Good news! I found my story, although a lot of it is missing… well, it's better than losing the whole story.
In class all I could think about was how the date might go. Would he suck my blood? Will he take me to a secret vampire place that was hidden from everyone? I was terrified, but also excited at the same time. I mean, who gets to go out with a vampire?
The only thing that interrupted my thoughts was Lily in my English class; she kept on saying 'ew' when we were watching a chick flick movie when they showed affections.
"Are you serious Lily? Try to understand it. Or don't you have any nice and not snobby feelings?!" I agreed with Miss Baseline.
"Excuse me?! I care about my cell phone." Lily held out her ridiculously pink cell phone.
"That's not a real feeling, Lily. Love and happiness is- sadness and lust-" someone interrupted with a loud knock on the door. Miss Baseline sighed then headed to the door.
"Is that how you go around door after door in this school?" She gasped as three teenage like people that were all in black masks and pointing guns at her. She backed away as one of the teenagers moved towards her. One that looked like a girl figure pointed the gun at the whole class. The leader stood at the front with his gun at his side.
"I want everyone to calmly take out their cell phones and place them on their desks," the leader said in a muffled voice. The whole class obeyed except for Lily who folded her arms.
"You ain't touching my baby!" Lily shouted. The female figure walked towards her slowly. "Get away from me, you twat!" the female figure clicked Lily's neck in one movement and dragged her body to the front. The male figure collected the cell phones while the leader aimed the gun at Miss Baseline. I must be crazy, but I swear I could see the leader staring at me. Where in the hell is Jason?
"My boyfriend will kill all of you!" I shouted mainly at the leader. The male figure snapped his gun at me.
"No! I have something planned for her. Bring her up the front!" the leader said. The male figure pulled me to the front with little effort as I struggled. I was placed right in front of the leader barely inches away from him. "And who is this boyfriend of yours? Hm-mm?"
"He's handsome, he's charming, and he can kill you all if he was here! Your bullets would do nothing to him, 'cause he's….. He's that strong!"
"Oh really?" he pulled me closer to him so that our lips were inches away. He calmly lifted his mask so he showed his lips and his rough chin. I knew what was coming next. I didn't want it. I would bite his lip if I had to….but his lips…there was something about them….something familiar. I couldn't quiet put my finger on it. He broke away smiling. "That boyfriend of yours better keep you on a leash you little-" I slapped him without thinking. "Bitch!" His breathing increased as if he was about to hit back. "'H', kill the teacher and 'L' can destroy the cell phones. When you're both done, meet me out side." He dragged me outside with my wrist even though I dug my heels in. Outside, he kissed me again against the wall, only this time I bit his lip. But he just smirked then pulled off his mask completely. It was… Jason.
"Jason!" I was mad. Jason covered my mouth then shushed me. "Don't you shush me! Are you crazy?"
"No, I did this whole thing for you. I figured if people knew you'd escaped from something like this people would notice you more. Plus, I had to get you out."
"Do you think I want people to notice me? No! I'm comfortable being a ghost. You had no right to threaten Tom, or kill Lily!"
"She was a bitch anyway; she had what was coming to her." I shook my head.
"And my teacher?!"
"She had suspicions about us." I shook my head harder this time. Jason putted his finger under my chin.
"Hey, don't worry about it. You're safe now. We are safe." meaning his clan.
"You really think I want to be with you? Now that you've done this?"
"Are you breaking up with me?" But I knew what that meant. I would die.
"No…no…it's just that… you can't go around killing people, especially when I'm around. What do you expect me to say this time?"
"You'll make it up." I shook my head again.
"My mum, she'll get to me… and…"
"Call her now."
"Okay," I wrung my mum from my cell phone that I hid from Hamish.
"Hello?" my mum answered.
"Hi mum, listen, my work needs me to come in." I lied.
"No, not unless it's urgent."
"It is- Jade's made this big mess, and no one's there to cover her." Mum sighed.
"How long?" Nine, Jason mouthed.
"Nine."
"OK, I'll pick you up."
"No, it's OK; I have money for a taxi."
"OK, be back by nine sharp." She hung up. My mum was usually like that. She never showed any real affection to me- no hugs- no 'I love you'. My dad was the only thing that kept the relationship alive; my mum was like a zombie when my dad wasn't around- except for the cannibalism. She doesn't know how lucky she is to have my dad.
The weird thing is that Jason did take me to my work. Maybe Jason thought that my mum would call my work to see if I was here. The cliché thing is that Jason took me to a vampire movie. One that had real vampires that burned in the sun and the townspeople threw grenades at them.
Heaps of people had their necks drained, mainly out of human stupidity for falling for them; the vampires did not love them back. Although, one did.
