Okay…a lot of things have been running through my mind for this chapter, and I'm going to try and make it as good as I've been fantasizing! Seriously- I zoned off during my math quiz because I was thinking about how to describe some really awesome fight scene and before I knew it the bell rang and I had two problems done. And then I just skipped to lunch singing, "Chad, Chad, Chaddy Chad Chad!" No, that last part didn't really happen. Anywhoo, my fingers really hurt as I'm typing because I was playing my acoustic all day, and now they are really red and they sting! But I love playing my favorite song right now- Secret by Maroon 5!- on it and singing it to my little sister, so I couldn't stop. Urrgghh.
Disclaimer: Don't own SWAC.
Sonny.
xXx
I found myself gripping the side of my single, luxurious seat as the plane dipped downward. I took a peek out the window and saw scenery much different from the normal California surroundings. Lucy beamed, looking away from the movie she was watching on her iPod to take a glance out the window, too. She giggled and looked back down to finish up her movie. My eyes stayed on her as her lively, tanned skin glowed with excitement and her cheeks lifted with a tight, anxious smile. I wondered what we were going to do with her, and how or even if I could take that blush out of her cheeks and suck the life out of her, leaving her cold and pale. I shook my head as if I were going to rid the thoughts from my mind.
I looked over at Chad, and he was looking up and down the middle aisle with a skeptical eye. He sighed quietly through his nose and refused to look at me. I was curious as to his condition- he's been shaken ever since he'd been playing with his phone, and he hadn't even talked to me since then. His body trembled over and over again, very obviously to me but maybe not to anyone else. His hand gripped his arm rest, just like I had been doing. The way he shook made me wonder if I should cross the aisle and touch him, unsure if anyone on the plane was safe in his presence, but I kept still. Completely, utterly, still.
"Sonny," Lucy's voice literally broke me from my trance, and my hand loosened on the leather. I immediately looked down and hissed to myself when I saw I had left an indentation of my fingers on it. I turned to Lucy.
"Yes, Lucy?" I ran my hand through my hair.
"How come all vampires have accents?"
The question took me by surprise. The feeling was knew to me. It was a good kind of surprise- not surprise as in, oh, Collin's never coming back, or Chad's upset because I won't marry him, or people want to kill me for being in love with the enemy- no, this was a hearty surprise. A surprise that made my spirit lift at Lucy's utterly clueless knowledge of vampires.
"What do you mean?" I actually laughed.
"In all the old movies like the one I was watching, they've got these accents. You know, how they're always getting up out of their coffins and tapping their fingers together as they speak real slow, in those strange accents?"
"They're Romanian." Chad's voice chimed in as he finally looked in our direction. "Their accents are in Italian because the vampires were created in Rome, or first began there."
"Since when is Chad Dylan such an expert in vampires?" Lucy chuckled curiously, surprised at Chad's honest, believable answer.
"A long time," He said, looking straight at me. "And since the vampires were first in Rome and they live for an extremely long time-,"
"They live forever, right?" Lucy said.
"Nothing lasts forever." Chad told her gravely. "Since they live a long time, they're most likely still there."
My body tingled at Chad's words.
"Luce, do you believe in vampires?" I asked her.
She laughed, looking a little shaken from Chad's words. "Um, no, not really."
"How come?" I asked.
"Well, I believe in vampire bats, but that's pretty much it. It's not possible for something like a vampire to exist."
I nodded, looking at her seriously. "Yeah," I sighed. "I guess you're right."
"What?" She smiled at my upset face. "Did you want them to exist?"
"Trust me, Luce. No."
Finally I felt the plane touch the ground. The last strike of fear hit me and I gripped the chair again, not caring that I would most likely destroy it. I took a deep breath, tasting the air and all the humans around me. Chad's smell stood out among the rest, and I savored it on my tongue, feeling desperate as the plane struggled to stop moving. One minute later, we were at a standstill.
"Thank you for flying with World Skies, and we hope you have a wonderful time…"
I snorted, not bothering to listen to the rest. I unbuckled my seat belt and stood up quickly. Maybe a little too quickly because Chad gave me a look, which I ignored. Suddenly I was angry at him, finally understanding how wrong I was to allow him to come along. I wanted both Chad and Lucy out of here. But I was too late now.
