Chapter One


Run. That was my only thought. I hear my friends running with me through the dark forest. I hear the dogs barking. Those little blood-sucking dogs. I increase my pace once more even though I know I can probably beat the fastest man alive if we were racing at this moment. I hear growls getting closer. I know if we keep going for another minute or so we’ll make it. I look to left side and see Annette and Robert running. Okay they were still alive. I look to the right side and my brother Douglas was still alive.
I see the lights of a hotel getting closer as we get closer to the beginning of the woods. I push harder and yell at my friends.
“Faster! We’re almost there!”
Five seconds later we are out of the forest but still running. We run toward a crowded bar. I look behind and see the dogs and vampires emerge but slow down trying not to attract attention. We make it to the crowd and I squeeze into the middle. I catch my breath and look for my friends and brother. I see Annette catching her breath. I see Robert and Douglas standing next to each other. Both of them with their arms crossed over their chest. Douglas catches my eye and I nod. We move put of the crowd and run into a parking lot.
“Robert do it now! They’ll notice where we are in a second.”
He runs to the fastest car he sees which happens to be a black Challenger with two yellow stripes going through the center. In a super fast motion he gets the doors unlocked and gets into the driver’s side. We all jump in me in the passenger seat and Annette and Douglas in the back. Robert crouches down and hotwires the car. He backs out of the parking lot and speeds down a main street.
We all stay quiet for a moment.
“What’s next move?” Douglas asks.
“I mean when they had me in the room I grabbed credit cards and their pin numbers which has God knows how much. I mean they are paid!” Robert said.
“Okay we gotta head back to campus even though it’s been a couple months. You know Matthew he has fake ID’s like crazy. I mean we can pay him a good amount. Since we’re rich now. We need passports too.” I said.
“Bahamas!” Annette said.
“Yeah Bahamas!” Robert and Douglas said together.
“First let’s worry about getting back to USC first.”
“I literally don’t know what state we are in.”
“I think we could b in Montana it’s all foresty.” I say.
We drive around and find another large city.
“Annette get out and seduce someone into telling us what state we are in okay? Because right now I feel very remedial.” I say.
“Yeah whatever Lola.” She says.
“Thanks.”
She gets out the car and even though she is in sweats and a too big sweatshirt. She catches some guy eye and she looks back at him and smiles. The guy was super huge with muscles everywhere. It looks unnatural though. She walks over to him and flips her brilliant red hair. She smiles and does something which he smiles at. His mouth opens and he grabs her arm.
“Douglas.”
“On it.”
He gets out of the car and goes behind the guy if things get a little too crazy. I see her try to pull her arm back but she gets yanked up to his chest. Douglas touches pushes the guy roughly on the shoulder and speaks to him. He turns his full attention to Douglas but still keeps his arm tightly around her arm.
“Robert.”
“Yeah. Take the wheel.” He said.
I slide over into the driver’s seat as I watch the scene. Robert gets over there and stands beside Douglas. I roll the window down to catch Annette’s eye. She looks at me I yell at her but the guy doesn’t notice.
“Get his wallet!”
She nods and I close the window back up. I see Douglas and Robert look at each other and then they both punch him in the face at the same time. Blood spurts from his nose as he drops to the floor. I see Annette get his wallet and extra cash. They bolt for the car and I get ready to drive off. As soon as they get in I speed off.
“We’re in Oregon.” She says looking at the wallet.
“Okay now we have to figure out how to get to California.”
We stop again and this time Annette asks a middle aged woman which way California is. She kindly showed us which way and we headed south headed straight.
“You know we can just fly back to LAX someone will notice us and call police. We go home our families will be killed. I can’t live with that.”
“Yeah true.” Robert agrees.
“We drive. We pack. Fake ID’s and passports. Then we move.”
“We are gonna have to move around a lot.” Annette
“They’ll track the credit card and we will have to make another move. So where to next?”
“Athens Greece.” Douglas says.
“Then Italy!” Then Robert says. I look at him curiousness on my face.
“Italian sports car.”
“Oh of course.”
“What about you Lola?” Douglas said.
“New York.”
“What?!” Robert says.
“Have you seen their stores?” I ask.
“Oh wow leave it to a girl to be in the lead.” Robert mutters.
I roll my eyes driving. We stop for gas and snacks and then in about an hour we headed in to California.
“Great now about six more hours.” Annette says sarcastically.
We drive the rest of the way with one more stop of gas and went on our way. We got to USC and hid our faces as we go to the dorm to pack our things. Luckily we had no other roommates besides ourselves. We packed everything we could possibly hold except electronic devices.
We snuck back to the car without being seen and then we went to Matthew’s dorm room. I knock on the door and he answers. Without saying anything. I took off my hood and I saw his eyes widened.
“Where the hell have you been?!”
“I don’t have time right now okay? We need five fake ID’s and passports for each I don’t know where you get these things from but I know you have it.”
He thinks for a second and then smiles.
