Hey everyone,
I hope that your enjoying, here's another chapter, let me know what you think,
Thanks!
Distant (20)
Grace POV
It was already 9PM and I was sitting around my house waiting for David to come and get me. I was starting to get fidgety since he wasn't here. I knew that he said he would get me but I had been waiting for hours! I finally stopped my pacing around the basement and walked upstairs and headed to the front door. Just as the overly familiar sound of motorbikes sped towards the house, the sound was growing steadily stronger and then stopped.
I walked away from the door and sat down on the lounge with my Uncle. I watched as David walked into the house, his eyes instantly landed on me and he gave me his signature smirk. I gave him a small smile back, he came up to me and gave me a peck on the cheek before taking my hand in his gloved one and dragging me down to the basement.
"I've missed you, I feel like I haven't seen you forever," I whispered. David lightly brushed some stray hair out of my face and tucked it back where it belonged. I closed my eyes as he moved his hand to caress my face. I bit my lip and lent forward, his lips met mine lightly halfway. He pulled away and I looked at him confused.
"I missed you too, Gracie," he said before he crushed his lips roughly against mine. I wrapped my arms around his neck and wrapped my legs around his waist. David moved his hands under my butt to keep me where I was. He carried me over to the bed and threw me down on it.
"You have no clue how much I've missed you," David growled before he pressed his lips to mine again and began trailing open mouthed kisses down my jaw line, neck and shoulders. His mouth found mine again after not to long. My hands wrapped around his neck and one of my legs hooked around his waist, pulling his closer to me.
Someone clearing their throat brought us out of it. We broke apart, gasping for breath, to see Dwayne smirking at us.
"David, sorry for, uh, interrupting, but we still have something to tell the twins," Dwayne said seeming kind of awkward, but he smirked again when David growled loudly at him.
"Couldn't we do that later, Dwayne?" David snarled.
"No, Quinn wants to go out now, so we need to talk to them now." Then Dwayne walked out of the room.
David sighed in frustration but untangled his hands from my hair. I pouted and took my leg away from his waist and let go of his neck. He gave me a light peck on the lips.
"I love you princess," he whispered in my ear. I felt the most goofy smile spread across my face, I tried to hide it by biting my lip.
"I love you too," I said quietly, he wrapped his arm around my waist keeping me close as we made our way to the lounge room where everyone was sitting.
I took a seat on the floor in front of Mum's legs. Once I was seated Dwayne and David stood at the front of our little gathering and seemed to be confused.
"Where's Raven?" Dwayne asked looking at Uncle Sam confused. Sam told him that she had work tonight and had gone to the boardwalk about half and hour ago. Dwayne smirked at this while David snickered. "Ok, good. But sooner or later she's going to find out about vampires," he said, frowning, but his deep brown eyes were dancing, like he knew something the rest of us didn't.
"He's right, and we will give her a choice on if she wants to turn or not. Actually we don't want to talk about Raven right now," David said looking at my fuming Uncle, he didn't want Raven to turn. "I understand that your wanting to hunt, well I think that we need a roster. so Gracie, Quinn you will both feed once every two nights, one person. While Dwayne and myself will hunt one person every three night. This will just not cause too much attention to the sudden raise in missing people...hopefully," David finished with a smirk.
"You're being responsible!" my mother laughed loudly clapping her hands together.
"Yeah well, I'm the Head Vampire," David replied proudly.
"Do you feel special David?" Dwayne teased.
"Yeah I do," he told Dwayne bluntly. Dwayne just scoffed and said that he was going to the boardwalk for a bit.
I jumped up and skipped over to where David was standing in front of my family. "Come watch a movie?" I whispered. He nodded and let me drag him downstairs to the basement.
Over the time that the four of us had been living down here we had made it more homey. We had added a few chests of drawers, and a TV as well as a small DVD rack. There was also a stereo, (that had been apparently one of many that belonged to Paul), there was a guitar (that belonged to Dwayne) and some artwork that was made by the other vampire named Marko.
I picked the 2010 movie Grown ups and put it on. I curled up beside David and he wrapped his arm around me pulling me closer to him. I sighed. I loved being close to him, it felt so right.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Raven POV
Once I was at the boardwalk I started to walk around aimlessly. Well that's not entirely true, I was looking for three in particular people, two blondes and a brunette. It wasn't long before I walked into one of them either. Quite literally.
I wasn't paying attention to where I was going, someone nudged me and I smacked into a hard back in front of me, making me fall on my arse. "Hey watch where you going you...Raven?" Paul asked. He started laughing hard before he held out a hand for me. I took it and was roughly pulled upright.
"Good trip?" A voice behind me questioned. I turned to see Dwayne with a smug look on his face. My jaw went slack, how bloody rude!
"You. You. You hole!" I finally got out then frowned at myself. Hah, what a come back. Dwayne smirked at my failed tries to hurt him with my words while Paul started laughing at me even more. Good to no that I was entertaining.
"Well, I'm going to go hunt, you should see if you can Dwayne to have some fun," Paul said as he walked away getting lost in the crowd again. I sighed and turned to Dwayne. He just smiled and took my hand and started pulling me along the boardwalk and to the beach.
In the distance I could hear the sound of music and happy hollering, on either side of me I could see the glow of bon fires along the beach. The sky was clear the moon shone brilliantly in the dark sky. There was a comfortable silence as I sat down on the sand and Dwayne sat beside me. We watched as the waves crashed in the surf, and the lights from the boardwalk and moon played on the waters surface.
