A Rogue's Vampire

Chapter 8: A dream come true

You know that feeling, where you feel like your mind is not part of your body, and your just this floating shell? Yes. Well that was how I felt on the Tuesday going into school. I still had the nagging feeling in the back of my head, but I had decided to push it away for the time being. All I wanted was a normal day. So, while waiting for the bell to ring, like every other day, I settled myself hidden behind the leaves of the willow tree and buried my nose into my book.

I let the words roll around my head. Imaging ever last detail. Using the specially chosen words to feel as if I was part of the story. I was just about to turn the page, when a rustling came from the dropping leaves in front of me.

"Sophie, Sophie, are you here?" came an out of breath voice. I looked up to see an out of breath Olly leaning over his knees, with a worried look in his eyes.

"Dude? Really? Your a vampire, you can't be out of breath," I stated the truthful facts. Why couldn't I just have the normal day?

"I'm not out of breath." Olly replied, gaining back his usual persona, "I just nearly had a panic attack thinking you could be gone like the others."

"WHAT!" jumping to my feet, I nearly screeched. "This can't be happening, this can't be happening. Its just not possible. It can't be happening," I mumbled, while I started pacing around the tree. My mind was alive with so many question, so many thoughts, so many pieces I thought fitted together.

"Sophie, what is it?" Olly asked, putting his hands on my shoulders to stop me. Warm tingles spread out down my arm from where our skin met. I tried to shake him off, but he wouldn't let go.

"Never mind that question, what's those tingles that I get all over when I touch you even the slightest? I know you know, it shows in your eyes." He asked the questions that I didn't want to answer. I shock my head, refusing to answer.

"Come on, you got to tell me. You can't leave me in the dark," he please. I tried to refuse, but he tilted my head with this finger so I was looking in his eyes. Something clicked then. Something I did not want to unearth. I closed my eyes, wishing the situation would just disappear.

"Please don't hide anything from me," his voice so gentle and caring, for a moment, if you didn't know him, you wouldn't have even guessed he was a vampire. Dame I didn't like how much control one person, let alone a vampire, had over me. I knew I would have to face this one day. But why so soon? Didn't we have bigger problems on our hands.

Sophie, you might as well tell him. Get it over and done with. Lucia said. It was the first time she had spoken since I had told her to go away the night before. You'll feel better afterwards I promise. Her reassurance sounded so sure and truthful, I took the advise, hoping I wouldn't regret it.

"Okay," I breathed praying I wouldn't mess this up, "Olly you know every wolf has their 'soul mate'" I indicated the quotation makes with my hands. He nodding, telling me he was following.

"And you know we can not control who our mates are," again he nodded. He was making this harder than I thought it would be.

Come on Sophie you can do it, I kept telling myself. It won't be too bad, it's meant to be. Why do I do this too myself.

I signed in defeat. "Well...... I'myourmate," I rushed the last part, wanted to get it over and done with. He just stood and stared. I didn't know what to do. Was I meant to run, and hope he forgot? Or was I just meant to stand here and feel utterly stupid? He didn't stir a muscle. Not even one twitch. It was getting kind of freaky.

"Olly you oka---" I didn't get to finish before he picked me up off my feet and spun me around.

"I knew it! I knew it!" he said, sounding like he could jump to the moon and back with joy. "I knew it was something like that." Now it was my turn to stare. This was not how I imagened it to go.

"And Sophie I'm fine, well really I'm more than fine, I'm feeling amazing, now." I watched him as the smile grew wider on his face. He had never smiled that much from the first time he came to town. And to be frankly honest it was kind of scary.

"Why have I been such a fool not to notice it? No wonder I never felt right with no other girl, it's because the girl from me was just hiding away her beautiful face," I flushed, this was getting way too cliché for me.

"Olly, please not now we have to go to class," I said, and as if by magic the bell rang. I don't think I had ever felt so lucky in my life.

"Well at least let me walk you to class?" he asked, using the puppy dog eyes on me. How ironic I thought. I really couldn't say no to those warm chocolatey brown eyes, that I didn't realise till know I had been dreaming about, the nights I hadn't been dreaming the terrifying dreams.

Sophie its really not the time to think about that. Just say yes, it will be for the best. Lucia's voice came in my head. I knew she was right, so I nodded to Olly.

"Great!" he said, grabbing my hand and pulling me out from my hiding place. I was not looking forward to this one bit. Not because of Olly or how his hand fitted perfectly with mine. But all the looks and whispers I knew I was going to receive once we stepped through the front doors to the school.

"Wait Olly, what about the others?" it had just come back to mind that they hadn't been with Olly when he came to find me, and it had sounded like they had gone missing as well. He tuned back around to face me.

"I haven't seen them since last night, when they all went hunting while I was finishing homework."

"You mean just like Georgia's and Max?" I knew I didn't need to ask the question, but recently I couldn't be sure of anything.

"Yes, just like them," he turned back around, pulling me after him, "Lets just forget about that for today, I just want to feel normal."

"Okay," was all I could say, because I knew how he felt. It seemed I wasn't the only one who needed to be free of such a confusing life.

But normal wasn't what I was going to get, as we walked into the hallways of the place even more terrifying than my dreams....

SCHOOL!