Chapter 2
I stared up at Jack’s mountain of a house and said, “I’m goanna need a map for this place.” He rolled his eyes at me and said “You know my house is about the same size as yours.” “I doubt that considering I can actually find my way around my house.” I said reaching for the door. He pulled my hand away so fast that it took me a couple minute to realize my hand wasn’t on the door knob.
In fact it was intertwined in Jack’s and the scary part was: I kind of liked it. Once that last thought registered in my mind I pulled my hand away at least five times faster than he had pulled my hand away from the knob. “Umm, why did you do that?” I asked pushing the nervous feeling I had to the side. “Do you want to become fried?” he asked. “Umm..? No?” I said confused. “Well then, that’s why.” My eyes widened. “The doors rigged to electrify you.” I said. “Well not me, but people who are not invited into the house first, yes.” He said this so calmly it was kind of eerie. “Is there anything else I should know?” I said. “What do you mean by anything else?” he said. “Well, how about the thing that could, I don’t know, possibly, KILL ME?” I said. He looked at me then said, “Do you really want to know all of them?” “Well maybe not all of them, but the basics.” “Well then you should stay away from my brothers at night, the elevator, the first door to your right on the second floor, and Uncle Will’s room.”
“Uncle Will? Brothers?”I said, trying to remember if Jack ever mentioned that he had brothers. He nodded, “yeah I live with my uncle, and my three brothers: John, Chris, and Ash.” “Is that all?” I asked. “Not even close,but if we stay out here any longer my neighbors are goanna start to wonder I why we’re here” he said opening the door. “One thing before we enter.” He turned to me, “Why is your house booby trapped?” “Vampires like their privacy.” He said with a shrug. He walked into his house as if that explained it all. “Ashley please come in, will you.” I raised an eyebrow at his formal talk. “I have to say it that way or it doesn’t count.” He said.
When I got into the house all I could do is gape. The door led to a huge room with art all over the clean white walls, with marble floors, and a huge chandelier on the ceiling. When I saw the furniture I didn’t even want to think about how much it cost. “You probably should have motioned that you’re loaded.” I said still kind of in a state of shock. “I am not rich,” he said plainly, “my uncle is.” I just nodded. Right then and there a boy about one years older than Jack and I (17) appeared out of know wear.
“Well Jack, I see you brought some new… blood.” He said with a smirk. I raised an eyebrow. The boy then appeared about one inch away from my face. “I promise this wont heart a bit.” He disappeared again and ended up behind me then he leaned in. (Now I probably should mention that I took a self defense class when I was eight, and found that I liked it, so I enrolled myself in karate classes. I ended up being extremely good at it, and before you knew it I was a black belt.) I then used all my force to elbow him in the stomach, and while he leaned in from pain turned with my foot in the air, effectively kicking him across the room. I smiled at my work. Jack was breaking out laughing. The guy stood up half embarrassed, half angry. “Jack you could have told me she knows karate.” he said. Jack who was still laughing, shrugged and said, “I didn’t know she knows karate, I mean I thought she would slap you or something simple like that, but not kick you across the room.”
“Yeah well I don’t take being sexually assaulted to well.” I said with narrowing eyes. “Let me guess,” He started, “your one of those girls who believes that girls shouldn’t be cheerleading, because it is advertising that women are only good for dancing while wearing short little skirts, and that all men are idiots.” I put my hand on my hip and said “So what if I do?” he turned and looked me straight in the eye “than your stupider than you look.”
Under my breath I said “Jack the thing about vampires and light, is it true?” “Kind of, it won’t really kill us but we’ll be in intense pain, well except for me that is, for some reason it doesn’t affect me, why do you want to know this?” I smiled and looked around the room.
Most of the room was in darkness. Except for this tiny little crevice on the side of the wall. My smile grew into a full fledge smirk. I closed my eyes and focused on the light. I willed it to grow stronger. When I opened my eyes they were no longer an ocean blue, they were now an intensely bright orange. “Stupid, Huh?” I said. He looked at me un-intersted. I stuck out my hand and the light came towards me like a snake, in a line that wrapped loosely around my arm. That caught his attention. He looked at me dumb founded at the light outlined his figure from about five inches away from his skin.
