Brothers 3

Chapter 3

"She won't be any trouble, as quiet as I am really." Mrs Greene was trying to persuade James to let her daughter move in with them while she mopped the living room floor. James was lounged in the corner of the sofa. He had a drink in one hand and his phone in the other. He was texting Ella and trying to get her to sneak away from her father and come over. Her responses were juvenile, and he was becoming bored. She couldn't because it was her turn to organise the cave for the full moon. She felt bad lying to her father. James sighed and cast the phone down on the cushion beside him.

"You don't need to convince me." He gulped the rest of his drink. "If she isn't in the way then she can stay"

James lifted his feet up off the floor and held them up as Mrs Greene cleaned where they had been.

She mopped swiftly then moved onto the next spot. "Thank you. I will help her move her stuff tomorrow then." she stopped mopping and observed James. He was vertical apart from where he bent his neck to allow his head to lean against the back of the sofa. He was wearing his coat and shoes and stared ahead of himself without seeing much.

"Are you alright?" She asked him, resuming the mopping.

"I'm bored. Younger girls are so boring." James huffed out a sigh.

"Don't complain. You picked her up and I've heard enough to know that she isn't holding back with you."

James cringed. "God don't talk about my sex life. It sounds weird coming from you." He rubbed his ears as if to clean them out then sprung out of the seat. "But you're right. I have got enough entertainment from her. I will go and find her now. I'm bored when she's not here."

"Be-" Mrs Greene began.

James whirled on her. "If the next word that comes out of your mouth is careful I am gonna kill something"

Mrs Greene shut her mouth and nodded at him. "Okay but you know what I meant."

James left the house to find some of the other local vampires lurking outside. There were three other families who lived near him. One of them never left their house. This was the Gibsons. They only opened the door for the delivery of new coffins when the others got too old and ruined the aesthetic of their place. James had been to their house only once. They had had no table and the youngest daughter played dramatic music on the piano all night. He never went back.

The other two were normal enough. The Willis family, from whom two of the vampires outside came, followed the same ideas as his father had. They hated the wolves and saw glory in the vicious nature of a vampire. James didn't mind the twins, they were dark skinned and skinny. Both had hook like noses and small brown eyes. The only difference was that one had bigger breasts than the other. This was a fact that James assured his brothers he wasn't the only one to notice. It was still all too easy to get them mixed up. James knew that one of them was called Jean and the other Jess, but he didn't know which face went with each name.

The last of the three vampires was Orlando Verney. Orlando was a huge and good-natured man. He stayed out of the werewolf debate and strictly off the blood from the vein. James had seen what happened when Orlando drank from humans and he didn't want another repeat of that. Orlando had blonde straight hair that almost vanished if the sun came out. His features were all close together and he was much larger than James or Robert.

Orlando was sitting on the grass and gazing into the clouds. His tongue swirled absently around in his mouth, causing his cheeks to bulge out. He wore a plaid shirt and ripped jeans. The twins were fighting. James didn't care enough to ask what over. They wore high waisted green jeans and belly tops. Unlike most sisters, these two liked to dress the same.