I swiftly grabbed Lucy's bag for her and she finally stood up. Chad grabbed my one suitcase which had nothing in it but one extra outfit and some other things. My cell phone was in my pocket and I was ready to get off the plane.
"You guys are fast," Lucy said.
I grabbed her arm and got off the plane.
"Have a nice day," The man said as he ushered us out the door.
My senses were on high alert as I walked up the long aisle into the building. Lucy was jogging to keep up with me and Chad kept pace behind us. Chad's current state had rubbed off on me. He knew more than he let on, and I knew it. I should have figured that out earlier. Who was he talking to on that cell phone? What had they told him about what was going to happen, which was what made him so edgy for the plane ride? I gritted my teeth together.
"I have to go potty," Lucy said to me, quietly as so Chad wouldn't hear. Of course he heard.
"I'll go get the suitcases," Chad said, and he immediately began to walk away from us.
"Do you need any help?" Lucy's voice trailed off when he completely ignored her.
"He'll be fine," I told her. Oh, how wrong I was.
I guided her toward the bathrooms as she went on and on about how beautiful the airport was and how excited she was getting and how it made her have to pee even more. I rolled my eyes and pushed her into the bathroom.
"You don't have to go?" she asked.
"Nope, I'll be right out here." No way was I keeping the entrance unguarded.
"Okay," She said quickly as she practically ran in their, only to be greeted with a line and she groaned.
I took deep breaths, my hands at my sides as I sat alone on the bench connected to the wall. The smells in the area were completely normal and sweet as regular people walked by to go do regular things at regular times in regular places. But we were so far from that. I tried to look for something, anything off. I just knew something was off. But, of course, I knew that any smell that belonged to someone like me- a vampire, or maybe even a werewolf- would be drowned in the smell of human blood. No matter what I did or smelled, we would most likely be outnumbered or outsmarted. I was a rookie at everything but combat. I didn't know what kind of signs to look for. The only thing I could do well was make sure no one would hurt Lucy in the bathroom. Being so close to a smell would put me off, right?
Slowly, my mind began to race. So many people walking, hundreds of them, so beautiful, so tasty-looking, so…attractive. I stayed firmly in my seat, refusing to allow myself to even stand.
There was then a hand on my shoulder. It was abnormally hot, and I immediately responded with a furious hiss. I looked up and found myself face to face with a werewolf.
"Shh," He said immediately as he sat next to me. He was wearing casual yet presentable clothes, and I noticed how easily he blended in.
"What are you doing here, Jackson?" I hissed angrily. "You better stay out of this."
"You are Chad's business," Jackson said, simply ignoring me. "Chad is our business."
"Our?" I repeated, looking around.
I was currently terrified. If I wasn't even able to sniff out a smell I could recognize such as Jackson, I was hopeless when it came to someone I didn't know or recognize. We were doomed.
"If you think that he was coming alone, you were so wrong."
"How did you know…did he tell you?"
"No." He kept his eye on the people around us, looking out for anything suspicious. "We are connected in a way you will never understand Sonny. We felt him. We felt how scared he was about this…and we knew he'd be with you if he could feel something so strong."
"What does that mean?" I said angrily.
"Keep your voice down, okay? We're being tracked."
"What! How do you know?"
"Just keep looking at me, okay, Sonny? Don't say anything too loudly or move too fast. Don't pull any unnecessary attention toward yourself."
"I haven't been doing that." I denied him.
"Which explains how I found you so easily. Take out your phone and pretend to play with it and just listen to me."
I kept my mouth shut, not in the mood to argue with him anymore, and did what I was told. After all, he had just confirmed my suspicions of my skills being lesser than theirs, so I tried not to become angry.
"I have made out at least five of them in the area that I've covered so far," He said quickly as his fist clenched. I pushed random buttons on the phone. "They are all kind of like cameras. One of those bloodsuckers- no offense- has the power to see through the eyes of several different vampires they have marked. Everything they see, they see."
"Those vampires are eyes for the Malexia." I repeated to myself in a whisper.
Jackson continued. "It's easier to make them out if you don't breathe. The breathing throws you off, and it's practically impossible to smell them out. You have to watch for the ones who aren't breathing. Other than that, you're not going to do very well."
"Why are you telling me this?" I asked him. "Shouldn't we be talking about how to get out of here?"
