ATTENTION!! ok I made a few changes to chapter 1 in like the first couple paragraphs and in chapter 7 where Chris gives her the knife I added to that paragraph too, I didn't rewrite the entire paragraph its just a few minor changes. Anyways I am sorry I haven't updated in awhile I try it just takes forever to type every thing!! But I hope everyone likes this chapter!
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When I woke up I was in a very different room. I jolted up straight in the bed I was now in. But as soon as I moved my body erupted in pain, I laid back down.
"Careful." Someone said to my right, I turned to look and my eyes met violet ones. "You were hurt pretty bad, and need to stay still."
I sat up slowly, without hardly any pain. I immediately became defensive, everything came flooding back to me about the earlier night. It came in flashes. The two guys, being stabbed twice, Nathan throwing the guy 50 feet away, and fangs!
"Where am I? How long have I been here?" I asked quickly, while looking around the room. It looked like a pretty big guest room, across from the bed was a window, to the right of the bed there was a bathroom, next to the bathroom was another door which I assumed was a closet, and to the left of the bed was a door that was open, exposing a hallway.
Anna smiled warmly at me. "Your at my family's house, and you've been here about a day." Great I go from Friday night to Sunday morning. I thought sarcastically.
"Where's my phone? My bag?" I asked irritably looking around the floor.
"It's okay its in the hall closet."
While I was looking for my phone I realized I had on different clothes. I was now wearing a white t-shirt, and sweat pants. My hands flew to my thigh out of instinct. Oh no! I thought. I could care less about my clothes right now, if they found my knife….
I swung my legs over the bed, causing searing pain. "Wait," Anna's voice was cut off when I ran into someone who was coming in the door I was going out. I hit their hard chest and landed on my butt on the floor. I let out a cry at the unbearable pain. I looked up seeing my worst nightmare.
"You okay?" Nathan asked bending down offering his hand to help me up. I just looked at his hand with narrowed eyes then at his face.
I pointed at him. "You. Get the hell away from me." My voice was as hard as steel. He took his hand back. I slowly and carefully got up from the floor. I crossed my arms over my chest and faced Anna, I refuse to speak to Nathan. "I'll take my bag, my clothes, and away out of here, if you don't mind."
I waited for an answer or response from either but got none. "Fine." I said and walked towards the door. Nathan moved at the last minute, blocking my way out with his body in between the door and me. "Move." I waited, nothing he just looked at me.
"Macey, you need rest." I heard Anna say from behind me.
"What I need to do is go home." I said not taking my eyes off Nathan.
"I can see you two need to talk so I'll just leave." Anna slid between Nathan and the door and was gone.
Nathan took a step forward, I immediately took a step back. He reached behind him and closed the door.
"I want my stuff." I said through clenched teeth. He grinned mockingly, as he sat on the edge of the bed.
"Why do you need your stuff so much, besides wanting your phone so you can call you family?" He asked. I took a couple steps toward him without knowing it as I spoke again.
"Because it's mine and you have no right to take it."
"Are you sure? Or are you wanting to get something that you don't want us to know about?" He took out my knife from behind him, and held it up. "Like this?"
"Give me it." I reached out for it and as I did he pulled it away. I ended up falling on him slightly. My left arm was stretched out towards the knife that he held away from me, my right arm ended up on the other side of him next to his leg. Our faces were really close, close enough where I could move forward a little and my lips would touch his. I found myself admiring how he looked instead of blocking that out and thinking about what he was, like I had done earlier. When my gaze met his the liquid fire swirled around.
"No, I'm not giving you anything until you start explaining." He said still looking me in the eyes.
Once he spoke I broke out of my trance and actually realized the horrible pain I was in from my wounds being bent at an awkward position. I sucked in air through my teeth and shut my eyes. I got kinda stuck in the pain and fell to the floor. Or at least I thought I was going to hit the floor, but the pain never came. Nathan had caught me before I touched the ground and put me back in the bed. I sighed in relief.
