Adjusting


HANNAH

I went straight to my new room. It was plain and there was no furniture in it at all. I let out an agitated sigh and plopped down on the floor after setting my bag down into the corner. I crawled up to it and finally cried, well Id been crying everyday since the incident, but this time I cried harder than ever.

"I'm a freak. A huge freak of nature! No, not even this is natural!" I argued with myself, my head resting on my knees which were drawn to my chest. I heard a knock on the door. When there was no reply, Jacob opened it. His white eyes were filled with sympathy as he stepped into my room and saw me. He quietly walked over to me, and wrapped an arm lightly around me.

"Hey, it's not all that bad. Everyone here is nice, at least. Well, Taylor's a douche, but still." Jacob said, squeezing my shoulder lightly for a mere second. I allowed myself to lean my head on his shoulder as I cried into his shirt.

"I left behind my older brother, my friends, everyone." I whispered to myself, more than to him. He gave my small shoulders another gentle, yet longer, squeeze.

"Hey, let's get your mind off of it. You're a mind reader, right?" He asked, hopefully.

"Yeah, and thought input and mind controller." I added.

"Let's test it out. Tell me what I'm thinking." He smiled. I cracked a small smile and looked up, focusing.

"1. You're dying for human food 2. You're also dying for humans themselves and 3. Damien told you and Jamie to take me and Haylee furniture shopping." I said.

"Yes, yes, and correct." He said, standing up and offering me a hand. I'd made a new friend. I slowly reached out to take his hand. How was I sure that he wasn't violent and waiting to kill me? His hand moved to mine, incredibly fast, causing my breath to catch in my throat. He only took it, gently, and helped me to my feet. My signs of panic flooded away almost instantly as he put an arm around my shoulder, again. "Don't worry, Hannah. If anyone, and I mean anyone, messes with you, I have your back."

I felt my cheeks grow warmer, which was odd. Vampires didn't have blood, how could we blush? My thoughts of blushing were quickly wiped away as I remembered that we were now walking down the stairs. O.K, maybe walking was an understatement. Instead, we'd been running, well he was running and I was just being dragged behind. He slowed down when we got to the living room. Haylee and Jamie were just sitting around, talking, while Taylor was playing with a pocket knife and Kelsey and Skyler were watching a horror movie on the huge plasma. They licked their lips simultaneously as the pretty boy with blonde hair's head got chopped off and the blood went everywhere on the screen. I could tell if we ever came across that actor, they'd show no mercy. Haylee stood, followed by Jamie.

"Uh- where is Damien?" I asked.

"He said he'd be back, he's recruiting more of us." Taylor said, the word 'us' rolled off of his tongue like the venom that ran through his veins. He must have disliked being a vampire even more than I did.

"How many more do we need?" Skyler sighed, angrily, playing with the strings on her black hoodie.

"I'm not sure. He said he felt safer with more people. Something about power in numbers. Plus, that coven is back in town. From what Damien's told me, they would love to his head on a shiny, silver platter. He needs a front line, people who they could tire themselves out killing so he could attack. Kind of scary to know his real plans, isn't it?" Jamie said, putting his input into the conversation.

"Why are you scared? You and Jacob are his right and left hand men. His two favorites. He would have a bitch fit if you two were killed. He wouldn't give a shit about the rest of us. Especially about the M'kenzly twins." Taylor said, looking directly to me, and standing, cleaning his blade. Haylee saw this as a threat and appeared in front of me faster than lighting. Jacob stepped in front of me quickly, and growled. She pushed Taylor back to the couch.

"You," she began, and I could tell that she was glaring and that her anger was almost at its peak, "will sit down, and not come two feet within my sister with that damn knife in your cold dead hands, or I guarantee that Damien will have to go recruit another useless excuse for a vampire. Who even uses weapons when they have strength, speed and a talent- oh that's right. You obviously don't have either of those. You especially don't have a brain if you're stupid enough to show a threat to my sister."

The room was quiet, and Taylor smirked.

"You're not as stupid as you look, M'kenzly. You're right. I do wonder what it would be like to dismantle a vampire and watch them burn from a fire that I'd made. The best part is, Damien wouldn't miss you if you were gone." Taylor sneered.

Suddenly, a hand was wrapped around his throat from behind. It was none other than Damien's.

"You're wrong, dumb ass. They are his sisters, and two very important girls that I've grown fond of these past few years. Their lives mean more to me than your life probably ever meant to your own mother. Threaten one of them again and I will personally see to it that he deals with you- slowly and painfully." Damien growled, yanking Taylor's neck back then throwing him to the ground. "Jamie, Jacob, go ahead and take them shopping, we'll hunt when you get back. Try to be back by seven."

Jamie and Jacob nodded, leading us out of the house. Haylee had just made an enemy for both of us. Damien's threats could get him to tolerate us, but they couldn't make him like us. If Damien got hurt, or was gone, one wrong move and Taylor would have our heads. He could easily blame it on something else, he could even kill us far away from the mansion and say we'd went missing. Truth is, we could probably die tonight while we were hunting if we weren't careful enough. I took a shaky breath, dismissing the thoughts from my head. We stepped into a truck this time. It was a black ford and it looked brand new. Jamie slid into the drivers side, Jacob slid in next. Haylee and I had climbed into the back. Right away, Jamie started a conversation.