“Its gonna be pretty pricey.” He says.
I nod at Robert who throws the cash we took from some of the credit cards. Ha I feel like a gangster.
“What now?” I demand.
After counting the money noticing the whole grip of extra money he nods.
“Pictures. I need pictures of you guys. Okay let’s take the picture I want ten pics. You need to look different in each sloppy ones and pretty ones just to make you look different. Guys go first. Girls there is make up and clothes for you to change in. Curling irons and other stuff.”
“Wow. You have everything.” I said inspecting the stuff.
“Yeah. I mean why not do a good job it’s how I get paid.”
Annette and I get ready putting on makeup. We put on new clothes on and she takes three nice pictures and two sloppy ones and I take three sloppy pictures and two nice ones.
“Whoa Lola. You know you really are hot.” Matthew says.
“Hey! Say that when the brother is not in the room.”
“Sorry bro.”
We get done and he makes the things we need. He picks our names and fabricates everything. I give him an extra thousand and say you never say us. We change back into our clothes and head out. We separate and meet each other at the car. We get off campus and I look at my dream school one last time.
We head to LAX. We look for Bahamas flight and we are in super luck because one leaves in two hours and ten seats were available. Our IDs were checked and so were the passports and we surprisingly got through. We had our baggage and stuff put down and our carry on were our purses. We head to an airport café and drink coffee talking about our next escape. My senses were up. I smelled them here. On of Portia’s minions followed us. I look around and then look back at my friends.
“You smell it too?”
“Yeah it smells good but too good.” Annette sneers.
“It’s a girl. I’m gonna go find her.”
“Do you have a stake?”
“No shoot.”
“I’m gonna go too we need to take care of this right now.”

We walk into the bathroom knowing they already know where we were. We each silently get in a stall quickly jumping on the toilet seats and wait silently for them to come in. The door opens and I knew it was them because of the smell. I listen to their footsteps get closer and I hear Annette bust out of her stall. I immediately do the same and make some vampire stumble. She was the same height as me 5’10’’ or 5’11”. We circle each other punching and blocking blows. She finally put on a full attack but I blocked in time and she stumbled into the stall. I punch her in the back of the neck and see with as much force as I could possibly put behind it. She slumps down and I kick her in the spine. In the background I hear Annette dealing with her vampire. She tried to get up but I twist her neck. I put it in between the toilet and toilet seat and jump onto the toilet seat as hard as I can crushing her brain. I do it about five more times. When I knew she couldn’t recover fast enough for her to fight back, I hop down and take her lift up her body from the toilet. Her face was not pretty sight.
I grab her neck and twist it and she immediately turns to dust. When I finish I run over to help Annette with her kill but she was wiping dust off her clothes.
“That was too easy. The ones she made us test against at the horrid place were much harder than that.” Annette says.
“I know. It was so easy she didn’t get one hit on me. Weird. You would think she would send over someone who had a chance of catching us.” I say as I wipe the dust off of my clothes
We return to the café to see Douglas and Robert gasping for dear life.
“What happened to you guys?” Annette asks in a worried voice.
“We decided to use the restroom before we got on the plane and four of them were in the bathroom waiting for us.” Douglas says trying to compose his breathing.
“Did they all disintegrate?” I ask.
“Yes ma’am.” Robert says with his head on the table and eyes closed.
“Hey sleep on the plane they’re boarding right now.” Annette says.
“Let’s go.” I say
We board onto the plane. We all got seats in the first class area, Robert and I sitting together and Douglas and Annette sitting together. I fell asleep trying to get as much sleep as possible before landing. I was dreaming about a beach and some very good looking guy giving me a massage while I was eating strawberries when a smell overcomes me. It was sweet and smelt like vampire. I look up to see some African American guy with gray eyes, wavy hair, and dimples looking down at me and Robert.
“Lola?” he asks in a deep baritone voice
“I’m sorry you must have the wrong person.” I smile.
“I’m so sorry than who are you?” He asks smiling.
I come up with a name off the top of my head. “Jessica. And you?” I ask.
“Terrence. I’m terribly sorry you look like someone I know.”
He walks away. I know that name. Terrence. Miguel told me about him. The vampire who could take your head off with one flick of a finger. Oh God I remember vowing to never have to encounter Terrence in my life. Robert gets up and goes after him like he was also using the restroom.
“Robert no!” I whisper but he ignored me and went down there anyway.
I get up and follow them. I see them grappling but Terrence is beating him badly. I run up behind Terrence and punch him in the neck but it was like metal there. I knew for sure that my knuckles were bruised. He hisses and uses his hand to throw me into the door. I see Robert get away and I try to ease past Terrence without him noticing. I step out into a public area before he could grab me and follow Robert back to our seats. I sit down next to him and catch my breathing. The air was knocked out of me when I was thrown into the wall or door whatever.
“I told you to stay here!” I whisper.
“Well I’ll be sure to listen to you next time.” He says rubbing his neck.