Finally, he looked over at me. When I looked into his golden brown eyes, I couldn't deny the fact that Jackson really was beautiful. Too attractive that, in fact, he was very noticeable to anyone's eye. And then I realized it, even before he voiced it.
"Oh, Sonny," He sighed, and his lips pulled up into a half-hearted, loving smile that I never thought I'd be getting from Jackson. His eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at me with an expression that could only be described as a caring, attracted expression. "You're too beautiful not to be noticed by one of them, and same for me." He put his hand over mine, and I looked down at it, and suddenly everything disappeared. I was confused, wondering why in the world Jackson was acting so…different around me when no one was watching. I looked up at him just in time to see his face coming toward mine. My eyes widened and I gasped silently as his lips pressed tenderly against my forehead. I recalled Chad doing this so many times before. Jackson's one arm wrapped around my waist hesitantly and his fingers stroked my right cheek slowly. My lips parted in surprise at the feeling of Jackson so close to me. I wondered how he conjured the nerve to actually be so affectionate toward me, his brother's lover, in public, where Chad could have been easily watching from a distance. I was so blind toward the reason for this scene that I wasn't sure how to respond. I closed my eyes, searching for an acceptable answer, but there was none.
Jackson's lips parted from my skin but his proximity didn't dwindle. He moved even closer to me as his fingers traced my jaw and went down my neck. He put his head down so his eyes could follow my movements as he breathed on my neck.
"What are you doing?" The words were barely audible to anyone, even me, but I was safe to say them because his face was blocking me from everyone's view.
"Don't move." He whispered slowly. His thumb gently caressed my collar bone as he took deep breaths, and I stayed completely still, but remembered to keep breathing so I wouldn't look too still. I wasn't sure if I liked Jackson so close to me. It wasn't the same as it was with Chad, and I felt dizzy with confusion.
"You shouldn't have come here, Sonny." He said, as he began to remove his arm from my waist.
I could hear Lucy apologize to someone in the bathroom, saying she didn't mean to run into them. I listened as she complimented someone's shoes. I heard people discussing the easiest way to the square. I saw a young girl in my peripheral vision drop her toy and quickly bend down to pick it up, accidentally bumping a man walking away. I felt the heat of Jackson's skin on mine even as his arm was off of me, but he kept still otherwise.
He finally looked up again to meet my eyes, and his eyes flickered to my lips for a moment before looking back up at me. At the action, my eyes widened and I gripped my phone too tightly. Should I allow this? Was he doing it for a reason? If so…was the reason really necessary? Was it for our own good, or just for his pleasure? But I didn't get to think any longer because Jackson let out a sigh and his breath brushed my face, before all contact we once held had disappeared off with the werewolf himself.
I was alone on the bench as I turned to watch Jackson walk away in a lock step. I looked around again, watching as a mom struggled to keep her children in check. I watched as a woman who just got off a plane ran into the arms of a man. I listened as two men conversed in front of a television which was tuned to the local news. I watched, I listened, I saw.
That's when I caught sight of long, platinum blonde hair. It tumbled around a perfect, pale face with confused eyes that stared directly at me. The body was perfectly still for too long, and I looked into the hard green eyes of the eighteen year old girl who continued to watch me obviously. I pictured a camera as I stared at her, seeing not only her watching me, but several others as well. This one was a camera. This one was a marked vampire, who was looking directly at me.
My body froze completely as I looked into those cold, hating eyes. I finally stood up, realizing Lucy had been in the bathroom for ten minutes. I began to walk away slowly toward the luggage, looking for Chad. It had been long enough since we got off the plane that all the luggage had been claimed, and Lucy's suitcases were tossed carelessly onto the top of the roller. I grabbed the two suitcases and looked around. Obviously, since the bags were still here, Chad, of course, was not.
A wave of nausea hit me as I walked back toward the bathrooms. Lucy was out by the bench, her eyes searching for me. I looked back to where I had seen the other blonde vampire, but she was nowhere to be found.
"Let's go," I said to her.
"Where's Chad?"
"He got so tired waiting for you that he left without us." I lied quickly.
"What? That was a jerky move." She continued.
