Chapter Three

Part One

Nessies POV

I still wasn't sure whether to tell him what I was or about my family even though I knew I loved him, there was still something there holding me back, not letting me take that final step in revealing who and what I was. It was like and iron cable holding onto me, keeping me from saying anything and on top of this I also had to compete with his brainwashing scent which wasn't helping in my resolve to keep what I am a secret. So the argument with myself came to and end I and found that the two different sides of me had come to a compromise, that I was only going to tell him some of my story. After all it wouldn't hurt for him to know some of the story and maybe I'd learn a thing or two about him, what he and his companion were doing here for example.

I thought that I would make it easier for him and myself by asking if this is what he wanted to know and if he was one hundred percent sure that he could handle what was going to say. I think that I was just asking him that to reassure myself that he wouldn't run from me once he found out I was a half breed neither human or vampire. I was a freak in a world of freaks, even if my family tried to convince me otherwise. I took a breath to steady myself when I realised that the lesson should have been over but upon looking around the classroom I noticed that no one had made an attempt to move so maybe it was just my imagination. After my little moment of being sidetracked I came back to the task at hand.

Before proceeding I took another breath and then started to explain my existence to the beautiful creature sitting beside me, putting the shield up that mum passed on to me. It was one of the few characteristics that I had inherited from her along with her chocolate brown eyes.

It took almost ten seconds after I had finished my story before Josh started to respond.

"So what you're saying is that you are a mixture of the two races, half vampire, half human?" Josh queried. "Yes" I replied wondering how he was taking the avalanche of information that I had just piled on him. I'm sure even for a vampire it was a lot to take in; by the look on his face I could tell he had many questions he wanted to ask. "It looks like you have some questions for me" I said with a slight smile.

"Yes" he answered "I was just wondering where to start and what to ask" he said returning to his thinking.

Just as he said this I remember the time and voiced my concern aloud "this lesson seems very long, I wonder why that is" I mumbled more to myself then to anyone in particular. The only problem is that when you live with vampires or have vampire friends you can never mumble anything so josh heard me of course. "Oh" he said looking a little ashamed. "It's not actually long, you see my brother over there" he said pointing to his companion. "Well he has a gift where he can to start and stop time" he said looking at me trying to judge my reaction. I finally answered saying "Will anyone notice." Josh smiled. "The humans won't notice but your family may notice that the lesson they are in is longer then usual but otherwise most vampires don't notice at all, being immortal an all time doesn't really matter. However they may noticed if my brother continues holding up time so I think we may have to continue this conversation later, if that is ok with you?" he said and then signalled to his brother which made the room feel disoriented before going back to normal. "Will the humans or my family what just happened" I asked. "No" Marcus spoke for the first time and I noticed that his voice wasn't the usual musical that most vampires had and briefly I pondered on the reason for this until I heard Josh speaking to me "Nessie don't tell your family about us just yet, there are quite a fare few of us and we don't want to start anything" he said bringing my right hand to his lips where he placed a feather light kiss, it made my heart skip a beat and my breath catch in my throat and I heard him chuckle "Wait" I said when he was just at the classroom door where his brother had just previously exited. I was glad when he turned around to face me. "Yes" he said.

"When will I see you again" I said, almost pleading for him to stay.

"Soon, I will find" he said leaving the classroom and me standing there intoxicated by the scent he had left behind.

Luckily his scent didn't last too long, after about five seconds it was almost impossible to tell that there had been a vampire in this room, so when Jake came in wondering where I was five minutes later there was no trace of the vampire scent left so he didn't notice anything unusual at all, which was good. "Hey Ness, what's the hold up?" Jake said. "Huh" I said a little confused. "I said what's the hold up? Are you coming to lunch?" he said a little more worried now that I wasn't really paying attention and didn't seem to know where I was. "Yeah, I'm coming" I replied a little startled. As soon as he saw that I was at least paying attention he wondered over to me and pulled me in to the cradle of his arm and walked out of the classroom towards the cafeteria. "Are you sure you're ok Nessie, you look a little confused" Jake said rubbing the left side of my shoulder.

As Jake and I walked into the cafeteria I could tell that the rest of the vampires had noticed something usual so I grabbed Jakes hand and headed to get some food, we would be the only ones eating. The rest of my family would just pretend to eat. After I chose some pizza and an apple the only human food that I really enjoyed, I noticed that Jake had piled his plate with just about all the food that was in the cafeteria we headed back to the table where my family was now talking in low whispers.

When Jake and arrived at the table there were only two seats left, Jake pulled one of the seats left out and waited my me to seat myself into it. After seating myself Jake took the last seat and I picked up my apple, just as I was about to take a bit I noticed that dad was staring at me which made me a little uncomfortable so I checked to see if my shield was up properly satisfied that it was I looked back down at my apple I took a small bite waiting for the questions to come.