A/N: Chapter Three is heerrrreee! I'm thinking about boosting the rating up to M on this story. I just realized how much "content" (if you know what I mean) there is in this story. Read this chapter, and know that most of the chapters will have sexual content like this one does. In your review, if you could just say plainly whether you think I should change it or not, it would be greatly appreciated.
And for those of you that aren't a fan of slash, I really hope that eventually you will quit thinking of it as "slash". Because really it isn't. Vampires don't really have a sex…their not homosexual or heterosexual…they're just sexual. But if you're still narrow minded enough to not be able to look past that, don't read it.
Disclaimer: I own Mae. He is mine and not yours. The rest belong to their respected owners.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: CHAPTER THREE
Sora's hands balled in to fists that he rested at his sides. There was a bit of sweat gracing his upper lip, and his eyes glanced nervously around the school campus, searching for her familiar face.
He knew she was angry at how he had acted. Hell, he was angry about how he had acted. But he couldn't take that back, not now. He knew she didn't want him. She wanted Mae, only Mae, that skinny boy with weird clothes. Like an angel, she'd said, but to Sora he was far from it.
He knew that he was probably the last person on earth Kairi would like to see on this early Friday morning, but he had to take his chances with that. If he didn't do this now, he might never have the chance again.
He saw her, talking to some other girls, leaning against the pillar in the front of the school. She looked so innocent and beautiful in her jeans and white sweater, she looked so perfect when she smiled and showed all of her perfectly alligned teeth. For a moment, Sora wondered what those teeth tasted like.
He approached her quickly, wanting to get it overwith. She either didn't see him or pretended not to, as she didn't look up the entire time he was coming towards her until he was two feet away.
She looked up, a questioning look on her face. The other girls also studied him, and one of them giggled.
"Um," He sputtered, "Kairi? Can I talk to you…for a minute?"
He felt so stupid as she looked at him like she didn't even know who he was, like he was some parasite that she deeply wanted to be rid of. The other girls whispered amoungst themselves and swiftly walked away.
She turned towards him, her books clutched to her chest, looking particularly annoyed. "What?" she asked sharply. "What do you want?"
Sora bit his bottom lip and thought seriously about forgetting it and walking away. She obviously wanted nothing to do with him, otherwise she wouldn't be acting like this. It was a waste of his time, and just an excuse for him to get himself hurt, but he figured he should take it like a man this time.
"I was wondering if you'd go out with me."
Kairi stared at him with big, blank eyes, like he had just spit out words that were completely incomprehensible. He figured she would scream. "NO!" and run off to catch up with her friends, or perhaps roll her eyes and say, "Maybe in your dreams."
But she said none of that, only looked at him as if he were insane.
Finally, she opened her mouth and slowly said, "You mean, as in, me be your girlfriend?"
Her voice was not cold, but nor was it happy or warm or cheerful. He wondered what went on in the mind of the woman and why it was so damn confusing.
Sora nodded. "Yeah." He said.
Kairi looked at him for a moment and then her face broke out in a smile. She put her hand on his shoulder and said, "You're a really cool guy and all, but I have feelings for someone else. Sorry."
And she walked away, but he watched her back until she turned around the corner of the building and was out of his sight. He couldn't believe his ears.
What had she just said? Feelings for someone else? Like Mae, perhaps? Sora could hardly stand just thinking about that name, that name that was keeping him from his happiness, keeping him from the only girl that could make him smile.
He shoved his hands into the pockets of his jeans as the people filed past him, on their way to first period. Sora knew Riku would be wondering where he was, but at that point nothing else mattered except what he couldn't have, what was just out of his grasp.
The tardy bell rang, and still he stood in the slightly cold August air, letting the wind whip against him and through his thin track jacket, and he almost wished it would make him sick.
Without even thinking, he walked down the road, not knowing where he was headed, away from school, and away from the hurt that came along with it.
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Sora came back to school at lunch after wandering around town for several hours. He had done a lot of thinking, about Kairi, the dream about Cloud, about Riku and Mae, and about himself.
He figured the whole Kairi ordeal was pretty pointless. Why get all pissed off if someone just downright doesn't want to date you? He couldn't make Kairi like him. He couldn't make anything happen at all.
It was a waste of time.
After walking past shopping centers, fast food resteraunts, and Cul de Sacs, he realized that skipping school was a waste of time as well. A waste of time that would cause his parents to be very pissed at him.
