~The Realization~

Kim's POV:

"Probably because she was thinking about me."

So, yeah I don't really know what I was thinking when I drew the picture. This dude must have mind reading or something to know what I was thinking if I seriously don't know. Cat and I turn at the exact time towards the basement steps. Garret stands as the voice's owner, most likely heard what we said before all this. "How do you know what she was thinking?" Cat asks in my defense. Since Jack has come into this town she has been inching away from TEAM GARRET to TEAM JACK. She seriously called them that. This is not the Twilight saga but she shook her head. "Mind reading, a weird fact to though. Dragons have had it for over 3 thousand years."

"Yeah like that's true." Another voice says to our left diagonal. Cat and I turn again to just see plain darkness. "Who's there?" I growl out. Mostly because I'm sick of this bullshit and it's a full moon. That I forgot about. The creature slowly inches his way out. "Kimmy, you should know by now. You were thinking of me while you were drawing that picture of yours." He's floating in mid-air, with no wings in sight. "She was not." Garret yells. "Garret, how would you know? Dragons didn't even have mind reading for 3 thousand years; the vampires gave it to them right before the war. So that means it has lasted a thousand years to this day." Jack is now hissing with his fang sharp and Garret is now practically blow fire through his nostrils, making me feel I should break it up. It is a full moon; I can get them away easier. "How'd you know all that?" "I've been studying he way of us 'creatures' for five hundred years." "Smart-ass." Garret mumbles. "I've been called much worse."

They are so close they can each hit one another. Garret can use his tail, and Jack and use his wings. I get up so quickly I don't even know what to say when I get where I want to be. I am now between them; feeling like one is thinking I'm protecting one from the other. "Stop before this gets out of hand, you both know what happened last night." Jack doesn't move a muscle while Garret looks out the window. Cat looks at me as I look at her. "Cat you take Garret up stairs. I'll talk to Jack."

Garret looks at me with a look, Cat gives me a smile and whispers 'Don't stay down here too long, the sun is going down quick. Who knows what happens when you put a werewolf and vampire together on a full moon.' She then takes Garret upstairs. As I turn my head, she is right. The full moon is just barely rising behind the trees. My eyes meet Jack's as he knows what I was looking at. Not one of us speaks a word-maybe because we know what's going to happen we just don't want to leave each other. We just sit on my mattress looking at something else than anything but each other.

Footsteps come down the stairs. Thinking it's Cat I just stay put, Jack does the same. Instead my dad comes down. Jack didn't know so he doesn't move like my dad won't see him. "Kim, I'm going to drive…" My dad stands at the foot of the stairs speechless. He opens his mouth to say something but he doesn't say anything. Jack has a sleeveless shirt on-revealing all his tattoos and scars. There's red stuff on his jeans, most likely human blood. Jack is that kind of vampire who does anything he wants. He's barefooted too which is like the worst. Most of all, me and Jack's hands are intertwined.

He opens his mouth again but he doesn't know what to say. For defense he did marry another 'creature' so he can't say I can't date another. He leans against the wall trying to figure this out. "Kim will you please come into the other room, we need to talk." When your parent says that it's like a life or death situation, also when you lie that's the worst. He watches me as I walk into the guest bedroom. I sit on the bed just as he gives Jack a look of 'You keep your ass right there in that damn seat or so help me I will hunt you down and beat your ass'. Once he walks in and sits down he starts on a very rough start…..for me at least. "Kim I did marry another 'creature' but this is just….." "Dad I know but just think about it. Cat knows how much I like him and how much he likes me." "I at least need to speak with him. Can you switch places with him?" "Sure, I'll be right back."

I get up and walk to my room. Jack surprisingly has his as still in that damn seat. He isn't even looking up as if my dad will decline his presence. I sit down next to him that makes the bed squeak. His eyes look my way. "Is he going to beat my ass?" I didn't think he would ask that, less than give the offer to. "No he just wants to talk." "I better get ready then." He leans down near the blood stain. Once he get back up it's gone. "How'd you do that?" "Sometimes I drink the color red, it's weird I know." "I think it's cool." He blushes a bright red on his white skin. His hands make an orb that makes red converse then another for a long sleeve black shirt. He laces the converse on his feet, slip on the shirt, he then ruffles his hair to hide the neck tattoos and his ears pierced. Instead of giving me a risky kiss on the lips he smacks one on my cheek. When he's out of the room I just want to hear their conversation badly. My ears twitch.

Jack's POV:

When she leaves the room her dad gives me a look. His mouth says 'She'll be back in a few minutes'. His eyes then disagree and say 'You keep your ass right there in that damn seat or so help me I will hunt you down and beat your ass'. So what do you think the vampire king would do? I think he would kill his ass then eat him whole. Instead I listen to his command and stay put. Not because I have nowhere else to go or I'm full. I did because I actually want a relationship with Kim. So I wait. I don't bother to look up anywhere, mostly because he may be right there watching me. My hand makes contact with my new scar on my neck. Gregg and Jason hurt me. Yeah I thought they obeyed me. But no they said I have to be ready for everything. Footsteps come my way but I'm not sure who it is so I keep my head down. Bare feet walk in on the fluffy carpet. I'm still not looking up.

She sits down as the bed springs squeak. My eyes look her way but I don't move at all. "Is he going to beat my ass?" My voice sounds scared like a little boy. She looks surprised I would say that or even think about it. "No he just wants to talk." What kind of dumbass am I? "I better get ready then." I lean down and suck of the blood stain. Yeah I drink the color red. "How'd you do that?" "Sometimes I drink the color red, it's weird I know." She gives me a nice smile. "I think it's cool." My face heats up like a big red light. Still blushing, I make red converse and a long sleeve black shirt. Looks good if you ask me. I lace up my converse and put on that shirt, and then I ruffle my hair to try to hide my neck tattoos and my pierced ears. I give Kim a kiss on the cheek, just in case he's watching. Before I walk through that door I breathe through nose and out my mouth.

Here we go.

When I walk in he's sitting in a fancy designed chair, most likely passed down from generations. He points to another fancy chair just not as fancy. He leans forward with his elbows on his knees. "So how long you've been alive?" Now this is getting me nervous. He didn't ask are you Kim's age or how old are you he asked how long have you been alive! "A thousand years, counting how long I lived as a human." "Got a family?" He asked that like I'm cheating on Kim. Which I didn't. Is it hot in here or is it just me? "Kind of, vampire adopted me. Don't have a motherly figure though." "You and Kim have something in common." He says that like I should keep talking, he talks first. "I and Bryce have been thinking about getting the Fire lion pride, Werewolf pack, Dragon tribe, and Vampire clan to make an agreement so this hatred for all these years will blow over." Did he put Vampire clan last just because he isn't fond of it? "Good idea, I'll see if the Vampire clan back home agrees." "Why not shake on it now? I've heard through some of my other friends from other tribes are saying you are the new vampire king. Seems like you control everything that goes on in the Vampire clan." "Well I will. My father figure is the vampire king so I can't take over until he's passed." "He is?" "Yeah, you sound surprised don't you know he is?" "Jack there hasn't been a vampire king since 13 thousand years ago. He was some guy named Joseph-" "What!" I am standing up now in shock, I didn't even let him finish. He has lied to me since I got bitten. It's unbelievable how he lied to me for all my life. My relaxed hands turn into fists. "Mr. Crawford there's something I have to do." "Where you going?" he and Kim says at the same time as I am already halfway up the stairs. "To get the crown that's mine."