Meet the Cousins
OK, moving to M rated in two nights.
Lisa was sitting on the couch, getting a little used to the fact that I'm not going to kill her. I'm sure she was about to have a heart attack when I had showed up the first time after she got her lesson. Melony wasn't keen on me being here, but she was starting to get used to the fact I'd show and usually accompanied by David. Sam had allowed me entrance David though wasn't with me this time. It had been a few weeks since that night Lisa had gotten a dose of reality.
Whatever Sam and Melony talked about between us dropping off Lisa and now likely made clear I was welcomed, as Melony didn't protest, or maybe Melony figured if I wanted in, she couldn't stop me. Sam was talking to me as he typically did and told me that Lisa had improved her attitude and listened to him, doing as he said, though she now has a fear of the dark and won't sleep without a night lite else she wakes from the nightmares she tends to have of late.
" She's getting over it, but that was pretty harsh what she was put threw and I had asked you to do it." Sam was feeling guilty over haven asked for help in getting his kid under control.
" Either that or she could end up dead, don't beat yourself up over it, kid's stubborn as hell, what could you do at this point? She's listening to you now and not trying to run off all night." I shrugged looking over at Cris and Nicole who arrived early for the reunion, which apparently was going to be in a hotel at Lances instance. " I don't care about her, there's no attachment, but she's your kid, I don't want you to be hurt blaming yourself because you have to bury your daughter."
" I guess." Sam then has this odd look on his face when he casts our cousins a glance. " I had to explain a lot, to get her less paranoid of you and... Him. Does he really have to almost always follow you?"
" He's possessive, gotten worse about ti over time... He gets any worse, he'd be pissing on my leg and saying that is mine. " I lean over and whisper to in Sams' ear, he had allowed the two to stay in his house for the time being till the reunion, which actually got postponed a few more weeks, courtesy of Lance, putting it narrowly close to start of school. " Sam... What's up with them?"
" I have no idea, and that's a little too possessive, if you were uh human, I'd think you had a controlling boy friend.. Oh god." Sam whispered back and then stare at me open mouthed at the look I had. " Oh, I, what the. Eeewwww, yuck!" Sam so much in that moment looked like his 13 year old self.
I slapped my hand over his mouth, Sams' loud mouth had gotten everyones' attention and they where looking at us. " Sam just found out that the strange gummies he ate as a kid where slugs?" That wasn't to believable, but I had no interest airing that I was Davids bitch.
Sam pulled my hand away. " seriously? Ew, him, just, eeww, couldn't you have turned guy on a hobo or something, anything but him?" Sam was disgusted, but kept his voice low.
" I'm not gay, it's complicated and if you don't shut up, I'll tell Melony about you're first lover." Sams' eyes went wide. " Oh, oh, oh, Nanook, your fur is so soft and warm." I mocked quietly.
" Don't you dare, I'll stake you myself, you know why I was like that, but shit how and when did this happen?" Sam was grossed out, but way to curious for his own good still and I knew why Sam had developed the mental issues he had that drove him to Nanook and other animals, I planned to make the issue suffer for what it done.
" A year after, his way of controlling, it sort of stuck, it's complicated, no I didn't want it, no it isn't what you think and far from easy to explain to a mortal Sam, I don't feel like sitting up all night telling you and your family about the bats and the bees, so don't worry it's different, it's like just our nature, he's not abusing me." I tried to reassure Sam, this was one reason why I didn't want Sam to ever know about the bond me and David had, he wouldn't be able to understand it and would be feeling sick at thinking I am be put threw what he had been.
" Yea, that's what you say when in denial." Sam looks ready to go more into this, but I cover his mouth.
" Listen you over grown dork, I'm fine, things work different for us and what we are, I can handle myself OK?" I give Sam a look I do when he's being a doofus.
" OK, it's your nature and normal... But how? I mean the idea he's forcing you to do things, it's." Sam couldn't finish it, reminded of how things where back in Phoenix.
" Sam I'm fine, you're fine. You're grown, he won't touch you again and the thing with me and David's complicated and not easy to explain it so a human can understand, it just is." I shook him a little, trying to get him to snap out of where his mind drifted to.
" Sure it's not Stockholms'?" Sam asked, still worried.
I let out a ruff hiss, rolling my eyes, no surprise Lisa was stubborn, just look at the father. " Stop being a doofus, it's not like that." I slapped Sam over the back of the head, sometimes the dork needed physical reminder to stop being a pest. " I don't know how to explain it in a sense your fragile little human mind can comprehend."
" Ouch, fine, OK, it's normal, for you, what you are, I get it, if you're sure?" Sam still wanted confirmation that I wasn't being hurt. I nodded and swore I was fine and it was something normal and nothing harmful for us, it's our nature to force each other at times. Sam relaxed when I told him I done the same to David when I had the chance due to that nature. He didn't understand it, but he wasn't freaking out that his older brother has been living 20 plus years with abuse.
" Really something's off about them." My nose flared, there was a scent to them, familiar as I whispered to Sam.
Cris and Nicole seemed normal, Cris was like some has been pro surfer, Nicole, well not sure what she did, they where both getting into thier thirties, but lived together, Cris took odd jobs, but not sure what Nicole did. Cris always seemed to be keeping an eye out and nervous and even around me. There was something about the two that I could sense.
" Dinners ready, time to eat." Melony pops back into the dinning room.
By this time the kids were made aware of who and what I was, Joey came running over to me and grabbed my pants leg and pulled, he hadn't been as weary of me as Kylie, but then Paul had made an impression on him and I was with Paul, cept Joey hasn't had a chance to see Paul again. " Look at this!" He shows me a dino picture he drew, T-Rex, with crayon blood dripping from its mouth. " It eats Cullens!" Joey didn't like Twilight, mainly because Lisa used to prefer talking about it instead of having fun with him. Now she just cringed when that thing was mentioned.
