Chapter 9
I quickly fell asleep at about 6. I think my Dad tried unsuccessfully wake me for some food but I don't really remember. I woke up at 6:30, curacy of the stupid alarm, I'm going to break that thing someday I thought. I slid from my bed and turned the light on. I stopped cold, I saw Rebeca sitting at my desk, on the chair facing my bed, she smiled. I opened my mouth to speak, and closed it. I held up a finger saying wait a minute. I walked over to my drawer, I turned to her and circled my finger in the air. She turned away. I got dressed.
"Now," I said and she turned around.
"What are you doing here at this hour, and it's just a little creepy to know that someone, even if that someone is your girlfriend, is watching you sleep without your knowledge," I said.
"I couldn't sleep," She said simply."I've been up since 2," My jaw dropped. 2:00 in the morning! I thought,
"Light sleeper much?" I asked.
"Not really, just couldn't shake this feeling of foreboding. And like I said before, I like the sound of your heartbeat" She said with a smile.
"I've had that too since you asked me to your family reunion," I said bluntly.
"I never really thought that it would be that bad but now..." She trailed.
"I also wanted to make sure your ok. It would suck if you woke up in Jene's room rather than your own," She said.
"She's probability asleep, vampires need to sleep right?" I asked.
"Yes, we need sleep," She answered me.
"How did you," I asked.
"Get in?" She finished what I was about to say.
"Through your window, you don't leave it locked," She answered.
"I don't expect anyone to come through my window without a latter, I'm on the second floor after all," I said.
"But Jene could get up here," she contradicted me.
"Like I said, chances are that she's asleep," I said.
"After what she was trying to do last time, would you leave it to chance?" She asked.
"No I suppose that it wouldn't be safe to leave it to chance," I admitted.
"You should get home, I'll pick you up, your parents are probability worried," I suggested.
"I guess your right," She said. She wrapped her arms around my neck and gave me a long kiss, my arms instinctively hugging her back. After at least 10 seconds she withdrew.
"See you soon," She said.
"See ya," I replied. And she opened my window, letting in a burst of cold air. She fell out of the window and landed nimbly. And started to jog home. I got ready for school. Breakfast, Shower, brush teeth, do hair, and the like. It was 7:30 when I headed out of the door, my mom had already left for work, she's a teacher at another school. I walked to my car and got in the driver's seat. I buckled my seatbelt and adjusted my rear view mirror, and to my great suprise I saw Jene in the back seat of my car! What is up with just appearing like that, it creeps me out! I thought. In a flash I felt her hand on my throat, I noticed that her nails were about 2 inches long, not good I thought.
"Hello Mich," I heard her whisper in my ear. Her voice made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.
"Hi Jene, is there something specific you wanted from me? Not undying love, I already know that," I told her.
"Your a quick learner," She whispered, I almost felt her lips on my ear. Then she kissed my cheek.
"Yes there was something a little more specific that I wanted from you," She said. "A drink," She said still whispering.
"I'm guessing that you don't care about my opinion," I said.
"No, not really," She said. She kissed my neck a few times, my muscles naturally relaxing despite how unrelaxed I was. She bit into my neck that intoxicating feeling of pleasure washed over me, not pain like the last time she bit me. I completely relaxed in spite of myself, and tilted my head from her. She drank deep, my life giving blood leaving my body and going into hers. After a few seconds however she took her fangs from my neck. I leaned forward and threatened to hit my head on the horn but stopped myself in mid falling.
"Thank you," She said. Opening the door of my Kia and leaving, she left my driveway and a few seconds later I saw her Volvo go past my driveway in my rear view mirror. Rebeca was going to have a cow I thought. I fumbled with the keys but after a few tries I finally put them into the ignition and started the car. I drove to Rebeca's house. I got their about 10 minutes later, about 7:43.
"Your a little late," She said as she got in the car and threw her backpack in the backseat.
"I was delayed," I said.
"Why?" She asked, she just had to ask. She could always tell when I lie, even without the Link, no matter how good I'm at it she could always tell. I sighed and told her about Jene. She looked like she was going to pop an anger vain in her head.
"Don't worry about it," I told her. Putting my hand on the side of her face. She instantly soften a little.
"This..." She started.
"This is not your fault," I told her. She must feel more from the link, but the door does swing both ways after all.
"I tell you this is not your fault. You couldn't have prevented Jene from coming to this town, she would still be fixated on me," I told her.
"But had I been more careful I might have been able to see her in the backseat of your car," She said.
"It's over and done with, and their's no reason to fret on the past, you can't change it," I told her. I had kept the car running, I started moving the car forward out of her driveway and to school. We pulled into the school parking lot, it was packed, but my used Kia didn't stick out. Only about half the students were rich and Momy and Daddy paid for their 2007 new sparkling cars, until they total them in about a month, but Mom and Dad are idiots and just go and get them brand new cars. I sighed and leaned back, I felt a little drain from Jene drinking my blood. I turned to Rebeca, she was staring at my neck. I sighed not good, I could still feel a little blood trailed from the wound. I had a feeling at what she was going to do.
