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Chapter 6

I Don't Love You

As Ephraim waited for me to respond back. He then started to walk closer to me until we were just inches a away from each other. And as he stared down at me I told him that I didn't love him. He then took hold both my arms, and when he grabbed me his touch was like I was set on fire. I asked him if he was coming down with a fever, I thought that maybe he wouldn't act this way if he wasn't sick. He just looked at me like he hadn't heard me. He didn't believe me, he said that my words said one thing while my eyes say another. He told me that he didn't believe that I didn't love him because all he had to do was look into my eyes to see my love for him. It was then that I knew what I must do, if he wouldn't listen to reason, then I have to make him hate me. I told him things like, he was beneath, that he was uneducated, and that I was to good to live in a tipi. Of course, it broke my heart with every word I told him, but it was for his own good. So, I just stood there fighting back the tears as I saw the hurt I had caused him. With anger he than ran as fast as he could into the forest. That night I told Joey what happen. At first he was furious, but then he saw how hurt I was that he took me in his arms to give me comfort.

"I am just so glad you can't turn him into a vampire," he said, "Not that I am also not glad that you almost killed him."

A few days have passed and Joey thought to go visit Quil, and mostly to see how Ephraim was doing. But Joey said he couldn't see his friends, he said that they were sick.

"So I was right, Ephraim was sick," I thought.


A few weeks later

Ephraim POV:

It had been a few days since I had last seen Serenity and it was something I didn't want to remember. When she told me all those things she said that day, my heart felt like it was bleeding. So to get away from her I ran and on my way home I felt something happen to me, it was like my body was being ripped apart and the next thing I knew I saw that I have paws.

It was then when I calmed down enough that the elders told me what had happened. That the story of my people turning into wolves was true. And I wasn't the only one, Quil and Levi were also effected, and the could only mean that they're cold ones in the area. So with the small pack that we had, we spent most of our time in the woods, patroling the area. And that in the weeks that have passed we've only had one visiter, Joey. As much as I wanted to know how things were going with my friend the elders sent him away.

Then one day while I was out on patrol thing happened I smelt something sweet, but not to sweet and it was mixed with vanilla. That was when I looked to my right to see something ran past me so fast I couldn't tell what it was until it slowed down, I gasp it was Serenity. And what surprised me more was that she was drinking the blood of a deer.

"Serenity is a cold one," I thought as my mind my racing so fast I couldn't keep up.

"But that is impossible, cold ones can't eat or sleep and I have seen Serenity do those things, plus her eyes aren't dark red, but the way she smells says otherwise," I thought. So when I saw my chance I pinned her to the ground, growling at her. I knew what I had to do I had to kill her, but I couldn't, no matter how bad she hurt me, I still loved her. So I change into a human in front of her, while she was still under me.

"What are you" I demanded. As I made my way towards a brush to change into some clothes and hurried backed to her.

She then goes on telling me that 400 years ago her father was human, a French lord living a normal life until he was apparently bitten and turned vampire. He then met her mother 150 years later, she was the daughter of a noble Spaniard, they met at a party in Spain and it was love at first sight. That they got together when she was still human and had both her and Joey. That they were telling the truth when they said they were died. That it was her mother giving birth to Serenity that caused her to die. But her father was a different matter, he is died, but Serenity wouldn't tell me how. The thought that that had happenedto her mother was disgusting, but now it all make since. Like why she was always by herself and why she couldn't relate to anyone and why it was just her and her brother. She did however tell me that she did have a grandmother, great aunt and uncle who were also vampires, saying that her family on her father's side were turned vampires at the same time as her father, she assured me that they still reside in France somewhere.

And after she was done telling me about her family and what she is I took her into my arms, but when I did that she stiffen a little, then she pulled away.

"Ephraim, what are you doing, I just told you what I am, we are enemies," she told me.

"But you are only half vampire, and during the time you've lived here, I have not seen you drink human blood or hurt anyone," I told her as she push back out to give us room.

"But I have hurt you," she said with guilty expression on her face.

"Because it wasn't safe for me to be around you, but now it is, I am just like you, strong and fast," I said to her.

"Ephraim, I bite you, at the party I bite you and drank your blood," Serenity said to me. I told myself that no matter what, she has done me no wrong, expect not to love me.

"If you had, I am already healed, and I don't care, if you want, you can drink my blood right now," I told her.

"Why are you doing this," she said while looking into my eyes with tears in hers.

"Because I love you and I believe we can make this work," I told her.

She then starts arguing with me saying that even though we have the same strength and speed, she told that with her being half vampire she can never age. And I told her that I couldn't either. She then tells me that we are to different species that can't work well together. My response to that, I told her that we are both still part human. I think she surrendered because the next thing I knew she threw her arms around my neck and kissed me passionately on the lips. After a moment she then pulled back.

"I am in love with you, Ephraim Black," she said with a dazed look on her face. Then she laid her head on my chest and closed her eyes, and we stayed that way for a moment.


Serenity's POV:

As I made my way back towards the manor, walking hand and hand with Ephraim I felt happy that he loves me for who I am. That he would stand by my side no matter what.

"I guess this makes Ephraim my first boyfriend," I thought happily as we finally made it to my house.

"I guess you will be going home now," I said while looking away from him.

"No, I want us to get caught up on the lost time we spent being away from each other,'' he said as he tighten his hold on me, not letting me go.

We then made our way towards the forest that was behind the garden, a very secluded place where Ephraim and I spent the rest of the evening kissing with such vigor and just being in each others arms.

To be continued...