Bleeding Love (10 page)

The dreadful day
came—the long-awaited meeting of the Day and the Night classes, and it was safe
to say that the introductions had been way too awkward. Adrienne's school mates
had been jumping with joy and enthusiasm, excited that they were going to
finally get to have deep, meaningful conversations with the Night Class.
Unfortunately the vampires didn’t see it that way. The meeting was scheduled
for three hours, but the evening class people didn't look the least bit happy.
They looked bored. Adrienne's group, excluding her, was to awestruck to see the
boredom written across the bloodsuckers' faces.

“Okay, I'm going
to get straight to the point, guys,” Adrienne started, her voice certainly
demanding attention. “I called all of you here today to talk about the fair and
the dance which are taking place the last Friday and Saturday of the month.”

Immediately, the
humans opened their notebooks, uncapped their pens, and prepared to write down
whatever significant thing Adrienne was going to say. On the other hand,
slouching and looking idly around, the vampires slowly nodded their heads. It
was impossible that they were too tired or sleepy for a meeting. She was a
vampire, and she knew that their kind didn't need sleep, just blood.

“We've talked
about the decorations, the DJ we're going to hire, the songs we want, the
booths, the rides, the prizes, the awards, th—”

Adrienne was cut
off by Leila, the vice president of the Day Class.

“We've discussed
the seating arrangements for the dance, but we clearly have to change that now
since we’ve added the Night Class.”

“Yes, of course,”
Adrienne said, nodding her head in agreement. “Write that down.”

The talk about
the Halloween dance continued as everyone in the Day Class offered ideas,
plans, and suggestions that worked well with the theme—Halloween, of course.
The representatives of the Night Class, on the other hand, stayed silent, and
it kind of irritated Adrienne. Their silence made her feel that they thought
they were too good for this, for the humans who were her friends, and when she
couldn't take their tight-lipped smirks anymore, she questioned them. “Don't you
guys have anything to add?” she asked, her eyes drifting from one vampire to
another until she landed on Xavier's face. “What about you? You haven't
insulted me for the entire hour I've been talking. Don't keep your side
comments to yourself.”

Xavier's smirked
widened as he sat up in his chair and turned to look at Adrienne. “It's a feat,
isn't it? Me not talking?”

Adrienne rolled
her eyes. “You just talked,” she sounded arrogant when she said that.

The vampires
caught her haughty tone, and so, they straightened up, ready to protect their
leader.

She saw their
bright, shining eyes. Eyes that until now had been dull, and because of that,
she said,” I'm glad I woke you people up.”

“Can we move onto
the carnival now?” Katherine asked, her gaze fixated on a male vampire. He was
a redhead, with green-eyes, and she was infatuated with him.

“I agree,” said Leila.
“I think we should talk about the booths and the rides. They have to be total
fun.”

A few nods came
from the Day Class, while the Night students, as always, looked passive.
Adrienne just gave up trying to make them participate.

“Definitely. The
rides are easy though, so we're going to focus on the booths.” She smirked.
This had always been a fun topic to talk about. “Any new ideas? We already have
a few booths in mind from what we talked about last meeting.”

Janine, the
treasurer, was the first one to speak and offer up her idea. “The kissing booth
never fails to earn money.”

The other humans
agreed.

“And as long as
we have you and Ethan working together, we’ll ensure that the booth is a success.”

Adrienne grinned.
“Kissing booth it is, and I'm sure Ethan will agree to the idea.”

“Great! We're
going to rock this!”

“Ethan and I can
also charge extra if the people want some tongue action,” Adrienne offered, her
voice excited, and in response, the females in the Day Class squealed in
uber-excitement, while the guys sniggered.

“Baby, I didn't
know you wanted some game so badly,” Cameron, the representative of the
seniors, said suggestively, licking his lips for exaggeration. “And with me for
that matter.”

Adrienne decided
to go along. There was no harm in a little flirting.

“I'd give it to
you for free, sexy,” was her answer, and her voice was equally as seductive and
mischievous as his.

This—the very
public but harmless flirting between Cameron and Adrienne—caused the vampires
to stiffen, and Adie knew why. Brianna had explained the whole ordeal to her.
Vampires were known to be very intimate creatures. They were protective of
their mates, and each vampire only had one lifelong partner. There was no
divorce or annulment with vampires, and to cut it short, they treated love
seriously. Love, they believed, could come only once in their immortal lives.

It was safe to
say that it disappointed the bloodsuckers that the humans, Adrienne included, would
treat affection so lightly.

Xavier couldn't
hide the edge in his voice. “Yvonne and I will also do the kissing booth.”

The Day Class
students laughed, while the vampires looked at them in annoyance. They didn't
get why the mortals were chuckling so loudly, and they didn't particularly
enjoy feeling left out.

“That sounded so
wrong!”

“You and your
friend will 
do
 the kissing booth?”

“Baby,” that was
Cameron flirting up another storm with Adrienne. “They're even naughtier than
us!”

The president of
the Day Class grinned before she, herself, also laughed, but when she looked at
Xavier, she stopped. He looked slightly irritated though it was hidden beneath
his face of indifference. The vampires were such killjoys, Adrienne thought.

“I think Xavier
and Yvonne should do something else.” Adrienne sounded quite hesitant. “Ethan
and I can handle the kissing booth.”

“But they offered,”
one of the humans tried, almost to the point of sounding desperate. “Come on,
Adrienne.” A few gave her hopeful looks. “If we want to have the best carnival
ever, we need them.”

“Hey, if you want
to kiss him,” she eyed Xavier warily. “Just ask him now. You don't need a
kissing booth, you know.”

