Chapter 5

+ Lucy +

"You're trying to kill me! I knew it!" I accused Nick as I gripped tightly onto the seat beneath me. I closed my eyes as we plunged into the darkness, only the headlights giving us a hint of the long street ahead of us.

He chuckled, he dared to chuckle while I was saying my last prayers in fear of losing my life. "I'm not even touching you! What are talking about, woman?"

"I'm talking about the fact that you're going over twenty miles over the speed limit. Slow the hell down before you send me flying out of the car." the showoff wanted to ride in an open convertible, which on other occasions would have been great, but not today when I had my hair set up and all. He could say whatever he wanted but I hated sports cars. They scared the crap out of me.

"You're wearing the seatbelt. Now would you just relax. I know what I'm doing." I sighed and bit my tongue. There was no need to retort, it's not like he would make us crash. I looked and through the trees above us I could see parts of the starry night sky. The sight was quite soothing and it calmed me.

I heard Nick cough, probably to get my attention.

"So... did you think a little bit about moving in with us?" he asked me. I sighed. I was honestly trying to take it off my mind, not think about it.

"Nick... it's more complicated than you make it out to be... you wouldn't understand."

He stopped the car so suddenly that the seat belt dug into my chest. "Ouch! A little warning would have been nice." I said, my chest stinging painfully.

"Then help me understand." he said as he crossed his arms. He had left the car switched on so that we weren't in complete darkness.

"Nick, don't ruin this. I don't want to talk about it." his phone rung, signalling that he had received a text, but he ignored it.

"Aren't you going to get that?" I asked. For some reason my voice sounded annoyed, catty, and maybe a little bit jeal- No I was NOT jealous of whoever was texting him.

"Stop trying to change the subject. Lucy, I won't be able to hold myself when I'll see your brother. Just thinking about him makes my blood boil. I can't believe how he dared to touch my..." and with that he stopped. His what? What was I to him? And in what way could I ever be 'his'? He looked away and said something intelligible but which sounded suspiciously like swearing.

"Nick." He started the car but before he could press the gas pedal I put my hand on his, which was gripping tightly the steering wheel. The second my skin touched his it felt as if electricity ran through me. I had never experienced such a feeling before and I couldn't help but feel shy. I felt my blood drain from my face and concentrate on just one point, my cheeks.

He put a finger under my chin, making me look up. I almost choked on my own breath as I looked up and saw that his lips where mere inches from mine. Was it hot in here or was it just me?

"Yes?" his voice had never sounded so alluring before. I gulped. What did I want to tell him? All I could think about where his silvery blue. C'mon Lucy! Think. He asked you a question.

"I... um I'm your what?" I asked sounding lost. He didn't answer; instead he closed in on those few inches. I closed my eyes, savouring in his musky smell. I knew that if he kissed me I would explode with pleasure, so the bittersweet pleasure pain of the wait for his lips to softly meet with mine was killing me. Yet this never came. His silky lips did not touch mine. They touched my neck.

I knew I should have felt terrified. Nick may not act that much like the stereotype vampire with the cape and all, but he was still a vampire.

"You know, you've been tempting me all night with that cute blush of yours." He said. My instincts told me to get alarmed, do something and try to stop him. But I didn't want to. I heard a little sound, barely nothing but it was enough to alert me that his fangs had elongated. He didn't bite me, he just grazed my skin with them. I held my breath every time his sharp canines touched my skin. I was greedy. I wanted more of his touch despise the danger I was putting myself into.

I put my free hand behind his neck and slowly slid my fingers into his soft black hair. I tilted my head so that it was just at the right angle. In this situation, I got to know a darker side of me, one that enjoyed pain, one that longed for his gentle touch. Maybe being my brother's punching bag for all these years had made me grow accused to the pain, almost crave it. Not in a brutal way like my brother but much gently. He responded quite well to my caress. He bit softly, so soft that it didn't even brake skin. He just sucked on my skin. But this was no ordinary love bite. We knew that we were playing with fire, and that at any given moment we might get burnt. One wrong move, just slightly but enough for his fangs to penetrate my skin would cause my death if he didn't find enough control in himself to stop before he killed me. But what did we care! We were teenagers - him being seventeen and me being almost sixteen - just for once we wanted to be reckless, carefree. No Helios Ra, no Montmarte, just us.

