I grabbed a towel as I stepped out of the huge glass shower to dry off. I dried off and put on the clothes that Tanya had given me. I looked into the mirror to see if I looked okay. The clothes were snug fitting, making me look like I was a tramp. The skirt hardly covered the-butt-that-I-had-always-wanted. The shirt showed off cleavage that I never knew I had. The bad thing though was it showed off the white scar that I had gotten from the knife.
" Ember?" Tanya said in my head.
" Yeah?"
" You done yet?"
" Yeah." I went over to the bathroom door and opened it.
" Good go to Brydon's room. He's been going nuts!"
" Where's his room?" I asked. I was now back in the bedroom.
" Follow the music." She thought then her voice was gone.
This shouldn't be too hard. I opened the door that Tanya had come in from. It revealed a long hallway that went to the right. I could hear the music now. There was a door across from me. It was a dark cherry wood. I didn't dare go in. I turned to the right, the only way that I could go. I walked slowly looking around. I saw that the long hallway had a dark maple chair rail that matched the door that I had seen coming out from the bedroom. The walls were a dark forest green and I walked on a nice soft, plush dark red carpet. They must like red and green in this house. I passed a staircase that was to my left. There were three steps then a landing and it then turned right. I kept walking and passed two more doors, one to my left and the other to my right. The music was getting stronger with every step. I finally found it. It was the second to last door. The door looked as if it was pulsing from the bass. It was also the same dark cherry wood. I knocked on the door three times. The music suddenly became soft and the door opened.
I looked up to see him, he almost blocked the whole doorway with his body. Brydon's eyes went wide when he saw me. He was wearing a dark gray shirt that clung to his chest and dark jeans. It seemed to set off the gold in his eyes. I could see the sculpted muscles. It made me think about how it would feel if he held me in his strong arms and how his washboard abs would feel to the touch. I listened to what he was thinking to see if he felt the same way.
" Wow… she… she looks… beautiful." A picture of us formed in his mind. He was holding me so close that every part of me was touching him. He was looking down at me and we were both smiling wide. He had one arm around my waist and I was resting both of my hands on his chest. He was running his fingers through my hair. " I bet her hair is so soft. She has no idea how much I"
I stopped listing to him. I don't want to hear what else he's thinking. " Hey." I said calmly.
" Hey." We both smiled. " You wanna… umm… come in?" He said stepping aside so I could get in.
" Thanks." I said and stepped in.
He had a large bed pushed in the corner. I could have seen it from the doorway if he wasn't standing in the way. About three feet from the bed, to the left, he has a large double window. I turned to see what he had up against the wall to my left. He had a desk made out of a light maple wood. It had a computer with a flat screen placed on it. I looked to the far wall. It had an impressive stereo system built into the wall. It was a shinny silver. On either side of it was a door. I sat down on his made bed. He sat down next to me so close that his upper arm was touching my shoulder. I had no Idea what to say to him. We sat there and said nothing. I finally asked what was behind the doors.
" Closet and bathroom." He said. He was looking down at his shoes. I felt stupid for asking that.
I listened to what he was thinking. " Don't look at her. Don't look at her. Don't look at her." He kept saying to himself over and over in his mind.
" Why don't you want to look at me?" I asked.
" You talked to Tanya?"
" Yes."
" As you know her power is to read minds. Mine is to tell what other people are felling around me. Like right now you're confused about whether to be happy or sad and that's making you frustrated. You're a little horny and you feel stupid. Your not stupid so don't even think it." He said.
" You never did answer my first question. Why wont you look at me?" He didn't answer me and made no move to. I tried to read his mind and got nothing. We must have sat there for close to an hour, me trying to read his mind and him not saying a word. I just became so frustrated. " You know what, I'm done." I got up. " I'm so frustrated with you. I came in here to find out you and you shut me out! I was hopping that maybe we could be friends or maybe more," His head snapped up. " but we can't even talk to each other!" I yelled and ran out of his room and to the stairs that I say on my way to his room. I could hear him running behind me.
The first person I saw was Decklen. Boy was he hot, but not like Brydon. I'm not sure why but looking at him made me think of all the hot thinks about Brydon. Decklen's dirty blond hair had some curls to it and it looked as if the sun highlighted it. His eyes were topaz like Tanya's. He was much hotter in person then in Tanya's mind. He had a confused expression on his face. " Wow she is REALLY hot." He thought. I passed him and felt his eyes fallow me. " Were is she going?"
