“I don’t know, I guess because your mind is too complicated. One minute your sad. The next your happy. I mean, come on, please make up your mind already!” I could see Annabelle’s mood change. She was sad no, I guess. I was thinking about what was coming out of my mouth. But she was getting in the way. Lunch was almost over and she was wasting time with her questions.
Eric looked at me as he laughed. Sometimes I forgot that I’m no the only one who could read minds. Eric was reading my mind while I thought about Annabelle.
“Fine. I’ll do it.” Eric said as he walked closer to Spencer. The closer you are, the better you could read their thoughts.
It took Eric about 5 minutes before he came back. When he did, he was laughing.
“What did you find out?” I asked.
“His girlfriend…” Eric was still laughing. “She dumped him. Said she had found someone more her “type””
So that’s why Spencer was so upset. He was dumped and Eric had thought it was so funny, that a guy Annabelle liked, was rejected.
“That’s not funny.” Annabelle said as she left. I guess she was getting moody again.
“God! Annabelle! I didn’t mean to get you mad!” Eric said, but it was too late. She was already out as the bell rang.
After lunch, I had Physical Education, Math and Biology. We never really did anything, I tried to avoid Spencer in Physical Ed and Bio. I never talked to him and tried to make sure he never saw me. I didn’t want to see him. At least not for the rest of the day.
When school was over, for today, I forgot that Eric had to go meet his thousand year old cousins. I was stuck here, walking back home. It sucked that I didn’t have my license yet. It sucked a lot. Annabelle and I are probably the last ones in grade 11, who DOESN’T have their license yet. My test was in a few weeks and Sadie promised that she was going to help me. Eric, on the other hand, had volunteered to help Annabelle with hers. Lately, Annabelle had been trying to avoid Eric. I think Eric has a feeling that Alex or Sadie had told Annabelle about his romantic feelings for her. I was walking home with Annabelle when I heard a beep. I quickly turn around and a saw a car. The driver rolled down his window and stuck his head out. It was Spencer! Annabelle, too noticed. She was getting all happy and excited.
“Hey,” Spencer said. He was looking at Annabelle when he said that. I felt so jealous, I mean, all the time, guys always, always, look at Annabelle that way. It was something that Annabelle and Eric both was in common. I hate to admit this, but, Annabelle is very beautiful. I mean, she had a nice shade of red orange curly hair, high cheekbones and had a beautiful face. Annabelle is both skinny and tall. While me, I’m skinny and short.
“Hey Spence!” I said.
“Rose, hey. Who’s she?” Spencer pointed at Annabelle.
“OH! This is my best friend Annabelle.”
“Annabelle, I’m Spencer. Are you new?”
“Yeah,” Annabelle started to twirl her hair. She was starting to flirt with him, my man!
“You and Rose both moved, huh? And your three friends, Alex, Sadie and Erie?”
“Eric.” I corrected. “It’s Eric, not Erie.”
“Oh! My bad. We had calculus together. And art. He’s really smart and a great artist.” I smiled. What can’t Eric do?
“Really?”
“Yeah, he’s very nice. We talked. He mentioned about you being his sister,” Spencer stared at me quickly. “You two don’t look like each other.”
“He’s my adopted brother. His parents adopted me.”
“Really? What happened?”
“My parents, they died., when I was 16.”
“So Eric is your brother. Aren’t you 16, right now?”
I completely forgot that I was a vampire. “Yeah, they died on… May.”
“I feel so bad.” I looked at Annabelle. Annabelle was starting to get mad.
“So… Spencer, can I call you Spence?” Annabelle said.
“Yeah, if you like.” Annabelle suck her tongue out at me.
“Do you guys have a ride?”
“No,” I said.
“I’ll drive you, if you like.”
“Sure!” Annabelle quickly answered. Spencer smiled at me, I started to blush. I quickly opened the door and sat next to Spencer. Annabelle glared at me.
***
I went into my room. Annabelle was staying over, tonight.
“I hate you Rose!”
“What? Why?”
“You know why! You practically stole Spence away from me!”
