I woke up to the most beautiful gold eyes. "Alice?" Hector asked in a whisper.

"I wasn't dreaming." I whispered.

"No, you weren't." Hector whispered.

I hugged him hard.

"Um, well. Are you hungry?"

I nodded.

"Okay. Um, well, come on." He got up in grace, and sighed. "Good thing it's cloudy, or we'd have to wait 'till the sun set and that wouldn't be good for you."

I got up not with a bit of the same grace as Hector but I tried. "Why? Can't you go out in the sun?"

"I can but the out come of what would happen later wouldn't be good."

"Oh. What would happen?"

"Um, I'll show you but not right now. Right now our main priority is food. Hm?"

"Hm? What, hm?"

"You need new cloths."

I looked down at my rags. I've become so use to them I've forgotten that there were actual cloths. Ew, now that I think about it I need to bathe.

"Um, you promise you'll come back?"

"Yes."

"Then go…you can go with out me right? Is there a river or something close by? Where I can bathe?"

"No." he said in a hard tone. "I mean, it's not safe for you to be alone. You can bathe when we come back."

"But-okay." I whispered.

"It's okay, Alice. You smell…fine. Believe me you smell too fine."

I tried to take reassurance in that. He took my hand and we walk though the woods. Quietly, holding hands we walked.

"What do you want Alice?" asked Hector; at a bakery shop. I was wearing a nice simple blue long sleeve flowered dress Hector got for me. It felt weird but cool.

I pointed to the loft of bread that the old baker said was freshly baked. It looked and smelled delicious. "That one." I whispered.

"Okay." He looked at the baker. "You heard her. That one."

"Oh, can I get the donuts too?"

"Yes, and-"

"Three?"

"Three donuts."

The baker smiled. "Okay. Such a blessing to see young love." He said.

My face got hot.

"Um." said Hector. We looked up at each other smiled. "Yes, we are very much in love."

"I was about your age when I met my lady. Don't know what I'd ever do without her. I'm happy that God let us be together."

I smiled at his dreamy smile. I looked at Hector; his small smile showed that he felt the same way as me. He looked at me, and then quickly looked away…

"That's such a sweet story." I said.

He smiled. "Thank you." He gave us the bread. "Well, bless you. Hope you have a great life together. Come back, okay?"

"We'll try." said Hector, with a big mouth closed smile.

In the woods he picked me up and he ran deeper and deeper inside. Finally he stopped. I could hear water near by. I sat on a rock, and started to eat. I ate a whole loft of bread before I thought of Hector.

"Opps, I'm sorry. I just…forgot to share. Um." I got a donut and held it up for him. "Here." I said.

"No, don't worry, Alice. I-I'm not hungry."

"Oh, that baker was nice."

"Yeah, he is. I use to know him. He-was really nice."

"Oh you know Luis told me he adopted you."

"He did."

"You know, he passed."

Hector nodded. "Yeah, I know, he was a great man. And know he's with his Juliet."

"Yeah, he really loved her. Hmm, Hector? "

"Yes?"

"Why are you so young? So…" Beautiful, I thought.

"It has to do with what I've become."

"What have you become?"

He smiled. "You ask a lot of questions, Alice."

I shrugged. "I think it's because I don't know a lot of stuff."

"Maybe you're just very curious." He said.

"That's what it is." I said giggling. "Come on, Hector. Tell me what you, Victoria, and James are?"

"Do we have to do this now?"

"If you want me to become like you, you have to tell me."

"No, I-I can't do this to you. To make you a slave to this? No."

"Hector, I-it's okay." I said getting up really wanting him to tell me about everything, but not wanting him to get angry.

"Thank you, Alice. I'm sorry you had to wait so long."

I was quiet for a seconds thinking on what I should say. "It's fine, and I missed you, too."

"It's painful." He said.

I turned, shocked wondering what he meant. Was he meaning the pulling in my heart bringing me to you or is it something else? "What is?"

"All of it. I want you in more than one way and it hurts. I don't know what's wrong with me. You're only seventeen and I'm technically thirty two. This isn't right. I-I only wanted to take a sweet little girl out of hell, and I ended up taking out a beautiful delicate young woman out."

"What about Luis and Julia? She was fifteen and he was twenty eight. Only a two year difference between them and us."

"Alice, your making this harder. You don't even know the monster that I am."

"You're making this harder than it is, period, Hector."

"I'm a vampire!" He yelled. "Do you know what that is Alice?"

I shook my head.

"It means I have to drink blood to survive. It means that I'm a monster that really badly wants your blood right now. I can hurt you so bad. I can even kill you just so easily; just so easily, Alice."

"You haven't hurt me though, Hector." I took a step toward him. "You know, I can't remember you…not from before, but I can see the difference's your eyes, your skin, you speed, your strength. And all of it doesn't matter to me. This vampire thing changed all of toughs' things, it changed most of you and I don't care. You need to drink blood but your not drinking from me. I remember Victoria and James eyes, red. Your eyes are gold though why is that?"

"Curious, curious Alice. I don't drink human blood; I drink animal blood; but I still really badly want human blood."

"I think that makes you less of a monster, though. You could kill a person easily and you don't, Hector."

"I think…it's my chose weather it makes me a monster or not."

"Well?" I asked, slowly taking steps toward him.

"I think you need to stop walking toward me, Alice."

I sighed. "Fine." I ate a donut out of the bag. "I'm gonna go bathe."

He nodded. "Okay, Alice…"

I smiled and left to the sound of the river.