He walked back slowly, keeping an eye on the time as the cars on the highway zoomed past. He kept an eye on his digital watch so that he would make it back by lunchtime. Then he'd explain to Riku what had happened and why, and perhaps have a word with Kairi.
He shook his head as that idea came to him. Have a word with her? What would you say to her? What's left to say?
So when he stepped onto the school campus, comepletely unnoticed by some of his peers he passed, he realized he did have something to say to Kairi. In fact, he had a hell of a lot to say to her, starting with at what point did she hate him so much, and what did Mae have that he hadn't? Bad clothes? Stringy hair?
He walked inside to the lunchroom, where Riku and Tidus were eating alone, Kairi and Aerith and her group of friends nowhere in sight.
Sora sat down beside Riku, seeing the shocked look on Tidus' face. "How ya doing, buddy? Just decide to waltz right on in?" he asked sarcastically, shoving Sora's shoulder from across the table.
Sora grinned and looked to Riku, who was eating his burger silently. "Yeah, I asked Kairi out this morning and got turned down, so I decided to take a walk." Sora explained, reaching over to steal Riku's fries.
Riku looked at him with a slightly pissed off smirk. "Really? That's really unhealthy, Sora. Maybe you should just face it that she hates you." He commented.
What was he meaning by that? Sora wondered, feeling a little pissed off at the comment himself. "I was just pissed, is all." He said, folding his hands over his chest.
"Sometimes you put her before anyone else, including your best friends." Riku snapped, grabbing his trash, and leaving the table. Sora exhaled and glanced at Tidus, who was still wide eyed, and shrugged. "Wonder what's got his panties in a wad." Tidus laughed, and Sora also left the table, in the opposite direction.
Sora walked out into the courtyard, where he found Kairi easily, standing against the same tree with a bottle of Dr. Pepper clutched in her hand, with her friends surrounding her, including a detatched looking Mae, who wasn't laughing at the girl's jokes, and was looking around the courtyard, as if he wished with all his heart that he were somewhere else.
Sora walked over to her, not caring about the stares from the group of giggling girls, or the nasty words that they would probably whisper to each other. He didn't care that Mae saw him do this, the guy that he was losing Kairi to. He didn't care that he was the last person Kairi wanted to see right then, or to what level she would hate him afterwards.
He took a deep breath, ignoring the look of annoyance on Kairi's face, and said, "I want to know why you won't go out with me. What is it that I did that changed your mind?"
Kairi's jaw dropped just slightly. "Who said I was ever going to go out with you?" She spat, looking highly annoyed to the point of just walking off. Not that Sora was going to let her.
"You did. The way you acted. Then after you met pretty boy over here you didn't look at me the same." He said, gesturing to Mae, who's head was tilted to him slightly, with eyes that were studying him with only mild interest.
"It wasn't Mae!" Kairi said, shaking her head furiously. Sora could hear the chorus of the other girl's whispers behind him, but he was so angry he couldn't have cared less.
"It was you, Sora! You're the one that acted like you were my jealous boyfriend when I talked about him! I never said anything about me wanting to go out with Mae! You took it upon yourself to be an asshole about it!" Kairi yelled, pointing her finger accusingly at him.
Sora's heart seemed to be one hundred pounds in his chest. He took one look at her furiously indifferent face and felt a blush spread across his cheeks. He had just made a scene when it was his own fault in the first place, yet he had been to stupid to see that. Riku was right.
"I'm sorry to have wasted your time." He said softly, so that he was almost sure Kairi was the only one that had heard, and walked away.
Riku was back at the table when he went back into the lunchroom. He took a seat beside him, running his hands shakily through his hair, feeling humiliated and guilty and praying that Riku of all people wouldn't be angry with him anymore.
"I'm sorry, man. I've been a jerk today, and I've been really stupid about the whole Kairi thing." He said, his voice breaking a little as he voiced her name.
Riku looked at him with cold eyes. "Oh. You're sorry. I suppose this is the part where I should forgive you."
Sora looked at his best friend, bewildered at the way he was acting. What did he have to be angry with him about? "What's your problem?" Sora said quickly.
Riku looked as if he were about to pound his face in, then his look softened and he gazed down at the table as if the wood work was particularly interesting. "I don't know. I overreacted. Sorry." His voice sounded different, more sad, and definitely not Riku. Sora wondered what was really on his mind.
Sora patted his shoulder as the bell rang, and the world began turning once again.
