The Way It Should Be

Chapter Eleven

When we got to the hospital I was overjoyed to see Darren waiting outside of Steve's hospital room. Darren obviously was happy, but I could see pangs of regret and... anger?

"Hey." I smile as wide as my cheeks can allow.

He turns to me, smiles - an obviously fake - smile and speaks, "What are you doing here so early in the morning?"

Ignoring his obviously pain and anger I say, "I got a call from Steve's mom. She said he wanted to see me."

"Oh, well he's alone, so go on ahead. I'll go home now..." He trails off, "Actually I'll wait out here."

I nod my head and walk into Steve's room, "Hey." I say walking over to his bed.

He smiles at me, "Its good to see you, Tux..." He mumbles, his voice is slightly raspy, but that makes sense as he hasn't spoken in awhile. He struggles to sit up.

"Don't push yourself, you'll get hurt."

"No... I want to talk to you." He looks at me in the eyes.

"Alright." My smile widens. "But before that, I got you something~. Its a bag of Skittles. I know it's your favorite type of candy!"

He takes them me, but his eyes never leave my face, "You look tired. You know... you didn't I have to come here so early."

"Nah, it's fine. I didn't get any sleep anyway."

"Why didn't you sleep?"

"I was too worried about you, obviously!"

He smiles, then looks at the bag of candy in his hand, "Can you open it?"

I happily nod my head and take them, open it and him the bag. He shakes his head and gives me a sly smirk, "Feed them to me."

I roll my eyes, "Ha-ha, I get it, you're hospitalized, I'm not feeding you."

"But I'm sick."

I roll my eyes again and grab one and hover my fingers over his lips, "Open up." I groan.

He smiles and does so, I drop the candy into his mouth, but being the idiot tease that he is he had to lick my fingers as well.

"Why am I not surprised this is the first thing you decide to do when I see you?"

"Oh, don't be like that!" He laughs. "Now give me a kiss, Sweetie."

"No way, you Devil."

"But I've missed you~"

"I don't think that's how being in a coma works, Mister."

"Come onnnnnn!"

"I'd rather talk to Eclair than that."

"Why not do both? Pleaseeee, just a small peck?"

I roll my eyes, "Fine.... just don't die on me. Font ever scare me again like this. I haven't sleept in days."

Surprised, he smiles and nods his head, "Never ever."

I lean down and was getting ready to peck him on the lips when he gave me a seductive wink and I blushed.

The door to the hospital room slammed open just then and revealed a red faced Darren Shan.

"What's... What's going on?" Darren asks.

I peck Steve on the cheek and look over to Darren. "Nothing, Steve just up to his usual teasing."

"I see..." Darren says, "Hey... wanna grab a pizza?"

"Sure!" I laugh and look over to Steve, "I'll be back later."

He just nods his head, sort of angrily. I walk over to Darren and leave the hospital room.

Its been a couple days and Steve
is going back to school it's awesome!! Of course Darren isn't talking to Steve and Steve isn't talking to Darren, but that is just obvious you're not gonna talk to the person that just almost killed you.

Steve is back to normal, he still hates vampires, which I still don't like, but he likes death and war still so that's good, in a way.

Right now it is lunch, all the boys are playing soccer like good old times, the bell is about to ring soon.

Alan and Darren are trying to get the ball, it looks like Alan is about to get it until Darren speeds up and hits Alan and Alan falls and his knee starts bleeding. Darren traps the ball with his foot and just looks at Alan, he has evil looking eyes and a scary face on.

Someone kicks the ball away from Darren, but he pays no notice to it, like it doesn't matter anymore. He walks closer to Alan and then falls on his knees he starts sucking his small wound!!

After a couple seconds he stops, and looks to see everyone looking at him.

"Haha! I'm a vampire lord!" He yells.

"Oh, I was worried for a second." Some kid says.

"Your a sicko! You need to be locked up!" A girl yells.

I laugh, with all the other students. Its not like he's actually a vampire, its completely impossible for him to be one.

When I finish laughing I look back onto the field of players.

Alan was still on the ground sitting down under the now standing up Darren. Alan looked completely horrified. He looked scared beyond belief, oh no Darren... not more separation between friends.

Tommy who was now rushing over to the pair with a bandaid, had tears in his eyes from his laughing fit. I guess he was so worried about Alan that he didn't even bother wiping his tears away.

Looking at Steve made me worried. He was angry, no... that's an understatement. He was steaming from the ears with a redder face than a tomato. He definitely was not a happy camper. Why was he so angry? Well... if I had known that, I wouldn't be suffering years from now, now would I?