Hayley's POV
I woke up however much later in my bed upstairs. Was it all a dream? Was Ross a human just like me? I couldn't think. I felt so tired. No, I thought, I had fainted at the fact... that fact that Ross was a vampire. I heard my door opening, so I turned and shut my eyes. I knew it was Ross who came in. I then heard his soft, caring voice. "Hayley?" he asked "Are you up?" he reached out his hand and brushed my cheek, I shuttered. He quickly pulled his hand back and walked out of the room. A little while later I walked downstairs to look for Ross. I couldn't find him anywhere, but his car was still in the driveway. F***, I thought, he better not be playing games with me... I am majorly shaken right now. I heard a door upstairs open and close. I was still staring out the front window in the front hall when I heard Ross's voice at the top of the stairs. "Hayley?" he said quietly. I turned around.
"Yeah?"
"I didn't think you'd be getting up anytime soon" he said with a slight smile on his face. Oh that BEAUTIFUL smile of his.
"Well... here I am!" I said back and did my stupid little supermodel pose.
"I can see that"
Ross came down the stairs the way any human would at a normal human's pace. That had to have been a dream, I thought. "But it wasn't a dream" Ross said, like he just read my thoughts. Wait... he DID read my thoughts! Ross was then on the bottom stair and not even 2 feet away from me, since I moved away from the window. I backed up slowly. I apparently had a terrified look in my eyes because Ross sat down on the stair behind him. "You know I would never hurt you... right?" he asked simply. I just stood there, paralyzed with fear. He went wide eyed. "You really think I would hurt the one person in this world that has given me the most joy in all the years I've been alive?" he asked with a hurt tone in his voice. I still stood there, but I relaxed a bit knowing that Ross meant it when he said he'd never hurt me. Ross was still sitting on the step... I knew he was looking for some kind of 'okay' from me to get up. I smiled shyly and looked down at my socks... he got my 'okay' and came over to hug me. (Wow! Changing it up a bit!). We just stood there for a while, him with his arms wrapped around me, me leaning the side of my head against his bare chest. I loved that moment... it seemed like time stopped and we were the only things in existence. I was staring to feel sleepy and Ross sensed that. He picked me up and carried me to my room. He tucked me in, shut off my light, and went out... I love him, I realized, he's my soul mate.