Slowly, what we were doing started sinking in. He was my best friend's brother, we shouldn't even stand each other. I removed my hands from his hair and put them to his chest, trying to find the will to stop and push him away.

"Nick, we shouldn't..." I mumbled. He had stopped biting and was now putting soft butterfly kisses along my neck. He groaned.

"Lucy I..." his voice trailed off into nowhere. "Yes?" I asked him, urging him to speak. "I think I'm fallin- Oh holy shit!" in mid sentence he stopped, his eyes widened, probably good sense kicking in as he saw the hickey he had made on my neck. He broke his contact with me and stood as far away from me as possible as the car allowed.

"Fuck! Lucy, I-" I put my finger to his lips. "Don't say anything." we stayed there in silence while trying to obviously put our thoughts into order.

"Lucy I was just saying that wanted to beat the shit out of your brother for hurting you and now I hurt you. Just look at your neck!" he said, finally removing my finger from his lips.

"It's okay, really, it didn't even hurt." I tried to comfort him. Looking over at the mirror I could see how the new mark looked on my skin. Had I not covered up the other bruises, I would have looked like the poster girl for abused children.

But I really didn't mind Nick's little 'bruise'. I had scars, much uglier than that running along my body, so a little violet black wound, smaller than my pinkie which would eventually heal was not a big of a deal for me.

"I'm sorry, Lucy." he said, his eyes looking broken. He was looking away from me, as if it shamed him to look in my eyes. Hesitantly, I put my hand on his shoulder, making him look up.

"You really shouldn't be." he smiled weakly at me. "Now would you please go back to being your old obnoxious self Nicky, you're creeping me out with all this apologising." I said with a grin. He grinned back. "Whatever you say, lucky." and with that he pressed the gas pedal and we sped away, leaving a trail of dust and curses from me about his infernal speeding.

"So, you didn't exactly tell me where we're heading. I was just driving towards your house." he said after a while.

"Yeah, to be honest I don't know. But I still need to pick something up from my house." I said as he turned round the corner where my house was. He parked in the driveway. "Go on, I'll wait for you." he said, reaching inside his pockets to get his phone. Ignoring his earlier command, I grabbed his hand and pulled him out of his car before he could check that damned phone of his. I opened the door and lead him inside. I didn't let go of his arm until we reached my room. I went over to my dresser to get a black scarf that would match up the red dress and black pumps nicely. I did not want people to judge me once they see the love bite. Not that I cared what they said but sometimes it's best to just not give them anything to gossip about. I was short tempered enough and Nick wasn't exactly Mr. Nice Guy either. As I wrecked havoc in my dresser I heard somebody snicker from behind me.

I turned around and found Nick with my unicorn soft toy in his hands.

"Do you do it on purpose, try to give me more material to tease you about?" he asked me. I sighed and turned around, so that I could continue searching for my scarf. When I finally found it I got up and snatched the soft toy from his hands.

"Um, let me think... No." I hugged Stella the Unicorn and put her back on my bed.

He continued snooping around in my room. "Do you mind?" I asked as he was about to make another comment on my Care bear collection.

"Well, you practically dragged me in your room, what did you expect?" he asked me. I rolled my eyes at him and put my scarf around my neck so that it covered the love bite completely.

"Good call." he said as he tugged and moved my scarf so that my neck was completely covered.

"Nick, you know that we need to talk, right? You're sending me so many mixed signals. I mean first you're obnoxious then sweet and caring, then you kiss me and now-" it was his turn to put a finger to my lips.

"I know. But you're just so hard to resist." his voice was soft, willing me to understand. He softly traced my lips with his finger and tugged a rebel strand of my hair behind my ear. The atmosphere was so blissful. I had never made the first move but I wanted to kiss him so much. In these heels all I has to do was reach up slightly. And that was what I did. And just as our lips were about to touch a voice splintered the bliss and intimacy of the moment.

My brother's voice.

"Lucy, are you home? Where the hell did you put my blue tie?"

Without knocking he opened the door. I stepped away from Nick when I headed the door creak open but Nick graves hold of my hand. His look said one thing only.

Revenge.

Oh, this was so not going to go well.

XxxX

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