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I'm still here.
I opened my eyes and saw the bright sun shining on the front porch. I looked down and noticed the warmth I was feeling was the sun shining on me. I looked up at Daniel and a smile appeared on his face.
"I'm happy your okay, and I'm happy your home." He bent down and wrapped me into a bear hug, and kissed me on the top of my head.
I'm happy too. I happily thought.
Mike closed the door and turned with a smile. You could tell he was glad that it was all over with and I wasn't a pile of ashes, I think everybody was glad. As Daniel released me from my hug I glanced up to notice Collin and a new guy, with an expression that told me he was angry; standing all around me and Daniel.
"What is a vampire doing here?" The new guy asked, with hatred seeping through his voice. The animal inside of me seemed to have escaped again but it didn't form the tickle in the back of my throat like it usually did. It was more of burning, like heart burn.
"Johnathan, I will explain later when I am able to. You are just going to have to chill out." I could tell Daniel was covering up his anger and trying to sound caring, and nice. "Victoria is going to be living here until we can get her trained and ready to go back and live with me and Kyle." Daniel added. He placed his hand on my back and led me in the direction of the basement again. As I was walking away, voices were echoing inside my head, causing confusion. I can't beliv-... -Deal with i-...this is going to be fun.
I ignored them. I was more concerned about something else."Why are we going into the basement?" I continued to walk but I hesitated at every step. Daniel was pushing me along, acting as if he was eager about something. "What are we doing?" He insisted on pushing me towards the door without saying anything, so I tried stopping, but he didn't stop.
"We are going to see if you have vampire strength. We have to see what you have or don't have, and since you can walk in the sun you are more than likely not going to have at least one thing a vampire has." My muscles went weak at the thought of what they were going to do to try and find out if I have vampire strength.
When we opened the door, we quickly walked down the stairs, even though I was first I could tell all the guys in the house were following right behind me. They all sounded like a herd of cattle coming down the stairs. As I reached the middle of the room, Daniel released his hand from my back and I turned around to notice a circle of guys all around me and Daniel. All of them had the same child-like excitement, expressed on their faces.
"Okay, all I'm going to test you on right now is strength." He stretched his arms towards me, "Give me your wrists." I hesitated, not sure if what he was doing was right, but irritation soon grew upon his face, so I gave in and held out my arms. He then grabbed my wrists, and I then remembered the rope burns that I had on my wrists.
"They-they don't hurt." I pulled my arms but he didn't let go. "My rope burns," He looked at me; confused. "My rope burns, they don't hurt like before." He let go of my wrists and I looked at them closely. The rope burns that used to be noticeable, were now small, light scabs. "I can heal." I whispered. Excitement pulsed through my veins as I thought of the possibilities of escaping death.
"Well now we know you have that ability." He reached his arms toward me again. Knowing what to do, I brought my arms towards his and he grabbed a hold of my wrists. "Now, your going to try to get out of my grasp." I thought of plan that could get out of his grasp but my plan was soon interrupted, "And no, you cannot kick me in my forbidden zone, or kick me at all." My plans were crushed.
Dang it. Now see, that would be fun. I thought.
A chuckle erupted from the group, but Daniel interrupted their laughter, "Okay, now try to get out of my grasp." I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, which I then began to try and pull my arms free.
A burn started to form on my wrists from Daniel gripping hard and rubbing against them. I pulled and pulled and nothing seemed to happen. He didn't move from where he was standing and he sighed. "Are you sure your using all of your strength?" I let my muscles relax and I gave him a 'do you think I'm that stupid' kind of look. "Okay... try again. But this time stop and take a deep breath and really think about releasing that inner strength." Daniel's voice was smooth and calm, but I could tell he was unsure about this whole situation.
I closed my eyes and took and a deep breath and released it as a loud sigh. I kept my eyes closed and began to remember the night I pissed Aidan off, which was when I was extremely close to death. I was thinking that would piss me off and that my 'inner strength' would erupt. I felt my throat rumble and a loud growl slipped past my lips, and the heart burn started to return. So I quickly opened my eyes and pulled as hard as I could from Daniels grip. My body leaned backwards and I pushed my feet on the ground trying to drag Daniel from his position, but nothing happened.
"Damn it!" I screamed. Daniel released my arms and I let my arms fall to my sides. My body wanted to collapse from the stress I was putting on my muscles and bones.
"Well I'm sorry to say but, you don't have vampire strength." Daniel wiped his forehead that trickled beads of sweat with his sleeve. He turned to talk to his 'buddies' in a low murmur, which I couldn't hear. But voices started to form in the back of my head like earlier, but it was all a jumbled mess. This is pointless--, we shouldn't be worrying about streng--, we should just kill her.
"Hey, whoever said-- or thought that I should be killed, better shut up because I'll kill you myself." I glared at the confused faces turned in my direction.
"What are you talking about?" Daniel turned around so his whole body was facing me.
