Chapter 13

I leaned back as far as I could in my seat, she was still drinking, it had been for more than a minute, soon enough I would probably pass out and then Rebeca would feel guilty. I was about to say something when she got up on her own. I kissed her blood stained lips and got blood on my lips as well.

"Now now, we can't have one of my parent's see that," She said softly, seductively. She leaned towards my face and started to run her tongue along my lips. That turned to both of our tongues in each other's mouths, got it felt good, so wet, so soft. I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't hear the footsteps walking up to the car, but Rebeca nearly bit my tongue off when we heard a knock come from the glass on the passenger's side door.

"Ouch," I cried painfully. Rebeca didn't pay no mind and spun her head to the passenger's side window to see who it was that was knocking. Rebeca had a shocked expression, but not the kind of shock face that said the secrets out, just a normal shocked expression that said what are you doing here. I looked over and I saw someone's face in the window, it was a guys face, sharp angular, shining almost glowing green eyes, he had Rebeca's chin and nose but had her mother's eyes unlike Rebeca who had her dad's eyes in shape and placement on the face.

"Oh. MY. GOD!" She screamed. She hastily got out of the driver's seat door and ran over to the guy on the other side of the car. I adjusted the seat back to where it was. And sat up out of the car, wiping the blood off my neck and covering the wound with the collar of my shirt. It didn't work well.

I got up out of the car and laid my arms crossed across the top of the car observing what was going on. Rebeca had jumped into the guy's arms and he swung her around. She was laughing and giggling. I smiled in spite of myself, I felt just a little jealousy start to build up, he was so much more handsome than me. His black hair long, thin and straight. His eyes were shining like Rebeca's. He was wearing a tight blue T-shirt that showed off his six-pack, and blue jeans that matched the shirt, he had a scar running down the top of his left arm, it was straight, and looked like a thin blade cut. But despite all this I didn't let the jealousy get to me, I had more control at than that. After about 10 seconds of spinning her around he let her down, she was still laughing.

"It's so good to have you home," She said wrapping her arms around his neck and hugging him.

"It's good to be back home," He said smiling.

"Here I am coming home to see how much my baby sister has grown up and I see this strange car in the driveway that won't go away, so like a normal person I go out and see what's going on. And here I come and see my baby sister French kissing someone with blood all over her and his lips," He concluded. Rebeca blushed a very very deep shade of red and turned away. The jealousy went away quite a bit, he must be an older brother I thought and everything was cool. Until it hit me that her older brother was here and that he must have been a vampire then that is the time that I started to get very nervous. He looked over to me and looked a little freaked out by the corpse-like appearance but got over it quickly.

"So what's your name friend?" He asked me.

"Mich," I said. My arms off the car since it was kinda hot to have my arms on the roof for much longer.

"Hello Mich, my name is Travis," He said extending a hand over the roof of my car to me. I took it and shook and released.

"So are you a..." He started but didn't finish not knowing really what to say.

"Vampire. No," I answered. He looked confused, he looked at me and then Rebeca and back to me and then back to Rebeca again.

"I'll explain later ok?" She asked.

"Um.. Ok," He said still somewhat confused.

"I think I'll go, I have some major homework to do," I told Rebeca, feeling somewhat awkward.

"No don't go it's ok," She said.

"That's fine, catch up with your older brother, call me later ok?" I asked.

"But...Ok," She finally submitted.

"Bye," She said.

"Bye," I replied

I ducked back into the driver seat. I started the car and looked up, I saw Rebeca waving. I held a hand up. And backed up out of the driveway and started home. I was driving down the road when I saw a hitchhiker. I almost never pick up hitchhikers but this one looked somewhat familiar. I stopped a few yards ahead of her. She knocked on my window and I opened the door window.

"Hey, um... do you know where the Borno's house is?" She asked me in a quite but pretty voice she looked startled when she looked at me, I guess that is what looking dead will do to people if they don't completely ignore you like your not there. She looked just like Rebeca, the face might be a little off but she looked like Rebeca, I could swear it. Her clothing was also different from Rebeca, the women standing outside my window had a plain dark red shirt with a white skirt that went down just past her knees. She looked just about as old as Rebeca but I could tell that she was a few years older, she must do the age thing that Rebeca told me about.

"Do you know Rebeca Borno?" I asked.

"Why yes I do, she's my sister," She told me.

"Fuck," I said out loud and in my head.

