True Loving

Chapter 7

"Ethan where are we going ?"

"It's a surprise." He started going faster and faster and I started holding on to my seat.

"Ethan slow down you're going to kill us!" Most likely himself, because I have vampire blood in me so I heal fast, except for bruises, because they aren't real injuries. Vampires heal fast, because they can't loose blood, if they do they have to feed again. And contrary to belief it takes a lot of energy to hunt and feed. Most vampire are picky - some choose by blood type, other by gender or age. My dad doesn't really care as long as the blood comes from someone unwilling, who gave a fight. He says the blood tastes more rich. Ethan just laughed.

"It's your fault we have to go so fast. You wasted our time by asking questions."

"What's the hurry anyways?" We came to a direct halt in front of some place.

"Get out." He got out and walked to my side, I got out and just waited for him to say or do something. Clearly talking and asking questions just waists his time. He grabbed my hand and pulled me through the gate of the place. Then he pulled me behind a tree, pinning me to it. I was about to talk when he placed his finger over my mouth. I looked at him raising my eyebrow. He gestured to the gate. I looked over to see it was closing, a security guard was walking up and down in front of it.

I looked back at Ethan, who was smirking at me. He leaned down and kissed me quickly. He reached up into the tree and got out a big bag that was lodged between branches and hidden away by leaves. He pulled me by the hand again today is the first time he has held my hand. I looked around and saw that the place was like a mini shopping mall, the small town version. In the middle of it all was a fountain. It was towards it where he was pulling me. He placed the bag on the floor while I went to sit on the edge of the fountain. He started going through the bag. In the end he pulled out a small black sachets. I eyed it suspiciously.

He smiled at me.

"Yeah sure always think the worst princess." He opened it and threw the contents into his hand. It was pennies. I raised my eyebrow at him.

"Pennies?"

"These are special I've been collecting them since I was little."

"They look like normal pennies to me."

"Yes, but I picked them all up. You know pick up a penny and all day long you'll have good luck." He smiled and looked down at the pennies.

"I have been storing every days luck until now."

"Well they must be really special to you."

"Yes they are. And your special too that's why I'm doing this with you and not some random fake slut. You aren't fake, you’re a bad ass just like me. I can see that no one should mess with you." I was silenced I didn't know what to say to that. If only he knew how lethal I really am. I felt like spilling everything to him, but he'd think I was crazy and my dad would go berserk.

"What we're going to do is take five pennies each and throw them in the fountain. We are going to make wishes out loud and maybe the pennies luck will help the wishes to come true."

"But you'll loose your pennies."

"Nah! See over there." He pointed to the middle of the fountain. You could hardly see what he was showing, you only saw a brownish haze. I nodded.

"It's a filter and it sucks out all the filth in the fountain, but the pennies are to big to go through the small holes."

"So every time a wish comes true you come and get a penny out and some day I'll have all my pennies back."

"What if they clean the fountain before all the wishes comes true?"

"They don't clean it, in the day there is security guards that patrol the place so you can't throw stuff in. In the night there is no one here so at midnight they just close the gate and patrol there."

"You know a lot about this place."

"Yeah I've done some time here." I raised my eyebrow at him.

"I use to work at the delivering area at the back."

"Okay let's start I'll go first." He said and I nodded again. He took one penny and rolled it around in his fingers.

"I want everything to be the same, but still change." He threw the penny in the water.

"Okay your turn!" He placed the penny in my hand.

"I don't even know what your wish means."

"Yeah me neither."

"To dance in the rain in the middle of somewhere or nowhere." I threw the penny in the water.

"A romantic at heart aren't we?" He raised his eyebrows in a mocking way. I hit his arm playfully.

"Have someone stay the night." And in went the penny.

"You have sluts around you all the time, that wish will be the first to come true."

"Nope, you're wrong I never let anyone stay the night."

"Then why wish for something you can't possibly have?"

"Because I see no reason why I shouldn't wish for it!"

I took my next penny.

"To be a family again." He nodded and took the next penny. I know my wish is pointless, because my mom kept us together and all my father cares about is power and dominance.

"To get an A." Well I didn't expect that out of him. Bad boy wants a good grade.

"To help someone, without being asked." I threw it and he made a pfft noise.

"Hey I'm never helpful, I'm just compliant."

"That it will be seen." And splash the penny landed.

"Your wishes are in riddles."

"It's because only I can make them come true." I shook my head at him and rubbed the penny in my hand.

"To try something different I haven't before."

"See now you got me, because no one knows you good enough to know what you haven't done before." So he is allowed to have riddles and I'm not. Talk about double standards

I just handed him his last penny.

"To be kissed by the most beautiful girl ever."

"I see you have high hopes."

