The Strange Set

Chapter 7: Together

I sat on the couch while the guys were cleaning up the house before my friends arrived. I got up to help but Naven and Nolan told me that they got it and wouldn't let me clean for some reason. I sat watching television as the guys came into the living room. " OK so I'll bunk in with Naven while your friends are here and you guys can sleep in my room." Nolan said dusting his hands off. "Our beds are huge so don't feel bad for making us sleep in the same bed we've done it when we were littler and we've gotten pretty use to it." Naven said looking at Nolan who was nodding in agreement.

I decided to walk out onto the porch and waited for my friends. I pulled my jacket on and walked out and sat on the porch swing. The cold air danced under my jacket and made me shiver. As I got up to back inside the door opened and Nolan came out holding a blanket. "I thought you could use this to keep you warm till your friends came." I smiled and sat back down on the swing. He sat next to me and laid the blanket on me. We started swinging back and forth. "Can I ask you something?-" I looked at Nolan and was already looking at me. "I wanna get to know you more...so I was hoping you could tell me more about you and your family." He smiled and nodded turning to me. "OK well, I guess I can start from the beginning and all the stories mom told me when I was younger. Well there are many different kinds of vampires. The Aristorians, The Cannibals, The Havocs, and then us, The Regulars. There's tons more like ones who don't sleep or eat but I don't remember all the names." He said laughing and rubbing his neck. "Were actually not completely vampires. Me and Naven, part demon." I sat thinking to myself. Great not only vampires but demons to, wonderful. "Our dad is a demon he met mom at a diner when he was planning on eating some 'food' but he fell in love with his meal. It really was a cute story but I don't remember all of it you'd have to ask my mom. Our dad was killed by a group of humans who were hunting him for years dad was always on the run. About three months after mom had me he had to run again he told mom that no matter what happens he loves us and to keep going no matter how hard it got. Then he left a couple weeks later his brother our Uncle Tommy came and told mom what happened. Mom was very angry and sad so Uncle Tommy took us for about a year while mom hunted down the bastards who killed dad and, basically made a meal out of them. But mom grew up since then, and we've never seen her that mad since." He smiled as he leaned forward with a eager look on his face I turned my head to look at him and his face was mere centimeters from mine. I could smell his minty breath. The door opened and he sat back up, Naven coming into view.

He looked at us. "There you guys are I didn't see either one of you come out here. Was I interrupting something?" He said looking at us smiling. "No I was just telling her about our family and what happened with us." "Ah, OK well I'll be inside, you guys want anything?" He asked turning to back inside. I shook my head. "Nah were good." Naven left and we sat alone on the porch. He leaned forward again. "Your turn." He said smiling. I opened my mouth to begin my long boring story then a car pulled up.

I looked at the car as a girl, taller than me with long blonde hair and porcelain skin, carrying a bag and a small animal carrier, and a girl also taller than me with shoulder length brown hair and ivory skin got out carrying a bag. I stood up and pushed the blanket aside and ran over to them. "Alice! Lacey!" I hugged them and they smiled hugging me back. We all walked into the house and Naven and Nolan were practically being butlers they took their bags upstairs into Nolans room and set Sebastians carrier in a corner in the living room. I saw Nolan yawn and he walked passed me and patted the top of my head. "Were going to bed no wild parties girls." He said walking behind Naven making us laugh.

We walked upstairs, Sebastian following, we walked into Nolans room where the sheets were changed differently then the sheets that were on the bed when we slept there. Lacey went into the bathroom and came out in pajamas and Alice followed. We sat on the bed and started talking. "OK so start from the beginning when I dropped you off at your house." Lacey said crossing her legs and listening. "Well dad said he'd changed he must've knew I wouldn't let him come back to the house. We'll later on that night he was in the living room and he started watching mom's old tapes and drinking again. I knew he wouldn't change. I smelled the alcohol and got my stuff ready and threw it out the window. I went downstairs to see what was happening and he came at me I threw and ashtray at him and ran out the door and ran down the street. I didn't remember Nolan lived a fee houses over so he pulled me in and he let me stay here." I said smiling. "I can't even get a date to the Christmas dance and you
to sleep in new hot guys bed. This is unbelievable." Alice said throwing her hands up. Alice was always the one to hit it off with the guys. She always had a date for a dance. Ever since middle school she's been a heartbreaker. No guy can resist her, but she's not like you know a whore or anything. She's a virgin the first people she'd tell if she lost her vrginity would be me and Lacey. We're her best friends, we tell each other everything. "You should ask him
to the Christmas dance Kitt." I looked at Lacey she had a smile on her face. "Uh. I don't know. We're just friends and I don't really, go to dances. I'm not even good at asking people out. If he asks me then OK but I don't know." I looked down. I'm so awkward at stuff like that. One time in middle school they convinced me to ask out this kid to go skating with us. I did a terrible job. I tripped and fell on the guy, making him spill his water all over his pants, he dropped his binder and water got all over it, his phone broke, and his pants ripped too. I got so embarrassed about it I ran to the bathroom and cried then Hannah and Madison came in laughing about my clumsiness. They found me in the corner and beat me for a few minutes. Lacey came in and pretty much scared them off and I was sent home with a fractured collarbone and a bloody nose. "Well maybe we can give him a little push to ask you then." Alice said looking at Lacey and winking and smirking at me. "No don't like force him. If he wants to ask me then OK." "OK fine but if you don't do something about it soon I'll snatch him up and make him mine." Alice said making us all laugh.

I grabbed my pillow and they looked at me as I got up. "I'm gonna sleep downstairs so you guys won't be so crowded." "You sure you'll be ok?" Lacey asked me. "Yeah I'll be OK. Goodnight guys." I said walking out the door and down the stairs. I threw the pillow on the couch and laid down. I closed my eyes listening to the TV and slowly drifted off to sleep.

×Nolans P.O.V.×
I woke up and rose out of bed. I walked to the door quietly listening to the  snores of Naven, and opened the door. I walked past my room, where the girls were and stood at the top of the stairs clutching my neck. The overwhelming sweet smell of blood reached me. My knees shook as my eyes flashed with a crimson red luster, then back to normal. I walked down the stairs and into the living room. Kitt laid on the couch asleep, I noticed she wasn't covered up I grabbed a blanket and laid it over her. She moved a bit under the blanket, kind of snuggling herself into it. I smiled at her, then felt as of I was choking. I fell to my knees as I clawed at my throat. The intense burning didn't stop. I retched and wheezed as my eyes turned a dark crimson, and I looked at kitt, her scent filling my nose. I felt like I lost complete control all I could do was watch. I stood up and grabbed her hands and pinned them above her with one hand and saw she was waking up.

×Kitts P.O.V.×
I woke up to my arms being pinned to the arm of the couch above me. I opened my eyes to see Nolan, putting one leg over my body and leaning down. His eyes were a solid dark red and fangs were peaking out from under his lips. He used his free hand to move the hair off my neck and turn my head. I was frozen in shock to scream. I could feel the warm breath on my neck as he got closer. I felt the fangs graze my neck as he plunged them into me, feasting on my blood. The sound of my blood exiting filled my ears, then a small ringing, which grew louder as time went on. I found my voice and let out a scream. It did no use as it was muffled by the hand that was pulling my hair. My vision slowly went from clear, to hazy, to black, as I blacked out, seeing Nolan collapse on top of me.