Adrienne hadn't
meant to offer Xavier to the entire Day Class student body, but she was on her
last nerve. To the whole Day Class, Brianna and she excluded, Xavier and his
group of friends, or geeks, as the others called them, were just like them—humans.
What they didn't know was the risk they would be taking if they mingled with
them. If Xavier and Yvonne were going to be the ones in the kissing booth then
some one might see their fangs. And Adrienne couldn't risk that.

Even if vampires
could control their fangs from protruding out of their gums, Adrienne still
didn't want to jeopardize the existence of her kind, and yes, they could erase
memories, but still, the vampires shouldn't kiss any humans. It would go
against their belief having one love in a lifetime. Xavier and the rest of the
vampires in the room had been agitated when Cameron was flirting with Adrienne,
what more would happen if they saw two of their own kind making-out with a long
line of mortals?

“I'm sorry,” Adrienne
apologized to her friend. “I didn't mean to go off on you like that. I'm sorry.”
And she truly was.

“It's okay.”

Adrienne read her
mind. It wasn't okay. The human felt something strong for her fiancé, and the
rest of the vampires could read that thought just as easily as Adrienne could. “Can
we please just continue and get this over with?”

The two
presidents of the Day and Night classes nodded at each other. Adrienne put on a
smile and said,” I think we should talk about the rides.”

Cameron was the
first to offer a suggestion this time. “The Ferris wheel is a must,” and once
again, Adrienne looked at him teasingly and playfully as she quirked her
eyebrows repeatedly up at him.

“Totally Cam, its
open and right in the public view, so remember that anything you do in the
Ferris wheel can be seen by us all, okay?”

He gave Adrienne
a look, one that said,
you-know-me-too-well
, before he smirked at her,
joking, “That is if you can resist me long enough to control yourself from
jumping me.”

Adrienne replied
in the same mischievous tone he used, her voice not missing a beat, “It's you
who wouldn't be able to resist me.” She winked at him. “You'll probably fall in
line in the kissing booth over and over again.”

“Hell with that.”
He quipped. “We don't need a stupid kissing booth and a damn Ferris wheel.”

Everyone's eyes
lit up in anticipation, the vampires' included.

“I'll just meet
you at your car once the fair is over.” They looked at each other, trying
control the laughter that was boiling up inside their stomachs. “How's that?”

“That's the
greatest plan ever.”

“And I see you've
mended your broken heart,” Xavier said, his voice reverberating through the
room so that it unnerved Adrienne. He didn't sound as if he were teasing. He
just kept looking at her.

In response, she
gazed back at him, her eyes telling him, the she hadn’t needed the length of
her immortal life.

He understood
what her hazel eyes told him, and with that, they shared a small laugh, one
which the rest didn't understand. She may have been flirting with Cameron, and
Xavier may have felt a little jealous, but he shrugged it off after a while. He
could wait for her until the end of time.

The meeting ended
pretty quickly, and the moment the time was up, the vampires, Adrienne and
Xavier excluded, left in quite a hurry. They didn’t even bother to give the
humans a proper goodbye. It was rude what they did, Adrienne thought, but she
was too tired to feel irritated, and so, she let them go, walking side-by-side
with Xavier, as she headed over to the school’s parking lot.

“Do you mind if I
ride home with you?” asked Xavier, his voice monotone.

They reached the
outside of their school, and as Adrienne unlocked the door of her car, she
could see a few of the council members staring dreamily at Xavier, who wasn't
at all bothered with the attention he was getting. He was used to this—being
the center of everything—even with the vampires he was still the one everyone
looked up to. It amazed Adrienne how much of an icon he could be without even
trying.

“Don't you have a
car?” She got in the driver's seat and eyed him through the window.

“I ran.”

“Then run back
home.”

Ignoring Xavier's
request, Adrienne turned on the engine of her SUV and stepped on the gas. What
the,
why the hell didn't her car move?
 She looked around, trying to
figure what or who the culprit was. It was Xavier. He was blocking her way,
with his hands forcedly pressed down on the hood of her car. To the others it
seemed like he was just trying to stop Adrienne from starting the car, but she
knew he was using his super strength. She was already stepping on the gas, but
he held the car in its place. She gave up after a few seconds.

“What do you
want?”

“A ride home?” his
voice sounded like he was asking a question.

“I'm going to the
mall.” Adrienne smirked. “That means you have to find someone else who'll take
you home.”

Xavier started
walking, and Adrienne thought she finally succeeded at making him leave her
alone, but oh
,
 how wrong she was! He sauntered over to the
passenger side of the car, opened the door, and got in, and before Adrienne
could question what he did, he beat her to it.

“I'll go to the
mall with you,” he said, turning up the air-conditioner.

“I thought guys
hated shopping.” This apparently made him smirk.

“I'm a vampire,” and
with those words, she rolled her eyes at him.

“But you're still
a guy.”

“I'm not like
most guys you know, Adrienne.”

He used her name,
and that made her turn her head to face him, and she saw him staring back. She
loved the deep blue of his eyes. It was such a contrast to the bloody crimson
she was used to seeing. His eyes made him much more of an enigma than he
already was.

“You think I only
figured that out when you told me?” She couldn't help but grin. “Seriously
Xavier, there are going to be a lot of humans at the mall. Will you be able to
control your desire for blood?”

He bit his bottom
lip, and it was such an adorable sight for Adrienne since it made him look, lovable.
It took away all the cockiness he prided in having.

“I just drank
blood a few hours ago, so I'm good.”

She nodded and
cocked an eyebrow up at him. “You didn't kill, right?”

He was smirking
at her, and she couldn't help but gasp.