"Yeah, yeah just make your last wish."

I had the perfect one.

"Freedom of choice." He just stared at me after that. I have never had freedom of choice before. Since my mothers death my dad has told me what to do, when to do it, how to do it, what to wear, how to be, who to see and what to feel.

"Okay let's go." He took my hand in his again and pulled me with him. It felt good when he held my hand. It is a cold night and his hand is warm against my cold one.

"So are we going home now?"

"No way I have you for the night." I shook my head at him as he lead us to the back of the building.

"Okay follow me quietly." He got on a crate, then stepped on the large trashcan and then jumped onto the fire escape landing. Which was also locked at night at the bottom of the stairs. He got on the railing and grabbed the roof pulling himself up, his arms flexing from the weight.

"Throw the bag up to me." I did as he asked then I followed the path he did. I did it faster and gracefully.

"How..."

"You were right no one really knows anything about me." He opened the bag and pulled out a blanket. He threw it out on the roof. He sat down and I joined him.

"See how far out you can see from here." He talked without taking his eyes away from the view.

"See that house over there with the red car? That's my house." I looked out and spot it.

"Do you do this a lot?"

"I use to when I worked here, but this is the first time I actually did it with someone." We kept on watching the view. I felt something go around my shoulder and look at Ethan. He had taken of his jacket and gave it to me. We ended up laying back and watching the stars.

"Here lay on my arm I didn't think of bringing pillows and the roof is hard." I did what he said because I was seriously too tired to argue and that's how I fell asleep in his arms. I woke up a little later and notice he was sleeping too and I was cuddling against him with his arm around me. I just closed my eyes and went back to sleep. I felt someone shaking me. I opened my eyes and looked up to see Ethan.

"Are you okay you were screaming and crying in your sleep."

"Yeah I can't remember what I was dreaming." I shook my head and rubbed out my eyes.

"You said two names Brandon and Drake."

"Oh then I know what I was dreaming." I pulled my fingers through my hair.

"It didn't seem that you liked Drake that much, who's he?"

"Ah...trying to get to know me, Ethan?"

"Yeah I am."

"He is my ex, he works for my dad and was always around."

"And who was Brandon then." Should I tell him or not.

"Uhm he... Well... Ah." He handed me a cup of coffee.

"Here wake up completely first. I was planning on waking you in a half an hour anyways." I drank the coffee and thought about how I was going to explain this to him.

"This is why I wanted to wake you up, look the sun is rising." I looked up and saw the sun coming up it looked so beautiful the way the sun tinted the sky pink in the distance it’s breathtaking. I kept on looking at it until my eyes couldn't anymore.

"Brandon was a guy I loved." I looked over to Ethan and saw him nodding to himself.

"Drake was controlling since he was older than me. He believed that I was his and only his forever. He and my dad started talking about our wedding, but it made me dislike him, because my father set us up from the beginning and I didn't know."

"And then I found out he was cheating on me a lot, because I couldn't satisfy his pleasures." I laughed to myself.

"I tried leaving him, but he stopped me and my dad wouldn't believe that he was cheating or anything, and I didn't want to disappoint him so I was stuck with Drake."

"When I met Brandon he was new to... Ah dads company. We started out as friends and it became more. We use to sneak around because I was still trapped in my relationship with Drake. Brandon just made everything better for me."

"But Drake found out and beat him up really bad... my dad send Brandon away on business to some far away place where he would stay from then on and that was the last time that I saw him."

"Did your father know you loved him?"

"It didn't matter Drake was suppose to be my boyfriend and as soon as I was to become 20 he would be my husband and together we'd take over the company."

"So your father chooses for you?"

"I wasn't allowed to date before Drake so yes."

"And how did it end?"

"I just told him it was over, he wasn't happy, but I locked myself in my room, because I knew he was leaving that day for a year and he couldn't do anything about it."

"And when the year was up?"

"My sisters and I came here, I only saw him briefly."

"Ann did he ever hurt you?"

"No." I answered to quickly.

"Ann?!"

"Once when he found out about Brandon he knew where we were going to meet and waited for us. While he was beating him, up I tried to help and I got in the way."

"Oh well that was an accident, at least you are here and not there with him." He handed me a sandwich.

"Okay eat up we'll need your energy up, so we can slip out unseen, okay." We ate and then waited. The delivery gate was unlocked at 5 o'clock for the workers that had to be here at 6. We sneaked out just after the gate was unlocked when the guard went back to the other gate. We sneaked back to the car and drove off.

"You have great sneaking skills. And how you jumped of the landing, I thought for sure I would at least have had to help you down."

"I've been doing gymnastics since I was really young, just after my mom died actually."

