Nightride

5 - reconcilliation

Alexandria (Xaria) DaiLee (Imagined similarly to Leigh-Anne Pinnock of Little Mix, above)

Nikolai

It was 7 o'clock in the morning. I had not got much sleep as I wanted to. It is partially because I don't really need it, but really it was my thoughts surging in my head of me trying to comprehend what happened yesterday.

I just betrayed my lodge of vampires. I am sure that the elder is infuriated that I tried to escaped with the one he has been looking for all these years. By now he probably outlawed me and banned from my lodge. Now I need to be careful where I go because those vampires might be hunting me, the werewolves might be trying to as well. I am so flustered right that I do not know what to do, I usually ask Diana for help when I start to overthink like this. I honestly really miss her. Now that she is gone I am all on my own. She told me to stick with Knight because he is the 'good' that came into my long life, and so far it has been really shitty especially since I have to keep in mind that he is the "key to the death of humanity" or some bull shit like that.

Eventually, I got annoyed to the point where I forced myself out of bed. I looked around the room for my clothes, I sleep in my boxers when I decide to but today I only took off my shirt because I could feel some sort of heat against my skin due to overthinking. It made uncomfortable, my skin felt like it was crawling. I only got to sleep for 2 hours, yet I still feel refreshed. I rummaged to find my shirt on the ground as I made my way outside the room, I walked down the hallway in an attempt to find Knight's room. There are 3 other doors on the top floor beside the guest room, I had guessed that he was on the door all the way down the hallway and I was right.

I entered the room and saw that he was still fast asleep. We had to go to school in 45 minutes, I went beside his bed and tried to shake him up. Eventually, he started to move, he yawned and rubbed his eyes.

"What is going on?" he says. My eyes widened and I began to be a bit tense. I was aware that his voice was soothing and genuine, but his morning voice is something else. I tried my best to hide my weird facial expressions so that he doesn't get weirded out by me.

"Um, it's 7 and we gotta get to school?" I say shyly.

His head darts to the clock beside him. "Oh shit, I didn't set an alarm again. Sorry, I'll get up."

He ruffles through the sheets tossing them to the side so he could sit up to walk over to his drawer to the other side of the room. He was wearing nothing but his boxers, I tried to look somewhere else so he does not get the impression that I am staring at him. It was honestly hard not to stare at the nice bulge that he had. I was getting too excited I had to adjust myself when he finding his clothes. I hate being a sexually frustrated vampire.

"How did you sleep?" he asks fumbling for something to wear.

"Um, decent. I didn't really sleep because, you know, I am a vampire." I joked.

He rolls his eyes. Eventually, he made his way to his closet door where a bunch of jackets could be found. It was hard for me to not stare at him. He was actually perfect. He had toned muscles, a nice butt, and a good looking chest. Usually, I do not fall for uber attractive guys because most end up having their heads so far up their asses. He was an exception, he was being nice to me after having a rough start. I am not sure if its because he felt bad for me or that he needs a bodyguard for when the next attack occurs.

I have known that I was gay for a while. Having no one close to my age at the lodge made me realize some things about myself. However, being gay was the reason why I had to transfer schools is that someone found out that I was a vampire. I had a friend at that school. We were close friends, eventually, he told me that he liked me. I was shocked because I liked him too. We dated for a while, he started to wonder why I never preferred to hang during the daytime. I later told him that I was a vampire and proved that I was, he freaked out and started telling people. Luckily no one else believed him, I told Diana about this issue and he said he would take care of it. I ended up getting schooled for a while at the lodge so that I can lay low for a bit. Two weeks later I saw his name in the obituary, it said that it was an accident in the park, but I knew one of the vampires here killed him. I was heartbroken for a while, I started to not trust people as much as I can anymore. I tried to be anonymous within crowds so that I do not draw attention. I know that I can stay here because they know I am a vampire, but I am not going to tell Knight that I am gay. Not yet.

"Are you okay there? You seem to be drifting off in space." Knight asks.

I was drifting off, "I am just thinking."

"Okay cool. Just get ready for the shit storm that is about to happen downstairs." he walks past me and exits the room. I follow behind him. We walk down the stairs and make a right into the kitchen. There his mom and dad glare at me as I walk in on the table. His sister is eating an apple and leaning on the counter, she looks up as if she is about to observe what is about to happen.

"Why is there a vampire in the house, Xaria?" his father asks.

"You should be asking Knight that question," she takes another bite and glares at me. She is very frightening after she managed to destroy that werewolf emotionally.

"No, no I have a question for all of you. Why did you all decide not to tell me that you were paranormal hunters? And why did no one tell me that I was some chosen one to prophesied the death to all of humanity? Care to tell me that?" he was getting angry.

"It was to protect you." his dad slams his newspaper down. 

"Sweetheart. I know that you are mad about all this, but please understand that we wanted to protect you. You have no idea what creatures are beyond human control." his mom adds.

I was getting uncomfortable. I began to inch my way out of the kitchen. Knight saw me and stopped me and pulled me in closer to the fire. "The vampire has a name, and his name is Nick."

"Isn't he the same one that kidnapped you?" his mom came closer to me. She started to walk around me up and downing me, what was she doing?

"Well he is with me, and if you want me to calm down you better let me keep him around because he saved me and he is my friend. Plus he has nowhere to go anymore so he can stay here as long as he has the badge Xaria gave him"

I waved at them all shyly. His dad turns his gaze to his wife where she nodded back to him. He turned back to us in defeat. "Fine, he is welcome here."

Knight pumped his hands in the air with excitement but was eventually stopped by his mother speaking, "I need to make an alternative for blood because he is not killing people and staying here."

"He can take this," his dad gets up and reaches inside his shirt to pull out a necklace. The necklace had a key attached to it, he made his way to a cabinet under the sink where the wall had a lock. He inserts the key and the wall began to detach revealing different items in it, he reaches and grabs a ring. He then walks over and hands me the ring, "With this ring, he can be able to walk in the sunlight and not burn. It'll help disguise him and assimilate him well with others.

I slowly take the ring from Knight's dad, put it on. His dad walks back to the table and sits down. His mother makes her way back into the kitchen and walks towards Knight handing him a watch and a something else small.

"Take this Knight. This is a hi-tech watch that we use for sticky situations. You are also able to scan almost anything and get the details about what happened within the environment. It is also equipped with a tracker, nanotech to help you be able to jump and land tremendous heights by snapping your finger, as well as other cool features that you will figure out. Lastly, this small dot that looks like putty is actually a communicator. I am going to place this on the side of your neck, it blends in with your skin and it is untrackable."

She puts the watch and tracker on him. She kisses his forehead and apologizes for all the secrets that they kept from him. I do not know why they are acting like they are sending him to combat or something. We are literally just going to school.

His parents both glance at me checking me out. They turn back to Knight, "We will deal with the vampire later." It was kinda freaky how they both said that at the same time, I had to sit and think about it for a minute until Knight pulled me away from the room.