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A love of mine once said

The best part about you

Was me so now who

Is judging who? - Lie To The Truth, The Young Veins

I'm not going to lie, it hurt. We were about a day or two away from Vampire Mountain, I was glad that I had Cassie and Kayden to keep me company. I would probably drive myself mad with thoughts if they weren't there and weren't able to keep my mind off of Darren, I'm sure Larten would have rather had it that way too.

"Yeaa, woo woo, why you all in my ear?" I sang to myself as we trekked up the mountain.

"-talkin' a whole bunch a shit that I ain't trying to hear!" Kayden smirked, continuing on the song I had began to sing.

"GET BACK MUHFUCK-" Kayden, Cassie and I all yelled obnoxiously in unison before being cut off by Larten.
"Girls! What is that monstrosity you are attempting to sing?" He quipped, turning around quickly.

"Chill Mr. C, it's Ludacris." I laughed, waving a hand in his direction.

"Indeed it is ludacris!" He growled, his face turning red along with the clothes that draped over his body.

"No, Mr. Crepsley Ludacris is-" Cassie started but she closed her mouth as soon as she opened it, "-nevermind, totally not worth it."

I chuckled and began to hum under my breath as we continued up the mountain. I heard Darren laughing under his breath, the melody instantly made my heart rate pick up and I whipped my head in his direction.

"What are you laughing at?" I asked, trying not to make my voice sound too harsh, but I didn't want it to sound inviting, either. He seemed surprised that I had spoken to him, his deep brown eyes widened and his eyebrows lifted into his hair line as he seemed to search for words. He was so cute when he was dumbfou- cut it out, Ronnie.

"Oh, I was just thinking." He answered, pressing his pockets into his pants and flattening his lips into a straight line. I pursed my lips,

"About?"

"Well," he smiled reflecting on the memory, "remember how mad your dad used to get when you played your music too loud? Well, he reminded me of Mr. Crepsley. And one time your dad grounded you for blaring your music when he was trying to take a nap, and that night I came over so you could sneak out- and your dad woke up and almost shot us because he though someone was trying to break into the house!" I couldn't hide the laughter that grew in the pit of my stomach, I let out a genuine laugh, the sound of it was so new to me, I hadn't laughed like this in such a long time. We were behind the rest of the group so it they didn't notice that Darren and I were both in a frenzy of laughter and stopped our pace.

"You were so scared, I literally thought you were going to cry, and then we jumped into the neighbors dog and were attacked by a swarm of yorkies!" I gasped between breaths, which only made Darren and I laugh even harder. When we got ahold of ourselves, I ran my fingers underneath my eyes, wiping away the happy tears that clouded my vision.

"Heh, those were good times." Darren said with a sigh.

"Yeah, they were." I snapped, anger suddenly burning in the pit of my chest.

"I wish more than anything that this didn't happen to us..." Darren whispered, looking at the scars on his fingertips.

"You are the one who did this to us, Darren!" I growled, straightening my posture.

"I didn't mean to!" Darren yelled back. I blinked in surprise, this was the first time that he ever really argued back with me. "You act like this is all my fault! Well it's not! I didn't ask you to become a vampire too! You act like I wanted this to happen! Like I wanted us to both be the undead!"

"Well you're the one who turned us into this!"

"Into WHAT?"

"Into two people who don't love each other anymore! You made it so I can't even look at you!" Darren had gotten close to me in the heat of our argument, I saw the anger erase from his eyes faster than it appeared.

"I never said I didn't love you." he said in monotone.

"Yes, you did."

"It's complicated. I lied, I wish I could tell you, Ronnie. I really wish I could. I do love you, Ronnie, more than anything in this world."

"How can I believe a liar?"

"I can't expect you to believe me, and if I could tell you, you'd understand. But I can't you need to believe me when I say that I can't, not right now, atleast."

"I would never lie to you, or keep something from you. That's why I'm with Steve now, he doesn't lie to me. And tell me he loves me when he doesn't." I knew that I hurt him by saying that, but I had to hurt him in an attempt to get back at him for how much he hurt me. But I think knowing that I caused him pain, hurt worse than anything in the past. My thoughts were interrupted by the overpowering scent of blood, my stomach grumbled because I hadn't fed in the past week or so, but this blood was too familiar.

"Do you smell that?" Darren asked, snapping his head in my direction. Before I could reply I thrusted myself into motion, running towards the scent of the blood. Larten, Gavner and Kade were all standing there breathing heavily and looking as though they had just wrestled and rolled around on the floor for the past 20 minutes.

"What's wrong?" I growled. Kade just looked at me with eyes full of pain and frustration,

"They took Cassie."