Bonjour to you my lovely, lovely readers, how are ya all?
Okay, okay ikno, tbh the last chapter sucked. I don't like it but I'm not redoing it, but alas! Never fear! I hope and pray that this one shall be better! Reviews would be nice but I'm not gonna beg =P. ly all! Xxxx
Ash and I walked into the kitchen together still laughing at the events before hand. The kitchen was huge and attached to a massive dining room, that could easily be turned into a ball room.
James, Poppy, Quinn and four more people sat around one table.
'Did you enjoy your breakfast?!' Poppy asked when she saw me.
'I didn't really get a chance to eat it, had a bit of a busy morning' I replied sheepishly, ashamed of how I had ran from her the night before.
'I'm sorry about last night, I um, just sort of freaked out, I didn't mean to offend you.' I said.
'It's okay hunny. When James told me the first time I called him every name under the sun, tried to kick him out of the hospital and started throwing things at him' she said with a small giggle.
'And she has a great arm' said James, pretending to wince.
'Yeah not bad for a girl who was on her death bed huh?' she replied with a smile still on her face.
At this James did wince and put his arm around her reassuringly.
'Huh?' I asked with a shocked face.
'Yeah, that's why James turned me, but lets not talk about that'
Ash and I sat down at the table, after I got myself some cereal and he proceeded to introduce me to everyone.
'You've met James, he's my cousin, bit of a girl but you cant choose your family huh? That's Poppy, seems you two have already met. She's a bit nuts but kinda cool. This is Quinn. He's a prat. Nothing else to him. They're the vampires. Then this is Quinn's girl…
'I am not his girl! I am no ones possession!' the black haired girl interrupted glaring at Ash
'As I was saying, this is Quinn's soulmate, Better?!. Her names Rashel, she's human. Ex-vampire hunter actually. Don't piss her off. She'll Scratch your eyes out…
'That was once Ash! I didn't actually do it! Just tried to. And you deserved it!' Rashel interjected, while everyone around the table laughed. 'I'm nice. He just pisses me off!' she said smiling at me.
'Anywho! These two are my other cousins. This is Blaise and this is Thea, they're witches, and this is Thea's Soulmate Eric'
Blaise scrutinised me carefully and nodded politely, as both Thea and Eric held they're hands out to me.
'Witches?' I asked raising an eyebrow.
'The most powerful kind' Blaise answered with a hint of pride in her voice.
'That we know of' Thea interjected.
'Wow… That's amazing' I said completely awestruck.
'What are you? Shapeshifter?' Blaise asked.
'Shapeshifter?! You're kidding me? No I'm a human too' I replied with a short laugh.
Suddenly Blaise's attitude towards me changed into a sour one. I averted my eyes from her stony ones and blushed slightly.
A voice came from the back of the room,
'As you can see, cousin Blaise here is still trying to get used to the concept of Night People and ver…humans co-existing'
I looked up to see Chris, and my blush deepened. Blaise got up and ran at him and jumped into his arms for a warm embrace.
She was about to say something when I stood up. Everyone at the table was staring now.
'What's 'Ver'?' I demanded of him
His face fell a little and Blaise glared at me even more.
'What are you talking about?' he replied.
'Before you said humans you were going to say something else. Began with the syllable 'ver'. What's 'ver'?' I said pretending to be completely vacant.
'It's nothing' he said finally. But I heard him. In his head. Echoing in my head. Vermin.
'If I'm Vermin darlin, You're a fuckin dickhead' I said sweetly, then sat back down and continued eating my cereal. The room was now completely silent.
In a flash Chris was standing over me, his eyes were hard, and metallic looking and his fangs were looming over me.
Ash and Rashel stood up immediately and were ready for intervening when I laughed. It was a short laugh but was still enough to leave everyone dumbfounded.
'Listen mate, you already learned last night that that doesn't work when I need to pee. That also applies to when I'm eating, sleeping and otherwise occupied. Plus I reckon if you wanted to rip my throat out, you would have done it last night in the garden.
Or in the bar that time. The breakfast table isn't really the most hygienic to be honest. And besides, anyone who gets owned by a pillow really doesn't scare me in the least. Shit one for ya'
I said, then jumped up and brought my bowl over to the sink.
'I think I'm going to take a walk in the garden' I said with another small smile, and walked out.
But not before I heard Quinn ask Ash
'What did she do with the pillow!?' then a glass smash.
I was lying on the grass in the sunshine. You really have no idea how good it is to be back in the south. Oh I was so warm I might just sunburn!
That was until there was a looming shadow over me, blocking my sun. Obviously it was Chris. Couldn't keep away from me by the looks of things.
He looked seriously pissed and opened his mouth to speak when I sat up screaming.
'Your gonna burn! your gonna burn! what the fuck?! What the…' I was hysterical. Well he seemed to think so at least cos he started laughing uncontrollably.
'Your…Your not burning?' I was confused
'Um no, were okay in sunlight. It just makes us weaker, but we don't burst into ashes or flames or anything' he said with a small smirk, after he recovered.
'Okay I feel like an idiot. Remind me never to worry about you again okay. Your pretty much indestructible' I said with a small laugh.
He sat on the grass beside me.
'You don't need to worry about me. You will cos you're my' he swallowed, ' you're my soulmate, but you don't need to.
My heart stopped beating for a moment or two when he said it, but he must have heard that cos he looked at me funny.
I sat up so I was facing him. It was the first time I'd really looked at him since the bar, and the first time id seen him really up close.
Really close. I hadn't noticed how close his face was to mine. He really was beautiful. His eyes quickly looked at my lips then back to my eyes. He wanted to kiss me…Fuck.
I was being pulled in. But he wasn't doing it. Something else, something stronger was. It was an incredibly scary yet amazing feeling.
I'd never felt anything like it before in my life. I couldn't understand it at all, and at that moment I didn't want to. He quickly licked his lips, his eyes were now lust filled. And something else. There was a vulnerability there too but I didn't dwell on it. He had pulled back, just a bit.
'I'm sorry. About the pillow and calling you a dickhead and…'
I was cut off by a rough,
'I don't care'
Then his lips where on mine.
AN: ooooooohhh cliffy. I acc want to write the next one lol. Special thanks to MaryandMerlin for the kick up the ass I needed ^.^ hopefully the next one will be up sooner xxxxxx