" I need you to spy on Oliver" Amelie said as if you could bring that up in everyday conversation
"What" I asked but I also screamed it
"Oliver has always been shady but, I think hes planning something" Amelie said pursing her lips
"maybe hes planning your birthday" Claire said not wanting to spy on Oliver or even spend time with him
"highly unlikely" Amelie said but, their was humor in her eyes is everything funny to her nowadays"You will need to be taught to be a spy, I Will not let you go in and just be all willy nilly" Amelie said
"they teach vampires to be spies" I asked as we turned an unfamiliar corner
"yes i ave a secret agency. It's where i got my guards but, I'm not very fond of them sometimes"Amelie said as they came to a stop.
The limo driver came around to open Amelie's door then mine. The limo driver was also a vampire but he looked ghostly like you could stick you hand right through him. He wore a suit to big for him and his hair was translucent fluff like elderly old people. He had a kind face but it showed traces of sadness. He gave me a helping hand out the limo.
Looking around to see where we were but i didn't recognize any of it. Everything seemed so bland like someone messed up. as if they didn't like the color then they dumped white paint on everything. Stores looked like something out of a 50's movie and the buildings were lined up perfectly. the streets were cobbled stone but, i didn't seemed to have felt the bumpiness like i should have had. it looked like a cystalized, white out world. Amelie cleared her throat and jolted me out of my thoughts
"we must go in claire"she said aking me by my arm.
walking up the steps our footsteps echoed and pounded in my ears. A bell rang as Amelie opened the door no, it was more of a toneless beep. Inside the building was worse than what outside of it was. It was like a Insane asylum everything was white. Even the employees wore white but maybe this was a insane asylum. Passing a windowed room . An man was rocking back and fourth sucking his thumb shielding himself from two men both in white who had the biggest needles in the world in their hands. passing another window i peered in and nothing was there. Nothing. Then this sick bony pale woman threw herself on the glass chocking and gasping. Literally out of nowhere. Claire screamed.
"clam down there is nothing t be afraid of"Amelie said like a mother when your afraid of the dark
"what is this place"I said panting walking faster to get away from the woman.
"the building is divided into two sections we're in the morganville correctional facility"Amelie said entering a gray solid door and she stopped waiting for me
"you mean insane asylum" I said as I follwed her through the door
"well, yes" Amelie said unsure "I don,t wish to call it that but, if that is the way you'll understand it"
once again we passed a windowed room but there was a girl. A little girl. The little girl had a fragile watery smile. Her hair was down and it was extremely curly, and she was wearing a patient robe and she was just sitting there holding a teddy bear. The teddy bear she held had one eye and the thread it had for a smile was coming undone and it was filthy but the little girl held onto the bear as if he life depended on it or she just loved it.
"who is that. She looks harmless" I said almost cooing Amelie stopped her brisk walk to stop and look at to what i was telling her about
"that's no one come along" she said walking again but, I knew something was up the little girls face suddenly got brighter and Amelie's eyes took on that motherly instinct as if she was looking out for the girl.
"she seems to know you" I said doing a jogg behind her
"really I didn't notice"Amelie said pushing a button and shoving through the door
the room we entered was full with colors, Dark rich colors. classical like from Al Capone's time. there were other vampires in the room but they were all doing other things. A woman with red hair talking to another vampire. When she noticed me she smiled , I smiled back
"that's what we call smooth operator"Amelie chuckled
"will I be smooth operating"I giggled
"yes. Oliver is- whatever come on"Amelie shook her head and took me over to another vampire who was standing alone sipping coffee
He had green eyes and blond hair and it was a messy mop and it covered his eyes he almost looked like Micheal but he was beyond Michael's beauty he was the stars and their beauty the heavens and all it loveliness. I was star struck but without the celebrity
"Claire this is sydney" Amelie introduced us
"Garth. I prefer Garth" He said standing up he was probably just and inch shorter than Shane but not as muscular but he pulled it off
"Im claire. are we going to be smooth operating" I said and he smiled trying to control his laughter Oh god he has dimples
"yes" he said
"Amelie-"I started but then she was across the room talking to someone else
"shall we began" Garth said sliding out a chair for me
"okay im ready"I said ready to learn anything
"first lean in on the table"Garth said leaning as he leaned in I did too. "then look them in the eye he said and we looked each other in the eyes I noticed how gorgeous his eyes were like liquid diamonds.
"then speak low but not so low you want them to hear you"he said and spoke something "love is like thousands of violens playing against an august gust but,
it falls on deaf ears never to be heard." He said looking me right in the eyes
"did you make that up yourself"I asked still star struck again with out the celebrity
"yes I used to be a poet before i was you know" Garth mimed fangs just like eve would
"when were you fanged" I asked wanting to know him people need friends in a town like ths
"it wasn't a long time ago" Garth said shifting his eyes around the room
"when" Claire pushed
"it was in 1995. spoken word night , I knew the place was a little off but, I went to do a poem anyway. I went into the back room and then there the club owner was and he attacked me."he said looking down at the table
"Then what" Claire asked
"then the next morning I woke up some how in my apartment. beer cans were strewn everywhere I knew my friend threw a party but I looked in the mirror and my reflection. I didn't see myself" Garth said loosening up telling me everything
"yeah when I found out i thought I was going crazy" I laughed
"yeah. I freaked then I went about my day like normal. My girlfriend she was obsessed with witchcraft and she just spazzed when she saw me and she screamed
"vampire" and then we never spoke again" garth said looking up
"did you believe what she said" I asked
"no. but then I came here on accident . My car broke down right outside of city limits and then Sam he accepted me and then I came to realization and now I am proudly a vamp" he said
I looked at him knowing he wasn't telling the truth about him coming to terms
"well, I'm still coping with it but hey your new to this . fresh meat. you seem fine"Garth said I knew that he knew that we were way off what we were supposed to be doing
"Sam you said. Sam glass"I asked Sam was nice but never knew he knew a lot of people. Allot of people.
