Hey Guys! I am so sorry that I haven't updated in…..forever. Well lots of homework for one thing. Another I sort of had a writers block in that I didn't really know how to write this chapter. Another excuse is that it took my people that edit this forever to get it back. Actually this was just quickly edited so I could get it up. Anyways to stop my rambling excuses, with out further ado here is the next chapter of Boyfriend Troubles!

Chapter 8- Dealings with the Serran's

Ugg. The lights in the room were coming in through my eyelids. I really didn't want to open my eyes. I am not fond of bright lights. Wait a second….Where was I? I opened my eyes to a brightly lit ceiling that was white. White? My bedroom was blue. Again where was I? I closed my eyes again before rolling onto my side and brought my hand over my eyes. My head hurt for some reason.

Ohh. That was when I remembered knocking myself out. Not one of my greatest idea's. I slowly opened my eyes and noticed some one sitting in the chair next to my bed. I assumed I was in the hospital because of the quick glance I did around the room.

I looked back at the person in the chair. He was a man that looked to be a little older then me. Maybe in his early 20's? He looked familiar though. He stared back at me with an odd smile on his face. I couldn't deceiver it, though where did I see him before?

Then it hit me. I sat up in bed and moved as far away from him as possible. He sat laughing at me as my mouth hung open, and my mind was trying to decide what to do. Before I could do anything he spoke.

"It is nice to finally meet you Stella," he said in a, dare I say it, a sexy voice one that was meant for the bedroom. "You have caused my family much trouble to hunt you down." He smiled at me as he moved closer. "If you haven't figured out who I am by now," he paused as he grabbed for my hand. He leaned over my hand and kissed the back of it. I was still in shock and fear. He set my hand back down but didn't release it. "I am Thane, your fiancé."

Now just to tell you, I have never fainted on my own before. I am not like one of those girls in the movies that just faint for no reason. But I have to tell you I almost did at that moment. I was so shocked, just staring at him. 'That's where I've seen him before' I thought in my stupor. It wasn't till he started talking again that I jumped out of my frozen state.

"Your family is here talking to my parents," he commented, looking at me like he wanted to laugh. I tried to school my face from the shock as he continued. "They are talking to my parents about the… contest. For some reason they have no idea about it." He gave me a pointed look. Hey I wasn't going to tell my parents about the contest, no way.

I choose to ignore the implied question and asked one of my own while scooting away from him as far as I could, "What happened after I blanked out?"

"Oh you mean when you knocked yourself unconscious," he replied looking me over. I pulled the sheet up more to cover me. "You know normal people don't really knock themselves out. If it weren't for my family who knows who would have picked you up."

Forgetting how intimidating he was, I glared at him. "If it wasn't for your family, I wouldn't be here in the first place!" I shouted loud enough that people outside of the room could probably hear us.

A nurse poked her head in after hearing me yell. "Oh you're awake," she calmly said coming over with a clipboard in hand. "Do you feel alright?" she questioned while putting her hand on my forehead. Thane got up from his chair and leaned against the wall watching. "Does your head hurt?"

I turned my attention to the Nurse. "I just have a little headache," I complained. She nodded then asked if I was seeing spots which I replied with a no. She nodded again then said that she was going to inform my parents that I was awake, and left the room.

I started to doze off when Thane came back into view. "You know you still haven't answered my question," I stated, after gulping. Thane has the same intimidating presences as his father.

He smiled at me and sat down next to me again. I again scooted away as far as I could. Don't ask me why I didn't move closer to him like any normal girl would do. I get intimidated by people that are considered "hot". Or it could just be that his mother is a psycho witch, either one.

"Well after you knocked yourself out, the guy next to you started to panic until my family came along. My mother just wanted to kidnap you right then and there," I shuddered at the thought of that, "but my father and I convinced her to talk to your parents first so I picked you up and we drove to this hospital." He leaned back in his chair, getting comfortable. "Then we called your parents down. Do you know how surprised and worried they were to hear that their daughter was in the hospital, and that she suddenly has a fiancé?"

