• Chapter 66: Knew Better Than Nothing


    I grabbed my pink red flower stitched shoulder bag off the floor and gave one last look at the pathetic reflection in the mirror. A blue blazer pulled at the waist with the shock of new nightmares still lingering in the milk chocolate eyes of a downtrodden answer searching girl. Her straight black hair that fell an inch below her ears was as dark as the dead pleading look on her face. I was pitiable.
    I solemnly walked down the stairs not even bothering to jump the last two steps like I always had. I was angered at the fact that instead of a gray ash sky there was a pure light blue cloudless sky with the sun being the only thing polluting it. I slammed the door tight behind me and stepped out into the chilled October air. I buttoned up the blazer higher, trying to hide from the cooling zephyr.
    I took a few steps down the wooden stairs and onto the concrete sidewalk listening to the sound of my shoes clapping following me.
    “What’s wrong, Hai?” I immediately recognized Edan’s voice and the chill he brought with him while gently hugging me tight.
    “I don’t really want to talk right now,” I muttered breaking Edan’s grip and walking away from him but not fast enough before I felt the quiff of wind and Edan’s cold grabbing my hand. One of the last people I wanted to talk to was Edan.
    “Hai,” Edan said leveling my brown eyes with his deep black, “what’s wrong?”
    I felt my eyes pool up with warm burning tears giving into him, “She died last night.” Edan wrapped his arm around me and gave me a firm squeeze. “And she was Jia Lee’s Host. And that means my cousin is the new Host,” I spoke firmly but couldn’t help but try to remember things tugging at the back of my mind. “That’s it ok?” I broke away from Edan and tried to walk away from him, but my mien kept him following me. I had to face the facts; I didn’t want to be near him. But I also wanted him to follow me. I was a mess of negation.
    I felt another chill of quick fast wind as I fiddled with the strap on my bag, “That’s not it, Hai. I know you’re too stubborn to tell me everything on your own. Come on.”
    I starting letting my tears leak and whimpered childishly, “You’re supposed to love Jia Lee’s Host.”
    “Oh I see,” Edan said holding me close in his arms, “you’re worried that I won’t love you.” I nodded and huddled closer to him, starting to cry harder. “Hai, just because of that legend doesn’t mean I can’t love someone else. I love you. I know it sounds crazy but I do.” I nodded again as Edan wiped the tears from my eyes and smiled.
    I wrapped my arms around him holding myself close to him and murmured, “You really love me right, because I really love you.”
    Edan laughed slightly, “Yes, Hai. I really love you.” He gently pulled me away by my shoulders, “I’m going to prove it to you, just close your eyes and hold very still.” I nodded and shut my eyes lightly and did my best to hold my stance but couldn’t quiet hold still. I felt his cold rush move in closer to me. I squeezed my eyes tight thinking of only the worst, being bitten by a vampire. I cowered back bunching up my shoulders. “Hold still, Hai,” Edan said sternly holding tighter to my shoulders. I held my eyes shut as I felt the cold move towards me closer and closer. And my fear get deeper and deeper into my skin. Until I felt the cold surge against me, Edan’s lips against mine.
    Most people would think a kiss on the lips was nothing. But I knew better. I knew that for a vampire, a kiss on the lips was probably the one of hardest things to do. The human’s scent at its strongest, and the perfect time to feed. The perfect time to bite me and kill me.
    I got up on my toes grabbing onto Edan for support, wrapping my arms around him. I pressed my lips harder to his, forgetting that the closer I got, the closer my scent. And the closer my blood. Being in love, with the feeling of being loved, you don’t think straight. I was sure my heart had skipped a beat.
    Edan grabbed tighter to me onto my arms, trying to tell me. Trying to tell me that this was dangerous, and that he was a few seconds away from killing me.
    I broke free from Edan, taking a deep breath, “A-a-are you ok?”
    “Yes, it’s just that I think your scent got a lot stronger,” Edan said with strain and resistance in his voice. I looked back at his ruby eyes lusting for my blood and his hand at his throat, feeling the burning that is fire inside. The lust that makes fire.
    “You don’t look fine,” I spoke daring myself to get closer. Edan held his breath and shut his eyes, and when they opened they turned from rubies to coal.
    Edan looked at me and smiled, still holding his breath, retracting back two glistening fangs, “I’m fine.”
    “You still don’t look fine to me,” I muttered grabbing Edan’s left wrist before being frozen for a moment at the unbelievable cold. “W-what was that?” The chill traveled quickly though me. I held to Edan’s hand and looked down at his wrist, but mostly the two pale crescent moons facing each other. “What’s that, Edan?”
    He let out a sigh, “I guess I will have to tell you right?”
    “Yes you will,” I declared looking at the unusual double moon scar again.
    Edan intertwined his fingers with mine but avoided my eyes shifting his black ones away, “It’s a vampire bite. A scar we all have, that we get when we are changed. It’s the spot where the venom is strongest.”
    “Oww,” I half laughed, though I was pretty sure it was not laughing matter, looking at the pallid bite mark, “That looks like it must’ve really hurt.”
    “It hurt a lot more than it looks like it did.” Edan nudged me forward knowing I should get to class. Holding on tighter to his hand we started to walk down the sidewalk as the wind whipped my hair into my eyes.
    Staring up with curious brown eyes I breathed sheepishly, “How did you become a vampire any way?” I moved my eyes down to my feet feeling abashed of my question.
    “Well it’s a long story.” Edan let out a sigh and quickly squeezed my hand, “I was in the hospital, dying from a gunshot.”
    I looked up with a terrified expression, “H-how did that happen?”
    “Did you by any chance hear of that fire and murder in New York?” I nodded fearfully. “That was me. I can’t tell you much about it, but that the Damned were involved. I was their next target, hoping for another member. And when I refused they sent someone out to kill me. And when Serenity showed up, looking for me, I jumped in front of her, whether or not that bullet was intended for me, and got shot. After that the killer thought I’d be dead and he left. But I wasn’t.
    “So I was taken to the hospital, where my foster father was the doctor. He was practically like my second dad growing up. And I guess that he couldn’t see me die and bit me.”
    I wrapped my arms around Edan in a tight hug, feeling the not so well hidden pain in the words. “Is that all?”
    “Yes that’s all.” But I knew better.
    I could hear the complete lie in his voice.




