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While we were walking, we decided that we should go to the waffle house. We stopped at a street corner, waiting for the light to change. I shivered and made Zack jump. He chuckled and took off his Avenged Sevenfold hoodie. "Stick 'em up!" I was like oh my god and started bursting out laughing. "Haha come on. Put your arms up in the air." I did what he said and he put his hoodie on me. "Thank you mommy." I said giving him a goofy smile.

We finished eating our food, paid, then left. While we were walking back to his house, we had to take Shiller Avenue again. I wasn't even thinking about a certain someone until I heard his voice.

"Why Hello Ms. Reidel." Yep. It was Jeremy. "What brings you to my humble neighborhood?"

I was getting aggravated. It was the weekend. Did he always have to bother me? "What do you want Jeremy?"

"Oh nothing, I was just wondering what you and sleepy over here were doing."

I looked at Zack and I could tell he was getting angry too. He was getting stiff and I knew this wasn't going to end well. "Look Jeremy, were just walking through, can't you just leave us alone? Were not even in school. Go play football with your buddies." I started to walk and Zack started to follow, until I got pulled back. "JEREMY LET GO OF ME!"

"No. What are you doing hanging around with a fool like this?"

"HE'S NOT A FOOL! YOU ARE!" I took my free hand and punched him where the sun don't shine. He immediately let go of me and held on to his manhood. "Well, it seems you weren't wearing your cup today, were you?" I grabbed Zack by the arm and started dragging him.

"GOD I can't stand him." Zack put his arm around me and started rubbing my shoulder.

"It's ok. You did good. I'm still waiting for you to flip out on him."

"What do you mean?"

"Ever since I started going to your school, I've noticed him bothering you."

"Yeah. Christian says the same thing." He smiled at me. He no longer had fangs and he was just staring at me. I haven't even noticed that we stopped walking. I have no clue why but I suddenly got the urge to just hug him, and of course, I uncontrollably did. He was kind of shocked at first but he finally hugged me back. I felt like we were like that for hours.

As we were hugging, I felt a vibration in his pants and it made me jump and I started laughing. He smiled and shook his head pulling out his phone to answer it. He looked at the caller ID on it and made and 'Oooo' face.

"Hello?...Oh hey what's up?...Yea I got her, she's right here….Right now?...Okay, we'll see you in like 15 minutes."

"Who was that?" I asked tugging at his sleeve.

"Oh Uhm, you'll see in a few minutes." He smiled at me.

"Uhm okay."

We walked back to his house and I went into the kitchen. I was leaning over the counter and looked out the window. My stomach was killing me due to the large number of pancakes I ate. Zack came walking in on his cell phone. "Okay, we'll see you soon." He stood next to me and leaned back on the counter and rested his head on the cabinet behind him. He put his cell phone on the counter and sighed. "Either this will make you happy, or make you wanna kill me."

"What do you mean?"

"You'll see."

"No see, that will make me wanna kill you."

"Haha what?"

"I hate when people don't tell me what's going on."

"Okay well someone's coming over to see you."

"Who?"

Then the doorbell rang and Zack smiled. "Him."

Zack went to go let in whoever it was and I stayed in the kitchen. The way they greeted each other reminded me of how my step-dad and my uncle greet each other. Loud. I heard them coming down the hall and into the kitchen. I was nervous and excited for some unknown reason. I usually hated meeting new people. First Zack came in and then this rather tall man walked in behind him. He must have been at least 6'3". He had blonde hair, a very masculine face, a scar in his left eyebrow, and high cheek bones. I had no idea who this man was. He just stood there staring at me and gave me a welcoming smile.

"I can't believe how much you have grown Jade." I was officially confused. How does he know me?

"Not to be rude but, how do you know me?" I tried to give a little smile but it wasn't really working.

"Well I'll introduce myself. My name is Victor. Victor Reidel." I couldn't really say anything. My eyes were practically bulging out of my head. I didn't know what feelings were stirring around in me. It was anger, I got over that, it wasn't necessarily happiness, I was just really confused and kind of scared.

His smile started to fade and his face grew a bit sad. "Maybe waiting 16 years wasn't a good idea." He turned around and started to leave. "NO WAIT!" I blurted out. I didn't even know where that came from. He turned back around and him and Zack stared at me. "I mean, I've just lived my whole life knowing that you were a horrible person until this morning. I need to find out the truth." His face started to grow more pleased. Zack spoke up, "How about we go sit down somewhere."

We went back into the basement and my 'father' pretty much had the same face expression that I had when I saw all the Dracula merchandise that was mutilated. "So what is it that your mother told you?"

I sat down in a chair opposite to him. Zack spread himself out on a couch in between us and just relaxed. "Well she told me that you used to beat her, that you raped her, hence I'm here, and that you didn't want anything to do with me. But Zack told me that thus guy named Robert that she married when she was 19. I'm guessing now that you came after him."

He patted Zack on the shoulder, which forced him to jump because he was sleeping. "Yes, I'm the reason that your mother is still alive. With out me, neither of you would be alive."

"Well thanks." I attempted a giggle. I didn't like the position I was in. I felt kind of uncomfortable. I had to ask him this though, "Why me though?"

He had a questionable look on his face. "What do you mean 'why you'?"

"I mean, why am I a vampire? Zack told me I have 3 other brothers, why did you pick me?"

He started to laugh, and Zack started to give a weak laugh. "We don't choose who becomes a vampire or not, it runs in your blood."

"Oh." My face turned red from the embarrassment of the stupid question.

"It's alright Jade. I didn't expect you to understand everything. Especially at first." I smiled. He was so kind to me. I have no idea how my mother could say such mean and horrible things about him.

I stood up and walked over to him. I have no idea why or how I could do this so soon, but I gave him a hug. He hugged me back immediately. I totally trusted this guy, which is another thing I didn't understand. Recently, I've been seeing and learning new things about myself everyday. We let go of each other and he looked at me. "Jade, I need to ask you something."

"Sure what is it dad?" He smiled. He almost looked like he was going to start crying or something. He looked so happy. "What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing. It's just I've waited so long to hear you call me your 'dad'." I just gave him a smile. "Any ways, the question I want to ask you is, are you willing to come back home with me?"

I was shocked. I really wanted to but then, what about Christian, Kaylee, Kristen, and Keith? And would Zack even be coming with us? I didn't really know what to say. I shot a quick glance at Zack and he was nodding his head. I looked back at my dad who had hopeful eyes. I wanted to say yes, but I also wanted to say no. I couldn't leave everyone behind. "I'm going to have to think about this one. I mean I want to but, I don't want to leave all my friends here. Even him." I said pointing to Zack. "He's like my new best friend." That made Zack smile.

"Oh don't worry, he's coming with us and you coming back home with me doesn't mean that's where you are going to permanently reside. You can come back whenever you wish."

That made things a whole lot easier on me. "Is this one of those deals that I cant tell anybody that I'm a vampire?" He shrugged.

"No that's not entirely true. You can tell a few people. Mainly people you trust. Such as your half brother, half sister, your best friend Kristen, your friend Keith."

"Whoa whoa whoa wait. How did you know about all of them?"

"I'm what you call gifted. You and Zack are as well."

I thought long and hard about the situation I was in, along with the question I was asked. I looked up at my father. "My answer to your question is yes. I will go back home with you."