• Chapter 70: Just Like Juliet


    “So that’s all, a kiss on the cheek?” Cana smiled looking up from her algebra homework tapping the eraser of her pencil on the lined paper covered in lead numbers. Her wheaten hair brushed past her face as I finished and she peered up.
    “That’s it,” I shrugged my shoulders looking away from my own algebra work. I felt the pink blush on my cheeks remembering the passionate kiss on the lips I had received that morning, but the blush on my cheeks faded away remembering the events that followed. I looked back down at my book trying to seem a bit more casual than excited and curious.
    Cana brushed the hair from her cloudy eyes and moved them back down, “You know a kiss on the cheek means friendship.”
    “It sure didn’t feel like friendship. I personally think it felt more like love.”
    “Love would be a kiss on the lips, silly. And your too young to be thinking about love,” she laughed poking my shoulder with the eraser of her pencil. “You can think about love when you’re old and living on your own.” I laughed as she began to speak purposely like a parent would to their love crazy teenager.
    “Juliet was fifteen and she gave up her life for her love of Romeo.” Of which I would gladly do myself, but then of course I’d have eternity to spend afterwards, I thought resting my hand on my cheek lost in a daydream of eternal life.
    Cana laughed under her breath and looked over to me, “Seriously, Hai, you think you’re in love? That’s a bit crazy.”
    “Maybe to you but not to me,” I finished the last of my homework and read the clock on the wall noticing it was past eleven. “It’s getting late I think we should stop now. Thanks for doing this stuff with me. Algebra is always easier with a partner.”
    “Uhm yeah,” I could hear the hint of despondent in her voice.
    I shut my book and started up the stairs with it tucked under my arm. “See you later?” I called over my shoulder on the third step.
    “No because I’ll be off in the land of magical unicorns begging the floor gods to turn me into a hamster.” I giggled and started up the steps again. “Later,” she added with a laugh of her own.
    I walked down the hall my mind only slightly less clustered as I pulled the door to my room open and shutting it lightly behind me and dumping the book on the desk. Flopping backwards onto the bed and shutting my eyes enjoying the peaceful moment before hearing a tapping noise on my window. I lethargically got up and shuffled over to the window pulling up the blinds to see bright red hair twisting in front of me. “Molly!” I almost screamed and opened up the window letting her in. “What are you doing here?”
    Molly gave me a quick embrace in her cold arms, “I just thought I’d come by and see you!” Her answer was quick as if it was a last second reaction.
    “That’s great!” I said returning the hug. I felt Molly’s posture shift as I got close to her. “Are you ok?”
    “Yes, I’m just not used to being around humans this much. You know I’m not as adjusted to the scent and warm skin.” Her voice turned into a whisper as if she were hoping I wouldn’t hear, “Or the blood, mostly the blood. But you don’t have to be afraid; I’ve been going without human blood for over fifty years.”
    “Wow fifty years,” I let out a sigh as my curiosity got the better of me. Was I ever going to learn that curiosity killed the cat? “How did you become a vampire, Molly?”
    “That my dear little Hai is a tale of mystery, action, and romance!” Molly cued as I let out a giggle. “Well you see it was the year nineteen-fifty-seven. And I was desperately looking for love. Oh I was just dying to find that one guy who would steal my heart.
    “And one day I thought I found him. And I thought Nicolas was the one. He was handsome beyond all belief, a complete gentleman, but most of all; he was the boy every girl wanted. And he chose me, of all the beautiful rich girls he chose me. I was convinced I was in love with him. One late night in October he had taken me out too look at the moon by the lake. I was too blinded to see that he was a bit strange, never ate the food he brought for picnics; he never let me look him in the eyes.
    “So when he was walking me home we stopped in the middle of nowhere, only grass, and he asked me for a kiss. And I let him move in hoping for his lips to mine, but all I got was a bite on the neck.
    “He was a vampire searching for a meal and tricked me into it. The love sick girl. But luckily I let out a scream loud enough for my foster parents to hear and they came to see what happened and found out that Nicolas was a member of our court of vegetarians. And feeding on humans is against our laws. So when he saw them he left me on the ground burning and dying of the venom.
    “But luckily for me the next week a tornado destroyed my house while my real parents were out and it would’ve killed me.”
    “Oh my God,” I breathed with wide eyes at her story. “That’s awful. What happened to Nicolas?”
    Molly looked away, “The Court killed him.” That reminded me. I almost got Edan killed for knowing he was a vampire. The thought that I almost got him killed made my heart sink with pain. It was me. “That’s why I lashed out on Edan when you and I first met. I was afraid he was doing the same with you. But then I saw the way he looked at you. It was love that I saw and I knew he would never do that to you. He loves you Hai.”
    “I know,” I said with a smile on my face and dreamy eyes. And just like Juliet I’d give my life to be with him, my Romeo, for all eternity.


    A few things I love about this chapter.

    We'll you see I first thought of Molly's story when I was doing a particular task.
    Taking out the garabage?
    And we'll I was thinking through this chapter in my car when Break Your Heart by Tao Cruz came on the radio and I remember that I was listening to it when I had to write chapter 53 (cant be sure though). And I started cracking up. But then I realized I'd have to go back to those chapters and get some info. So I'm sitting there reading and its like 10 at night and I start laughing even harder. Because there is something I find so funny about death sentences. (long story lets just say that my class spent two periods talking about diffrent death sentences and which were the most violent..... OMG thats how I got the idea! XP)

    Any way I hope you liked it. I had fun reading over my stupidity.
    And remember I have diffrent options on how to end this book. Rainbow if you find me laughing and crying on the floor at the same time you'll know it was something stupid. So if that happens please push me off into a corner and finish the book then send me off to the looney bin.