Run

Six

A car beeps repeatedly. I manage to peel my eyes away from Kyle and look over to the car. Kyle does the same. He smiles and waves over to the Jeep.

"One second Natalie, I'll be with you in a minute." He says laughing at the fact that she is holding everybody up as she is parked right in the centre of the road.

Natalie is beautiful, she has long dark blonde hair that looks extremely well looked after. She has nice eyes. She has a nice face. She's basically everything I'm not. It suddenly hits me, how can I be so oblivious? It's his girlfriend. Natalie is his girlfriend. I can't help but feel slightly disappointed. Hope sinks to the pit of my stomach. Why am I even getting these feelings? I barely know him.

We quickly exchange numbers after me repeatedly asking if he's sure and him repeatedly saying yes. Kyle then jumps into the car. Natalie ruffles his hair whilst he pushes her arm playfully. Are couples meant to do this? I should really take some notes.

Kyle waves goodbye whilst I make my way home.

"You really shouldn't get involved with him you know." A voice from behind me says.

I turn around to face a boy with blonde hair that sweeps across his face. He has green eyes and a lip piercing. He smiles at me and offers me his hand.

"Hey, I'm Luke." He says and firmly shakes my hand when I accept his offer.

"Belle." I say in return and smile back. I'm actually starting to make friends. I don't feel self conscious around him. I don't know why. He has a special vibe to him I guess. "What's wrong with Kyle then?" I say casually with a hint of protection.

"Nothing's wrong with him, he just gets in a load of fights and messes with girls I guess." He shrugs his shoulders like it's no big deal. "He leads on girls, hooks up with them for a night, two if they're lucky but soon breaks their heart."

I just stay silent. I should stay away from Kyle from now on. I don't want anymore drama in my life. I can't afford to have a boyfriend when who knows if I can stay here. He's got a girlfriend. My sub-conscience reminds me and I'm glad for that.

"Okay. Thanks for warning me." I give Luke a thankful smile and scurry off and start to walk home.

I turn the corner seeing my house. I fumble around in my pockets trying to search for the house keys that auntie Cassie gave me. Shit. I must of forgot them. I hit my forehead with the palm of my hand as I remember leaving them on the kitchen table as I rushed to get away from that blood incident with the little girl. I look at my watch, its 4:05, auntie Cassie should be back from work by now. I knock on the door loudly because I know she won't hear it if I knock normally. I peer through the windows either side of the door seeing the familiar silhouette of a petite body. There are a few clicks, safety locks just incase we get any uninvited visitors, and then the door swings open.

"Belle! How was your first day?" She squeals in my ear and pulls me into a tight embrace.

"Okay, I'll tell you when I stop suffocating." I joke but try to gasp for air. Cassie quickly let's go off me and blushes for two seconds before recovering, I guess she wants to get this family relationship just perfect.

"Yeah, I actually enjoyed my first day, surprisingly." I laugh

"Fabulous just fabulous." She beams as she leads me into the kitchen. "Here, I prepared a snack for you, I thought you might be hungry after a long day at school." She carries on rambling until she actually passes me the big plate of food. This isn't a snack, this is a feast. I accept the food thanking her. She's trying to fatten me up since the first day I've arrived. She says I'm all bone and no fat.

Whilst I try to eat my way through the big plate of food my phone starts to vibrate on the table. It's Kyle. I can't help but feel excited. No, he's a player, don't fall into his trap. I decide to ignore the voice inside my head and answer the phone.

"Hello?" I say casually trying not to freak out. No one really bothered me let alone call me in my old school...

"Hey Belle, whats up?" He says, the hairs on my neck start to stand up at the sound of his voice.

"Nothing really, just stuffing my face with food that my auntie gave me." I laugh.

"Oh, you live with your auntie, why?" He says with curiosity bubbling in his voice.

"Ever since my parents got attacked by a... Never mind." I mumble with a sigh rubbing my temples to try and think straight. If only that vampire who saved me saved my parents instead, they actually had something or someone to live for, each other.

"You can tell me but it doesn't matter if you don't want to." He sympathises.

"I don't think I'm ready to tell anyone at the moment." I say glad that he won't push me into saying how they died.

"Ah, it's fine." I can almost hear his smile through the phone.

There is a very very awkward silence. I click my tongue against the roof of my mouth, annoying habit I guess.

He coughs "Er so do you want to out somewhere on Saturday?" Well that was totally unexpected but then I remember, he has a girlfriend.

"Would this be a date? If it is then I'm not sure about this..." I say quietly, I deeply do not want to reject him but I'm not a cheater.

"It would be if you wanted it too, what's there not to be sure about?" He asks obviously surprised at the very near rejection. He's obviously use to getting his own way.

"Kyle, it's a bit obvious. You have a girlfriend, Natalie." I say like it was the most obvious thing ever, well it is.

"What?" He sounds shocked "oh, Natalie isn't my girlfriend, she's my sister. I can't believe that you-" He laughs obviously too much to finish his sentence so I answer him before I can hear any more of his laughing down my ear.

"Yeah..." I say embarrassed, if I wasn't a vampire blood would be filling my cheeks right now. Relief floods through me.

When Kyle finally recovers from his laughing fit he returns back to the topic, "So now that we've got that cleared up," he does another chuckle, "do you want to go out on Saturday?"

Luke warned me about him but then again I barely know Luke but I barely know Kyle either. For some reason I feel like I've already met Kyle. I decide to stop over thinking and just accept, what's the worst that can happen? I can get to know him and decide for myself whether he's trouble or not.

"Yeah, okay, that sounds fun." I say with the first proper smile that I've done for a long time.

"I'll pick you up, bye Belle." Kyle says. Even the way he says my name makes me get all excited and bubbly.

After we hang up I go upstairs to do some homework. They gave me so much homework for my first day at school. I wasn't expecting that.

After I try but fail to do as much of my homework as possible I eventually give up and hop into bed. Im so behind on class work because I've been on the run. I really need to catch up on the class work somehow.

I switch off the light before doing my daily prayer to bring back my parents. I never used to be religious until they died.

God,

May my loved ones rise and become what once were.

May I see their precious faces again.

May I know that they are in a safe place now.

May I hear their sweet voices again.

May I feel their presence linger around me.

May they know that I will love them forever more.

Amen.

I then gulp down my daily glass of pure animal blood. I hate to admit it but this soothes my craving.

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