Chapter 10
I laid in the nurses bed. The school probability called my house and their be a message, my dad's fast asleep and my mom isn't there. They'd call her work. Chances are that she's in classes, if not she would come to the school. Take me home and say she's sorry but she has to go back to work. Which is exactly what happened. About 15 minutes later I was home on the couch. The pain was in waves, and the movement only hastened the time between them. About every 5 minutes their be a jolt of pain like my skin was dissolving. I looked in the mirror at least 20 times before I stopped looking to make sure it wasn't dissolving. I'm glad I wasn't in school, but I did miss having Rebeca around. I hoped she was ok by herself. She wouldn't fight Jene unless it was life or death. And even then she wouldn't use her power for risk of exposure, she was probability extra cautious because Jessica almost caught her without knowing it. At least she didn't see that Rebeca was biting me. It was about 8:30 when I got home. I sighed, I was going to be very bored until school got out.
"This mean that a blood transfusion won't work, my blood won't accept it," I said quietly to myself.
"The rest of me can, but not what matters," I told myself.
"Dammit," I cursed. I got up from the couch and went to my laptop, and started searching the Internet. While I was typing I noticed that my skin was pale, paler than usual, almost snow white.
"Whoa," I said. Lifting my palms and spreading my fingers, my hands still on the keyboard. I remembered something, and went to Google and typed 'corpses' under images. I came up with too many hits and just looked at one which had a man with a tux in a coffin. I isolated the picture and zoomed in on the skin. It matched mine perfectly.
"Whoa," I said. Hopefully this was just a side effect of the vampire blood. I hoped. I checked my email. Nothing,
"Great," I said. And logged off the Internet and turned my computer off. I got up and sat down on my bed, I looked at the skin on my legs, lifting the pant leg of my jeans. They too, were the same color white.
"Strange," I said to myself. I looked at the clock the digital read out said 11:07. I yawned, I felt tired.
"That is strange," I said. I was almost never tired during the day, I could hardly sleep anyway in any condition.
"Ya!" I yelled as another jolt of pain passed through my body. The pain held for at least a minute, it was getting longer and longer was it suppose to be like this, when was it suppose to subside? I wondered. During these jolts of pain, I couldn't move or the pain would intensify, it's like when your leg falls asleep and after the numbing it feels like thousands of needles are poking you even if you don't move. It was like that, but all over your body. I started to take heaving breaths, I don't even breath when the pain hits or the pain will be increased I really hoped all this was normal but I wasn't sure anymore. I walked over to my bed and yawned. Hopefully I might be able to escape the pain in sleep. I was wrong, for 2 hours I tried to sleep, and every time I just fell asleep the pain ravaged my body and I had to stand up to minimize the concentrated pain in my feet rather than my entire back from laying down. It was about 1:34. I decided to drive to the fast food restaurant and get a bite to eat, my appetite had been significantly diminished as well. I really hope that this illness was going to pass. I should ask Rebeca about it when I get the chance. I got in my car and started it, was it louder than before? It was, maybe I should get it checked when I get a chance. I had just gotten a check up on it a few weeks ago, it's not due yet. I drove to the Burger King and decided to go through the drive-thru. I was the only one in line.
"Hi, can I take your order?" A women's voice asked through the microphone.
"Hi, I'll take a order of fries, and a medium coke please," I said.
"Will that be all?" She asked.
"Yes," I answered
"Ok, that'll be 2.18 at the first window," She said.
"Thank you," I said. And proceeded to the second window.
"2.18 please," She asked. She had blond hair drawn up in a ponytail with crystal blue eyes.
"Here," I said. Handing her the 2 bills, a dime, a nickel, and 2 pennies in one hand.
"Thank you one moment while we get your order," She said. I waited a few seconds, I could hear the people cooking the food talking about a party, that's strange, normally I couldn't hear anything outside the car except for someone I was facing. Now I was hearing someone, over the sounds of the car, the people in the restaurant and over the food cooking.
