PART 5
Connor and Jasper jumped up from the couch to stand in front of Chloe. "What makes you so sure of that?" Connor said smugly.
"Because that's 'my' girlfriend," Chase said. "And I know that she wouldn't want to become a vampire. That's not something she would do."
"I wouldn't make any assumptions until we ask her." Connor said walking towards Chase, but his father held him back.
"Now's not the time to be arguing. We have to get rid of whatever it is that's doing all this stuff, and to do that, we need everybody co-operating with eachother. No fighting." Jasper said to his son and Chase.
"Hey, I don't want to fight. All I want is Chloe, so if you would be so nice as to let me take her, everything will be fine." Chase said moving towards Chloe.
Jasper stopped him as well. "She's not going anywhere. The exchange made her extremely weak and dizzy, moving her would only make it worse."
"Well I'm not leaving her here with you." Chose stated crossing his arms over his chest, not moving.
"You're welcome to stay," Jasper said moving out of the room. "But I'm not, so kids, behave yourselves."
"We will," Connor said smiling at Chase in a smug way, and sitting down next to Chloe.
"Get away from her!" Chase growled at Connor.
"Who's going to make me? You?" He asked mockingly.
"Guys please," Chloe groaned. "Can you just shut up for a little while? I have the worst headache."
"Sorry baby," Connor said kissing her on the forehead. "Just go to sleep, you'll fell better in a little while."
"Mmmm." Chloe murmured making herself comfortable on the couch and falling asleep.
"Can I talk to you outside for a moment?" Chase asked through clenched teeth. He didn't wait for an answer he just walked out, and expected Connor to follow.
"Sure," Connor said sarcastically and followed him out the door. "What do you want?" He asked harshly when they were out of the room.
"I want to know why you're here now?" Chase said pacing. "I want to know why you're after my girlfriend-"
"My soulmate." Connor interrupted. "You seem to be forgetting that."
"And you seem to forget what you did to her." Chase said fiercely. "What you said about her. Why do you think she left in the first place?"
"If she had stuck around she would have heard the rest of the conversation. She would have heard what we were really talking about. But she ran instead, and now I'm here to take her back. She is my soulmate after all."
"What if she doesn't want to go back with you? What if she wanted to stay here?"
"She won't." Connor said shrugging his shoulders. "She's knows that she's meant to be with me, her soulmate, not some half-assed witch who doesn't know that she really wants."
"And I suppose you know what she wants." Chase asked scornfully.
"Of course I do." Connor said. "I can see into her mind. Her wants, her fears, everything she keeps from you. You can't se what I can, so you don't know." Connor started to walk away but was stopped by Chase's hand on his arm.
"This conversation isn't over."
"Yes it is. Just accept the fact that she's not yours anymore." Connor walked through the doors, back into the room to look on Chloe.
"No, you should accept what she is to me." Chase whispered looking at the closed door.
* * * * *
"I really don't think this is a good idea Thierry." Hannah said as she watched her soulmate doing some paperwork.
"What isn't a good idea?" He asked distractedly.
"Chloe, Chase Connor." Hannah said waving her arms. "The people with the names beginning with C. Come on Thierry, it wasn't a good idea putting all of them in one house together."
"Yes it was." Thierry said looking at Hannah. "Chloe has to realise who her real soulmate is. She can't pretend that he doesn't exist or things will get really bad for her."
"What do you mean?" Hannah asked, worried for the girls she had really come to like over the past year and a half.
"If a person is away from their soulmate for too long, they can go insane."
Hannah gasped and put her hand to her mouth. "But Chloe won't go insane because Connor's here now, so she should be fine."
"He's here but they aren't sharing the mental bond. That needs to be done. Otherwise all these emotions just build up and since they have no where to go, they drive the person insane."
"But what about all the other people in the world who haven't found their soulmate? Are they in danger of going insane?" Hannah asked now worried for all the other people in the world.
"No they're not, because they haven't found their soulmates, they don't know what they're missing." Thierry said smiling at her. "You don't need to burden yourself with the worlds problems Hannah. You should deal with things more close to home."
"Like the fact we have heaps of Night Worlder's in the house?" Hannah asked sweetly. "And I should worry about whether there might be a huge fight."
"Yes," Thierry said going back to his work. "You do that, and I'll finish these. I'll see you at dinner."
Hannah just shook her head and walked out the door. Thierry told her that she didn't need to worry about the world, but that was exactly what he did all the time. Well, she thought to herself, I suppose I should look around and make sure no fights are going to break out.
