Okay everyone. This Chapter is rather long! It also has songs in it! I do NOT own these songs! I do not own Fresh Blood, or The Heart Is Slow To Learn.
Mina: They belong to Frank Wildhorn. Both are from the musical "Dracula: the Musical"
Me: yeah…so…enjoy… oh and I hope you like the ending… ;)
Mina: *blushes* yeah… enjoy…
38 Fresh Blood
How many times I have thought about that kiss in the past seven days I didn't know. The only change it caused was I was even more fallen whenever I was around him. If that was even possible, I had no idea.
Vlad never reacted any differently about the kiss and never spoke about it. I was fine with that because of Henry, and that is probably why he didn't in the first place. I know that the boys in school who still watched got on Vlad's nerves as they did mine. But I had to pay him back somehow for the pain Meredith caused me this past winter and even if I were to try and end it they would still look.
Fifth hour was extremely hectic today since it was the day of the concert. The choir teachers were always on the edge around this time and they weren't even the ones running the show!
Just in the first half hour of class my teacher asked me five times if I have my costume ready for tonight. I kindly told her yes everything even though I was getting annoyed. Everything was perfect and ready but they still made a huge fuss about it all. The hour ended quickly and I rushed to Yoga with Amelia following.
"So… is he coming?" She asked in a passive tone. We side glanced at each other and laughed.
"Yeah, he is."
"Well are you ready for him to see you as a vampire?" I grinned evilly. Amelia didn't know about my secret hunger for blood but she defiantly knew about the connection Vlad and I have with them. "I'm sure he'll just die!"
"I can only hope." I sighed as we started to change out for yoga. As we went through the class it went by fast. Algebra started as I sat with Vlad by my side.
As we walked home with Henry once again with us, Vlad smiled at me and gripped my arm when I tried to walk up into my house. I turned to his smiling face and his hand slide down and off my arm while he told me he couldn't wait until seven when my concert started. My heart fluttered and I nodded and smiled while running up the porch.
He and Henry continued to talk for a while I rushed to shower and get ready for my concert. I straightened my hair and curled the red streaks out of a random thought. I did my makeup, taking great time and care in every detail as the perfectionist that I am. I vocalized to myself in my room as I brought out my dress. I wasn't really think what I was doing; I have been doing choir concerts since I was little.
I slip on my dress and drank a bag of blood. I resisted drinking another and forced my fangs to stay visible. The dress I wore was a black V neck down to the knees. With a dark crimson under its dark, black, see through fabric. The crimson under dress was faintly seen through the dark cloth but there nonetheless.
As I was about to leave my room I stopped and ran my hand over my tattoo. It glowed faintly and I felt intense connection and strength for my kind. I wrapped a bright red ribbon around it and left my room.
My aunt and uncle were ready and yelled at Greg to hurry up and get in the car. Henry tagged along silently, a little too silent and I was thinking of asking him why.
When we get to the high school I part with my family to go to the choir room to meet with my fellow classmates and they went to take their seats. I found Amelia, Alice, and Kathryn in a heartbeat and we all started to talk in excitement. They were my background singers for my solo that I was picked for. We also sang another song together. Amelia grinned widely out of the blue and grabbed my shoulders forcing me to spin around. I giggled in the normal hyper manner I always am in before a concert. I giggle and laugh until I can see straight and I find Vlad smiling down at me from his usual four inches higher height.
"Vlad!" I cheered and attacked him in a hug. He didn't expect it and went stiff as I held him around his shoulders. He eventually calmed and hugged me back, his hands gently resting on my ribs. "You came!"
"Of course I came!" He laughed, I smiled a huge smile back at him. He froze and went serious. "Mina you have fangs." I felt a chill run through me and a heated worry come after. I shook it off as nothing.
"Uh, yeah, I do. It's for one of the acts." I told him, he nodded but still wasn't so happy about it. It seemed to make him uncomfortable.
"Hey, I'm Amelia." Amelia shouted and popped up next to us. "You're Vlad, right?"
"Yeah, nice to meet you." He smiled softly. "How'd you know my name?"
"Mina talks about you a lot." I blushed and turned to her, death glaring at her. She smirked and I blushed even more when Vlad laughed. After he seemed finished laughing at me he ran his hand through his hair and still chuckled.
