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The biggest part of the car ride went on in silence. I let my thoughts run wild with everything that had happened in the past few hours, knowing that I would probably, inevitably, fall in love with another mortal. I hate this fact. I hate it because I could never give her what she wanted. A family, a husband. I couldn't give these things to her without telling her that I am a vampire. Even then, she would not believe it until she began to age and I stayed the same. I shook my head. I was simply going to have to shove my feelings aside and wait for her to make the next move.
"Chris?" she asked suddenly.
"Yes?" I kept my eyes straight ahead, on the road.
"W-What happened back there……………can we keep that-"
"My lips are sealed." I told her. I glanced at her. "If someone finds out about that, it won't be from me." She nodded and smiled a little.
"Good, because I just………"
"Didn't want people to start making assumptions and bugging you about it." I finished for her. I let a smile come across my face, which is something that I have gotten out of the habit of doing. I loved finishing other people's sentences; it amused me beyond reason.
"Yeah." She paused and looked out the window. "Uh, Chris, you do realize that you don't have your headlights on, don't you?" I nodded.
"Shit. Way to go, Khalon. Great job on keeping the vampire thing a secret from her. You drive at night without headlights. How are you going to explain that one?" My father's voice floated into my mind.
"I know. My eyes are sensitive at night. I have a rare eye disease." I lied again.
"A rare eye disease called 'vampirism.' You're an idiot, Khalon. She's going to read between the lines." My father's voice again sounded through my head.
"Shut up, Dad." I thought back.
"Oh, so you can actually see better at night then?" Amy asked. I nodded.
"Yeah."
"You must've ate a lot of carrots when you were a kid." She commented.
"Something like that." I told her as we pulled into the hotel parking lot. I turned the car off and we both sat there for a moment. My arm had long since stopped shaking, and my headache had disappeared.
"Well, thanks for the ride." She said.
"No problem." I told her. She got out of the car and I followed. I popped the trunk and grabbed my stuff and let her grab hers. She slammed the trunk shut, and I locked the car.
"I would invite you to stay in my room, but well-"
"It's all right." I cut her off. I knew what she was going to say, and there was no need for her to embarrass herself about it. "I would do the same, but well, Trish and Jay are in the room. It's bad enough having one person to listen to them." I told her. She laughed.
"That is bad. I've had to listen to that before too." She said.
"So that's where they go on the rare nights that I get a lot of sleep." I said. She laughed again.
"Well, I could reconsider if you really did want to stay the night in my room instead of having to listen to them again." She offered. I thought about it for a moment. I hadn't really planned on sleeping anyways, and if I stayed with her, I would definitely be tempted away from what I had planned on doing tonight. I wound up shrugging.
"I'll only stay if you want me to." I told her. She nodded.
"I want you to stay. Glen has been acting weird around me lately…………I don't really want to be alone." She told me.
"Fine." I said. We both ventured to where the room was, and I unlocked the door. It was a single-bed room, like I had feared. I walked in and held the door for her to get her stuff inside.
"I'm sorry about it only being one bed, I think that we're both old enough to be okay with sharing a bed, don't you?" she asked.
"That's a lot of faith that you're putting in me." I joked. I put my stuff down by the T.V. "Also, um, I like to randomly get up during the night and walk around. I don't sleep as well as I used to. If you wake up and I'm gone, don't think that aliens abducted me or something."
"All right." She said. She went into the bathroom and changed into some shorts and a baggy t-shirt, and climbed into bed. I sat in the chair by the window, looking out at the city before me.
"Do you ever sleep?" she asked. I turned to look at her.
"Yes, not much, but I do." I shrugged. "I haven't slept much since my daughter died." She nodded. "Go to sleep, Amy. I'll be here when you wake up." I promised. She fell asleep soon after, and I left the hotel.
Most of the time, on these long walks that I like to take, I usually find the kind of people that I enjoy drinking blood from. These people, I usually don't stop drinking from. I simply drink them dry and leave them dead. These people are the people who are burglars, rapists, and murderers.
The people who deserve to die.
Tonight is no exception. I find my soon to be victim in an alley talking to a little kid, which I find to be extremely strange, given the late hour, but not as strange, once I get close enough to hear what they are saying.
"You want to see your mom again, don't you?" A man was asking a little boy. The little boy, scared shitless was nodding his head.
"Then you'd better do what I ask." The man said. The man knelt down to where he was eye level with the boy. I knew what he was going to do to the boy, and I wasn't about to let it happen. I tapped the guy on the shoulder.
"Why don't you try me on for size?" I ask him. The man stands up and realizes a little too late that he is still much shorter than I am. I grab him and throw him up against the opposite wall of the alley. I turn to the little kid.
"Do you know how to get home?" I ask him. The kid nods that he does. "Go home, go back to sleep, tell no one what you saw here." The kid nodded again and took off running. I will check on him later to make sure that he made it home all right. I turn back to the man who is groaning in pain, and pick him up by his trench coat.
"You are a very sick man, do you know that? Kidnapping a child, and then trying to use him as a sex toy?" the man is surprised that I know his intentions. I shake my head. "That is not the right thing to be doing in front of a vampire." I told him. His eyes go wide in shock. I smile and drink most of his blood quickly. I decide at the last minute to leave him alive. I quickly close the wound. I decide that I will keep an eye out in the future for him, since he is a wanderer. I want to toy with his mind a little more. He has long since passed out, so I drop him and I was about to walk away when I decided that I liked his coat.
I grabbed his coat and put it on, and continued down the alley back to the hotel.
By the time that I get back in, it is about 4:00 in the morning. Amy is still asleep. I take off the coat and lay down on top of the covers. I have drank more than I need, but I honestly don't care. The more I drink, the stronger I am.
I'm going to need to keep up my strength for this stupid job I got nominated for.
I look at Amy for a moment more before I finally fall asleep.