Destined to Collide

The Rise of Crazy Steve

Millions and millions of years would still not give me

half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity

when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

~Jacques Prévert~

Chapter Eight - The Rise of Crazy Steve

Days have seemed to move faster and everything blurred as one. It's been three days since my sister and her husband came back from Louisiana. As Sarah told me, there trip went quite well, if fact they met someone name Jason Stackhouse with a promising potential to join the fellowship of sun. And that was all Steve talked about, Jason this, Jason that, it was starting to get beyond annoyed just listening to him. From what I could tell, this Jason boy must have made one hell of an impression, for Steve to be so smitten with him.

The first thing Steve did when he got back from his trip was assigned me numerous job to complete. Since then on, my schedule has been unbelievably hectic, but that didn't stop me from seeing the vampire. Everyday I would go to see him, even if it means taking my lunch break in a cage, and that was exactly what I did. At first I thought the smell of my sandwich might bother him since vampires have sensitive nose, but Godric said it was fine with him. I would just sit on the cold metal and listen to him talk as I munch on my food. Sometimes he would just watch me eat like it was the most fascinating thing to ever grace the earth.

In the pass few days our conversation was getting deeper. It was mostly about him, about his past, which I found incredulously amazing. I could honestly say the vampire has seen it all. I mean he was there to experience all the stuff I learned and read in history books. Even though most of it wasn't pleasant, it was still captivating to listen to him talk.

Right now I was sitting in the little coffee room we have here in the church, sipping some cold water and cooling off from the hot summer day. Even though it was only 12:25 pm, I was already exhausted from my new job. My job for the pass three days has been setting up "At The Light of Day" boot camp for the new recruited members of The Fellowship of the Sun. The day Steve came from his trip he made me in charge of setting up everything. Even though I had help from the church members with some of the physical stuff, like setting up the tents, I had to do the rest, which was a lot harder than I accepted. Thank god, Steve had assigned couple of girls to help me with the shopping or I wouldn't be done by now. We had to buy countless bed sheets, stock up on food, beverages and ext… It was innumerable hours of shopping and driving from one store to another. By the end of the day my feet had bruises on them.

Today was the day the new recruited members were coming and everything was set up just the way Steve wanted. I could tell Steve and Sarah are really excited about it, for they are all dressed up. In fact they even made me dress up in some bright multiple color flowery sundress that made me look like a Christmas tree. I hated the dress from the moment I laid my eyes on it, but Sarah said she bought it for me as a gift from Louisiana, and she wanted me to wear it today, I just didn't have the heart to say no.

The foot steps of Steve walking in to the little coffee room broke my train of thought. "There you are! I was just about to send a search party after you." he said as he walked over to the refrigerator to get cold water for himself. He opened the bottle cap and took a big gulp before pulling the chair in front of me to sit down. "I wanted to say, you did a tremendous job setting up the camp. You did great kid." He said with a cheerful smile before tuning to his water and taking another gulp. He sat the water on the table and dug his hand in his suit coat, pulling out a small black box. "I have something for you." He stated as he pushed the tiny box on the table toward me. I looked up at him surprised before finally accepting the box. I held it in my hand for a couple of seconds before slowly opening it. I forced myself from rolling my eyes when I saw what it contained inside, I guess I should have expected this, but somehow I anticipated something else. Inside the box, it held the slightly heavy looking fellowship of the sun ring. "Turn it over there is more." Steve said eagerly as his smile widen. I slowly picked it up and turned it over. There were small writings all over the inside part of the ring. I brought it closer to get a better look at it.