Crimson

Why me?

"Say what?" I ask acting innocent; he looks at me, and then growls showing off his fangs as I feel my blood run slightly cold attempting to avoid the look.

"You know what" he says to me slowly, I smile and sit back down next to him.

"Sorry, I just have a habit of making jokes in situations like this" I say to him as I look down at my hands.

"Fine but just don't say that Conner helps you sleep, I can't control beast's intensions as well during the full moon" he says as he closes his eyes again, I gulp down as my eyes trace his muscles, I smile to myself before looking away again shaking my head.

"Okay . . . I'm gonna get some food at the shops, want anything?"

"What kind of food?" he asks me looking forward and refusing to meet my gaze.

"The edible kind?" I joke to him crossing my arms over my chest.

"I know that, but like what kind of food?" he says with annoyance, I smile slowly as I think.

"I don't know like a sandwich and some extra bread?"

"Why do you need extra bread?"

"Because I still go to school and we don't have any left"

"You have a cafeteria just buy food from them"

"No! I like my own food besides unlike some people I don't have money up my ass to burn"

"If you lived with me you would," he states under his breath I scoff and run a hand through my hair.

"Well I don't so . . . look I don't wanna fight with you so do you want anything or not?"

"I'm good for now"

"Okay, I'll be back just stay here"

"Okay fine"

"Thank you" I huff out as I grab my keys, phone and some money and walk out the door heading off towards the shops.

I walk down the street it's eerily quiet, like the kind of quiet that makes you feel uneasy and vulnerable, I plug my headphones in and begin to listen to some music when I hear my name being called from behind me, I stop and turn around to see Sam running towards me with a smile on his face, I smile and wait for him as he comes to a stop and hugs me tightly.

"Haven't seen you at all this week what's up?" he says to me, his eyes seem happy like he is actually human.

"Nothing much, just chilling at home with some friends, why? What's up?" I say as we start to walk towards the shops, he links arms with me as we talk.

"Nothing much, just school is really boring without you and Conner there to entertain me"

"Entertain you?"

"Yeah the banter between you two is pretty funny, besides you're my friend," he says as I smile and laugh.

"Well it's what friends are for am I right?" I say to him as we walk into the shop, I buy a sandwich and bread as we sit down in a little booth and talk.

"You're not going to eat anything?" I say as I bite into my sandwich the juices dripping down my hands slowly as I put it back down and grab a napkin.

"I'm dead Chloe, there's no point in eating if I'm dead"

"But vampires drink blood don't they?"

"Yeah but that's only because we don't have any ourselves, Vampires drink the blood for vitamin C since we can't go out and get it ourselves without burning"

"You seem perfectly fine to me" I say as I munch down the rest of my sandwich.

"That's because I'm not a full vampire," he states making me choke on my sandwich.

"What?" I half yell out as I drink a glass of water to wash it down.

"I'm a hybrid"

"Of what?"

"Half vampire half human" he says to me leaning back in his chair smiling, "Dad's a vampire, mums a human" he says to me as I look out the window seeing Conner with a couple of his friends, I turn back to him and sigh.

"I've got to go, my friends are waiting for me back at home, it was lovely seeing you again Sam" I say to him with a smile. I leave Sam and my plate on the table as I run out of the diner and towards home, I walk into the front door to see no James still on the couch, I throw my bread onto the kitchen bench and run up the stairs, my door to my bedroom wide open, I slow down my pace as my heart quickens  in my chest, I look onto my bed and see James asleep on it, a smile playing on my lips as I look out the window to see the woods and I sigh closing the window and turning back to James. It's late and his wounds have healed from what I'm guessing was a while ago, I walk into my dad's room and see a note on the floor, I pick it up his sloppy hand writing curves from the page as I read it.

'Hey henoy, I'm leaving with my frinds to g o and ha ve a nighto ut, lov e yuo!'

I put the note down and fix up his bed, moving the bottles into the bin and taking it out the back to the garbage for clean up. I walk outside to the back of the house opening the gate and walking towards the edge of the woods towards the bins, I notice the fallen tree beside them have a large claw mark on it, chucking the rubbish into the bin I walk over to the tree trunk and see the claw mark more clearly, I run my small hands over it and then stand back up, I look around feeling like something is watching me as I hear the sound of a twig snap.