Chapter 7

Claire's POV

"Wake up, we fell asleep and it's 8:15. Shane, wake up!" I screamed at Shane, we fell asleep cuddling on the couch watching The Notebook. "I'm up, I'm up…" Shane opened his eyes and looked into mine. "You are so cute when you sleep," Shane said, how would he know, he was asleep too.

"How did you know, were you not asleep too," I made a cute little face that Shane likes. "I was but I've watched you sleep before, I like watching you sleep. It's peaceful." He bent down and kissed me, long and slow, but gentle. I heard moving coming from upstairs, wondering when I should talk to Michael. "Shane, go clean your room, because I am not sleeping in there with that big mess on your bed and floor, so not romantic." I kissed him again as he said, "Fine, only because I love you." He lifted me up and put me in the chair; kissed me on the forehead and started to the stairs. Michael walked pasted him on the stairs, Shane said, "Man, watch my girl… You can have her until 9." Michael just nodded, "No problem because Eve is asleep."

Michael came down the rest of the stairs and sat on the couch. "Hey, Claire…" This was so awkward. "Hey, Michael, I have to tell you something," how could I say this. "Michael, I am going to tell Shane what happened between us, and then I am going to tell Amelie. Maybe she can help us break this. Shane and Eve deserve to know Michael; all we think about is wanting each other! That is not normal, at all. I never wanted Myrnin. Never…"

Michael looked around the room and after a couple of minutes he said, "Your right, but how do we tell them. It's this imprint, we don't really want each other, and our blood wants to be together." Michael was right, it was our blood. That is what was tying us together in a lustful way. It was taking everything in my body to not want to go over there and kiss him. "Okay, so I'll tell Shane when I go up and you'll tell Eve when she wakes up, then after them. We'll tell Amelie, and find a way to break the imprint, and keep our hands off each other." I looked at him; he was thinking the same thing as me.

"Okay, it's 8:59, you go up, break the news to Shane and I'll go break the news to Eve." We were both thinking that they understand. I can't lose Shane. I grabbed Michael's hand and said, "Michael, I can't lose Shane… I just can't, he is my everything… And I don't want him leaving me." Michael pulled me into a hug and said while stroking my hair, "He won't leave you, I promise. I won't let him." He let me go. "Thanks Michael." I walked pasted him and ran upstairs to face my doom.

I knocked on Shane's door and said, "Shane it's me, can I come in?" I wasn't ready for this, 'what if he dumps me, what if he hates me.' I couldn't handle that.

"Yeah, come on in." I opened the door to see that his room was clean and it smelled like vanilla. "You cleaned your room and made it smell good. I'm impressed." I walked over to the bed where Shane sat, I took his hand in mine and said, "I love you, remember that." I almost started to cry.

"I love you too, always will. No matter what, Claire what's the matter?" Shane was being so nice, it would be so much easier if he was being mean right now.

"Shane, I don't know how to say this, even if I can, you won't take it well… You will leave me and hate me and I can't handle that." I did start crying this time, Shane pulled me closer and said, "Claire nothing will break us up, I love you and I want to be with you forever, no matter what... Just tell me. Is it Myrnin? Did he do something to you, did you kiss him?" Shane was getting a little mad, which would be easiest.

"No, it's nothing to do with Myrnin. He's you know, Myrnin. It's nothing to do with Amelie or with Oliver or with anyone you think that it is with." I stopped crying but only a little.

"Claire, its fine, just tell me. I want to know so we can get out of this bump and move on." I wanted to tell him, so bad, but he'll hate Michael and he'll hate me. 'Claire, man up, just tell him. You guts will make it though, you always do.'

"You promise you won't get pissed and hate me and, and…." He grabbed my face so that he was cupping it and said, "Claire, I love you so please tell me, I won't get mad at you. I promise."

"Okay, just remember that I love you. Always no matter what happens, I'll always be yours." I looked Shane in those beautiful eyes of his and started, "Shane, it involves Michael."

Shane's POV

'Claire was never scared to tell me anything. She could tell me whatever she wanted, but here she is scared to tell me something and scared that she thinks it would make me hate her. I will always love her, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. But she is scaring me and it hurts to see her hurt over something like this, but what is up?'

I walked up and cupped her face, "Claire, I love you so please tell me, I won't get mad at you. I promise." She looked at me and said, "Okay, just remember that I love you. Always will no matter what happens, I'll always be yours." She looked me deep in the eyes and said, "Shane, it involves Michael."

'It involves Michael. What the hell?'