Chapter 14- God, Thats Good!
I had cried on my moms shoulder for nearly and hour. Finally she fell asleep holding me.
I detangled myself from her arms, and tiptoed out of her room. I grabbed my phone out of my purse and dialed Josef's phone number.
"Hey..."
"Hi..."
"I know why you're calling, I guess I better explain a little to you."
"I would appreciate it..."
"Well, honestly, when I marked you I didn't expect the connection to be this strong, I swear Toni, I didn't plan this...but for some reason we've connected in such a strong way that...well...you share my immortality."
He took a deep breath then continued. "When I was first turned it was common for a vampire to have a 'human servant' of sorts. It was a person who the vampire trusted with their immortality, sometimes they were a mortal that the vampire fell in love with, which is why the connection was strong enough for the immortality to reach the human. The other times were the human was so dedicated to the vampire that it made them immortal as well."
"But I'm not a vampire right?"
"No, you're not a vampire...you're just..."
"Never going to die?"
He sighed. "You'll die if I die."
"So I'll never age?"
"You'll look as young as you do now forever."
I started hyperventilating, I stuck my head between my knees.
"Toni, breathe...I know it's a lot to take in...so breathe..."
I took a deep breath. "I really wish I could stake you right now..."
"Well that means you would hurt too."
"It would be worth it."
"I swear, I never meant for this to happen, I know that me saying that doesn't make it any better for you..."
I started laughing uncontrollably. Josef was quiet for a while, like he was confused.
"Oh come on, doesn't this conversation remind you of a teenage pregnancy?"
"What?"
" You know the whole, 'I never meant this to happen.' and me hyperventilating..."
He didn't say anything.
"Sorry...it's just reminding me of a Lifetime movie or something..."
"You are a very strange girl Toni..."
"Would you rather me makes jokes or cry, because that's what it's down to right now."
He sighed. "No I would much rather you make jokes, it's just...weird..."
We sat in silence for a long time. Neither wanting to hang up, but we weren't sure what to say either.
"Josef...um...I better go..."
"Yea, it's getting late..."
"Bye..."
After we hung up, I grabbed the pillow that was lying next to me and screamed into it. How am I supposed to deal with this?
-2 days later-
I woke up this morning with this weird feeling. I was hungry and I couldn't seem to fill up. It was strange.
When I got to class I was still starving...it felt different though. When I got to the pool hall during my lunch break Julie and Mark both made fun of me for the amount of food I was eating. I just couldn't seem to get full.
"God Toni, I didn't realize you're such a pig."
I glared at Julie as she took a bite of her spaghetti.
"Funny, cause I didn't realize you were such a bitch."
Mark laughed. "You have to admit, you're eating a lot."
I had eaten three baked potato's, one veggie burger, and some of Mark's french fries.
"I'm sorry...I'm just so freakin hungry."
Mark smiled, and Julie just shook her head.
We ate in silence for maybe five minutes before Julie yelled.
"Aw shit!"
I nearly fell out of my chair I jumped so high. "What?"
She was holding her hand to her chest." I cut my finger..."
"Is it bad? Let me see."
I grabbed her hand and pulled it to me. The cut wasn't to deep, but it was bleeding pretty bad.
The smell of her blood soon drifted into my nose, I took a deep breath, a vision of me sticking the bleeding finger into my mouth flashed through my mind.
I suddenly felt hot, and nauseated. I dropped her hand and ran for the door. When I got outside the humid air didn't make me feel much better, but atleast I was away from the blood. I slid down the wall of the building and pulled my knees to my chest. I now knew what this strange hunger was.
It was his hunger. He's probably sleeping and was getting hungry.
Well he needed to wake up, I'm not going to spend the rest of the day avoiding people out of the fear that I'll rip their throat out.
Mark soon followed me out, he looked down to where I was sitting.
"What the hell was that? I've known you for years and you've never gotten squeamish at the sight of blood."
I looked up at him. "I haven't been feeling well..."
He put his hand out to help me up. "Come on, I swear, all the blood is covered."
I gave him a weak smile.
"Just give me about five more minutes alone, and I'll be fine."
He nodded and walked back into the pool hall.
I pulled my phone out of my pocket and dialed Josef's familiar number. When he finally answered I could tell by his voice that I had woken him up.
"What?"
"Go eat."
He was quiet for a minute. "Toni?"
"Yes, are you always this slow when you're tired?"
He was quiet for a moment. "God I'm hungry."
"No shit Sherlock, now go eat."
"I'm guessing you've been having the munchies?"
"I really wish you were here in person, so I can kick you in the balls."
He laughed.
"Goodbye Toni."
"Bye asshole."
We hung up.
It took less that ten minutes for the hunger to subsided.
Thank God.