Yes, this is an update. Yeah I know... a shocker. I told you last chapter that I was going to update sooner. So I kept that promise. This chapter was really fun to write, and I think everybody will enjoy it. I enjoyed writing it... obviously... I am updating at 2:00 am. I just finished it. So get excited.
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We were all sitting around the table together, for the first time in a long time. We were all eating a nice cooked ham that Kelly put together. Oh, and when I say 'were all' I mean the whole Blaine family and Mike, Caleb, Brent, even Collin. After the guys got back from their 'duty' over in Cypress woods, Kelly invited them over for a 'welcome home' dinner for me. I looked down at the nicely made dinner consisting of sliced of ham, green beans and sweet potatoes, but none of it looked good.
"Is something wrong dear?" Kelly's sweet voice rang over the loud deep voices coming from the smelly dogs, if you know who I mean. I picked my head up from my plate and smiled in Kelly's direction.
"No, it looks great. I'm just not really hungry." I said, trying to sound like I was telling the truth. I couldn't tell Kelly that I rather had a drink full of red, thick liquid, that she contained inside of her. I was holding back the urge to take a bite out of her, well out of anybody. I drank a bottle a couple hours before dinner, so I'm due for another one after everyone eats.
She brought her hand to her mouth, looking shocked. "Oh honey, I forgot." She got up from her seat and grabbed my plate. "I'm sure one of these hound dogs will eat your plate." A mutter erupted from the group.
"So who's excited about school tomorrow?" Kyle said, with a fake smile on his face. "I'm glad I don't have to deal with that crap any more. Going back to school after a long summer was the worst!" My heart dropped and my body seemed to have shrunk lower into the chair. I was definitely not excited about school tomorrow.
"Could you not mention anything about school. I would like to enjoy my last 'summer meal' thank you." said Collin sitting next to me. I looked over and he smiled, after shrugging his shoulders.
"Thank you Mrs. Blaine. That was delicious." Mike got up from his chair and grabbed his plate to bring in the kitchen.
"Yeah thanks mom. It was really good." Daniel followed Mike and everyone else into the kitchen where they brought their clean, empty plates. I soon got up, picking up a tray and a few glasses to bring into the kitchen.
"Excuse me." I muttered, trying to force my way into the kitchen, but nobody moved. "Excuse me big boy." I yelled, pushing Mike out of the way with my shoulder, and soon everyone else. I placed the tray and glasses into the sink and opened the refrigerator to get my other bottle.
"Your thirsty already?" Daniel asked. I turned towards the small little group that formed in the kitchen, while opening my bottle. "Yes." I stated, dully. I brought the bottle to my lips, feeling my stomach tighten into a knot, and my mind telling me to stop, but the tickle in the back of my throat caused me to continue. I took big gulps, which seemed to help get it down faster. As I finished the last gulp and brought the bottle away from my mouth, it revealed four wide-eyed guys.
"What?" I asked, annoyed. Mike was the one to speak-up. "Dang girl. You chugged that thing quick!" A laugh erupted and echoed through the small kitchen as I threw away my bottle. I broke through the hysterical group and walked up the stairs to my room, feeling tired and annoyed.
I opened the door to my room and switched the light on. I dragged my feet to my bed and plopped down, kicking my shoes off on the way. I looked at the clock and it read: 8:45 pm. Waking up tomorrow at 5:30 was going to be hell. Heck, going to school tomorrow was going to be hell.
I laid there staring at the ceiling, thinking about how school will be tomorrow. New school, new people. It sucks.
I was about to turn off the light, not caring about taking off the shorts or tanktop I was wearing, until a knock came at the door. I slowly got up, and once again dragged my feet to the door. I opened it, revealing no one. "Hello?" I said, only loud enough to hear down the hallway, but there was no response. I closed the door and began walking to my bed until the knocking happened again, but this time with a voice.
"Victoria, open up." I hesitated, but finally figured out that the knocking was coming from my 'window doors'. "It's me, Collin." he added. I paused in my tracks. Wait, Collin? I ran to my dresser mirror and quickly fixed my hair and fixed my green tank top that seemed to have scrunched up from when I was laying on my bed.
I walked in a fast pace to the door and pushed the curtains aside, and unlocked the door. As I opened the door, and with a little help from the light in my room, Collin's tan face and bright smile appeared.
"Hey what are you doing here?" I whispered. I moved out of the way, allowing him to walk into my room, which he did, followed by him crashing on my bed. "I thought that maybe you would like to hang out on the last summer night." He said the last part with a sort of spookiness in his tone.
"Well, what do you have planned?" I asked, while taking a seat in my desk chair. I gazed at the curious Collin as he looked at everything in my room. "You have a nice room." he said, ignoring my question.