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Kairi was so furious at what Sora had done. She felt as if he were trying to ruin her life. He was so jealous about Mae that he couldn't see two feet in front of him.
And in her heart, she knew nothing was going to happen between them anyway. Mae hadn't been the person she thought he was going to be. He wasn't outgoing or talkative or willing to be her friend. In fact, he acted as if she were a nuisance, and he almost seemed to be avoiding her.
Which absolutely infuriated her, of course. If Mae wasn't going to have her, then she would go out and find someone else that would. Which is why when her friend Rinoa had asked her to come to a party with her, she had instantly agreed. She needed something to get her mind off things.
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Little did she know that Mae was incredibly thirsty that night. He hadn't fed in days, since the girl in the park, and he knew that tonight was the night he would have to feed, whether he liked it or not.
Parties where good places to find the perfect kill. There were so many people that no one would notice if two figures wandered off together, and it would probably be hours later that anyone would notice that they never came back.
Mae dressed casually in a tight black t-shirt and dark jeans, pulled his hair back, so that he wouldn't stand out so much, and hardly anyone would remember him after the party, let alone suspect him of anything.
His mother was at the kitchen table at 8:30, just as Mae was about to sneak out of the house. His mother almost always went to bed at 8:00, because the shift she worked at the hospital called her in at 3:00 in the morning.
"Mae, honey, where are you going?" She asked, folding the paper she had been looking at and gazing at him over the rims of her silver eyeglasses.
Mae stumbled over his words as he said, "J-just out with some friend's for a while. I'll be back by midnight, promise."
His mother smiled. "I was just getting off to bed." She said, getting up, her hair falling long and straight like an angel's around her aging face. "I'll pretend I didn't see you go, in case your sister wants to tag along." She winked at him and carried on up the narrow staircase.
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To be truthful, Mae downright hated parties. He hated the loud music, the trashing of the houses they were held in, the skanky girls and the smeared makeup boys thrashing around like obnoxious, horny animals in a zoo.
He only went to them when he was either begged to go, or his sister didn't want to go alone. That was before he had turned into a vampire. Now he went to parties for survival.
He scanned this certain party for someone partially alone, so that no friends would feel the need to tag along as he lured them out. He wanted to try someone male this time, since the last female had made him feel so guilty. He looked for a boy that fit his needs, and his eyes rested on a boy with black hair that was short in the back and long in the front, who had sharp features and skin tight black pants and a wife beater. He was wearing eye makeup and was standing by himself against the wall. There was a girl next to him that was trying to keep his attention by rubbing his arm, but he looked comepletely bored with her.
As Mae began to advance on the boy, someone small and thin slammed into him, knocking the cup of beer out of his hand and into the floor, where it was stepped on and trampled.
"Excuse me!" the girl said, and as he looked down to chew her out for soaking him in his own warm beer, he realized it was the last person on earth he wanted to see. It was Kairi.
"Mae!" She said, grinning slightly. "I didn't expect to see you here!" Mae grinned back, but secretly hope she had lost interest in him and would go away. To his disappointment, she appeared to be by herself and not in any hurry to leave.
"Would you like to go on a walk with me?" She asked, yelling in an attempt to be heard over the music. A group of people made their way into the room, causing Kairi to step closer to Mae, almost touching the front of his chest, where he could feel her breath against him. A vein was pulsing in her neck, and he felt himself stiffen. He could not and would not go anywhere with her. Not if she wanted to live.
"Actually, I was looking for someone. But hey, I'll see you at school!" he yelled back to her, waving and attempting to walk away, back towards the boy who still stood against the wall, looking bored and as if he were about to leave.
Unfortunately, he felt her small hand fasten around his wrist. Her face looked disappointed at his decline, almost upset. "Please?" She yelled.
Mae knew that if he went on a walk with her, the boy would be gone by the time he returned. He already looked bored out of his mind now. He also knew that if he went on a walk with her, she would end up dead in some bushes just like the last girl. He had to get rid of her now, no matter how bad her feelings would be hurt.
"I need to go." He yelled, yanking his arm away. But he froze as he heard her call, "I knew you hated me. I'm sorry I've been bothering you. I'll leave you alone from now on." The statement seemed to break his heart in two. The poor girl had lost another perfectly good boy in an attempt to get his own attention for just a moment, and now he too was leaving her. Despite his mind desperately screaming for him not to turn back, he found himself grabbing her hand and leading her towards the door.
