Twentieth.
About fifteen minutes later Elena came down to the dock wrapped in her own blanket. "Hey, what are you doing out here?" she asked me, her voice quivering in the cold air.
"Lexi came by to bring me some things and we didn't want to wake you." I told her as I pulled the blanket back over from Lexi's lap.
"I figured she was here from the funny angle you were sitting at." Elena said. "Is she still here now?" Lexi blew my hair around.
"Yup," I responded as I flattened my hair back down. "Go ahead, talk to her, she can hear you and respond, though if she gets vulgar I am not going to repeat it." I thought for a minute. "Actually, hold on," I pulled out my journal and pen, opened it to a blank page and handed the pen to Lexi."
"If I wasn't used to seeing things like this I'd be really freaked out right now." Elena said watching as Lexi flourished the pen around in the air, obviously showing off.
I stood up. "I'm going to let you two talk while I run in and take a hot shower, I am frozen," I announced as I wrapped my blanket around Elena along with hers. "Just do me a favor Elena and don't let her read anything else that's in there."
"You are absolutely no fun." Lexi said to me.
I pointed my finger at her. "I mean it," I told her, then I turned, smiled at Elena and walked back up to the house. I was determined to get a good shower in and then go out and hunt.
The water was heavenly as it defrosted my frozen limbs. Bonnie and Caroline had started fixing breakfast and I could smell the sausages and eggs through the bathroom door. I tried to make it a short shower, but it felt so good that I'm sure I was in there too long. When I finally came back downstairs all three of the girls were eating, Lexi was sitting on the couch pouting. I had no idea why until realized that Elena was sitting on my journal. I had to laugh.
"Relentless isn't she?" I asked Elena who just nodded and smiled.
"Are you going to come and join us or just sit there and pout all morning?" I asked Lexi while Bonnie and Caroline watched.
"Is Lexi here?" Bonnie asked.
"She sure is," I said, laughing as Lexi walked over to the table, arms crossed and still pouting as she sat down.
"What is she saying?" Caroline asked.
"Nothing you nosey little bitc…" Lexi started to say before I cut her off.
"She's not talking right now, she's a little angry that Elena wouldn't let her read my journal so she's pouting," I answered Caroline. "Are you in the mood for a hunt after we finish here? I found a few empty water bottles so we can stock up."
"Sure, why not," Caroline answered.
"Why do you want to spend time with that nasty little twit," Lexi asked. "Go out on your own, you'll be better off anyway." I ignored her so she took my fork and knife and threw them into the sink.
"So if anyone still doubted she was here, may I introduce Lexi the pouting, brooding vampire ghost?" I said out loud. "Why don't you go find something productive to do and stop damaging Elena's things?" I asked her and she stormed off walking right through the front door.
"Is she gone?" Caroline asked.
"For now, but she'll be back," I told her. "Okay, let's clean this up and get out of here. I'm just going to run upstairs and get the bottles."
I went up the stairs and collected the bottles I had found and put them in the bag Lexi had brought. As I was walking out the door I remembered that I had my phone now and snatched it off of the bed where I put it while I was showering. I had a text message.
I clicked the screen and saw "One New Text Message from Alexia: Don't say that I didn't warn you…" What was she talking about? Oh well, it didn't really matter right now, I hopped back down the stairs, grabbed my coat and hat and Caroline and I headed out the door.