"So, tell me more." He pressed to Amelia, who opened her mouth. I started to shove Vlad away and around the corner to the main doors so he could get his seat. "Hey!"
"No you don't! You are going to take your seat, Vladimir!" He rolled his eyes playfully and he leaned all his weight into my shoving arms. I started to slide backwards on the tile flooring and he stood straight again. "I have to go now, wish me luck!"
I stopped shoving and started to jog my way around the corner to the choir room again. He grabbed my hand before I did, bent down with his lips to my cheek, and let me go.
"Good luck." He smiled as he watched me struggle with speaking and moving. I heard my choir teacher calling out the name of my choir for us to come but I couldn't break away. He smiled wider at my frozen shock.
"Women's Choir!" She screamed, and I ran around the corner and left Vlad. I realized I was shaking as we prepared go to on and we warmed up and she spoke to us. I felt like I was having little spasms and I needed to be with or see Vlad immediately. Amelia kept giggling at my spasms as if she knew what had happened even though I knew she didn't. We went onstage and sang one song with the entire choir. Then the groups went on and off all doing great. Finally it was my turn, the minor black curtain yearning to rise up in front of me. As it did the lights flew on and my voice boomed out.
"Sa nul atengeti! V-am dat un ordin! Nati vrut sal teniti! I told you this man belongs to me!" Amelia, Alice, and Kathryn sang a sort of eerily vocalizing tune behind me.
I looked at the audience and I found my family and Vlad with Otis, Nelly, and Vikas near the front row. I had a plain view of them and as I danced and I saw the plain shock and horror on Vlad's face grow as he realized what song I was singing.
"Ah the children of the night, those who hide themselves from light can you not hear their secret music? I am their master, the boyar. I summon them from near and far to make intoxicating music." I slowly started to dance around the darkened figures on the stage. "But it's time now to leave them. I must follow my plan. I shall have to bereave them. I need pastures new, what I'm needing is...
"Fresh blood to revive me! Fresh blood in my veins! No one will survive me, in those dark Soho lanes!" As the song turned to bloodshed I 'killed' the darkened shadows for my oh so true bloodlust. "When I breathe your English air I'll be a stranger everywhere, no one will recognize my features! I'll go out hunting all night long! Just one more pale face in the throng, turning them all into my creatures."
The shadows all drifted in a ghostly formation after they had been slaughtered. I chanced a glance at Vlad and saw his eyes wide in amazement. A few danced with me and moved with Alice, Amelia, and Kathryn as they followed me and chanted the chorus.
"Here the people all fear me. Their defenses are strong. They refuse to come near me. I need pastures new, what I'm needing is... Fresh blood on my pillow, don't call it a sin! A mere peccadillo, two punctures in the skin!" I gently, invitingly pulled the rim of the V neck showing merely another inch of my pale neck. I stepped forward and stood center stage and stood alone and searched the crowd. My eyes met with Vlad's.
"You and your Mina will live forever!" I saw him shiver. "You'll do my bidding! You will taste the terror in the streets!"
He seemed worried and I saw Otis, Vikas, and Henry smiling widely. Vikas was laughing hysterically and uncontrollably. Otis seemed to be greatly enjoying Vlad's horror. Henry, I knew, would be screaming cat-calls to bother Vlad and embarrass me if the teachers hadn't asked the audience not to.
"Blood's a meager sacrifice, a most reasonable price for all the riches I am giving." I fell back in the arms of one shadow after I killed him and he dipped me low near the ground. I tossed my head back, a wide view of my neck. "We are the children of the night! And we must hide ourselves from light but we must feast upon the living. We can take our slow pleasures. We won't run out of time, inexhaustible treasures. London's full of them, I can sense it!
"Fresh blood to restore me, wild nights by the Thames!" I spun it a fast circle with my arms above my head. "Fresh blood waiting for me, and countless requiems!" I stopped spinning and stood singing to the crowd. "Fresh blood running through me, I'll bleed London dry!" I clenched my fist at my side. "Fresh blood will renew me, and I shall never die!"
