Chapter 2: Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I do not own some of the characters I use in this story. Charlaine Harris is the sole owner of the familiar characters. I'm merely playing with it, so please don't sue.

There are also some characters that will be mentioned in this chapter that will play some interesting parts in Sookie's life. You will find out more about them as the story goes.

Revised and beta-ed by notdoneatforty. "Thank you for taking your time in proofreading my story."

"Its time."

"Ahhhhhh, it hurts heh…heh….heh …. hoh," Leizl said while gasping for breath and trying to do some breathing techniques.

"He... he... he... hoh."

"Deep breaths, deep breaths Liezl please try to calm down," Dan said while driving. He glanced at her for a moment, while trying his best to focus on driving, and saw the blood that was now gushing from between his wife's thighs. He hadn't expected her to go in labor so early. Both physically and emotionally he felt for his wife's suffering while carrying their children, their triplets. She was so huge and the skin on her stomach was so stretched out already. Through the past few days he had wondered how much more she would have to endure; it looked so painful to him. She was scheduled for C-section in three weeks, but apparently these babies didn't have patience, so she went into labor much sooner than expected.

"Hang on, we'll be at the hospital in a few minutes," said Dan.

"I don't know if I can still hold on, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" crying in pain, and hyperventilating she tried her best to hold on.

"I don't think I'm going to make it Dan, ahhhh…..ahhhhhhhhh….rghhhhhhh!"

"We're here!"

"Adele I'm so sorry," said the midwife.

By now Adele was crying for Liezl, for her son and for her grandchildren. Adele was so overwhelmed that she actually lost consciousness.

When she woke up, she was lying in a hospital bed. Her son was sitting by her side. She immediately noticed that he was not in his proper self. He was staring into nothing, probably still not grasping what had just happened. His eyes were full of sadness and despair.

"She's gone," she heard him say. "Liezl is gone."

She could not bear to see her son in this state. She thought that it was terrible; Liezl and her son had only been married for a few months. It was a very tragic fate for her son and daughter-in-law.

Adele gathered herself together, sat up, and hugged her son to her with all her might. She didn't know what to say. There were no words that could stop or even dampen the pain of losing someone you love, no matter how you said it. So she just let the tears fall, and held her son to her.

December 27

SPOV

Four days until the much anticipated New Year's Ball at the Lindgren's mansion. Mr. Fredrik and Mrs. Astrid Lindgren is a really very nice couple. Such a pity about their daughter Ashley, who is Mr. Lindgren's child, for he is her maker, the one who turned her.

They are Vampires.

Ashley is always such a bitch in my presence, but so damn sweet whenever she's with my siblings, especially when Jason's around. I wonder why? But the couple are always nice to my family and are definitely good costumers. Besides that I really like them.

It's been three years since the great revelation. Before then, I didn't have any knowledge that vampires actually existed.

The Lindgren's have always held parties at their house, it was actually a huge mansion, and never failed to invite the Stackhouses. They moved to Bon Temps three years ago and ever since then the locals have become quite fond of them, probably because they are the first vampires to actually live in Bon Temps. At least that's what everybody that's not supernatural thought.

But of course there must always be balance, if there is love, fondness, and peace, to tip it even there is also hate and war. Fellowship of the Sun is what you would consider to be the enthusiastic anti-vampire group. They believe that the dead should stay dead, and that vampires are damned, unnatural, and shouldn't stay living among humans so they must be eliminated.

I know that we shouldn't trust them, and we should be frightened of them because they are actually dead but still alive at the same time. Their hearts don't beat and they don't take breaths but they're awake and very aware at night. A lot of people are so fascinated and intrigued by them. And after the great revelation, they made sure to try to put people at ease, proclaiming that they were really harmless. They were careful to advertise and exhibit that synthetic blood, Trublood, which was made by the Japanese, actually quenched their thirst for blood.