"yeah you know him. I haven't seen him in a while I should talk to him" Garth said oh god. Garth doesn't know. he seems so nice, I don't want to hurt him with the news.
"yeah. He saved me from something and he was my friends uncle" I said playing on thin ice
"yeah he was always the hero"Garth said smiling
"I hate to be the barer of bad news but . Garth Sam is. Sam is"I stuttered
"Sam's what"Garth said he was on the edge of his chair literally
"Sam is dead. he died when bishop came to town." I said hanging my head down gosh why did everything land on my shoulders. god my shoulders are small, put stuff on other peoples shoulders.
Mine hurt for now.
"oh that's wow"Garth said sinking back into his chair
"I'm sorry you didn't get a chance to talk to him before he passed" I said
"yeah well this place is gonna be closed up. so lets go" Garth said grabbing his jacket
he led me through the building through the insane asylum which gave me the Hebe jeebz and i saw that same little girl when we went through the hall
Garth unlocked his car. It was car that you would see in a 70's movie i tried to figure out which movie i might have seen it in but I couldn't put my finger on it
"its an Mercury comet 63' like the one in the show the chick with the blond curly. she like that blond dude but she with that other dude" Garth said climbing in
I got into the car as well.
"what are you talking about" I laughed
"one tree hill. yeah that show"he said putting the keys into the ignition
"oh yeah, I follow that show. Too bad its been on for like eight years, and im just watching the first season." I giggled
"burn"garth said driving off
I looked over at Garth it had been a while since i told him the directions to the glass house and he looked pretty sad I could tell that he was broken up about the Sam thing. so I tried to spark up some talk before he dropped me off we were only three minutes away from the house.
"so how old are you. or were you when you got bitten"I asked
"16, I was a big 16 year old though well all guys are aren't they"he said trying to smile but it wasn't working for him.
"oh, well did you ask them to replace to windows in here to the vamp tint" i asked when we were right out side to house
"yeah with a please and thank you" Garth said with a watery smile
"again I'm sorry about the news I had to tell you" I said getting out the car slamming the door running yo the house I saw eve peeking he head out the window
I closed the door and got ambushed
"who was that where were you all day I haven't talked to you in hours"eve said without stopping
"I had a run in with Amelie, then she took me somewhere that's all." I said I noticed that Shane and Michael weren't home i went upstairs.
Eve followed me.
"okay you haven't answered the who was that question." eve said
"no one"I said laying in bed and i got out my laptop and got on the Internet
"oh god"eve said covering her mouth and she plopped in the chair Michael sat in when he accused me of being a vampire
okay he was right but, what the hell. What would you do when someone is in your room in the middle of the night. shouting vampire wouldn't, you play dumb. okay you might beat them up but, im claire think about it. yeah.
"what" I looked up from the email my mother had sent me. telling me about how the were living and if I were okay.
"you're cheating on him with that fine hunk of man" Eve said wide eyed
"no im not" I jumped up what is she thinking
"I cant believe it. when you left at the shop you saw that boy didn't you and you were with him all day weren't you. oh Claire bear you cant cheat on Shane"eve said shaking me
"I'm not cheating on him" I said
"you sure"eve said calming down
"yes"I said assuring her then speak of the devil Shane came in "what are you girls talking about" Shane sat down on my bed taking me with him
"im not a girl. I'm a woman"eve said hands on her hips then we eyed her
"okay young woman, ill be 19 soon gosh i feel like Claire when she had to ill be 17 soon" eve said stalking out the room
"so you were gone all day"Shane said kissing the top of my head "yeah" I said placing a kiss in his lips
"why"Shane asked
"Amelie"I simply said anything can mean that
"what did she want blood donation"he said trying to bite my neck I giggled and pushed him away a little to hard. "gosh Claire been hitting the gym lately" Shane said trying not t show that I pushed him hard.
"sorry and no she wanted to talk"I said climbing out of bed and changing into a shirt.
I knew Shane was watching me I always called him a perv when he did it but, in reality I liked it
"perv"I said hopping back into the bed
"yeah ,yeah. go to sleep munchkin"he said kissing my head i turned off the lamp and fell asleep in Shane's arm
I thought about Garth before a completely went to sleep I felt sorry for him. Then I just thought about Garth Garth
I sighed and fell asleep completely
god gives us people as seasons and Garth may just be an year or a decade. Good night morganville at least im the only one to say it.