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Felix and Demetri, being the big brothers that they are, tease me about my 'boyfriend' and act all protective. Me and Alec haven't done anything more than kiss each other on the cheeks though. Demetri may be a little suspicious after the skinny dipping incident but his lips were sealed to Felix. Whenever they left to let me sleep, Alec came in and watched me sleep. On nights that I couldn't sleep, he plays with my hair.

I woke up on my birthday- July 14. Alec wasn't sitting beside me like he normally was. Demetri was in his place.

"Happy Birthday." He murmured

"Thank you." I yawned. I pulled the covers over my legs and Demetri helped me off the bed.

I went in the closet and made myself presentable. Demetri looked me up and down when I came out of the closet," You look nice, Sorellina*" I nodded my thanks and we walked side by side to the elevator.

"Felix isn't with you today?" I asked. Felix was normally with Demetri. Mostly because they fought over who got to play with me. I didn't choose favorites.

"Felix went out on a mission shortly after you went to bed."

"When will he be back?"

"In two days."

The doors opened to the waiting area where not even Gianna was there to greet. Something was fishy...

I resisted asking where she was. We turned towards the big doors. Demetri stepped in front of me to open the doors. I could hear giggling as he let me before him and then a sudden, loud" SURPRISE!" From every vampire in the room besides a very bored looking Marcus and Caius. Alec stood in front of Aro's throne. I wasn't thinking as I ran and jumped on him and kissed him fiercly and passionetly. He played along and wrapped his arms around my waist. Every sound in the room went quiet but we ignored it. I knotted my hands in his hair and I heard him growl. He squeezed me closer to him. Our tongues with played with each other for a few minutes before we realized everyone, even Marcus and Caius were looking at us. Alec let go of me and I grabbed his cold hand. He kept staring at me with hungry eyes but not for blood. They were lustful. Things were quiet for a few minutes till Aro's feathery voice, quietest I had ever heard it, slashed into the silence, "Well...that was...unexpected."

Alec turned to face him. Aro's crimson gaze stayed locked on us as if he couldn't believe what had happened. To be too honest, I couldn't either. I stared back. I could feel every eye on myback. Nobody but Marcus(for the first time) said a word.

" Brother," I glanced over to Marcus, he no longer held a face of boredom but interest...and worry.

Aro floated over to Marcus and took his hand. Aro looked like he was concentrating. The wives were giggling on either side of Caius' throne. I tried really hard not to look at them. No doubt, I would soon be pestered about this.

Aro released Marcus's hand."Interesting..." He clasped his hands toghether," Well, how about we open gifts?"

I opened my gifts, but it didn't stop the ackward stares. I got clothes, jewelry, books,shoes and money . The human chef coooked me a really, really big cake that I would never finish. I offered to share some with him but he just shook his head. Me and my "Brothers" threw some at each other while Alec stood behind my chair, trying not to breath.

Alec seemed surprised that I had kissed him. He held my hand anytime it was free and was free. Honestly, I was surprised I kissed him. It wasn't something I had thought of, just first instinct. Kind of like when you're thirsty on a hot day and someone sets a glass of water in front of you. You would automatically drink it, no second thoughts. Though, in reality, he wouldn't be the glass of water.

More and more vampires left after a couple of hours with a " Happy birthday." and one creepy dude said, "Seven more years..." which creeped me out, reminding me of The Ring. The part of the guard I had became friends with (besides Felix, Demetri and Alec, which was Hiedi, Chelsea, Renata, Corin, Afton and Santiago.) plus the wives, the elders, and Jane stayed. Jane wasn't mean or anything, but we weren't friends, we just sort of avoided each other- except when Aro sends her up to get me. I would say "Hello." in the halls and she would nod in response.

For a while we all talked, then the remaider that stayed behind left. As the elders left, Aro whispered in my ear, "Tomorrow I need to see you and Alec in my office." I automatically knew what it was about. When everyone was gone, Alec pulled me towards the door. He turned around when he noticed Felix and Demetri following us.

"Don't follow." He demanded sternly. After a few shrugs and rolling of eyes, they both went seperate ways without a word.