    Chapter 67: Didn’t Tell


    Edan held his breath trying hard not to listen to Hai’s heart pounding, knowing that it would make the fire in his throat even worse. And a burning flame was hard enough to bear, a full out blaze would be torture.
    ‘Why did you tell her that?’ Matoko rang sternly.
    She has the right to know why I’m this horrible monster. Edan gave up and let his breath go feeling her warmth against his cold.
    ‘Edan, for the final time you aren’t a monster.’
    If I’m not a monster then why do I have this burn in my throat aching for blood and the overwhelming desire to kill the girl I love? Doesn’t that sound monstrous to you,     Edan snarled at his Guardian’s words. One of these days I’m sure I will end up killing her. But either way it doesn’t matter. I didn’t tell her the entire story.
    ‘You told her about the Damned. What didn’t you tell her?’
    I didn’t tell her it was another Host who killed me, of whom was working for the Damned.     And Edan couldn’t help but remember the whole story.
    (There happy Rainbow???)


    Bonus Material-ish Stuff.

    So much stuff I wish I could say but I can't remember it all.

    Awkard Swing- Remember those three swings I named? This one is a big blue ball hanging from a yellow bar.... we named it awkward swing and played on it.

    The Bouncey House- We were at a party and there was this blue and yellow bouncey house and we all fell over and got sorta stuck for a few seconds.

    Ok so now that I have that out of the way let's talk mor about this REALLY BIG SECRET.
    If you read some of Rainbows chapters (though you really should read all of them) you will get the secret. All you need to know is WHICH HOST WAS IT. And you can't figure it out using my side because I just so happen not to have that lovely (and our fav) character.