There was a flash of jet black hair moving too quickly as a head flashed in our direction. Dark brown eyes stared directly at me and the pale skin matched mine. There were more than I had thought. So many vampires onto us…and I wasn't sure where to go or what to do. Chad was gone, and he knew how to take care of himself in this situation. He was experienced with vampires, as he had recently once again proved on the airplane. But had Chad left because he was at risk of being seen, or already had been seen?
"Sonny?" Lucy repeated.
"Listen to me, Lucy," I said quickly. But then I realized it was not smart to get Lucy riled up. She'd be too obvious. "Chad and I got in a fight."
"What? When?"
The doors were visible to me now, and I stepped onto the escalator. I wanted to walk down them as they moved, but the people us front of us restrained me from doing so. I waited impatiently as the excruciatingly slow escalator moved.
"Just now. He's at the hotel…waiting for us."
"Oh. Um, what did you fight about?"
I searched my brain for an answer as I checked our surroundings again. "What hotel to stay at. He wanted to pick so badly…but I wanted to too, so we got into a big fight. Yeah."
"Oh." She said, and I quickly stepped onto the floor when the stairs disappeared into the ground.
"Yes, so we have to go as quickly as possible so he doesn't decide to leave or something."
"Okay, let's go!" Lucy began to jog through the airport. I groaned and followed.
When she reached the doors safely, I sighed in relief. Lucy hauled down a cab after about three minutes, and in that time I couldn't spot anyone else on our tail. The yellow car turned onto the curb and I whipped the door open and threw in the suitcases, ushering Lucy in. I followed after her.
The amazing smell in the car had me frozen. As soon as I shut the door the car moved, the driver not even bothering to ask me where I needed to go, because I wasn't even sure where. When I looked up at the face of the driver, my eyes widened and I just stared.
"English?" Andrew asked with a stunning, fake Romanian accent.
"Yes." I played along. I remembered Andrew from the many times I had seen all of Chad's pack together. He was the nicer of the group, and I respected him greatly. And now, he was my savior, because it looked like he knew where I needed to go, even when I didn't. I leaned back in my seat, looking at Lucy as she smiled and mouthed, He's cute!
"So, how was the flight, ladies?" Andrew asked.
"Wonderful!" Lucy exclaimed. "Even the cabs have fancy cup holders." She sighed and leaned down to take a picture.
"Where are you taking us?" I asked him quietly so Lucy wouldn't hear. "Where am I supposed to go? How do I get to Cha-,"
"Ssshhh," He shushed me quietly.
"What are you doing here? How do I keep Lucy safe?"
He didn't answer, just glared at me through the mirror so I would stop talking. Lucy sat in the seat behind him, still taking photos of everything. I watched as he pulled out a piece of paper from the glove department and a pen from his pocket. He clicked the pen up and wrote something down.
Reservation: 527. Guarded.
After I nodded slightly to tell him I had in fact seen the words, he crumbled it up and put it in his pocket.
"Here we are." He said as he parked the car on the curb expertly. Lucy practically trampled me as she swung the door open.
"Go ahead in," I called to her. "I have to get some cash." I tossed her the suitcases. "Wait for me and don't talk to anyone until I come inside."
She was confused by the specific directions, but followed them all the same.
"Andrew, what's the plan? Where did Chad go?"
"Get out of the cab, Sonny." He said calmly.
"What? No, you have to help me. Chad isn't with us-,"
"What do you mean?" Andrew finally looked over at me, concern in his wide eyes.
"Chad told us that he was going to get our luggage at the airport," I said as quickly as possible. "And when I went over there to get him after spotting a vampire on our tail, he wasn't there. Where did he-,"
But then Andrew looked forward again and put his hands on the wheel. "Get out of the cab, Sonny."
"What the hell? Andrew, I said-,"
"You need to understand, Sonny, you'll have a better chance of surviving if you listen to me. Get the hell outta the car!"
I practically hissed at him, but I was so scared that I didn't say anything. I looked over at Lucy, who was waiting silently in the corner of the hotel as the lady behind the desk stared at her strangely.
"Just tell me this," I said. Andrew growled angrily and gripped the wheel tightly, causing it to bend out of shape. "Is Chad safe? He's safe, right?"
If Andrew heard me, he didn't acknowledge it. I got absolutely no answer.
And that's what scared me the most.
