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Chapter 13

POV: Lue

Everything started developing a pattern. I would wake to the sounds of screaming. Fighting with the voices in my head. I needed them to warn me but not like this. I would wake before the lights in the room would turn on. Before Rye moved on the bottom bunk.

I was sore. Always sore from training the day before. Pounding headache from lack of blood. The screaming would become a part of my waking mind. In the background. Pretending to still be asleep I would watch the man with the weapon walk across the highway. The screaming spirits would follow him. I never saw his face but he had killed more than his share of souls. Taken them out of the world.

Once he left I would be rattled. Unable to find sleep again. I would focus on Seth. Some Days he was asleep enough for me to connect with others he was not.

Now I focused on him, on his essence on his mind. A connection struck.

We stood on a beach. One that is covered in light white sand. I watched as dolphin's splashed along in the deeper water. I waited for Seth to notice me in his dream. I had not changed it today. This is what he was dreaming of before I entered his mind.

I watched as an arch appeared. Seth turned to me. "It's not good luck to let me see you today." He told me.

"Oh? And why is that?" I asked.

"We are getting married today. So I can keep you by my side for the rest of our very long lives." Seth gathered me into his arms.

"What day is it today?" I asked him

The question took Seth aback for a moment. "Saturday. I think." Seth commented.

"Thank you." I told him. This was how I was keeping track of my days. This was now the seventh time he said Saturday.

"Shall we get married?" Seth asked.

I smiled. I loved this man so much. "I can't marry you today." I told him

His face fell. "Why?" He asked.

"Because Seth this is a dream. When I marry you I want it to be in real life." I told him.

"If we got married I would be able to keep you." Seth looked like he was disappointed.

"Seth. Even if we got married right here and now I would still not be allowed to come home." I could here the longing in my own voice.

Seth wrapped me in his arms. Holding me against his chest. "I just want you to come home." Seth spoke into my hair.

"I will. As soon as I can I will be home." I felt the tears fall on my pillow. I had to fight harder to hold onto the dream connection. When I the dream affected my emotions I experienced a harder pull back into my physical form.

"Your fading." Seth commented. "I love you!" He gasped as I started fading back to my physical form.

Tears streamed from my eyes now. Everytime the dream connection ended I felt an intense emptiness inside. It was like my world was being ripped out from under me again. I forced myself to stop crying. If anyone here witnessed my weakness I would be in huge trouble. Laying in bed I focused on trying to emotionally stitch back together the hole that was left in my chest.

The lights turned on. They wanted us to start our day. I climbed off my top bunk and headed to to door. That is when I noticed Rye was missing from the bottom bunk. My blood went cold. He has never gotten out of bed before me. What could have gotten my friend out of bed this early.

I was hesitant as I walked down the hall to the main room. Breakfast was on the table as it always was semi warm oatmeal already portioned into a bowl. One bowl not two. My friend was not expected to have breakfast with me. I sat as expected and started to eat my breakfast. I had almost gotten through the entire bowl. The small good about eating this horrific food was that I had grown used to the flavor. No longer gagging at the smell.

A man walked into the room. I had learned to not look at these people when they walk in. The last time this happened Rye had looked up and gotten punched in the eye. He had a black eye for weeks. He would purposely fumble during skating practice just to he could ice his eye for a second.

I continued eating my breakfast. Trying desperately to remain calm in the presence of this man. His blazin red eyes he was a full vampire. I had still not gotten used to the eyes. Rye and I are the only vegetarian vampires here. Everyone else had humans brought in at their beckon call. I was so thirsty. That is what his red eyes reminded me. I just wanted to drink blood again. Quench the fire in my throat.

The oatmeal turned spoiled in my mouth at the memory of blood. I forced it down gagging only slightly as it entered my stomach. Finishing my bowl I pushed it away from me. Unable to handle the lingering smell of the oats any longer. I felt the man walk closer to the table.

"Now that you have eaten it is time for you to be tested" He said in a slight belgian accent.

I stood up. Following him out of the room. I tired to make the least noise possible as I walked down the dingy hallway. We walked down a flight of stairs that I had not been down before. There was a scent that changed in corredor. Almost hospital like.

The man guided me to a room with a chair that has straps on it. The man gestured for me to sit in the chair. I could feel panic rising in my stomach. I sat in the chair the man strapped me in. Restraining my hands, ankles, and hips. The straps are so tight I could feel them digging into my skin.

The man left me there. I could not move as I waited for what was going to happen next. All I could do was think of Seth and remember how I did not tell him that I loved him today.

I focused on my family back home as I waited for whatever was going to happen next. My heart dropped as the door opened.