"Are you girls ready?" He asked, wiggling his perfectly sized eyebrows in the rear-view mirror. Haylee chuckled.

"You bet!" I laughed with her. For a moment, only a moment, it was like nothing had ever changed. It was like we were all still human, then the vampire talk came.

"Have you girls ever hunted before?" Jacob asked. We shook our heads in a form that said 'no'.

"Well, we usually get into groups. We're getting into groups of four most likely tonight. All four of us should get into a group. Damien can take Kelsey, Skyler and Taylor." Jamie said.

"One question- I thought you said Damien went looking for recruits? No one came with him today." Haylee said. I'd noticed that, too.

"He probably took them to him, who's apparently your brother." Jacob shrugged.

"Do any of you know his name?" I asked. Fear built up inside of me.

"Damien's always talking about some guy named Mason. How they're best friends, how he's so almighty an powerful. We're the only ones who know his real name. Taylor, Skyler, and Kelsey only know him as, well, him. They've never seen him before, neither have we." Jacob replied.

My heart sank and suddenly I remembered all those old pictures. The ones where his eyes were a pale yellow, a shade way lighter than honey. Now his eyes were gold. He hasn't seemed to age. He was supposed to be twenty-four, but he looked like he was only seventeen. Haylee went silent, and her eyes had widened. She was in shock, the same as me. The rest of the ride was silent. We pulled into a Home Depot store. We shopped in silence, as well. I'd bought navy blue, and ice blue paint. Haylee bought forest and lime green paints. We both bought a bed, and she bought a white and black zebra print bed spread kit. I'd bought a white and black cheetah one. We both got mirror dressers and huge regular dressers. We'd also got tables and one lamp each, also getting curtains and a chair each.

We checked out, the total being over 1,000 dollars. Jamie and Jacob had paid for it with the money that Damien had given them. The drive back to the mansion was silent. By now it was 5:00. When we walked in, Taylor and Damien were arguing.

"YOU GOT SIX OF THEM!" Taylor screamed.

"Yes, do you have a problem with that?" Damien snarled, baring his fangs. Jamie and Jacob made a blockade with their arms to stop us from moving any closer. We'd sat the bags down by now. Kelsey and Skyler were back up into a corner, covering their ears. They were screaming very loudly.

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU NEED SIX FUCKING NEW NEWBORNS?!" Taylor screamed, frustrated.

"Are you trying to tell me, and our master, how to do our jobs?!" Damien said, now daring him to agree with his prediction. He had his hands out in a way that you could tell he was ready to claw at Taylor's throat, and his legs were spread into a stance that would make it easy to make a quick leap on top of him.

"No. I'm not, Damien, but-"

"Good. Now shut your damn mouth before I have to make that six a seven." He threatened, straightening himself. Taylor ran up stairs and seconds later we heard a door slam, and something shatter. "YOU'LL BE BUYING A NEW LAMP FOR YOURSELF!" Damien screamed.

We were all quiet after that. Everyone and everything was quiet in the house. Nothing else shattered or broke from upstairs.

"Jamie, Jacob, help them paint their rooms. They can sleep in here over night while it dries." He said, referring to the living room as 'here'. No matter how much Damien had taken up for us, or would take up for us, we would still give him nothing but silence. Jamie and Jacob nodded and grabbed the bags of paint. We'd followed them to Haylee's room first. We painted all of her walls dark green. We then went to my room and painted all of the walls navy blue. This paint only took about an hour to dry. We walked back to Haylee's room and used the lime green to make dots of various sizes all over the room. This is the paint that would take all night to dry. We went to my room and we used our hands to make hand-prints in ice blue all over my walls.

We went and washed up then met the other four downstairs.

"It's time to hunt." Damien said, licking his lips, " Pick your groups. Groups of four tonight."

Automatically, Jamie and Jacob stood by mine and Haylee's side. Leaving the other four, including Damien, no choice but to join together.

"Alright, you all know the rules, well all except for the M'kenzly twins. Alright, we may be all powerful vampires but we have rules. We have a kill limit. No more than five people per person. Try your best to find someone that no one will miss or notice missing. Destroy all bodies and evidence when you're done. Most importantly, don't slip up and fuck something up. Humans can't know that we exist." Damien said.

We nodded our heads and soon, Damien's group was out the door. Haylee and I followed the boys out of the house and to the truck. Jamie grabbed two bags.

"We'll get you guys one tomorrow, don't worry." Jamie smiled. They slung their bags over their shoulders. They started off running and we followed very closely behind them. Soon, we'd landed in the city. Car horns honked, music blared, and people talked, screamed, and laughed distinctively. Some probably screaming because Damien's group had made it. Maybe. We went into an alley, and found some boys. They looked like runaways. There were five of them.

"Youngest drink first." Jacob smiled. We'd had the boys cornered. Haylee and I looked at each other. Haylee stood taller and suddenly her eyes were glowing, and her face was grim with a smirk. She'd became a hunter. I did the same and allowed the thirst to take over. I felt my eyes sting for a moment, then it was gone. I'd felt the same smirk on my face. We'd never done this, but I guess it was like learning to walk. It was a natural, survival instinct.

The boys turned around and smirked. We smirked back, and Haylee didn't waist time any further. She pounced.


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