The Teachers Assistant

chapter 5 part 1

We reached my beautiful Camaro and Mark turned around looking at me.

"Can I drive?" he asks.

"Uh-uh. This is my baby." I say.

"Please? I haven't had my car for a week and I think I'm starting to get withdrawals." he says. Wait, I think he is serious.

"Fine. Please drive carefully she's my baby." I say. We get in and drive the short distance to my house in silence.

We get out and head to the front door. I pause remembering.

"Uhmm- would you mind waiting here for a second?" I ask.

"Yeah, actually I do. I'd rather not be out here, alone with your brothers wanting Me." he says.

"Just a minute." I say.

"Fine but it starts now. 60, 59..." he starts counting down.

I run inside and close the door behind me. I quickly begin to pick up all the flowers of the floor.  I hear the door start to open and try picking them up faster but only end up dropping them.

"Oh, I see. Tonight was supposed to be a romantic night for you and lover boy, eh. Let me guess first time?"

My face is a solid red and I continue to pick up the flowers and place them in the box.

"Well no. Not since high school." I say. I head to my room and take off my shoes placing them in closet. He of course followed and is now staring at everything in my room.

"Your house really has changed since I was last here. I guess you finally made it yours huh?" he asks.

"Yeah I repainted all the rooms put new carpet in the bedrooms and dark wood floors everywhere else." I tell him "I also put up millions of photos.”

"I can tell it’s as if your brothers are watching my every move." he says glancing at all the different photos.

"Ha ha. Now you can sleep in the guest room, across the hall.  You can borrow some of Drakes clothes if you'd like." I reply.

"Nah, I texted my sister and she should be here any minute with my clothes. You don't mind me staying here for a while do you? My new car comes tomorrow. So you won't have to give me rides

 anymore." he tells me

I really didn't even want to see him again now I’m making living arrangements with him.

"Uh, how long is a while?" I'm almost afraid to ask.

"Maybe days, weeks, months.  Just until I can get my credit card for my primary bank account back from my parent's. “He tells me.

My jaw drops to the floor.  Weeks? Months?  No. I have a life.

"What is Drake going to say if he knows your living here and I barley let him stay the night sometimes." I ask Mark.

"Maybe we don't have to tell him.  It’s not hurting him, and look if y'all need some alone time tell me and I’ll disappear for a while." he tells me.

I grab my pjs and walk into the bathroom closing the door.

"So, Mark are you hungry?" I ask " how does that all work?"  I say interested.

"Well actually I am hungry. As a vampire we don't solely drink blood to survive.  We eat food also. We of course are still alive and need food to nourish what blood does not." He explains.

I finish getting ready and   walk out throwing my dirty clothes into the hamper.  I walk towards the guest room and puppy dog follows.

"Here is your room. It has a private bath through that door. So it should be perfect for you." I tell him.

"Eve, I forgot to tell you something." he says walking towards me.

 I back up and hit the door.

"Mark what are you doing?" I ask, honestly a little afraid.

"Give me your arm. Don’t worry I'm not going to drink your blood.  I'm going to give you back your memory from the day we met." He says, I give him my arm and cautiously watch him.

He stabs me with his finger nail and blows on to the blood now pouring out from my arm. I get a light shock through my body and see visions in my head. Visions of the night when I had met him. I'm confused though because there's nothing bad about these, so why would he take them away?

"Confused?  I took them away because it was a new spell I learned from my sister. I did it to you while you were sleeping. The next morning when I saw you and you couldn't remember, I was surprised it had worked." He says letting go of me. He places his finger on the small cut and removes his finger a second later. His eyes lit up that unnormal blue and I notice the cut is healed.

"Thanks I'll start to go make dinner." I say heading towards the kitchen.

"No need to cook, my sister is bringing takeout." he says. He sits on the couch and pats the seat next to him. Nope, instead I sat on the opposite couch. He chuckles and shakes his head.

The doorbell rings and I jump to answer the door. He follows behind me but then is at the door in a second. I stand in the hall and watch.

He opened the door and the girl I see is his sister that had gotten married.  She looks at me. "Did you tell her?" she asks, still running her eyes up and down me. I shiver.

"Yeah. Thanks for the stuff it really was nice of you to bring this." he says and she hands him a box of stuff then places two takeout bags on top of the box.

"One of them has the blood bags in it. It should be enough to last a month. I bought Chinese for you two." she says still looking at me. I guess that answered my question about how he got his blood.

"I picked up your car early and I parked it next to the Camaro in the driveway." she continues saying.  "Good luck because Mom and Dad are still pretty mad so it looks like it will be a while before you can go home." she says, leaving.

What a heartwarming goodbye that was.

 I walk to the door to close it and see Drakes car pull up. Oh great.