Butch walks swiftly, not letting me out of his grip, back to the room we had been in before. Or at least a similar room, this one has a cage too, the difference is that these bars are all there, unlike the one where Butch ripped them off.
He opens the door walking with me inside and locking the door, both of us inside the cage now.
"What were you hoping to accomplish?" He asks, staring at me like an angry parent at a three year old. To be honest that's kind of how I feel right now, like a three year old who ran off and got caught.
"Answer me." He grabs my arm. "You don't know where anything is, you could've been hurt! There are rooms in this house that you should never go into."
I stare at him, wondering what kind of house this is then, and what kind of rooms should I never go into?
"I can't stay here." I say, trying to look him in the eyes, even if I am intimidated by him, just a little, I'm sure not gonna show it.
He growls, letting my arm go and turning away from me, pressing his fingers to the bridge of his nose like Blossom does when I get sent to the principals office.
"Listen to me." He says, and even though I'm not looking at him I can hear in his voice that he's clenching his teeth. "Vampires, like me, mate for life. Okay? That means for as long as I live, which is an extremely long time, I can only fall in love with one person. That person, in my case, is you." He turns back to me. "I don't have a say in it, as soon as I saw you I knew it, my heart, which doesn't beat because I'm dead, started beating, just slightly." He grabs my hand and places it over his chest, where I feel a slight bumping, lighter than a heart should be, but to the same rhythm. "If you die, I die too. It is possible to die of a broken heart, but only Vampires usually do it. After we find our mate our heart beats, if our mate dies, our heart stops at the same time theirs does. If our heart stops again the longest ever recorded vampire to live after his mate died was two and a half weeks." He walks closer to me, pushing me against the back bars of the cage. "I'm going to keep you in here, in this cage, until you agree to stay with me, and not run away. You'll be brought food three times a day, and you will have no visitors. In a week I'll come back and ask for your decision."
I study his face. "And what if I still say no?"
"Then another week." He answers, not missing a beat. "You're going to be in this house one way or another. You'll either be in a cage, or in a room on a soft bed with me, it's your choice."
"I'm not gonna change my mind." I say, I can't, I have to stand my ground. "Even if I stay in a cage forever, I'm never going to stay with you willingly."
His face, it goes from angry to hurt. Like a kicked puppy. I feel like I just kicked a puppy.
"You'll change your mind." He says, walking over to the cage and opening the door, miking sure to shut it behind him, and place a big metal lock on it, a lock similar to the one that was on the cage Blossom was in.
He walks out, shutting the big door and leaving me alone in the darkness again. I wonder if Bubbles is in a room like this. I hope not, she may be Sixteen but she's still terrified of the dark.
I sigh and sit down against the floor of the cage, resting my head against the bars. I wish I had a CD to listen to.