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Chapter 10: Here gose nothing.

Declan

    We get down stairs. I'm scared to leave her side. She just opened up to me. Just a little but it's at more than she had last week. I have 6 more days until she can tell me to leave her alone. I have no idea if she is going want me to stay or just want me to leave her alone. I will do it. But that doesn't mean I'll stop loving her. Over this past week it's been hard not to think about her constantly. Everything I do just keep reminding me of her. One day last week I was getting groceries and I passed the flower section of the store. And the whole ride home I kept looking over as if she was sitting right next to me when I knew she wasn't there.

    I have to tell her, don't I? I'm going to have a tell her that I'm in love with her. And I'm pretty sure that she's going to run away from me. But that's on the list. I'm supposed to be making it up to her but I'm also supposed be telling her that I'm in love with her. Sophia was the only one who cracked my code of being an ass to her.

    "Declan? Will you set up the table? Ivory, will you come help me with the food?" My dad yells from the kitchen.

    Ivory squeezes my hand when I don't let go. She nods her head to tell me she's okay. She starts the walkway but I still have her hand and pull her back. She looks up at me through her eyelashes. I bend my head down to kiss her forehead. She wraps her arms around my waist.

    "I will try to forget, but only for a while. If I keep just putting it off and pretending it's not real it's going to hit me hard. It'll hit me at a time I'm not going to be able to handle it. I need to be a big girl, Dec."

    "Fine, but I think we should do it together. We're friends, remember."

    She doesn't say anything just rolled her eyes and walks to the kitchen. I let her this time. Trying to recover of the sight flowers surrounding me. After a few seconds so far after her. Before I get in the kitchen I hear my father apologizing.

    "I am sorry for bring that up, sweetie. I shouldn't have ever said anything. I just wanted to give you my condolences. I knew you're older brother, he was a good person. You remind me so much of him."

    I didn't hear her response because I remember specifically today her saying that she didn't have any siblings. Did she lose her siblings in some accident? Did her dad have something to do with it? The more I learn about what happen the more I want to protect her. I just want to lock her in a room and hold her until all the bad in this girl's life disappears in thin air.

    "Declan, we know you're out there. We can hear your heavy breathing. Just come in here," My dad says.

Busted! Play it cool.

    "What are you talking about? I'm a vampire I don't breathe. Well, I am a walrus vampire Alex bit me this morning," Smooth I think to myself.

    Ivory giggles as my dad pulls out the plates from the cabinet.

    "Whatever, you dork. Just go put these on the table. And don't get any of your victims blood on the plates."

    "No need to worry, everyone in this house is too ugly to eat," I pick up the plates and walk into the dining room. I look at the fourth seat and after two whole year of that seat being empty someone just as happy and bright as Sophia was will be sitting there.

     I found my mom in the dining room putting the chairs in their places. It's something she always done. Even if we weren't even going to eat at the table.  She loves everything her way when it comes to eating together.

    When she sees me with the plates. She tells me to put them at each set, which I already know this but I let her have her moment. I am making sure that they are all like the way she likes it. I look at her to make sure but she has this sad look on her face.