Enlightenment

part 9

            The rest of the night passed uneventfully, with all of us in the living room watching TV and chatting about nothing in particular, in the morning I volunteered to take first watch, while the others went to bed, Julia only put up a brief resistance, I could tell she was tired. Time passed slowly. Around midday I pulled my jeans up to examine the cut on my leg, now it was only a faint pink line, I was confident it would be completely gone by tomorrow. I heard nobody suspicious near the house all day. 

            In the evening Chris appeared, freshly showered and dressed, pushing his wet hair out of his eyes.  Julia appeared about an hour later, I could tell she was frustrated from being shut in the house; it was rare she stayed inside for this long. I knew she liked to wander the town and the forest that bordered one side of it in the night. The night was uneventful with all of us staying in again.

            In the morning Julia and Chris were still up when I went to bed, I decided it was about time I got some sleep, and I must have been more tired than I thought, because I didn't wake up until midday, and when I found that, despite the season, it was bright and sunny I went back to sleep again.

            I got up around three, and to waste time I spent extra time dressing and brushing my hair until it was impeccably straight. A while later David turned up, Julia answered the door, left him in the hall and called me, she didn't raise her voice, she said it as if she was talking to someone next to her as she knew I would hear.

            I was surprised to see him, he hadn't came to the house in a while, he was angry.

"What did you tell Anna? She is angry with me and I have no idea why!" I let my face show my amusement

"And so you immediately decided that I was involved?"    

"No... she said ask Jade, what's that supposed to mean?"    

"Oh... she knows about me"

"What! You told her?"

"No, of course I didn't tell her, she found out, we were attacked" 

"You were attacked? By who?"

"Vampire hunters apparently, there is a lot of them, I think it's the same ones that attacked Julia before she came here-"                                                                                                                                                                                      

"Julia came here because she was attacked!"

"Oh yeah, but there was no way that they could have followed her, we don't know how... but then they found me and Anna when we were shopping, and I had to fight them off, and she saw everything, so... "

"You had to fight them? Did you kill them?" his eyes were hard

"No I didn't kill them, I just knocked them all unconscious, broke a few bones, that's all, it was unavoidable" I didn't mention that Julia had killed some when they attacked her; she is not as patient as me. 

He relaxed."So why is she angry at me? What did I do?"

"I'm not sure... maybe because you knew before her... or because you never told her you believed any of this stuff, when she loves it? I don't know, who made me an expert in unravelling Anna's mind?" 

He lowered his eyes for a second.

"Sorry, I didn't think." 

I shrugged. "Whatever, talk to her."