"What do you have planned?" I asked again. He turned and faced me with his usual bright white smile, and responded, "Your going to have to find that out later." He bounced off my bed and walked towards me, holding out his hand for me to take. "I don't like surprises." I lied.
He sighed deeply and shook his hand, "Come on. I think your going to like it." I hesitated but uncrossed my arms and grabbed his bulky hand in which he helped me off of the chair.
We walked out side, onto the balcony but I forgot one thing, which caused me to stop in my tracks. "What about Daniel and Kyle. They always know when I leave the house." Collin kept pulling me towards the edge, but of course, I didn't have vampire strength so I wasn't winning.
"I took care of that." He lifted one leg over the balcony's railing but paused when he saw the expression on my face. "Their over at Mike's house watching some game, I told them that I was going for a jog." He explained. He started to bring his other leg over, but paused when he noticed I wasn't moving. "Well, are you coming?" He asked, with a little irritation in his voice.
"I'm not jumping." I stated strongly, but his dull expression didn't change so I knew I had to explain. "I could break something, and I know that I can heal, but it's the pain I don't want to go through. So can you carry me down?" I asked, sounding sweet and child-like. He sighed and gave in.
I was thinking that he would carry me down bridal-style, like how Mike did that one night, but Collin just lifted me up and threw me over his shoulder.
"Oh jeez, how nice of you." I said sarcastically. I quickly closed my eyes as he lifted both legs over the railing. I felt my stomach fly into my throat as we flew down, and the heavy thump as we landed. He dragged me down from his shoulder and settled me down on the ground.
"Thank you." I muttered while straighting out my tank top. He took a hold of my hand, and began running in the direction where Mike and Caleb took me that one night.
"Come on we don't have a lot of time." He tugged on my arm when I was falling behind, but that only happened once, for I was actually keeping up with his pace.
"Where are we going?" I demanded in between breaths, while running. We dodged trees and jumped over roots, also tripping over rocks, well I was tripping over rocks. It wasn't extremely dark out. I was able to see every little detail. I guess it was the bright, white moon that was shining through the tall trees.
"You'll see." He finally said after so long.
For what seemed like forever, we finally stopped, and he let go of my hand. I immediately set my hands on top of my bent knees, trying to catch my breath. "Where--" I took a deep breath. "--Where the hell are we?" I managed to say before realizing that I didn't need to breath.
I stood up straight and looked at Collin. He had a smile spread from ear to ear, which I began to notice what he was smiling about. We were standing at the edge of a field that was filled of what looked to be wild flowers. The moon's light was shining bright on everything, and the wind blew the flowers around causing petals to be whipped all around us. I looked up towards the sky, and little speckles of glitter, the stars, were every where, surrounding the moon.
I have never seen so many stars before.
"It's beautiful." I whispered under my breath. I turned and faced him with a smile on my face. Collin was flailing his arms at the petals that were flying in his face, but quickly stopped when he noticed I was staring at him.
"I know it's--" He stopped what he was saying, perked up, stood up straight and focused on what was going on, just like a dog would. So I stopped my breathing, which was just a habit, and tried to focus.
Thats when I heard a faint sound of dogs barking, and a man yelling, "Who's out there?" I looked at Collin and he shrugged his shoulders, "Just ignore him. He thinks he owns this whole field."
The mans voice started to get closer, and the dogs barking became closer too. That's when a shotgun shot ran through the air, and birds went flying from out of the field. I flashed a worried look towards Collin, in which he said, "Okay, don't ignore him when he has his shotgun." He grabbed my hand and he dragged me in the opposite direction we were supposed to be going.
"Didn't we come from the other way?" I pointed out. I heard a low chuckle erupt from him before he faintly said, "The field was only half of what I wanted to show you." We once again started to dodge trees, and fly through spider webs, which I somehow got caught up in.
We started to slow, but then came to a startling stop. "Now--" He was breathing deeply, "Now close your eyes." I paused, but played along and I closed my eyes. He began pulling me with his grip on my hand. "Collin, what are you doing?" He kept pulling me faster and faster. "Just keep your eyes closed, and trust me." He yelled. Gun shots and the sounds of several dogs barking rang through the silent woods, causing Collin to run faster, which made me run faster.
"He's a quick old man." I heard him mutter to himself.
I tried pulling my hand free, but his grip was too tight. "Collin, I can't run with my eyes closed." I stated, sounding irritated. I was getting frustrated now. "It's a trail, just trust me." He said once again.
This better be good. I thought, but was soon conjoined, inside my head, by his voice, Trust me, you will love it. I rolled my eyes behind my eyelids. I'm guessing people don't trust you a lot? I thought, knowing he was still inside my head. Why do you say that? He asked. Because you say 'trust me' a lot. Yeah well—whatever. He replied.
We were still running at a fast pace, which seemed so pointless, but my mind was telling me, Run faster.
