He had left so abruptly, exhaust from his car was the only remnants of him being here. I turned to face my neighborhood as I waited for an answer at the door, things were different, there were no traces of riots here, but signs warning off vampires. I walked out on to my driveway, houses that once did not have fences, now had tall metal barbed wire fences, you could barely see the front door threw all the masses. Looking for the bright yellow and orange glow from the windows of my neighbor's house I saw nothing.
It was so quiet, so dead , as if everything stopped, no night life at all. Where was everyone? What happened here?
I heard the front door creek open behind me, just a bit, then closed.
"Mom its me" I shouted running over to the front door, why didn't the house i lived in have a fence. "Mom open up, its your daughter"
"My daughter is dead" She whispered.
"No mother I am not" I leaned into the crack, her eyes scanned over me.
"Vivian" she cried.
"Yes mother it is me, Vivian"
The door open wider and pulled me in and wrapped me into a tight hug.
"Are you hurt, did they bite you, I can see you have so many healing injuries" Her hands went to my cheeks moving my face so she could get a better look at me.
"Mother I am fine"
At least I thought I was fine for now, but who knew how I would feel later, it could all just catch up with me.
She went to the door again, locking it, locking all of the new locks that dawned above the door knob.
"Are these locks made of silver?" I asked extending my fingers out to touch them. The metal was cool and smooth like Godric's skin. Suddenly the memory of my fingers tracing the tattoo on Godric's cool skin flooded through my mind. I felt heat slowly spread through out my body and stop at my cheeks, I felt them inflame.
"Yes they are actually"
I turned back to face my mother trying to hide my cheeks by flipping my red hair in front face. It didn't cover my cheeks well, it only accented the red in my cheeks more.
"Are you coming down with a fever, have you been outside for long?" Her cold hands met my hot cheeks.
"No I am not I am fine, just a bit hungry"
"Come I will start some pasta, then call for Zach and his family to come over, we have a lot to talk about"
I sat in kitchen at the black marble counter top with a hot cup of cocoa in my hands, it was my favorite over coffee and any other beverage besides water. I was nervous and bit over joyed to finally see Zach again, but for some reason I felt as if I had betrayed him in some sort of way. I took a sip of my cocoa and sighed. My mother was sitting near the door waiting, she had called the family and instantly they were on my way.
On the stove sat the pasta boiling loudly, the sound was comforting. My eyes just glazed over staring at the bubbling water from across the room. I finally just got off the bar stool and walked to the stove. Seeing movement I look through the living room to the front door, my mother had stood up. They were here. I turned the stove off.
My mother slowly opened the door, the whole family quickly followed in closing the door. Zach's eyes widened at the sight of me then he sprinted over toward me. His strong slender arms instantly wrapped around me. My cheeks at his collar bone, he smelled heavenly, the scent of his cologne made me smile. I was finally back with zach.
"You are alive" He whispered. I felt a drop, a tear drop upon my forehead, he was crying. "I thought I had lost you, you were gone, that vampires had taken you"
"Zach, they did" I stated quietly. "They did"
"But you are not hurt, you are not dead" He let go of my body then looked into my eyes. "Why don't you look pained, its like none of this has phased you, what did they do to you, did they glamour you?"
His warm hands went around my neck gently, moving the hair away analyzing.
"There are no bite marks Zach, they did not bite me" I smiled, finally tearing up.
"But there are light scares, they beat you" he growled.
"No, they treated me with respect, he did anyways, those are only from when I was running, in the woods trying to get away from the vampires that captured me"
His fingers went around my cheeks.
"He, who is he, the one who treated you so nicely"
"No one, its not important, I am home and that is all that matters, I can finally get my life back on tract and fix what I have caused"
Zach's eyebrows came together and formed a frown, his eyes went into a squint as if he was going to ask me a question.
"Vivian" I turned my head to see John, Zach's father opening his arms up and out for a hug, I went to him and hugged him. "Please tell us everything, as the president of The Silver Sun I need to know, but as a Father figure I need to know if you are okay"
Getting out of his embrace I felt my stomach growl, I really should have ate something before I left Godric nest.
"I will, but may I please eat something"
"Of course, its not like they were feeding you"
I made my way to the kitchen and the other's followed. After fixing me a bowl of pasta I sat back up on the bar stool and began to eat.
"So how did it happen, what happened?" John started.
I swallowed the pasta that was in my mouth.
"I was taken off stage, they pulled me off, it was all a blur, the traveling that is, because the next thing I knew I was in a forrest" I began to explain.
"Thats when you called me" His eyes met mine.
"Yes, I called Zach and began trying to figure out where I was and thats when I saw them, these two vampires, I ran, but because of my heels that I wore that night I tripped and fell scraping my knees, so now they could smell my blood, I got up and ran some more. Then I came up with this idea to scrape my blood on trees so it would stop them and give me time to run, which it did, but not for long, then they got me"
"And" Zach asked.
"Well they kept me locked up and kept me fed, but then decided to let me go"
"Thats it?"
"Yes" I looked at Zach with serious eyes, because it was true they didn't do anything to me really. "Thats all they did, of course they were angry about me exposing their secret, but they did not harm me in any way"
"I don't believe it" Marcy interrupted she stood up and walk toward me. "Honey its alright you can tell us what they did to you, they wont be able to harm you now"
Marcy placed her hand on my cheek then on my neck in a comforting gesture. The touch couldn't help but release the memory of Godric's lips upon my neck. My body felt like it was on fire.
"They didn't do anything to me" I shouted walking away from Marcy. "They didn't, they were even protecting me, they saw that both I and their nest would be harmed if I didn't stay" I instantly clasped my hand over my mouth.
"So you know where the nest is" It was zach.
"No I don't, I fell a sleep on the ride home"
"So they just dropped you off" Asked Zach angrily.
"Yes he did"
"There you go with him again, who is this he?" If zach was a bull steam would have came out of his nose...
"No one" I glared at Zach. "I said don't worry about him, its all in the past"
"I am tired, I feel like sleeping, actually sleeping in my bed, like I really might just sleep all the way through the night tonight"
I began to walk toward the steps I heard foot steps follow.
"Zach let her go, she needs rest and time to think, I am sure she will explain her self in the morning"
I slowly trailed to the door to my room, at that moment I wished I was back at Godric's nest. Slowly I opened then went in. My room was as I left it, nothing missing, still messy and full of all kinds of things. I slowly walked to my bed dragging my feet, then with a loud plop I jumped and landed on my bed. Too lazy to shower or anything I decided it was time to get back to my somewhat normal sleeping habbits...by actually sleeping...during the night.