ok i know its been ages since i updated, my excuse is that ive had exams, so ive had to study so... enjoy

Chapter Four: Loryn

Russell's POV

"I'm trained to resist things like you. You see me as vermin, I see you as a parasite."

Her words played through my head over and over.

It hadn't gone as I had planned.

I was supposed to come and sweep her off her feet with promises of love and everlasting romance, and she was supposed to love me back and run away to be with me. None of us thinking about what should be and what shouldn't be, just what we felt.

Instead she had shot me down.

Had those nights really meant nothing to her? I held those memories very close to my heart and I was not willing to accept that it was simply a way of keeping me quiet, it simply couldn't have been that way.

I honestly couldn't tell what I was feeling anymore, with so much going through my head, I couldn't even focus on where I was walking. It was as if I was waking up at random intervals. I couldn't tell when I was awake from when I was just going through the motions.

Had I really been that in love with her?

Somehow I had made it to a coffee shop not far from the park. I sat down on it and just stared at the menu in front of me, none of the words or numbers registering.

"I thought I'd find you here."

I didn't need to look up to know who it was sitting in the chair in front of me. That musical voice, the self-assured tone, even the air tasted different when he was near.

My twin brother. Exactly identical to me, in every way on the outside.

"Caffeine has a calming effect on me." It was an outright lie, but I knew it would get him off my back. At that moment the last thing I wanted was for him to start criticising my choice in Soulmates. Not that it is a choice, but its not that he'd listen to that. My brother had a habit of ignoring anything, however truthful and practical it is, if it got in the way of his argument.

I could feel him studying me from where he sat for a good few minutes before he summoned a waitress, and ordered himself a drink.

"A lot of fresh meat here." He said, his eyes stalking the waitress as she walked off with his order. "But I find there are too many chemicals for it to be enjoyable."

"Why are you here, Lor?" I asked sick of the small talk. There wasn't much love lost between us, there wasn't much love to begin with anyway. "What brings a guy like you to the big city?"

"What brings any guy like me here?" he said lowering his voice and leaning forward. "Hunter Redfern."

The waitress returned, the scent of her arousal so… pungent I nearly choked.

I sent a glare towards my twin. It was one of the many attributes I shared with my twin, we could pick up emotional scents. Of course, Loryn was so adept at it that he could even manipulated the way people felt. No doubt that was what he was doing now.

"Hunter's here?" I wasn't surprised I didn't know, I wasn't told much of the goings on in the Nightworld anymore, not after Rose had been caught, people had assumed that I could also have been a spy, though it was a weak assumption, it held enough power for me to no longer know anything that was happening anymore. "I take it he's in the penthouse of the nearest five-star hotel."

"Actually, he's set up an underground chamber right under that park you seem to like." He said, his voice becoming very matter of fact. My mind flickered towards Rose-Leigh, had he seen us? "Anyway, he's requested me personally to see him. No idea why, you're everything I am."

Bullshit. "We aren't the same, and you know it. You really don't have to rub it in every time we run into each other."

For a second he seemed taken aback, but it was probably just a trick of the light. He was still wearing his look of self importance, it was funny how only I seemed to notice it.

He looked at me suddenly interested. "What's up, Rus? You look depressed, and don't try and deny it."

"Mmm…" I weighed up my options of telling him and lying to him. My mind leaned more towards telling my twin the truth, I knew it was his doing, but at that moment I couldn't see any harm in telling him. "do you remember that human girl who infiltrated a few of out Nightworld parties?"

Loryn sat back, in a more relaxed but intrigued position, "oh… yes, actually, I do remember that specific human. She was quite striking to be honest, she had a nice scent about her. If things had of been different, she could have made a nice playmate.

I sat silently. I could feel my brother dissecting my expression and, more likely my scent. He raised an eyebrow at what he found out.

"She wasn't just a playmate for you, was she?"

No, I love her, was what I wanted to say. But instead, I looked at a couple sitting not far from my brother and I.

"I found her." Was all I said, but I knew that wouldn't be enough for him.

"And?" he'd put on the voice he used for investigations, he knew I hated it.

There was another drawn out silence before I answered his question, and when I did I still didn't look at him. "She thinks… I'm nothing."

"And since when did the opinions of vermin matter to you?" his voice was nothing more than a harsh whisper, but the words had more effect than any amount of screaming could have. The meaning of what he was saying was evident; she's vermin she shouldn't mean more to you than an animal on a dinner plate.

"She was special." I countered immediately. "I wanted to make her… mine."

"And then for the two of you to run off and join Daybreak?" he paused, his eyes searching mine. "That was the plan wasn't it?"

"Of course not." I said quickly. Which was the truth, it wasn't the plan, I hadn't gotten that far in my thinking to form a whole plan, it was an option though. "I was going to change her."

Loryn sat for a moment, working everything out in his head, he looked up and me. "It's illegal." He finally said.

"Not that it matters anymore." I replied, depression starting to set back in. "She rejected me."

"Good." Loryn said before draining his cup. "You need to go off now and find yourself a nice Vampire girl, and forget about this… Rosetta, or whatever her name is… even if it is only for a night. Have some fun for once." He stood up, about to walk away.

"When we live forever," I said, looking up at him, "shouldn't we live for love?"

"Quite the opposite, little brother," he said with a grin, showing his fangs. "We live for lust, and for a life spent enthralled in the pleasures of the night." He turned away, but I heard his final comment, chilling me more that his usual parting words.

"We live for midnight."

yes i know its still short, im working on making it bigger, but ive been stressed with the exams... yay

well i actually have an idea for a story line now, and i think its good

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