Electric

chapter 2

I saw him, his skin healing, eyes searching me, body against me...I woke with a start my breathing g heavy, I looked to my left at my alarm clock

"its almost three, your clocks slow" a male voice said from next to me, I screamed and fell out of bed

"How did you get in?!" I shouted at the stranger from earlier who was laying on my bed looking at me with an amused look

"your window was unlocked, and you told me to leave, you didn't tell me not to come back" he said simply, like it was the most normal thing to do ever

"stay away from me!" I shouted at him standing up, I had my back against the wall as far from him as I could get, as he approached me I sunk down but he did the same so that he was crouched in front of me

"nope" he said with a slight smile poping the 'p', I started to get teary again, they ran down my cheeks

"please...I don't need this right now...I don't even know you..." I said barely able to get my voice to come out, I was scared by this guy, there was something wrong with him

"But you know my secret Cherri, and I can't let you know that. You won't forget, so I can't leave I'm sorry to say" the guy said his bright green eyes looking me over, he licked his lips and took a small step closer, I was sat with my back against the wall so I couldn't move

"I don't know anything! what secret?" I asked my voice trembling

"I can't tell you, that's why its a secret princess" the guy replied, he started to smile and trailed his fingers up my neck, I took a shaky breath

"You're crazy" I managed in barely a whisper

"No, I'm just not human" he said in a low voice, he moved his fingers further up my neck and lifted my chin then let it drop

"your psychotic...your human, there's nothing but human, I've always said anything is possible, but I never thought I'd be proved right or otherwise, you have problems...serious problems" I said tears falling again, I was a wreck, but in this kind of situation who wouldn't be?

"you can say what you want, but you know now, I'm not going away. I either kill you, or you let me stay. I have nowhere else to go and I got stabbed earlier, I'd rather people think I'm dead Cherri. I don't think you have much of a choice" the guy said, I frowned

"don't, don't say my name, I don't know yours so you have no right to use mine" I told him suddenly feeling a bit more courageous

"my name is Zach, that gives me the right to use your name now" he said tilting his head slightly "where did the bravery come from?" he asked

In all honesty I didn't know, and I didn't know what to say so I just shrugged, Zach leaned forwards and wiped the tears from under my eyes, he looked at the black smudge on his fingers "you'd look good without your makeup" he said with a gentle smile, this guy was confusing

"it doesn't concern you what I do or do not wear. Nothing gives you the right to use my name, your a stranger with mental issues" I said sniffing again still frowning

"I don't have mental issues, you can see that I'm not human, I spat on my fingers and healed a stab wound with it, that's not human" Zach said, I stared at him.

Oh yeah.

That had happened hadn't it?

"Then what? if your not human and you won't leave then what are you?" I asked, even I was confused as to where my bravery was coming from

"Dracula, Damon and Stefan Salvatore, Lestat and Louie, Larten Crepsley and Darren Shan. All examples of..." he said leading me into an answer

"book characters" I said with a slight smile

"don't be a smart ass princess it doesn't suit you" he said crossing his arms, I didn't want to say what I was thinking...I knew what those characters where and it didn't bare thinking about there being one right in front of me

"so your...your a.." I stumbled on my words

"I'm a vampire, if your too afraid to say it" he said seeming a bit pissed off, I took my chance as he looked away to stand and sprint for the door.

I could hear him sigh and his heavy boot steps striding behind me "you can't run, I'll catch you" he said as I opened my bedroom door and ran to the stairs, I made it half way down before tripping and falling the rest of the way.

I lay there unable to breathe, I'd winded myself and stayed that way for a few seconds before gasping and pushing myself up despite the pain and running into the kitchen.

Pulling the largest kitchen knife I had out of one of the drawers, I turned to see his shadowed figure in the doorway leaning on the frame

"we've done this before, it had no effect" he said in a bored tone

"that's because I didn't mean to stab you" I said breathlessly leaning against the kitchen counter with my knife pointing towards him

"oh dear, you are naive to think a simple knife will kill me, no matter if you mean it or not" he said standing up straight and approaching me, I scanned his black T-shirt clad torso for the exact right spot to aim the knife...I didn't know where to aim...damn it

"keep AWAY from me" I said raising my voice on the second word exaggerating the fact

"now babydoll your getting hysterical" he said sighing

"ENOUGH WITH THE PET NAMES!" I screamed at him, he was right I was hysterical, but I had a right to be, I'd let a vampire in my house to do god knows what and hed turned up at three in the morning capable of doing god knows what.

That was a good situation to be hysterical about if ever there was one.

"you need to just calm dow-" I cut him off

"calm down! CALM DOWN! DONT YOU DARE TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!" I screamed at him again tears coming once more

"your over reacting" he told me sternly, oh now that was it.

Shit was about to go down.

I stormed towards him and screamed at the top of my lungs plunging the knife right in the middle of him, just under his ribs and just above his stomach, everything seemed to go quiet, just white noise. Everything moved slower, he bent over clutching at the wound. I'd hurt him...badly.

Zach took a pain ridden breath in and looked up at me with a shaky smile, slowly he straightened up

"you need to listen to me more, you can't hu- Cherri? Cherri?" his voice was becoming muffled and frantic the last time i heard him say my name.

The room was spinning and getting more and more blurry and dark, then nothing.