I bet they are pissed. 'What am I going to do?' I thought desperately. I groaned and sunk my head into my lap as Thane started to laugh. All of a sudden I felt fingers on my chin, lifting my face up to look in his eyes. His eyes held laughter in them as he contemplated me.

"You know…" he said slowly. "You're kind of cute in your own strange way." I again was so shocked I couldn't do anything except to blush. Then I noticed that our faces were getting closer.

'Oh no…' I thought panicking. 'He isn't… Oh crap he is.' As our facing getting closer his eyes were slowly closing. 'NOOOO!! Not my first KISS!! I don't want it in a hospital!' I was too paralyzed to move out of the way. Another memory that was going to suck. My first kiss is in a hospital after I knocked myself out. Great.

Just before our mouths connected the door opened. I jumped so high I almost landed on the floor. Thane calmly leaned back in his chair to look at who had interrupted, acting as if nothing had happened. Meanwhile after regaining my balance, I tried to control my breathing while looking at my parents as they came in the room.

My mother rushed to the side of the bed asking "Are you alright Hun?" as my dad glared at Thane. Thane in response just smirked. I nodded in response while keeping an eye on my dad as my mom hugged me close to her.

"Mom really I'm fine. Just a little headache is all," I said trying to wiggle out of her embrace as the door opened again. In came the wicked witch of the west and her husband. The Witch was smiling at all of us while her husband showed nothing on his face about the situation that we were in. The parents gathered around Thane on one side of the bed and my parents moved to the other.

"Now that the family is reunited…" Aloria paused looking at us. "Let us begin."

"Hunny what are they talking about?" my mom asked me looking worried. "They say that you are to marry their son. Is that true?"

"NOO!!" I shouted. I did not want to marry their son at all. Especially with the lovely display that I had when I woke up. To my embarrassment though, my eyes started to tear up. I hate crying but this situation just stressed me out too much.

"Yes she is," stated Aloria glaring at me even though she had a smile on her face. "She won our contest in a magazine that we put out. There is no backing out now." She turned to my parents and continued. "She sent her information in and about a week ago we came and interviewed her for our son. She was perfect but we still had to go see the other contestants. We called her…" she looked at the clock which was hanging on the wall left of the bed. "…yesterday, and told her that she had won, but it seemed that her cell phone was in possession of a friend. I believe Dar was his name."

By this time I was steaming, I was so mad. My parents weren't supposed to know about that. I could tell that they were not happy at me by the looks I was receiving from them. I was about to saw an excuse but the door slammed open and in walked Philip and Netha, their clothes askew, like they had rushed to get here.

My parents by this time were so shocked at what was happening. My mom, her mouth was opened and my dad didn't move. Philip and Netha moved towards them.

"Mom it's my fault. I knew that they had come over and convinced them two of them," he waved at Netha and I, "not to tell you hoping this whole thing would blow away."

My mom nodded her head like she understood and looked back at me. "Why would you send in your personal information to a magazine?" she questioned.

The Serran's were just standing on the right side of the room watching us all. I think they were enjoying this. I looked at my mom in outrage. "I am not that dumb mom!" I yelled at her. She gave me a look and I lowered my voice when I continued, "Cam and Adalina sent in my info. I didn't find out until it was too late." Which was sort of a lie…

Basillio cleared his throat. He waited for all of us to look at him before he spoke. "No matter how the information got to us we still have a dilemma." He looked straight at me, creeping me out. I mean come on he is a vampire. "You are going to marry our son," he said with finality.

Silence ensued after Basillio's comment. Everyone was looking at one another except Basillio who was looking at me. I gulped and turned to look at my parents. They seemed to be at a loss for words.

'There is no way you can get out of this Stella.' I turned and looked at Aloria who in turn was looking at my parents for some sort of reaction. I didn't want to see who Thane was looking for because, personally, he made me nervous.

'What should I do?' I questioned myself while looking in my lap as if the answer would come and hit me in the face. I thought over Aloria's words (or would it be thoughts?) Then opened my mouth, knowing I was going to regret this for the rest of my life.