"What?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"I'll take you, Rebeca's my girlfriend I was just coming from her place," I said.

"Um...Thanks, ah... girlfriend?" She asked.

"Yeah," I said.

"Why is it a bad thing that I ask you for a drive?" She asked.

"Well, I don't really know you but I do know your a vampire like Rebeca and I'm not sure if I should trust you but you seem decent enough," I said. She looked shocked

"I met her brother already and she said that she would explain my knowing about vampires later, I guess she could talk to you too," I said. She looked a little lost.

"Um...Ok, thanks for the ride," She said and got into the passenger's seat. I made a illegal U-turn and started driving back to Rebeca's house.

"So ah... What's your name?" She asked shyly, another quality that she shared with Rebeca.

"Mich," I said keeping my eyes on the road.

"And yours?" I asked.

"Um...Clare," She said. She didn't look like a Clare to me but whatever. I drove the rest of the way in silence. I pulled up into the driveway and I saw Rebeca open the door, she must have really wanted me to stay, or she knew that Clare was coming, probably the latter. Clare smiled,

"Thanks for taking me here," She said getting out of the car with a smile.

"Pleasure to do it," I said, not really meaning it. Her sister took out her bags from the trunk of the Kia and started towards the door. I backed up out of Rebeca's drive way and drove to my house. I guess that they had a few weeks longer off than normal. It was still about 3 weeks until Christmas week, when I would've expected people to start showing up. I sighed and kept my attention focused on the road. I got home at about 4 I said hi to Mom and went to my room. I sat down on my bed and started drinking the gallon water jug I had in my room. I started doing homework but fell asleep, I worked on the homework for 30 minutes, the gallon of water was empty.

I woke up at 12 at night. Why oh why do I sleep so early and wake up when no normal people as awake. I thought about going to Rebeca's but shot that idea down fast because she had company. And I didn't feel like explaining to them why I would sneak into Rebeca's room in the middle of the night. So I laid in my bed unable to fall asleep again, I refilled my jug of water quietly and got a bowl of cereal and started to do the homework that I didn't do. I finished the homework in about 2 hours, I refilled my water again, I needed to get a bigger jug I thought. I heard a knock on my window, I was surprised and jumped a little. I turned around to see who or what it was. I saw Rebeca's head upside down, meaning that most of her body was on the roof. I opened the door and she came in feet first landing lightly on the floor.

"I didn't know if you would come or not," She whispered to me.

"I don't think that either of us would've liked to have them see me in your room in the dead of night," I explained to her. She nodded her head in agreement.

"What did you tell them?" I asked.

"That I was too tired to speak about it and that I would explain tomorrow, which it today," She told me.

"What do you think that I should tell them?" She asked me.

"I'm not sure, I don't know what they would think, their not my siblings," I said a little playfully at the end.

"Well, I think that they would both be concerned for me if we told them the whole truth about everything," She said.

"Well we should tell them the whole truth about me knowing," I said.

"I think your right but what about your um...'condition'?" she asked.

"Perhaps...Well I'm not sure, maybe tell them I had a particularly nasty reaction to the blood, but don't tell them about the blood transfusion idea. Or the powers, defiantly not the red eye, just say I dyed my hair to explain the silver, probably not a good idea to mention the pain as well," I suggested.

"Sounds good," She told me.

The few weeks that separated that me and the family reunion passed by quickly. I didn't have anymore spasms much to my relief, and Rebeca's siblings bought her story as we had talked about. I also didn't have many run-ins with Jene, I guess my corpse-like appearance unnerved her a little more than Rebeca and I had thought, not that we mind. Rebeca drank from me everyday, but I had a rising sense of dread not just from the Reunion, I never told her. I started to have my canine teeth start to elongate a few centimeters a day and it was a very bad thing I thought, but I hid it from her well. I also smelled things that I never smelled before, the sent of everything came clearer for me from farther away. I noticed that everyone had a different sent based on where they lived. I found that Rebeca's sent was incredible, it was fragrant like flowers, and very intoxicating, I also hid that fact well too but it was harder and harder to stop taking it in or she might have noticed something and suspected something was amiss. I usually wasn't in the business of keeping secrets from Rebeca, almost completely because I never had to keep secrets, and the rest was because I don't lie well to Rebeca, she almost always knows when I'm lying when she questions me on the spot but she hadn't yet and I'm sure she was going to ask about me acting a little strange. Why I'm not smiling very much. Why I seemed distracted sometimes when she talked to me.