I put my hands on my hips and tried to look annoyed. "I think I can read minds because somebody's thought popped in my head." Daniel shook his head, "And?" He asked with irritation seeping through his voice. He looked more annoyed than ever. "Ugh, It's not a big deal." I decided to say. I didn't want to tick him off any more, which he seemed fine with my answer. "Okay, well since you couldn't find your inner strength' we are going to try something different." He walked towards me with his arms pulled up in my direction. I automatically picked up my arms, already knowing what he wanted me to do. He grabbed my wrists and quickly said, "Now."
One of the guys I didn't know ran up to me and quickly punched me in my side. "Ow, what in the hell are you doing?" Then I felt another hard rock punching me in my other side, which I flipped my head around and saw that it was Collin. "Ooo, when I get free Collin, I'm going to rip you to shreds." I threatened, even though I knew they weren't punched me full force. I saw Kyle walking up from behind Daniel and I tried pulling my arms free. Kyle had an expression that I couldn't even explain. Let's just say happiness is an understatement. I tugged even harder on my arms, enough to dis-locate my elbow, but nothing happened. "Daniel, let go." I begged. As he shook his head 'no' the heartburn formed in the middle of my chest, and a growl escaped my lips.
Kyle was still coming closer, and I knew that begging wouldn't save me, and I obviously didn't have vampire strength so there was only one thing left to do. I picked up my leg when he was close enough and kicked him where it would really hurt. Kyle went down like a building being bulldozed, and with a loud thump against the concrete basement floor. Daniel released my wrists and went down to comfort Kyle.
"Are you okay? Wow, she kicked you hard." I could tell Daniel was hiding a smile, and was containing his laughter.
"You think?" Kyle managed to whisper in between breaths. "I'm going to kill her." Daniel ran over to the sink and wet a paper towel, in which he placed in on Kyle's head. "Can you move?" He asked. I could hear Kyle's quick breaths and as he said, "No, I can't. I really can't move." Daniel looked up to me and glared at me.
His stern voice erupted in the back of my head. Collin take Tori upstairs, I will deal with her later. I looked over to Collin, which he was rolling his eyes and motioning with his arms telling me to follow him. I quickly jumped over Kyle's big body and ran to Collin's side.
"I didn't mean to do that you know." He was already opening up the door when I was only halfway up.
"Yeah I know you didn't mean to. You had no choice. It was either getting hit or protecting yourself." I walked into the kitchen and he closed the door behind me. He lead me into the living room where Brent, and a guy I didn't know sat. I walked over and sat on the couch next to Collin, interrupting Brent's conversation.
"So how did it go?" Brent asked while putting his book on the coffee table. Collin looked at me with a half smile and I slid lower in the couch.
"Well she doesn't have vampire strength, and Kyle's on the floor in pain. So I think it went pretty well." I laughed at the expression Brent formed with his freckled face. "I don't even wanna know." He muttered.
"I'm probably going to be grounded." I sighed, wishing that all of this could go away. Wishing that I could be back at home, watching t.v, or laying in the front yard next to Kelly's garden, watching the white clouds move against the baby blue sky.
"Yeah you probably will be." He looked up towards the ceiling, as if he was thinking. "You know, we haven't tried your speed yet." I quickly looked up to him, and fear swept through my veins. I got up from the couch and began walking away. "I'm not doing anything else. At least not today." I said quickly. I could hear the couch squeak, which told me Collin was now standing.
"Tori, turn around." I turned to see Collin holding a white vase with gold outline of flowers and vines all around it. It definitely looked expensive. "What are you doing with that?" He brought it back behind his shoulders and yelled, "Catch."
The vase went flying through an open door that led to the kitchen, and Collin didn't move. I ran into the hallway and all of a sudden I was in the kitchen with the vase flying straight for me, in which I caught it. "How did I-- I have vampire's speed." I jumped up and down as Collin walked in through the door.
"Why was my mother's vase flying through the air?" It was Mike. I quickly stopped jumping up and down and turned towards the basement door where Mike and Daniel were standing a foot away from me. I pointed my finger towards Collin, and he brought up his hands as if he just got caught stealing by the police. "I was just seeing if she had vampire speed."
Mike crossed his arms and began tapping his foot. "And what if she didn't have vampire speed?" He waited no more than a second before answering his own question. "My mother's vase would have broke." I looked over at Collin and he shrugged his shoulders. "Sorry Mike. I guess I just assumed that since she didn't have strength that she would have the speed." Mike pointed to the hallway and sternly said, "Go to your room."
I paused in place, and stopped my breathing. "Why are you talking to him like he's a little kid?" I thought that was pretty pathetic. If I was Collin I would have at least argued back. "Collin is a kid. He's a year younger than you." I gave Mike a shocked side ways glance.
"You mean to tell me that Collin the 6'3, 6'4 guy is actually sixteen?" I stated slowly. Mike and Daniel shook their heads in agreement.
"Yeah, Collin Is one of the three people that will be watching over you when you go to school." Daniel said.I shuddered at the thought of school. "Wha-What like a babysitter?" I asked. Daniel laughed, "If you want to think of him that way, then okay." I shook my head 'no'.
"Collin and the other two people are just there so nothing happens to you or to anyone else." Daniel walked over to the refrigerator and got out a vitamin water. He took a few gulps and walked into the living room, with Mike right behind him and before entering the living room he grabbed his mothers vase and gave me an irritated look.
