Chapter 4

The Treaty

Talking to the old man wasn't too much fun, I guess I shouldn't call him old since he's forty and so is but probably was my dad. I didn't get much from him seeing that he kept on falling asleep, but when he woke up he was, well pretty sane for what he had just gone through. He stayed in his right mind, for the most part but what he was trying to get through to me just wasn't working with my brain. We were there for quite a while him lecturing like my biology teacher while I tried to fall asleep, I knew normally I should have been way out of it, but I just didn't fall asleep, period. So I started to focus on other things like I don't know, girls I liked, McNabb finally leaving the Eagles, and food, for some reason it sounded really bad especially McDonald's fries, they were my favorite and now they just sounded like mucus stuck in the back of your throat, ugh. Eventually the old man fell asleep and didn't wake up in my five minute waiting period, yeah my concentration was so good I could count how many seconds went by without losing count, find out how many seconds were in five minutes, and think about McNabb, fries, and girls all at the same time, weird huh? So I decide to take a look around the reservation.

As soon as I stepped outside I was greeted by a torrent of people questions and thanks. Seeing everyone applaud me like that made me think, did I really deserve this sure I rescued their friend but I killed one too. How can you be thanked for killing in cold blood just too taste warm blood, and a lot of it too. Yum. But back to the story as they patted me on the back they slowly made distance from me holding their hands. They shrank away from me as if scared grimacing as if a bad smell had hit them. I decided that if this was how they were going to treat me just because I felt weird, or cold, after what I went through I had to be feeling cold, I was going to leave, so I did.

Since everyone was at the hospital or six feet under I decided to just move in with myself in a house. I made sure I found a good one, I don't know why I even went to a house instead of living in the forests surrounding Forks but it felt right, and I didn't want to be tempted by the people at the reserve who, oddly weren't affected by the poison, at all. Well maybe they were scared and blamed it all on my odd friend Ephriam, but no one was actually sick.

Eventually I found a nice house, big garage, plenty of space, perfect for me. Now it was time to rest. I went upstairs and laid down. You know that feeling after working a lot and hard, and when you close your eyes there is nothing. Well I closed my eyes and I saw everything. Then I thought, I had been awake for two days and I wasn't tired, wait I was awake for two days? I had never done that or even thought about it, now that I had I wasn't tired. Whatever happened to me sure got me fucked up in some weird way. I went downstairs to see if the TV worked, it didn't but I found a 360 and MW2 so it worked out. I beat the story mode in an hour and hadn't lost a multiplayer event in three hours, it was too easy, I went for a run. The freedom was exhilarating I must have ran clear across Washington before I found myself outside of the reservation again, I pondered the idea of sneaking in and having a talk with old Ephriam but decided against it, he would be asleep anyway. So I went hunting.

Earlier in my past life I guess you could say my dad had taken me shooting, we were going to go hunting the next season for the first time but we just never got around to it. Of course this was a little different hunting deer and even larger game just isn't the same as the ease that comes with hunting humans. Now that I was a genius, humans seemed so stupid to walk around where there are large game and a vampire without a gun. It was almost amusing how easy it was to catch my prey, almost. I heard someone walking on the trail I was taking so I just stood there and bent over pretending, not very well, to be catching my breath. Of course I wasn't when she walked over I looked into her big brown eyes just like the song and almost hesitated, but I heard the blood pulsating through her body and lunged. Now this is where the almost part comes into play. As I drained her of her blood I opened my eyes in between swallows and caught a glimpse of her eyes again. And deep inside of me I couldn't stand those beautiful eyes in such terror, and even worse because of me. I contemplated letting her go then I licked a drop of blood from my lips and drained her. I threw her body into the river, a treat for the fishies, and such a beautiful treat it was for me.

Once again the next day I found myself at the reservation, it seemed to be the only purpose in my pitiful version of life, or should I say hell? I needed to help this guy back on his feet literally. Since it was 3:54 and 24 seconds I reasoned it was a good time for Ephriam to either be awake or wake up. Making it to his house was too easy it required no effort at all I even jumped over a few people without them noticing me. Even avoiding Billy and his friends playing football in the front yard was easy enough to do with my eyes closed, things were going to get sticky enough for me inside so why screw up now? Ephriam seemed happy enough to see me at least for the reason that I saved him, I think he might have been a little disappointed in the fact I was a vampire, but no one's perfect.

"Taking it easy?" I asked.

"As well as they let me seeing as I get four or fie hour long visits each day," his joking reply, "Have any good meals?"

"Of course," was my honest reply, "how'd you know?"

"I can smell it, actually my buddy was fishing the other day and came across a very beautiful brunette, although very dead too."

"What can I say? I got hungry so tell me about your out of body experiences."

"Much more frequent since my body sucks," although not the answer I was looking for it did show he was feeling a little better.

"I was a little more worried about the how and who, not why."

"Actually I was hoping to make a shall we say peace treaty, the brunette must have been close to the reservation, and I cat have any of my people harmed by you, I don't care if I'm the one that owes you, it just can't happen." This guy could really change tones quickly, he was serious.

"How about the widest radius of the reservation, plus an extra five miles where I can't hunt," I proposed

"And you don't touch a single one of my people."

"I can only stay away from your immediate family, because I like Billy, I can't remember all of the people on the reservation," I reasoned.

"I don't like it but I guess it works, family and anyone on the reservation can't be harmed? Agreed?" it sounded like a done deal.

"Sure," and the first treaty was agreed upon.