“Annabelle, stop. I wasn’t like that. You know me better than that.”
“Yeah.” Annabelle sat on my bed and laid on my bed. “Your lucky, you have so many classes with Spence.”
“I only have 3!”
“That’s a lot! I have 6 classes with Eric!”
“Oh! So, at least you have Eric, Sadie and Alex!”
“I don’t even have one class with Spencer!” I heard the door open. It was Eric.
“I heard someone call my name. What’s up.”
“I’m leaving.” Annabelle jumped off my bed. Eric blocked the door.
“You are not going anywhere, got that.” Annabelle knew better not to argue with Eric.
“Fine.” Annabelle crossed her arms and sat on my bed. She huffed.
Eric smiled. He leaned on the wall. “Cousin Lori and Cousin Delaney are here.”
I smiled. Lori and Delaney are my favourite cousins. They are 21 years old, they are actually 2011 years old. Eric was older than them, by a lot. I really have no idea how old he really is, it’s a mystery I want to solve.
Lori came in. She looked the exact same way I last saw her. Lori was wearing a yellow summer dress. Delaney followed. Lori and Delaney have the same birthdays but they are not sisters. Delaney is wearing a yellow designer t-shirt and white skinny jeans with long black boots. I ran and hugged them.
“Hey, Lori! Hey Delaney!”
“Rose! Annabelle.” Lori said.
“Hey,” Annabelle said. “I’ll go and do my homework.” Annabelle walked past Lori, Delaney, Eric and I. Eric quickly chased her. Delany started to laugh.
“Eric is still chasing Annabelle, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“I think that’s adorable!” Lori said. Delaney rolled her eyes.
“Eric, should really give up on Annabelle. Annabelle only likes humans, like Mike.” Mike is Delaney’s step brother. Delaney’s parents have split and her dad had married Mike’s mom. Mike doesn’t know anything about Delaney being an original vampire.
Eric’s POV
I chased after Annabelle. Annabelle stopped. She turned back at me.
“Why are you following me, Eric?”
“I’m not, I’m going to my room.”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
“Isn’t your room that way?” Annabelle pointed to my room, next to Daniel’s.
“No, that’s… your.” Annabelle rolled her eyes.
“Whatever.”
“Do you need help?”
“For?”
“I don’t know. Homework, driving… anything?”
Annabelle thought for a moment. “I know. Get away from me, I mean my life?”
“What? Why?”
“Eric, please, stop helping me. I hate you!”
“You hate me!?” I yelled back. When I start to yell, I lose out of control. I can’t control any actions or words that come out.
“Of course I do! I hate seeing your face! It’s even worse that I have to see it everyday, at school. I have 6 classes with you!”
“Annabelle…”
“Why did you turn me into this? I hate being a vampire! I didn’t want to live forever, it’s horrible! My parents died and Anna…” she started to cry. “Go away!”
“It’s my house!”
“Just go!” I walked away from Annabelle, I can’t stand her anymore. She’s just too moody, I don’t think I can handle this anymore. I hurried downstairs. I took my keys and decided to stay over at Alex’s, for tonight.
Alex lives with my cousins, just to tell you, but I have a lot of cousins. They were mostly original vampires but some are human, like Mike. Alex opened the door.
“Hey!”
“Help me, please. I think I need a girlfriend.”
“What?” Alex started to laugh at little. I glared at him.
“I can’t, Annabelle, she just too much. Annabelle hates me. I need to like someone else.”
“So you don’t like Annabelle anymore?”
“No.”
Rose’s POV
I was mad at Annabelle. My parents were upset, that Eric ran off, again. We were eating dinner. I sat next to Lori and Delaney. While Annabelle sat next to Dave and Steff.
“Annabelle, what happened, between you and Eric?” I asked.
“Nothing! Nothing happened!”
“Really? Nothing?” Delaney laughed. Delaney doesn’t like Annabelle.
“Eric’s a baby.” Steff said. Steff and Dave are older than Eric, by 10 years, but in their human age, they are both 18.