Their love survived through the war, but eventually the vampire got killed by someone sticking a wooden stake into him as he died slowly on the ground. The girl was right there. Screaming and yelling. Wanting so desperately to kiss the vampire one last time, hear him talk and breathe one last breath- one last word. His last words, I love you, Gloria. She killed herself afterwards.
I cried when the vampire died. Sure, he was a vampire, but he never killed or harmed anyone by purpose. I couldn't bear to think of Jason dying like that, or my life without him. Because the truth was, I'd probably do the same.
Jason could see the tears running down my eyes before I curled up to his chest. He wrapped his arm around me while his other hand stroked my hair to one side.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have taken you to see this." Jason whispered. I wanted to stop crying, I was embarrassed to cry, but my eyes stung and images of Jason dying stained my eyes.
"I love you, Jason." I desperately wanted him to say it back, but he stayed silent.
I quickly wiped away my tears, I had enough of this movie- even though it was nearly finished- and went into the staffroom to fix myself up. I didn't want anyone to think Jason did anything bad to me.
"What the hell are you doing here? You're not working tonight and we haven't seen you in ages." Jade- my suspicious and snobby co-worker- asked folding her arms.
"I'm on a date." Jade scoffed.
"Yeah right, you have never been on a date in your life." I was starting to get annoyed at people not believing I could go out with a guy.
"No really, he's out there." Jade looked outside then chuckled.
"How much did you pay him?"
"What?! I'm not that much of a loser."
"Yeah, you just admitted that you're a loser."
"Shut up, Jade. You know nothing!" Jade twirled her caramel hair laughing.
"I know more than you, virgin."
"Oh, that hurt!" I wasn't that surprised she didn't know about the rumors at my school- that Jason was using me- she didn't ever know anything. I didn't tell anyone at work about me either. But she probably guessed with me going to the movies by myself.
Jason took me to a karaoke restaurant, but he still kept quiet. Maybe he sensed that I was mad and didn't want to talk. I was mad, but not at him. At everyone else and a part of me was glad Lily was dead. That's one less person to deal with. I did want to talk about what happened in the movie, but was afraid for some reason, like it wasn't the right time.
A woman in a red dress sung Love Song while Jason drunk a beer and I drunk a lemonade.
"Why don't you burn in the sun?" I asked. Jason lifted a diamond necklace with a leather neckline.
"My dad found it in the meadow that sprouted out of a rose. He put it in my hand one time when I was in the house. When I stepped out I could go out. Dad says it's from god."
"God must love you." Jason smiled contently at me like I understood.
"Holly didn't care about my dad's religion. You know she thought the necklace wasn't the reason, even though she wore it anyway."
"Because she loved you." I looked at my drink, not wanting to see Jason's sad smile.
"Yeah," sadness dripped from his voice. It stayed quiet for a moment. "Hamish and Lily agree with me, you're a good singer." I blushed.
"That's why I'm here?" Jason nodded. The woman that sang ran out crying as if she was affected by the song.
"Your turn," Jason stood letting out his hand. It reminded me of Joey, but I had to push that away with all the bad memories that came with him, and focused on Jason's pale hand.
Jason picked We fell in love. I thought that might be relevant to our situation, I don't know what Jason's thoughts were. Jason's words flew out beautifully like butterflies. My words were the main ones. I loved the way Jason sang, even if I was better. Jason was so close to me, ready to kiss my lips, his head against mine; I'm surprised I just stood there. We were like that until people started clapping while standing. As if, we weren't that good. Or were we?
"You know, you were really good." Jason said in his van, driving me to a place that was unknown. It was about five, and the sun was at its lowest.
"Well, I can't take all of the credit." Jason shook his head. "What?"
"Oh nothing, I just like you so much." Jason laid his eyes on mine before returning his attention back to the road.
"I… like you, too." There it is again, he likes me. What was that all about? I gently rested my hand on Jason's hand that seemed like it was asleep on his leg; I broke away because I forgot how cold they were. Jason looked emotionless.
Jason turned to a forest path that wasn't used regularly. Jason described the meadow, but not how beautiful the flowers were. Each flower was the same height as the one he gave me. Around the flowers was neatly cut grass as if they had been cut with scissors. The white house wasn't far from the meadow. It was small. A man in a white suit stood in front of the house. He appeared to have white hair that was perfectly cut to shoulder length in a pony tail, and a small beard, but he didn't look that old. His face was youthful, as if he had plastic surgery on his face.
The only thing that caught me off guard was his white eyes that didn't stop following mine. I held tightly onto Jason's cold hand.
"That's my father, be nice." Jason warned as we got closer. Nice? I'm nice!
Jason hugged his dad after shouting; "Dad!" Even though Jason's dad totally freaked me out, I oddly trusted him not to hurt Jason.