“He can’t do anything to us on the plane just stay in your seat!”
I glance over to see Annette and Douglas looking at Terrence’s back. Annette meets my eyes and mouths his name. I nod and I see her eyes widen. She and I were they only one I knew about him we wanted to keep him a secret from the guys because they would get all worked up and never be fun again.
“Speak now.” Robert says.
“What?”
“Who is Terrence?” He demands.
I sigh.
“Now.” He says.
“Alright alright. Terrence is the guy who every vampire maybe even Portia fears. Portia must have sent him out here for us. He is said to be so strong that he can knock someone’s head clean off with his finger. They say every vampire fears him. He has no weakness, no blind spots, and no feelings. The most cruel and calculating vampire out there.” I say.
“How do you know all this?” He asks quietly.
“Miguel told me. Remember my private trainer.”
“Yeah. “ He says.
“We get out the airport we run. Do you hear me?” I say.
“Yes.”
“We get all the fake stuff and make a run for it. I’ll give you details later. Right now rest. See if they have pain medication.”
I leave him to do all that. Up I dream of us living in a nice little area working and saving up money so when this on runs out we have a back up plan. We finally get to travel the world. I becoming a surgeon was out of the question. Everyone would think I’m dead. My parents would be devastated and my sister would too. I would leave so many friends and family members behind.
I was tapped on the shoulder.


Chapter Two


“Its time to leave.”
I nod. Robert must have told Annette and Douglas everything because they looked very tense. We get off the plane and Douglas gets the back pack. We catch the first taxi we see and tell the driver to take us to the nicest hotel by the beach. Twenty five minutes we are in The Cove Atlantis. We all get rooms on the top floor. I had the Penthouse Suite, Annette had the Presidential Suite (we girls need our space), Douglas got the Sapphire Suite, and Robert got the Ocean Suite. We meet in my room and start to discuss things.
“Okay we need cell phones, clothes, and jobs. Live it up while you can we are gonna leave to a pretty little place and work until we have enough back-up money. They are not gonna cancel the credit cards because they need to track us. So live it up here for about a week and we are on the move. Lets go we need phones.”
We head to the some electronic store and get simple smart phones. Touch screen and keyboard. We save each others numbers and head out together in two’s. Annette and I immediately go shopping for clothes and shoes first. We buy skinny jeans, sweats, shorts, skirts, bathing suits, tank tops, t shirts, fancy shirts, and all type of shoes. We head to a MAC make-up store and buy everything in there. We also go to a hair store where I finally get a hold of another flat iron and curling iron. After buying all close we go out and buy suit cases. We put everything in the closet for now and head out to look for car
I thought this would be tough. They wouldn’t have our fake names under the credit cards but as we each sat down with the dealer to by the Range Rover he looked over our credit card and said he found us on the credit card. Weird. Did they get a hold of our ID’s somehow? Only Terrence and the other vampires could figure out what was going on. Terrence. Of course I mean he was dangerous so he must be smart also.
We drive off with the Range Rover paying everything and driving off. We returned to the hotel just as the sun was setting.
“Dang it. I forgot we need wood.”
“We can get some from those fallen trees over there.” Annette points to a couple trees.
We look around for anything and find some tree branches. Not little puny ones nice thick ones. We head back and get a lot of stares from people. I order a steak from room service and Annette does the same. After eating we used the knives to sharpen wood. About two hours later we have eleven nice wooden stakes.
“I’ll go get dirt from outside. There is a breeze outside so I’ll open a window." I say as she nods in concentration. I open a window and let the breeze come in.
Downstairs in the little gift shop area I buy a lighter I go outside and grab a big handful of dirt from the flowers that are planted in front of the hotel. I return and I put dirt on a plate, she fills up a bowl with water, and I toy with the fire but keep it in control. At the lab they got the witches to put a spell over us and now we forever are in control of the elements. Annette as water and air and I have fire and earth. I look at my hand a flame is on the tip of my finger. She focuses deep down and I close my eyes and breathe on the fire making it increase quickly and I point at the dirt with a different finger and it shakes. I look up and see her water floating in the air and air surrounding her making her hair fly around she opens her eyes and nods.
I hit the end of all the wooden stakes with fire and then she puts the fire out with her water. I then give her my dirt and it swirls in the air and touches the stake. Each stake has a hunter mark which is a spear engraved in it when we finish. I never got the ritual but it seemed to work every time. I close my eyes and inhale. The fire goes away and I dip my dirt in the water and she uses air to dry and make it harder. The rock goes out of my hand moves in the air. I point the window and it flies over and drops down. I open my eyes and the fire is gone. I get up and put the stake in the safe we have in my room I keep two, Annette keeps two, and the guys can figure out how to separate theirs. I put mines in the safe and Annette went to go lock hers up.
I decide a shower would be a very nice thing. I shower and put on some denim shorts, and purple tank top, and some purple and gold Nikes I bought at the store. I head out and decide to chill in the lobby. I go downstairs and go buy a soda from some area in the lobby. I sit down on one of the couches and am joined by someone. I look over and see it is Terrence. I get start to get up but he grabs my arm.
