Love Bites

LOVE BITES Chapter 37 : Human and Vampire Part 2

Chapter 37 : Human and Vampire Part 2

Continuation form previous chapter...

Evangeline patted the space beside her, gazing at me beneath those lush lashes that swept across her high cheekbones.

"Lay down with me, Alastair."

Without a word I crawled into bed beside my mother. She propped her head up in the palm of her hand, nails tapping against her cheek and her other hand drawing up along my arm and playing with the ends of my hair.

She'd changed her appearance since the last time I'd seen her. We looked almost identical now, fitting for a mother and her son; matching eyes and a head of rich and luscious dark hair.

"I know you don't like me," Evangeline said softly, pulling my from my thoughts.

I didn't respond, eyeing her sweet smile which I knew was only a deceit.

"You despise me, don't you? Hate me for bringing you into this ruinous world? I can see that you do. Say it, Alastair. Tell me how angry you are."

I adverted my eyes, remaining silent.

Evangeline sighed and cupped my cold cheek. "But you and I are very similar," she admitted. "Sometimes I think I can see myself in your eyes. Does that make you hate yourself too, Alastair?"

"Draven and his gang are rhioting the streets," I said, changing the subject.

She turned my face to hers. "Awe, sweet pea, is he giving you trouble?"

"He's hurting people."

A little giggle escaped her lips. "He's hurting humans, Alastair. There's a difference."

"He shouldn't be hurting the humans, then."

She ran a hand through her long wavy hair. "He's merely getting payback on those that hurt him as a human. He's having fun, don't spoil that for him, my child. Play along. Maybe you two could become friends."

I blatantly disregarded her last words. Him and I weren't exactly "compatible". Then the rest of what she said registered in my mind: 'Payback on those that hurt him as a human'.

"Draven wasn't born a vampire, was he?" I asked.

Evangeline chuckled and leant over my shoulder, her lips by my ear and her words a hushed whisper. "I had a thought once, and Draven was the perfect little guinea pig."

She pulled away and for a split second I witnessed the insidious darkness that loomed behind her angelic beauty.

***

I'm wasn't quite sure why I returned to that part of the city.

I walked around the block where tall metal fences enclosed a school. To me, it was but another barrier that separated the humans from us vampires.

What was I hoping for? I was swayed by his kindness and a little allured by his ideas. I remembered the school emblem on his jacket, finding the complimentary school with that very emblem not far from where I first bumped into him.

It was the heat of the day, school kids climbing over playsets or digging in sandpits. It wasn't hard to spot him. He sat beneath a tree, reading all by himself. And as I'd sensing my stare he lifted his gaze, shuffling the glasses on his nose.