"Are you alright?" I pressed my lips together and nodded. He sat down next to me. he had the knife in his hands looking at it intently. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I could ask you the same thing." I said my voice hard.
"Its just, how can you be a hunter?" Hunter, he said the word with such disgust.
"I'm sorry I didn't offer my neck to you like any other naïve human would do." I crossed my arms over my chest. He turned and looked at me with golden amber daggers. He opened his mouth to say something then closed it. He inhaled a little, and closed his eyes.
I shifted a little, and his eyes shot open. Whoa! His pupils were dilated so I could only see a sliver of gold. What the hell? I thought. I have never seen or heard of vampires' eyes doing that.
"Your bleeding." He told me as he looked down at my stomach I looked too, and sure enough my wound was bleeding badly, through the white fabric. Nathan moved towards me, I immediately jumped out of the bed, with pain following. I held my stomach.
"Macey come here I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to re-bandage it." He got up and moved towards me. His pupils were still dilated.
"Stop, right there, I don't want you touching me." I held out my hand in a stop motion.
"I promise I wont hurt you, just come here."
"The last time someone made a promise to me, they didn't keep it." I said remembering my dad telling me before he went to the valley.
"Stay here, Mace. I promise I'll be right back." My dad said getting out of the car.
"You promise daddy?" I asked not knowing he wouldn't be able to keep it. "Cause Ian says you cant ever break a promise."
"I promise, sweetheart." He kissed my head and ran into the trees.
" Macey?" I heard Nathan's voice ask with concern. "What's wrong?"
I came back to the present. Nathan was able to walk over to me and was now cradling my face in his hands.
"Nothing, and I don't need you to bandage me. I need to go home." I said jerking my face out of his hands and running out the door. I ran as fast as I could down the hall then turned left and ran down that hall, the hall I was running down, Alex was walking up.
He raised an eyebrow at me, as I came to a stop in front of him. "What are you running from?" He asked in an amused voice.
"Alex!" A voice came from the other end of the hall, the way I came from. "Grab her!"
"Gotta go." I mumbled, getting around him. I was grabbed by the upper arms and stopped by Alex before I could go anywhere. "Let me go!" I screamed, and stomped. I was in so much pain right now, but that didn't really matter.
Nathan picked me up and carried me back to the bedroom I was in before. Once he put me down I went to the window. I refused to talk to him, again. The pain had decreased a little since I stopped thrashing around. I looked down and there was blood all over the bottom of the shirt that I was wearing. I lifted it up a little the bandage was soaked with blood.
"You want that re-bandaged?" Nathan asked closing the door. I didn't ever hear or see him lock the door, which make it better to know I'm not locked up somewhere. I looked at him and then out the window. "I'm going to bandage it whether you want me to or not."
We didn't speak for a while. When I got tired of the silence I turned around to look at him, he had been leaning against the wall, arms crossed over his chest just staring at me. I sighed and sat down on the bed. I looked up at him again, he was still in the same position as he was before, his eyes had just followed me to where I had gone.
He was just so beautiful. His black hair had fallen into his eyes again, allowing you only to see a hint of amber peeking through his hair.
"Okay, you can re-bandage it." He went to the bathroom and came back with a first-aid kit. He sat down next to me, as he rummaged through the medical supplies. I hesitantly lifted up the bottom of my shirt.
As he reached to unwrap the gauze, his fingers brushed my skin, my whole body tensed. He caught my reaction.
"Why don't you trust me?" He asked.
"I don't trust a lot of people, and when I do it doesn't end up in the best situations." I told him.
"Like when?" He asked cleaning my wounds.
I hissed in pain from the anesthetic. He looked up at me, and then blew on my wounds where the anesthetic was, a shiver ran up my spine when he did that. He moved onto the other wounds cleaning them more gently.
