Bear Hugs - COMPLETED

Chapter 4 - Risky buisness

I lean against the knobbled willow tree, thinking if I should go through with this. I decided I would, experiment, to confirm these thoughts on Willow. I lick the inside of my fangs slowly, thinking over my plan. It could go one of two ways. One, she could respond well and everything will be sunshine and rainbows. Two, she could completely hate me forever and ever amen.

Five minutes pass, then ten. I feel like she isn't coming. I put my hood up and begin to walk away. My sensitive hearing picks up a crack and a rustling of leaves. I turn quickly, but not to reveal my face. It's her.
"Hello?" She says wearily. "Oliver?" I wave my hand and whisper Oblitus. I wipe the last thirty seconds of her memory and duck behind the tree. I hear her start to walk towards the tree. I panic and jump up silently in its branches. I see Willow walk directly where I was standing not to long ago. I take a deep breath and jump back down the other side, without a sound. I grab her wrist and pull her close to me. Before she can speak I press my lips to hers, pulling her tight. She squirms under my arms but quickly relaxes into me. My hands run through her hair and wrap the ends around my fingers.

I let go and spring up into the tree before she can see my identity. She stands there not moving, dazed. I quickly scribble down a note on a piece of paper from my pocket and folded it into an aeroplane. I throw it down and it hits her in the back of her head, but I spring from the tree and transform, flying away before I can see her reaction.

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Willow,

That was fun, let's do it again.

O.

* * *

I lean on the back of my chair as I wait for Mafi, Pollux sitting next to me and Castor opposite him. Mafi said that he was bring back a special treat for dinner and I hope it's still warm.

"Kids, open the door. I think you'll enjoy dinner tonight" Mafi's familiar voice calls from outside. Castor scrambles for the door and jumps a little in excitement at whatever was in Mafi's arms.

They come around the corner and Mafi releases a large carcass on the table. Still warm, still bloody.

"There we are. I managed to pluck one of the fattest sheep from the neighbouring property. My treat because we are approaching a very special day" Mafi walks past me and ruffles my hair.

Pollux grabs it's side and takes a large bite hungrily, he pulls away with blood around his mouth.

"Table manners boy!" Mafi booms "Chew with your mouth closed" he flicks him around the back head making Pollux pulls back quickly. I chuckle under my breath. Pollux is a weird child who is always hungry, I swear he doesn't stop eating. I wait for everyone to have their fair serving and just as I'm about to head back to my room Mafi pulls me back and tells me to eat. He's worried about me, I know he is. He has every right to be, I'm not doing good. I don't let anyone know that though, I don't let anyone know what I do behind closed doors. So I put on my mask to cover up all of the pain, my emotions. 

My mind instantly flickers to Willow. What happened today, the kiss.

I lay on my top bunk staring up at my ceiling. This is how I spend my nights, staring at the mould, watching it grow, while thinking of Willow. But the thoughts get more intense, with each passing second, I fall for her even more. It's not even possible to feel this way is it?

"Mafi, do vampires, have feelings. As in love?" I ask Mafi as he walks into my bedroom.

"What is this about boy? You have been getting home late and you are suddenly interested in all this rubbish. Is it the ceremony? Is it because your nervous?"

My mind drifts back to Willow but Mafi interrupts my thoughts.
"Who's this girl your thinking of?" Mafi wiggles his eyebrows and I can't help but laugh. 

"She is extraordinary. I think I really like her." I admit.

"Well stop." He says, his tone turning cold. "A vampire's heart beats cold. We are solitary creatures and one you come of age you will go off on your own and that is how it should be. Forget this infatuation. Focus on the ceremony" And with that Mafi exits my room and I'm left alone with my thoughts.

The kiss definitely meant something. I definitely have feelings toward her. But she's human, well I'm a vampire, it would never work out. Part of me doesn't agree with Mafi. This feeling, or 'infatuation' as he calls it. I feel it.  I wonder what the kiss felt like for her. Okay Oliver, stop fascinating over some stupid girl, you have more important things to focus on. But I can't, I can't get her off my mind. What does this mean? No, I can't be crushing on a girl. Especially not now. I have the ceremony soon, I can't push that aside for a, girl. The ceremony has to be my main focus.

When a Vampire reaches his eighth eclipse he goes through a sort of coming of age ritual. It is the beginning of the next few centuries you have on this earth. But there is one thing I'm worried about. One aspect of this age old ritual.

You have to  take your first human kill.