"Fine," I said looking up at the Serran family. Thane, I noticed, was now just leaning on the hospital wall looking intently at me. "I will marry your son…" I paused. "With conditions."

My parent's side of the room gasped as Aloria questioned, "And what conditions would that be?" She was now looking intently at me. I hated how people will just stare at me.

I squirmed before continuing, "I want my parents to receive money or something with this deal." I paused thinking this over. "Plus I want them to be safe." I mean come on; if you were a witch and vampire you are bound to have a few enemies.

Aloria looked as if she was going to argue but Basillio intervened. "She is right," he said looking at his wife. "If she is going to marry our son, or forced to marry our son she should get something out of it."

"She will get our son, what more will she want," Aloria argued as if we weren't there.

Basillio ignored her and turned to look at me. "How much," he questioned.

I forgot what we were talking about. I mean, he totally just shut the witch down. 'I think I am going to like Basillio as a father-in-law' I thought. Oh right, money. "A million dollars."

My parents started to shake off the shock of me agreeing at the sound of a million dollars. Aloria gasped angrily. Hey I am not going to sell myself cheap, no way. I looked over at Netha and Philip as Basillio was pondering my request. Netha was nodding her head in that "you go girl" way while Philip just looked plain pale.

After a few minutes, where it looked to be Basillio and Aloria were arguing with out words Aloria finally nodded in defeat. "We agree to one million dollars to the parents of Stella Waldon and to make sure that her family is safe in agreement that she will marry our son Thane Serran." She walked over to me. "Shall we seal the deal?" she questioned sticking out her hand.

"Wait a second!!" my mom said coming to stand on the other side of the bed. "You can't do this! This is my daughter." My mom calmed down a little before continuing, "Shouldn't you be bargaining with us?"

"Please mom!" I whined. I took her hand in mine. "They aren't going to let me go you might as well get something out of it."

To my embarrassment, my mom started to tear up. She gave me a tight hug and stood up again, looking at Dad. He walked over and gripped my hand. My mom and dad started to whisper for a little bit before turning back to the Serran's.

"We agree to these terms but," my Dad stated glaring at them. "My daughter can see us anytime she wants and she has to finish school first."

Aloria nodded. "Agreed." She stuck out her hand and my Dad reached over and shook it. "Shall we go outside and go over the fine details? Your daughter looks tired," she said glancing my way. All of the tension in the room was decreasing, making me realize how tired I really was.

Both sides of parents walked out of the room, I guess to talk about the wedding and whatnot. My brother came over and patted me on the shoulder; then following my parents out of the room. Thane looked over at Netha who glared right back.

"I am not going to leave her in here with you," she said nastily. I smiled up at Netha, my savior. I so did not want to be alone with him. Who knows what he would do.

Thane smiled getting up from the wall. He walked over to me while I backed up towards Netha. Thane reached down and snatched my hand before I could pull it away and gave it a kiss on the back. "I will see you later, my star," he promised before swaying out of the room.

I then proceeded to wipe the back of my hand on the hospital sheets. Netha laughed, I guess from the look on my face, which was a combination of freaked out and disgust. Why was he always kissing my hand?

"Well look on the bright side Stella," she said still chuckling. "At least you are going to have a hot husband."

"Shut up Netha," I growled lying down on the bed. I glared up at her as she kept on laughing. Great. I am getting married to a "hot", creepy guy and my best friend slash cousin is laughing at me. My life sucks.

So there you have it! You guys finally met Thane. This pretty much is the end of part one of this story. As of know I have a very vague plot so this story could go a lot of ways. Plus I am editing the first 7 chapter again. After I looked over and read the stuff I noticed (and my friends) a lot of errors. So hopefully I can get those fixed posted up.

I hope you guys will stick with this story despite my awful updates. I am hoping during Spring break I can get another chapter written. We'll see how that goes. Please read and review!!

P.S. I started thinking that I could write stories on Cam and Adalina as well as Dar after this story is finished. What do you guys think??