The minute they stepped out into the cool night air, she yanked her hand out of his grasp. Mae sighed and said, "Kairi, I do like you. I was just looking for someone. I'll go on a walk with you, that was selfish of me."
Kairi looked up at him with those large, irresistably blue eyes and said, "I just feel like I've been bothering you ever since you saved me that night. I only wanted to thank you for what you did." Her voice was so quiet, and he felt so terrible for hurting her that as they walked through the busy Saturday crowd in the street, he reached for her hand and fit his hand perfectly in hers.
Kairi grinned despite herself as he said, "You haven't bothered me, Kairi. I've just had a bad week."
They walked past the bench where they had first met, but neither of them mentioned it. They walked into the park not far from it, past the still lake with a small island in the middle where the ducks and geese where nestling their young protectively beneath their wings.
Kairi suddenly dragged Mae about three feet from the edge of the lake and pulled him down next to her, still having a grip on his hand, and forced him to lie on his back. The moon was full up above them, and the air was cool as it blew up their shirts.
Kairi couldn't think of anything to say, but the silence wasn't awkward, simply there. Finally, Mae laughed and said, "We're probably laying in a nice pleasant pile of goose shit."
Kairi giggled and scooted closer to him, and Mae felt the heat from her body making all his senses heighten. I must control myself, he thought. I will not hurt her, not for anything.
The ducks were all chattering amoungst themselves, and the breeze got stronger, and the night got colder. Mae pulled Kairi close to his chest and put her small body inside his oversized jacket. She spread her fingers across his chest, marvelling at the beauty that she was so close to, the beautiful boy that was keeping her warm.
Without thinking, she put her leg in between his, not realizing the torture he was suffering. Not only was fighting the urge to drink from her, but also the urge to just tear her clothes off. After all, he was sixteen.
Kairi was fighting a similar urge. He was the most gorgeous thing she had ever seen, and was holding her in such an irresistable way that she was battling her morals not to just plant one on him. Finally, after several minutes of fighting with her concience, she rolled on top of Mae, stared into the crystal blue eyes, and lowered her lips to his.
The kiss immediately became more than she had planned. She had never kissed a boy before, and was definitely surprised at how funny another mouth tasted. She expected something different, maybe like peppermint or chocolate, definitely not a mouth that tasted just like hers.
However, Mae's mouth was warm and wet, and his kiss was slow and soft, and she shuddered as she felt him deepen it, and push her into the ground, so that she was on her back and he on his side, nearly on top of her. His mouth lowered itself and went to her neck, and she heard herself whimpering despite herself.
She wasn't aware of Mae losing his control over his actions, of how vampire instict to kill was stronger than their sexual drive. Vampires didn't need sex at all, just their hunger for blood was the most sensual thing in the world to them.
He put his lips to the skin of her throat, feeling her swallow and pant as her rised and fell. The skin was so warm that Mae could almost feel the warm, thick blood in his mouth like liquid gold. He bared his fangs and pressed the tips to her thoat, feeling her breath quicken, before he threw himself off on her body.
He lay beside her, and neither of them said a word for what seemed like an eternity. He could still hear heavy breathing, although he wasn't sure if it was hers or his, or both. He had almost killed her, almost tore open her throat and felt her blood pour into his mouth, and felt her pulse until it would shudder to a stop, just like the other girl's had. But somehow he had tore himself away, even though he still felt the urge to do it, and he definitely had the strength and speed to. Kairi was still in danger, yet she had no idea.
"Kairi," he breathed, not looking at her. "You have to listen to me."
"Alright." She whimpered, still breathing heavily as well.
"This is going to hurt your feelings, but I don't want you to take it personally. It's me, not you." He said, hoisting himself up onto his knees. He looked down at the girl as she gazed up at him, already a look of hurt on her face.
"I need you to promise me that you'll stay away from me. I know this doesn't make sense, but I need you to. I'm dangerous. If you keep coming to me, you will end up getting hurt." Tears welled up in Kairi's eyes, and she still lay on her back with her small chest heaving up and down.
"I don't want to hurt you. But I will if I ever see you again." He said, and with that, he stood up and walked out of the park, back to the party, and mercilessly murdered the boy who was still standing against the wall, who never suspected a thing.
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You know, I've been watching my hits, and I have 160, but only 16 reviews. Hmm. I'm thinking if everyone who read this would review, whether it be positive or not…Mel would be one happy girl.
-Mel