"Raven?" Dwayne said breaking the peaceful silence. Slowly I tore my eyes away from the ocean to look into Dwayne's brown eyes. "Paul said...that you saw him die.. Is it true?" he asked. That took me completely by surprise, I wasn't expecting that at all.
"Um, yeah I think I did, why?" I asked him. All of a sudden his eyes went dull and he frowned. It looked like he was having a debate about whether he should tell me or not. "Uh, Dwayne?"
"Yeah, yeah. Um, back in '87 a while before you Emerson's came to Santa Carla we went to see a gypsy. She said that there would be five people who would come into our lives. It was all pretty cryptic. But she said one would be our destruction; we figured that was your Uncle, he already tried to kill all of us. Then there was another that could supposedly see the end; we thought maybe you," he sat watching my expression, I tried to keep it blank but I raised my eyebrows and waited for him to continue. "Since you think you saw Paul's death, maybe you might see Marko's, or maybe even Max's...let us know if you do, ok?" he said.
"Who's Max?" I asked.
Dwayne laughed. "That's all you got from everything that I just said? Only anything bout Max, he's the old Head Vampire that your Great-Grandfather killed," he told me. I made and 'o' face then started laughing at myself.
I got bored of all the serious talk so I removed my shoes and ran out into the water. It was freezing but it was welcome, the dark water made me come back into reality about everything. I could see deaths? I would have said that it was crazy but there was a possibility that it was true.
Now I was lying to myself. I had never even seen Paul before I had the 'vision' of his death...if I wasn't counting the time in the bathroom mirror... Grrr! This was so confusing!
Something all of a sudden came up and sprayed me in the face. I wiped the salt water out of my eyes, to see Dwayne standing a few feet in front of me looking at me with wide eyes. I flicked my leg up in the water and covered him all over with the sticky ocean water. His mouth fell open and he looked down at himself because looking at my legs accusingly. A smirk began to form on his face and I slowly took a step back. He noticed.
"Oh, Raven, it's on," Dwayne said. I turned and began running threw the water, with Dwayne putting his long legs and vampire speed to use bounding quickly after me.
It was only a matter of seconds before he had his hands around my waist and then flung over his shoulder. He started walking slowly in the water going deeper and deeper, with me pounding on his back the entire way. It wasn't long before it was so deep that he had to hold me over his head to keep me from falling in. When he stopped the water was up to his neck. When I stood next to him I was only up to his chest! I was going to drown.
"Don't stress Raven, I won't let you drown," Dwayne slowly started lowering me into the deep water. I arched away from the water not wanting him to put me in and swim away without me. He could still feel my tension. "God damn it, Raven, trust me!" he said. I giggled but slowly allowed him to lower me into the water. I found that his knee was sticking out so that I could rest my knees on it. The water was cold around me.
Quicker than whip lash Dwayne had spun around, making me dunk under the water. He grabbed on to my legs and pulled me back to the surface of the water and onto his back. I smacked him upside the head, hard.
"You dick," I muttered, knowing full well that he could hear me. He just laughed and told me that he wanted to show me something. Before I could ask what he had dunked himself underwater, leaving me straddling his back as he took off like a torpedo through the water. I laughed loudly as the water and wind rushed around me.
When we got shallow he stood up and tossed me off his back and into the water in one fluid movement. I splashed him lightly with water, only after realising that splashing him with water was what got me in trouble in the first place.
"I thought you would have learnt your lesson, Raven," Dwayne said throwing more water at me.
"You were teaching lessons and didn't think to include me?" Paul asked in mock shock. I looked to the blonde. He seemed so much more alive, his skin was flushed from the recent blood and his lips were stained from the blood as well.
"Come on Raven, lets go for a walk," Dwayne said helping me out of the water. I shivered against the cold wind, the water was sticking to me and making the wind cut through my body heat. "Paul, give her your jacket," Dwayne muttered.
"Yew, here you go babe," Paul said walking over to me. I took off my wet jacket throwing it on the ground as Paul placed his leather jacket on my shoulders. I picked my shoes up and was just going to carry them. I looked over to Dwayne who was sitting on the ground putting his shoes on. My eyes widened at the sight of his feet. They looked so gross!
Paul noticed the creaped out look on my face and followed my gaze to his brother's face. He burst out laughing clutching at his sides. "Babe, it's a vampire thing," he said as soon as he got himself under control. Once he said that Dwayne looked up frowning, then he chuckled at my expression.
Once Dwayne's shoes were done up the three of us walked back onto the boardwalk and made our way easily through the crowds. We spent the rest of the night making our way up the boardwalk slowly. The entire place was buzzing with excitement. It was a really exciting environment, I loved it. Not to mention all the jealous glares that I received from all the girls, and even some of the boys.
It was heaps of fun to hang out with Dwayne and Paul, they were so alive together, always cracking jokes and laughing without a care in the world.
As soon as it was 1AM Dwayne called it a night and took me home leaving Paul to do whatever it was that he usually would do.
At home I was completely wiped so Dwayne carried me up to my room and removed me shoes and went to get me a oversized bed shirt from my draws while I stripped off my jeans and top. I was just standing there in my bra and underwear but I was to tired to even care, he handed me my shirt and I handed him Paul's jacket. Dwayne pealed my bed covers back and lead me towards my bed. He covered me up and switched off my light.
"Night Raven," Dwayne said into the dark room.
"G'night," I said around a yawn. He chuckled and as soon as the door was shut I was out like a light.