bloodsucker

chapter 3

I wake up in the morning and stumble out of the room. It's Saturday, so no school. I'm glad. I look around and see august already drinking a glass of whisky, she's literally my spirit animal or something?! "Already drinking?" I say in a sarcastic voice as I walk behind her in the kitchen to grab a glass of water. "don't judge me" I laugh and get my water. august is a tall dark figure. she's pretty attractive, but she's like 100 years old. that would be weird..right?

To ruin the fun; Ezra walks in. I wish he would crawl back into whatever hole he came out of. I try my best to ignore him and keep doing what I was doing. I try to spark up a conversation with August. "So August, how's your morning been.." can vampires read minds? I hope they can't.  "Yes, we can; cutie." she smiles and takes another sip of her whisky. I go bright pink "oh.." so she's heard everything I've thought? "But don't worry, Ezra or anything couldn't do it. only powerful vampires can." Shes considered powerful? "Your considered powerful?" I say in an confused tone. "Yeah, I'm a little out of control sometimes. I do this thing every few years where i go absolutely batshit and eat and kill a bunch of people. it's kinda problem I've gained a lot of power from that." that's...fucking insane. "But I won't do it often." thank you I guess? "Thanks?" I continue drinking my water and once I'm done I put the glass in the dishwasher.

I really miss my mom; I didn't even get to see my dad that day. My parents are divorced and it was moms week, I see my father every weekend. I didn't even get to say goodbye. "Hey baby bat! do you wanna go out to eat?" eat or eat.. "do you mean eat or eat.." I could eat either really. I'm hungry in both ways. "normal food silly, we can go find a bite to eat after if you want though" I kinda want to get a bite to eat but it feels gross still. "alright. Let me get dressed and we can go." "Wait! Before you go let me give you this." He walks up to me and gives me a necklace. "It's a daylight necklace. I have a daylight ring, so does august; but you strike me as a necklace person. It'll protect you from the sun!" it's a really pretty blue jewel necklace. "Thank you Ezra." I walk into Augusts room and I grab my clothes to get dressed. I come out of the room in a velvet red V-neck tank top and bellbottom jeans. I only packed about 3 outfits, I would need to go shopping soon or go home. "You look lovely baby bat, let's go." He holds the apartment door open for me as I walk out. I'm really warming up to him. Yeah he did all of those things to me but he's kinda sweeter then I thought he was. I blush just thinking about it. I feel a little crazy now. I bite my lip. "you okay Maeve?" He looks over at me while we're walking. "Oh..yeah! Just..thinking." I keep looking down. "I'm still really sorry. I thought it would end differently when I did what I did. I didn't mean to rip you from your normal life."

Before I can respond my phone starts going off, I grab it out of my back pocket and answer the call. It's my best friend, daisy. "Hey Dase." I lead with. "I've been worried sick! Why didn't you call me?! Your mom told me you ran away what's going on?" Her voice is loud and worrisome. "Can I explain all of this later? It's a lot and you wouldn't believe me anyways." My voice stays calm and quiet. "I wouldn't believe you anyways?! What is that supposed to mean?! call me back later! okay?" when she says okay her voice tends to calm down and get quieter. She sounds more worried then upset now. "I promise I'll call you later." I try to sound as reassuring as possible, like she keeps reassurance in this time. I feel like I'm the person who needs reassurance more then anything right now. "okay...I love you. bye." "I love you to." She hangs up.

"Who was that? She sounded raging.." he laughs at his own comment. "It was my best friend, daisy." I just want to eat. I'm really hungry I think I could rip someone's head off. Oops..thats violent. we get into Ezra's car and we start driving. "What do you wanna eat?" people. "I don't know, you pick." we drive to a Chick-fil-A and go inside. While we walk inside I hear Ezra start to speak "so..do you like my sister?" what? My face gets slightly pink. "What..what do you mean?" I think he's starting to catch onto me. "I don't know.." he looks at the ground while he speaks "it feels like you like her." He holds the door open for me and I walk inside. I start to think about it. I kinda like them both. It feels silly. maybe it is, this isn't some coming of age love triangle movie.

We walk inside and sit down in a booth. His pale complexion is shined over by the sun. "You sit here I'll go order." about 5 minutes later he comes back and sits down. He smiles slightly after a few seconds. "Hey, you know me and your mom dated in the 90's?" WHAT?! "Ewww" he laughs. "I could've been your dad if I wasn't a vampire." EW. "That is so disgusting." we both start laughing a little. All attraction I ever had towards him LEFT MY SOUL after he said that..disgusting. after a minute or two our food comes to our table and we start eating. "So after this whatcha thinkin'? I'm thinking blond" he widens his eyes and smiles when he says that last part. "yeah.." I take a bite of my nuggets and nod slowly. When we're done eating our food we pay and leave. We walk around for a moment and see another blond leaning on her car at her work break. this process is really confusing but long story short we don't bite and tell! It felt less brutal this time, more in control. it didn't make me feel insane. maybe I could get used to this. I guess I keep saying that but there are good moments sometimes. Sometimes you gotta celebrate little victories.