Chapter 3

I got up the next morning, I kicked my legs over the side of the bed, my feet not even touching the floor. I dropped down from the bed a few inches to the soft carpeted floor. I looked to my right out of my window, more out of habit than expecting something. What do you know.

"Holy shit," I said as I looked out the window. Snow, it was snowing, the trees were covered with the seldom-seen almost mystical snow. I turned to my drawer and got dressed. Black jeans, a red T-shirt and gray sweater, and retrieving my glasses from the nightstand, along with my dark green digital watch, I went out of my room and proceeded down the hall to the living room.

"There's no school," my mom said as I walked into the room.

"About 4 inches by the end of the day," She continued. She always seemed to know what I was thinking it was kind of creepy. I went from the living room to the kitchen, pouring myself a bowl of cereal and went back to my room. Taking my breakfast with me. Just as I set my bowl down I heard Amber Pacific play,m I jumped a little. The guitar, drums and singer playing in perfect harmony.

"Take me back to your heart, a place to remember I'll always be yours..." was cut off when I finally found my silver phone, under my desk, not sure how it got there though.

"Hello," I said.

"Hey you," I heard Rebeca say, her voice didn't sound anything like it did in person. But I guess that was how it always was.

"I was wondering if you," She paused before going on, "If you wanted to take a walk in the snow?" She asked.

"Sure of coarse, I'll drive to your place, ok, be there in 10" I responded, this would be a good time to ask some questions.

"Sure," She sounded enthusiastic.

"Bye," She continued.

"Bye," I said, and she hung up. So did I and I my cell in my pocket. I donned a heavy coat and started for the door.

"I'm going to Rebeca's and going to take a walk!" I said loudly trying not to yell, so that my mom would hear.

"Be careful, the roads are slippery," I heard her yell back.

I got in my Kia and started the car and waited for it to warm up. I was probability the only driver that still enjoyed the snow. For all it's promise of a a slick drive, no matter how short your trip was, I mused to myself. I eased the car out of the driveway, and drove to Rebeca's. It only usually took 5 minutes to get to Rebeca's house but I was being careful, and with the warm up time, I arrived in a little earlier then 10 minutes. I stepped out the door in my heavy boot, black, they matched my jeans. I closed the door and saw Rebeca come out of the house, she must have heard the door of the car close. We started walking towards each other, then about half way through she broke into a run to me. When she got close I braced for impact. But it wasn't enough, she jumped, wrapping her arms and legs around me. Bearing me to the ground, she kissed me passionately, over and over, like their was no tomorrow, I knew why she was acting this way. We were both sinking into the snow, after a minute, she finally let me get up. And we started walking away from the house in the snow, in no particular direction

"Please don't tell me that you were afraid that Jene would have taken me again," I said, already knowing the answer.

"Well... yes, I was afraid she would have taken you, and hurt you worst than yesterday," She said, hurt.

"Well if she hurt me any worst than yesterday, she would have killed me," I said confused, and realized very quickly what she meant. And I even quicker than than that I hated myself for saying that, I was so stupid I should have known that would happen.

She started to cry, "I know..." She said fully breaking out into tears. I threw my arms around her and tried to muffle her cries.

"I'm so sorry, please don't cry, I can't bear to hear or see your cry," I said, fighting back my own tears.

"How do you know she will come back anyway," I asked her, trying to stifle her tears.

"That look in her eye, when I took you away. She was determined, she wouldn't stop until she had you...but I don't know why she pursues you so,"

"Neither do I, why would she was a human like me. She could have anyone she wants, and she choses me, I don't understand," I said talking it through.

"I'm in the same boat as you." She agreed.

"She will never ever have me, my heart, my soul is already with you," I said taking her hands in mine and looking deep in her eyes. She looked like she was going to melt, and blushed so much, she turned away.

"I know that, but she still won't stop. She keep coming, even if she knows she can't have you..." She trailed, still recovering from my complete idiotic.

"I might have been able to survive such attention, but you, your a frail human," She said, looking down.