"Can I..." She started.
"Go ahead," I said and tilted my head from her. She moved as close as the passenger seat would take her. She smelled my neck.
"I can smell her sent on you, but your sent is so overpowering," She whispered. She kissed my neck and licked what must have been the blood trail. And suddenly with some violence to it, she bit into my neck. I moaned as my body completely relaxed. Despite how fast and how much she was drinking. I heard a knock from my window. Rebeca took her fangs out of my neck very suddenly and I fell towards her. I fought for consciousness, knowing that she was endanger of having her secret revealed if I didn't stay up. But it was too much and I slipped into unconsciousness.
I woke up in the school's nurse's office. I turned to the side, their was an open chair. I turned back to stare at the ceiling.
"I see your awake," I heard a voice say. It was the nurse Ms Iion.
"Yeah, do you know where Rebeca is?" I asked her.
"Oh," She said, I felt my heart drop a little in response.
"I don't know, she was here," She said. My heart dropped a little more but less than I thought it might have.
"She might have gone to class," The nurse said. I doubt it I thought, she wouldn't leave me like that unless it was an emergency. Where would she go? I wondered to myself. Maybe her secrets out I thought, no that couldn't be it, the nurse would have had some more reaction when I said her name. Or would she, I wondered more.
"That was a pretty nasty gash on your neck," She said absantly. My eyes felt like they were going to bulge out of me head.
"Look at that, the one minute I step out of the room you wake up," I heard a famillar voice said. I looked towards the door and saw Rebeca standing there.
"Can you give us a minute please Ms Iion?" She asked the nurse politely.
"Sure, I'm going to see if I can get Mich out of school for the day, that gash needs to be healed properly," She said and she left the room, closing the door behind her.
Right after she closed the door, before I could say anything she started to explain what happened.
"Jessica walked up to the window, and knocked on the glass. She didn't see me bite you, but I was too afraid that she did and did a very hasty thing. I made a small cut on my lip and got some of the blood on your neck to see if it would heal the wound. If it did, your blood would have accepted the vampire blood from a transfusion, and it would cover up my secret. However your blood rejected it. And as a result my vampiric blood destroyed your blood cells. Resulting in a acid like wound on your neck, which also covered up the bite wounds on your neck. I cut my hand on a piece of spring on your seat on purpose, it was a good cover to explain how you got that wound. You fainted from the loss of blood, and the wound and evidence to it supported that claim. So we're in the clear on that. But..." She stopped and sat down on the bed I was laying in and turned her head to me, she looked so guilty, she felt so guilty.
"I'm sorry, so sorry," She said staring into my eyes.
"You are so forgiving, I feel... I feel..." She couldn't finish her sentence.
"You are so forgiving I feel that I don't deserve someone as great, as kind, as forgiving as you," She said, looking down. She started crying.
"I don't deserve such devotion, I've caused you nothing but problems and you've given so much to me, and I feel like I've done nothing to deserve you," She said, she was sobbing.
"Don't say that, you've given me so much. I think that you've given me more than what I've given you," I told her.
"But you've given me your love," She said.
"I could say the same for you," I told her, equaling her
"But you've given me your blood," She said, attempting to top me
"Your willing to fight for me," I said, she wouldn't top me.
"You've forgiven me for drinking you to unconsciousness," She said, that was a hard one.
"You've rescued me from a hostile vampire," I said.
"You've... You've kept my secret," She said, it was going in a loop.
"That's because of the love I have for you, and the love you've given to me," I said.
"We're not going to be able to top each other, we can just go around and around," She said, seeing that this was pointless.
"You're absolutely right," I said.
"Give me a few minutes, I'll top you," She said threateningly. I smiled.
"I will too," I said. She smiled too. She leaned to me and embraced me.
"Don't think that you haven't done enough," She whispered in my ear.
"Right back at ya," I whispered into her ear. I smiled, I bet she was too.
"I think the school called your mom," She said drawing away from the hug, after a few minutes of silent embrace.
"I would imagine that they would, but I don't think they'll excuse you from classes," I said.
"Saddly your probability right, as usual," She said.
"I'll pick you up, k?" I asked.
"Thanks, but don't go if your feeling too much pain, movement will probability make it hurt," She said.
"Even if I was on fire I would pick you up," I told her.
"I'm not kidding, don't come if it hurts," She said.
"What made you think that I was kidding?" I asked her smiling. She sighed,
"I guess that it's pointless to argue with you," She said.
"I guess it is," I agreed, she smiled again. The bell rang.
"Second period, when Jene finds out she's going to be at my throat," She said.
"I'm sorry I can't help it," I told her, she smiled.
"I guess that I can take Jene a few periods, if I couldn't take that preppy bitch, I don't know what I would do with myself," She said smiling.
"You should go," I told her.
"I don't want to though," She said, laying on my lap.
"I don't want you to go either but, I don't want you in trouble because of me either," I told her.
"Fine, if you insist," She said. Getting off me, she got up and opened the door.
"Bye," She said.
"Bye," I responded. She closed the door lightly.