I got in the black BMW and stared out the window the whole time. Trent was silent too. "Do you want to do anything tonight?" he asked not taking his eyes of the road. "Movie? Show? Dinner? Gamble? Anything?" he asked. I was still quiet. Then I had an idea.
"I want to do everything I can as a human that I won't be able to as a vampire." I said. He laughed.
"You wana visit a blood bank? That's pretty much all we can't do." He said. I was disappointed. "How about I show you a great time. Do everything there is to do in Vegas. I have lived her for 15 years, I know my way around." He smiled. "Besides in 5 years, we have to move so might as well..." I cut him off.
"Move?" I asked.
"I can't…sorry we can't live in the same spot for 20 years and not age. People get suspicious. We always move every 20 years in our Covent." He said.
"Covent?" I asked.
"Like a family. You belong to our Covent. But after you turn we start our own Covent, but will always belong to the one we're visiting now." He explained. I looked at him confuses.
"There is America, States, Cities, and neighborhoods. Like vampires. There's vampire council, 4 major Covent's, small Covent's in those, and smaller Covent's in them. Like states cities and neighborhoods." He re-explained. I kind of get it.
"We are now in a city Covent. When you turn, we'll still be a city, but we'll start a neighborhood. Get it?" he asked
"Kinda." I answered.
"You'll get it soon. Along with the other vampire confusion." He smiled.
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We finally parked in what looked like a movie theater. It is a movie theater. "Let's go." He said. He opened the door for me and offered his hand. I took it, and he walked me in the parking lot.
"Why are we at a theater?" I asked
"The base is under the theater." He said. He went to a back door, unlocked it, and led me downstairs.
It looked like a hotel lobby. There was even a receptions desk. "Hello Marty, I need vampire registration forms please?" Trent asked the small man at the desk.
"For whom may I ask?" he said in a snobby irritated tone.
"My wife Gwen." He said glancing at me.
"Isn't she the one that died in the car accident yesterday?" he asked.
"Yes, and it was this morning. The papers?" Trent sounded irritated now.
"30 Minutes. Your friends are in the stay area. I'll call you when their ready." He said typing on his computer.
Trent grabbed my hand and led me to two big brown doors. He opened them and inside was a couple of people. There were 8 or 9 people there. They all stared at us when we came in. "Everyone. I'll like you to meet my bride Gwen." He announced powerfully to everyone. "She is still going threw emotions of leaving her life so be kind." He said pushing me forward in the room.
There were 3 couples there. One was a puck kid and some preppy girl. The other one was a fat guy with a girl with red hair. The other two looked normal. "Hey, I'm Bridgett. So what's up Gwen?" she asked sweetly. She had blond hair that fell on her shoulders. A light blue tang top and jeans with rips in the knees, with brown flip flops.
"I am ok." I said nervous out of my mind.
"Hey girl, I'm Laushawna, I am one of the two only humans here." She said pointing to a small guy with his nose in a book. "Well I guess that make 3 blood bags." She laughed.
"Only for the week. She's going threw the change." The punk guy spoke up.
"Duncan be nice, and don't abuse your power." The girl next to him warned.
"Yeah Goth, I can read minds. Cool huh?" he said leaning back on the couch.
"Sorry, he feels powerful knowing we can't hide anything from him. That's how he found out I liked him. I am Courtney by the way." She said.
A mind reader, wow. I didn't vampires have powers.
"Not all Gwen. Only a handful. I am just one luck ass." He said
I didn't say anything, o yeah mind reading.
"You'll get used to it." He finished. Trent grabbed my hand and led me to a couch to sit by him.
"So introductions. You've met Duncan and Courtney, married of 50 years, Bridgett and Geoff, married of 56 years, Owen and Izzy, married of 10 years, Laushawna and Noah, humans who will be vampires when ready. And we are missing two vampires." Trent said looking around.
"Beth isn't coming. And who wants Justin here. I hate hearing over and over how beautiful he is." Duncan complained.
"So how's life girl?" Laushawna asked.
"Suckish." I answered.
"You just don't know how good you have it Gwen." Duncan said. "You didn't have a life until Trent came and turned you….." he stopped and his eyes widened. "Dude, you didn't ask her….oh worst of all she was drunk. Nice dude, I didn't think you were that low." He laughed. Trent was blushing, but I had no idea over what.
"He's embarrassed over the way he turned you….oh man this power is good sometime….Trent ever think of producing porn cause you have one hell of a dirty mind." He laughed again.
Trent cleared his thought. "It's none of your business Duncan how I turned her. And please keep my thoughts to yourself." He sounded really angry.
"Dude she was drunk. How can you turn a drunken girl?" Duncan asked.
"Trent, you didn't?" Bridgett said shocked.
"Dude, that's low." Geoff said.
"That's crazy. And that's coming from me." Izzy said
I was starting to get mad. "I don't care. I am thrilled o be a vampire." I lied threw my teeth. It bothered me big time that I was drunk, and that I was becoming a vampire.
"Fine, but you're lying." Duncan said before taking a sip of his drink. "You miss humanity now, but trust me, being a vampire is 90% better." He said.
"Why 90%?" I asked.
"Well the whole move every 20 years or watch people die thing sucks." He said.
Who knew vampires trying to make me feel better make me feel worst.
"Sorry, I'll shut up, I am no help." He said. Trent sighed and hugged me close.
"Ignore him, we all try to." Laushawna said. "So Trent how did you and Gwen meet?" She asked a little mad.
"Ok, I met her at a casino. She got a little drunk and when I drank from her she tasted so good I knew I had to have her. That she is the one." He said hugging me tighter.
"Well what's done is done. But I don't think that was right." Bridgett said before picking up an apple and eating it.
"You better treat her right from now on." Laushawna warned.
"I always have…minus the drunken marriage…..she has always came first." Trent said.
Ok I just realized how fucked up this is now. Duncan laughed so I am guessing he heard that.
"Of course I did. Everything you every thought, remember, or your thinking of, I can see." He laughed.
The rest of the meeting was fine. Everyone was pretty normal. I started to like the idea of becoming a vampire, and get over Kelly. But the most revolting thing happened. Geoff grabbed Bridgett's arm and bit her. And he began to drink from her, and she was acting as if he was kissing her. My stomach was churning. I felt like I was going to puke. I got up, and ran out of the room. That was gross, sick, and she doesn't care.
How?
Will that be me? No, I can't let that happen?