"Here you go," She said. I turned to her. I took the coke and then the order of fries.
"Thank you," I said.
"Thank you," She said. I started to drive away. I started to eat the fries but I couldn't eat but a few. But for my drink, I downed it before I got to the next stoplight, I was getting increasingly thirsty. The pain wracked me while I was stopped at a light that had just changed from green to red. Luckily I was stopped. I wrapped my arms around my body. I started feeling the heat off the sun slightly more than I had. It was 40 degrees and I felt like it was 45, and whats more amazing is that I could tell the difference. What the hell is going on? I asked myself. I couldn't eat the fries, I could give them to Rebeca. It was about 1:50 by the time I got to the school, it would be out in about 10. I laid back in my car seat and waited. The bell rang, finally I was feeling like complete crap. About a minute later I saw Rebeca come out of the school. She jumped into my car,
"Home James," She said with a smile. I smiled too it was nice to have her near again.
"HOLY SHIT MICH!!" She screamed as she looked at me.
"What The Hell Is Wrong With YOU!? You Look Like A Walking Corpse!" She yelled.
"Am I that transparent?" I asked with a smile.
"Oh my god!" She said loudly. She reached across and grabbed the keys from the ignition.
"Your not driving, your too sick to drive," She said resolutely.
"I'm not that sick, I just have the pain spasms and I feel like crap," I explained.
"You Look DEAD!!" She screamed. She was apparently oblivious to the fact that she was drawing a whole lot of attention to us.
"Ah, Rebeca," I said. Pointing out the window to the crowd of people that were staring at us. Or me more like it. She turned around and saw the crowd.
"Whoops," She said embarrassed
"That aside, I'm not letting you drive," She said getting over her embarrassment quickly, as was her extremely loud voice.
"Ok," I said. I opened the door and walked to the backseat, trying not to look at the 100 or so people staring at me. I buckled up and Rebeca drove us to her place. She got out of the car and opened the seat, giving me unneeded help walking.
"I can walk just fine," I told her. But she would have none of it. She led me to the main living room. Surprisingly her Dad was home.
"Hello Rebeca, MICH!" He yelled as he looked at me. He jumped over the couch and ran up to us.
"What's wrong?" He asked us.
"I don't know?" She told me.
"What did you do Rebeca?" He asked her.
"What makes you think I did something?" She asked a eyebrow raised.
"Don't give me that. What Did You Do?" He asked loudly.
"This morning, I drunk his blood, and someone almost caught us and I accidentally cut my lip and some of my blood got on his wound," She half-lied. She didn't tell him that the lip spiting wasn't accidental but he didn't need to know about that.
"They didn't catch you right?" He asked darkly.
"No absolutely not," She said.
"Good, well his blood must have rejected it but he shouldn't be this messed up. He defiantly shouldn't look like a corpse..." He said.
"OH GOD LET GO!!" I screamed. They let me go and I crashed to the floor, a spasm of pain erupted out of nowhere, the pain at it's hight so far. I started to shake violently. For over 5 minutes it came over me. Until it stopped. Rebeca looked so miserable, she saw me hurt so much and she couldn't do anything to alleviate it. She might have thought that she was the pain's cause. I finally stopped and started to breath heavily. Rebeca came over to me.
"Has... Has it passed?" She asked.
"Yeah for the time being," I told her. She wrapped her arms around my body, I was still on the ground crumpled up in a ball.
"I'm so so sorry Mich!" She yelled.
"I'm sorry I made you hurt this way. I'm sorry that I can't do anything to stop it," She yelled she was fully crying and sobbing into my clothing, hugging me tight. Her Dad just stood a few steps away.
"In all my experiences, I've never seen something like this," He said.
"I need to ask your mother about this but I don't think that she has either," He continued. Rebeca was still crying into my shoulder. I hated it when she cried. I got up and sat cross legged on the floor she was leaning against my shoulder.