I lifted my arms wide before me, grinning as I felt my own wickedness and blood thirst grow. I music climaxed and drew to a dramatic end with my voice and as it did I bowed low at my waist while every other soul on the stage dropped to the floor dead and the lights flashed dark red. I stood straight and ran off the stage, leaving the corpses behind. I heard the cheering and my family roaring. I hurried to meet up with my three friends for our quartet. We finally found each other and waited silently for our turn.
Then we solemnly walked out and Alice took in a deep breath. "Why do we risk all we have, why give into the lure that calls from everything forbidden? What attracts us to the night, and captures us however hard we fight."
She stepped back and her spotlight dimmed and went to Amelia. "It seems the heart is slow to learn, no one can tell it what to do, it never learns from its mistakes, what twists and turns it puts us through."
Kathryn, the one closest to me in the long line across the stage, went next. "Oh yes the heart is slow to learn, so every lesson is in vain, it goes the way it wants to go, regardless of the pain." I took a simple look at Vlad before the lights flew to me and would reveal me. I brushed my tattoo through my ribbon and grew confident.
"And so, I foolishly go on, ignoring all the signs, dismissing all the doubt inside me."
"For the heart is slow to learn, no one can tell it what to do, it never learns from its mistakes, that's why it finally breaks and overpowers you." We all sang in harmony, I held the top soprano.
"Some passions never let you go…" Alice sang out.
"Some fires never cease to burn…" Amelia followed.
"It shouldn't come as a surprise…" Kathryn started.
"That the heart is slow to learn." I sang softly and watched Vlad lovingly.
"The heart is slow to learn." Alice and Kathryn chorused is a decrescendo.
"The heart is slow to learn." Amelia and I nearly whispered. The lights dimmed out and away from us and we parted off the stage. I found my seat with them and watched the rest of the concert from the audience. Afterward I found my family and vampire friends and we left the school. My uncle invited Nelly and her vampires to come with us to Eat, the only restaurant in Bathory. They accepted and our large group of nine drove to Eat and partnered two tables to fill us all.
Everyone congratulated me and I somehow ate my food without blood being sneaking inside while my human family wasn't looking. Vlad sat next to me and Henry across from me.
"You look very nice tonight Lubov." Vikas commented, I blushed and flattened my dress out.
"Thanks." I muttered and Henry jumped right on the topic.
"Tell me about it! Mina," He turned to me. "Cousin or not you looked hot!" I blushed even redder and before he even finished his exclamation he jumped up and yelped in pain. He death glared at Vlad who glared back, his lips pressed in a thin line.
"Incest is gross, dude." Vlad hissed. Henry seemingly kicked him back and laughed.
"Calm down, she's my cousin I was kidding you can have her back." Everyone at the table went dead silent and turned to Vlad. He looked around at everyone, everyone but me. He looked down and his soda and Otis started a new conversation between the adults.
"Henry, that was uncalled for." I grunted at him across the table.
"Well, it's not like he would tell you how you looked tonight. So I did." I turned to Vlad and he was up spinning his straw in the soda and ice.
"Come on, you have nothing to hide right Vlad?" When Vlad simply continued to spin this straw aimlessly I sighed and Henry stood.
"Well, I'm going to the bathroom." He stumbled off leaving Vlad and me alone. I sighed again as he stayed silent and I poked at my menu. Vlad was still messing with his drink. He finally picked it up, took a long drink, and started again.
"You look amazing." He murmured, I whipped to him in shock. When I realized I wasn't dreaming I smiled, laughed softly, blushed and fiddled with my dress. He looked up at my face as I went deeper in my shyness and continued to mess with the cloth on my knee and thigh. Under the table he grabbed my wrist to stop me and slide into my hand. I looked up at him in confusion and he seemed sincere. "What?"
"Why are you doing this?" I whispered, he still held my hand under the table where no one could see. Henry slammed back into his chair and Vlad nearly threw my hand back into my lap and he jumped. The rest of dinner went by relatively normal as we all ate and talked. I hugged everyone before I left with my family and we parted to return to our homes.
I returned home exhausted and fell on my bed in a heap of black. I sighed and concentrated on contacting Vikas with my head. "Where is Vlad?"
"He is in his room, Lubov." Vikas chuckled in my head.
"Will you let me know if he leaves on a midnight walk at all?"