We all go into the dining room and sit, Sam at the head of the table, I sat to his left, Melony his right. Nicole and Cris sat next to each other.
" So, Cris you still staying in Jullians house?" Sam asked.
" Me and Nicole are, she makes us pay rent." Cris answered, I though well duh, you're in your thirties.
" Bet that makes things awkward when you bring home your girlfriends." I remark and shove a piece of chicken into my mouth.
" I don't bring anyone home." Cris replies. "Sam you'll not believe what happened when we moved in to the house there." Cris glanced at me as if wondering who the hell I was.
" He's family, uh Mike's son, Mike doesn't like people and can't take the time out of his busy day to.. Ouch!" Sam yelped as I stomped his foot for trying to be funny.
" Hadn't seen Mike sense I was what four, five? Barely remembered him, he wouldn't come with you for visits when we still lived in Phoenix." Nicole then took bite from her chicken.
" So what is it I won't believe?" Sam asks a little amused.
And now the weird stuff starts, and it's like, is anyone in my family normal? Cris told us of him and his sisters big adventure on moving to stay with Jullian in Luna Bay area, meeting some guy named Shane and their whole brush with half vampirisium. Well explained why something was off yet familiar with them, ex halfies. Apparently Edgar helped them save the day and kill off the menacing undead.
However my interest wasn't the fact some of my kind were offed. " Soooo." I say Sam and Melony were looking at me as if wondering how I am going to take this little story. Lisa also looked towards me, she shown interest in what Cris was telling, but not much, the other two kids had listened curiously.
" Sooo... Yea, flipper kids...Yup, that's all I got to say." I say casually, not really wanting to think about how the story sounded, discounting the vampires.
" What's that suppose to mean?" Nicole asked me confused.
" Uh, uh you don't want to know." Sam replied and stuck his hand over my mouth. " He watches to much T.V."
I pushed Sams' hand away. " I'm not raisin any flipper grand kids." I smirked looking at Cris and Nicole, they looked confused, but they must not seen that episode of That 70s Show.
" What? I don't get the joke." Cris finally said.
" Well, seriously, you turned down chick because your sister who is a year older than you might be getting laid? That's messed up, you sound like her boyfriend not her brother." I spill out.
" The girl was a vampire!" Cris protested, Nicole was red.
" You didn't know that, dude you left some I'm sure hot chick to take your older sister home because she had a drink with a guy, that's just messed up, more so that after Edgar saves your ass, the following night your watching her sleep." I continued.
" I thought she was sick! i did, she could ave had the flu or something. I have no interest in my sister." Cris still denies his freaky interest.
" Actually, I kinda agree with Mike." Sam says, getting a disbelieving look from Cris, Nicole looking like she wanted to sink under the table, still beet red.
" Not you too?!" Cris was looking a cross between angry and embarrassed now.
" No, seriously, you turned down a hot girl because your older sister might be drinking with a guy, you went to this party with your sister. Latter when you think she's sick, but is turning you sit over her watching her sleep and your more worried about your sister who you think has the flu than some girl that jumps in the shower with you wanting to get all freaky." Sam gives Melony an innocent look when she hides her face in her hand at the embarrassing conversation going on.
" Dude, you're a creeper, but one for you sister, that's just nasty, like really nasty. You're sister has the flu, you're running to your room and shouting keep your germs to yourself, not staring at her in her sleep like a creepy stalker wishing he could see her necked, oh god, that's what you was doing wasn't it? Imagining Nicole necked under you?" I grimaced with the images in my head that I wished to remove.
" I'm not! I am not imagining my sister necked, that, I'm not! Cris kept protesting. Nicole was slumped wishing to escape this conversation.
" Damnit Mike! Why did you have to say that, oh god now I have that image in my mind to" Sam groaned and yelped when Melony slapped his arm and gave him a dirty look, the reason was soon made clear by Joeys response.
" Oooo Daddy said a bad word!" Joey started giggling along with Kylie. Lisa just looked lost at the conversation and not wanting to get in it.
A few minutes go by, the conversation dropped, well not really, I was just waiting for Cris to cool off before aggravating him, sides I got bad images in my head because of him. " Is Nicole hot?" I asked, causing Sam and to stare at me with a questing look. Melony just tries to hide her face in her hand.
" Well, yea, she's good looking. I don't want to do her, just because she looks good. I don't want to sleep with my sister! I don't, I can tell that, I don't want to sleep with her!" Cris was red, really red and had tried back tracking when he saw the look I had when he said yea, which he failed miserably at.
" Eeeww you do have the hots for your sister, that's gross.. Hey Sam you think I'm hot?" I suddenly ask my brother.
" Eww gross Mike, that's disgusting." Sam wrinkled his nose at me.
" And that's how you're supposed to respond to that question." I say, pointing to Sam while looking at Cris.
" Uh, I don't want to sleep with my brother, he's not really attractive anyway even if he wasn't my brother." Nicole finally adds. " Don't look at me like that Cris, I don't think you're attractive, but could be because you're my bro... And it was kinda creepy you watched me sleep."
" I don't want to do Nicole, you know what, I'm going to my room." Cris stands and walks from the dining room, looking embarrassed and angry.
" That went well." I shrugged, Melony gave me a funny look.
" It's a good night when you're not growling." Sam said seeming actually pleased with how things went, his wife giving him this what the hell look. " I'm serious, though it could be better... Mike no talking to your cousin."
" You're kidding me right?" I stare blankly at Sam. " You're not my father... Oh god I can't believe I'm having to say that to you."
" Oh god I feel old..." Sam drops his head onto the dining table.
Nicole was confused, Melony seemed a little uncertain how to respond, their kids, well they where confused too.