Jacks mouth was open, he didn’t know about my ability to control light, I really didn’t see the need to tell him, all it really does is make people feel warm and fuzzy inside or at least that’s all I thought it did until I got the idea to use it as a weapon. As it slowly inched towards the guy, Jack shook me. I turned and stared at him. He looked panicked. The look in his face reminded me not to seriously hurt the idiot. I snapped my finger and the sliver of light disappeared. The guy was now ghost white and looked like he was about to faint, “Ohh please, I wasn’t going to seriously hurt you.” I said. “What’s his name by the way? You never told me.” I said looking at Jack. “His name is Chris.” Oh god it was one of his brothers. I slowly walked to the trembling boy who was in a tight ball. When I gently touched his shoulders, he flinched. I sighed and crouched down beside him and made a sign in the air. The air glowed where I made the symbol and moved towards him then vanished in a gust of wind.
He looked up and I saw that he was no longer trembling. I got up and walked over to Jack and said “There all better.” “What did you just do?” “I put a healing symbol on him, it’s a type of spell that removes any damage that been done in the past hour.” I explained. “You can do that too?” he asked. “Yup, one of the perks of the job, I usually use it to mend broken hearts.” I said. “Does it make him forget everything?” he asked. I shook my head, “It only takes away the pain and fear from that experience.” Chris just sat there looking doe eyed. “Hey Jack, you home?” Someone yelled from the long spiral staircase that connected to one of the walls. “Yeah.” Jack yelled back. A boy,roughly twenty, who had soft feature, and brown hair and brown eyes, came running down the stairs. When he saw Chris sitting in a little ball he asked “Jack, what did you do to Chris?” he then noticed me, “and why is there a random girl in are living room, I don’t mean any offence it’s just weird.” He added. “s’okay” I said and that’s when Chris exploded.
“OKAY!!!, That’s all he gets no fly across the room or light snake thing?!?” He asked now standing with his fists clenched. “He didn’t try to sexually harass me, and he didn’t’ call me a stupid man hating girl, now did he?” I asked looking him straight in the eye. I heard, ‘yeah well all that true’ in my head. “Why you little-” I lunged at him but Jack caught me by the arm. “Chris she can read minds so I would not advise saying or thinking anything that would get you killed.” Jack said. “Let me go!” I struggled to break free from Jack’s grip. “Come on let just hit him once, you know you want me too.” I said still struggling. It wasn’t that Jack’s grip was uncomfortable it was that I thought it felt nice that scared me. That other guy was starring at us amused.
“I won’t let you go until your eyes turn back to their normal color.” I stopped moving and stared at him blankly “They still haven’t changed back?” I asked. He shook his head, “they’re still that orangey color.” “Well that not my fault is it?” I said glaring at Chris. He ignored me and said “Ash, this is Jacks new bit-” I narrowed my eyes, “uhh … friend.” I stared up at Jack who now had his arms around my waist to keep me from moving, being so close to him made me extremely uncomfortable, because it felt so natural. “Can you let go of me now?” He shook his head. Guess my eyes were still orange; I closed my eyes and thought of the beach, the nice calm beach. I opened my eyes again “Better?” I asked. He nodded then let go of my waist. Ash had his finger to his chin like he was thinking and was staring at me and Jack. “What?” Jack and I asked at the same time. He smiled, “Ohh, its nothing.” He said grinning like a fool.