Me and Alec walked to his room instead of mine, and I preferred that. My room was a bit shoved me in and locked the door. Not that anyone couldn't get in- they'd easily break the lock. Though, maybe if someone did try to barge in, the lock would let them know we wanted to be left alone. I didn't know what we were about to do, but hopefully not that.

He picked me up bridal style and laid me down gently on his unnecesary bed. My heart started racing and I blushed knowing he could hear it.

"Jade." He was looking at my face, more specifically, my lips.

"Alec." I said his name, I had no other way to respond. He flopped down beside me and we sat in silence. The silence only made our situation wierder, and I couldn't take it anymore when I said," Sorry."

"For what?" He was looking at me with questioning eyes. Honestly, I didn't know either, I had only said that to break the silence.

"For kissing you. It was just the first thing I thought of."

"Don't be sorry. I was sorta...already planning it."

" You were going to kiss me?"

"Yea. It was going to be a second birthday present."

I grabbed the golden chained locket that was hanging in my cleavage. He had given it to me- my favorite gift.

" I really like this by the way. It's beautiful."

"Just thought you would like something personal." He sounded sincere I didn't know what he meant by that.

"Personal?"

"It belonged to my mother. Jane didn't know I had it all these years till you opened it."

You could tell it was well taken care of through the centuries. It had survived seven hundred years and it belonged to his mother. It made it sacred; not because it was pretty but because he had given me something that had to have meant alot to him.

"Was Jane mad?"

"She shot me a few looks but she didn't say anyhting."

I noticed he was looking down my tank top and I didn't know if he was looking at the locket or my breast. Boobs- always a way to pique the interest of men.

"Alec?"

His head snapped up, and he looked taken by surprise," What?"

"What happened to you and Jane? Why were you changed so young?"

His eyes turned painful, making me regret asking the sighed before he started," Me and Jane, we had," His voice broke," We had always seemed different to our village. We never played or talked to other kids- we had each other. Our dad died from an unknown disease when we were six. People gossiped about us, saying we killed our dad, but we ignored it. This was around the time so- called ' Witched' were being executed. When we were fourteen, they kidnapped us. They burned us at the stake. It was not physically but emotionally painful, hearing Jane scream like that. Though, I was silent like I was numb to the pain. Aro had been watching and planning to turn us for a long time then. He saved us from the fire- only to be tortured by another internal fire for three days. He slaughtered our whole village in that time- including my mother." It was the first time he had spoken of any of his past to me and I was in tears. He wiped them away before he continued," When I woke up, I went to our house and got the locket. My mother said my father gave it to her in their youth. I wanted to keep something of hers close to me. And you're close to me."

" And you gave it to me." I finished. He moved a few strands of hair out of my face. He sighed before he went on,"For a while I hated Aro for it. But, eventualy, I decided that as long as I was stuck here, I might as well learn to like him, just like you."

"But Alec, why can't you just leave?"

"Renata is his personal shield. I would never be able to use my powers on him, much less convince Jane to come with me. If Jane wasn't coming, then I wasn't leaving. But where do I have to go anyway?"

I shrugged. I was told about nomadic vampires, but the thought of running around, killing people, never actually having a home was to boring to bear.

"But with you, I would go anywhere." He finished. He cupped my face in his cold hands and crushed his lips to mine. I crawled on top of him, so both of my legs were positioned on either side of his hips. Our breathing got heavier with lust and passion.

I pulled away but rested my head on his chest. I was still trying to catch my breath as he stroked my hair lightly.

"Alec?"

"Yes?"

"Have you ever kissed anyone?"

"No one other than you."

The question had been driving me crazy all day. I was glad I got that answer or I would likely be jealous.

"How about you?"

"Not until today." I rolled off him- his cold, hard skin was getting uncormfortable. My hair was now splayed out on the pillotw. He pulled up a little portion to his nose and inhaled and said, " That's killing me."

"I'm sorry." I made a space between us," Do you need to feed?"

"I can handle it."

I felt relief wash over me. I wanted him to stay.

The rest of the night we talked. We talked till it was about midnight, then I eventually layed my head on his chest and drifted off. Just before I fell into slumber, I swear I heard him sing a lullaby to me and he crawled under the covers with me. I had never been so close to any boy in my life. I knew I was going to face teasings from Felix and Demetri but I didn't care. Eveyone knew now. Whatever people think, nobody can change anything.

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