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Chapter Eighteen: Killing Loneliness
Fuck! Why can't you just keep a handle on your fucking temper! Ville was scolding himself, while pacing his one room "house". He would have to apologize the first thing tomorrow night.
"OW, FUCK!!" Ville shouted as he accidentally brushed his arm against his leg. He gently rolled back the sleeve of his left arm. 10 or 11 giant red blisters formed on the inside of his arm. Blisters are about the only thing that vampires can't heal besides huge wounds. These would take a couple days to disappear. Sighing, he pulled it back over the hideous reminder.
How am I going to make it up to her?!
"I'll figure that out later," Ville declared while he climbed into his coffin; pulling the lid closed, seeming to shut out all of his problems.
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Ville woke just as the last beams of the sun were sinking below the horizon. Ok. What to say? Sorry? Yeah, that would work. I can see it now. Her reaction: Piss off.
Ville groaned and rubbed his eyes, someone was going to have to help him one of these days. Help him control his temper; help him to know what to say to a girl that hisses like a cat.
Well, there was no need to write a script when the other actor doesn't know the lines.
So Ville made his usual path to Vivian's building, hoping that the night wou-
Was that blood? It wasn't the normal smell that came off of the living humans, it was open aired blood. It had been exposed for almost a whole day and…shit! It was Vivian's blood.
He plugged his nose, though it did little help as he scaled the wall. After settling himself on the balcony, he noticed the doors.
'FUCK OFF' dripped down the set of doors in scarlet letters. He leaned in and took a small whiff. Yep, that was defiantly her blood staining the doors. The smell of her was raging through his system, he was losing it again. He bit his lip and tried to recover; but when he broke the skin, he realized he was to far gone. Blood ran down his chin as he licked his own lips greedily. More.
"VIVIAN!!" he slurred almost drunkenly. "OPEN THE DOOR!" When she didn't come; he listened, a rapid heart beat and fast breathing came from just on the other side of the door. "Vivian. I know you are there, I can hear you. Don't make me break down this door, you know I will." What am I doing!! His brain screamed at him to leave, but his body was still on blood lust. He leaned forward and licked the dried blood off the glass. "Oh, Vivian. You taste so good," His voice almost sounded orgasmic.
The curtain was pull back and Vivian's white face appeared. Her eyes widened and she screamed, throwing the black shadow back across the window. Ville heard her run to the other side of the room, panting heavily and heart beating at a dangerous height.
Her scream worked almost as an alarm to the rest of his body, his attention snapped. He wiped his chin on the back of his hand. Did I really do that? "Vivian, I…" There was nothing he could say to cover what he'd done.
Slowly, he shrugged off his trench coat; folded it nicely and set it in front of the door, almost as a peace offering. He stood up and sighed. "I'm sorry," he whispered, to low for Vivian to hear.
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Soon he was moping around Manhattan, to depressed to go back home and be alone. Not looking where he was going, bumping into random people and not bothering to apologize.
"What's on your mind, darling?"
Ville looked up and almost stopped breathing. Not that it mattered anyway. Could it truly be Vivian? No, her smell was different; but it never hurt to dream. Her eyes were green instead of dark purple with black rings. The eyes that he dreamt about long before he met Vivian.
"Nothing." he grumbled before continuing down the street.
A hand snaked down his shoulder and onto his chest, "aw come on. Tell Diane all about it, honey."
She was pushing it, she really was. Ville's blood began to boil, get your fucking hand off me.
All too soon, she swooped down and kissed Ville. Boiling point was breached, Ville was sure his eyes were turning red. Faking pleasure in Diane's forwardness, he pulled her into the nearest alley. Abandoning his usual brand of victim, he let the lust flow again. His fangs slid down from his sheaths as he kissed down her neck. He felt the vein with pumping blood across his lips. Mouth open wide, he struck. Blood steamed into his mouth and down his face. He drank to his cold hearts content, dropping the corpse at his feet afterward.
Don't be careless Ville, he reminded himself. He dragged the dead lady to the nearest dumpster and dropped her in. "Yeah, whatever."
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By the next night, Ville felt awful. Not only was Vivian scared shitless of him, he also killed a human.
Tonight, while he moped; he brought his ipod to drown out the walking blood banks around him.
But music doesn't block out smells. It was her, he was sure of it. He followed his nose to the heart of the city to find her surrounded with friends. Some guys and a few girls, she was hanging all over a tall muscular looking guy with black spiky hair.
The blackened rock he called a heart tugged slightly, not to see her with another man, but to see her wearing his trench coat. It sagged a little, but he found it sexy with her short skirt and fishnets.
A tear streaked down his face and he wiped it away, leaving blood on his finger.
Look at me. Vivian looked over the shoulder of one of the other people in the group, making eye contact. Blue to purple.
Come to me.
"Can you guys excuse me for a minute?" Ville slid around the corner as she approached. She turned it and stood there; hip thrust out, hand supported on it.
"What? I know you asked me over here, fucker."
Ville flinched at her spiteful words, almost like salt in an open wound. "I wanted to apologize," one look at Vivian and he knew that wasn't going to cut it. "For my behavior, for the way I've acted lately."
"Yeah, last night wasn't scaring at all. Wasn't terrifying beyond all reason."
"I know, I know." He wiped away another bloody tear off his face. He looked up at Vivian; her emotions seemed slightly softer, but she hid it behind a stone face. "I couldn't help it, I lost control. When I get angry, I can't control myself. That's why I said all those things I did the other night. Then I smelt your blood and lost it. You never fool around with blood when vampires are involved. It's not safe, especially with me."
"Yeah. Thanks for the life lesson, are we done yet?"
"I'm apologizing to you and all you can thi-… never mind. I'm trying to apologize to you. Don't you care at all? Does it even matter to you?" More blood spilled over his cheeks, but it was Vivian this time that wiped them away.
Almost as though she was thinking to herself; she mumbled, "But I do care." Vivian played with the sleeve of the trench coat. Ville put his hand against her cheek, she leaned into it unconsciously. She lifted her eyes to look at him. "I do care," she repeated louder. Ville leaned in closer, "I do c-" but the rest was cut off when Ville's lips connected with hers. It was quick, almost nonexistent. Vivian looked Ville straight in the eyes, "I do care." It was firm and full of forgiveness.
"This needs to be put out into the open… but just for you to contemplate. Vivian. Marry me?" It almost sounded like a plea.
A look somewhere between shock and delight washed out the soft happiness that was left over from their kiss.
"Vivian, come on!" One of her friends called from around the corner.
She twisted around, "Just a second!"
Ville sunk into the shadows of the nearest alley.
"Ville? Ville?" He heard her hiss. He sank deeper as she looked down to his hiding spot. Shrugging, Vivian left.
He missed her already and was scared of what she would say.
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AAHHH!! You got to love it. I'm sorry; once again I left you hanging. HAHAHA!! No I'm not. cause I already know what's going to happen. You guys should thank my best friend for half of this chapter, Faith Iero. She is also an author on FanFiction, she is writing a Fic called 'immortal'. You guys need to read it, it's insane!!! Ok. R&R!! LATER!!!