Good Enough
I smiled as I walked up to Jonathan and Lucy and I tackled them both in tight hugs. It was early in the morning just before school and it was midway through October in the school year. I was happy with my weekends full of Henry and my friends and coven at the Crypt. I hardly see Vlad except at school and me and him having fought at all. He seems happy with Meredith and I am very happy for him. If he is happy, I am happy despite my pain. I looked up while hugging Lucy and saw Vlad walking in through the doors to the school. We met eyes and he quickly looked away.
"Hey, Mina, do you want to come over to my house after school today? There's a band rehearsal and they are really cool! You'll love them!" Lucy asked me in her normal, hyper manner. I thought about it and shrugged.
"I'll have to ask my aunt but I'd love to go!" Lucy and Jonathan smiled widely and jumped up and down happily. I stared at them and laughed at them. "You both are crazy!"
"Mina...?" I turned at the sound of my name and felt a shiver run down my spine. It was Vlad and he was standing right in front of me in all his perfection.
"V-Vlad...How are you?" I asked in a soft, stuttering voice and my face fiery hot.
"I'm good... I want to hang out with you at lunch today... You know, just to talk? Meredith isn't here today so you don't have to worry about her. We just haven't talked in a long time and I want to catch up... I miss you..."
I looked down at the floor between us and my hands fiddled with a few strands of my hair. "Yeah, we can do that... It'd be nice." I smiled and I heard him release a sigh of relief.
"Hey Mina!" Amelia shouted somewhere behind me and I looked over my shoulder. I saw Lucy and Amelia waiting for me and I saw Jonathan glaring at Vlad with heated loathing. I turned back at Vlad and wrapped my arms around him tightly. He froze then held me back. He took in a gulp of air and I felt his jaw tighten and I knew it could only be one thing...
My blood.
"I'm sorry, you haven't been used to it in a while..." I whispered softly in his ear. "See you at lunch, I love you." I brushed my lips over his cheek as I pulled back and walked back to my friends.
I didn't turn to see his reaction or where he went but I was still feeling shivers from being in his arms again. I didn't hear a word my friends said until the bell rang for class. I walked to class in a sort of fuzzy haze and nothing could register in my mind.
Should I tell Vlad about my twisted past or should I let him live his relatively normal life? I kept asking myself over and over as the day rushed on around me yet I felt that I was in a bubble of time slowing to a snail's pace. Lunch came too fast for me to register and I went to my locker and took out my book for choir.
"Mina?" I looked up and hummed softly in response. Amelia gave me a questioning look and pointed to the book in my hand. "Choir was two hours ago, all you need is your lunch."
I looked down toward my hands and stared at the book. It took me a while to comprehend what she had told me and I put the book back inside and took out my bag for lunch. I felt her eyes still on me staring and I heard my stomach roar for the substance that keeps humans alive.
"Maybe you should hurry up to Vlad's table so you can eat, you look starving!" I smiled at Vlad's name and nodded and rushed away from Amelia to burst through the double doors into the lunch room. I rushed to Vlad's table where he sat waiting for Henry to finish in the line. I took the seat across from him and he smiled widely when he saw me.
"Hi." I muttered with my hands twisting in my lap and my blush already starting to grow. He laughed and I felt a rush of adrenaline burning inside me.
