5.
Look at me, posting like a nice human being… I'm soooo sorry for not posting, you might have to go back and read the end of the last chapter to remember what's happening, I sure had to X'D Hope you can forgive me and welcome to my new readers.
Plan A was a no go… no matter how sweet she tried to be she couldn't get rid of all of the boys at once. So plan B now had to be set in action.
At the moment she was sitting at a railing with Laddie, Marko and Paul, waiting for David and Dwayne to come back from a meeting with Max. Paul was high, talking to himself about cats and what not. Marko and Laddie were playing Rock, paper, scissors' so no one was paying her all the much attention. She eyed a big group of people coming their way, probably tourists, and figured this was her chance to initiate plan B. Waiting for the right moment she discretely joined the group, letting them take her away from the vampires'.
It wasn't really a surprise that she found him on the beach, surfboard sticking out of the sand, watching the waves of the ocean. When she got closer to him she saw something that broke her heart, he was sitting at the very edge of his towel, leaving plenty of room from someone to sit down on. As if he had been waiting for her all this time. Slowly she sat down on the empty space feeling the heat of his body on her cold, dead skin.
"I'm sorry." She whispered, not knowing exactly what she was apologizing for. For not giving his shirt back? For not getting in touch with him for over a week? For letting Dwayne kiss her right in front of him? For getting him into this mess in the first place? All of them at once?
"I'm not really sure what you're apologizing for but I forgive you." He said bumping her shoulder with his, causing her to almost fall over. He was smiling, eyes sparkling, dimples showing through his newly trimmed beard.
"Me neither exactly but it felt like there was something worth apologizing for, I've only caused you trouble since, what, two weeks ago?" guilt was building up in her chest, making it ache.
"11 days, it's been 11 says since you asked to sit down on this very towel, not that I'm counting or anything. Besides I don't mind the trouble if it means I can see you now and then." he said putting his arm around her shoulders causing her head to settle down in the crook of his neck. The sound of his pulse reminding her that he was alive while she was very much dead. That he had a heart and a warmth in his chest where she only had the cold blood of a creature of the night slowly going through her blackened veins, keeping her body moving. She felt empty and lonely, she felt trapped.
She had felt like this once before, the same day she saw the red midnight sun for the very last time.
Everything had gone wrong that day, as usual she was woken from her sleep by her St. Bernardus, Ludo, trying to get onto her bed, telling her it was time for their morning walk. His big hazel eyes warming her heart more and more for every day that passed. Their walk, however, turned out to be a disaster. Eddie had stumbled over a rock in the woods and ended up with a horrible nosebleed that didn't stop for what felt like eons.
To make it worse she found out, when she came home, that one of the close friends had been shot the night before due to a deal gone wrong. The cop had showed up and now the gang her friend was to deal with blamed HER FRIEND for leading them there, while her father's gang was blaming the other gang. It was complicated and she really didn't want to know, all she cared about was the fact that her friend was dead.
Sadly it turned out that she should have cared. Because when she, against her fathers will, went out for a walk with Ludo that night, she found herself at gun point. Before she even had time to blink Ludo had jumped on the man. He might have been a big dog but not even he could survive the amount of shots that were fired into his mass. She barely even registered the pain coming from her own chest and stomach. One second she had been peacefully walking around watching her beloved nature shining in the red light of the midnight sun. The next she was lying on the ground coughing blood and crying for another lost friend.
After that she could only remember her father screaming for something and later how a tube was shoved down her throat, filling her with what she later learned was the blood of a vampire, the blood of Max.
"You remind me of my dog. His name was Ludo, you have the same hazel eyes… and you're just as warm and comforting." That was a weird thing to say but it was true, he looked at her in the same way, warming her heart for every day that passed.
"You must have an awesome dog then!" his laughter rumbled deep down in his stomach, making it impossible to not at least smile.
"He was, he saved my life more than once, let's hope you won't have to do that though."
"Yeh let's aim for that!" there was still laughter in his voice.
They just sat there in silence for a while before Will suddenly sat up a bit straighter, turning towards her with a new, even brighter, smile.
"I almost forgot! I found these the other day, look familiar?" He said holding up her worn out sneakers.
"Where? How? What?!"
"A girl was walking around with them around her neck the other night, I recognized them and got them back from her. She had the nerve to demand 15$ for them!" the mixture of pride and amusement in his eyes made it hard to decipher if he was telling the truth or not.
"Did you pay her?! Please tell me you didn't!" that was a ridicules amount of money for a pair of shoes that were practically falling apart.
"Of course not! I told her that I knew who they belonged to and who this person was related to… So she just kind of threw them at me and ran…" he made a thumbs up and handed her beloved shoes over to their rightful owner.
They didn't get to talk much further before the sound of dirt bikes reached Eddies sensitive ears.
"I think my brothers are heading this way. So I should probably go before they get here." She hated disappointing people she cared about!
"They don't particularly like me, especially your boyfriend." He said with a strained wink.
"We're not dating really… It's just very VERY complicated, I'm sorry."
"Oh… Well then I hope all that complicated stuff solves itself soon."
"yeh me too…" they got up and just stood there looking at each other.
"I need to tell you something Eddie, um… I'm leaving Santa Carla early in the morning. My family is moving to Washington and I don't want to leave them yet so… I mean we can write or call each other to keep in touch but I'm not sure if I'll ever come back here, I'm sorry." This solved so many of her problems but she felt no joy. As a matter of fact it hurt as hell.
"We can do that, I guess. I… I really hope you… um I hope you…" she didn't have time to finish that sentence, Will pulled her into his arms holding her so close that she could feel every shaky breath and every beat of his heart.
And the vibrations in the ground of the bikes getting ever closer.
"It feels like I've known you for so long! It's almost scary…" she admitted while slowly separating their bodies. Standing on her toes she put a small kiss on his forehead, looked into those warm hazel eyes one last time and walked over to the vampire bearing bikes that were now no more than 50 meters away.
She spoke to none of the guys as she got on the back of Dwayne's bike and let him take her to what they called her home.
The boys all sat down in Max's expensive couches' while Eddie made her way towards the stairs. But before she made it there was a tug on her arm, turning around she squatted down in front of Laddie.
"Are you sad?" he asked, his big green eyes looking straight into her soul.
"Yes Laddie I'm sad." Sitting down on the first step she let the little boy crawl into her lap and hug her.
"Why?" he mumbled into her shoulder.
"Because my friend is leaving and won't ever come back, that makes me very sad." She almost cried, right then and there, in front of all of the boys. Eddie almost never cried and never ever would she even think of crying when there was others around, but Will had changed something in her, he meant something to her and the fact that she knew that she meant something for him made it all so much worse. He went from just being a bag of blood to being an actual friend, a friend that if she hadn't been a vampire, she could have seen herself falling in love with.
"I'm sorry… But you know what?" he said grabbing her face, holding it at arm's length.
"What?"
"I won't ever leave you!"
And with that she let one single tear run down her cheek, where it slowed down just in time for Laddie to kiss it away.
Is Will safe now?
I think my writing has become worse since last haha, well I hope you liked it anyway and I promise it won't that all that long for the next chapter. Thanks for reading and as always; please feel free to comment.
/Linnéa 3