Gabriel (Book 1)

He Smells Weird

March 14th, 2013

They all laughed. They didn't believe me. How could they not?! How often do I joke? (Never.) How often do you hear of a vampire that sees things that aren't really there?! (You don't.)

The only one who believed me was Jordan, you could tell cause she got really still and she didn't laugh.

Rhoan also sort of believed me but he laughed with everyone else.

"Daddy? What's everyone laughing at?" Sophia asks as she crawls into his lap. Vera takes her position snuggled by Lottie and Bastien.

"Your Uncle Gabriel is being very silly and he's making some insane jokes."

The group laughs again.

"Hey, is this the wine? Or the blood?" Rhoan asks studying the bottles on the counter.

"Wine is on the right." Demetri replies.

"Great," Rhoan goes to pour himself a glass, "Wait, your right? Or mine?" He asks.

"Mine." Demetri says.

Rhoan grabs the other bottle and pours himself some.

"What is that, Uncle Rhoan?" Vera and Sophia ask.

They are too cute, and also a little creepy. The should just be sisters since they always end up saying the same thing at the same time!

"Wine. Would you two like some?" He says.

The little girls nod their heads.

I panic a little, surely Rhoan isn't so twisted as to give little girls alcohol?!

But I saw him wink at us as he went to get 2 wine glasses and quickly fill them with grape juice.

"Wine is usually for adults but you two are so well behaved and so grown up that I think you can have a little." He says while placing the glasses in front of them.

"Mommy! I'm just like you and Daddy!" Sophia squeals in delight.

We all smile and then laugh at how sophisticated Vera looks holding her glass.

"Have fun with your werewolves, Gabriel." Lottie and Bastien laugh as they leave.

Josh gets up to leave too but Jordan wants to hear more so she kisses Sophia goodnight and waits to hear more about the werewolves.

"Yeah. We better go to before it gets to dark," Demetri says, "After all, we don't want Gabriel's werewolves to come get us."

He and Valentina laugh as they walk out the door. Now I have Faine and Alec and Chelsea and Afton. But Chelsea isn't really paying attention, she's doing girly girl stuff and Alec doesn't look like he believes any of it!

"Faine, YOU have to believe me! Cause if you believe me then everyone else will." I plead to her.

"Well, its there in your mind, I can see it, and it does look as hideous as you said. But, what if its just a dream or something? What if you decided to turn human standing on that hill and then you tripped and fell and hit your head? And what if you just imagined it all?"

"Don't dreams look different to you though?" I ask looking between Faine and Jordan, "Don't they seem, I don't know, fuzzy? Or something?"

"Not always. Usually we can tell if its a dream by what happens in it." Jordan replies.

I'm out of points to argue. All I know is that I saw the damn werewolf! It was ugly! And it was DEFINITLY a werewolf!

"Rhoan, you believe me, right?" I plead. He's my last defense.