Is This Real?

Chapter 2

Damon seemed like he wanted something more from me. It wasn't sex.. I don't think, but I been hanging around with him for a couple of days and suddenly, I'm loosing my memory?

It's like there's spaces in my memory. I can't remember what I did after school and I don't remember going to gym. Which, I skip every chance I get but I didn't today. I'm sure of it.

Am I going crazy? Is this how people go crazy? Do they have spaces in their memory?

I wanna say that it's Damon but how can a simple guy clear my memory? I just don't understand. I can't confront him because, well that would be weird.

Maybe I should just stay away from him for awhile because I have a feeling that it's him and that scares me.

I'm just glad it's Saturday tomorrow. I can go see Jake and just try to forget all about this.

The next day, I drove down to La Push and went to see Jake, my best friend.

When I got there, I went to see if he was in his garage and, of course, he was. He was working on his car.

"Hey." I said.

"Bella! Hey!" Jake said, coming over towards me.

"How's it going?" He asked.

I debated on telling him and maybe I should because I don't know who else to tell about this Damon situation.

"I don't know. I'm having.. guy problems, I guess you would call it, and I don't know who else to talk to who wouldn't think I was going insane." I said.

"Okay.. Shoot." He said.

"I can't remember stuff. Every time I'm with Damon, I don't know, I just can't remember what happened after school and in between classes. It's just starting to freak me out." I said.

"To someone who wasn't a werewolf, that would sound insane, but to me, well I don't know if you actually wanna know. I could deal with him if you want me to." Jake said.

I learned that Jake was a werewolf a year ago. He killed someone and the curse was triggered. I was there that night.

"Yes, I actually wanna know and no, I don't want you to deal with Damon for me." I said.

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Jake, yes I'm positive. I wanna know because I actually think I'm going insane and I wanna know what Damon's doing to me." I said.

"Okay.. He's a vampire." Jake said.

"Damon's a vampire? Are you sure?" I asked.

"Black outs for no apparent reason when you're around him? Yes, I'm sure." He said.

"Okay. I'm still trying to process this." I said.

"There's more. What he's doing to you is called mind compulsion. He's compelling you to forget. Vampires make humans forget when they're a) drinking humans blood, b) a human almost died in their hands and they heal them with their blood, and c) when something traumatic happened that a human wasn't suppose to see." Jake said.

I was just in shock of what he just told me. Damon is drinking my blood and making me forget? That's insane. This is insane. But, when I found out about Jake, what did I expect? There were just werewolves in the world? Werewolves and vampires are natural enemies.

It's just Damon was so sweet to me. I guess it was all an act.

"You ok?" Jake asked.

"No. I mean, what am I suppose to do? Not see him ever again?" I said.

"Wait, I have an idea. Hold on." He said, running into his house.

When he got back, he held out a bracelet.

"It's a vervain bracelet. Vervain is poison to vampires. They won't be able to compel you when you wear this." He said.

"Great, but how am I suppose to make him stop drinking my blood?" I asked.

"Just drink vervain. You actually don't have to wear the bracelet if you drink vervain." He said.

"I'm guessing you have some?" I asked.

"Yeah, I do." Jake said, going back inside his house and coming back with a bag full of herbs. I guess that's vervain.

"Thanks." I said.

"Bella, be careful, ok? He's a vampire, you're a human. I don't want to see you become one." He said.

I just nodded and headed to my car.