Forever

Bloody Love

As I walked through the mall the hunger began to overtake me with each passing shopper. I could feel their blood in their veins, I wanted it so bad. 

I was starving. 

As I turned the corner to the back hallway that lead to the bathrooms, the smell of blood was so overwhelming to the point where my new fangs elongated just as a security guard walked out of the men's bathroom. 

'Oh god, I forgot security guards roam these back hallways, what if I'm too late??? What if they found him and took him away' 

Just as the thought crossed my mind the family bathroom door opened and Jim stuck his head out.

"What took you so long???? I thought a security guard was gonna find me-"

"Which would've meant that I'd have a meal pre-prepared for you, Kate!" Damon cut my blood stained boyfriend off.

"I refuse to drink from a human vein, Damon. I'm not gonna turn into a ripper and neither is my boyfriend, so lay off." I said sharply causing his expression to flash stone cold for a second.

"Okay, okay jeez. I was just trying to help. I'm gonna go, if you guys need anything just call." He said winking at James.

"Lets get you clean and get out of here." I said as I grabbed a wash cloth out of the bag that I packed with a fresh tee shirt and a pair of shorts.

As we finished cleaning every drop of blood in sight there was a knock on the door.

"Are you alright in there?? You've only been in there for an hour or so..."

'THE SECURITY GUARD! Oh god he saw me come in, he must think I'm crazy for having been in here for so long.'

I opened the door and we both walked out. When he realized that we were in there together a congratulating look swept across his face to Jim, who acknowledged it like it was true.

"I'm sorry officer, but it's kind of hard to explain, it's not what it looks like. I swear." I said as Jim scowled at my honesty.

"Won't happen again officer, next time we'll be longer." Jim continued the joke even though I just ended it.

I pulled him down the hallway and out into the mall.

"I'm sorry baby, it was just so perfect and you know that if you were that guard you would've thought the same exact thing. You wanna go shopping? I'll buy you anything you want." He said apologizing.

"Okay fine, I saw a really nice shirt over in hot topic." I said before kissing him gently and pulling him to the store.

Moments later we were waking out of the mall with at least 5 bags of clothes from various stores.

"Alright babe, now that my wallet is basically empty, how about we stop by the bank and then go grab a bite to eat?" He said as we sat down in his car which I brought since Damon drove him there.

"How about we just go home and make something instead of wasting more money?" I asked realizing how much he just spent on me.

"Kate, any money I spend on you is not wasted. Now where do you want to go to eat?" He was getting upset.

"It doesn't matter to me. I'm hungry, like really hungry, but I don't know what I want to eat. It's weird, like a different hungry."

"That's the need for blood, I learned that already. You need to feed, like soon." He started driving home. "I'm gonna get Damon's help."

I was quiet the rest of the way back, he knew I didn't want Damon's help, he knew I didn't want to feed from the vein, yet he was gonna get Damon to "teach" me no matter what. What was his issue?

We got out of the car and he told me to go knock on Damon's door. Without argument I obeyed and was shocked when a strikingly handsome man with brown hair and green eyes answered.

"Umm, hi." I said blushing. "Is Damon home?" I asked hoping that he wasn't but hoping at the same time that I didn't have to release my gaze from the new stranger.

"My idiot brother? No he's not home, but is there something I can help you with?" He said giving me a shy and flirty smile.

"I don't know. Damon said to stop by if we, um, needed help with, um, feeding." I said shakily.

The man frowned slightly and answered. "He doesn't need to teach you that, I'll do it. Don't let him convince you his ways are right, cause they're not." With that he pulled me inside and started for the kitchen. Moments later there was a banging at the door.

"What the hell do you think you are doing? Do you just pull every visitor inside like that? Do you?" Jim yelled at the man.

"Well considering she asked for my help, I was gonna teach her the right way to feed, and besides that she wanted with all her heart to come inside and get to know me. I, who actually knows how to use my powers, read her mind. I'm only telling the truth." The man answered smiling slyly.

"Well she's my girlfriend and if you lay another finger on her, so help me I will stake you with any piece of wood I can find. That's a promise not a threat." My overprotective boyfriend hollered.

"Jim, can you stop?!? I'm sorry, what was your name again? You must've read my mind wrong because that is not true. I'm sorry, maybe I should wait for Damon to come back." I said grabbing Jim's hand and heading towards the door.

"No, don't, I'm sorry. My name is Stefan, I'm Damon's younger brother. His ways are stupid and careless and wrong." He said holding my eyes. "I swear I won't touch her, I never meant to cause trouble in the first place. I was just gonna take her to my storage freezer and let her pick her first feed. Maybe you would like to join us?" His eyes shifted to Jim's.

"I'm not leaving her here with you, I don't trust you as it is." Jim said coldly.

We walked to the storage freezer that Stefan kept half filled with different types of woodland animals. The other half was filled with blood banks. That was probably Damon's side.

"Take your pick, do you want squirrel, fox, or bunny?" He said sounding like a car salesman.

I grabbed a red fox out of the over-sized cooler and held it near my face before sinking my fangs into its soft belly.

"Refreshed?" Stefan asked as I tossed the carcass into a nearby trash can.

I nodded and thanked him, and he sent us home with a few of his woodland creatures to hold us over for the next week. It was growing dark in our little town of Mystic Creek, Pennsylvania, and I was ready to lay down for the night. After tossing the animals in our freezer I walked to the bedroom and flipped on the tv before laying down, not bothering putting pajamas on.

"Babe, I love you." Jim said as he laid down next to me. "I know I'm over protective, and I get jealous easily, and I can be a real jerk sometimes, but I really do love you. And you know what's weird? I feel as though I love you 10000 times more today than I ever have. You think that's part of being a vampire?" He questioned sleepily.

"I know it's part of being a vampire, love." I said answering his questions. "Emotions become magnified when people become vampires, and if you think about it we now have a really special attachment to each other. You turned me, and then your first drink was from my vein. It's bloody love." I finished with a yawn as we cuddled close together and fell asleep in each other's arms.