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Now on with the Chapter
Chapter 6
Eve's POV
Has all this really been going on? Why did I know nothing of this? Also I think Shane's hiding something, I just don't know what. Then again i could be wrong. I do have a feeling that if he is it's to protect Claire.
"Guys what's been going on that you have failed to tell me about?"
"I'm guessing you heard what we were talking about" Claire said timidly.
"Yeah and I think that Michael and I need to know what you are talking about. Would you have even told us had I of not accidentally heard your conversation."
"We would have told you but we are still trying to figure out what exactly is happening."
"Recently we have been having trouble with someone. It's someone who's got something against me. We don't know who but we have a theory that it's Monica. Or that she has a connection to it at least. The most recent thing that has happened is that, apart from me getting acid poured on me, we got this note from the hospital. It had been left when i had fallen asleep and Shane had stepped out to get a Doctor to come and talk to me."
They showed me the not that they were talking about. "I can see why you would think that it is Monica but I think we need to make sure that it's not anyone else before we jump to conclusions."
"Well Shane and I can't think of anyone else it could be."
"I do have another theory that is jut as bad as Monica. Kim. When we broke up she said that I would regret breaking up with her. I don't know what to think now. It could be Monica but it could be Kim as well. I'm really scared for you Claire. Maybe you should leave Morganville. I don't want you to but I'm thinking of your safety here."
Shane I said earlier that I don't want to leave because I don't want to lose you. I don't want to be without you."
I really hate this person. "Shane, I know that you want Claire to be safe but you also have to think about the vampires as well. If Claire were to leave there is a chance that she would be no safer than if she had stayed as they could go after her and kill her. I think that for the time being, as I bet Claire will refuse to drop about out of school, we just try to protect her to the best of our ability until we come up with a way to actually get the person who is behind this." I'm now scared for these two but mainly Claire as it would appear that she is the main target. "Now on a lighter note, sort of, how is the burn feeling?"
"It feels fine at the moment but I think I will probably have to take and I'm surprised that this conversation has happened down here and not in my bedroom. I would have thought that Shane would have taken me to my room and made me stay in bed whilst he takes care of me." She said with love written all over her face.
"Tell you what, Shane you stay in here and play one of you stupid zombie games..."
"You only say that cause you suck at them."
"Whatever Shane. As I was saying Shane you stay in here whilst Claire and I go into the kitchen and get some food sorted."
Even though Shane agreed to this I could tell from this look in his eye that he did not want to let out of his sight but reluctantly he did.
"So Claire I see things are going well with you and Shane."
"Oh my God yes. He is so sweet and adorable and caring. I absolutely love him and the fact that he is willing to put me before himself and would rather he not see me instead of me being in danger."
"The way you describe him and the way I see him act around you compared to how to how he was with the other girlfriends he has had he is completely different. He cares more about you and I have to say that it us a really good thing."
"I think you and Michael should get together. You would be so great together. I've also noticed that you 'cough' stare at him 'cough'."
"I do not." Am I really that obvious?
"Yeah you do and for some reason he's not noticed. I'd love to know how boys can be completely oblivious to what's going on around them."
Ring. Ring. Ring.
"Hello."
"Hello is Claire there, it's her mum."
"Claire your mum's on the phone and she doesn't sound very happy."
"Please don't tell her I'm here"
"I'm afraid she's sleeping at the moment. Can I take message or get her to call you back when she wakes up?"
"Who is this?"
"It's Eve her roommate."
"Can you tell her we will be coming to see her on Friday to take her home?"
"I can do that. No problem." Oh crap.
"Thank you Eve. Bye."
"Bye." Oh boy do we have a problem.
Shane's POV
"Who was that on the phone?"
"Claire's mum and we have a problem. Claire's parents are going to come here on Friday with the plan of taking Claire from here. My guess is it's due to the acid incident and now they want you home."
"Surely they can't expect me to be able to leave like that. I mean I bet there's paperwork that I would have to fill out so that the uni would be aware that I am no longer attending and also they should have thought about the fact that I would not be very likely to leave considering the fact I would never stop attending school after all the hard work that I have put into getting myself to where I am now."
"You'd never get passed the perimeter anyway. The Vampires already know who you are and would come after you once they realise that you are no longer in Morganville.
Maybe if you can convince your parents that you need to stay here a while whilst you fill out the paperwork they might let you stay here and then expect you home and by which time they will have forgotten hopefully as they will not have been here long enough to be able to find out about the vampires. And then everyone's happy."
"I wasn't even aware that my parents knew where I live. I don't ever remember mentioning this to them."
"Maybe we can ask them that when they get here."
After that we changed the topic of conversation to just anything whilst we ate. Michael did eventually surface but I did not want to talk to him. He's barely around I have a feeling that if I talk to him now I will hit him.
After we had finished eating I took Claire upstairs because she still needs to rest and also it felt nice to be able to escape to her from and forget that the world out there exists for a few hours. Just lying there enjoying the feel of lying in each other's arms.
Well until Claire realised that I was thinking about things and too caught up in my thoughts.
"Shane are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, just thinking about some things. Do you think that we should we tell your parents about us or do you think that it would be for the best that we leave that bit of information out?"
"I don't know. I'd like to be able to tell them about you but I feel as though my dad will want and maybe try to kill you and then end up dragging me kicking and screaming home with them regardless of what I have to do to make sure that I'm actually withdrawn from uni."
"If your parents had actually allowed you to go wherever you want would you have ended up here?"
"No. I had wanted to go to somewhere like MIT but they wanted me to spend some more time nearer to home whist still going after my dream. So I guess we should be thankful to them cause if I had been allowed to go where I wanted then I wouldn't have met you."
We started kissing after that. This probably wasn't the best thing to do as we have a tendency to get caught up in the moment as the door gets locked and no one comes to interrupt us.