" Ember!" Brydon yelled from behind me. I went through the first door that I knew would lead me outside. " Ember stop!" Brydon yelled. I turned around once I was about 20 feet away from the house. He was standing in the doorway. I kept walking way slowly, backward.
" Why the hell should I?" I yelled at him.
" Come back." He sounded upset and I suddenly felt bad but my rage got the best of me.
" Why? So you can shut me out again!" I yelled.
" No so I can tell you something." His voice was quiet. I stud not moving, waiting for him to tell me. He didn't make a move to tell me.
" Spit it out!" I yelled frustrated.
His whole body tightened and this was the first time I was afraid of what I was and the people I was with. He looked as if he was about to kill me. I knew I had hit a bad cord and was regretting it." You know what? FUCK YOU! I wish I just sucked you dry. Go find whatever the hell his name is. Oh yeah, TIM!" He yelled. I felt like someone had hit me in the gut as hard as they could. My longs felt like they wouldn't let any air in as I breathed harder then I had a minute ago. It was as if he had just ripped me apart from the inside out.
I took off running. I had no idea were I was going but I could care less. I was deep into the woods. I realized I was crying when my breathing came out in short and ragged breaths. My breathing came harder and I fell to the ground and sobbed so hard that my body went into convulsions.
A hand came down softly on my shoulder. " Ember." A soft male voice said from next to me. The voice was not one that I remembered. I choked back sobs and opened my eyes. It was dark out. I sat up. I saw the outline of the guy. I focused in on him. It was Decklen. "Ember its okay. Relax. Everything is going to be okay. I'm not going to let him treat you like that. I'm going to take you home now and everything is going to be fine." He said
" No!" I started to cry again. I don't want to go back and see Brydon. I trusted him. He's just going to throw Tim back in my face. He has no idea how much that hurt. "I don't want to go back and see him. I don't want to Decklen." I sobbed.
" Its okay. I'll take care of you." He said. He picked me up like a small child and held me close to his chest. I put my arms around his neck and cried tearlessly onto his shoulder. " Its okay." He kept saying and rubbed my back lightly. His words and touch were soothing. I felt like I could trust him.
" Decklen?" I asked
" Yeah?"
"I need you to promise me and really promise me that you will not bring up Tim like Brydon did." I said
" I promise." He said. I listened to what he was thinking. " What really happened with this Tim guy?"
" Do you really want to know what happened?" I asked.
" Know what?" Decklen asked, playing dumb.
" Who Tim was." I said.
" Wait. How did you know that's what I was thinking?" He asked.
" Tanya said I'm like a sponge. I take other vampire's powers. I took her ability to read minds, Brydon's ability to feel emotions and your ability to…" I realized I had no idea what his power was.
" To track. That's how I found you. See when I was alive I was in one of the New York City gangs. That was way back when they didn't have much more then Manhattan. I went around and found the people that we wanted in our gang or didn't want to live." He said.
" Wow." He was one of toughs' rough and tough guys.
" Yeah. So umm could you tell me this way I can watch what I say and not upset you?" He asked.
" Oh yeah, Tim." I put my head on his shoulder. " Tim was my best friend, my boyfriend and I love him. He told me that he loved me too but then I saw him kissing another girl. I felt so betrayed. He had never meant it when he said that he loved me. I broke up with him that night just because I was upset and I didn't think I could trust him anymore. I still loved him though. That night he went out with some of his guy friends and got high. He died that night. If I hadn't broken up with him that night then he wouldn't have died and then I wouldn't have put my pocketknife in my pocket wrong and I wouldn't have gotten cut. Then I wouldn't have been bleeding and your brother wouldn't have bitten me. There for I wouldn't be in this mess that I'm in now." I said.
Decklen was quiet for a long time. " No it's his fault for kissing that girl." He said his voice low. I still couldn't help but feel guilty for his death though.
Hey guys! Sorry for the wait and for the spelling and stuff like that. I have 2 chapters writen but not typed so if I get up to 30 reviews by Friday I'll give you at least part of the next chapter if not the whole thing, which is long, by the way. R&R GUYS!