Never Normal
The car ride home was full of awkward silences and running conversations about what had just occurred. I checked my phone as we were just barely getting into Bathory and I had too many missed calls to count. Almost all of them were from Jonathan and those that weren't were from Casimir.
"Who are you calling?" Henry asked me and I gave him a worried glance.
"Jonathan, he called me like fifteen times." He picked up the phone almost instantly. "Jon?"
"Mina! Where have you been? I've been worried all night!" Jonathan talked very fast and I could hear the edginess in his voice.
"I've been in Stokerton. I'm with Henry, Otis, and Vlad. Don't worry I'm perfectly fine. We are almost home; we are going to Vlad's house."
"I'll me right there." Jon decided without any room for correction.
"No! Jon-wait!" The line went dead. I groaned and Vlad turned in his seat. "He is meeting us at your house. He hung up before I could say no." I gave Vlad an apologetic smile and he shrugged.
"If I was him I'd be worried about you too, I don't blame him." Vlad mumbled as he turned to face the front of the car again.
Otis cleared his throat and said, "Who is Jonathan?" I blushed and tucked my hair behind my ear.
"Mina's boyfriend!" Henry told him in a teasing voice. I hit him playfully and he grinned. Otis smiled but I saw a hint of concern in his eyes.
"He is also my drudge." I explained and the concern in Otis's eyes overwhelmed his face. "I was hungry and after I said yes to dating him he hugged me. I couldn't control it anymore. He knows what he is and everything."
"He is actually a pretty cool guy." Henry shrugged and I smiled. Otis stared at me until I met his eyes.
"How long ago did this happen?" I chewed on my lip before I answered.
"Uh...Sometime in early November." He nodded in understanding and didn't ask me anything else. The rest of the ride was quiet until we finally pulled up at Vlad's house. The town had already woken up and I couldn't fly into the house so Vlad helped carry me and Henry wobbled behind us.
When Henry rang the door bell we all waited for Nelly to burst out of the house in a fit of nerves. Oh, how correct we were. She took one look at us and she nearly had a heart attack.
"Oh my God! All of you get in here!" She rushed us inside and I flew off of Vlad's lap when he stepped inside. We all sat in the living room as Nelly ran about talking to Otis and Vlad about what had happened. Henry and I stayed out of it.
They skipped over most of the events of the past twelve hours, but Nelly still reacted badly. I couldn't help but chuckle as Nelly made us all warm glasses of blood-with a soda for Henry-and she bandaged Henry's ankle and my feet. Poor Otis was almost covered in unnecessary bandages. I jumped when there was a knock at the door.
"Who's that?" Nelly asked absent-mindedly. I turned to the door.
"Jonathan." I whispered and lifted myself off the couch and rushed to beat Nelly to the door. When she opened the door I hugged Jonathan before he could talk. "You didn't have to come over here you idiot!"
He grinned. "Well, I had to make sure you were okay." I took his hand and led him inside. Nelly gave me a questioning but approving look and I blushed. "I had this really strong feeling that you were in trouble or you needed me. So I came to make sure you were okay."
Luckily he was too interested in being in Vlad's house than he was with my appearance. I didn't want him to see my healing feet. And I didn't know how hungry I was until I smelled his blood. If he knew I was hurt he would have me drink from him immediately to heal myself. But I hovered slightly off the ground next to him and blushed as we faced the crowd of the living room.
