A World of Vampires [COMPLETED]

Chapter 9 - The Surprise

Didn't actually realise how long this story was! Sorry guys!

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Zoe tossed around in bed that night. She was deliberating a problem that had been on her mind since she’d got home. Should she tell Harry and Rosalie about the vampires that lived in the town, the ones that lived next door, across the road, around the corner, everywhere? She kept thinking that they were going to bite her whenever she closed her eyes. No wonder she couldn’t sleep properly.

They could sneak in through the window or the doors. Did they turn into bats? They could come down the chimney. Just in case, the window was clamped shut and locked, the curtains closed so she didn’t look at them every few seconds. Every little noise frightened her and made her jump out of her skin, causing her to sit up in bed with a start. It was ridiculous and she was starting to feel stupid because of it. What she really needed was someone to sit next to her, someone she could trust.

            Harry knocked on the door, causing her to jump again for the sixth time, before he came in. He sat on the bottom of his sister’s bed and touched the lump under the covers where Zoe’s legs were, curled up in a ball. “Hey. Can’t you sleep?” He asked as Zoe sat up, leaning against the wall with her knees up. Harry leaned on them. “I can hear you moving around in my bedroom.”

“Sorry.” She wondered whether to say anything to him, how he’d react. Knowing that he’d probably think she had gone mental, she decided not to say what she’d discovered. He was safer that way anyway.

“How was school? You never told me about it. It’s unlike you.” He asked as Zoe moved over and Harry lay beside her, sitting up and resting his head on the wall, his hands in his lap. The body heat radiated off him like a furnace. It was nice. She enjoyed his heat way too much.

“It was alright.” She shrugged. “Everyone stared at me, though with me being the new kid, and so different compared to them, I guess it was expected.”

“Did you make any friends?” He looked down at her and she shrugged again, not really wanting to be too specific. At least the conversation was getting the constant reminder of who they were living with out of her head.

“Sebastian. I met him in Biology. He’s nice. He hurt my arm.”

“That doesn’t sound nice.” Harry laughed quietly. She had to agree. It didn’t sound nice when she said it like that, but he was. He told her the secret. He stopped her making a scene in the art room. That, and he was gorgeous. She didn’t mention that, of course. She’d never hear the end of it.

“He didn’t mean to. He was just annoying Inigo.”

Harry raised his eyebrows. “How’s it going with Inigo, by the way?”

Zoe frowned at him. “I don’t like Inigo like that. Don’t you start as well!”

“What?”

“Penny said I liked him too. How can I like him and not know about it? I don’t like him like that.” She wanted him to get it straight. Out of anyone, she wanted Harry to know for certain.

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Harry!” She pushed him in the arm and he grinned like the evil big brother he was. Brothers could be so annoying when it came to boys. Anyone who you talked about, they would say it was something more. That was normally big brothers, anyway. Little brothers would be annoying for wanting to play all the time with toys or hitting you when you didn’t.

“Oh come on. It’s so obvious.” He shook his head the way people do when their children do something and they say to their friend, ‘kids, eh?’