“Don’t worry you’ll stay alive for a while. Portia isn’t quite done with you yet,” He says in a baritone voice, “I’m just here to supervise and make sure you don’t get killed.”
“Okay. Well you see I’m fine now go away.”
“Ha. You think you can get rid of me that easily.”
I stand up and look down at him.
“I know I can.” I say and walk away leaving him with an amused expression on his face.
I go take the car and drive down to some expensive jewelry store. I get out and walk inside. I see someone a tall person by the ring area and go over there. Why not flirt? I mean I was notorious at it at school. We flirt he was an American and was really cute. He put rings on my fingers and sliding them on so gently. One time it tickled me and I giggled which made him show... dimples! He was taking me to the necklace area (which I knew would tickle a lot) but then he suddenly took a step back. My smile drops and I turn around to see Terrence glaring at the guy.
"Not you again." I groan in disgust.
"I told you. You can't get rid of me."
"Trust me I'll lose you." I say walking out of the store and see he follows me out. I come up with a quick plan to try to stake him on the spot. I walk to the passenger side of the car by the meter and pretend I'm looking for something in the glove compartment. I close my eyes and the ground starts shaking and at the same time I reach for the stake and turn around thinking I'm catching him by surprise but somehow he manages to stay calm and dodges the stake. He pushes me hard against the car and I gasp and the ground start shaking.
"Don't try it again." He growls.
He releases me and gets into the passenger side of the car. I walk slowly and text Annette, Douglas, and Robert to pack everything and get ready to run. Then I send Annette a message with my super fast texting skills
Go rent two cars, get two tickets to Miami, Florida, and pack my stuff. Text me when you're ready park the cars in the back of the hotel. I'll try to stall as long as I can for you to get ready. I send.
Ok. She sends.
I drive around in silence hyperaware of the creature of the night next to me. I stop by a Starbucks and go inside he follows me in. I wait in line which thankfully was long. I order a Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino. He orders a black coffee. Black coffee black soul.
I sit there and drink it looking at pictures of John Cena, John Morrison, and Randy Orton as I drink my yummy drink.
As soon as I am done I order two more Venti Frappuccinios for the road. For me Starbucks was my drug. It was something I grew accustomed to when I was a freshman. I start driving around memorizing where I was driving. I drank two of those within the hour as I inconspicuously checked my phone ignoring him about telling me where to go. After about an hour and fifteen minutes I check my phone and see a message from Annette.
Ready.
I turn around and head back after stopping by Starbucks again for two more Frappuccinos. At a stop light I text her where they are. She texts back and says in the back parking lot. I drive into the front letting the valet take my car and I head to my room.
"I'm going to my room but remember I can always find you."
"Yeah yeah I know." I say as I use the elevator to go up to my room.
I use the room key to see they still hadn't checked out. I get the stakes and put them into my huge purse. I head downstairs and go to the check out area. I check out and went to the back parking lot. I see a SUV and brilliant red hair. I slide into the passenger seat.
"Let's go."
She looks at another SUV and nods I see Robert and Douglas and smile. We drive in silence until Annette pops the question.
"And we left why?"
"Because of Terrence. The faster we leave areas the more we don't have to worry about babysitting vampire or killing vampires."
"I guess I can't fall in love."
"Of course you can you like Douglas."
"What?!"
"Don't deny it. I and Robert talk about you guys all the time."
"Yeah it’s true we are kinda into each other but you and Robert like each other."
"No!" I lied.
"Why not?"
"We are just friends. Just because he is cute, has a wonderful personality, and is my guardian angel doesn't mean I like him." I put my hand over my mouth trying to cover up the guardian angel part knowing it was too late.
She gasps.
"You are so into him!"
"So?"
"I'm so gonna tell him."
"Why? So you guys can date."
"A relationship is not what I need right now."
"But you want one."
"We're done with this conversation."
"I'm gonna tell him."
"Whatever."
We go to the baggage area and get checked. I burned the stakes to ash before I get checked out. After that we stayed in the area by the plane and talked for a little bit but then Douglas and Annette suddenly got thirsty and went to Starbucks. I told Annette to get me a Frappuccino.
"Okay. Annette told me what you said and... That made me feel good. Me being your guardian angel was what I want to be. I didn't know you felt the same way."
"No crap you're serious you like me?"
"I always have."
"Why didn’t you? I was crazy about you."
"I was but then Darrell got in the way."
"Well ask me out now!"
"Well I would really be happy it if you would be with me."
"Of course!"
He leans forward and kisses me. It was a warm soft kiss probably because we were in a public area. I hold his hand just about the whole time. We get onto the plane and I get sleepy. Luckily, we had first class and we could both fit onto his seat. I lay my head down on his chest and close my eyes I see Terrence. His eyes turn red and he lunges for me. I scream and I turn my face away but he wasn't lunging for me he was lunging for Robert.