The sad part for them revealing that they existed was people found out that vampire blood could be useful as an aphrodisiac for humans and possessed some healing benefits, but mostly people were more interested in the fact that vampire blood could improve their sex drive. That's how the drainers were born. They could sell vials of vampire blood on the black market and make quite a fortune from it. Vampire blood could be worth even more money if the vampire was very old.

Vampires are creatures that you shouldn't mess with. These drainers had only an idea of how to make money and didn't care about the consequences of draining these strong creatures. Fellowship of the Sun encouraged the drainers. They believed that drainers were helping them, eliminating the so called "monsters", the vampires. And sometimes the drainers were truly members of this cult.

As for my opinion, I like vampires. You can say that I'm crazy for saying that, but hear this first. "I'm a telepath." I can hear people's thoughts all the time, every gory detail of every unspoken thought, people's inner secrets. And if you were me you would realize that I'm not crazy at all for saying that. I found out that vampires' thoughts were so relaxing for me because I can't actually hear them. It's like a Zen for me, you can't even imagine how peaceful it is.

I'm actually dating one right now. The first time I met my boyfriend Bill was at Merlotte's. My best friend Sam is the owner of the little bar "Merlotte's". He has been one of my best friends for about six years now. I have always treated Sam as a brother but I sometimes sense that he would like there to be more. Don't get me wrong Sam is an attractive man but I only have brotherly feelings for him.

He's been running his business by himself for ten years now. I usually consult him and have learned a lot of stuff from him during my early days in college. I took fashion in business management. I'm a very creative person and I love expressing myself through fashion. Sam has the knowledge and skills on that area, I mean for managing the business part. He's been a big help to me. So as a repayment to his kindness I help him in his bar whenever he is short on staff.

His bar is the usual hang out of the locals. One night one of his waitresses called to say her son was sick and that she couldn't make it to work that night. Sam is a very good boss and cares about his employees, so he gave the waitress some time off to allow her to tend to her son. He left it for her to just give him a call to let him know when she would be ready to come back. Because Holly, the waitress, couldn't make it for her shift Sam decided to call me. He called the house at six that night.

"Hello Cher! How are you this evening?"

"Hi Sam! I'm doing great! I'm just finishing up some spread sheets on my computer. Is there anything I can do for you this evening?" Knowing Sam has a tendency of not bothering to ask if he senses that I'm busy, I decided to ask him straight out. I was just actually letting some time pass and relaxing at home, and just happened to glanced at my desk and the small pile of order sheets that I needed to tend to. Nothing really important right now lying there, so I just decided I might as well get that stuff done and over with. So I was actually prepared, and it wouldn't be a hassle at all if Sam needed my help with his bar, if he was going to ask. And sure enough he started making this playful voice he used when he was trying to ask for favor. It was so cute.

"Actually if you don't minnnd... if you're not busy, can you take one of the waitress's shift this evening? Holly called in. So I'm short one waitress and the bar is really busy right now."

"Oh. I'm not busy Sam. Is there something wrong with Holly?"

"No. No, she just couldn't do her shift because Cody is sick."

"Oh. I hope it's nothing serious. I can take her shift tonight. What time do you need me there?"

"If it's possible, can you be here by seven thirty?" he said hesitantly, clearly still bothered about asking for help, and knowing it was very short notice. It gave me only an hour and a half to get ready for my shift, and to drive there. But I answered reassuringly, "No problem Sam. I'll be there."

"Thanks Sookie. I know you're always busy in your store too. I hope I'm not using too much of your kindness? And besides don't you miss me? Don't you want to see me?" Sam said playfully.

"I'm just about done with my spread sheet so I'm not really busy. You know you can always count on me Sam. I'm your best friend remember? Besides maybe working in your bar tonight will give me some ideas that I can use for my spring collection, and I really don't mind". I didn't comment on Sam asking me if I missed him, I just counteracted by mentioning that we were best friends.

"Thanks best friend. Have I mentioned you're the best?"

"Yes, Sam you're the best too yah know."

After we said our byes I spent a little more time on my computer and finally finished the spread sheets. I got dressed in my Merlotte's uniform, tied my hair up and headed out for the drive to Merlotte's.

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