Fallon and I walked outside to get some fresh air. "You know i could go in and get you something to wear?" Fallon asked for the 5th time. I shook my head at him. I didn't want him to leave me out here even if it was for a couple seconds. I shook my head and took Fallonâs hand in mine and I just looked up at him and was happy that he was one my side. I felt a cool wind hit us and I shivered without thinking. Fallon looked at me with the same question again.
"No. I'm fine, really. I am." I said. We started to walk around the house to the part of the house were we first actually talked. It was the secret garden. Fallon pulled me into the trees and I found myself wrapped in the pink blossoms and dancing to the quite night.
"Are you hungry?" He asked. Something was on his mind and I couldnât tell what it was. He wasnât used to being so direct and worried.
"Not really" I lied as soon as my stomach started to growl.
"I'll be back in a second" He said as soon as he disappeared. The wind got caught in my throat as soon as I was going to say his name. He didnât take long with my black jeans my purple sweater and a pair of black flats all from my room. I almost rolled my eyes at him, but I was trying to get everything on so I could feel a little bit warmer.
"Fallon! I told you not to go in there" I hissed as I finished putting my jacket on. It was over my night gown that was tucked in my pants not to comfortable.
"I wanted to take you out for breakfast and I didn't want to take you in that" Fallon said giving me his heart breaking smile. I beamed and nodded as he took me away, forgetting the small fight. He threw me on his back and he started to run. I wasnât surprised when he did this, because by now I was used to it.We ended up at a small bakery near the candy shop. "Itâs almost six in the morning and I kind of want to get back home soon" I told Fallon as I nibbled on a muffin.
"I'll call Liz and she will cover for you" Fallon said. I smiled at him feeling fine now. I looked at Fallon's face as he watched me eat. His Hazel eyes were popping out now and I noticed them. His hair was long covering his face. It looked like he got a haircut, trimmed it a bit. He was so perfect that it was hard to look away. I was afraid I would miss my mouth and stick my muffin up my nose.
"What are you looking at?" He asked. I could feel his intense awkwardness. I smiled at him and then finally told him what was on my mind.
âIâm trying to figure out whatâs on your mind. You okay?â I asked. He rubbed his eyes with his palm.
âIs it that obvious?â He asked. I nodded at him and then grabbed his hand to comfort him. âYouâre so fragile. So delicate and you have a mass murder on your hands..I just wanted to know how you would feel about becoming a vampire?â My mouth hung open and shock crossed my face. Fallon saw my reaction and withdrew his hand and put them in his face. âIâm sorry I asked, I just couldnât bear to imagine anything happening to you, because I didnât ask.â
âNo, I get it. I do, but I would have thought you wouldnât want this life for me? I see you guys struggle all the time, and some vampires are just clueless to things.â I said every word slowly, and unsure of what I was saying, but Fallon stood up and kneeled by my chair and took my hand once again.
âWhy donât just you and me run away and when you become seventeen or eighteen you can just take to the life I have in love and in harmonyâ Fallon was gripping my hand tighter as he said these words.
âFallon, I think I need a moment to process all of thisâ I said. My heart was racing and my head was spinning. I got up quickly and moved to the bathroom and shut the door and locked it. I stared myself in the mirror. Â Twenty minutes later I walked out of the bathroom and sat back down across from Fallon.
"Tell me about you" I asked. He seemed surprised about my sudden question. I almost acted like our recent words didnât happen.
"You want to know about me?" He asked.
"Yeah, Like your family and everything else. I want to know more about you. I don't know much about anything here I just get the big picture, never the details and it irritates me because I tell everyone about myself. Itâs almost like i wear my life on my forehead sometimes." I was talking fast and he chuckled at me and then he looked off into the distance trying to remember.
"OK. Well, when I was born my mother was human and my Father was a full vampire--"
"Wait wouldn't that make you half vampire?" I interrupted.
"Can I explain without your interruptions?" He asked almost laughing. I smiled at him and nodded.
"Oh, sorry. Go on" I said I blushed and started to listen again.
"My mother was changed into a vampire after I was born. My father changed her. It was some sort of deal if my mother gave him a son then she would be turned. So here I am. Now this happened a long time ago. I have been alive for almost seven hundred years--" Fallon stopped and I realized it was my face. I must have looked stupid. I bit my lip embarrassed and looked down. "Sorry" I said trying to hide my face, that was now red and burning.
