was in a basket on the table and just so happened to not notice Camillo speaking.

"Alexa?"

Alexa looked up as Psythe nudged her in the ribs.

"Oww! That hurt Psythe! What did you say Camillo?" Alexa asked as she glared at Psythe. Psythe naturally had a smug little grin on his face.

"I was just asking if you were taking this whole thing well."

"Oh. Pretty good I guess. Oh and I especially love the fact that the clothes I wore and still wear came from dead girls that Alexander liked." Alexa was using heavy sarcasm at the moment. Then she finally decided to reach for the giant cookie. Before she reached it Psythe took it from her and took a big bite out of it. "I hate you." She said.

"Love you too!" Psythe replied in a singsong voice. He then gave her a bit of the cookie just to be nice.

Alexa began nibbling on her half as she muttered things under her breath. Camillo just stared at them very confused.

"Uh… Are you guys a thing?" Camillo asked. Alexa ended up half choking on the cookie she was eating and Psythe started laughing.

"No! Not at all! At least when I was with Alexander he didn't laugh when I was choking death!" She crossed her arms over her chest and decided to ignore Psythe, very childish, she knew but it was all she could think of at the time.

"You weren't choking Alexa, you were over exaggerating." Psythe said to her softly a small smile on his face.

Alexa simple chose to ignore him.

Camillo, being uncomfortable with the awkward silence decided to speak. "Sooo… What are we going to do about Alexander, Psythe?"

Psythe's face went all serious and dark set as he replied "Well, we-"

Alexa burst out laughing, failing miserably at ignoring Psythe.

"What?" They both asked her.

"Oh, it's just; Psythe's face was so funny…" She said and you could even hear the smile in her words.

"My face isn't funny… Hey! You just talked to me! Ha! You can't even ignore me." Psythe said grinning.

"No, I was talking to Camillo." Alexa replied.

"So? You just did now too!"

"I'm going to kill you, I hope you know."

"No you aren't, you love me too much."

Alexa sighed and then turned to Camillo. "I think that we should try and find Alexander first and then we can stay around to make sure he doesn't try to take another girl. We could just rent an apartment and maybe one of you could convince him to be normal around me. Then we could find someway to change his weird life… Maybe we can find a blond girl that is already a vampire so they could stay together and not have that thingy happen."

"Thingy…" Camillo whispered to himself with a little chuckle.

"What?" She asked.

"Nothing, nothing…"

"Sounds like a good plan to me Alexa, except I don't want you to come with us when we try to talk to him or other vampires. They could try to bite you dry and we don't want that happening."

"But, Vampires could come to the apartment while you're gone and get me… It'd be better if I came with you guys." She said.

"No you're staying at the apartment Alexa. You'd be much safer there." Psythe said to her with a bit more force than he meant.

"But-"

"We'll talk about it later okay?"

"Fine."