They Bite

7

Alone with Ken is a dream, but Marcus came back in and saw Ken really close to me. It took me a minute to realize my arms were around his neck. I panicked for a minute, and my heart stopped, but Ken didn’t see a problem with it. He kept me close.

Marcus came around and pushed him right off me. Ken kept his balance and stood up.

“No,” Marcus said, “I don’t want anything between you two!”

“Marcus,” I said as I looked at him with a calm face, “just calm down.”

Marcus was throwing a fit. His hands were balled into fists. “I swear to god, if you did anything,” Marcus said to Ken.

Ken grinned and winked at Marcus. I knew Marcus well. He had a short fuse. He was burning with fury on the inside. I grabbed his hand to calm him down. It always worked, but today, he didn’t shake it all off, and his anger was still there. Marcus is really overprotective when it came to Ken. Sure, hes a blood sucking vampire, but he’s never done anything to hurt me, at all. All he has done was try to protect me.

Marcus looked at me with anger. I sank into my hospital bed. “What did he do,” he asked, “Tell me right now.”

I swallowed hard. “He...He um…” I started, and Marcus was waiting for an answer. “He kissed me twice,” I said.

Marcus glared at Ken, but I gripped his hand tight. “Did he say anything at all,” Marcus asked me, but was looking at Ken, who had a smirk on his devilish face.

I shook my head, but Marcus looked at me with furious eyes. I gripped his hand, but he threw it off to the side, and raised his hand at me and slapped me right across the face. “Stop hanging around this blood sucking demon,” Marcus shouted as he raised his hand again.

Ken hissed and jumped over me, and in front of Marcus. I held my cheek. It was on fire. I was shaking. Marcus, was turning into my father. I was afraid of him. He never hit me before. He never laid a hand on me to hurt me in any way before.

I saw Kenny run in here, and grab Marcus. Marcus was having a complete breakdown of anger. Ken ran right back over to me and jumped onto his knees on the hospital bed. My hand cradled my burning cheek. I turned my head away from Ken and let the tear run right off my face. I was sniffling and just breaking down.

Ken reached his hand around my head and put his hand over mine. He gently pushed my head to look at him. My burning cheek was painful as hell. I could feel the swelling building. Ken moved my hand, then grabbed some ice for it. When he came back, my face was covered in tears. Ken used his hand and wiped away every tear.

“Marcus never hit me before,” I said as I continued crying. “He’s becoming my father.”

Ken looked at me. He had anger in his eyes from what Marcus had done to me. He shook his head to get out his anger. “You deserve so much more than them,” he said, furiously. “I should change you to be one of us so you don’t have to be with them anymore, but I can’t do that.”

“Why now,” I asked.

He looked at me. “For me to do that, it’s a ceremony. A tradition we do. Our ancestors in ancient Rome made it up, when Vein’s ancestor named Vlad fell in love with a human girl. He would do anything for her. He protected her with his life, then one day, she said she wanted to be changed. But changing a human means you’re bonded forever and the vampire who changed the human has to train them to be vampires we are today. That was the only time we have ever done a bonding ceremony. Nobody has ever dared to get near a human before to fall in love.”