Part 2: Tis the Season
Dinner was alright, aside from David practically telling Cris he was going to steal his soul and drag him to hell. Aunt Lilly, Cris's mom, would give us a strange look, glancing to our whiskey and Egg Nog. Mom is probably going to have more questions asked about why wasn't we eating and allowed to drink alcohol, though we both are under age, well David's not, but he looks it.
" Lucy you really should come back to Phoenix, looks like some bad elements are influencing your boys." Lilly casts a look towards me. " You could get a job there." Wonder if they decided a nice visit out on a ranch for a few days to see the cousins was worth it. They would be leaving out in two days anyway since they're going to be heading down Cali to see the whales, our place was only a stop off. Lilly likes to head out soon as the kids are released from school and travel down the coast.
" We've just settled, to much has already gone on and you know why we left Phoenix." Mom reminds my aunt about our little problem down there, there's no way she would go back knowing what Lance would do.
Lilly liked whales, I have no idea why she likes them, but she'll drag her family screaming and crying all the way south just get a glimpse of them and take pictures. I remember one year she bitched her husband out over missing a chance to see the whales, she has to see them every year during their migration and they have to stop at every sea side tourist shop and check to make sure they don't miss any late comers on their way south. We went with her once, never seen anyone get so emotional over a sea animal.
:: Give her a few years, she'll be a whale herself, can already see a little bit of pudge forming under the chin.:: David sounded a little bored, that wasn't a good thing.
" I think we'll turn in for the night." Lillys' husband, Eric stands up and helps her from her seat.
:: Turn into a beached whale for the night?:: David thought he was funny and chuckled knowing I was having to hold back a laugh.
Soon as the two are gone, Sam looks at me, swallowing the large lump of meat he been chewing on to avoid saying some snarky comment. " Mike why are you two always like, next to each other and he's always following you? What are you two super glued at the hip?" Sam had to ask, just had to ask that.
" Because he's my mate and lover and we just can't get enough of each other." David exaggerates and sounds wistful on purpose. There is nothing wistful about David, it's simple, he just wants to get a reaction out of Sam.
Sams' eyes go a little wide, but then he looked skeptical, until he looked at me and I wouldn't say anything, just hide my face. If anyone so much as asked me over the summer if I liked men, I'd laugh and say no. Now, well I still have no interest in men, not that I had anything against it, it wasn't my thing and I don't consider it my thing now and right now I didn't want to go into any detail and correct what David said, because I'd have to say what had happened.
" You did it with him?! Eeeeww gross, I think I'm going to vomit, yea, I'm going to vomit." Sam looked a little like he was getting sick, not just being dramatic.
Mom just looked shocked. " Uh, well um, well that is. Uh, I don't know, just Micheal is that. Well, I wouldn't have expected you, um." Mom trails off, her eyes seem to dart towards Sam.
Howard remained silent, but looked a little bit on the red side.
" I'm not like that! I'm not his lover." I wasn't to convincing with David chuckling and looking so smug next to me. " Well it's not in the way he makes it sound, I just, it was one time only and I kinda was." Great I couldn't say having a sexual high off blood, that'd just be more explaining of things I really don't understand and have no idea how to explain. Damn freakish abnormal vampire hormones and making life difficult! " And well it was something that happened, I am not attracted to him."
" I don't want to hear about your vampire but sex! " Sam then puts his fingers in his ears. " La,la,la,la, I'm not listening. La,la,la,la."
" Sam!" Moms' words go unheard as Sam chants with fingers in his ears.
I had my head in my hands, hiding my face, he could have not said anything and ignored Sams' question and just let me answer, no he had to decide to respond.
" Did I say something wrong?" David asks innocently... He was laughing on the inside, I know, cause I can hear it in my mind.
:: Jack ass.:: I give up, it's going to be hard to keep David from trying to scar my family for life.
:: Ask therefore you shall receive. He wants to pry, then he can deal with what he gets for his troubles. I'm not ashamed of what I am or do, if he don't like it, he can stay out of our business.:: David was very straight forward with his opinion and I could feel the annoyance he had with questions, even if they were directed at me. :: It deals with both of us, even if you're asked.::
" Mike, just eeww, if you was that desperate, just you could have borrowed one of grandpas horses." Sam says I'm not sure if he's serious or joking , but still the meaning was obvious.
" Sam!" Mom was looking at Sam horrified at his little bit of bad humor.
" Oops, sorry I mean the vacuum, uh the, wait abstinence is the best thing, clear you mind of those sinful thoughts and repent, amen and stuff." Sam gives mom a weak smile, which doesn't seem to work on her.
****Taste Like Chicken****
" You enjoy that to much you sick fucker." Dwayne says and rolls his eyes.
Paul had just came from ruining some kids Christmas by delivering nightmares and leaving lumps of coal with dolls that had the eyes removed, leave two cracked black holes to stare at you from the empty sockets.
If we weren't killing mortals, we had fun tormenting them, of all ages. I tried not to think of it, especially how it doesn't bother me when it should, considering we're on a roof top lounging around snickering over some poor childs' nightmares, which we knew what they were with Paul delivering the images he wove in the childs' brain.
David hated children while Paul seemed to like them... Which seemed to have some sort of opposite effect with vampires. A vampire doesn't like or hates something, they normally avoid it, but if we like something or love it, we're more drawn to it. The problem with being drawn to something human usually ends in the human becoming food or an object to torment, while what we don't like often goes ignored, well unless it decides to bother us.