"Yes, Lubov I will."
"Thank you." I told him before leaving his head alone. A few hours passed and my nocturnal nature didn't allow me to sleep nor did I feel like getting out of my dress. Yet finally I heard his deep voice with it usual accent in my mind.
"He just snuck out, Lubov. While he thought we were sleeping."
"Thanks a ton." I replied before fading out. I swung open my window and felt the warm late spring air pick me up. I slowly slide my way down the roof until I reached the end. This part I wasn't so sure about, I had only had three short lessons in flying from Vikas so far. I was good at first but then I started to get truly uncoordinated. And I wasn't sure if I was quite ready to jump off the roof of my second story house.
I touched my wrist and the symbol glowed, I have gotten used to this habit. And I took the risk and jumped. I snapped my eyes closed and when I opened then I found myself safely floating above the ground and I carefully, fearfully lowered myself to the ground.
When I was rightfully rejoined with the natural laws of gravity I shivered and quaked it odd feeling away. I loved flying but the short after effect of the landing bothered me, too hard to explain.
I knew where Vlad would be and just where I could catch him before he got to Bathory High. He had to go by the small park near the neighborhood where many children lived. I decided to meet him there and probably give him a short scare. I hurried to the park before he got there and looked down the street. I saw him slowly edging over the cement and toward me to complete my pull. I smiled and lifted myself up on the playground and leaned on the pole which shrouded me and most the metal in darkness.
Finally Vlad was closer and I heard him softly humming to himself. I grinned, he was humming Fresh Blood.
"Who got that song stuck in your head, I wonder?" I spoke up. He jumped out of his skin and cursed. I laughed and stepped down lightly into the sand.
"Mina! You scared the hell out of me!" He gasped, clasping his hand over his chest and breathing hard. I smiled apologetically. "What are you doing here?"
"Taking a walk, and you?"
"Same, but it's almost two in the morning. Why are you even awake?" I shrugged. "Why aren't you home asleep?"
"Same reason as you, silly." I teased and walked closer to him and into the darkened light of the night. "How about you and me come and sit over here and talk? Or where you walking to anywhere in particular?"
"N-no. We can." He followed me onto the playground and we sat inside the large slide facing each other. "What do you want to talk about?"
"Well you never told me who it was that got that song in your head?" I smiled sweetly.
"Oh just a girl I know, she has a great voice." He grinned playfully.
"Aw, how sweet. She is getting in your head that much?"
"Oh yeah, a lot. She's just in there and won't get the hell out." I laughed and he smiled.
"Vlad, if I wanted to talk to you about… immortality…"
"Mina, no." I looked up at him, his teasing manner gone.
"But Vlad!" I called and he let his body fall and slide down the dark black slide. "Vlad!" My voice echoed slightly and I followed him down the slide. When I finally hit the sand I saw Vlad already walking through the soft, cool sand. I scrambled to my feet and jogged to catch him. "Vlad, please, let me explain!"
"You want me to turn you, what's to explain?" He grumbled.
"I never asked that!" I pressed my voice higher than normal.
"Immortality? How could you get that with my fangs in your neck?" He snapped, I flinched and reached for my neck. I brushed the black silk of my necklace aside and fingered my scars.
"I don't need you specifically." I turned away.
"What?" He asked and I looked up into his dark eyes. I saw questions burning to life in them and I sighed and took a deep breath. I pressed my entire hand on my wrist and looked back at Vlad. "Mina, what is it?" His tone was thick with concern.
"Vlad if I was a vampire…"
"Mina, I won't." I pressed my hand t his lips.
"I never asked you to. I am just asking you Vlad, if I was a vampire… what would you think of eternity with me?" My voice was soft and unsure but I know he heard me.
"Eternity with you would be…" I searched his eyes as he hesitated. "Great, Mina."
"Then why do you not want me to become one?"
"I already tore you away from Joss. And I also destroyed any chance you have at a normal life. I could never ask anything like that of you."
"I don't care about any of that if it's you." His head snapped up at me words. "For an eternity with you I would give up everything I have ever owned or loved." His jaw dropped and his eyes were wider than normal. He finally found his voice again and spoke.
"W-Why?"
