Bite Me (l.t)

Part 18

     “Then don’t sleep. We can just lie here and fall even more.”

Brooke looked up at his face with a confused expression on her face.

     “Fall even more?”

     “Even more in love”, he whispered and stroked her cheek with his thumb and kissed the top of her head.

They lay there the whole day, but he left when it got dark. He would go to feed, and he suggested to her that she would do that the first thing in the morning then next day. For the ceremony.

He said that he would come back to her again sometime that night, but he didn’t, so Brooke fell asleep, hugging her pillows instead.  

Lynn and Nelly woke her up in the morning and told her that they had to get her ready for tonight.

     “I don’t want to”, Brooke mumbled and turned around in the bed.

     “You have been waiting for this dance for weeks!”

     “Well, I guess I’ve changed my mind.”

     “Miss Harmon...”

     “Fine!” Brooke sighed and sat up. “I’m up now. Happy?”

      “We’ve prepared your bath and your dress is where we put it yesterday.” Lynn pointed at the wall towards the room where Brooke used to fix herself.

Brooke nodded and stood up and walked out in the hallway and into the room next to hers. The lighblue dress lay on the couch just like yesteday, waiting for her. In the corner of the room was a bath barrel filled with hot water.

Lynn and Nelly undressed Brooke and she climbed into the water. They helped her wash her hair and then dry it. They helped her on with her corset and dress and pulled half of her hair up in a bun on the back of her head with little white plasticflowers in the hair that hung down on her back. Brooke chose jewlery herself. A blue Cameo necklace. Brooke had found it in her mother’s jewelry box a few years ago, and she had thought that it had been so beautiful that she had taken it.

Brooke stood in front of the mirror and examined herself and smoothed out the dress a little. Lynn and Nelly walked up behind her and looked at her in the mirror.

      “You look absolutely beautiful!” Lynn smiled.

Brooke smiled back at her and closed her eyes. She felt really hungry. But it didn’t feel right to feed from a person that was so close to her. Not again. So she had to wait ‘til later.

      “Are you alright, Miss?” Nelly asked and Brooke opened her eyes and looked into her concerned eyes.

Brooke nodded and smiled again. “Of course I am. Why wouldn’t I be?” she laughed and tried to shake it off. But the laugh was not genuine.

      “I just...”

      “I’m fine, I promise”, Brooke cut off.

They just smiled again and nodded. Brooke looked at her clock and saw that it was around 04.30 pm. She was supposed to leave with her brothers around seven. She felt the hunger tear in her stomach.

Brooke turned her face to the mirror again and pulled at a lock in her hair that hung in front of her eyes. 

     “Oh, I’ll take care of that”, Lynn said and hurried to find some hairpins to hold her hair back. She threw her short hair over her shoulder and bent her head to the left so find some hairpins in her pocket. The skin tightened around her neck when she did that and Brooke swallowed. She could almost see the blood pump in her vains. She could even hear it pulse and she could feel the taste in her mouth, urging it. Brooke leaned closer but then Lynn straightened herself with two hairpins in her hand. Brooke pulled back quickly.