Paul though has no desire to feed on children, his affection for them has turned into a desire to play cruel and sick jokes on them involving dreams of Satan Clause, a shriveled mummified corpse like Santa with red glowing dots for eyes in empty sockets, with a blood stained sack full of mutilated and dead children. He would tell them if they've been bad little boys and girls, he will see them Christmas eve and chop them up and feed them to the demons of hell.
Dwayne on the other hand loves children, probably would have made a good father in life, but now...
:: Better than feeding on them.:: Paul smirks at Dwayne.
Dwayne snorts. :: I don't do it all the time, but it never hurts to have something sweet.::
:: Sweet?:: I asked, a little curious by what he meant by that.
:: Sweet, childrens' blood is often sweet, especially if they like to pack away the candy. Kinda like a fat mortal tends to be a little greasy tasting.:: Dwayne answered like we could be talking about a flavor of cola. :: Fat Children tend to be a bit like eating a candy glazed stake. :: This description made want to eat children less than I already did and I didn't want to eat children.
:: Wait till you had a vegetarian, it's like chewing cud.:: Marko laughs.
:: Or a health freak, kinda like you Micheal actually and I've tasted your blood, you diffidently had the makings of a health freak. Very clean tasting, but sadly a little on the bland side, cause well, all the bad food taste so good.:: David chuckles, giving me this possessive look.
:: I taste like a health freak?:: I was a little confused by this, I ate pizza as a mortal sometimes, though most everything was cooked by mom and tended to be healthy, but it wasn't bad like I was freaked out at the thought of a burger, I liked Burgers and fries.
:: Oh you didn't taste like one, but your blood was pretty clean, but it had flavor to it, so not to bad actually.:: What did David mean by was? " I took a sample before you turned, back when I first gave you my blood." He smirks at me.
:: What?! You, what, I didn't see any marks! :: I found it hard to believe David was sneaking my blood when I didn't know it.
:: Coarse not, I only made a small puncture, I didn't want to kill you, it sealed up nicely with a few licks, just had to let your body do the rest. At most it would have look like a bug bite or scratch.:: David was smug now.
:: When? I don't remember any of this.:: I wondered how could he? Did he hypnotize me?
:: Micheal, how do you think? When you drank my blood you experienced a feeling like being drunk or high, you don't even remember half that night. I couldn't resist a little taste.:: David was still smug, the fucker had gone and drank some of my blood the first damned night I met him.
:: And other things, I'm sure you wouldn't want to remember, you can do some crazy shit when high, especially on vampire blood.:: Marko laughs, I really didn't want to know what happened, but I had a sinking feeling that I know.
:: Don't worry about it, all part of the initiation is to get to know your brothers.:: David again offered me the cigg, I took another puff, casting him a glare.
The idea I could have been molested while high, when I wouldn't be in my own mind pissed me off a bit. "So you."
:: Did what was in our nature? Not quite, I wanted to save that for a more personal experience, however you did participate in a bit of tasting, even if you don't remember, you was quite willing." David smirks. " It wasn't the only time we had fun, also at the bridge when you passed out, blood sharing strengths the bonds that are stronger than mortal friendship or family can achieve.:: David interrupted me.
:: Great, I got gang banged and date raped in the vampire way." I have learned that sex for a vampire is the sharing of blood, they rarely do actual intercourse, except as part of mating or dominance ritual. With David it's both, least from what I figured. He likes to make his dominance clear.
:: You've only have had decent blood, mostly average, not real healthy, but not sick, you would still notice a difference to a point. :: Dwayne decides to get the subject back onto blood tastes instead of what I taste like and what they did.
:: Yea I noticed, but I didn't really think much on it, thought was just me.:: I had wondered about the taste and thought it weird that blood tasted sometimes a little different that I'd last fed. I just figured it was just my imagination. Blood still has a metallic taste to it, just also has this flavor, it's not really easy to try and put words to it cause it doesn't taste like any particular food. By what they say, the taste of blood is determined by age, health and diet. You would think healthy people and vegetarians would taste the best since there's nothing wrong with them. Nope, people that munch on junk food tend to be the tastiest, but somehow I'm not surprised, Junk food just taste good.
:: Well sick people have a bit of an off taste, not bad, just doesn't taste right... Deathly ill though..." Dwayne makes a face.
:: You don't want to feed on someone deathly ill unless you have to, the blood actually taste like rot from someone dieing. First time was in 1918, Spanish Flu.:: Dwayne shakes his head.
:: Nasty, slim pickings, had to feed though and the body count wasn't noticed. It was gross, like eating rotted meat on the street covered in horse shit:: Paul was making a face.
:: How would you know what that taste like?:: David was looking at Paul questioningly, but I doubt David expected an answer, he then turns towards me. " The worse part of feeding off the sick, you are always hungry and need to feed a lot more often, so we had to deal with hunger on top of drinking blood that tasted sour and rotten. Now and then we end up getting hold of someone sick during our kills, thankfully not often. It' better to just kill it and not feed, you'll end up hungry again soon after if you did anyway.::
:: Gee, like Chinese food, you're always hungry again in 30 minutes no matter how much you eat... Except dieing human taste bad, well least we don't have to worry about that now.:: They all looked at me with this blank expression. " What?"
:: Don't count on it, it's likely sooner or latter we'll see another sickness pandemic, don't count on modern science to stop one. It may hold it off, but they don't have a cure for everything.:: David shrugs. :: Being immortal has it's ups and downs, you'll see good times and bad. we're not exempt from having hardships, ours just tend to be a little different.