The bowl of soup sat before me on the table, it was red and it looked thick. All together it reminded me of blood. Extending my hand I pushed it away from me then quickly brought my hand to my lap and shook my head.
"I can't, I mean it looks..." I stuttered. "It looks too much like blood."
I lifted my eyes to see Chloe was staring at me once again. She picked the bowl up and smelled the liquid.
"That my dear is far from blood, its tomato." Her last words gradually turned into a laugh.
"I can't eat that." I looked away feeling pathetic in every way. "I mean drink it."
"You need to eat something." Chloe leaned in toward me. "You wont feel better until you do."
"Well..." I began. I felt Godric's hand on my shoulder. I instantly shrugged it off. "Can it be something that is not liquid."
"Of course." Godric spoke. "But please eat something anything, I am sure the chef here can make it."
I turned to face Godric he looked a bit flustered. Was it the fact that he had given in, that he had drank my blood or was it the fact that I had drank his.
"No its alright, what ever has been prepared is fine, but I do not eat meat."
"I will go and get you something." Godric stood up from the table and everyone's conversation went quiet. Their eyes locked on his for a split second then everyone bowed their heads. "Please continue to eat." He stated and everyone went back to eating.
"So you out of all people." Chloe shook her head. "The sheriff and you."
I opened my mouth and inhaled a great deal of air. Then looked down.
"Say something, I am not psychic, but I seem to have predicted this little mess." Her words went sweet and I didn't like her tone. "But the feeding, I see no bite marks." She grabbed my wrists and looked at them. "No bite marks at all."
I felt my cheeks go red.
"But how did he convince you to allow him to drink from you?" She pursed her lips. "Did he glamour you? I am sure he wouldn't do that, but from what I heard from Eric he looked pretty bad the night he arrived back."
"Enough!" I shouted loudly. Everyone's words went quiet then the conversations started again. "Why does it matter? He did not glamour me, I allowed him."
"My apologies Vivian." Chloe smiled. "I should not have interrogated you like so. Its just that I find this whole situation ironic."
"Ironic maybe, the way I wished it had ended up maybe not."
"but you can not help whom you love...who you end up loving."
I didn't say anything, she was right, but was bitter sweet, as bitter sweet as Godric's touch.
Arriving back Godric appeared before the table with a pizza I couldn't help but smile. He knew what I liked. Across his lips was a goofy smile that of course I could not resist, but to smile back.
"Will this be better to eat." He placed the pizza on the table.
I nodded.
"I am sorry to say that I will not be able to stay and watch you eat Vivian, I have matters I must attend to."
Godric walked up to me and everyone went silent, then he lent down and pressed his lips to my cheek. Only if they had placed themselves upon my lips. With in seconds he vanished.
"Some scene he made." Chloe chirped. "I know the man I love wouldn't be as showy."
I sighed. Was I really going to become friends with this woman, where was Isabel?
"Then again your man isn't a sheriff."
"True."
It was late at night around two in the morning, late in the sense that day light was just around the corner. I was standing in front of a window not too far from the area I tried to escape from the other night. There was no moon tonight just sky and stars making the area dark, making the pretty much everything covered in the blanket of night. The lamps around the house stuck out like sore thumbs casting their bright light only in specific sections of the front lawn and drive ways. It was a faint glow, but compared to the night it was like white paint splattered on a black canvas.
"Though I don't really like you much, you are good for him." A voice appeared from the right of me.
I turned my head to see Eric.
"And here I was thinking we were on better term since you were basically babysitting me." I lifted a brow and tightened me lips.
The blond vampire appeared beside me looking out the window along with me.
"Better terms?" He laughed. "I guess so."
"I don't forgive you for kidnapping me."
"I knew you wouldn't."
"But I don't hate you." I looked to Eric, he was still looking out the window. "Not anymore."
"Why is that?"
"I don't know maybe its because your maker." I guessed.
"Yes well Godric seems to have that affect on others, making them hate less and love more." He turned to look at me. "But if you hurt him, the kidnapping is least of your worries along with that nice shiner I gave you."
"Even if I wanted to hurt him I could not, I am not capable." I cleared my throat. "But I don't so are not worry, he wouldn't want you killing either."
"I feed on my own terms and he knows that."
"Well good for you."
"And here I was thinking we were on good terms." He crossed his arms and smirked.
"This is good terms I believe."
"Vivian?" a voice called.
With in a flash Godric appeared.
"Eric." Godric greeted.
"Godric." Eric nodded his head.
"Come with me Vivian."
I walked over toward Godric who was now dressed in casual black jeans and a sweater.
"Yes?" I asked.
"We have matters to discuss."
I furrowed my brows and nodded.
"Follow me." he calmly ordered.
I did, following behind him I looked to the side feeling a bit uncomfortable now.
"You need to go home." He stated. I bit my lip. "This will only get better once you are home."
"I have nothing to go home to." I shouted. "Everyone is dead and I will not join the silver sun with their crazed antics."
"For all of this madness to ceased you must." His words went calm than aggressive.
"Join The Silver Sun?" I laughed hysterically and sadistically. "And what? Attempt to kill you?"
"Vivian that is not what I meant."
"No its not, you don't want me here I understand, I took the hint from Eric." I turned and began to walk away, but turned my head to speak. "And after you invited me to come back here. I don't understand that."
"I wanted you to get some rest and to be healed." He began. "I was not thinking, my own injuries were clouding my mind."
"Its too late now if I go home they are all going to see that I am healed and disown me." I drooped my head allowing my hair to cover my tear pruned eyes. "But you didn't care your lust for my blood was the real reason you wanted me here."
"No!" Godric shouted. "That is not it. I care about you that is why you must not stay, you have your schooling and your future."
I shook my head once again.
"My future...didn't you tell me my future was already changes once I first met you?"
"Yes and it has changed, but you can fix it." His eyes went sad.
"You don't get it do you, disownment leads to being lonely and loneliness leads to being depressed and being depressed leads to a whole lot of hellish shit like the lack of progression in my life...like the future."
I flipped my hair out of my eyes and clenched my jaw tightly together.
"Do you want to be here?" He asked.
That was a question I for sure was not able to answer.
"I don't want to leave, but I am not sure." I whispered. "I just can't go back home."
"You need to go home to collect your things." his lips spread into a small smile. "Stay at home for a few days and then I will arrange for someone to pick you up."
"But.."
"It will be alright, tell the public you are alive and that you are okay, you need to fake your shoulder, I will have someone wrap it up like it once was before, once you are back I shall take it off."
I nodded.
Tomorrow you shall leave, during the night.
I nodded.
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