My Forest Nightmare

Slience

I wake up to a sharp pain in my neck. I panic and try to push whoever it was off me. I realise that it was Nathan when I recognise his growl as he covered my mouth. I calm down the slightest bit when I realised it was him and stayed quiet while he drank my blood. A minute or so past before he stopped, got up, healed the puncture wounds and left for work but, not before flashing his fangs at me... I guess to warn me to stay out of trouble; which I'll happily do. The best way to do that is to stay in my room all day, I feel weak anyway so may as well just stay in bed.

The whole day I stayed in my room; I didn't even leave to get food. I thought that if I stayed in here all day I could stay out of trouble and I was right, but I'm getting a little worried because Nathan hasn't come home yet and it's been hours since it got dark. I sighed as I looked out of the frost-covered window.

"He should be back be now! It's 8 o'clock" I say to myself as I turn to look at the gold circular clock on my wall. As I lay back down on my bed I hear someone walking up the stairs. I sit up and watch the door. Sure enough Nathan walks in and over to where I'm sitting, and it's not long before his eyes turn crimson and he pulls me up from my seat. I whimper at his tight grip on me and close my eyes, anticipating the sharp pain I am yet to experience.

Moments later I feel his fangs break my flesh, the sound of him gulping down my blood rang through my ears. I was scared. He still hadn't said anything to me since last night and even then he only said my name.

After Nathan had had enough he healed the wounds and left the room. Still not a word. I didn't know what to do, he had never given me the silent treatment before even when I had made him angry. It's fairly obvious that he's still mad at me but I wish he'd say something.
'Maybe I should go talk to him... but what if he wants to be left alone? I could make things worse! I don't want him to stay mad at me like this. I should go find him but maybe I shouldn't... What do I do?!'

10 Minutes past and I had finally stopped arguing with myself. I was going to go find Nathan and talk to him. I walked out of my room and went downstairs to the lounge room timidly. He wasn't there. Kitchen? Nope. Lounge Room? Nope. I looked in all the rooms I could go into and still no Nathan.

'May as well just give up. I can't go into any of the other rooms to keep looking... wait maybe he's in his room?'

I ran upstairs and stood in front of his door, contemplating whether this was a good idea or not. I knocked lightly on the door.

"Nathan" I said quietly. No answer. I tried again. Still no answer. Just as I was about to try for the third time the door opened. He stood there glaring at me for a few seconds before pushing past me and going downstairs.

'Follow him. You can't walk away from this. If you leave it he'll stay mad at you. Maybe if you talk to him he won't be as mad'

This time I actually listened to my brain and followed him down. My little voice has been right so far so may as well trust it this time, however I did keep my distance from him.

"Nathan" I say quietly watching him. He ignores me. "Nathan please talk to me, I'm sorry for lying to you yesterday. I shouldn't have done that and it won't happen again I promise" Still no response. "Can you at least tell me what I have to do to make it up to you? Please? I hate it when you're mad"

"I don't want you to do anything." I finally get a response but he still doesn't look at me. "I trusted you to stay out of trouble and if something did happen you would tell me about it. But you didn't. You lied to me."

"I was sc-"

"Stop. Don't talk over me." He looked straight in my hazel eyes with his dark ones that are usually a bright blue-green colour. I looked away, down at my feet and played with my fingers. "I know you were scared, I could tell, your heart rate sped up as soon as you saw me. It got faster when I mentioned that I could smell your blood. But that doesn't mean you can lie to me! There's no excuse Alysha. You broke one of my rules and you are so lucky I let you off with a single slap. Next time you won't be so lucky do I make myself clear?" I nod my head still looking at my feet. I didn't want to look at him. I didn't want to see him staring at me with his dark, almost black eyes.