"Oh okay that explains a lot." I looked through his car until I found a CD case. I went through it until I found something I liked. I ended up putting Breaking Benjamin in and skipped to my favourite song of theirs 'I will not bow' I felt my eyes go heavy so I closed them just to relax a bit and that's how I fell asleep in his car.

I heard an annoying bell and opened my eyes and looked around. I was in my house on the sofa. The bell went off again and I noticed that it was the front door. I got up and opened the door.

"Hey baby." TJ said. What the hell is he doing here I want to sleep, not entertain a human I'm only using to get the other humans jealous.

"How late is it?" I asked him.

"8 am, I know I'm early, but I wanted to surprise you."

"Hi TJ we didn't know you were coming over Analize is a bit ill."

"Really what's wrong?"Aww he was so concerned, no I feel bad for messing with him.

"Probably just a bug, she passed out last night before she got to the stairs so we just laid her down."

"Oh then I should let her sleep. I'll see you tomorrow Babe, feel well soon." He kissed my forehead and left. Thank goodness he left.

"So where to did you sneak of last night?"

"Did I really pass out?"

"Yes!" Veronica said sounding serious while Seriena was bouncing up and down for gossip.

"So that's why I don't remember going to my room and changing."

"Yeah I think someone is channeling you. Any supernatural thing in this town would have picked up on your Aura." Veronica said sitting down next to me.

"So you think another witch is channeling me?"

"No I think something is? Witches always work for the supernatural and sometimes teach them to channel. It has to be a newbie because it's taking too much of your energy, thus making you pass out."

"Well I feel weak every time I get home."

"That means it follows you here. It doesn't want to be noticed by you."

"So what do we do?"

"Urg whenever you feel weak again we'll cast a spell and get an mind picture of it and then go after it! Now why did you sneak out?" Seriena blurted out angrily.

"Ethan came to pick me up he said it was only fair because I hung out with TJ and Ian and he was feeling neglected."

"What did you do?"

"We snuck into the mall and made wishes by the fountain and slept on the roof under the stars."

"Aww did you kiss?"

"Once before going to the fountain."

"Urg I want details not this rushed bullshit you're feeding me." She grabbed a pillow hugging it to her body, staring at me with big eyes and so I repeated my night in detail to her. I stayed in my PJ’s on the couch, doing my homework and surfing the music channels. Half way through the day I got a text.

Hi find me tomorrow morning I have something to tell you

-E

Doesn't he know how impossible it is to find him he is never at the places he was before and then how do I get away from TJ that told me he thinks he loves me and how do I get past Ian's eyes what seem to notice everything. Life of a sneaky teenage girl isn't as easy as people think. How sluts seem to go behind one guys back to another I'll never know. I started feeling weak again around nine pm. We started setting up everything. I sat on the floor placing five candles around me. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

"Hear my plea, hear it now, There is being taken from me, Taken what isn't theirs to take

Without permission, without regards! Lead me to see who is evoking this weakness on me."

I started lighting the candles by just saying their elements.

"Earth, wind, fire, water and spirit. Please here my plea and obey me!" I closed my eyes and saw mist all around me I kept searching to see the channeler. I saw her clear as day and I knew where I would find her too.

"Thank you spirit, water, fire, wind and earth. Until again I'll let you be." All the candles were off as I opened my eyes.

"I know her, I've seen her before, she's in our school."

"Werewolf?" Seriena asked.

"No most likely vampire?"

"How can you know?" She asked again.

"Because she had a bright red aura that means she needs to feed."

"How do you know that?"

"Because after mom died she studied all moms magic books, even her personal magic diary." Veronica answered.

"How do you know that?" I asked annoyed, because once again Veronica seemed to know everything.

"I know some spells too."

"You used the 'I spy' spell on me."

"Yeah and? No one is suppose to be able to open her diary it's locked with a spell and with one touch it opened to you and I wanted to know what's inside so I took a peek through you."

"Moms dairy has a spell of a pure heart on it." Seriena said.

"Yeah I know I was looking for a spell that puts bad memories to rest and makes you feel happy and relaxed. I wanted to cast it on dad at the time." Seriena nodded and Veronica looked pissed.

"Why didn't the diary open to you?"Seriena asked her and this time I answered for her.

"Because she wanted to increase her knowledge, it wasn't a pure heart that tried to open it."

"Yeah I knew that was the reason. I only wanted to be like mom. She always knew what spells to do in any circumstance."

"Ronnie you are as good as mom, you're a stronger witch than any of us." She smiled at me.

"Where was I when all this happened?" Seriena asked.

"Hiding in your room." We all laughed.

"Okay back to the point. A vampire have 3 shades of aura's bright red when they are hungry, deep purple after they fed and black when they aren't hungry. Werewolves have more shades, but with them it's according to power. The most powerful starts at a deep green and all lower in line they are the lighter shade of green their auras are and if they are rogues they have a brown aura."

