Bitten

Chapter Two

While we were driving to my new home, I studied Daniel discreetly. If I had seen correctly, he was friends with a vampire. Maybe he was one to. I shook my head.
'Really Amy,' I say to myself, 'you've only been here for 15 minutes and you're already making assumptions. What's wrong with you?'
I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong, very wrong.
"We're here!" Tom said as he parked the car in the driveway.
I stared at the house in awe.
"Is this really where you live?" I ask, astonished.
"Yep." Daniel replied.
I didn't know that Tom was that rich. The house was a mansion! I thought that Tom was a real estate agent, not a mega rich billionaire. I stopped abruptly. I was jumping to conclusions again. He was probably not a mega rich billionaire, just an average man who earns good money. A lot of good money.
I exited the car.
"Do you need some help with those?" A tall stranger in a suit asked me.
Tom looked at me and said, "Oh, Amy, this is Craig, our butler."
He had a butler?! Online dating really paid off.
I realised that I hadn't acknowledged Craig's question.
"Oh, yeah, right, that would be great." I say as Craig carries my bags up to the house.
I followed Craig up to the house.
"Daniel, would you please give Amy the tour?" Tom asked.
"Whatever." Daniel said gruffly. "Follow me."
I obeyed and followed him up the stairs.
He started showing me all the different rooms. There was a wall of ice between us and I really wanted us to be friends.
"So, how long have you known Edmund?" I asked him.
"A long time." He replied without looking at me.
This conversation was clearly going nowhere.
I tried again.
"Where do teenagers hang out here?" I asked.
"The populars hang out at the skatepark. My friends and I normally hang out at the graveyard."
I was astonished.
"Why the graveyard?" I asked, my suspicions of him being a vampire rising up again.
"Because." He said.
"Yes but why?"
Suddenly I was up against the wall.
"Listen here. You keep out of my personal life. What I do doesn't concern you." Daniel said as he held me up against the wall.
I tried to say something but his hand was tight around my neck and I found it hard to breathe.
"Daniel! What the hell!? Let go of her right now!" A male voice said.
Daniel let go of me and I fell to the ground. I looked up to see Edmund.
"Why'd you do it?" Edmund asked Daniel.
"She was asking to many questions." Daniel replied quietly.
"I'm ashamed of you. Surely you've lived long enough to know what proper manners are. Now leave."
Daniel grudgingly left as Edmund bent down to help me up.
"Are you okay?" He asked me.
"Well I did just get pinned to the wall by my stepbrother, so yeah, I'm totally fine." I say, my voice dripping with sarcasm.
Edmund laughed.
"I apologise. He's been taking out his anger of you and your mum moving in on everything."
"He was stronger than I expected. By any chance has he been taking his anger out on the gym?"
"You're right." Laughed Edmund uneasily.
He was holding something back but I didn't want to force him to tell me after only having met each other an hour ago.
By this time, Edmund had helped me up and we were walking down the hall.
"This is your room." He said, guesturing to an open door.
"Do I want to know how you knew this was my room?" I ask.
"No."
I laughed.
"I'll see you soon, Edmund." I say as I close the door.
I sit on the floor and think about everything that has happened.
'This place just gets weirder and weirder.' I say to myself.