Chapter Four

"So you're telling me that you're a vampire," Kono said.

"Yes,"

"But, all the myths about vampires are false,"

"That's correct,"

"So you don't live forever and you don't dissolve into ash under the sun,"

"No and do you really think I would live on a tropical island if I couldn't go outside?"

"Well I guess not, that would be pretty stupid. Is anything humans made up about vampires correct?"

"Well you got the speed and the fangs correct,"

"That's not a lot,"

"No, I guess it's not," Cath giggled.

Kono was about to say something else when their conversation was halted by a knock at the door. Kono, rising from her spot on Cath's bed and walked to the door. Upon opening it she once again found Mia on the other side.

"What are you doing? Why aren't you dressed for the day? It's eight am," Mia said.

"It's eight am!"

"Yeah,"

"Shit. I didn't finish my theory,"

"And this is why I don't go to parties, especially ones on weekdays,"

"Oh shush you. I know what I'm going to write I just need to type it up," Kono walked back to her desk with Mia close behind."

"Morning Mia," Cath said from her spot on her bed.

"Morning Cath," Mia replied, "Kono hurry up we have a class to be in,"

"I'm typing as fast as I can, calm down,"

"Well it's not fast enough. I'm going to find you an outfit,"

"Okay."

The rest of the day went pretty much just like the morning for Kono. Rushed and somewhat of a blur. Mia had to let Kono borrow her notes since the girl wasn't paying any attention to a single thing, Mia thought it seemed like some kind of haze. In a way Kono was in a type of haze, she had been trying to process her conversation with Cath from the night before.

Kono was sitting at her desk attempting to make sense of Mia's notes, when Cath came back from class, or the BAT house, or wherever it was she went while Kono was attending her own classes.

"Hey," Cath said.

"Hey," Kono said absentmindedly.

"Whatcha doing?" Cath said leaning against the side of Kono's desk.

"Trying to figure out what the professor went over today,"

"But weren't you there,"

"Physically," Kono took her eyes off the paper to look up at Cath, "I wasn't really paying attention,"

"Tisk, Tisk,"

"I was half asleep okay," Kono defended.

"You should've gone to bed,"

"You're a real pain in my ass, you know that?"

"I try," Cath smirked.

Kono shook her head, "You're terrible,"

"I'm amazing," Cath laughed.

Kono shook her head again before beginning to read the notes once again. Cath grabbed her sketchbook and a couple pencils before sitting on her bed to draw. A comfortable silence fell over the room as the two girls began focusing on their separate tasks. While Kono was distracted with her notes, Cath took the opportunity to pull up the photo she had taken a couple days prior and began a new drawing. Cath smiled as she remembered that night, and realized her other pillow was still on Kono's bed even three days later.

The sun was slowly slipping below the horizon to the far west of the town. As a crowd began to coagulate in the center of town, a young girl began sprinting into the forest to the direct west of the town. With her dress bunched up in her hands, tears streaming down her face, and dark brunette hair being thrown in every direction, the girl ran with everything she had. The girl had almost reached the edge of town when she suddenly hit something significantly bigger than herself, which caused her to fall backward onto the ground. When the girl looked up she came face to face with three of the town's teenage boys, notorious for being trouble makers it was no surprise they had ventured towards the forest.

"Watcha doing all the way out here little girl?" One boy taunted.

"Yeah, don't you want to watch them burn the witch?" Another integrated.

"Why's someone so small coming all the way out for?" Cooed a third.

When the girl looked up it was hard to make out their faces since the sun was now directly behind them, "Leave me alone!" the girl pleaded, wiping both tears and hair from her face.

"Aww, boo hoo, we made her cry," the 1st boy taunted, "Whatcha gonna do about little girl,"

"Wait guys, isn't this the Rollins' youngest daughter?" One boy said.

"Oh, yeah. That makes the witch your older sister," The 1st boy pointed at Cath in horror, "Let's go guys, this girls probably a witch just like her no good big sister,"

As the boys began to walk away a few of them kicked dirt in the young girl's face. Once they were long gone Cath got up and sprinted as fast as she could back home.

"Daddy, daddy!" She shouted as she entered the house, quickly finding her father she latched onto his arm, "Daddy, please make them stop, you know Ellie had nothing to do with this, the mayor will listen to you, I know he will. Please Daddy, you have to make them stop."

"There's nothing that can be done now Catherine, and you know that." Mr. Rollins said sternly whilst shaking the girl from his arm.

"You're the worst!" Cath shouted before storming off into the back of the house.

As the night went on Cath could hear the chants of the townspeople combined with the pleading cries of the archdeacon to "Stop this madness, the poor girl is only a child." But the worst thing Cath heard that night was the very clear and very loud final screams of her older sister.

"Cath" Kono said trying to shake the girl awake from her nightmare, "Cath" she continued lounder. "Catherine!" She finally shouted.

Cath sat up quickly and panicked for a moment before realizing she was in her dorm. Once calm she reached over to her nightstand to grab her phone. The digital clock on the screen read "2:30 A.M".

"Shit" Cath mumbled then turned to Kono, "I'm sorry my nightmare woke you up."

"It's perfectly fine. Are you okay? Do you want to talk about it?"

"It was just something that happened along time ago, three centuries ago to be exact,"

"Three centuries," Kono said dumbfounded.

"Well yeah, I am a vampire you know,"

"Once again, you're a real pain in my ass," Kono huffed, and Cath just smiled at her, which distracted Kono for a moment or two too long.

"You know you never explained why being a vampire constitutes disappearing at parties," Kono changed the subject after sensing Cath's somber tone.

"It's… complicated…" Cath said unsurely.

"Then explain it," Kono said shifting so she was sitting cross legged and facing Cath.

"Well I guess what it really comes down to the fact that once I became a vampire my libido got itself a boost, and when you live for eternity you don't really care about who you're sleeping with because you know that they'll be gone from the earth in just a couple of years. To a vampire a couple of years is practically like the blink of an eye."

"So you're telling me you disappear at parties to fulfill your suddenly increased sex drive," Kono said, while actively trying to keep the jealousy she felt out of her voice. "Wait did you just say that you weren't always a vampire?!"

"Well yeah, nobody's born a vampire. Unless of course both of their parents are vampires, but that almost never happens,"

"So how did you become a vampire. Were you bitten?" Kono said intrigued.

"No I wasn't bitten," Cath laughed. "It's actually what my nightmare was about," Cath voice had once again become somber in tone.

"Oh, then you don't have to tell me in you don't want to."

"Thank you for being so understanding, but I think it's time I actually talk to someone about it."

And talk they did. The pair talked till the sun came up, well Cath talked and Kono patiently listened, nodding her head in understanding every once in awhile.