"I think I should go home," I said.
"NO!" she yelled grabbing hold of me.
"Your not going anywhere!" She said loudly. She obviously didn't want me to live.
"I don't want you to see me like this, it hurts me even more than the pain, to see you as hurt as you are when I'm hurting because you feel so helpless to stop my pain," I told her.
"No, I can take it, I just want to be with you," She said.
"Are you sure?" I asked. She nodded.
"Let's take you up to my room," She said. I got up myself. And I followed her up the stairs.
"Let me ask you something," I said.
"What?" She asked.
"Something other than the pain has happened. My appetite is rapidly diminishing, my thirst is rising, I hear things, my hearing has gone up, way up, at least 3 times as great. I..." I stopped, I noticed that my eye sight was blurry. I had my glasses on, this was strange. I took them off and I could see perfectly clear, clearer than normal. I put them on my nose and lifted and lowered them looking at the difference.
"Whoa," I said,
"What?" She asked.
"My vision is blurred from my glasses and I can see better without my glasses than before I needed them," I told her.
"Whoa is right," She agreed.
"Do you know any explanation?" I asked. Maybe she thought of something she didn't want to tell in front of her Dad.
"Well, some of the traits, like increased hearing, that could be a vampire trait, but the hearing is at least 5 times better than a human. Same with the sight, you seemed to be twice as good as a 20/20 human but vampires who have that trait have at least 4 times as good as that," She said pointing out a flaw in her thoughts.
"But no family of vampires have exhibited corpse white skin, exceptionally increasing thirst, or body wracking pain. And no vampire family member has more than one exceptional trait without blood evoking," She said. Point out a few more flaws in her plan.
"Also your family hasn't have any history hinting that you might be a vampire clan," She noted, another flaw.
"Maybe your blood gave me some power and the pain, skin, and thirst is the catch?" I asked.
"That seems more plausible than my theory," She said. I winced, the pain seemed to significantly weaken. It still hit my entire body but it was definitely not as strong as it once had been.
"Is the pain hitting?" She asked.
"Yeah, but it died down a whole lot," I said. I weathered through the pain, I didn't cry out either. It also didn't last as long as it had. But I could still hear better, and see much more clearly.
"Well at least it seems like your through..." I put my finger to her lips.
"Don't jinx it," I said with a smile. She did too, I really think that she was much better now that I wasn't subjected to so much pain. I was sitting on her bed. She sat next to me, and leaned her head against my shoulder, I tilted my head too, touching hers. He hair was hanging in the air. I reached across her and started to brush her hair with my fingers, using my fingers as combs, her hair was so silky, so smooth, and just slightly moist. I turned to face her and kissed the top of her head. And turned back and leaned my head against hers again. She smiled. And turned to me, I turned to her and she closed her eyes and kissed me on the lips. I closed my eyes too. My arm wrapped around her waist and I placed my hand flat in the center of her back. She tossed her arms around my neck and kissed me again. I stopped when I heard a very faint thump my the door. I looked at her and she looked at me with a strange expression on her face. I glanced my eyes at the door. She furred her brow, at first she didn't know what I was trying to say and then the she got it. She was surprised that I heard something that she didn't I was surprised too. But not surprised enough to not chew her Dad out about listening in.
"I should probability go," I said.
"Sadly," She commented. I guess that I was well enough by her standards to leave. I opened the door and let her out first. She led me through the house to the main chamber where the door was.
"See you," She said and kissed me one last time.
"See you," I replied. And opened the door and closed it lightly. I walked over to my Kia and started it and started home. I felt the pain while I was driving but I thanked my lucky stars that it didn't effect me enough to affect my driving. I had been worried about that when I first left home. I got home at about 3, I walked into the house and opened the door to my room. I forgot the mention the exhaustion to Rebeca. I laid down in my bed and drifted asleep.