Chapter 14

"Marcel?" Lexi asked confused as her vision kept blurring.

"Lexi what's going on?" Lexi suddenly smelt even more blood and saw he was carrying a flask. She ran towards it and grabbed it out of his hand. She drank quickly. The blood slid down her throat smoothly and warmed her whole body. She felt herself growing stronger. When she had done she threw the flask to the floor and wiped her mouth. She then turned and finally realised Marcel was stood there. Lexi froze with her eyes wide.

"Err…. Hi?" Lexi asked in a high pitched voice.

"Lexi what are you doing-" he froze when he saw Ash walk back over to the house. "Is that Ash?" he then looked at the others, "Jez, Quinn, James." He turned back to Lexi. "Why are you with the circle daybreak?" Lexi hit her head with the palm of her hand. She then grabbed Marcel's wrist and dragged him to the end of the drive. She looked back at everyone else who were stood ready for trouble.

"How the hell did you find me?"

"Lexi your power leaves the smell of burning flesh everywhere you use it. I also saw a bike outside and guessed it was yours. I thought you were ill or something but not this," he said gesturing to the house. "What are you doing here Lex?" Lexi suddenly realised he had large red circles around his eyes and his brown hair was messed up.

"Look I'm working for my father. He wanted me to get some information." Marcel laughed slightly. "Do you really think I'm stupid enough to go and fall in love with a human?" Lexi said lowering her voice. Lexi kept glancing at the others to see whether they could hear. "Listen Marcel you can't tell anyone otherwise they'll all find out and they'll kill me."

"Quinn wouldn't allow it. You know he's always treated you as a sister."

"He will if it means putting Rashel or anyone else in danger. Anyway they know about my powers and we think we just found another one like me. So don't mess this up." she grabbed his shoulders and stared into his eyes as she said it as if she was wiping his memory. "Now go home and pretend this never happened. I'll come and see you tomorrow if they'll let me." Marcel nodded then walked away. Lexi sighed and put her forehead against the wall. Lexi heard footsteps come closer to her.

"Lexi, are you okay?" Stephen said. Lexi suddenly felt a huge amount of anger.

"No I'm not okay… I've had to save your asses too many times these past two days. I just had to lie to one of the only people that I trust! I hope you guys are happy I've just sacrificed my whole safety in the night world to protect you all." With that she stormed back to the house. As she got inside she ran up the stairs and caught the girl trying to run out of a room. Thea was chasing her. Lexi flicked her wrist and blew the girl backwards back into the room. Lexi then turned to her own room and grabbed her jacket. Lexi heard footsteps behind her and ignored them.

"Lexi. Will you just wait please!" Stephen was saying behind her.

"Why so you can convince me that I'm like you and all these other damned day breakers? No. And yes that's what you and everyone here is. Damned, because they decided to turn their backs on the night world. It's not my father's fault if he has to reinforce the rules. There the types of rules that would have stopped my sister being killed and a whole load of other people." She pushed past him back into the hallway with her jacket. As she did Stephen grabbed her wrist and slammed her against the wall.

"Why won't you just admit it? You like me and I like you why are you always avoiding it?"

"Because it

puts you in the most place in the world."

"Lexi I could be stood in the middle the volcano if it meant I was with you."

"You may want to risk it, but I don't want to put your life in danger for the sake of me. I have a very dangerous father who would kill us both if he knew I was even this close to you now." Lexi looked around to see no one else was coming. "Yes I have feelings for you, but I'm not risking both our lives for it." Lexi heard footsteps coming up the stairs so she pushed Stephen away from her and tried to look natural. Lexi saw Thea stop when she was in sight.

"The girl's awake if you want to see her. We've got people coming to pick her up to take her to containment while we figure out what to do with her." Lexi nodded and sent Thea away. She then looked at Stephen who stepped out of her way as she headed towards the stairs. When she did she turned back to Stephen.

"I'm sorry. I really am."