"Aren't you pretty much human without blood?" I asked, tilting my head slightly.

"Yes, thats true, but I still have your blood in my system, that means I can still use my unique power," She answer.

"Would you mind showing me your unique power? Please," I asked longing to see.

"Well...I can't really show unless I use it on someone. Do you trust me?" She asked a little darkly.

"With my life," I responded immediately.

"I would have accepted no other answer, this could kill you if I lose concentration," She said, very seriously.

"Relax my love," She whispered into my ear, leaning close to me. She put the tips of her fingers on both sides of my temples. She closed her eyes. I felt my breath get taken from me suddenly, I was suffocating, my eyes were wide, I felt cold and getting colder. Rebeca opened her eyes, they were terrifying, they were a crystallized shade of dark red, like blood. I will never forget those eyes, for as long as I live. She took her hands from my temples and I fell back, into the snow. I took great heaving breaths of air.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stay in contact for so long," She said, blinking and her eyes turning back to their normal shade of sparkling green. Coming closer to me, and hesitated but continued and knelt next to me.

"I'm fine," I said, controlling my breathing making go back to normal.

"Thank you for showing me, I see you could defend yourself if you had to," I said.

"All I need to do is be in skin to skin contact with my...opponent," She hesitated saying the last word.

"I see," I said understandingly.

"I was wondering," I said while getting up.

"How did you know where I was? How did you know I was in danger to begin with," I asked.

"I... I felt your pain, literally, I felt her fangs sink into your neck, I felt the fire in your blood," She said,

"My mom told me it is a emphatic link vampires develop with a loved one, the subject of the link can feel the greatest emotions of the subjects," She explained to me.

"As for knowing where you were... My mom and dad knew where Jene lived. They didn't think that I should know where she lived, they didn't think that she would affect me," She said, a question instantly popping into my head.

"Didn't they know what happened at school yesterday?" I asked eagerly.

"Yes... Well.. They... My mom was hoping... hoping that you... you... you would die because you know our secret!" She cried out and broke out in tears again. Not again I thought, I once again wrapped my arms around her and tried to consul her. She calmed down after a few minutes later.

"Did they think about how that... that would have affected you?" I asked, it was painful to ask but I needed to get it out of the way, it would probability be even more painful to bring it all up again later.

"They thought... They thought that I was exaggerating the intensity of my relationship with you. They were wrong, I had a emphatic link built up with you, my... my love," She said the last part so sincerely, looking into my eyes so soulfully my heat melted.

"My love, I can get used to that," I said half playfully.

"I love you," She said, looking at me so seriously.

"I love you too," I said, turning as serious as her. I had no idea how I was able to change my mood so fast but I did, but I did. She wrapped her arms around me and kissed me, she lips felt warm, I felt something, something strange. Something that never happened before when I kissed her. When she drew her head back, I saw her lips were blood red, and blood was trailing from her lips in a couple places. I felt my lips, and looked at the tips of my fingers and saw my own blood on my fingers. I looked up at her, she smiled a little, then she opened her eyes wide as if she just realized what she did.

"I'm so so sorry. Please don't be mad at me," She said extremely distressed. I didn't say a word as I leaned towards her and kissed her, she was surprised at first but lost her self in my kiss, or blood, I wasn't sure which . She with drew and jumped on me again, holding me with all her limbs. She opened her mouth and bit into my neck. I felt her suck my life-giving blood from me body, but it wasn't painful like when Jene did it, it was soft, like velvet, and sensual. I could tell she was drinking too much but I didn't say anything, I had a feeling that if she could have stopped, she would have. I started to fell weak, light headed, and collapsed to the ground. Rebeca fell with me, and I think was shaken out of her blood-lust because she stopped drinking from me.

"I...I...I'm sorry," She said, bowing her head so that her hair was covering her face in shame.

"Don't feel sorry, it was my fault for kissing you again," I said, pleading with her not to cry.

"I didn't want to hurt you but I couldn't help myself," She explained on the verge of tears.