Dave laughed. “I know. If you make fun of his face, he’ll move to Cuba!” I remembered that. It was 40 years ago, and Sadie had made fun of Eric’s busted lip, from falling off a cliff. Eric was so mad that he didn’t come back from Cube, until Sadie apologized. It wasn’t until 5 years, that Eric, finally came back. When he came back, my parents grounded him for 5 years.
“That’s not funny!” I yelled back.
“Gosh, Rose! Can’t you have a little fun? Once in a while?” Steff laughed and placed na arm around Annabelle. Steff like Annabelle, too. It explains why Steff hates Eric so much. Annabelle smiled and moved closer.
“I’m done. I’m going to take a walk.” I announced and stood up.
“Alright, sweetie!” Sophia called out. I loved Eric’s parents, they were so kind to me. I walked out the big double doors and headed out the house. Or Mansion of castle. I spotted Spencer! He was outside, running, with white shorts and a white tank top. I stood there and watched. When he spotted me, he ran towards me.
“Hey!” Spencer said and was a few metres away.
“Ummm… Hi?”
“Is something wrong with… your brother?”
“Huh, why?”
“I was out shooting some baskets, when I saw…”
“Eric,” I corrected.
“Yeah. I was Eric walk out, with a mad look on his face,” Spencer paused and looked at me quickly. “Did you two have a fight or something?”
“No. Annabelle said something to Eric and made him upset.”
“Oh, is he always like that?”
“Always.”
“Really? Care to tell me a story?”
“Yeah, sure,” I paused. Spencer was trying to get to know me! “One time, Annabelle forgot to feed his pet hamster, Hammy, when he went to California for a volleyball tournament. It died.”
“California…”
I forgot that Spencer’s ex-girlfriend lived there. “Yeah…”
“When was that? I think I saw Eric before.”
“Last year.”
“On July 27th?”
“Yeah.”
“Oh my god! Eric’s team killed us!”
“Oh!” Stupid Eric, stupid Eric!
“I was kind of glad that he wasn’t there this year.”
“Oh. Right, he went to London England, that summer.” he didn’t bother asking me to go. He went with Alex, to visit Eric’s older brother, older sister, younger sister and younger brother. Eric is the middle child.
“Tell him thanks. We were so happy that we won that tournament.”
“Oh. Alright. What sports do you play?”
“Me? Volleyball, beach volleyball, track and basketball. Do you play?”
“Me? No. I hate sports.”
Spencer laughed. “What about your brother?”
“Eric… soccer, volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball, football, swimming, track… and hockey. And tennis and badminton.”
“Wow, he’s an athlete. Are your parents too?”
“My dad. Not my mom.”
“Oh. Is he trying out for the team?”
“I think so.” of course he is.
“Oh”
“Why?”
“Well, it’s just that…. I wanted to be captain.”
“Oh! That’s good!”
“But your brother, he might take it. You know.”
“Oh.”
“What school did you attend too, before this one?”
“St.Eve Academy.”
“Really? That’s awesome! I tried to apply for it. But I couldn’t.”
“Why?”
“Well, it’s all the way in Orange County.”
“Right.”
“Why’d you come here, in North Carolina?”
“I have no idea!” Spencer laughed. “Do you want to come in, I mean in my house?”
“Sure,” I smiled and Spencer slimed back. I wanted to read his mind so badly, I wonder if the liked me too. Spencer followed me into the house. Spencer seemed to like the house.
“I like it. It’s nicer than mine.” I too him to Eric’s room. I opened his door. “So…this is his room , huh?” Spencer walked in with amazement. He looked at all Eric’s awards. “You see this?” he pointed at a trophy. “That’s the game me and my buddy lost to. It’s a beautiful trophy, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Wow. I wish I had this many awards. MVP. Best soccer player.” Spencer looked around Eric’s room. It was clean, very clean, for a guy. Eric hated messes. Spencer looked at Eric’s pictures, on his table. Many are family pictures.
“Who are they?”
“You see him? He’s Eric’s older brother, Daniel and you see her? That is Fiona, Eric’s older sister. And the two youngest. That’s Max and Violet.”