"Isn't there a way to always see everyone's aura's ?" Seriena asked.

"Not really, human aura's are transparent or pure white and with them around the supernatural they disguise the other worldly aura's."

"That's stupid, but o well." Seriena hugged the pillow in thought again.

"The only other way you can see their Aura is by touching them and whispering the spell that makes the hidden aura visible too your eyes."

"So we are looking for a girl from school then?" Veronica interrupted

"Yeah I'll talk to her tomorrow, as for now I have to go get everything ready for school and then sleep." I woke up the next morning feeling so relaxed. I had all my energy back again. I got dressed in a black skinny jean with a long purple top and silver flats. I applied my daily make-up and went down stairs to have breakfast with my sisters. We left earlier than usual so we drove slowly listening to the radio and singing along with the songs. I love my sisters. I know sometimes I don't pay them a lot of attention, but I would never give them up for anything. They will always be my true and only family. We stopped at the school and I rushed out the car. I had to find Ethan before Ian or TJ found me. I looked at the building and saw Ethan slipping around the corner. Damn can't he just stay put? I walked in the same direction. As I rounded the corner I couldn't see him anywhere. I kept on walking hoping I'll spot him. I kept on walking just cursing Ethan, I know he saw me and that's when he bolted the i***t. I was at the end of the first building when I got pulled into the small space that was between the two buildings.

"Hi Ann."

"Damn it Ethan you can't keep pulling me into places, you nearly gave me a heart attack." I hit his chest.

"You know you like the excitement and the adrenaline when it comes to me."

"Speaking of you why was I suppose to find you?"

"Not even making small talk? Well I was thinking that every time one of our wishes comes true we have to get the penny and give it to each other."

"Okay it's a deal, why didn't you just text me that. Do you know how hard it is to sneak around?"

"Well for your hot gymnastic body it must be really hard, you don't go unnoticed." He placed his arms around me, pulling me against him.

"Ethan I..." His lips came down on mine gently, but it turned into a long hard passionate kiss. Our lips melt together just like our bodies. His hands were holding on tight to me, whereas mine was tugging on his hair forcing our lips harder onto each other. The kiss was pure passion. When we broke apart, we were out of breath and leaning on each other.

"We really should stop doing that."

"If you are able to I'll congratulate you, but I'm not even going to try to stop."

"I have to go or I'll be late for class." I wanted to leave but he grabbed my wrist again.

"Wait there is a reason why I didn't text you."

"Okay and?" He took my hand and placed a penny in it.

"I thought we threw all the pennies into the fountain?"

"We did that is from a wish that came true."

"Which one?"

"Having someone spend the night. You slept in my arms for what was rest of the night."

"Yeah, but that doesn't count because we couldn't get out."

"Of course we could get out; there are a lot of different ways. I just didn't want us to because I wanted you to spend the night."

"And why is that?"

"Because you are different and weren't expecting it. And there is more." He put a second penny in my hand.

"And what is this one for?"

"I just kissed the most beautiful girl." I was shocked silent.

"Shouldn't you be leaving now, you're going to be late." He chuckled and ruined the moment. I huffed before leaving. I was already late. The halls were empty. I kept on walking as fast as I could, but stopped in my tracks when I saw the supply closet opening and out came the little vampire who's been stealing my energy.

"Freeze." I whispered in her direction and she stopped in her tracks since her body couldn't move. She hissed at me. Once I got to her I let go of my whispered plea.

"What do you want witch!"

"Shut up! I'll talk and you listen."

"Oh bite me bitch." I had enough so I slammed her into the wall. I place my arm over her airway and lifted her up against the wall. She was gasping for breath. It was clear that she was a turned vampire and not born. When turned you have all your human function, but you need to drink blood to not fade away. And once you are killed lets say by choking from breath lost you actually die. When you are born with the wonderful curse stuff like breathing isn't needed.

"You're going to stop channeling me or I'll kill you after I tortured you for about a month. Nod if you understand." She didn't do anything.

'Seriena knife please.' I took the knife and pressed it against her stomach. She challenged me with her eyes. I put pressure onto the knife, just enough to pierce her skin. She nodded and I let her go.

"What are you?"

"Clearly I'm not what you expected; maybe you should ask my father, you probably know him as King Carlos." She went pale from shock. You can say what you want about my father, but every vampire feared and respected him.

"Now you don't try anything with me or my sisters and you get to live or I torture you until you beg me to kill you and then I'll turn you over to my father." She nodded and to show her I wasn't kidding I threw the knife into the wall right next to her head.

"Bye now." I started walking to my class again.