* * * * *
Chloe woke up with a sore neck. She had fallen asleep on the couch many times before, and she always woke up with a really sore neck. She really needed to stope doing that. Chloe rubbed the muscles in her neck, wincing slightly. As she lay their rubbing her neck, she remembered what had happened to make her sleep on the couch. Her eyes flew open at the memory and she looked right into the face of her best friend who was standing about her.
"You're awake." Sienna said smiling. "You've been asleep for six hours. I have to say that it's really boring around here without you awake."
"Sorry about that," Chloe said sarcastically sitting up on the couch still rubbing her neck. "I guess you're going to have to find your own entertainment from now on because I don't plan on being around any of you."
"Why are you being like this?" Sienna asked softly. "Connor loves you. And you're still my best friend. My being a vampire doesn't change that, nothing could change that."
"Don't be so sure of that," Chloe got up from the couch and started to walk out of the room.
"Where are you going? Sienna asked a bit alarmed.
"To my room if it's any on your business." Chloe snapped at her. "I don't need to explain everything I do to you. Our friendship was over when you became a vampire. You made that decision, it wasn't forced on you, and there's nothing you can do to change that."
Sienna glared at her. "You have no idea what I went through when I found out you were gone. My best friend had left me to deal with all this on my own. I thought that when you found out that Connor was a vampire you would let him change you. I thought that we would go through that change together. But you ran away. You were scared, so you left. Do you know how scared I was? Do you?"
Chloe looked at her and said softly. "I wasn't scared. Until I heard what Connor said I was all for being turned into a vampire, I thought I loved him, that he loved me. Do you know how much it hurt to hear him saying those things about me? I felt like I wanted to die. That pain that I felt inside." Chloe could feel the tears rolling down her face but she didn't do anything to stop them. "It felt like my heart had been ripped out and cut up. You've never felt a pain like that, so don't tell me what I should have done. I guess my father was right," Chloe laughed dryly. "I'm just like my mother." She turned away and walked quietly out of the room.
Sienna stood the looking after her and went to look for Connor. She found him talking to Christian in one of the entertainment rooms.
"Is she awake?" Connor asked as soon as he saw her.
Sienna nodded. "But she's not in there," she said when Connor started to walk away. "She went to her room. I think you should leave her for a little while. Beside, I want to ask you some questions."
"What?" Connor asked a bit impatiently.
"I just had a little chat with Chloe. I told her that she should have stuck around after that night. I accused her of being scared, thinking that was the main reason she ran away. I thought that what you said about her, was nothing. That it was something she would forgive. But she won't forgive you. And if there's one thing I know about her it's that she doesn't forgive someone when she's been hurt. Do you know why that is?"
"No," Connor snapped. "But I have a feeling you're going to tell me."
"Yeah, I'm going to tell you. When Chloe was seven, her mother ran off with another man. That in itself wasn't tragic, but what happened after was. Her father started going away on business a lot. He was away for most of the year, but when he was home, he ignored Chloe. You see Chloe is the image of her mother, and I guess her father just couldn't handle that. But then when Chloe was thirteen her father remarried, to a real bitch of a lady who already had two kids of her own. Chloe's father began to ignore her even more. He would take the others away on holidays saying that Chloe needed to work on her schoolwork, that was why she couldn't go. Then when Chloe was sixteen her father thought that it was time she had more responsibility, so he bought her, her own apartment.
"When Chloe asked him if she could stay with the family he refused, saying that he didn't want her being a bad influence on his new children. He said that she was too like her mother to be around innocent children. The man practically kicked her out. For the longest time Chloe wouldn't let anyone else in, because she was afraid of getting hurt. But then about a year before we met you she started. At first it was just little things, then it started getting bigger, she was beginning to think that she wasn't like her mother after all. I was so proud that she was getting out, that she was beginning to have fun.
"That morning I saw you two together I thought that all of Chloe's fears were finally gone. That she had finally found someone who loved her. I guess I was wrong." She looked at Connor who had tears in his eyes.
"Why didn't she tell me?" He asked, barely able to forced the words past the lump in his throat. "Why didn't I know?"
"Did you bother to find out?" Sienna asked. "I have no idea how you plan on making it right, but I think that you have your work cut out for you."
"What should I do?" Connor asked desperately.
"Let her see you, the real you. She has to know that you do love her, and that what you said that day wasn't true." Sienna said.
She had barely finished the sentence when he ran past her, looking for Chloe's room.
TBC
Sorry that I haven't posted for a while. Hope that you liked it. And please tell me if you think Chloe should get back together with Connor or stay with Chase. I'll got with what the majority wants.