Immortal protector

Chapter nine

Chapter nine

By 8:30pm I was at mine and macs apartment packing everything and anything I needed in my old school black back pack. I knew Mac wouldn't be home and would be still working the late shift tonight. Darek was waiting outside the apartment, keeping an eye out. I walked out side and locked the door behind me, and turned to see Darek leaning up agains his midnight black mustang. He pushed off the car and offers to take my bag to put it in the trunk.

We sat in a comfortable silence for most of the ride back to his place. I sneak a peek over at Darek, he's looking straight ahead in concentration his eye are almost in slits as if he's thinking about something. He speaks breaking me out of my stare. I blink a couple times and push a loose curl behind my ears.

"Sorry what did you say?"

I look back over at him and looks at me with a slight confusion.

"I asked if you were hungry."

"Oh... Yeah a bit."

I bite my lip knowing I'm more hungry then I'm leading on.

He pulls into a small parking Lott. I look out the window to see an old run down diner, It looks bright and warm inside with only a few elderly people, probably regulars. We walk up the steps and he opens the door for me. I mumble a thanks, but was greeting with the most delicious smell of food ever. My stomach growls instantly, and I blush knowing Darek probably heard it.

I look up at him. There's that smug smirk again on his face.

Darek! It's been a while Hun, how have you been?"

An older lady in her late forties wearing a faded blue checkered apron with old stains approaches us.

Darken smiles at her giving her a hug in return. She holds him at arms length to get a Better look.

" I swear you never age over the age if 25, if only I had your genes" she jokes

"Oh you know me, staying health and fit" he grins back.

I roll my eyes at that.

The lady name Pam then noticed me and smiles even bigger.

"And who is this pretty little lady, I didn't know you had a girlfriend now, this is the first time your brought anyone here."

I give her a little smile back.

"Yes sorry where are my manners. Pam this is my friend Emma, Emma this is the owner of this diner Pam. Iv been coming here for quit some time."

I hold my hand out to shake and she just looks down on it before looking back up at me.

"Now now dear we give hugs around here." And she grabs and give me a strong warm hug that I let myself enjoy for a minute.

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After we got seated in a booth, and order our food, it didn't take long for our food and drinks to arrive. We sat in silence for a few minutes enjoying our food. I look up at Darek to catch him looking right back at me.
I quickly avert my eyes back to my food and go back to eating. But my stomach feels like it's in knots. The way he looks at me almost seems possessive, which makes my heart rate go up, and palms sweaty.

I'm finished eating, using my fork to push the food around. The silence between us is getting unnerving, and I still have so many questions swimming around in my head. My throat starts to get dry so I reach up to take s sip of water. And decided to break the silence first.
"So.. How often do you come here?"
He looks up from his food to look at me, and his face shows no emotion. He sits further back in the booth before answering. " only sometime, mostly just to grab a quick coffee and say hi to Pam." I peer over where the counter is and see that Pam is looking over at us with a big smile on her face. " is she family or something?" Is face is like stone and answers with cold detached look. "No unfortunately my family died a long time ago." I quickly look away not wanting him to see the sadness in my face. "Oh" I feel bad now having brought up family. I know what it's like not having any family, accept my beautiful grandmother who took care me at a young age. She's all I have left beside Mac. Just thinking about the both of them makes me miss them both so much.

After the awkward dinner, and a quick bye to Pam. Derek and I had driven back to his place. No words were said the whole trip back, and I was caught up in my thoughts to realize we were already parked. He turns the ignition off and I jump out of my thoughts and open the door to follow Darek back into his place. Once we were in I start walking down the hall to my room. "Wait Emma." At the sound of his masculine voice I stop in my tracks and turn towards him. I barley make eye contact knowing I probably upset him earlier. "I'm sorry about earlier, I didn't mean to bring up such a painful subject." I say finally looking into his eyes. He give me a confused look and looks to be assessing me before answering. " it's not your fault you didn't know. Plus I know you feel the same Emma, I know that you to also lost both parents, and that your grandmother is all you have left." I can see he is genuinely concerned and cares and it's nice to see that side of Him once in a while. I give him a small sad smile and whisper thank you for understanding, and just walked away into my room and closed the door trying to keep me from sobbing. Just the thought of my parents hurts as if it was yesterday.

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* sorry this chapter is also short. And probably doesn't make sense. I'm still trying to make sense of it all to. I have it all in my head, then when I go to write I find myself getting confused. But next chapter will be a lot longer and will get a little heated. Hope you readers stick with it and keep enjoying what I have to write.