CHAPTER 2

sophie~

"Why wouldn't we?" Kelly asked with a smile. Wait a smile? Just a secondagoshe was nervous out her mind, oh well. Maybe I was finally starting to rub off on her. "Well, we kind of came on a bit strong." He replied. Just then, Ryan stepped out. "I thought I heard talking out here. So, why don't you two come in?"

When we walked in, I noticed the strangest thing, although the house on the outside looked as if it had been through three floods, nine tornadoes, and a stampede of elephants, the inside looked very modern and clean. There was a grey sofa, a blue chair, and a really pretty glass coffee table. The walls were light blue and the carpet was really white.

"So," Finn said, interrupting my thoughts. "Would you like to see our lair?" Woah, a little weird but whatever, I thought. Kelly glanced at me. I could tell she was nervous by the look in her eyes, so i gave her a reassuring smile.

"Of course!" I said with a huge grin on my face. "Beware of the garlic. It keeps out any other vamps." Ryan said. Finn motioned to us to come with them down a hall. There were a lot of doors on both sides of the walls. At the very end of the hall was a door. There were cloves of garlic surrounding the door.

"Now this is the hard part." Ryan said, as he maneuvered his hands around the garlic to the doorknob. "Some people say that it's a myth, the whole garlic thing, but it's not." Finn chimed in. He then pulled up his sleeve to reveal a long scar. "Garlic is the only thing that we can't completely heal from." he added. "Finn, if you don't mind me asking, what happened?" Kelly asked pointing to his arm with the long scar. "It's... nothing, really." Finn answered. There was silence in the room for what seemed to be 5 minutes, but really it was only 1 minute. Once Ryan had the door open, we walked in.

As I walked in, I half expected there to be a dungeon look to it, but really it was just like the rest of the house but instead of the blue, red and black.

"So you really live here?" I asked. Ryan smiled at me.

"Worried?" Ryan replied with a smirk.

"Not at all." And the truth was as soon as I said it I knew it was true. He smiled at me again.

Finn took a seat on the black sofa and motioned for Kelly to sit with him. I could tell Finn had the hots for Kelly, but in my opinion he just wasn't her type. I sat down on a rocking chair to the side of the sofa.i looked over my shoulder expecting to see Ryan but didn't. I turned my head back to Finn and asked. "Where'd Ryan go?"

I felt a hand on my shoulder and gasped as Ryan bent down to whisper in my ear..."Right here."i smiled a little. i wasn't sure why but i felt so drawn to him. Like so safe and...loved. And i longed for his touch and the way just on word will caress me with warmth and sat down on the floor leaning his back against the table in front of the glanced at kelly and smiled.

"Well... you ready?" Finn asked. "Duh."

sophie~

"Well we will start with The Ramp." Ryan said. "The Ramp is in charge of all of us vampires. They control the rules and they have total control of the ones that don't follow the rules. They are bad, but not the worst. The worst are the Paranormal Hunters. They are bad news. They are humans who live to kill us. They usually run in families. They sometimes work for The Ramp. If a vamp breaks a rule, they call in a PH to dispose of them."

"And by dispose you mean..." Kelly asked.

"Kill."Finn replied. As if it was completely obvious.

I'm starting to have the feeling that they are real vampires. "I'm dizzy" I said. "I think I need a drink" "But we can't feed until dark, unless we are sneaky, or in the woods." Ryan said. "I could eat..." Finn added. Suddenly all I could see was black. Then there was a aching pain on the crown of my head. I then realized that i was lying on cold wood floor. Thats when everything went black.

sophie~

"Sophie!" Woah, I'm in a blur right now. What just happened? "Sophie, are you ok?" It was Kelly's voice. I have to tell them, this has gone to far. "We aren't vampires." I say. It was barely audible, but they understood. The rest was a blur, Ryan and Finn yelling, screaming at us, Ryan lunging towards me, fangs out. I had just enough time to think, Goodbye world before everything went black, again.