"Just throughout my life I've been let down or disappointed. I can only trust four people, my two brothers, Chris, and Kyle." He had finished cleaning them, had put some healing ointment on it and was now wrapping it with new gauze. "And how can I trust you when you wont even tell me why I have to stay here?" He looked up at me as he pinned the gauze together with one of those silver clips.
"I would never hurt you."
I was starting to get mad. He would never answer my question. "Why do you keep avoiding my question?" I asked through clenched teeth. He didn't answer me. "Ugh. Leave. Get out." I told him. He left without a word and I fell asleep.
When I woke up I was on my stomach with my head buried under the covers. I was about to go back to sleep but I felt someone was watching me. I pulled back the sheets and turned my head around, to look if someone was in the room. There was.
Nathan was leaning against the wall next to the bed I was currently in, with his arms crossed over his chest, and one leg was bent so his foot was against the wall. He and I locked gazes, but I broke it by rolling my eyes and plopping my head back on the bed with a "huff!".
"How long have I been asleep?" I mumbled into the covers.
"A couple hours." I heard his voice answer.
"How long have you been here?" I asked again in the same position.
"About an hour."
I didn't move my head, but I stretched out my arm and searched blindly for the covers so I could pull them over my head and go back to sleep. I gave up after a few failed attempts and just laid there. After a couple minutes of silence, I peeked up at him. Nathan was still in the same position, but his eyes were closed and his head was against the wall. I sat up against the headboard, I was too awake to go back to sleep.
"How did you get the knife?" Nathan asked suddenly.
"A friend gave it to me." I told him.
"Do you even know how to use it?"
"Yes." I said as I gritted my teeth. "Do you even know how to use your fangs?" I asked sarcastically. He laughed a little.
"On Friday, when I had that run in with those two guys, how did you know I was in trouble?"
"I really don't know." He admitted. "I just felt like something was wrong and I went to find you." He was looking off into the distance. "When I got there he had just stabbed you in the back. You looked like you were in so much pain. I just grabbed the guy and threw him, without thinking about it."
"Thank you." I said quietly, his eyes flew to mine.
"Your welcome." He came over and sat on the foot of the bed. It was still a little awkward and slightly uncomfortable with him so close to me.
"So," I began in a sweet voice. "Why can't I go home?" He kind of ignored me, and didn't answer. I decided to pester him. "Well how long do I have to stay here?" No answer. "Why won't you answer?" No answer. "What? Are you planning on killing me?" No answer. "O k, am I leverage for you to get information from the hunters?" No answer. "What-,"
I broke off when suddenly he stood up and shouted, "Its because I care about you." He paced around a little in a fume. "Its because I want you to be safe, and I want to know your okay." He added, walked out the door and slammed it closed.
I was left there dumfounded, with my eyebrow arched up in confusion. "What just happened?" I asked out loud.
"What just happened is the truth finally coming out." Anna said coming in the door with a beautiful smile on her face.
"What do you mean?" I asked cautiously. She sat on the bed right in front of me. I immediately scooted back. She caught the movement but, didn't say anything she just moved to where there was more space in between us.
"My brother cares for you so much, and you care for Nathan just as much, no matter how much you deny it I know you do." She added the last part quickly when she saw my expression.
"How can you possibly know?" I asked skeptically.
"Did you know that there is a bright light that surrounds everyone's body and the different colors it shows is how that person feels and how their soul is? But no one can see them?"
"You mean an aura?" I asked not knowing where this was going. "What about them?"
"Well I can see them." She told me with a smile.
I just looked at her. "Wait what do you mean you can see them? Like, you can see mine? Right now?"
She nodded. "It's shining with red more at the moment. Which means you are feeling overwhelmed by the change."
"But-but how?"
"Some vampires have special powers, in fact my whole family does." In the past I had heard of vampires having special powers but they were pushed off as rumors to me. "Anyways, you both have feelings for each other, either you don't know it," She looked at me when she said that. "Or you don't know how to deal with it." She nodded her head in the direction of the door. "Every time you come around Nathan his aura shines with green, red, and yellow the most, and when he comes around you yours does the same."