"Ah! So this is the lovely Mystery." Jason's dad boomed as he held out his hand. Jason nodded his hand as if to say it was all right. I automatically obliged to shake his firm hand shake. "My name is Max. May I call you Tory?" Max didn't seem blind.
"Sure," I nodded.
"No, Tory, I'm not blind. Come, come, I'll explain." Max pushed the sliding door open to let me in first. Everything in the house was white, clean and organised. The only things that weren't white were the photo's, crosses, and quotes of god. "Sit, please, Tory. Jason, fetch us tea if you'd please." Jason nodded then went into the kitchen. "Ah, Tory, did Jason tell you that I'm a total god freak?"
"No, he tells me nothing." I glared in Jason's direction.
"Ah, well, you see, god has gifted me. I am immortal. I've lived for two hundred years. You see, god lets me see everything that's going to happen. The future that he shows me is not objective. Every now and then I warn the good Christians. My eyes, their mainly like a god's eye. I can see whoever has a good soul and who is in danger of losing themselves completely. A little bit like my son here.
"I can heal people if I'm aloud. Must check with god first. I would save some lives, but every now and then people have to die, and well, you know what this generation is like." I nodded guiltily, I hated this generation. The only generation I like is where woman got to wear those cool dresses. I wished there were dresses like that now.
"Now, I understand the situation with Joey-"
"Joey? What do you know about him?" I interrupted too quickly. Max just nodded and smiled then putted his finger on my lips.
"Shh, Tory, I have to tell you the honest truth. God has intended that you be with Jason, not Joey. It's your destiny. No matter how much you hate it. Jason knows Joey is a threat, but to this day he has still remained calm."
"Even though I would love to slit his throat every day." Jason putted our teas on a small table in front of us. Max glared at Jason like Jason was in trouble. "But I wouldn't do it without your consent though."
"Like I gave you consent to kill Jacob?"
"It wasn't my fault he was there!" Max put his hand up as if to calm Jason down. "Sit down." Jason sat next to me as Max smiled calmly. "Now, I have complete faith in you, Tory. I know every thought you have had, so I know how hard it might be to let Joey go." Max sipped his tea then sighed deeply.
"Max, how do you cope with your son being a vampire?"
"I don't, to tell you the truth. But sometimes I see that some part of Jason is still humane. I encourage that little part." Jason scoffed.
"You know I don't have a soul," Jason narrowed his eyes.
"You're still my son." Jason stood up sharply and looked like he was about to strike at Max.
"Can we go now?" Jason said still angry.
"I'd calm down first if I were you. That place is supposed to be full of happiness and peace." Jason let his shoulder dropped and took a deep breath. "Good lad."
"What place?" I asked. Jason smiled before taking my hand and taking me out to the meadow. "I thought you weren't allowed near this place."
"He knows you won't wreck this place. All of his trust is on you. He still doesn't let me go alone, but if I'm with you, I'll be sweet as."
"So this is a big privilege then? I-I can't accept that from your father." Jason stopped to get close and look me in the eyes.
"You can and you will. This is our place now." Our place- like the cliff. "He wants us to live here one day… Hey, if I'm not at the cliff I'm here." Jason sat on the grass next to a patch of flowers then patted next to him. I hesitated to look at the flowers; they were so beautiful. "Go ahead, smell them."
"I couldn't."
"Well I'm not going to encourage you like a cheer leader." Jason looked serious.
"OK then," I smelt the lovely flowers; they all smelt wonderful and different to each others. My nose relaxed as if I smelt a little bit of heaven.
"Which one stands out?" Jason interrupted my thoughts. I had a good look before answering.
"Exactly, you see, I picked that flower because it stood out. Guess who it reminded me of when I stared at it?" I blushed.
"Oh, Jason you didn't need to do that-"
"Here," Jason picked the camera beside him that I didn't see to show me the rose with the rest of the flowers. Now that the rose was gone, the flower patched looked simple- not exciting. "You do stand out, Mist. You just don't realize it yet, or those dimwits at our school." Jason looked at my eyes and my mouth intensely. Our lips were about to connect until my cell phone wrung. Jason groaned as I answered.
"Hello," I said.
"Myth! Mum has been worried sick about you," it was Kora. Always ruining everything.
"Really? What time is it?"
"Seven! Mum couldn't reach you at work."
"Why would she want to reach me?"
"Well, you better come home to figure it out. Oh, and Myth, your so in trouble." Kora hung up without a 'bye'.
"I'm sorry, Jason, I'd love to watch the sunset with you. But a family crisis is going on."
"It's OK, as long as I see you tomorrow." Jason kissed my cheek and forehead before we headed back to his van.