I try to help but he shrugs me off and punches Robert in the face. I keep screaming at him why but he doesn't answer. I try to stop him again but once again he shrugs me off. Except this time I get thrown in a corner and stay there weeping over Robert knowing he was already dead. I hear the repeated smacks on Robert's face stop and I feel a hand with Robert's blood touch my shoulder.
I cringe away from the hand and sob harder.
“Get away from me!” I scream and he flinches back.
I stand up and think of fire. I’m gonna burn him to ashes. I want to watch him disintegrate into nothing. I think of fire but somehow he already knows what I’m doing. He runs forward at that inhuman speed and raises my hand up to the ceiling where huge amounts of fire come out of my head.
I droop down in his arms exhausted from all of the power I had put into the fire I just poured out. The room quickly catches on fire but the smoke doesn’t choke me or make me uncomfortable. Terrence is anxious though it is one of the few things I know that can set him on fire. He scoops me up and in the next two seconds we were out of the building. I cry on the grounds and the earth shakes and that’s when I wake up.
I jolt upright and feel Robert tense. He opens his eyes and smiles at me but, the smile leaves right away when he sees my frown.
“What's wrong?” He asks.
“Nothing just a dream.” I say not wanting to get into detail.
“You okay?” he asks worriedly.
“Fine just tired.” I lay back on his chest.
I pretend to slow my breathing and act like I’m sleep but instead I look across from me. I catch Annette’s eye and she winks at me. I smile feeling better. My guardian angel liked me! I feel happy. Not only is he super hot but he is so sweet but tough at the same time! I smile to myself knowing I was gonna be with for a long time.
I close my sleep and go to sleep with happy thoughts. I wake up once to use the restroom and then return to is chest and sleep through the whole plane. Something about planes must make me sleepy. I wake up to Robert calling my name.
“Lola we are in Miami.”
I stand up and stretch.
“Good we might have a while to stay here.” I get on my toes and kiss him.
“And you said you two weren’t in to each other.” Douglas says as he walks by as I kiss Robert.
Annette just walks by and chuckles. We go all through the airport procedures and we call a cab. We take separate cabs Douglas and me in one cab and Annette and Robert in another. We tell the cab drivers to take us in the best hotel in Miami Beach.
“My best friend and my sister.” He says when we get in the cab.
“My best friend and my brother.” I retort.
“You got me there.” Douglas says. We sat quietly for a couple minutes.
“How do you think Mom and Dad are right now?” I ask after a while.
“Heart broken they only have five kids left.”
“I never really noticed until now how many siblings we have.”
“A lot.” Douglas answers.
“You were always my favorite.” I say truthfully.
“Likewise.” He smiles at me.
“I remember that time we got busted for drinking beer and mom almost killed us.” I sigh thinking of the memory.
“Yeah it was hilarious,” Douglas chuckles, “The getting beat up part hurt… a lot.” He says.
“I know who knew mom was so strong.” I sigh.
“Anyway I never want to see them again.” Douglas said.
“What why?” I ask startled.
“Because if I see them again Portia and her army are going to kill my family and it’s not worth it.”
“True. What does Portia want with us anyway? I mean out of all the college students in the world why us? Not that I wish this on anyone else to see.” I say.
“We are special that’s why. I don’t know what she wants us to do but I need to figure out so we can hold it against her somehow. We need to make friends with enemies which I’m pretty sure she has.”
“Wow I see why she needed you Douglas. You’re good with thinking.”
“Whoa a compliment from my little sister what in God’s name is the world coming to?”
“Shut up,” I say, “I kind of get your point though. Robert has amazing street smarts and can practically get his hands on anything. Annette can basically always get what she wants without being under suspicion and besides we all know she can kick some major butt. I don’t know what they would want with me though.”
“Oh bull!” Douglas says, “ You can fight, you can lead, you control elements, and come on I swear you have the best plans ever! You can take down an army of vampires and werewolves single handedly.”
I gasp. “Is my brother giving me a compliment?”
“Shut up.”
After that we arrive at the Gansevoort Miami Beach hotel which is amazing! We check in and luckily I get the penthouse suite again. I know I’m living in major luxury. This time we all share the penthouse suite though. We decide to stay here for about two weeks to come up with our next plane. As soon as we get settled we discuss our next moves. In the lounge area.
”Okay different continent name it.” I say.
“Europe.” Robert says.
“Country?”
“Italy.” Douglas says.
“Of course,” I say, “Italian sports cars.”
“Look on the bright side. Italian shoes.” Annette says and I smile.
“Okay Italy I think we need to buy a place I’ll make calls and as soon as we get there we can get everything signed and we can keep that as our place if we ever need to go back.”
“Cool our first place.”
“Now we need stakes and stock this place with a whole bunch of weapons and cash and stuff. So that means we have to get jobs.”
“Yeah of course I’ll make calls but right now can you guys go get the stuff for me to make some new stakes.”