"What does green, red, and yellow, mean?" I asked confused and overwhelmed.
"In this case green means healing, peace, nurturing, and balance. Red means life force, survival, raw passion, and sense of importance. Yellow means happiness."
"Okay, I guess." I said unsurely.
"At the bonfire when Nathan was talking to that other human girl your aura flooded with jealously and envy, as did Nathan's when Scott was around you."
I was so overwhelmed, confused, frightened, happy, sad, mad, and every other emotion all at the same time. Anna looked at me and frowned.
"Okay, I'll explain a little better about my family and see if it comes less confusing." I nodded in agreement.
"My family is…different from other vampires. You may have noticed the differences." I nodded. "See we don't drink human blood, we drink animal blood. So you are not in any danger from us." I have never heard of vampires being able to do that. "Being that we drink animal blood when we are exposed to human blood our pupils expand and look dilated, instead of retracting like other vampires pupils do." Oh so that explains Nathan's pupils were dilated when he told me I was bleeding. I thought. "Also we have a thicker line of black around the color in our eyes, but other than that we are all the same."
She waited a couple seconds to let the new information sink in, and then continued. "Now we each have powers/abilities. Mine is that I can see auras. Erick can manipulate dreams, if he wants to, he can change the dream your having completely, or just watch you dream. Alex has a power called electrokiniesis, obviously where he can create electricity and control it. Aiden, our father has clairsentience or empathy where he can feel others emotions. Deserae, our mom has oculomancy, if you have ever heard the saying "The eyes are the windows to the soul" then that explains her power, she can look into your eyes and actually look at your soul. Pretty awesome right?" She asked smiling. Wow. I thought. Those are amazing abilities, but how come I never knew that vampires could have different abilities?
"So overall Nathan wants you to stay here, because he cares for you and wants to keep you safe." Anna finished.
What if I want to go home? I thought. Would he make me stay here?
"He-he can't keep me here." I told her in a frantic and half angry voice.
"Calm down, calm down." Anna said with a small grin. "He won't."
My stomach growled and Anna laughed a little.
"I can tell your hungry. I'm going to go get you some clothes, and some toiletries for you to use, and when I come back I'll take you downstairs. Everyone is interested and excited to see you.
"Hey what about Nathan's power?" I asked suddenly remembering she forgot to tell me about his. She didn't say anything, just walked out with a smug smile on her face that said, "I'm not telling you".
I do like her. I thought. She is so nice to me. But is what she said about Nathan and I caring for each other true? Did I have feeling for him? Even though he's a vampire?
After she came back I took a shower and changed into the clothes she brought me. My wounds were healing but they still hurt like hell.
In the end I had on skinny jeans that were light and faded and shredded. A slouchy white tee that wasn't tight on me, it kinda flowed around. Over that I had on a gray jacket that had quarter length cuffed sleeves and it was kind of big on me too. I also had on a rose-gold necklace, and a silver cuff bracelet on. I put my black converse with it. My blonde hair was down in big curls again.
Someone knocked on my door, right as I got done changing.
"Come in." I called. Anna walked in.
"You look very pretty." She smiled at me, and put something in my hand, I looked down it was my phone. "We trust you and we hope you can trust us."
"Um can I have a minute alone?" She nodded and left me alone again.
I had 5 missed calls, one from Kyle, Chris, Conner, and two from Ian. I also had 3 text messages.
Kyle: where the hell are you!!??
Kyle: did you get home okay last night?
Ian: Marco
I didn't reply to Ian even though I should have. I decided to call Kyle.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Macey?!?" I heard him ask frantically.
"Yeah, its me but before you start freaking out on me let me explain." I told him calmly.
"Okay."
"I'm at a friends house, okay? I'm staying here for a couple days." I lied.