"Itâs fine. I understand seven hundred years is a long time and a lot for you to take in." Fallon said. I looked up at Fallon and my heart started to flutter again.
"Oh, no I can take it in. i was just surprised." I said. "Ok go on"
"OK well. Once I turned 18 my father turned me into a vampire, so I'm a little bit higher than a normal Vampire. I'm like a vampire and a half, sort of thing. My mother couldn't have any more kids so she has been searching for a girl to take as her own." he said.
"She found Aria and Ariel" I said almost talking to myself.
"About five hundred years of waiting for someone to come into my life and make a difference. Jade comes along. At first I thought of her as a young naive 15 year old girl. And...then she made me fall in love with her. I hoped to change her and make her my queen like my father did with my mother, But things changed, Went wild. There was so much drama I wanted to just leave with Jade and tell everyone they were wrong about her. Then she got married and you know the rest." Fallon said.
âSo you also asked Jade to do what you asked me to do?â I felt a little offended by this, but tried not to think too much on it.
âYes, but the love with Jade wasnât real both ways, it was more lust than anything and running away with her was just a way to get out of the drama. I asked you because I am deeply in love with you; Hazel I want you to be mine. I donât want Jades super strength to ruin that for me and you.â
"Tell me about your life before jade" I asked almost to choked up to say anything else.
"Well My mother and father were king and Queen of the Nation. They ruled and it was nice for a while. Then people started to notice how we didn't age much so we had to fake our own death and live like normal people. Of course my parents were not going to have it. So we moved here, ruled for a long time. Then moved back to being normal and after every 100 years they go back to being royalty. But they like it here. So they stay. I moved out on my own. My parents didn't like it, but I like being alone. I like to think of myself as one person and not threeâ Fallon looked torn. He looked upset and almost mad. I wanted to go over and comfort him but I also didn't want to bring too much attention towards us.
"Tell me about being a vampire" I asked. He looked up from his hands that were in fists.
"What do you want to know?" he asked.
"Just the basics of being a vampire. I know you have super speed and you don't have super hearing." I said.
"Yeah, we do burn in the sun. We live off blood. Most vampires choose to eat Animals. I donât prefer that, but..--"
"Wait, you eat humans?" I asked.
"Not humans. I just drink from blood banks. There is a hospital not too far from here." Fallon said shrugging. i really didn't know what to think of that. I mean wasn't Fallon not evil? Is drinking from blood banks evil?...I'm just going to leave the subject alone..for now.
"Stop looking at me like that. I don't hurt people. And I do feed on animals, just not often" Fallon said. My lips were in a hard line but I tried to put that comment out of my head.
"Can I ever see your home?" I asked.
"My home?' he asked smiling. I nodded as I finished my muffin. I stood up.
"please?" I asked. Fallon sighed then got up and we both left the small shop.
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Jades POV
"Where is Hazel and Liz?" I asked Ian and Lucas. I was standing on the stairs and looking over the railing. Ian got up from the couch in the parlor and walked past the stairs, ignoring me. I smirked.
"Lucas?" I asked. He looked up from the coat closet.
"Oh, Liz left with Hazel, before we were even up." Lucas said. I sighed and walked down in my long dress.
"Liz left an hour ago. Hazel left 2 hours ago. So they left at different times. Wow Lucas, You should try sensing them. It helps. You can't tell me you trust them that much to not see if they left together. Or maybe Iâm more powerful and Iâm the only one that can sense those kinds of things. Whatever, just try not to leave those two alone too much. They both get on my nerves." I said clearly annoyed. I walked down the rest of the steps of the stairs and hurried to the kitchen.
"Grandpa" I said giving him a small hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Jade, So nice to see you this morning"I giggled and then I saw Ian out of the corner of my eyes going somewhere.
"Excuse me papa" I said as I grabbed the ends of my dress and hurried out of the room. I followed Ian upstairs and down the hall.
"What are you doing in my room?" I asked him. He ran behind me with his speed and closed the door behind me. I turned around almost glaring.
"I was waiting to get you alone. So I could confront you. So I could ask you why your here. Why your hurting Hazel. She never did anything to you" Ian said turning around to face me.