“Sure.” Everyone says.
“Robert I need you though.” I say.
Douglas and Annette head off while Robert and I go on italianpropertysale.com. We find a big roomy home all of us will like. Robert is half Italian and half African American. He bilingual and speaks Italian perfectly which to me is sexy. He gets on the phone and while he is on hold tells me to go in his bag and get one of his fake ID’s. I go into his suitcases and pick the first one I see. He says a whole bunch of words and stuff while he talks to the real estate person.
Robert gets off the phone.
“I had to bribe that guy into holding the house for me. I told him we would be there in three weeks is that good.” Robert asks.
“Yes that’s fine.”
“Wow we are buying our first home.” He says.
“Not how you planned huh?” I ask.
“Definitely not.” He says.
“We need to pay him in cash okay? We need to get known and involved with the weapons and fake ID stuff. We are gonna be serious G’s about this.”
“Of course we can I can listen around in town and probably get us pretty much anywhere. “You might not believe it but stuff like that is behind delis and supermarkets like in the movies.” Robert says.
“Really? I though that was just for movies.”
“Nope that’s how it pretty much goes down.”
“Cool.”
After that conversation I change needing a shower. I shower, shave, and washed my hair for about fifty minutes and then I get dressed. I change into a yellow tank top, sky blue shorts, yellow and blue accessories, and blue and yellow Nikes. I blow dry it and then comb leaving it its naturally wavy way going down my back. I head out of my room looking for Robert in the living room. He wasn’t there so I go to his room but I hear the shower and immediately leave. I walk back to the living room and stuff on the table catches my eye that I didn’t notice before.
I see nice smooth chunks of a lot of wood, a carving knife, and dirt. I immediately get down working knowing I won’t have time to do it tonight. When I’m done I stuff them all in the little safe and watch T.V waiting for Robert. When he gets out we walk down to the pool and just hang out. On my phone I set an alarm for six o’clock. We talk about Italy and old friends but when I said Darrell’s name his face immediately darkened. Might as well get it out of the way now.
“So why do you and Darrell wanna rip each other’s throats out?” I ask nonchalantly.
“Because the guy is a total jerk. I hate him. I fought him freshman year. He got knocked the hell out too. But you know the guy with the most money always wins.”
“Really? I always thought he was the sweetest guy ever. He was so considerate. We were gonna go out but I got abducted before we got together.
“Yeah that’s one good thing out of everything. As soon as you were his he was gonna get in your pants. If you didn’t want it he would have raped you. I was planning what to do but then they picked us.”
“How do you know all of this?”
“I over heard in the library. Him and his gang all liked you and I heard them take the bet. He said after he had you he would give you to his buddies to share.”
“Wow. Now I know why all the girls are afraid of him.” I shiver and drop the subject.
Annette and Douglas arrive and Annette and I do our little element thing. When we are done I mess with my fire flicking it on and off. We just hang out and watch T.V til about six. I go in and shower one more time before we go to Cameo. I shower for about fifteen minutes and get dressed. I wear black skinny jeans, a black and gold t-shirt, black and gold accessories, and black and gold Nikes. At a fancy sunglasses store in the Bahamas I found some black Aviator sunglasses (which are my favorite sunglasses ever). I grab one of the black and gold purse I have and head out.
In the living room Annette straightened her red hair, was wearing a purple mini dress(which was really tight), and purple and gold high heels. Robert was wearing black skinny jeans(for guys but not too tight for a guy), black Nikes, and a black t-shirt. Douglas was wearing jeans, blue Nikes, a dark blue t-shirt, and…Aviator sunglasses.
“Come on!” I complain when I see his glasses.
“Why do you always jock my style!” Douglas complains.
“No I don’t! You know I always like Aviators.”
“Take ‘em off.” Douglas says.
“No you take them off!” I say quickly.
“Amazing two of the most mature people but they fight over stuff like littlie kids.” Robert mutters.
“She’s the little kid.” Douglas says.
“No you are.” I say but I smile over at him.
After that we all head out to Cameo in a cab. We walk to the list guy and told him we have a V.I.P spot and he lets us in. I listened to the people in the line complain about how we get to go in. We drop all of our stuff in the V.I.P section and have like five drinks before we go to the dance floor we dance, drink, and laugh. We live Cameo at about three o’clock and head to our hotel.
When we arrive at the hotel Robert carried me because I was so out of it. I walk to my room bumping into every wall. I get to my room and drop my purse in the doorway and stumble to my bed. My I fall asleep before my head touches the pillow. The rest of the stay was pretty much like that in Miami. The last two days were more serious. We get plane tickets to Italy and call the guy making sure he did everything we told him to do. The last day was sad. We came back from the beach but still felt like swimming so we swam in the luxurious pool for the last time and headed upstairs.
I got out the shower and my outfit was denim skinny jeans, a short sleeved black shirt, and a red and black plaid shirt. I was taking out the stakes and when I smelt and all too sweet smell behind me. I grab a stake and whirl around to face…Terrence.


