Vampire Academy

Chapter 23

I stood there frozen as a statue, completely unsure if I had heard correctly.
Were my ears truly deceiving me? Or was this real, was what Mr. Hensmen said was real?

I gulped loudly, releasing a shaky breath.
"What did you just say?" My voice came out surprisingly calm besides the fact that I was jittery on the inside.
It was probably more of an indication that I was going to break down any second.

"Don't you see darling, why all of this is happening? Why you feel the need to feed?" Noah wailed rushing forward to hold both my hands in his own.
I stared at them as if they were a foreign object. I didn't know him anymore. Did I ever?
"Actually I don't Noah. This had only
starting happening after we....."
My eyes went wide.

"What did you do!" My voice cracked.
"It was your parents sky..... They knew it was the only way to mature you and speed up the process. It was their idea to bring you two together" Mr. Hensmen spoke as my eyes dilated in size.

"Your fucking insane" I shouted, temper blazing.
I walked past the both of them making my way out until my father's bulky  frame had suddenly blocked the doorway.

I stared at him in pure upholding shock.
What the hell is up with all of these surprises in one night?!

"What are you doing here dad?" I asked in confusion, my voice quavering.
He looked me up and down taking in my discomfort.

His eyes were hard and unsteady.
"I'm here to tell you everything" he said.

"We both are" My mother suddenly emerged beside my father and it was like the whole universe was cramming down on me.
The lies and the secrets are too much to handle. Despite the curiosity of wanting to know the unknown, I was afraid also of what lay behind the next-door once I did know everything.

What would I do with it? What would I do with this life.
This crazy messed up life.

Noah looked at me with pleading eyes, which I only returned with a glare.
The blood boiled in my veins from my heart which I could actually hear beating. Miraculously I could even hear my parents ones, or wait.

I could only hear two. Mines and someone else's.
I focused hard on the beating trying to somehow catch the other heart in motion but failing.
Why haven't I noticed that before. Of course it would be impossible for both my mother and my fathers heart to be beating the same matching time....unless one of them were lying about who they really were.

I think about earlier today when my mother had cut herself, the fresh thick sweetness that lingered into my nostrils taunting me. That was human blood from a human heart.

My eyes followed their way to my fathers face. His eyes stared back at me, a dull dark blurry shade of nothingness.

"What the hell are you"
I growled through my teeth, the emerging fangs perking from my bottom lip.

"Skylar  I know what your feeling right no-"

"No you don't. Don't you see? I had to go through this shit all by MYSELF! I didn't know what the fuck they were.." I gestured to Noah and his father.

"... Or what the fuck I would come to be, and now your gonna come in here a bombard me with even more shit. There's no way in hell you have any idea how I feel because I don't even know how I feel!" My voice cracked at the end, giving away the deep emotion I was feeling. 

My mother eyes held sympathy. I ran a frustrated hand through my scalp, noticing the three inches of new hair that had magically grown in the past two hours since my deadly encounter with Candy.

I guess the blood helped you in more ways than one, except the unsatisfying need for more.

"We're sorry, we both are. We should of told you. Your maturity levels were despicable. You found yourself constantly in trouble In your human life, and instead of being wiser than them, you behaved just like them" My father spoke.

"You have to understand, we wanted a normal life for you until we knew you would be ready. Of course it was taking longer than we expected and so we sent you to Clark's boarding-school, but we have to admit, that wasn't the only reason why.." My mother took a hesitant glance at Noah.

So Mr. Hensmen's name is Clark.

"That still doesn't answer my previous question" I shifted back to my father.
"What are you and why am I even like this?"

He sighed deeply combing through his beard.
"Sky , you mother is 100% human, but I'd be lying if I say I were too"  he revealed.
I let out a small gasp.

My hands covered my mouth.
"I've walked this earth a long time, lonely and miserable, that is until I found your mother. I had grown used to a non-human diet so it wasn't a problem being around her. You just have to understand Sky , I loved her with a passion so deep, it was greater than myself" he expressed.

I looked at mom who held a weak smile on her face. Her brown locks captured in a fluffy bun.

"Is that true?" I asked.

She closed her eyes nodding.
"Yes Sky, it is, and I love your father so much, that's why I was scared to death when I became pregnant with you. I didn't know if you were going to be a vampire like you father or a human like me, and well it's easy to see that your clearly a fusion."

"Something that is extremely rare" My father added.

It was all coming together. The miss-matched pieces of a puzzle that was almost deamed impossible to solve.

It almost felt like a movie or some virtual reality. None of this felt real to me. But it was. This was my life and I was finally beginning to understand it, even if it was confusing.

"Sky , you have to understand how special you are and how important you are to this species. You bring forth possibilities of uniqueness and power that, well, old vampires like us would only dream about" Mr. Hensmen announced.

"We need you. And you have to believe that I truly do love you with my heart Sky . And our contribution to this species will be phenomenal" Noah crooned.

He walked over tracing a hand down my cheekbone and resting it at my neck.
His crystal blue irises grazed over me like he was seeing the future by just looking at me.

  "I don't know what to say" I admitted truthfully.

"Sky, there's nothing you have to say. Just be."

"I think I need some time to myself to digest all of this" I said shaking my head back and forth.

"I don't think that's a good ide-"

But before Noah could finish his sentence, I was already out the door and running viciously into the night.