They kissed for a few more minutes and
then broke apart.
"Better?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah. Let me check on that bite, last
thing needed is it getting infected."
They sat on the bed and Merton looked the bite
over. It had stopped bleeding and was
healing nicely; by the next night all that would remain
was a tender little red spot. Merton let Tommy know what it looked
like and then got up to wipe off any blood on his mouth he had missed.
He had a tissue in hand when he saw
himself in the mirror.
Dropping the tissue, it wasn't needed anyway;
Merton grabbed the journal and began to
write.
"What exactly is that?" Tommy asked.
"Just writing down what's been happening to
me since I was turned. It's kinda like the
journal I keep on you."
Tommy nodded. "What are you putting
in?"
"Currently, the fact that I have a
reflection. But so far it's about my abilities
and thoughts."
Tommy nodded again and let him write.
After a few minutes, Merton put down the
journal and the two set about hiding Merton's
stuff. The last thing either of them needed or
wanted was Tommy's parents to come in and ask what he was doing with
it.
"I'm gonna go see if anyone's downstairs,
we need to find you a place, it's too
dangerous here." Tommy said, opening the door.
Merton nodded in agreement and Tommy went
downstairs. He returned ten minutes later
and said that Dean was the only one in the house. The two
then as quietly and quickly as they could sneaked downstairs, which
for Merton was easy, he literally didn't make a sound in any way,
but Tommy stumbled on the rug his mom kept at the bottom of the
staircase, which resulted in him staggering
slightly and bumping into the wall with his
shoulder.
Both boys winced at the noise and
flinched when Dean asked if that
was Tommy.
"Um, yeah." Tommy said, poking his
head in to the living room.
"Could you get me a drink please?"
"Uh, sure Dean."
Dean turned back to the TV and Tommy motioned
for Merton to cross to the other side. Tommy
got Dean his drink and the two left as fast as they
could.
The two were a few blocks away when they
realized that they could have just gone
down the tree and saved themselves the trouble and
that they really shouldn't be out in the open like this. They moved
to the shadows and began to softly talk about what to find Merton.