"Who? Where?" He asked frantically.
"Kyle you have to trust me okay?"
"I do, but-"
"Good." I cut him off. "Now I need you to do something for me okay?"
"Yeah I guess." He sighed on the other end.
"I need you to tell my brothers that I'm staying at a friends house and it was a last minute thing. And I couldn't call because my phone died. I just need you to please cover for me okay?"
"I will but you better not be hurt, or so help me,-"
"I'm fine." I laughed "Oh and tell them I called you from a pay phone because we've been out all day."
"Alright, bye"
"Bye." I hung up.
I left my phone on the bed and walked over to the window. How am I going to explain this when I get back? I asked myself.
Anna, I assumed it was her, knocked on the door again.
"Come in."
Sure enough it was. "It will all work out." She told me as she grabbed my hand and led me down a huge, beautiful staircase. The staircase over looked the living room so when we were still descending the stairs they could see us. The whole architectural landscape of the house looked like it belonged in the medieval times, it had beautiful gothic architecture. Everything in the house was so elegant. The whole house would just take your breath away. There were two long couches facing each other with a unique coffee table in between them, there were two love seats, one was at the ends of the couches on one side and the other was at the ends of the couches on the other side.
Two people that I didn't know who I presumed to be the mom and dad were holding hands and sitting on the other couch. Alex was sitting at the other end of that same couch with his arms behind his head in a lazy position. Erik was just sitting on the other couch. Nathan was behind the couch Erik was on with his elbows resting on the top of the couch and his hands on each side of his face in a frustrated way. When he heard us on the stairs his head snapped up. Remembering what Anna had said earlier I blushed and looked away from him.
Anna led me to one of the loveseats, motioned for me to sit, then went and sat on Erik's lap. I sat down uncomfortably. On my right was Alex, to my left, Nathan.
"Macey." Anna called. "This is our mom, Deserae." She gestured to a beautiful woman, she had big curly auburn hair, it was very pretty, she had what I would describe as honey maple eyes, and they were very beautiful too. Deserae didn't look a day over 30, almost like she was in her late twenties. She smiled. I smiled back shyly.
"And this is our dad, Aiden." She gestured to the man sitting next to Deserae. He was very handsome. He had short muddy brown hair, with deep royal blue eyes. Aiden looked about the same age as Deserae.
"Hi, its nice to meet you, both." I smiled.
"I'm so glad your okay, when Nathan brought you home Friday, you were passed out in his arms, we didn't know what happened." Deserae said with care and compassion in her voice.
"To be quite honest we thought Nathan attacked you." Aiden said, glancing at Nathan as he said it.
"Thanks." Nathan said sarcastically.
Alex leaned over to me. "He loses it easily." He whispered with a grin. I smiled and shook my head. For the first time, I heard Nathan growl.
"Boys." Deserae said looking at both of them. "Not now." She definitely had the mother thing down.
"It was just a run in with a couple guys after me and a friend parted ways at the movie theater, but Nathan saved me."
"Yeah, we were pretty surprised to find that knife on you." Aiden said. I really hoped they wouldn't bring that up.
I blushed and looked down. "It's a long story." I mumbled. I could feel Nathan staring at me.
"Now father," Anna said. "She wont do us any harm and I have told her that we wont harm her either."
"Yes, and I am sorry. It's just that we didn't sense any hunters around this area when we first came to check it out." Aiden said.
"They are hardly ever here." I said my voice showing the sadness I felt.
"Well that explains it." Aiden commented. I noticed that Nathan was still staring at me. Which made me kinda uncomfortable. Aiden and Anna both could tell he was making me uncomfortable, and they both cleared their throats at the same time. Nathan blinked liked he had just come out of a trance.
"Macey?" I heard Nathan ask. My head snapped up at his voice. "Do you want to take a walk with me?"
"Um…sure." I said, confused at the sudden question. He led me out the back door.
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