The Royal Vampire Who Went Against Tradition

Chapter 4

I finally eat something and head to bed after I get this massive lecture about the things she shouldn't even know about. But I go to sleep and sleep nicely considering. The days after that went kind of slow, who am I kidding they were really slow and very painful. 

One of the nights I called Nathan my grandmother walked into my room while I was on the phone with him and she took my phone off of me instantly, so I haven't been able to talk with him, and I know it hasn't been very long I guess but it feels like it's been an eternity since I heard his voice or even seen his face.

My grandparents have been at our house for two weeks now and it was getting both boring and annoying doing the same thing everyday, and I was extremely exhausted as I haven't been able to sleep almost at all and if I do sleep it's only for a couple of hours, if that. But something unexpected happened when both my parents and grandparents were in the same room...

I did something wrong and my grandmother hit me once then twice, but the second time didn't hurt for some reason. I felt the liquid run down my face but I didn't feel anything...

She punched me once and I flinched before she made contact, but after she hit me something in me broke. Anything I was feeling shut off so it didn't hurt anymore, my body was saving me in a way so I didn't have to feel the pain anymore, and I don't know if that was a bad thing or a good thing. My body was also starting to become cold...

The second one made my head spin to the side with the impact but nothing, no pain just blood sliding down my face dripping onto the ground. I didn't flinch one bit, which scared not only my parents but my grandfather. Grandmother was too furious to notice. I would of been shocked myself if I could feel anything.

And even the next few days after that I couldn't feel anything, every hit didn't affect me like they did before.

"You need to stop this mother. She's been through enough punishment I would say. You've been here for almost 3 weeks now and all you've done is hit her when she doesn't do anything the way you want her to. Just go home. Can't you see she's shut herself off, all she's been for the last few days is an empty shell of who my daughter was!", my mother was talking to my grandmother, or shouting at her, I couldn't tell.

"She needs something or someone to wake her up from all this, someone that cares for her. And if your not going to then I will", then my mother walked off with my father not far behind her. And I just stayed standing where I was. 

The rest of that day went normally, and when I walked into my bedroom for the night I pulled my phone out from where I had hidden it for the last week after I snuck it back from my grandmother, but I haven't used it as I was scared she would take it from me again.

I went over to my window and opened it to let the fresh air into the room before I walked into my bathroom just off from my bedroom to look at my face. I look in my mirror and see a pretty reasonable size bruise already starting to form on my right cheek. 

Then my phone vibrated in my hand and I looked at it and saw that it was Nathan calling, I wanted to pick up so bad but I didn't want the risk of it being taken from me again so I let it ring. When it stopped ringing it started ringing again straight after, it must be urgent then. So I picked it up.

"Nathan, what's wrong? Are you ok?", he didn't reply for a moment, that wasn't a good sign... but then he spoke.

"Why do I need a reason to call my girlfriend when I miss her? I wanted to hear your voice, and I want to see you", in the background I heard him grunting, but for what reason I don't know.

"So I thought I would", then I heard my window open more than I had it and I almost ran out of my bathroom to find Nathan pulling himself through the window. I almost dropped my phone, but I know my jaw hit the ground just at the sight of him being here in my bedroom.

Tears welled up in my eyes then slipped free and slide down my cheeks. He put his phone in his pocket and moved over to stand not even an inch from me. His hand reached up to my right cheek and ever so gently wiped the tears away and to wipe over the bruise that people could clearly see.

"W-what are you doing here?" I stumbled a little bit.

"Your mum called me and said you were in desperate need of some "us" time. She told me what was happening to you, and how your body was reacting to all of it, she had to explain half of it so I knew what was actually happening but I got it in the end", he pulled me toward him and he hugged me.

My body was warming up, I could feel the pain from the bruise on my cheek. My body was switching on again, I wasn't just a shell of someone anymore.

My arms slide around him to hug his waist, and the tears slide down my cheeks faster and there was a continuous stream of tears falling too, I don't know why though but they wouldn't stop. Nathan didn't mind either way, he just stood there hugging me through all of my crying until I calmed down on my own.

I didn't care if grandmother heard me right now, I needed this and if she came in I might snap at her to go away for the first time. But even if I thought she would, the door was never opened by anyone at all.

We stood there for maybe 5 minutes in silence, and when I finally calmed down he pulled slightly away from me to look me in the eyes. He wiped my cheeks free of the tears left behind and gently pressed a kiss to my lips which I returned instantly.

We sat on my bed talking and cuddling for probably an hour or two.

"I should probably start heading home about now", he stood up, and I felt anxious and scared, and most of all I didn't want him to leave. I grabbed his hand before he took a step towards the window, he turned to look at me.

"Please don't leave me, I don't want you to leave. Please stay with me..." I realized what I was saying to him and it was extremely selfish of me to ask any of that.

"Oh forget what I said just then, you need to get home obviously and here I am holding you up..." I stand up and my eyes fall to the ground as I couldn't look him in the eye because I was so embarrassed. I went to walk over to the window when he grabbed my arm to stop me and my eyes snapped up to look at him.

He pulled out his phone and started calling someone and they picked up.

"Hey Nathan, what's up?", a woman's voice, his mother I guessing.

"Hey, I was wondering if I could stay at the friend's house that I was heading to earlier. Is that fine as long as I come home to get ready for school?"

"Yes, that's fine hunny. Just make sure it won't affect school and it's fine"

"Thanks mum. Bye", then he hung up the phone and looked at me.

"I'm here all night if that's what you want", my cheeks went a slight red shade but I nodded and whispered.

"And maybe I'll be able to have a good full nights sleep...", I thought I was quiet enough that his human ears wouldn't hear me but I guess I wasn't as quiet as I thought because he heard me, and his eyes slightly widened.

"Don't worry about it, I'll be fine", after that we talked for a bit longer before I changed into my pajamas and slipped into bed. Nathan did the same but he just stripped off some of his clothes because he didn't want to sleep in them, I didn't mind.

When he slipped into my bed I instantly snuggled up to him and listened to his heart beating inside his chest, it was soothing to hear. And with each beat of his heart I was falling deeper into sleep, and before I knew it I was swept away into darkness but this was a little different than the other times I've gone to sleep, this darkness had some light to it.