The shock that ran through me momentarily stunned me. I couldn't move a single muscle with all of the thoughts that ran through my mind. Was Chad with them now? If not, was I supposed to know where he was? Tears sprung into my eyes as my hands weakened a bit. I cursed loudly and threw my body against the back of the seat in anger before finally getting out of the cab. I closed the door as softly as I could, which wasn't very soft. I didn't wait until Andrew drove off, just ran inside and ushered Lucy to the front desk.
I didn't wait for her to say anything, because I didn't want to talk about it. I spoke quickly with the lady at the front desk.
"Sonny Monroe?" She asked.
"Yes."
"Your room is ready for you." She handed me two blue cards.
When we made it upstairs to room 527 I opened the door, scared of what I was going to find. But when I opened the door, the only thing that greeted me was the past smell of a familiar werewolf and an empty room.
"This is fantastic!" Lucy squealed as she jumped on the bed.
The smell wasn't Chad's. That was the only thing I registered before I collapsed onto the other bed.
"Alright, Luce. Stay here, okay? I'm gonna go find Chad." I got up.
"Wait, Sonny!" Lucy yelled.
I turned around. "Why are you yelling?"
"Oh, um…I don't know. Listen, I couldn't help but notice…something."
"What is it, Luce?" I asked, wondering why this was so important to her.
"We're not on vacation, are we." She said it simply, so sure and sarcastic that she seemed sad. "We're running away from something in California."
I smiled sadly at her, wondering how in the world she could have seen this. "Don't think of this as running away, Lucy." I put my hand on the doorknob and spoke quietly. "Think of it as running toward."
I opened the door, and heard Lucy's words to herself. "Toward what?"
I closed the door on her whisper, because I didn't want to answer. "Toward death."
And I turned on the door and went downstairs, out the doors and onto the street.
A breeze hit me and tons of smells. I didn't breathe. I didn't think. I just walked to the right, down the street and passed the people who didn't know half of my misery. Where was Chad? Why were all the wolves here, and what were they planning, and how could it help Chad if they didn't even know where he was? I sighed, the tears finally spilling over my eyes as I walked into a deserted alleyway in between two buildings and leaned against the wall, eventually sliding onto the dirty ground.
"I told him not to come." I whispered to myself. "I told him it wasn't safe."
I sniffed and wiped the tears from my eyes. Sitting here isn't going to get Chad to come to me. Sitting here isn't going to solve anything. I shot up and began to walk back into the dimming daylight, when a silhouette stood out against the sunset.
Their blood was obvious to me and I stopped moving, just staring at the person.
"I need you to come with me now, Sonny." A voice whispered slowly, and I couldn't recognize just a breath. I needed this person to actually speak.
The glare of the sun in my eyes made it harder to see the person despite my good vision. I squinted, but kept my hands in front of me, in case I needed them ready.
"What…" I began, but then I studied the silhouette again only to stay clueless. "Where are we going?" I asked and began to walk toward the person.
"We're going towards." They said, and when the sun was finally blocked off by the wall of the building. I saw familiar blonde locks and striking eyes. A perfect smile began to grow on the face I stared at. Fear struck me at those words, and I realized that I was being followed since I left the airport. I recognized the familiar blonde girl from the airport.
"Come, Sonny." Her hand reached out toward mine and out of instinct I leaned away. She smiled more carefully now, and I stared into her green eyes, uncertain. "You can trust me."
Her eyes held mine for more than five seconds. Suddenly my body began tingle, and I felt myself becoming stronger with each second I stared into those green eyes. I felt myself growing her power, understanding it and becoming it. I captured her gift and I held her gaze for as long as I could, knowing I would need it if I wanted to survive.
"I know." I said simply. I don't know why those words came out of my mouth, but they had. And I knew, really knew, that I wasn't safe with this woman. She had followed me. She was not someone I could trust, because I could feel the Malexia within her. Or, for a better term, see them. I grabbed her hand, understanding now that I needed this person to survive. I needed this girl who wanted to kill me, to bring me to life. She would take me to Chad. She would take me towards love. She would just take me…toward.
"So," I said as she guided me. "Where are we really going?"
"Toward."
"Toward…underground?"
"Hmm." Was her answer.
"So why do I have to come with you?" I continued.
"I am doing you a favor. It's also best for both of us if we keep quiet, you understand."
"No," I laughed sadly. "I don't understand in the slightest."
She didn't respond.