"Collin, I think were--" I felt my arm being pulled, and my head felt the hard ground, and then my body landed. Everything happened so fast that I didn't know what was going on.
"Victoria, are you okay?" I heard him ask. I picked up my head and began picking some rocks out of my hair."Uh, yeah. I think so. What happened?" I said while spitting dirt out of my mouth. He started to laugh. "I stepped into a hole and tripped, and well... I brought you down with me." I rested on my hands and knees still trying to figure everything out, but then I looked over at him. I saw the biggest grin on his face, and I didn't know if he was actually still laughing, or trying to prevent me from yelling at him. He rolled on his back, and grabbed my hand as I rolled on my back as well.
"Now, Miss Tori, what were you saying?" I laughed. "No point in saying it now..." His grin vanished, and I sighed and gave in. "I was going to tell you that we didn't need to be running that fast any more." A big smile came across his face that reached from ear to ear. I love when you do that. I thought. I think that when I hit my head I forgot that he could read minds, but gained back that knowledge after I thought that. I'm sure that if I could blush, I would have just then.
But when I finally had the chance to actually look around at my surroundings, it caused me to gasp in shock.
We were laying in tall grass, with big white and yellow flowers, probably weeds, but they were pretty. This field was at least ten times smaller than the other field, and the stars and moon seemed to be brighter than before, casting small shadows of the trees that were surrounding us. The wind seemed to have picked up also, creating a nice breeze, that cooled us off from the summer heat. In the corner of my eye, something was starting to flash on and off, then they were all of a sudden, all around me. I smiled after figuring out what they were.
Fireflies. I thought.
I felt him squeeze my hand, and heard him mutter softly, "You like it?" I could tell he had his usual smile on his face, but I was totally speechless. It was amazing.
"It's absolutely beautiful." I answered. I felt him, and saw him in the corner of my eye sit up from where he was laying. I looked up and saw his handsome face, which I could see perfectly, thanks to the bright moon. We stared into each others eyes for what seemed like eternity, but he slowly moved down in my direction, landing his one arm that wasn't holding my hand on the ground beside my head, giving him balance. He leaned in slowly, and softly pressed his lips to mine, causing goosebumps to rise upon my skin. As he slowly released his delicate kiss, a smile appeared on his face, and he soon went back to lying on the ground.
"I used to come here as a kid." He said, sounding like he was starting a story. "When I needed to escape from parents, or whatever, this would be the first place I would come too." He let out a soft sigh, but continued. "The old man with a shotgun, he's my grandfather. But, he doesn't remember me." He paused, which allowed me to ask a question. "Why wouldn't he remember you?" I asked quietly. It was just too peaceful to talk normally.
"He has some memory problems, or something like that." I waited for him to say something more, but he didn't say anything. So I thought that I'd get some questions answered by him. "So why did you want to become a werewolf?" I wondered. He looked over to me, but focused back towards the bright night sky. "My dad was a werewolf. He promised me that he would turn me into one when I turned ten, but my dad died when I was nine, so he didn't have a chance to. Mike was good friends with my dad, so he was the one to turn me into one when I was ten, and also he adopted me." He took a deep breath and let it out in a loud sigh before continuing.
"It has only been about a week since I have joined Mike's group... You know the one that Daniel and Kyle are in?" I shook my head, telling him that I understood. "Yeah, I just joined it, but he won't let me go on 'missions' with them yet, he said I have to train more." I looked over and saw him roll his eyes.
"I can help you train." I mentioned, but I quickly heard a low chuckle come from him. So I squeezed his hand. "Hey, you don't think I can help you?" He moved his head back and forth.
"Well fine, when you come to me because you need someone to train with, I'll just kick your butt, right then and there." I said in a matter-of-fact voice. He didn't say anything more. I picked my head up and looked in his direction, so I could get a better view of him.
His eyes were closed, making him look peaceful. The moon shone on his perfect tan skin and fireflies seemed to have liked him, for they were all over him, causing little yellow dots on his dark clothes.
I laid back down and gazed back towards the light night sky, that consisted of bright dots, the stars, and a brightly lit beach ball sized moon. Fireflies were flying all around me, just like around Collin, and the wind whipped a nice breeze, and also the smell of fragrance from the flowers through the air.
Everything around me seemed to have taken an effect on me. My eyes slowly dropped, creating everything around me to disappear into darkness.
This was an amazing night. I thought before I slipped into total darkness.
Hope you liked it. :D I sure did.
I'm starting to really like this Collin character.
Well I hope everyone reviews. I think that since I updated really really early, everyone should review!
Sounds like a plan to me.
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Oh and by the way, I'm starting on a new story, but I won't put it on fanfiction till I write a few chapters, and also not until I'm done with this story.
So get excited.