How To Be Human

How To Feel When You're Connected

Chapter 28 : How To Feel When You're Connected

I was the first to wake up, as always. We were a tangled, sleepy mess. Our legs were knotted together, and Warren's arm was flung over me. His hair was sticking to his forehead again, and his mouth was ajar slightly. He always looked so peaceful when he slept. He looked ordinary and normal; not a vampire who had been through hell and back.

Warren has been through so much in his life and he deserved so much more than what he was getting. It wasn't fair, but then again, nothing ever was. Warren was just stuck having a shitty, psychotic best friend. He didn't know any of this was going to happen and there was no way for him to stop it.

Warren jerked awake next to me. He yawned and when he saw me awake, he smiled sleepily at me. "Good morning, my little whipped cream."

"Morning, Corneliu."

The smile on his face dropped entirely. "You're really not going to let that go, are you?"

I started to cackle, grinning widely. "I can't help it. I'm in love with your name."

"Yeah?" He said, stretching his arm up. "I thought you said love didn't exist?"

"I - " I did say that. And I did believe that it wasn't real. But then again, I was living in a world in which mermaids and werewolves were real things. Things, that if you asked me a year ago if they were real, I would say absolutely not. But I had proof that they were truly real. "Maybe I was wrong."

"Wrong?" He echoed. "That wouldn't surprise me." I slapped him on his bare stomach, at which he laughed at. He grabbed my waist and brought me closer to him. I laughed too, breathing in the smell of his neck. He sighed, obviously content with our position. "Sometimes I wish I was human again."

I kept my head on his chest, listening to his heartbeat. "Why?"

"Because I'd be able to do things like this everyday," I heard him say quietly. "I'd be able to have a real, home cooked dinner and not worry about drinking blood to survive. I'd be able to just be normal. I think it's what I've always wanted."

"Really?" I purred.

"No," He said after a minute. "You know what I've always wanted?"

"A brain?"

I was ignored. "A family."

I picked my head up to look into his eyes. "A family?"

He looked down at me and moved some hair pieces away from my eyes. "Yeah. A family. With tons and tons of kids running around everywhere." I wasn't about to admit it, but that's kind of what I've always wanted, too. And doing that with Warren kind of made my heart race. Warren suddenly grinned down at me. "You kind of did just admit it, sweetheart."