"Claire we have to stop"
"Why?"
Thank God for this. "I don't want to accidentally hurt your burn."
"I kind of forgot about that."
"How's it feeling?"
"It's fine right now. I'll probably have to have some painkillers first thing in the morning though."
(Friday)
I wish today had not come. Me and Claire had been having a great time being together, lying on her bed watching films and making out. There were also times when Claire had fallen asleep when we would watch films and i would just sit there watching her cause she looked so adorable especially when she'd fall asleep with my arms wrapped around her.
Sadly though that had to come to an end. Within the next few short hours Claire's parents would be here expecting to be able to take her home with them. I know that I always would argue that she should leave for the benefit of her safety but now that the time is here when she would be leaving I don't want her to go anymore
Knock. Knock. Knock.
Now it was all about to end.
Claire went to answer the door and I immediately missed her being in my arms but I guess I had best get used to the feeling.
"Mum, Dad. Come on in. How was the drive?"
"Long. First thing is why are you living in a house when you are meant to be in the dorms with other girls?"
"I was having some problems with the girls in the dorms so I got permission to move into off campus living. These are my roommates Eve, Shane and Michael."
"Claire I hope your bags are packed because we don't want to wait."
"What? You are really expecting me to leave just like that and go back with you? What am I meant to do about uni? What am I supposed to do at home? I've graduated from high school so I can't go back there and if I could there would never go back there. Do you expect that I'll get some lame job that I'll have to have until you think that I'm old enough to be able to leave home and go to uni again?"
"Claire you are only sixteen. You aren't getting on well with the people in the dorms making you live in a place that, no offence or anything, that we don't know if it's safe or not. Alas other was the acid incident so therefore you most see how logical it would be for you to come back with us. You aren't eighteen yet so you do have to do what we say."
"I get that but seriously you really expect me to leave just because you aren't happy with some things going on. But when have you ever known me to give up on something even when things are getting tough around me. Also there are forms that I would have to fill in before I can actually go anywhere. Can I stay until they are completed?"
"Is there really no where else you can stay because I'm sure that you are really nice people but are all what about nineteen and Claire's sixteen. I'm sure you can see why we are a bit apprehensive to let Claire stay here."
Whilst Claire had been talking to her parents I was feeling so tempted to go and wrap around my arms around her to give her some form of comfort, but when Mr Danvers talked about how because of our ages I then became a bit unsure as to if I should do that because I do think it would be in her best interest if we didn't tell them about us being together.
"Mr Danvers, I understand completely where you are coming from, but I do have to say that when I first met Claire and She told me that she was looking to rent a room in the house and I saw that she was sixteen I did at first say that we would not allow her to stay due to her age but then I had a proper look at her and at this point she had a black a couple of bruises and a sprained ankle and this was before she had woken up the next day when the bruises had started to come in and she looked a lot worse than when she had gone to sleep. So I didn't feel right to let her to go back to the dorms where no one would be able to know how much more damage the girls would try to do to Claire." Michael said.
"We've been treating Claire as though she was our little sister. Always checking up on her to make sure she isn't having anymore hassle from the girls. After the acid incident we were thinking of a plan that would make Claire able to carry on with her studies but where she was also made safe. This week we even got her to stay at home so that she could rest and to give us some time to come up with a plan."
"That sounds good and all but I'm still not sure about leaving her here"
"How about we continue this conversation after dinner?" Eve said.
For dinner we probably shouldn't have allowed Eve to cook cause she can be the worst cook out of all of us (and Claire being the best) but she had managed to make the tacos quite well.
Half way through dinner i think that we had managed to get Claire's parents on our side and I think they were starting to like us but it went downhill when Mr Danvers went to get another drink. Me and Michael immediately jumped up and offered to get it for him knowing that he would most likely no longer be happy with us and willing to let Claire stay with us but he was already on his way to the kitchen. We just had to hope that he would not notice the beer sitting in the fridge.
Sadly though that was not to be. Crap. Just when it was going so well it falls to pieces as he had come back with a bottle of beer in his hands that he then put in the middle of the table.
"Would someone care to explain how there is beer in you fridge when n one of you are old enough to be able to buy it in the first place? Claire as I'm guessing that none of your things are packed we will be back on Tuesday to come get you."
Then we realised that the sun was setting and even though I could see that Claire looked like she hated her parents at this point I know that she would not want anything to happen to them so we quickly got them in their car to get them out of Morganville before the vampires found them by telling them that there had been rumours of carjackers in Morganville and that they would not want to become a victim.
When the door was closed and bolted I noticed Claire was on the verge of tears.
"It's going to be okay Claire, when they leave they is a very good chance that they will no longer remember what has just happened."
"I just feel as though they think that I'm now a disappointment to them and I've never felt like that before."
I just held her and hoped that she felt some comfort from it.
"Maybe you should take her upstairs Shane?" Michael suggested
When we got to her room I went to release her on the bed so that I could then lock the door but she didn't want to let go.
"Claire you need to release my neck so that I can lock the door and so that you can change your clothes so that you aren't sleeping in your jeans."
She then let me go but ~I could feel her eyes on me, I'm guessing she needs me to be her safety net and make sure that I will always be there for her. I guess for tonight it's a good thing that there are some of my things in here so I didn't have to leave the room to get some clothes
When I got back onto the bed I put Claire immediately back into my arms and I could tell that she would not be going to sleep anytime soon.
"Claire, I think you should try to sleep."
"Not tired"
"You look exhausted. I'm not going anywhere and I won't let you leave my arms. "
After a few minutes she fell asleep but it was a restless sleep. I hope her parents won't force her to leave and I hope that it just lasts for tonight cause she won't be happy if she can't get a decent night's sleep.
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