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Chapter 5 - Take Care

"October...October... wake up... please... I thought vampires couldn't die what the heck?" 

Flickin Aye, my head! I can't even think it hurts so bad and somebody won't quit pushing on me ughhh. I groan and whoever it is jumps a foot, I can feel them beside me, am I on the floor? I think I am... It's cold and hard like the floor would be...

"October?! Can you hear me?" 

Flick why won't they leave me alone? Who are they anyway? A girl judging from it's voice... it's not Rosalie... oh! The Servile... I remember now M..Mi..Ma..Mel...Melanie, I remember. So now why is she freaking out trying to bother me, why does my head hurt so bad? I groan to shut her up about answering her but it only makes the pain in my head worse, no talking, got it. 

"October talk to me please I'm scared."

I can barely move but i slide my hand across the floor to hers and squeeze gently. She gets that I can't talk. I can feel it. Why does she care so much anyway, I mean it could not hurt for me to just lay here. Oh no, I hear footsteps, small ones, Leighton. It all comes back to me, the argument, the fight, the betrayal. Melanie screams and I push myself up onto my knees and wrap my arms around her still not seeing right. What did he do? I blink a few times and look at her, no bruises, no blood, she's okay. 

"Just...just scared me...sorry" she stammers and I relax my head dropping onto her shoulder.

"Wow October, I suppose you really are a Heat Seeker, could you get anymore chummy with It?" Leighton and Luther enter the kitchen together sneering at us on the floor but I can't move much less come back with a witty retort. "R-Ro-Room" I manager to get a word out but that's about it as the girl helps me up; putting all of my weight on her she leads me into my room and lays me down on her bed and sits on the floor.

"October... It's noon, I'm sorry I didn't find you sooner but you told me to stay in the room it wasn't safe and I didn't want to not listen, I'm sorry..." Melanie continues on apologizing and explaining but I can't think straight enough to follow. i give her a weak thumbs up to show that it is all okay and she sighs filled with relief. 

"Thank you... Again" she breathes as she lays back on the floor and I am back asleep in an instant. 

- A few hours later- 

"Melanie?" Woah. Didn't take long to realize that sitting up too fast is just going to result in me laying back down. I sit up slow pushing myself up against my pounding head and aching body. "Melanie? Where are you?" It's dark and she is not in here, this is not good. Wait, the shower is running, I hold onto everything I can find as I make my way to the bathroom door, "Melanie?" I knock not wanting to walk in on her but hoping that she's in there. 

"Yes?" 

Yes! She's safe... ugh I have GOT to stop caring so much... "just... just making sure of where you are, can't afford to lose you ya know..." 

"I'll be out in a few, didn't mean to wake you up."

I climb back onto her bed and just lay there feeling worse than a second death, what time is it, when is the last time I drank? I am so thirsty. She comes back into the room in her nightclothes with some mouse on it and walks over to me. "Are you okay?" What a dumb question, yes lovely and yourself, NOT. "I.. I need a drink, go get me a juice box out of the fridge, A positive." She shudders at the thought but does what I asked.

"Here you go... Hey, is there anyway I could get some food, I haven't eaten since school yesterday..." I completely forgot that Serviles need food, ugh. "Yah... go get me another drink and then we will go get you something to eat." She obeys and I down the second drink; I feel much better and my head has calmed down to a dull roar. "Okay, come on." I get up and open up the window, "after you", she climbs out and onto the ground, I also forgot that they walk everywhere, this is going to suck. I climb out after her and we start walking, I don't have any money but my hypnosis powers are beyond my years, I should be able to get her something from the grocery store atleast. 

We walk into the supermarket and she grabs up two armfulls of food i pick up a gallon of this stuff called milk, and juice that I've seen at our school. We then proceed to the cash register and to our luck there is only one cashier present at this time of night. I focus all of my energy on him and "convince" him to let us walk out without paying. How thoughtful. I laugh at Melanie as we walk home, it is taking all of the self control she has to not wolf down half of the food as we walk and she's looking at the grocery bags as if they are gold.

As soon as we get all of our groceries into the house she started stuffing her face, you would have thought she had not eaten in days.... well i suppose it had been over a day since she last ate a measly school lunch. I am going to have to get better at providing for her since she's "my responsibility" ugh. I am 8 years old, being responsible for a Servile is not typical or realistic right now. I take the food she tells me must be put in the fridge into the kitchen and then crawl into bed. She follows suit and just as I am about to fall asleep I hear, "Goodnight October".

I grin a little to myself and then murmer "Goodnight Melanie."