Lydia's POV:
Sunday my arse.
I'm looking for the castle early. This isn't a 'me and Berry' situation. This is personal.
Ah. There it is, in all it's spooky glory. It looks just like my dreams, but no cigar. No sexy vampire... yet. If my theory is right this is a whole load of messed up, but it won't be, nobody lives in a castle anymore and I'll prove it.
I walk up the steps and come face to face with the large, wooden door. This castles like a bajillion years old and no one knows about it, so it's not exactly bound to have tight security measures. I jimmy the lock with my bus card until I hear a successful clicking noise.
Deep breath. Eyes squeezed shut. Walk in.
Quiet. As quiet as an abandoned castle should be. Can't hear any skeletons in the closet and certainly no vampires. Open your eyes Lydia.
The girl is staring at me, frozen in motion, as if I've caught her in the act of something. She's wearing gym clothes and her lips are around the mouth of her water bottle. I don't think she was expecting visitors because it seems she just can't move. But neither can I. All round a very awkward moment.
Suddenly, it seems to only just hit me that this is possibly a vampire, and it's pretty largely known that vampires kill people. It also hits me that I've just broken into her castle. That would make her a very angry vampire.
Fuck.
I leg it like I've never legged it before and make a beeline for my bike. There's not even anything chasing me, I'm just running off of pure primal fight or flight. All I know through my brain sending signals through my body is that I need to make it far, far away from here. Away from her.
Marlene's POV:
What on earth just happened. Lydia just finished sprinting like a madwoman, hopped on her bike and rode away. I'd find it amusing but unfortunately she just broke into my home, stared at me in my runningwear and made a run for it. I'm not even chasing her, is she okay? I might as well catch her though, she did just break and enter and I feel like it's a given.
In an instant I've got her, two fingers underneath the seat stopping her wheels from turning. Super speed AND super strength, aren't I just the whole package. She's looking at me with raw unbridled fear, eyes like a deer in headlights. The vampire community I'm lucky to be surrounded with almost made me forget that I'm a monster, a disgusting monster.
Lydia: What do you want with me?
Marlene: What do I want? Why are you here?
Lydia: I-um...I-
Marlene: Go on.
Lydia: I had a dream about this place... and I wanted to know why you were following me- wait why were you following me? I'm not the weird one here.
I let go. It seems the embarrassment is on me now.
Marlene: I wanted to check that the girl who cornered you that day wasn't going to hurt you again.
Lydia: Oh and that takes like a month and a half to do?
Marlene: Possibly. You don't know.
Lydia: I think I can guess. Stop following me.
Marlene: It's your death sentence.
She makes a smug, false smile action which she drops immediately.
Lydia: So will I see you around? Hanging upside down from a tree?
Marlene: You say you don't want me following you. Your wish is my command, princess.
The fear starts to quell in her eyes and is replaced with something different, something I can't read.
Lydia: Well then maybe we can meet up sometime, at like a café? And in human form?
Is she asking what I think she's asking. This can't be happening, this can't be real, i don't deserve it. Not after all I've done.
Marlene: Where were you thinking?
Lydia: The sea shanty... Next Saturday... 12 in the afternoon? I'm guessing you're not allergic to sunlight.
Marlene: I'm not. I'll see you there, now run along before I get hungry!
I flash my teeth and jerk my head at her, causing her to ride away once again. Humans. Funny.
