Blood Ties

Chapter 3: Meetings

James POV

I awoke at first light the next morning. Light came through the thin curtains in the room disturbing my dreamless slumber, i never dreamed, it was an unfortunate side effect of being a shapeshifter but no-one knew why. Glancing around the room I noticed that Ileana was still in bed sleeping peacefully. Silently standing and stretching I yawned as I looked at her. 

She lay on her side, her long hair falling over her face. On impulse I leaned over and brushed the hair aside revealing her face. I hadn't really looked at her properly yesterday, I mean I had seen what she looked like but not really taken in the details of her appearance. I was struck by how pretty she looked in sleep. She wasn't what would be seen as conventionally pretty, but she had a natural beauty to her face that many girls would be envious of. Her hair was mid-brown in colour, and trailed down to her mid-back with a long side fringe and had a streak of white running down either side of her face. I thought it looked odd at first but it suited her.

She stirred slightly but didn't wake as my phone rang in my pocket. I checked it, it was a text saying that out transport had arrived. I leant over her and shook her shoulder gently waking her. As her eyes opened and she say me she gasped shocked before recognision crossed her face realising who I was. 

"What is it?" she asked sleepily.

"Our lift is here. You better get dressed." I explained.

She groaned before rolling out of bed and running a hand through her hair. Looking at me she said, "Why don't you go downstairs and get some food or something while I get dressed. Don't worry no-one will be up yet." With that she dismissed me and started rummaging through the bag she had packed yesterday looking for some clean clothes.

I left the room trying to be as quiet as possibly which failed when it seemed that every other stair creaked as I walked down. Stepping into the kitchen I took an apple from the bowl on the side and started to eat it. When Ileana came down the stairs after a few minutes she also grabbed an apple and motioned towards the door before walking out dragging her battered old suitcase behind her and balancing a rucksack on her shoulder.

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Ileana POV

Down the road from the house sat in a spot where no light reached from the streetlamps. It was a rather large silver Lamborghini Estoque with blacked out windows and a black BMW parked at the curb. James walked towards the cars and leaned into the window of the BMW while I stood back and waited to see what was going on. After a few minutes James nodded towards the Lamborghini before stepping over to it and opening the driver door. I cautiously made my way to the other side and looked into the window letting out a low whistle as he started up the engine.

"You getting in then?" he asked while I stood there.

I raised an eyebrow. "This is your car?" He nodded. I got in carefully putting my small suitcase and rucksack behind the seat. "How did you get a car like this?" I asked as I did up my seat belt.

"It was a gift for my 17th birthday. From my dad." he explained.

"Your dad bought you this car. You must be loaded. Wait, do you even have a liscene?" I couldn't help the disbeleif that fell into my voice. It was rather unbeleivable.

"Well he gave me a copy of the key for it. It's kind of a shared car. And yes I got my liscene just after my birthday which was 2 months ago." He amended his earlier explaination.

I laughed. "Now thats more beleivable."

We took off down the rode engine roaring as we followed the other car through the dimly lit streets. It was so cool but I was glad I wasn't the one driving as it seemed a bit scary. 

Soon I found my eyes drooping and my head lolled against the cool window as I fell asleep.

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James POV

After about an hour of driving I looked over at Ileana to see her asleep against the car window. It didn't matter. We'd be driving for a few more hours yet until we got to our destination so I let her sleep for a while longer.

Eventually our destination came into view. I leaned over and nudged Ileana to wake her up. She woke up quickely and looked around stretching. As she took in the area we were driving through and she stopped looking around quickely. She didn't recognise where we were I realised.

"Don't worry. We are almost there. Just a few more minutes." I tried to calm her. She nodded quickely and sat back in the seat relaxing a bit. She sat forward again though a few minutes later as our destination came into view.