Chapter Three


“Where the hell did you come from?” I demand.
“Its not hard to find the party girl of Miami Beach just ask around. Oh the house you picked in Italy is beautiful and its in a nice quiet place."
My grip tightens on the stake behind me and I quietly set it on fire. The fire goes to my hand but it doesn’t hurt it makes me feel safe.
“Burn it much longer and it will turn to ash and trust me the stake won’t even graze me before I get to your throat. So stop.” Terrence says.
I hold out a little more and then sigh like I’m giving up. I throw the stake and at the same time I hit the wall. His lips are at my throat I feel his breath.
“Two seconds new record.” He whispers against my throat.
Suddenly, I feel like electricity passed between me and him. We both jump and back up. I slide off the wall and make a run for the door. He catches my arm.
“Don’t try it.” Terrence whispered.
I run and I hear him sigh. I run into the living room but know signs of anybody. I then run and check their room but still no signs of them. I run to the front door.
“You can’t get away.” He says impatiently.
“That’s what you said last time.” I snap.
I run at my fastest speed to my room I grab to stakes and set them on fire.. I knew he was gonna appear at the door in a second so I throw stakes at the door but he flicks them away. I run across the room but he grabs me and slams me down on the bed while he is on top of me. I build up a scream but he covers my mouth. I seriously need to gain more strength.
“You can’t win okay,” he says taking his hand away from my mouth I try to bite it but he takes it away too fast, “Get it through your head.”
I start to scream again.
“Don’t make me use compulsion.” He threatens. I stop trying to scream.
“Try it and I’ll burn your head off.” I growl.
“But you need your hands and feet to do that and you can’t get to those right now can you?”
“I swear I’ll burn your head off and laugh.”
I try to head butt him but he holds my forehead down with his forehead.
“I told you don’t try it.”
At the word try our lips brushed past each other. Just that brush set me on fire. He put his lips back on mine and his hands went around my waist and my hands went around his broad shoulders. We macked and macked for about fifteen seconds but then I pull back remembering I like Robert. I push him off me and make a run for a stake. His hands are around my shoulders and he slams me into a wall again. His body pressed to mine.
“Let’s not go through this again.” He says gruffly.
I slump down and when he releases me I walk into the living room finally giving up and collapse on the couch. Getting straight to the point I ask him a question.
“Did you use compulsion for that kiss?” I ask quietly.
“No you just pushed yourself on me like a drunken hooker.”
“No way I wasn’t rubbing on my hips jerk.”
“Please I didn’t even touch you.”
“Whatever I’m sleeping.”
“Not hard for you to do.” He mutters.
Without looking I raise my hand and give him the finger. I wake up I think a couple hours later at around seven o’clock and see Terrence and Robert staring each other down.
“What's going on.” I ask.
“This creep was in here while you were sleeping.” Douglas answers glaring at Terrence. Douglas always defended me.
“Look guys he caught us and he knows about Italy it is too late to turn back now. He has to come with us.”
“Great.” Annette murmurs.
Today was a depressing day. I needed one more party day.
“I’m going out one last time anyone wanna come.”
“I’ll come.” Annette says.
The guys shake their heads talking about some ESPN special or something. I head into the bathroom and change. I shower and get dressed. I wear a sleeveless t-shirt that has Buttercup from the Power Puff Girls, denim skinny jeans, and leather knee high Converse, a metal type chain connected to my jeans, with black and green Aviator sunglasses. I make my hair shine and let it go down its natural wavy way.
I grab a crop black leather jacket and head out with a black purse. Of course I take the longest time. I walk out and sit next to Robert. I lay my head on Robert’s shoulder as I looked at Terrence. I still felt my his kiss on my lips. I needed to get rid of it. I GRAB Robert’s face and kiss him long and hard.
“I’ll be back in the morning and if I dance with any guy its because I’m drunk.”
“I trust you don’t worry.” Robert says gently.
He stands up to kiss me. Our long kiss turns into a short mack.
“Okay time to go,” Annette says pulling me away from Robert, “Later Douglas.”
She gives him a quick peck and then we leave. While I was showering Annette made reservations. I didn’t know or didn’t care how Terrence was getting there or getting in.
“Since when were you so attracted to Terrence.” Annette asks after a while.
“Not to long wait what?!” I ask startled.
“You heard me.”
“I don’t like that stalker he is totally interfering with my fun.”
“But you don’t mind. You would grind the night away with him.” Annette says.
“So what? Are you calling me a hoe? A slut?” I demand getting on the defensive side.
“No not at all,” Annette says quickly, “I just know what goes on with you. I don’t know why but I do.”
“I hate this guy every opportunity I get to kill him I don’t stand a chance.”
We get to Cameo and walk in. People see us and call our names. Some people I specifically like to hang out with I invited to the V.I.P section with us and somehow Terrence got in.
