Chapter 5

Song inspiration: Love Bites [So Do I] by Halestorm.

A/N: Hiya! Sorry I haven't updated lately, but I've been busy holiday planning :) I'm also trying to diet, which should be easy as a vegetarian, but my mum isn't making it very easy. She keeps trying to get me to eat loads because she doesn't think I'm getting enough calories -_- Anyways!..

3 days later...

Shane's POV

I kissed the blonde on my lap hungrily and impatiently.

It had been 3 days since a certain ex became a leach. I was dating a couple of humans now. This one was... Cindy? Sylvia? Maybe even Lola? Nope, pretty sure it was Sylvia.

However, I did not give a crap about that when her silvery voice whispered things in my ear... Not-so-innocent things.

I smirked as I thought about how lucky I really was it all ended. This was such a better lifestyle. A new, sexy girl - no, *woman* - for each new, sexy night.

I imagined life if I had stuck with my Plain Jane ex, Claire. If I had settled down. Shane Collins, stuck with a small, far-from-special, nerdy girl. Haha, yeah, likely. I might have had a kid, been stuck with the runt. She would probably have cheated, become a fangbanger whilst I was trapped, sober, at home. She would say sorry, but I would argue back. She was lucky to have me, everybody wanted me, but I wasn't good enough for her. I'd become abusive like my father, who (it turns out) was actually an inspiration.

Not a future for me I'm afraid.

Claire's POV

What a bastard!

He couldn't get enough, could he? This must be the fourteenth girl this week that he had pinned to a wall outside her house.

Careful Shane, love bites... But so do I.

My eyes flashed red and I looked down at the silver band with the blue stone that was on my finger. One had been given to Amelie, and one more each to Michael, Sam, Oliver, Theo, Myrnin and I. They were gifts from the new vampires. Made by witches. They arrived just before dawn this morning, and meant we could walk in daylight. I was saving that surprise for Shane. Meanwhile, that blonde bitch could eat her heart out.

Maybe I shouldn't have let Myrnin turn me himself, it seemed to be messing with my sanity.

I smirked.

4 hours later - sunset

Why was my phone ringing now? I had had about 15 calls today! Most from Amelie or Michael.

Holy crap.

It was my parents!