I watched her curiously as I felt my mind switch eyes. Her power was now mine, and I could feel myself watching through someone else's eyes. My brain switched gears and I watched through another person and saw people I didn't recognize. Obviously they were vampires, their pale skin and hungry eyes making it clear. I only caught a glimpse before my mind switched again. Those vampires are eyes for the Malexia…the words echoed in my mind. Jackson knew this girl was watching us when he touched me at the airport. He knew what he was doing and he had a reason. Relief coursed through me as I realized that someone knew what they were doing- someone knew half of what was going on.
I watched through someone's eyes as a vampire swarmed a large mass of humans through a dim lit hallway. People were walking slowly toward the vampire and he led them into a dark room. I blinked and began to process yet another scene before I was broken from my trance by the girl.
"Come this way," She opened a door and walked through it, waiting for me to join down the stairway as she ushered for me to close the door. I did so and continued to walk beside her. I then had an idea.
I put my hand on her shoulder and she turned to look at me, and I saw actual concern in her eyes. "What is your name?" I asked her, staring into those eyes as hard as I could.
"Alexyss," She answered confusedly, but continued walking. I kept my hand on her shoulder and felt her power surge from her body into mine. I closed my eyes and focused, controlling the gift as well as I could. The picture came into my mind like a movie and I watched silently as I let Alexyss guide me.
There was Chad, sitting in the corner looking as terrified as ever as his eyes fixed on something. He didn't look harmed, yet he looked exhausted and beaten. There were vampires surrounding him, carefully keeping their distance, their eyes watching something, too. This person's eyes kept glancing at Chad, and that's what I saw. But then the eyes turned to look at a picture projected in midair, bursting from the hands of yet another vampire. The picture was like something I was looking at now. It was almost like a movie within a movie. I was watching someone watch something closely, nad as I focused on the movie in his or her vision, I noticed it looked very similar to where I was going now. I opened my eyes to be greeted with almost complete darkness. The image in front of my own eyes was the same image that was being watched by someone else's eyes.
Alexyss was the one with the power to mark people. And she herself was marked. I was seeing the same thing as the other vampires and Chad because I was next to Alexyss. They were watching and making sure everything went right, that I came down here with her.
That was all it took to make me stop walking.
"What is it, Sonny?" Alexyss asked, and I caught the hint of impatience in her tone.
"I'm confused about something." I said. "Why didn't you advance me at the airport?"
She stared at me with a blank expression. "I did not advance you because there were others around. People were tailing you. The people who wanted to kill you."
"That's not an appropriate reason. It was necessary then for you to come up to me."
Her fist clenched as she looked at me, and in the other part of my mind I saw my image being projected and viewed by the other vampires and Chad. Yes, I was right, it was Alexyss who was marked.
"I know that you love this dog of yours," She hissed, staring into my eyes. "The one who kissed you at the airport? I didn't want to interrupt your last special moment with the one you love."
I took a step toward her, and she began to walk again. "Where is he? Where is Chad?"
"We do not know," She sighed. Her hand stayed firmly on my arm then, and I knew that she knew I would try to run if she gave too much information.
And at that moment, I really did love Jackson. He had showed me such affection to confuse Alexyss, make her think that he was the one who I had fallen in love with. Alexyss and the other Malexia though that Jackson was Chad. And now, Jackson was no where to be found, when he was the only one they thought they wanted. In reality, they already had Chad, but they didn't care.
"Why do you act like I know I can trust you, when it's obvious you want me dead?" I asked her.
She turned and smiled at me. "It is not I who wants you dead, Sonny. And I know you know that you cannot trust me. It's written in all of your actions."
"Then why are you leading me to them? To the Malexia? And why do they want to keep Jackson with them until I get there?"
"We are blood enemies, Sonny. He will die for no reason at all."
I stumbled on my feet, and Alexyss held me up with her one arm as if she were picking up a twig so easily. I listened closely as they echoed through the underground aisle, and I could have sworn I heard another footstep after mine stopped.
I had said too much, and I knew it. But I tried to keep Alexyss unaware of the person who is following us. Someone is back there, and I couldn't smell them. There were so many doors and places to turn and things making humming noises that I could barely make out the noise. I heard the steps coming closer now.
