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Lucas lay asleep beside me, his head resting on the curve of my shoulder and his arm wrapped securely around my waist, holding me tight to his chest. I combed my fingers gently through his soft, dark golden hair. Even when he slept he was beautiful, so perfect;
He looked so peaceful, so calm sleeping there beside me, like he was lying in the most gloriously bed in the world without a care in the world, instead of lying in the back seat of a mustang and being stuck in the midst of what could be a life or death situation.
He smiled softly in his sleep and whispered something quietly that I couldn't interpret. I so badly wanted to lean down and brush my lips across his but I knew I couldn't risk it; Instead I let my hand fall from his hair and drop down to his arm around my waist. I lifted his arm gently of my stomach and laced my fingers through his. I placed our entwined hands over my stomach and leaned back further against the leather seat. Balthazar glanced at me through the review mirror. I gave him a soft smile and he returned it before dropping his gaze back to the road.
After a few minutes Lucas started to stir beside me. He opened his eyes groggily and lifted his head of my shoulder slowly. He let out a yawn and blinked a few times before yawning again.
"Hey, sleepy head" I said and smiled warmly up at him.
"Hey" he returned my smile lovingly "Where are we?"
"A few hours away from Pennsylvania" Balthazar's voice came from the front seat of the car.
Lucas let out a sigh of disssapointment and leaned back against the seat. I slid closer to him and buried my head in the crook of his neck. I took a deep breath of his rich scent. Vampire or not, he still smelt exactly like Lucas. My Lucas.
He tangled his fingers through my hair and moved further down on the seat so that he could rest his head against mine. I rested my arm on my knee, my elbow grinding in to the flesh. Lucas copied me and rested his arm on his knee that was press right up against mine. He leaned his hand down closer against mine so that our palms were pressed tightly against each other. The simple action made me long for the magical feel his touch.
He laced his fingers slowly through mine. His skin was cooler now than used to be. I curled my fingers in between his.
"I love you" he whispered and leaned his forehead against mine, so close that our noses brushed against each other. I wanted to push myself up so that I could kiss him but something inside me stopped me. I could make out from his expression that he was thinking the same thing.
"I love you. Lucas Ross" I whispered back "With every beat of my heart" Well my heart technically didn't beat anymore but if it did, it would most certainly beat for Lucas.
"Forever and always" He grinned lovingly "I do mean that quite literally" I giggled understanding the inside joke.
"I'm still here, just in case you guys forgot" Balthazar's voice came from the seat in front of ours but his voice seemed miles away.
I let myself get lost in Lucas's breath-takingly beautiful deep green eyes that were shining with nothing but love. Even though we'd lost almost everything in the last few days, one thing we still had was our love for each other and right now, that's all that mattered. Lucas brought his arms around my shoulders and I relaxed into his chest.
A bout half an hour later we pulled into a gas station. It wasn't very big or crowded. There was a small empty cafe in the far corner. Two boys, who looked around seven years of age, were squirting each other with their drink bottles outside the cafe entrance. A teenage boy and blond girl walked out of the cafe. Carefully swearing around the mini water fight taking mplace. The guy had his arm wrapped around the girl's shoulder. He turned to look at his girlfriend like she was the most amazing thing he'd ever laid eyes on. They were laughing and gazing into each other's eyes like two love sick teenagers.
I felt a sudden pang of jealousy soar through my chest. Lucas and I used to be like them. We used to go out like that and he'd wrap his arm around my waist and I'd bury myself into his chest. He'd lean down to kiss me behind my ear and whisper a declaration of his love for me in my ear. I'd tell him how much I loved him as well and then he'd pull me close, not even bothering that we were standing in the middle of a crowded public place or in the middle of the sidewalk with people on either side.
I thought back all the way to the times at Evernight when we'd make out in the back of the library where no one ever went or in the middle of the crowded corridors with people yelling at us to get a room. There were times we just lay next to each other not speaking. Even with no words being said there was a soul deep connection travelling through us.
During chemistry class, which was the only class we'd ever shared together at Evernight, we'd pass notes to each other not even paying attention to what was been said.
I missed those simple times when it was just the two of us with no barriers between us. When we could kiss without caring what people thought of us. The times that I could feel the softness of his touch. The gentle way he held me, like I was a piece of glass that might break between his fingers. I would give everything I have to get them back.
"Bianca?" Lucas's voice pulled me out from my thoughts. "You okay?" he cupped the side of my face in his hands.
"Hmmm?" I looked into his eyes.