"Does it matter?" I asked calmly, attempting to make my voice calmer and warmer. "I have given you my mortality, Vlad. It's nearly all I have."
"You haven't ever offered me your life, and I would never allow you to. Neither would I take it."
"You didn't have to for it to be yours."
"Mina, what are you talking about?" I sighed softly to myself and reached under my hair. I fiddled with the back of my neck and he watched in confusion. "Why are you taking off your necklace?"
When I was finished I bent my head back, opening my neck to him. I pointed right to the still visible scares D'Ablo had given me. I saw him reluctantly lean in while holding his breath. He squinted his eyes but saw the twin marks. He gasped and stepped back in total shock.
"Mina, what happened?"
"I was bitten." I muttered softly and tied my necklace back on.
"By who?" He nearly screamed. I gently silenced him and he seemed deadly angry.
"D'Ablo, Vlad. He bit me and changed me into a vampire."
"No…" I saw even a faint hint of tears in his eyes. I got worried. He started to shack his head back and forth. "No, no! You can't be!"
"But I am, Vlad. I didn't ask for this, I never knew. I didn't know what would have happened. And neither of us could stop it, he bite me Vlad. You can't do anything but accept it, I did."
"When? How? Why would he…?" He stuttered.
"In the clearing, after Joss stabbed you. He had me held back and when I went to help you he yanked me back and bit me. He wanted to get back at you. And apparently whatever you were thinking about me in that clearing told him you cared for me deeply." He looked down and shook his head again.
"So… in the hospital…"
"Yes, I already knew the answers to everything I asked."
"And is that why you look…"
"Different? Yes."
"I don't believe you!" He shouted, yet still soft so as not to wake anyone.
"I'm a vampire Vlad. I drink blood like you do." I felt my fangs grow and I knew he saw them because he started at my lips. "I'm immortal. I can animorph. I can read minds." I said in his head, he took a frightened step back. "I can fly." I hovered slightly and returned to the ground before I got clumsy. "But more importantly and my most favorite…" I walked closer to him until I was not even two inches away. The pull was agony and I knew he felt it too. "I am allowed to be with you forever."
"Mina…" He sighed; the sigh was long and strained. I took off the ribbon on my wrist and held it to show him. "Who gave it to you?"
"Vikas did. The same day you woke up from the hospital."
"Mina…I'm so, so sorry!" He suddenly was filled with remorse, I shrugged and he came closer to me, slowly and unsurely. He wrapped his arms around me tightly and I melted into his chest. "I'm sorry, I really am. If you never met me, you wouldn't be like this."
I pulled back and looked up at him, he didn't let me go. "Vlad, I don't regret anything that has ever happened to me because of you." He tilted his head in question. "I couldn't very well keep an immortal life with you if I was mortal now could I?" He released me, his hands sliding down my back and leaving chills until he held my shoulders.
"Why do you want an immortal life with me, Mina?" I blushed madly and met his eyes.
"Because… well…" I stuttered and avoided his eyes. His hand slide from my shoulders and cupped my neck. He tilted my head to look at me as I have done with him so many times.
"Tell me." He whispered. I sighed heavily. He was so amazingly hot and his eyes always made me weak. My pull to him was only dying for more of him as his hands held my neck. His voice seduced me into submission and I finally allowed myself to melt.
"I love you."
"What?" He was stunned; I felt immediate regret for what he seduced me to say.
"I…" I pulled away from him and out of his grasp. The pull ached at my heart. "I love you."
"You… what…?" He whispered, it was more of a gasp.
"God damn it, Vlad. I love you!" The more I said it the more I loved it. The look on Vlad's face was as if I had slapped him. "I love you." I spoke softer. "I always have and I always will."
He held his lips apart as if about to speak but only a humming noise came out before he stuttered. "Y-you…you…s-since when-n?"
"The second you told me you wanted my blood." I saw the memory flash in his face as he remembered that one Halloween night two years ago. "I love you, and I have since the minute you took my hand in yours, spoke my name, and looked into my eyes. Surely you must have seen it…"
He shook his head wildly. "So… When I woke up…" I nodded.
"Yes Vlad. I saw how amazed you were at my dramatic change when you were only asleep for a week. Most of it was from my change, but some was really from Nelly."