“Wow. That’s a huge family! And are they your parents?”
“Yeah. Well, my adopted ones. Sophia and Maximus”
“And that’s you right?” He pointed at a picture of me and Eric.
“Yup.”
“And that’s your friend Sadie. She’s pretty.” I felt my heart break, again. “But she’s not that pretty. Like Annabelle. But, you too, are pretty.” I blushed. He thought I was pretty! “Where’s Eric anyway?”
“I have no idea.”
“You don’t know? You didn’t call him?”
“No. Why?”
“I thought you would know.”
“Oh. I’ll call him right now.” I took my cell phone out.
“You don’t have too. What are you doing in my room?” I turned around. Eric was standing outside his room, with Alex.
“Eric! Alex!”
“Hey! Rose! And Spencer?” Alex said, while he stared at Spencer.
“Hi.” Spencer said, cheerfully.
“Rose, why are showing Spencer my room?” Eric asked. Annabelle walked behind Eric.
“Your back,” Annabelle said. “Sorry,” I couldn’t catch the right words.
“No reason. He wanted to see your awards. He’s also an athlete. Like you.” Eric rose an eyebrow.
“Oh.” Eric walked in. he sat on his bed. “What sports?”
“Volleyball, beach volley ball, basketball and track.”
“Really? You any good?”
“Yeah. Well the school team is not that great. Like St.Eve.”
“Really? Well, with me and you and Alex, the school will win the championships. If we work together.”
“Really? We haven’t won that may games before.”
“Oh. I know that. Good thing that me and Alex came.”
“Yeah, I’ll tell the coach about you too.”
“Don’t forget to mention about St.Eve.”
“Oh. Don’t worry. I won’t.” Spencer looked at Annabelle. “Hey Annabelle! How’s it going?” I looked at Eric. He started to frown.
Annabelle walked in. “Hi Spencer, I was wondering where you were.”
“Really?”
“Yup.” Annabelle was starting to flirt with Spencer. Eric walked out the room. Spencer stared after Eric.
“Where is he going?”
“Who cares about Eric.” Annabelle said.
“Umm… I’ll see you three tomorrow? I want to play some ball with Eric. You wanna come, Alex?”
“Sure.” Alex and Spencer walked out.
“Eric! I’ll kill him. Why does he do that?”
“Why don’t you at least show him that you care.”
“But I don’t!”
“Sure you don’t.”
“I don’t! Why is he ruining my life?”
“Ask him.”
“I can’t! You said that Eric… cares about me?”
“I didn’t say anything. Alex did.”
“Is it true?”
“I don’t know. Has Eric ever showed any interest in you before?”
“I don’t know.”
“How did you meet Eric?”
“Huh? Why?” Annabelle sighed. “Well, I was 16. I was just outside, taking a morning walk, when I saw Eric, he was with this girl. His ex-girlfriend, Sonny.”
“Sonny… oh! I remember her! She’s an original, like Eric! His parents wanted him to marry Sonny.”
“I know that.” I heard Annabelle hiss. I noticed something. But I brushed it away, quickly. “Well, everyday, I saw him, he was always with Sonny. I think I was jealous. I mean. Eric is hot, but now, he’s not. I was getting annoyed that Eric was always with Sonny.”
“You thought Eric was hot?” I had to ask.
Annabelle blushed. “That was like 300 and something years ago! I don’t know! I was just young and stupid, that time. So… one day, I saw Eric and Sonny fighting. Cuz, Eric saw Sonny kiss another man and Eric, he broke up with her. Eric was so mad. I didn’t know that he was mad. So I walked to him and asked him what’s wrong and Sonny, she pushes me, and told me to go away. So I did. Later, I was going to the store, buying food, Eric kidnapped me! He took me to the forest and he bit me! I thought I was going to die, but he noticed that I was crying. And he stopped. He drained a lot of blood from me, so he cut himself and he spilled his blood into a cup. He told me to drink it. I didn’t want too, but Eric, he told me that I would die, if I didn’t drink it. I wanted to die, but Eric, he was being so nice, that I drank it!”
This is it, for now! Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