The garage door started to open and I could hear Kyle's annoying voice talking about the different ways he could kill me. I quickly jumped and ran towards the hallway and opened a random door. I closed it quickly and leaned against the door with my eyes closed. Even with the door closed I heard Kyle yelling, "Victoria, I saw you. You are going to have to face me sometime." I cringed at his voice, but sighed with relief that I got away in time.
"Uh, Hello." I opened my eyes and saw the calm faced Collin sitting on his queen sized bed. I glanced around the blue walled room and saw the name Collin above his bed.
"Oh, I'm sorry-- I thoug-- I didn't know." I swiftly turned on my heels and grabbed the door knob; ready to bolt out the door.
"Wait, you don't have to leave.--" I slowly released my grip of the door knob and turned towards him slowly. "--I mean, I'm sure you don't want to have to deal with Kyle. Do you?" I shook my head 'no', and focused on the hardwood floor of his bed room; trying not to meet his gaze.
"Come sit." I looked up and Collin was patting the place next to him on the bed. He flashed a friendly white smile and patted the seat again. As I walked over and sat down next to him on his big fluffy bed, nervousness seemed to have swept through me faster than a speeding bullet, making this situation a little awkward.
"So..." He said, I looked up to meet his hazel eyes and I chuckled slightly. "So..." I echoed. I looked towards the ground again, feeling stupid that I stayed. I could feel his eyes burning into the side of me and the silence was becoming unbearable, all I was wishing right now was that I could just run out of here and hide. I hated awkward situations, I always try to avoid them when I can.
"I heard that you thought I was older." I was startled at the sound of his voice, I was getting used to the silence.
"Yeah, I thought you were their age." He laughed, but quickly stopped after seeing my expression.
"Sorry I didn't mean to laugh." He cleared his throat and turned his gaze from me to the floor; looking a little awkward himself.
"Daniel told me that your going to school with me?" I tried making conversation, and I think I was on to something.
"Yeah, me, Clarice, and Jack." He stated dully. I started to bite the inside of my lip, becoming nervous once again. I looked around the room and noticed pictures of him and Mike at the beach, or with other friends, and also one that looked like his family.
"Is Mike your brother?" I asked without thinking. He looked up towards the wall of pictures and looked at me with intense eyes.
"Uh, I guess you could say that. He took me in when I was ten. My mother and father passed away in a car crash when I was nine and I became a werewolf when I was ten. Mike finally let me join his group a couple of days ago. I waited for so long to join, I love helping others." Collin smiled but I could tell that he was distracted by something else.
"Well, I should be going. I'm sure Kyle has cooled down by now." I smiled, "Thanks for letting me hide in here." I said before getting up and heading towards the door. I stopped as I grabbed the doorknob. "Hey--" I slowly turned in his direction. "--Sorry about your parents." He smiled showing his glistening white teeth. "Thanks, same with you." He got up and walked to the window, and stood there standing.
How did he know--? Jeez, everybody knows everything about me. I thought. I heard a low chuckle coming from Collin as I turned and walked out the door, and into the hallway.
"Ooo, Collin and Tori sittin in a tree. K-I-S-S--" I lightly punched Caleb in the stomach, interrupting his childish game. "Shut up. We were just talking." I stated with irritation in my voice. I walked out of the hallway and entered the living room where they were all watching The Price is Right. I walked to the farthest corner away from Kyle, making sure I avoided him.
"Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich!" Kyle yelled out. "Ten points for me." I looked at the T.V. Screen and I could see some of the letters forming what Kyle said on the letter board.
"Yeah you would defiantly know that one. You eat a p.b. and j sandwich about twenty times a day." Daniel replied before cracking up. I felt a warm hand pressed against my shoulder and I looked to see Collin standing a foot away from me.
"You left this." He said with a hushed tone. I looked down and saw the ruby red ring Aidan gave me the day I was claimed, in which I quickly grabbed it and slipped in on my ring finger.
"I know what that is." One of his eye brows went up, telling me that I was busted.
"Yeah well I can't lose it." I looked back towards the ring and twisted it, which was becoming a habit of mine. I glanced back up to Collin and he was looking at me with his head cocked to the side.
"It's his scent isn't it?" I nodded. "Yeah, I could smell it. It's pretty strong." His nose crinkled.
I lifted my hand to my nose; smelling the ring. Small scent of Aidan formed in the back of my nose and became stronger. The scent began putting bad memories of when he was evil, in my head.
I swiftly slid the ring off and held it in my closed fist. "Please take it."I muttered. I brought my head up to meet his confused gaze, and stared into his hazel eyes. "Please." I pleaded again. He held out his hand and I dropped it in the middle of his palm as I said, "I don't want anything that will remind me of him." A tear started to form in the corner of my eye, but I didn't want Collin or anyone else in the room to see me cry, so I dropped my head into my chest.
Collin wrapped his warm arms around me, causing my head to lay on his hard chest. I could feel his chest rise and fall as he breathed, and the smell of his breath was sweet, like, roses and honey. But my mind became distracted and all I could think about was, is a vampire allowed to fall in love with a werewolf?
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