Chapter 13

I felt the blood seep out of my neck as he pulled away and let go of me while taking a few steps back. I fell to my knees feeling dizzy, and Henry ran to my side calling my name, then, everything went black.

I opened my eyes and looked around the familiar room; it was his room, Alexander's room. I was lying on his bed, with the dovey just covering my shoulders.

I looked around to see a note on his bedside table next to his iPod. I picked it up to read,

Come downstairs and I will explain everything!

Henry

That was when I remembered what had happened, Alexander kissing me, Henry came in and then Alexander… bit me?

My hand automatically raised to my neck… nothing; I couldn't feel anything, not even a little bump.

I got out of the bed to notice I was wearing something different, I had the same underwear on just different clothes over it, not boy's clothes, maybe their mothers, and I didn't care really.

I walked downstairs to the living room, or what I thought was the living room, anyway, Henry was sitting there watching football on the TV, and walked towards him and he saw me then turned the sound down on the TV.

"Nice to see you're alive and awake"

"Just tell me what happened and where he is"

"I am really sorry on behalf of myself and Alex; I should tell you what he is first?"

"Yeah, that might be a good idea"

"Okay, no need for the sarcasm"

"Sorry but not in the best of moods"

"I know, so I'll tell you what he is… Alex is a Xenotime (zen-o-time) basically he is a blood-sucking shape shifter, very rare, him and maybe a few others left, he is actually my older brother except I didn't want to be changed, and he is also the cause of our parents death, that's why he has a bit of an anger problem"

"Wow, so, so he is like half vampire, sort of?"

"Yeah, and the other half is nearly every other animal there is in the world, he can change in to any animal or a mix of different animals but that is really hard, he doesn't usually do that"

"Usually?"

"Only when he is trying to show off or try to threaten people"

"I am really sorry about your parents, umm, how did he kill them"

"After his ex, other Scarlett, dumped him, he went on a murderous rampage, I was in prison at the time so I was safe, he killed most of the school, neighbours and our parents, I don't know if he regrets it, I am to afraid he will be set off again, also why we moved a lot, so he could calm down"

"That's so sad, I am sure he does regret it?"

"Probably, but you need to be careful when your with him"

"What makes you think I want to see him again?"

"Oh, now he's bitten you, he can read your mind, feel what you're feeling, you're both connected always now, no way of reversing it unless you become one, you die or he dies"

"Fan-bloody-tastic"

"Ha-ha, don't worry, just talk to him". That is what I am afraid of now, I don't want him to read my thoughts, and I don't want to see him, not now, not after what has happened today. I smiled and Henry and leant back in the black leather sofa to relax, then the window across the room shattered and Alexander jumped in landing gracefully in front of us.

Henry turned the TV off and stood up alerted, Alexander was angry; it wasn't that hard to tell, he was growling looking at us unhappily.

"Why did you tell her?" Alexander shouted at Henry. Someone had to, and you weren't here!" he called back. I knew Henry was trying to stand up to Alexander, but I didn't want either of them to fight, to worse get hurt. "You knew I was the one who was supposed to tell her!", "well, you can explain everything else to her now then can't you!" then Alexander walked up to his taller younger brother and slapped him really loudly round his face, I gasped, shocked how Alexander could do that without even hesitating. I ran towards Alexander to stop him, but nothing happened, Alexander's hand grabbed Henry's neck and tightened, Henry was gasping for air, and the life was draining out of him, I had to do something… but what?

I ran to Alexander's side and put my hands on his cheeks and kissed him, distracting him, he dropped Henry and Henry ran to the opposite side of the room. Alexander kissed me back passionately, I really didn't want to be doing this, but Henry was safe for now.