The voice came from behind me, it was cold. "Hey Neko," it purred.
"AGH!" I turned to face who ever was behind me, but no one was there.
"I'm over here." The voice was next to me, this time I saw who it was. Laura.
I was very confused. "Huh? Wait, weren't you… you were…what the hell?"
"Tim, I'm not exactly human," she started to explain.
"I've noticed," I said scared. "You just moved at the speed of light! I think that qualifies as not human." I looked at her more closely. Her clothes changed as well, she wasn't wearing the same sweater and jeans when she came here. Instead, it was a dress, gothic from the looks of it; it was too dark to see any real details in it.
"Your dress is quiet lovely," I commented softly, this was a whole other side to Laura I never knew of. That's what scared me the most. How different could this "vampire" side be? The bigger question was why she wasn't draining the blood from my body.
Laura examined her outfit more closely. "Yes, I like very much. It makes me feel more of a threat."
Taking in the full image of Laura, She did look like a beautiful yet deadly demon. I shuddered at the look, "Yeah, you do. It's almost too scary."
"I know. Sexy, huh?"
"I guess…it's just a tad creepy is all." I was a little uncomfortable with her so different all of a sudden. "So, what else can you do? Fly?"
"No, I wish," Laura smiled. "But I can do this." Laura picked a rock the size of my head and crushed it into dust practically.
I stared into disbelief. "Jesus! I'm surprised you have killed me with a hug yet!"
"I really try not to. You are, after all, the love of my life. Or I should say existence, I don't age."
"You don't age? Wait…how long have you been 16?"
"Well," Laura started. "I was born in 1913, my real parents died from malaria in 1938. I've had 2 or 3 foster parents since then. And now, it's just me and Sarah."
"There's one thing I don't understand, why does Sarah want me dead?"
"She doesn't like someone like you so close to someone like me. Besides, she said that I need to kill you or change you into a vampire like myself."
"Then I don't see why you don't just change me, sounds easy enough."
"Not exactly. There is a lot of pain involved and I don't want to do that. The pain usually doesn't stop for three days. I could really lose myself if I smelled your blood, I could kill you Tim. I don't have that kind of restraint and Sarah knows that."
"Wait, didn't she say you only had 3 days to decided what to do with me? You only have two days left! What are you going to do?"
"Simple, I'm going to take you as far away as possible from Sarah. I'll make sure that she can't find you. Then, if I can, I'll change you so we'll be Neko's forever."
"Don't you mean vampires forever?"
"Same thing really," Laura stood there smiling at me.
"Right, so what do we do till then?"
"Umm…" Laura was deep in thought. "Well, we're going to fabricate some story so you can leave. A scholarship in the UK maybe?"
"United Kingdom? I really don't think my parents will believe me when I say I was accepted into a European school. I'm not that smart, Laura."
"Yes you are, you're just lazy, that's why your fail two core classes. Besides, I've been through school loads of times; passing shouldn't be a problem for you or me."
I stared at Laura, and she stared right back, giving me very serious eyes to go with it.
"Tim, I don't think you realize how much you need to leave. When Sarah is serious about something, she will continue until it is followed out, either by someone else…or herself."
The idea of dying by a crazy vampire really stood out from the rest. There was no point in arguing about this with Laura of all people. She was giving me a grave look of concern and I can't turn that face down on matter how I tried.
"Okay, the UK is what do I need to do?"
…
Four hours later…
…
"I can't believe you got me on a plane to Europe" I scowled.
"Hey! It worked, didn't it? Besides, you finally get to see a new place," she smiled.
This was true; the farthest I've been from home was a cruise to Mexico. My parents went to Europe during last summer where I stayed at Laura's (go figure). I didn't go because Laura was going to be all alone during the summer. Me, being a total suck up, I stayed in Oregon to keep Laura company. I sighed thinking about this, also grabbing Laura attention.
"Hmm? Something wrong?"
"No, Nothing, I'm fine, don't worry."
She didn't believe me. "Yes there is. Tell me, or else," she held up a fist to my face. I took her new from of persuasion very seriously.
"Well, I was wondering," I began I a low whisper, people were sleeping. "If you're a vampire," Laura shuddered at the word. I noticed it, "What's wrong?"
She shook her head. "There isn't anything wrong."
"Laura, I just saw you shudder. I've never seen that happen before. What's bugging you?" She was so different now! Is this her vampire side I'm talking to?
Laura raised her voice. "There's nothing wrong."
"Laura, if we are going to trust each other, we need to tell each other these things. Why won't you tell me?" people around us were starting to stare. I hated drawing attention to myself.
"There's nothing to tell!"
I started to yell at her. "Yes there is! Now tell me!" Why was she being so difficult?
"I…I just…"
"What?"
"I never really understood, and still don't comprehend, that I'm …" She started in a whisper, "a vampire. It seems so harsh, so cold, so evil."
"Evil?" I went silent thinking it from her point of view for once. A vampire could be a very evil thing if he or she wanted to. The fact that Laura had the potential to rip my throat out and drain the blood fro my body in just a matter of minutes made me shudder a little. Laura's over developed senses caught that all too well.
"You see what I mean? I'm not exactly the kind of person you might want to hang out with." Laura was turned away from me as she said that. God, she was so depressed, it just wasn't her at all. I started to rub her shoulder to make her feel better. I don't think it worked.
"Laura, its okay," I smiled plainly. "To be honest, I don't care what you are. I might not know the whole you but I think I know enough to get by. And I think that's good enough for me." I turned her head to look at me. "What about you?"
Laura looked as if she was on the verge of tears right now. A sliver speak glittered from her eye; I wiped it from her face.
"Tim?" She started, "I just don't know what I'd do if I was the reason you died. I could never forgive myself if anything happened to you." She collapsed in my arms after that. I waited for her to speak again before I did anything else. Instead, she fell asleep in my lap for the next 2 hours. The only thing that felt right was to let her be. After waiting for the trip to Europe to be over, I started to get sleepy too. My eye lids finally closed and I drifted off to that dark room again. Only this time, no one was it.
…
"Tim? Wake up! We're here!"
"Huh?"
The engines on both sides of the plane had stopped. I almost screamed before I realized that we already landed. Was I always this drowsy when I wake up?
"Tim, come on! We're the last ones off!"
I looked around the plane and saw that the plane was empty and quickly got to my feet and helped Laura with the carry-ons. We walked outside to the terminal and headed to baggage claim.
"Okay, that's it! You're not aloud to fall asleep anymore unless I say so! Good God Tim, you might as well be a rock I have to protect!"
I was still exhausted and too tried to argue with Laura right now. I just gave her a few disapproving grunts.
"What am I going to do with you?" Laura said sarcastically.
"I dunno, chop me up and hand me on a sliver platter to Sarah? You got two more days to decide you know."
"Actually, a day and a half."
"WHAT?"
She nodded her head and started looking for our bags.
Only a day and a half. This was not good. I was in such a panic right now, I didn't know how my nerves still working at this point. Laura had set up us a rental car to take to a hotel and plan our next moves. I flopped on the bed and rested from the jet lag we just experienced. I could less what happened to me right now. I was too stressed, too tried, and too far from home. I felt a pair of hands on my back as I laid there, drifting off to sleep again.