"What about Henry?" He whispered.
"He knows that I'm a vampire. And as long as I'm happy, he's happy. And he also knows how I feel about you, and he is overly happy about that."
"Nelly, Otis, and Vikas?"
"They all know, and they all are very supportive." I shrugged, he still seemed like someone had slapped him. "I… This is why I never told you. I knew you wouldn't treat me the same. I knew you would be shocked and weirded out. I couldn't risk losing you completely for the slim to none chance that you could possibly understand."
Vlad shook his head and the slapped-face look finally died. He then went to worry. "Mina, why would I ever treat you differently?"
"Because you like Meredith." I said with a thin layer of ice. He turned his head down and away but his eyes returned to me after they watched the floor.
"Oh…"
"Oh? I tell you I am a vampire and can live forever with you. Then I tell you I love you and all you can say is 'oh'?" He flinched. "And now you are remembering how much and all you have said about her around me. And to answer what you won't ask, yes it did hurt. It hurt more than anything. At every dance, in class, in the hallways… yeah it hurt. But none of that hurt as much as when you kissed her at the Snow Ball."
His head snapped up and his eyes grew slightly but died back to normal.
"Yes, I did see that. I wanted to tell you how I felt about you before you left. But she came and took you away and went on and kissed you."
"So when I came back from Siberia…"
"Yes, I was upset and sore from what I saw. I wanted to show you my pain but all that did was make it worse until I broke. I couldn't live being away from you, I couldn't stand it. And then I once again wanted to tell you how I felt I followed you and Joss which just led me to being held hostage by D'Ablo. Do you understand now why I am no longer noticed by Joss?"
"Why didn't he stop D'Ablo?" He nearly shrieked.
"He had just finished stabbing you and was barely pulling away from you when D'Ablo yanked my back and plunged his fangs into my skin. He had no time before it already happened. I have become what my family bloodline was raised to kill. And I love every moment of it, Joss has grown extremely hateful of me and doesn't think of me as his family anymore. And when I told him how much I loved you it made him even angrier to know I choose you over my family."
"Mina…"
"Vlad, don't try and make me second think all of this. I already know what I want. I want you and only you."
"But… why me?"
"I don't know Vlad. I felt an attraction to you right when you jumped out from the hall. It was a strange pull at me. Like nothing existed except you…" I stepped closer. "The closer I am the stronger it is until we touch and it wants more."
"Really?" He gasped in confusion.
"Yeah…I didn't mean too, it kind of just happened. I know this ruins a lot. Our friendship is screwed, Henry will never shut up, you're gonna feel bad about anything with Meredith, all of your memories are changed now, Otis and Vikas won't leave you alone, Nelly won't either, but all of that I don't care about. I am just glad that you finally know, now sooner than later."
"You think I'll leave?" He asked with silent offence when he caught that I spoke of our ruined friendship.
"Of course. I'm just the girl who is here. Meredith is the girl who was always there, wearing pink dresses and smiling in all her popular bliss. But I'm…I'm not that girl." I sighed and a wave of guilt filled Vlad, I saw it. I didn't mean for him to pity me. "Just having you in my life, even an immortal life, is better than anything you could ever give her. And for that I am eternally grateful."
"Why me?" He whispered softly. I looked up at him in shock.
"Why not you? You are amazing. You're funny, sweet, cute, and you know who I am. You're everything I want, and need. I have tried millions of times to get over you and each and every time I fall back in love with you over and over again. I'm addicted to you, Vlad; I can't ever be away from you."
He leaned forward, like he was about to step closer to me and fill the gap, but didn't and stood normally again.
"See, you are afraid to even hug me now. Don't lie I know you wanted to."
He turned his head away and flashed his eyes back to me again. "I did. I just… I don't know."
"You don't know? You have almost kissed me, what? Over five times? You have wanted to kiss me for a long time, you always hug me, and you always hold my hand. Just this month you have kissed my cheek twice. You are always smiling at me and don't think I can't see how warm your eyes are. I know you feel something more for me Vlad, I just don't know what. And if you knew I felt more for you then why have you been torturing me?"
"I didn't know…"
"Why when it was so obvious?"