“Is your brother all right?” I asked Jack. “I’m not sure.” He said just as confused as I was. “Ash is Jack Home?” Another boy, with boyish features came running down the stairs, he looked about err, maybe eighteen. He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw me. We all stood there in silence for about five minutes. I finally couldn’t take it anymore and said, “Err…Hi?”. “Nice way to break the silence Ashley.” Jack said sarcastically. “Well, I’m so sorry I couldn’t come up with something more literal.” I said just as sarcastic as him. “Umm...umm...I...” the boy started. “Sorry for John’s rumbling, he a bit shy.” Ash said. So this is Jacks other brother, “Don’t worry, I have a sister like that at home, so I’m used to it.” I said. When Jack and his brothers all stood next to each other I noticed something a little weird. “It’s weird none of you look ali-.” ke. I finished in my head. Jack had put his hand over my mouth. “Well Ashley and I are going up to my room now so bye.” ‘Why the hell did you do that?’ I asked in my head to him, ‘because that topic is a sore subject.’ He answered. Ignoring my “you couldn’t have said that out loud” look.
“You’re not going anywhere.” Ash said. “Grams here.” John said quietly. Jacks eye almost exploded out of his sockets. “Here now!” all three of Jack’s brothers nodded in union. “This is bad.” Jack said. “Why, it not like gram hasn’t met one of your girlfriends before.” Ash said. GIRLFREIND? “I’m goanna throw up.” I said. “Me too.” Jack said nodding. “Are you not his girlfriend.” Ash asked confused. There was that word again-girlfriend. “Could you please stop saying those words, I’m goanna be sick.”I answered. “Yeah me too.” Jack said looking nauseas. Chris smiled. “Are... You…Jack’s girl friend?” he said pronouncing each syllable. I narrowed my eyes. “You really want me to bring the light snake back, don’t you?” that shut him up. “What are you by the way? You never mentioned it.” Ash asked. “Do you want the truth or a lie?” I asked. “Lie” Jack said. “Truth” Ash, Chris, and John said. “Majority wins” I said out loud. “I’m a -.” I was cut off by a large scream.
“You!” an elderly woman spat yelling as she ran down the stairs. I stared at her blankly. “What are you doing here?” she asked me grabbing me by the shoulders. “Umm, I’m sorry, do I know you?” I asked still confused by this woman. “You may not know me but I know what you are!” Ahh, now it made sense. She must have sensed I was a siren. As I mentioned before Vampires and sirens do not mix well. In the present time we tolerate each other, but there are still those who believe that they are better than the other. I smiled and began to sing a slow sultry song that sounded like a cross between Greek and Latin. She covered her ears in terror. I stopped conforming my suspicion that she was a veteran of the war that took place a long time ago. The reason vampires and sirens hate each other is simply because of one thing- Power. Both sirens and vampires believed that they were the most powerful of species, they would often argue over the matter. Eventually a war started. The war ended because both species began to go extinct, because of it, so both sides came to an agreement to stop the war.
“Well it’s nice to meet someone from so long ago.” I said. I thought for a moment, A smile spread across my face, “I bet you knew my grandpa, he had green eyes, dark hair, he was extremely narcissistic and-” Jack had cut in. “Gram she has to stay here for a little while.” He said. She turned ghost white. “I will not allow that thing to stay with us.” She yelled. “What exactly is she?” Ash and Chris said at the same time. “I’m a siren.” I said. All three of Jack’s brothers looked at each other and then Ash said “Cool, I’ve always wanted to meet a siren.” “It is not c-o-o-l.” Said Jack’s grandma. She somehow managed to get a knife, and was now running at me with it, “It is disgusting.” I literally just stood there knowing what would happen next. When she was about three inches away someone broke down the door. I blinked at the sudden brightness. “Don’t you dare touch her!!” a voice rang. Jacks grandma disappeared. I sighed as Stacey, Cassey and Abby came through the door. “Ashley!” Stacey roared “You should have told what Jack was!” her perfect feature now all mixed with anger yelled. “Come on.” Cassey said quietly. “Ohh please it’s not that big of a deal.” Said Abby. From the corner of my eye I could see Chris and Ash were drooling-Probably over Stacey-but not John, he just looked normal. Strange, I thought. “Not a big deal,” Stacey exploded “She could have been hurt, of worse killed! Not to mention what he is!” She turned to Jack then she noticed Jacks brothers. It took her only a few seconds to process how they looked, “Wow, Vampires are hot.” She said. Ash and Chris just nodded in agreement(probably would agree with everything she said) but, John who probably who was the only one of the three who actually knew what she said, blushed. Stacey noticed this and turned her head to the side. She walked straight over to him and leaned in. His face got even redder.