"Oh Ian, isn't it obvious. Hazel is my doppelganger and with that she has part of my memories. Since she came here she has the things I need. I know I have something to do! But I can't remember it because she has the memory! There is something i need to get something i need to write, but i keeping coming up blank. If i could do what i need to do I'd be fine. Plus well, I think my parent's like her. I Don't like Hazel. She has stolen my life! and I'm going to get it back even if it kills her" I said shrugged and slowly walking to my bed.
"Jade, is your heart so ice cold you can't just ask and leave it alone?" Ian asked.
"She also stole every nice part about me. Ugh. I need some blood. Do you know where to get some? When Hazel went to my place and got me blood she never told me where to get it myself if I need to--"
"What? When did Hazel go to your place?" Ian asked interrupting me. I heard the laugh deep down in my gut. I smirked.
"When you guys went hunting. I called asked for blood since I was running out. She gladly came over ate come cookies I made and we talked and it was great" I said smiling as I walked out the door. I got him. Nothing makes Ian more mad then someone who doesn't listen to his warnings. I looked back into the room but Ian was already gone.
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Hazel's POV
We arrived at Fallon's place. It was just a simple white house. It has a small front yard. It was kind of on the edge of town. There was a sidewalk that led to his house. It looked perfectly normal.
"Wow" I whispered.
"It's nothing to big, but I hope you like it" Fallon said giving me a slight smile. âItâs no castle.â
"Itâs adorable. " I said as we walked up to the small white screen door. He unlocked it then unlocked the white door behind the screen and we were finally in. The place looked to causal. You would never guess he lived 700 years.
"wow" I whispered again.
"Can I ask what 'wow' means?" He asked me. I looked behind me to see Fallon staring back at me.
"It's just...something you say when your amazed" I said.
"So you like it?" He asked.
"It's cute" I said smiling. When you walked in there was a small living room. There was a plain white couch and then a smaller tannish couch. There was a small TV against the wall facing the living room. Farther back into the house you could see a small dining table and a door that was leading to a small kitchen. There was a door in the living room that led to his bedroom that was filled with a big four poster bed that was tan and red and then a dresser and small closet there was a bathroom that had to doors. There is one door leading to his bedroom and then the other door leading to another bedroom. He used the extra bedroom for nothing. It was empty. That was his house. Small, but cuteâ¦
"What now?" He asked.
"We could watch a scary movie" I asked egger.
"I donât know..Iv never watched a scary movie. I'm not sure." Fallon said he was rubbing the back of his head.
"You never watched a scary movie?! Oh my word. Youâre missing out! I love scary movies. I used to watch them with my family." I said. I took his hand and we sat on the big black couch. I kicked off my flats and snugged into the couch. I went and looked for a scary movie on Demand( I was surprised he even had Demand).
"Here. Not so scary. House of Wax. If you get scared just hold my hand" I said teasing him. He rolled his eyes. âI have to be scared to hold your hand?â I blushed and tried to hide my expression. I was feeling so..excited?
"Iâve seen worse than what these movies have to offer" Fallon asked. After 30 minutes in the movie I could tell Fallon was a little disturbed. I was snugged close to him and he didn't mind. He was so focused on the movie. I basically fell asleep on his lap. A big pounding on the door made us both jump. Fallon was up from under me and my head was plopped on the couch where Fallon was once sitting.
"Fallon!" I shouted. He was back in the living room in a blink of an eye.
"The door" I whispered. He froze right in the middle of the living room.
"What? What is it Fallon?" I asked.
"Ian is at the door" He said. My eyes bulged. oh god. oh god. I got up and ran out of the room. Fallon zoomed right in front of me.
"You know Even if you hide. He can smell your scent. He already knows. He followed your smell all the way here. So what now?" Fallon asked. I sighed. We heard the big pounding of the door. Why didn't he just bust in?
"Fallon, I know your here! Open this door" I heard Ian's voice.
"Open the door" I told Fallon. "Tell him everything"
"Are you sure?" He asked me.
"Hell no" I said. âBut the truth will set us freeâ
âDo you just say hell and a scripture from the bible in the same sentence?" Fallon asked. I bit my lip again and shrugged. Fallon nodded. We hurried over to the door (more like he ran speedy fast and I had to run to catch up before he opened the door without me) and Fallon answered it. There Ian looked so mad.
"Hi" I said.
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ok i know. Weird ending. but my hand was hurting so i had to stop writing. Ugh. I hope you like it. blah blah blah you know the rest. ok bye! love you guys!