My Secret Love-bite

Chapter 2

The mirror was my enemy for the first few hours of the Saturday morning. Lack of sleep can do a lot of damage to a girls face. I didn't know where to start, but I didn't have too long to think about it because a loud beep came from across my room. My phone lit up on my bedside table alerting me of a text. 'You don't hate me do you? xx' Zach. Of course I didn't hate him but I had a lot to think about. Too much to say in a text so I called him. "Hey Zach." My voice seemed to now be shaky for some unknown reason. I didn't even wait for his reply just carried on not knowing what I was going to say but just saying it anyway. "I don't hate you. Seriously 7 years together, there is no way I could hate you after one night. Anyway, I know you couldn't tell me and I know you have your reasons, I just wish it didn't have to happen like it did. I still want to be with you and I hope you feel the same. Its going to take me a while to get used to though." I took a silent deep breath, just waiting for his reply.

"Wow Cass. I wasn't expecting that. You know I love you more than ever now right." I could sense the smile on his face even though there was no way of knowing for sure. He definitely didn't hate me. He'd called me Cass as usual so to him this wasn't serious. It made me smile and I almost forgot he was still on the phone until I heard "Cass?" I couldn't reply I just broke down in tears. "Cass, are you okay? Look I'm on my way over." The phone went dead. I dropped it to the floor and found my way into the bathroom. What had just happened! Anyway now I had to make myself look presentable but I just couldn't stop crying. I stood staring in the mirror for a while. I took in my caramel coloured hair that hadn't been brushed yet; my brown eyes that were red from crying and then I stepped back and just kept going until I fell onto my bed.

My parents liked Zach that's why he knew where the spare key was and that's why I heard them having their usual conversation of 'how's your parents?', 'there fine thanks' and so on with the pleasantries. Then I could feel him in the doorway. I was curled up on my bed crying with my back to the door but I knew he was there. "Cass." That was it the tears that had started to subside just streaked down my cheeks as I brought myself to look at him, no matter how bad I looked. That was it he rushed over and sat on my bed just holding me. He rocked me gently back and forth until I stopped crying. I turned to look at him and saw his face just show confusion which was exactly how I felt.

"I'm sorry." I whispered I don't know what I was sorry for. Maybe for crying on his shirt, maybe for crying in the first place, but I was sorry. I was waiting for Zach to question me about what was wrong but he didn't he just looked at me and sighed

"Cassia, oh Cassia. I love you." He waited for me to cry again but I didn't I just stayed in his arms hoping he wouldn't let go. "Have you had breakfast yet?" Why was he asking me a normal question?!

"No, not yet." He just gave me a look as if to say what happened to you last night. It was a good job that he didn't say it because I had no answer for him.

"Get yourself sorted out and meet me downstairs I'll have breakfast ready for you then." He smiled and kissed the top of my head. He looked into my eyes then walked out closing my door behind him taking my phone with him before he stood on it. Now I really didn't know where to start but I was sure I couldn't look worse when I saw him next as I did before he left.

I walked into the kitchen sheepishly expecting my parents to be sat waiting for me, or my brother, Blaine, to be sat glancing at Zach every once in a while being protective of me again. Blaine never got on with Zach he always said there was something he didn't like. Maybe he was right for a change. The kitchen was empty except for a plate of cheese on toast left on the table. I took it that Zach had made it for me as 'breakfast' even though it was midday already. I sat down confused at the disappearance of my boyfriend. Then he walked in and sat down like he'd never left. There was no way I was going to ask anything yet, mainly because I had a mouthful of toast.

 "Your parents left just before I came downstairs and I don't know where Blaine is before you ask." Actually I had just been thinking where my family had disappeared to. The postman knocked at the door and Zach casually  got up to answer it. He took the parcel and put it on the side as if he'd done it a million times before. "Its for your dad." He said again answering one of my unasked questions. My dad was an avid collector of some junk to do with history so it was probably just another 'artefact' as he called them. "Cassia I never meant to scare you or hurt you or do anything to make you uncomfortable and I totally understand if you hate me." It definitely kept from the silence that would have occurred had he not spoke.

"Stop thinking I hate you. Its just a shock. My boyfriends a vampire. Sorry but its going to take some getting used to." That was it both of us knew where we stood. Zach got up and walked over to me, planted a kiss on my cheek and in the same moment picked up my empty plate then washed it. He didn't half make himself at home now. Mind you I suppose it had been 7 years.

"I want to take you somewhere." Zach didn't say a lot but what he did say didn't half make me think. Where did he want to take me? Well that could have been anywhere. I didn't know if he had driven to my house and so I didn't know if he had his car here. I found my phone on the worktop and slipped it into my pocket and got up to leave.

"Hang on." I said to Zach and he seemed to know exactly what I was going to do so he just smiled patiently. "Blaine, I'm going out." I raised my voice slightly not knowing where in the house he could be. I turned towards the front door and caught a glimpse of Zach's car. We were probably going... well to be honest we could end up anywhere. 

"Not with him you're not." Blaine was so protective, he was 20 almost 21 and I was 18 so he got very protective over me.  It was normal for him to act up about me going out with Zach but I was going and there was nothing he could do about it.

"Hi Blaine." Woah. Zach was winding my brother up. That was not a good idea. Blaine was tall and broad kind of like a rugby player, oh and he was handy in a fight. Out of me, him and our older brother Felix who was 25 and had left home Blaine was definitely the most rebellious in a fighting sense. Its probably my dad's fault because he wanted his son to practice a form of martial arts so Blaine had been taught Kung Fu. That had made him dangerous and slightly more protective. Blaine didn't take kindly to Zach being there let alone taking me out so he just snarled at him. 7 years and he still couldn't get over it.

"Yes I am and there's nothing you can do to stop me." Came my sing-song reply. I smiled as sweetly as I could and watched his jaw drop. I could have sworn it was going to hit the floor as I twirled around and ducked under Zach's arm that he'd been holding the door open with and walked out towards his car. Zach just let the door close behind him as Blaine still stood in shock. As I slid into Zach's car with him opening then closing the door for me like any gentleman would do I smiled and said "so where are we going then?" The reply I received was one place I realised I had never been.

"My house." Zach smiled back.