Sold to a Vampire

Chapter 17

V17). The past few days I've been trying to like keep my distance Damien while at school, but that's pretty hard because I really love him and Blondie watches me like a hawk every time she sees me and Damien. Damien has noticed I've been acting differently but he hasn't asked about it though. We were in the lunch room and I saw Tristan walk by our lunch table. I smiled at him, but he gave me a sympathetic look as he walked past me he handed me a folded up piece of paper without the others noticing. I looked at the paper confusingly as I opened it from underneath the table. The smile instantly fell from my face as I read the note. It was from Blondie and it basically said that I have to break up with Damien and keep away permanently or she was going to call her dad if I didn't do it right now. I glanced to where Blondie was sitting & I glared at her as I saw her holding her phone in her hand as she looked at me with a smirk on her face. I clutched the note in my hand as I looked at Damien sadly. Even looking at him now breaks my heart knowing what I'm about to do, but I'd rather break up with him and watch him from a distance then never get to see him ever again and lose him forever. "Damien, can we talk?" I asked him as I tried to keep my voice steady. He looked at me and I can see the worry in his onyx eyes as he said, "Sure." I got up and started walking to towards the empty hallway as Damien followed me. With each step I took I held back the tears I felt welling up in my eyes as I felt this sadness and guilt well up inside of me. I kept reminding myself that I had to do this though. When we got into the hallway, we stood there facing each other. "So what do you wanna talk about?" Damien asked me. I kept my head down as I said, "We can't be together anymore, Damien." I felt the pain in my chest as I said that but I had to ignore it. "Why are you saying that all of the sudden?" Damien asked me. "It's just too dangerous for us to be together." I told him quietly, still holding back the tears. He grabbed my hand as he said, "Rose, I told you I love you that night and that I wouldn't let anyone take you away from me. I know you don't want to break up either, so why are you doing this?" He used his other hand to pull my face up so he can look at me. I felt a tear roll down my cheek as I said, "I have to do this." I pulled myself away from his grasp and I dropped the note Blondie gave to me as I ran into the lunch room. I quickly grabbed my bag and jacket, ignoring the questions from the others, and as I turned to go towards a different exit I felt someone grab my arm and spin me around so I faced the person and then I felt a familiar pair of lips on mine. Damien held me close in the middle of the lunchroom as he kissed me in front of all the students and teachers. When he pulled apart he said, "Why didn't you tell me Stacey was black mailing you? I told you I would protect you. I love you, Rose. I don't care if everyone finds out now because making our relationship a secret just made things worse for you." He wiped the tears away that fell on my cheeks as I looked up at him. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I just didn't want to lose you." I said to him. He hugged me tightly after I said that and I hugged him back. When we pulled apart we both noticed everyone was looking at us. Damien held my hand and laced our fingers together as we both sat down together. He pulled my chair closer to his, and it felt nice not hiding our relationship anymore. "Finally you guys come out with it already." Mark said with a smile. "I can't believe you didn't tell us!" Sarah said to us. I smiled at her and said, "Sorry for not telling you guys." As everyone started talking, I glanced at some people and I could see they looked troubled by it. I looked to where Blondie was and I felt worry well up inside me as I saw her talking on the phone. I felt Damien squeeze my hand as he said, "Just remember what I told you." I nodded and gave him a quick kiss. I rolled my eyes and smiled as I heard Sarah and Lauren say, "Awww." As we were sitting there, someone tapped on Damien's shoulder. We both turned in our seats to see who it was and the dean was standing their with a very unhappy look on his face. "You two come with me now." The dean told us. Damien and I got up and Damien held my hand as we followed behind the dean. We went into the dean's office and as we sat down he shut the door. He sat in the chair that was behind his desk as he said, "I don't know the nature of the relationship between the two of you, but the little show you two put on in the cafeteria isn't going to be forgotten so easily. This is going to have the Parliament in an uproar. I thought you would know better than to be involved with them, Damien." "Well sir, maybe I don't know any better. But I know what I'm doing is right. Rose may be human, but she has open my eyes to what's wrong in our world and maybe in everyone's eyes they think this is wrong but in my eyes being with Rose is the best thing that has happened to me." Damien said to the dean, and I smiled to myself as he said that. "Well our society hasn't gotten to see things the way you see them. For that reason, I have to call King Xavier so he can deal with this situation and the two of you shouldn't come back to school for awhile." The dean said to us and waved us out of his office as he picked up the phone. When we both left the office, Damien and I both left school and got into his car. As we went back to the house, I asked Damien, "What do you think your dad will say about this?" "To be honest, I'm not really sure what my Dad would think of this. I know he's all about every supernatural race living in harmony together with humans, but I don't know if he likes the idea of vampires being with humans or werewolves and vampires being together. We will find out shortly though." Damien said as he pulled into the driveway. We both got out of the car and I took a deep breath before going in the house with Damien. Well here goes nothing. Right as we got inside, we saw Xavier waiting for us. He smiled at us and said, "Welcome home you two. Lets go to the living room so we can have a family meeting." Damien and I just nodded our heads and followed Xavier to the living room. Damien and I sat on the couch that was across from where the love seat was which is where Ana and Xavier sat. Raven wasn't here probably because she wouldn't understand what was going on. It was silent for a moment until Xavier said, "So the school called and told me about what happened between the two of you. But I want to hear it from you two, so what happened?" Damien and I glanced at each other real quick and then Damien spoke up. "Rose and I are dating each other. We were trying to keep it a secret but someone found out about it and tried to blackmail Rose with it so I let the secret out. I really do love her and I'm going to protect her from anyone who threatens her and our relationship." Damien held my hand as he said this to his parents. We both looked at Damien's parents as we waited to see their reaction. They both ended up smiling at us and Xavier said, "I had a feeling something was going on between the two of you. I was just waiting for you two to say something." "Wait, so you're okay with this?" I asked him, kinda shocked. "Of course. We only want Damien to be happy with someone, no matter what species." Ana said to us, with a smile. I looked at Damien happily after she said that. Damien leaned over and gave me a quick peck on my lips. This was probably the happiest moment I've had since being here.