"Maybe I did know, I just didn't ever considered it. I pushed it aside as nothing."
"Nothing, when for the past weeks every guy is begging me for dates and I refuse without another thought all for you? Why are you torturing me, Vlad?"
"Well I'm not totally happy about all of them either, Mina." His tone was bitter.
"Are…you… jealous?" I asked slowly. He bit his bottom lip; I loved it when he did that. He looked adorable. "Vlad?" I was amazed that he heard me because my voice was so soft.
"They don't know anything about you." He grumbled.
"You are jealous." He didn't answer; I walked close to him and destroyed the gaps between us. He finally looked at me and I knew he saw everything differently now. "Why would you be when I was shoving them off for you?"
He looked up at me but didn't answer. I sighed. I stepped back and let my hands slip away from his shoulders. I was at least five feet away from him by the time I stopped. He stayed as still as a statue. I lifted my hand up and I saw I was shaking. I brushed my bangs out of my eyes and behind me ear.
"I know this is a lot in one night. I'm sorry. I just… um…goodbye." I lifted off the ground and flew off in the direction of home. I heard him call me softly, trying not to wake up anyone. I kept flying even though I knew he tried to fly after me. He can only hover since he is only half vampire, I can fully fly. By the time I was nearly two stories high I was starting to stumble.
I eventually made my way to my roof near my window. When I landed on the tile roofing I gasped as flying was still very new to me and that was my first long distance flight.
As I was on my hands and knees, taking in air into my body as I felt like the idiot that I was. Never before have I ever felt so stupid. I had planned to take it slow. Let him know my species change and after a long time of him getting used to it I would tell him my love for him. But that was gone now. He just had to seduce me into telling him I love him. When I climbed through my window I left my room as fast as I entered it. I went out into the hallway and rushed into Henry room. I jumped on the bed partially from my hurry and partially to wake him up. He didn't even budge.
"Henry!" I whispered loudly and shook him while bouncing on the bed again. He finally stirred and sat up in his pajama shorts and shirtless. He normally slept like that. Most of my friends at school were jealous that I constantly was able to see him shirtless when he was my cousin and it was sick.
"What?" He asked in confusion and frustration. He picked up his clock and squinted at the time. "It's almost two in the morning!"
"Vlad knows!" I snapped at him to shut him up.
"What?" He rubbed his eyes and opened them wide at me.
"He knows I'm a vampire! And I accidently told him I love him!" He sat up all the way and his face dropped.
"You what?" He screamed, I covered his mouth and watched the hallway. No one woke up. McMillans sleep way too deeply. He mumbled under my hand and I turned back to explain.
"He was hugging me because he felt bad that I was a vampire. And he… he… seduced me into telling him." Henry snorted as he chuckled after his shock subsided.
"Vlad can seduce?" He laughed and I shot him a dirty look. "Okay, I'm done. Sorry. So what? You just said it and that's it?"
"No he was in shock for a while and I just went on. And then I had to be a retard and talk about Meredith and I spilled everything. I made myself look like a total idiot. I flew away before anything could get any worse. I just needed to tell you because if anyone knows him better than me it would be you. So I have no idea what the hell he is thinking and I feel like the stupidest girl in all of Bathory history!"
"Mina, calm down. I bet he just needs to think it out. I mean the guy has to deal with knowing that he is always risking your life. Then he finds out he lead to you being a vampire which he never wanted in the first place. And then you tell him you love him. It's a lot to take in at two in the morning."
"Henry…" He leaned in while I stared at my hands on my lap. "I'm scared." I whispered. And to my surprise Henry leaned over and hugged me.
"Don't worry. I'll talk to him tomorrow, okay? Get some sleep, you nocturnal parasite." He grinned to show he was teasing and I smiled. I stood and sulked back into my room after saying good night, or morning whichever you prefer. I fell on my bed and slowly fell into a troubled sleep.
Me: yeah, I know it was fast. But the phrase "like a band-aid" seemed right… So now Vlad knows everything…..FINALLY! aren't you proud of Mina?!
Mina: *glares* I hate you…
Me: why?
Mina: you made me so weak in control with HIM! Its not fair!
Me: boo bloody hoo
Mina: just review *walks away and blushes madly*
Me: *laughs*