Promises

A Secret Surfaced

"You can't be serious," Drake said, laughing at my story. "You were her? I think I'll need some proof for this one." He smiled.

"Fine, when we get home.." I trailed off. I was meaning my other home. The home before the accident. The home where I was accepted for who I was. It was there I filmed the crazy videos during my preppy stage of reviews of youtuber shows, and I was popular. I used to go by the tree and draw pictures of the forest or pictures of our house with the lake as the sunset danced off of the reflection that I would show to the viewers.

"Are you okay?" His eyes looked sincere. I wish he could hold me to comfort me right now. I missed my family. We needed to find Aaron. He was all I had left. No matter how long of an amount of time passes, the pain of losing them never got any easier.

"Umm... yeah, I'm fine." I smiled, trying not to cry as I thought back at the memories. "Umm... I'll show you my drawings I used to show and the fan art I did.." He couldn't know how bad it tore me up inside. He was practically a stranger. I've let him know too much as it is. He doesn't need to see how weak I am on top of this.

"We'll find him. Don't worry about it."

"What was your past like?" I asked him. Maybe getting my mind off of me and onto him would help my collapsing spirit. "I know you're Drake, you're a good alchemist, your mom is a nurse if I am remembering right, and you've lost someone close."

His eyes got a faraway gaze to them. He seemed to not be himself for a moment. Then the spark brought color back to his eyes. "Well, I have a long family history," he said. "We Monroe's have a very similar complexion. My very great-grandfather moved here from England around 1685 searching for a new start. Little did he knew that years later, the Salem witch trials would occur."

"Wait, I asked for your past. Not your family's past." I smiled, seeing the grin on his face. We made our way through the woods talking and looking until sunset. "So let me get this straight," I started. "You're emancipated, live in my neighborhood, the most expensive place to live for miles, your favorite color is red, and you've lost your best friend as well to a freak accident that happened in these same woods?"

"Pretty much. Only you also forgot, I won the award for most beautiful model." He smiled.

"Okay, as handsome and cute as you are, I don't think modeling is what you would do for fun." I smiled back at him as he raised his eyebrows.

"So I'm handsome and cute?"

I blushed furiously. "Umm... no! Well, I mean yeah, but I don't think... well I-I mean..." I trailed off seeing I was going nowhere and he fell onto a tree stump laughing. "Yes, I think you are, but not in that way, but as in a 'you're my good friend' type of way." By now, my face was hotter than a red jalapeno pepper.

He was now on the ground smiling. He grabbed my hips and pulled me down on top of him, laughing. "Is that a blush I see?" I buried my face in his chest.

"No, I don't blush!" He pulled chin up by his finger and leaned in to kiss me. The moment my lips touched his, my heart jumped out of my chest. I needed to feel him. It felt as though we were the only two in the universe. He was all I cared about. He was all I could need in my life. The taste of his lips was familiar. I felt as though I knew the feeling.

It was a deja vu feeling in the pit of my stomach. It was like the feeling I got with Jayde, except instead of fear, I felt love. I felt love and passion for Drake. It was as though fate brought us together for a reason. Nothing could ever compare. Then it hit me.

"No!" I pulled away from him and started running. It wasn't him I was afraid of. It was about getting him hurt. There was something familiar about him that I couldn't place my finger on, but I knew what Jayde was hiding. That's what had felt empty about me that whole time. It was the Friday she 'saved' me. She didn't save me. Instead she did something so much worse.

"Wait, what's wrong?" He ran after me, worry across his face. He grabbed my arm and stopped me.

"Y-you need to go. Now. I need to find Aaron. Sh-she wants you to herself. I didn't know until now. If-if she finds you here with me... She..." I fell to the ground crying. He caught me and held me tightly to him.

"Shh... it's okay. Who are you talking about? What happened back there?"

"It's Jayde... she... she's in love with you. She wants you all to herself. You'll get hurt. I need you to stay away from her. You need to stay away from me. She'll kill you. The reasoning is hard to understand, but it's true."

"She's not going to hurt me."

"Yes she is!" I broke away and stood up, angry that he wouldn't believe me. I can't tell him that she's a vampire; he'll think I'm going crazy. Maybe that's the only way he will stay away, though.

"No she's not. I would know. I know what you're thinking, but you're not crazy. I believe you. She is one. I'm a vampire, too."