We drink… a lot and then go to the dance floor and party. All day we dance, drink, and grind. I was so drunk I almost fell while walking to the dance floor. I was surprised I could still dance. We stayed til about two thirty. Terrence watched me when I danced and ignored the two girls rubbing all on his chest and shoulders. When we left to guys were walking us out but it wasn’t in the front it was in the back.
“Hey where are we?” I ask with my voice slurred.
“We are just gonna have a little fun with you before we take you back to Roland.” The guy holding me says.
“I don’t know a Roland.” I say.
All of a sudden Annette starts laughing and I start laughing with her. Then I get slammed into a wall. I must have some type of gravitational pull with walls. The guy holding me takes off my jacket and reaches for my shirt. I put up enough fight even while drunk to keep it on. He punches me in the stomach.
Suddenly, Terrence shoved the guys off of me and Annette.
“Don’t touch them every again.” Terrence growls.
The guys ditch us and start to circle Terrence. The guy behind Terrence lunges but just as fast he lost a head. The guy tried to jump him right after but then he was missing a head too. During all of this I helped Annette up. Their blood turned to dust and so did their bodies.
Annette and I start to run.
“Where are you two going?” Terrence asks.
He catches Annette and I by our hand.
“Of course you two would get this drunk.” He mumbles.
“Hey I’m not drunk. I’m just very loopy.” I slur out.”
“Ha. Loopy!” Annette says and starts laughing.
He catches a cab and puts us in and tell the cab driver where to go. He hands the guy a hundred dollars. I mess with the windows making them go up and down. Terrence reaches over and stops my hand. I use my other hand to flick my fire on and off. He calls my name breaking my concentration to stop the fire.
“Lola. Stop.”
We arrive at the hotel and he grabs us both by the hand dragging us through the lobby. When we get to the hall in my room I suddenly don’t wanna go. I want to stay out and party. I start stopping.”
“I wanna go party.” I whine.
“Oh well.”
I literally drag my feet and he tosses me over his shoulder. He opens the door and sets me down. Annette and Terrence disappear. He swoops me into his arms and in three seconds I’m in my room.
“I’ll be here in the morning. Right now I’m gonna pack your stuff but leave you one outfit out for tomorrow.”
“Hmm…” I say. He chuckles.
“Why do you need to keep us protected?” I ask.
“I just need to keep you and Annette protected. I don’t have to worry about your boyfriend and brother.”
“Hey they are very nice people.” I slur out.
“ Yeah I know. I don’t like Robert he seems mean and stiff.”
“Well if he is mean and stiff what are you?” I ASK.
“I’M Terrence The Cruel and Calculating.”
“And you’re proud of that title?”
“I don’t need to prove to people I am a nice guy. People I care and love know I’m a nice person and that’s all that matters. Now Roland is pure evil. I wish I could get my hands on him. But not even I can get through five hundred vampires.”
“So there really is a Roland?” I ask curiously.
“Yes. He is Portia’s ex-lover.” He says while he packs my things.
“Really?”
“Yeah he wants revenge and its been seven thousand years. He needs to get over it.”
“He is that old?”
“You.”
“How old are you.”
“Six thousand three hundred and seventy-four years old.” He says proudly.
“Whoa I heard vampires don’t make it past five hundred years.”
“That’s if you have no self control and training.”
By that last sentence I was out cold. I wake up at nine thirty by an alarm.
“Come on. We have to be at the airport two hours earlier than the flight takes off.” Terrence says.
I groan.
“Nope none of that.” He goes and turns on the shower and then drags me out of the bed. He pushes me into the bathroom.
“Your clothes are on the counter.” He says.
He close the door but even the little click the door made makes my head explode in pain. The shower loosens my muscles but the headache and nausea stays. In the shower I smell my hair and it smells like alcohol I wash my hair and then get out. I blow dry my hair and get dressed in the clothes he set out. He got me sweats, a black t-shirt, a gray sweatshirt, black and gray Nikes, and black Aviators. I brush my hair and wash my face.
I walk out and put the dirty clothes in a bag he left out. I need food my stomach growls loudly. I stumble into the living room and see Robert, Terrence, and Douglas talking.
“Since when is everyone buddy buddy?” I ask.
“Since Terrence saved your life.” Douglas answers.
“He’s actually a pretty cool guy.” Robert says.
“I have a human taking your stuff to the airport.”
“Okay…”
“We ready?” Terrence asks.
They murmur yes. I fall asleep o Robert’s shoulder in the cab exhausted. We get to the airport and go through all the precautions. I go to the café and order a onion bagel and a coffee.
"See I'm not as horrid as you think I am." Terrence says from behind me.
"What makes you thin I still don't think of you as an evil creature of the night?" I ask walking away.
"Because you haven't tried to kill me yet." He says following right besides me.
"Maybe I have a trick up my sleeve." I say.
"You don't...Not yet."He says confidently.
I just shake my head and go on to where Robert is. I sit next to him and share my coffee with him. About an hour and a half later we are on our flight.

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