"You spaced out there for a few minutes" concern was written all over his face "You okay?" he asked again.
"Just thinking" I smiled.
"Thinking?" he frowned "What were you thinking about?"
I drew an invisible heart shape across his arm before whispering "Us" he didn't say anything so I continued "Our times at Evernight. How we first met. The time that we'd made out in the attic and no one knew" I grinned as I remembered the memory. It was the second time I'd bitten Lucas. It was the time that he said that he said that he accepted me for no matter whom I was.
I took a deep breath and continued "Our first date at Riverton" I drew random shapes up and down the length of his arm with my fingers "Our first kiss" I brought my hand up to his face, the stubble of his beard grazed my palm "Our first time" I met his eyes as I said it "The first time that you told me you told me that you me" those times felt so distant and far away now.
Lucas started at me, debating whether to say something or not. He stayed silent so I sighed and snuggled into closer his arms.
"Remember the time I caught you sneaking out of Mrs. Bethany's window?" I asked.
He chuckled quietly "Yeah"
"And the time when we escaped Charity" I smiled to myself "When we stole the car and I was driving"
"I swear to god that I'm never going to let you drive anywhere again" Lucas combed his fingers through my tangled hair.
"I'm not that bad " I couldn't stop myself from laughing when I said it.
He looked at me "You wouldn't know 'cause you weren't the one in the passenger seat holding on for dear life" we both laughed at the memory.
"What if you never got caught in Evernight?" I said, as I lifted my head from Lucas's chest. "Where do you think we'd be?"
"Probably still making out in one of the many undiscovered rooms"
"Lucas, I'm serious" I brushed his hair from his forehead "You knew that I was a vampire well half, so would you have told me that you were a part of a vampire hunting gang?"
"It wasn't my secret to keep, Bianca"
"That's not answering my question"
He looked at me for a long minute before answering "Eventually, I guess"
We stayed silent for a few seconds until Lucas spoke again "Stay right here, I'll be back" he unbuckled his seatbelt.
I held to his wrist "Where are you going?"
"To have a look around that's all, Balthazar will be back soon, so stay in the car" his eyes didn't meet mine. I let my hand fall from his as he shut the door behind him, leaving me all alone in the car. Apart from my heavy breathing, the car was filled with pin drop silence.
I unbuckled my seat belt and lay back against the seat. Without thinking, I slid the coral bracelet of my hand and in an instant I felt myself being pulled back into another world.
After a few second I noticed, Balthazar walked up to the car and pull open the front door, he took a few moments to realise that he was alone "Bianca?" he turned around. I quickly grabbed the bracelet of the seat and clipped it back on.
"Hi" I smiled widely at his baffled expression. He looked at me for a long second, trying to realise what he'd just witnessed was real or not.
"Where's Lucas?" he asked, suddenly.
"He said he went out to have a look ar-"
Balthazar cut me off "With all the humans wandering around?" It took a moment to click into place what he meant.
"Oh god" I whispered as flung the car door open and stumbled out. I looked around the gas station for Lucas.
"Try the back" before I could ask what he meant, Balthazar took my hand and dragged me along to the back of the cafe. I stumbled over my feet a few times; luckily Balthazar caught me every time. Nobody noticed us as we ran stealthily around the bright blue painted cafe. There was a narrow strip of alleyway in the shadows of the building. We ran down the narrow ally, everything passed by in a blur. Suddenly Balthazar skidded to a stop and I ran in his back.
"What are you-"I gasped when I saw a girl's body lying limp against the trashcan. The girl from earlier who was walking out of the cafe with her boyfriend.
Her head had been ripped apart from her lifeless body. Then my eyes fell over something that I never, in a million years, thought I'd see. The boyfriend of the dead girl was lying there beside her. Lucas's mouth pressed against the guy's neck slowly draining the blood out of his body. I let out a low gasp and Lucas's eyes flashed up to meet mine.
Except I wasn't looking into the loving green eyes I was so used to seeing. I was looking into the hungry, cold eyes of the killer.
Whatcha think of the cliffhanger (apart from the fact that you hate my guts for leaving it hanging there)?
Nothing much happened in this chapter , I know but I had a massive mental blank for whats gonna happen and then I got this really cool idea... but then i realised it wasn't gonna work so I went through another mental blank...so yeah :) Hopefully you guys like it though.
Tell me watcha want to see happen in Afterlife and I'll try to put it into one the chapters. I also would love some crazy ideas- so if u gotta any lemme know!
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