Chapterrrrrrrr THIRTEEN!!
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Now back to the more important chain of events unfolding in front of us...
The whole concept shocked me to the bone.
The last person I had kissed was Louis, and that had been long before I even knew vampires existed.
After I realized this I kissed Victor more feverishly, not holding back. We went on like this for a while, but nothing more than kissing happened; we knew our limits. We also knew that we were currently sitting in a house full of vampires who could tell exactly what we were doing and what was going through our minds while we were doing it.
The next moment, I heard Edward leave his and Bella's room, and I heard him say something quietly to Christian. And then I heard the knock on the door, interrupting us.
"I- uh... hold on a minute!" I yelped, pushing Victor away and jumping up, straightening my hair and shirt. I hissed at Victor to go out on the deck and pretend that he had been there the whole time, "Okay! I'm done, come in." I was in a flash on one of my couches, pretending to read a book which I realized at the last moment was upside down, so I flipped it just as Edward turned the doorknob.
Edward opened the door a crack and put his head in, "Is everything okay in here?"
Victor walked in the door, back into my room as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, as if there hadn't been two almost-strangers that had just started talking and then started kissing at all. I inwardly scowled at his ability to be inconspicuous.
"Everything's fine. Victor is just watching for any more lone dart-with-conspiracy-note shooters. We're okay in here... though, I am a bit thirsty." I wanted out of this room, I turned to Victor, "Am I allowed out of the room yet? Or is there a scary new-vampire killer waiting out there in the hall, ready to shoot me with a dart with another conspiratorial note attached?"
He laughed in spite of me mocking him, "Yes, you are allowed out. I'm sorry, but I will have to accompany you." he didn't look sorry at all. I frowned.
"Do you want Alice or Rosalie to go with you?" Edward asked. Not to me, he didn't ask me, he asked my babysitter. Why would he ever ask me, the one who actually needed to go? No. Whay would he ever do that.
"No, we'll go alone." said Victor. My frown deepened.
"Okay, well, I'll see you two later then." Edward smiled politely and left the room.
"What the hell?" was all I said as soon as I was sure that Edward was out of hearing distance, and I kept my thoughts to a minimum.
"What the hell, what?" asked Victor, turning away, once again, as if nobody had been kissing in here for quite a long time.
"You know what I mean. You kissed me!" I hissed.
"I do believe that it was you who did most of the kissing, and that you, my dear, are delusional." he chuckled.
"Why you hypocritical little..." I trailed off, and calmed down, "I most defiantly did not kiss you. I was in the middle of a sentence, and your lips cut me off!"
"Okay, maybe I helped, but it was mostly you. Here, you'll need shoes." he said as he handed me my blue shoes, I paused a moment, looking at them, remembering Louis, but then I remembered Victor and got back into the conversation.
"Oh, no! I did not! And I'm not wearing those."
"Oh, yes! You did! Why not?"
"Because those aren't my hunting shoes." I pouted.
"Shall we go?" asked Victor, offering his arm for me to take.
"Shall we go where?" I gave Victor my best incredulous look; the one that I knew was good, because I had practiced it in the mirror when I was fifteen.
"Out to dinner?" he reminded me, though really I didn't need reminding, I just didn't want to be alone with Victor any more that absolutely necessary.
"Oh, that." I was really thirsty though... "But isn't it too light out? It's almost noon?" I saw him raise his eyebrows at me, and knew that he knew I was trying to find a way out, "Fine, hold on, let me get my boots." I sighed and reached into my suitcase and revealed a pair of white hunting boots spattered with blood of various animals and mud of various places.
He took my arm and I rolled my eyes as he led me out. "You know I can walk by myself. I've been able to for almost sixteen years now."
"And I've been able to for almost three hundred and twenty years. I think I can do it better." he retorted with a smirk.
"What is it like to live for that long?" I asked.
"Boring." he laughed.
"No, seriously. What is it like?"
"It's... hard, to see everyone you begin to love just die and to know that you never can. I've had seventeen wives, all of whom I had to leave before they noticed that I was not aging at all."
"Damn."
"No pun intended, I assume."
"Huh? Oh, right... yeah no puns..." I laughed. We went on with this banter until we got to the forest and started hunting. I stopped in my tracks when I smelled a group of teenagers, maybe a year or so younger than me, in the woods with some beer and drugs.