“Umm, could you please move back a little?” John said, sounding like a little boy. Stacey’s , Casey’s, Abby’s and my eyes got wide. “HOLY-” Abby started “Mother of” Casey said. “God” I finished. Stacey had gone into panic mode, which was basically her not moving at all, while staring at everything blankly. Abby walked over to Stacey and said “Hey Stace are you all right?” Stacey just stood there. “Did I do something wrong?” John asked quietly. “No,” I said, “Stacey just isn’t used to boys not having a reaction to her. Speaking of boys reaction to Stacey I think we should wake Ash and Chris out of their little day dream.” Abby nodded then pinched Stacey hard on the shoulder. “Oww!” she yelled. “Well you were the one just standing there.” Abby said. Stacey rubbed her arm were Abby pinched her. “Sorry I was a little… shocked.”
“Wake them up.” Abby said nodding toward Ash and Chris. She nodded a smile spreading across her face. “To do that I’m goanna need to break their hearts.” She said. “I could just hit them.” I volunteered remembering how I broke Jack out of her spell. “That isn’t supposed to work, I’m supposed to be the only one able to break the out of my control, but for some reason you could do that on Jack.” Stacey said. Casey was avoiding all eye contact now for no apparent reason. “So how are you goanna break their hearts?” Asked Jack. I looked at him confused. “How come your not drooling over her?” I asked.
He shrugged, “Maybe it’s like chickenpox, you can only catch it once.” “Maybe.” I said. “I’m goanna have to kiss someone.” Said Stacey answering his question. Jacks eyes widened, “Well it not going to be me, and the only other guy who isn’t under your control and that is here is John.” Her smile grew bigger. Apparently she wanted to experiment with to see how long he could withstand her power. John who stepped out came back with a tray of drinks. “What am I going to have to do?” he asked confused setting the tray down and sitting on the giant white leather sofa. Stacey glided over to him and sat on his lap. I actually kind of felt kind of bad for him when he got all red and gulped. She put her arms around his shoulders. “You just have to sit down and relax.” She said leaning in. When her lips touched his I felt it immanently. Love. Not the hopeless crush that boy develop on Stacey, but actual love. I smiled. “Did you feel it?’ I murmured to Abby. She nodded with a softened expression. We turned to Casey “I felt as soon as we walked through the doors” she said guiltily. I smiled. “Well apparently Stacey felt it to considering she is still attached to John.” I said looking at Stacey sitting on John while he gently held her. When they broke apart John was blazing red, and Stacey had a dreamy look in her eye.
“Why is there a girl on top of John?” Ash asked coming out of the spell first. “And more importantly why isn’t there one on me?” Chris asked next. Surprisingly I wasn’t the one who smacked him, it was Casey. She was shaking in anger, her eyes were blood red. This caught Stacey’s attention, “Casey,” she said softly “You need to calm down.” She got off of red faced John and walked slowly towards her. Casey blinked for a moment then came back to reality. She blushed then turned to Chris, “I-I’m Sorry.” She ran behind Abby looking confused and lost. Chris said “God, are all siren abusive?” “Only if you really piss us off.” Casey said, she covered her mouth and turned even redder. “Okay? What the hell is going on?” I asked. Abby shrugged. “Vampires and sirens have weird effect on each other, this is probably just a side effect of us all being in this room.” she said. “And Stacey and John?” I asked with a smile. “That,” she said “That is just a miracle, apparently she can be loved.” Abby said. “Hey I’m right here.” She said her cheeks a little pink. “Are you blushing?” I asked. She got red. “Holy crap she is blushing.” Abby said smiling. “As much as I would like to talk about your Stacey’s skin tone,” Jack said sarcastically “I think we should tell them.” He said addressing me. “Tell us about what?” John, Ash, Chris, Abby, Casey, and Stacey all said together. I gulped.

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