Masks, sand and fangs.

chapter 9

So It turned out, we were stuck in this room. A few hours had passed and It was kinda getting dark. David had healed Abbie and we were now all sitting in a circle in the middle of the room.

‘What happened with you two?’ Abbie said narrowing her eyes.

I looked at David, ‘Well, he kinda, fell into my room?’

‘Ahuh.’ Abbie continued raising her eyebrows. ‘Really.’

‘Yea!’ I smiled back. ‘And it was late, so, we went to sleep, and then in the morning, we came and found you.’

‘Yea, how did you find me?’ Abbie questioned.

‘I heard what you were thinking. Korse.’ I smiled.

‘Hey, stay outta my head from now on okay? Its private.’

‘I cant help it! Its like your talking to me in my head.’

‘Freak!’ Abbie laughed.

I looked at her seriously, ‘How you  feeling?’

‘Weak.’ She replied the smile leaving her face. ‘Just like, totally drained.’

‘Well, you were pretty beaten up.’

‘Yea, I guess.’

‘What did he do to you?’ I asked looking her in the eye. But she looked down.

‘Well, he shut a vampire in here, who, bit me.’

‘You got bitten!’ I replied angrily!

‘Yea.’ She replied. ‘He said I deserved it. That it taught me a lesson for well, biting. You.’ She looked up at me.

‘God Abbie.’ Im sorry. ‘That’s probably why you are weak, less blood.’

Oh god, I thought, not more blood again.

She just shrugged.

‘Abbie, bite me.’

‘What?’ She said looking up at me. ‘Bite you?!’

‘Well yea, or David, you need the strength.’

‘Hey!’ David said hearing his name. I raised my eyebrows at him.

‘Look, you actually need it, and since David healed you, I guess you should bite me.’

I heard David exhale with relieve. Well, cheers David.

I looked at Abbie, ‘Come on, I don’t feel much pain anymore anyway. Just do it. I know you want to.’ I smiled.

‘No I don’t.’ *Yes I do.*

I tapped my head and Abbie sighed.

‘I don’t want to hurt you though.’

I just shrugged.

‘Abbie, you need it, your getting even more pale.’ David added.

‘Fine.’ Abbie sighed.

‘Okay, bite my wrist, I wanna keep the scar marks on my neck down to a minimal.’ I smiled.

‘Okay.’ Abbie replied.

I put my right hand out and she took my wrist.

‘Its alright, seriously, dosnt bother me.’

Abbie looked at me and then knelt down biting my wrist.

‘Ouch.’ I cringed. Abbie had pretty sharp teeth.

Abbie let go and looked up. ‘Am I hurting you?’

‘No. Its fine seriously Abbie!’

She shrugged and bit my wrist again. I sighed biting the inside of my cheek. A few minutes later Abbie let go. She was looking a lot pinker. I smiled.

‘Okay?’

‘Yea.’ She replied. ‘Thanks.’

I looked at my wrist, which was still bleeding.

‘Hey, heal it for me David?’ I said looking up at him and smiling. But he was staring at the blood. I rolled my eyes and sighed.

‘Jeeze David.’ But he just blinked and continued his freaky staring, his eyes had gone red and pretty big. I narrowed my eyes and looked at Abbie who looked slightly amused.

‘Hello.’ I said clicking my fingers infront of Davids face, the blood accidentally brushing on his cheek. He froze and whipped his cheek with his hand trembling. I bit my lip and looked at the blood on his hand.

‘Sorry?’ But as soon as I said that I flew back into the wall behind me. Hitting the back of my head that began to bleed, sinking to the floor I held my throbbing skull.

‘And so you should be.’ Came the booming voice again. I whimpered and closed my eyes. I felt someone next to me, but didn’t want to move, the pain was too much. I could hear heavy breathing, looking up there he was, David, standing right infront of me. I could see his shoes and his legs, looking further upwards I saw him looking down at me his fangs fully out. Gulping I staggered up and slid along the wall out of his reach.

‘No.’ Came the voice, my body was pulled against the wall, I cringed in pain and tried to move, I couldn’t. David came closer to me, his eyes now nearly black, I couldn’t read his mind, all It was was a cloud of nothingness, he wasn’t in there anymore, this wasn’t David. I tried to struggle, I tried to break free of the strange force but it was pointless.

‘Let me go.’ I managed to slurr, slowly loosing blood.

‘No.’ came the voice, ‘Its your time now.’ My vision started to go fuzzy and my head rolled forwards. I didn’t want to look at David. Not now. I felt his hands on my arms, gripping them tightly, then his cold breath hit my neck. I closed my eyes shaking and before I knew it, David was on the floor. I looked up startled to see Abbie standing above him. The force let go and I slid down the wall so my knees were against my chin, I was shaking uncontrollably and my hair was sticky and matted with blood. Abbies feet came into view, I felt her hand on my shoulder so I looked up. Her eyes were fine, she could control herself.

‘Stop shaking. Its okay.’ She said gently.

I nodded trying to calm myself, feeling a sharp pain in my back I passed out.

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‘Wake up.’ ‘Billie, wake up.’ I could hear someone whispering in my ear. But my head hurt so bad I didn’t have the energy to open my eyes. Instead I closed my eyes tighter, being the stubborn person I usually was.

‘You need to open your eyes, it's important.’ Came the deep voice again. I felt someone’s hand in my hair. I shook my head.

‘Its Abbie.’

I sprang up, realizing it was David who had been talking, David who had had his hands in my hair. The brightness of the room startled me, it was white, everything was white, all you could see and all we were surrounded by. Was white. There were no walls, no nothing, no door. Just me and David. And no Abbie.

The bang to my head hadn’t affected my memory. I jumped up scared, David had nearly bitten me earlier, if It wasn’t for Abbie. I didn’t even want to think about it. And now she was gone.

‘Its okay.’ He said looking down and looking slightly hurt. ‘I’m sorry. Im not used to controlling myself. I’m not going to hurt you Billie. I wouldn’t do that.’

I raised my eyebrow in reply, shrugging slightly and slipping back down to the floor. Sitting with my legs crossed in front of David thoughts began to fill my head, this time, thank god, my own.

‘Where's Abbie, where are we. And, how did we end up here?’

David ran his hand through his dark hair making me shiver, pulled at his t-shirt and sighed. Let me explain.