Hey guys. Omg thankyou you SweetEcurican12, dream quest, kolorfulkarlie and CompleteBlackout for the reviews. Also kolorfulkarlie thanks for the advice and I promise from now on I will make sure I check my work for spelling mistakes, I guess I get a little excited and try to update it quickly. I like that you told me my weaknesses because it can make me stronger! :D
I posted Chapter 9 as Chapter 11 by accident, sorry people, my laptop went weird! :L
Also I had updated the other chapters and fixed the spelling mistakes... well the one's I could see...
Sorry for the dribble from the last chapter, this one is more on track. And I guess it wasn't completely pointless because I can take it somewhere.
DISCLAIMER: Rachel Caine owns Morganville Vampires. I just own the plot:)
Chapter 11
CLAIRE'S POV:
I told Shane we shouldn't be friends anymore. I doesn't mean I didn't want to be, I did, but Alice is right. I can't get hurt again. Never again. I'm strong enough to not let a boy destroy me. I don't need a man in my life to make me happy. With my friends at my side, I'm strong and feel indistructable.
Shane tried to stop me and talk but I sped up my pace and got to 'Common Grounds', losing him on the way. I had to forget him. He was human and I was vampire. He didn't even like me very much. He probably only talked to me to laugh behind my back or to find out things about Eve for his blonde friend. I know Michael likes Eve. I can sense it. The way he stares... he probably doesn't even know it himself yet.
SHANE'S POV:
I headed back to the house feeling utterly rejected. I walked to the front door just as Lee came out of the kitchen. "Dude! How'd the break up go?"
"Not very well... She got angry and stormed off" He laughed at me.
"Tough. Anyway Me, Mike, Al and Eve are going to the movies, wanna come? Get out of the break up blues?" He teased. Al was what he called Alice for short.
"Alright, what we watching?"
"Umm... Dawn of the Dead, somet' like that"
"Okay when?"
"Umm... it's 3 now, were going at 6. You got 3 hours"
"Alright"
CLAIRE'S POV:
I went home after I asked the owner of Common Grounds for a gig. He agreed. He seemed nice. He was a hippie with a tie-dye shirt and stained apron, with his grey hair tied up in a ponytail. I walked into the house and heard Alice and Eve walking around, but the house was skank free.
I went upstairs to my bedroom and Alice and Eve soon turned up and joined me. Obviously heard me. "So?" Alice asked excited. "Did you get it?"
"Yup performing this Friday" I smiled and sat at the desk while they both sat on my bed.
"YIPEE!" Alice cheered and fall back on the bed "What are you going to sing?"
"Well the owner said that he thought I should do Paramore songs, since I was into them and it would be something different for the shop"
"O.M.G! YOUR AMAZING AT SINGING THEM!" She squealed.
"Oh Claire! Are you coming to the movie? Were watching 'Dawn of the Dead' in three hours" Eve asked changing the subject.
"Okay" I said and went over to my wardrobe.
We were meeting Michael and Lee at the threatre. It was 5:45 and we were ready. We were going to walk there. The movie starts at 6:30 so we had 45 minutes to get there, get the tickets, get snacks and find our seats. I didn't look very goth tonight. I was wearing my black combats, dark blue demin shorts, a white tank and a black crop top over it with 'Bite me' writting in white in a scruffy and overlapped font. My hair was down and I had nude lipgloss on, silver eyeshadow with the 'smoky eyes' effect, mascara and eyeliner. In fact I looked like an average girl.
We arrived at the threatre at exactly 6. Lee was leaning against the wall, Michael was standing next to him texting and Shane was sitting on a metal rung. What was Shane doing here? Alice told me to get over him, but she invites him to go to the movies? What the hell! Lee looked up and smiled "I invited Shane, hope you don't mind" Oh it was Lee.
"Nope" Eve said smiling "The more the merrier right? And we brought Clairey" I hated that name. I looked at her.
"Don't call me that"
"It's 'Clairey' or 'Claire Bear'" She smirked. I made a frustrated sound.
"Can't you just call me Claire?"
"Nope" I made another frustrated sound and walked off into the threatre. The rest followed. We got our tickets and, some snacks and drinks, and sat down. We were on the middle row and all sat together. The order from left to right went:
Lee, Alice, Eve, Michael, Shane and Me. And like I thought, Shane asked me about earlier on.
"Claire, look, I don't now what I did wrong... please tell me... I don't want me to hate me" he whispered.
"Shane I already said, It's not you... I just think were really different..." I whispered back.
"So? Lee and Alice are different and their going out! Don't opposites attract?" I blushed because he said attract. I could see him smirk in the corner of my eye. I sighed.
"Well yeah in science... I just think it's not very good us being friends, escpecially(Is that how you spell it?) how... God what the hell is her name... Monica! Yeah, escpecially how Monica thinks I have a thing for you" I wouldn't dare meet his eyes.
"I broke up with Monica" He said bluntly.
"Oh" Was all I could say.
"So... can we be friends? Or do you just not like me?" I thought about it before replying.
"Alright, I guess we can. Now shut up the movies starting" I smiled evilly at him and then we watched the film.
SHANE'S POV:
YYYEEESSSSSSSSS! YES! YES! YES! SHE WANTED TO BE FRIENDS! Okay I know it's not 'girlfriend' but it's a start!
I couldn't stop glancing at Claire throughout the film, she looked different but still as gorgeorous as ever.
It was half way into the film when I reached to get some popcorn. Claire did at the same time and ours hands met. I flinched back. She was so cold.
"Claire your freezing!"
"It's just the room... it's cold in here" What was she on about? It was boiling! Like being in a dessert.
"Claire it's boiling in here. Are you cold? Do you want my jacket?" She smiled at me.
"No, but thanks".
Maybe she was just one of those people that were always feeling cold.
Hope you liked it!
R&R! It's going to get better!
-Molly^.^