"But it didn't hurt, it actually felt good," I tried to consul.

"It might have felt good but it really wasn't good," She said

"You collapsed from lack of blood, you must still be recovering from yesterday," She stated.

"I don't think its a good idea for me to be too close to you, for your own safety," She said getting up. I grabbed her wrist as she got up and pulled her back down, she landed hard in my lap, I wrapped my arms around her. She leaned back and accepted that she wasn't going anywhere without me. Her head rested on my chest.

"You really like testing my will, don't you," She said half playfully.

"Either that, or I'm a glutton for punishment," I said with the same playfulness, looking down at her. A few seconds passed.

"We should probability get off the cold, wet ground before you freeze," She said looking up at me.

"I'll never freeze with you this close to me," I said smiling.

"None-the-less, it would be more comfortable if we were sitting in a chair or couch," She said smiling with me.

"Or a bed," I added, still smiling. She knew I was kidding...Or was I? I untangled my arms around her and she got up. I did too and we walked hand in hand towards the house.

She opened the door, and gestured for me to come in. Her parent's weren't home despite the snow. Her mom was Board Of Executives, and her dad was a hot shot stock broker, so they still had to go to work.

"I'm going to make some hot coco, you want some marshmallows?" She whispered in my ear.

"2 small ones please, thank you," I said.

"Head up to my room, ok?" She asked.

"Ok," I answered and she headed off to the kitchen and I started for her room. I swear you can get yourself lost a her house. It wasn't that large but it is easy to get disoriented. But after a minute I'm found mer room. She had a Beany Bag in her room and I sat in it. She came in a few minutes later with the coco.

"You didn't have a hard time finding this place again did you?" She asked smiling, she knew the answer. I smiled back at her stood up, and walked over to her. She offered me a cup of coco, I took it,

"Thank you," I said, and took a sip. Still hot, it burnt my tongue a little. She smiled,

"Hot isn't it," She said. I opened my mouth to speak.

"Emphatic link," She said, I closed my mouth with a clack of teeth coming down on teeth. She kept smiling. I put the cup of coco on her desk and sat down. She put her cup next to mine and sat in my lap. We both smiled. She leaned back and she laid across my lap, still on the Beany Bag, I was surprised, the Beany Bag was about 6 ft in diameter. She reached up and wrapped her one of her hands around the back of my head and pulled me towards her. However she didn't kiss me, she put my hair in her face,

"Don't move please?" She asked as if in a distance. I complied and after a few seconds moved me down, exposing my neck to her. She closed her eyes, as if fighting the urge, she leaned close to me, her nose almost touching me. I wanted to draw her closer and kiss her but I knew better, she moved down, her nose close to my neck. And inhaled my sent running her nose along my neck, it tickled but I dared not move. She opened her eyes and kissed me on the lips, I was completely captive, I felt like I wasn't in control of myself, I couldn't do anything on my own but accept whatever she did to me. She moved back, and readjusted herself. She was laying against me, her head laying softly on my upper torso. Both of our hands entwined, our arms entangled, wrapped around her. We stayed like that for hours, we completely forgot about the coco, we were lost in each other. The front door closing snapped us both out of our revelry.

"Rebeca? I'm Home!"Her mom yelled. She got up and looked at the clock, it was 12:32 noon. She went to the door and opened it,

"Hi Mom!" She yelled out the door.

"Rebeca, I need to talk to you about something," Rebeca's mom said coming up the stairs,

"Oh, ok," She said confused. I could tell her mom was right near the door but the nervousness she felt, from the link, wait I thought. I can feel her emotions too, well I guess the door swings both ways, so to speak. Rebeca turned towards me,

"You should probability go, I'll call you," She said. I got up from the Beany Bag and walked to the door. I gave her a quick good-bye kiss and left. I was right, her mom was near the door. I could almost feel the tension in the air as I passed her. She didn't like me, now that I knew their secret, she didn't trust me, and the fact that another vampire wants me is not going to help the situation.

I left the house and walked over to my car, got in and started it. I let it warm up and drove back home.