I heard laughing, and knew that I should stop, I should have forced myself not to go after them, but I crept into the group and watched all the laughter stop and the unknowing fear set into their eyes as they one by one turned to stare at me, glittering in the now slowly lowering sun. Just then I smiled, but it was short lived, as I saw another figure approaching on their other side, Victor was now stepping into the small clearing, on their blind side, I was too busy getting a hold of Alice's premonitions and seeing it to realize that what I saw was happening in front me. Victor had one hand over one of the teenager's mouths and one holding the young boy's arms down, and then one of his friends looked his way at the sound of the rustling leaves on the ground. I saw the incomprehension in the other girl's eyes and then the fear as Victor's teeth began to sink into his skin, and then the girl let out the loudest most terrifying bloodcurdling scream I had ever heard. The rest were immediately pulled into a frenzy of panic and fear, and I smelled the fresh, warm, tempting, lovely blood and I lost control. I don't remember much of what happened next, my instincts were too much in control for consciousness to break through. All I know is that when I woke up from my trance like state of feeding, there were fifteen teenage bodies lying on the ground, little did we know at the time that there was a sixteenth hidden in the woods, bitten, but not dead.
"Oh, dear god. What have I done?" I muttered into my hands which were cupped to my mouth in horror.
Victor came to my side and knelt down, and pulled my hands from my frightened face so I could see his equally frightened one, "This is our nature, Claudia. We are supposed to do this. We are not supposed to live off of animals. Carlisle expects too much of you, darling."
"But, I'm not... I don't want to disappoint him-them. They have all taken good care of me, they took me in they told me about vampires in the first place. I can't... betray them, like this." but I knew that it was what we were supposed to do. It just felt right, tasted right. It had tasted even better than I had expected it to. It had been the best taste ever to pass through my lips.
Victor opened his mouth to say something, but closed it again; he was just as disappointed in me as I was. We sat in the silence, each pondering what would happen next, and if Edward and Alice and already known and told everyone else. We must have sat there for hours. But then a whimpering sound came from beyond the leaves in the forest. Out heads shot up and I sprang to my feet, going to investigate, though Victor tried to stop me. I thought quickly and used Edward's mind reading to see if there was anything there. There was.
There was a little girl, younger than the rest, maybe about fourteen struggling to get away all the wile in excruciating pain, I used Dominic's ability to look into the past, it was the same sensation as Alice's, except, I knew for sure that what I was seeing had happened.
"Minerva, go to bed, you stupid little..." said a boy that I recognized as the first boy to be killed.
"But I want to come, Leo! You said I could go with you and your friends this time!" said the fourteen year old girl, Minerva, who was now lying in agony in the forest.
"No, next time. Here, I'll friggin give you money. Will money help? Good god I'm not rich enough to do this every time you want to go anywhere. Here. Here it is. Happy? Now go to BED!!"
Next I saw Leo go through his bedroom window, and Minerva sneak through after him, little to his knowledge. I saw he follow him all the way to the spot where we were now, and I saw her hide in the bushes. The next thing I knew I heard the scream of the girl who saw her friend. Leo, Minerva's brother, had been bitten by Victor. I tried to block out the next few minutes, but I couldn't. I saw Victor and I massacring the children, and to my horror I saw myself bite Minerva who had tried to run away, but evidently I had not finished her off, she was still alive, and slowly turning into a vampire.
I gasped as I came out of the vision.
"What is it, Claudia?" asked Victor, worried.
"There's a little girl in there right now, turning into a vampire herself. I bit her. Oh god. Look what I have done. What do we do now?" I whimpered as Victor went into the bushes and bent down to pick up Minerva.
"We take her home."
"To her home? What, no!" I yelped.
"Not her home, yours. Ours. Lets go." Victor started to walk into the forest.
"How will we explain to... them?" Had he just said ours?
"I will. Don't you worry. Go." he nodded his head to the forest, telling me to hurry up.
I headed into the forest, dreading the return home.
So what will happen next?
Seriously, I have no clue.
Well, actually, by the time you all read this, I will have a lot of a clue, since I am writing this on November 12.
Yeah I write early.
It's called planning ahead.
Love to you all... tata.