Alexyss stopped moving. Her hand swung around and pinned me to the ground when a loud slapping sound echoed through the place as her hand slapped over my mouth. I kept still, knowing that I could certainly die at this moment if she wanted to kill me.
There were people on our tail, but when our footsteps stopped, so did theirs. Alexyss was not breathing so she could listen harder, but then she looked directly into my eyes as she glared venomously.
"Who did you tell to follow? Who has been on our tail, Sonny?"
She was probably the dumbest person in the world if she thought I could answer with her hand over my mouth.
She kept her hand over my mouth as she stared into my eyes, most likely searching for the answer within them. I kept on switching images in my mind, marked vampires falling prey to my newfound gift. My mind swarmed with the strength I possessed but couldn't process. I recalled doing this once before, blacking out from being overwhelmed in my early stage of being a full vampire. I knew it then. I was weak. I tried to move my face to get her to realize that I wanted to say something. She kept her hand there, and I looked toward the ceiling, waiting for her to get rid of the vampire following us. After a minute of total silence, finally, a gorgeous man came into view and I began to hyperventilate. He kept one of his hands on one wall and his feet on the other, using his strength to keep him walking along the ceiling. The startling, dark green eyes looked directly into mine as he smiled at me. My eyes widened in relief and terror when Collin winked at me and Alexyss looked up at the ceiling. I watched in horror as Collin pushed down from the ceiling and flung onto Alexyss. I gasped at the extra weight suddenly added to my body and closed my eyes immediately when Collin's hand went to her head, and I sickening snap echoed throughout the alley and I felt Alexyss's weight being thrown off me.
His hands were on me then. "Sonny." Collin whispered urgently. "Sonny, are you alright?"
When I finally willed the courage to speak, I said, "She was marked. They know she's dead now. They know you're here."
"I know. Sssshh," He put his hand on my chest as if that would cure my trembling body. I put my hands on his chest, not sure if he was really there or not. When I finally processed that he was in fact there with me, I flung myself onto him.
"Thank God you're okay!" I whisper-screamed.
His arms wrapped around my shaking body. "We have to go now, Sonny, as much as I hate to break up this touching reunion."
"Right." I said, wiping away the tears in my eyes.
"Let's go. They're onto us."
"But they have…him." I said with wide eyes.
"He'll be fine. He's a big boy."
"But he's surrounded. He's trapped. We have to help him, now."
Collin sighed. "I saw him through her," He motioned to the headless corpse of the lost vampire. "They won't hurt him."
"Do you think…" I began, as Collin pulled me back through the darkness by my waist.
"Sonny," Collin sighed, looking back at me with desperate eyes. "We're two levels underground. We'll talk later, okay?"
I looked into his eyes for a moment, willing to capture his power so I could know what was going through his mind. Realizing this, Collin turned away quickly and shook his head.
"I don't want you to know what I'm thinking." He whispered.
I put my hand on his cheek and turned his head back toward me. I looked into his eyes long enough to finally feel myself process his train of thought. I felt my mind partially go to Collin, and I felt myself in his place. He felt anxious at this moment, impatient. But then I understood the way he felt with my hand on his cheek, and then I felt the attraction that coursed through him at my proximity. I processed his feelings with his arm around my body, and I heard him thinking how he wanted to pull me closer. There was a pull between us as I realized this. I blinked, finally coming back to reality and I stared up at his nervous expression. This wasn't possible, was it? This couldn't be happening.
"I think I'm messing something up," I told him. "I just-for some reason…I think I'm reading you wrong."
He blinked and wrapped his arm tighter around my waist protectively. I couldn't pull my eyes away from his as he stared back at me.
"You weren't reading anything wrong, Sonny."
The first thing I felt was terror. I couldn't feel what was to come next, because Collin's face was moving toward mine, and I felt myself allowing it. I was hesitant, and I had missed Collin so much that I was confusing my friendship with him for something more…right? I didn't know who was safe and who was not, and I wanted him to know I cared before he could be gone.
Before he could come any closer to my lips or I to his, the floor above us practically shattered and I felt myself being shoved away from Collin and into the wall opposite him. Stones fell onto the ground and dozens of vampires were converging on the both of us. I got a good kick on a couple of them, but I was so outnumbered that eventually someone's hand was over my face, and the world around me seemed to disappear. My body fell limp and someone screamed my name, but it was too late. My body fell into unconsciousness.
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