He's a vampire.

I take a step back, he takes a step forward. "Have you...." I can't even finish my sentence!

"I haven't hurt you, maybe I just compelled you but that's all."

"Compelled?" I question, he nods.

"To make you think something or do something, I made you forget every time you found out," he whispers.

I run a hand through my brown hair and bite my lip out of confusion and frustration, "I... I don't know what to do," I whisper.

"I understand if you need space," I shake my head.

"I want to know everything that you've done and how you feel," he gulps.

"Everything?"

I nod, "everything."

He sighs and sits down on a bench on the side walk, I sit a fair distance away and look at him intently.

My heart beats wildly in my chest, "why are you afraid?"

"Me? Afraid? I'm not afraid," he chuckles.

"I can hear your heart beating quickly," I gulp.

"Just tell me," I demand.

"I'm a vampire. A king to be exact-" I cut him off.

"A WHAT!" My voice raises like the white chicks voice when the guy said he was a size fourteen but she said a ten would fit.

Or maybe it was a six....

"I'm the king of vampires Shae, I'm powerful," I scurry back in the chair and close my eyes, "you don't need to be afraid of me, I've learned how to control my thirst."

"I'm a human. You're a vampire!"

"I know. Don't speak so loudly," he hisses.

"How do you feel when you hurt people?" I shudder, he bits his lip.

"I...I like it. It brings me a sense of peace, I feel powerful," he mutters.

"Okay, what's your abilities?" I ask him.

"Super strength, fast speed, I can jump really high, intense hearing, I can shut my emotions off, oh and you heal quickly and can die for as many times as someone kills you because you're already dead. But the bad thing is that once you become a vampire or are a vampire, everything is heightened. How you feel, the feelings will grow. It's complicated."

"So you can cheat?"

"What?" He asks.

"You can cheat with feelings, when you're in pain you don't have to feel."

"Sometimes that's bad, it can mean you're weak. We do bad things when we turn off our humanity then when our emotions somehow turn back on, we feel everything in a rush. We feel guilt because we kill without remorse, there are good vampires you know?" I nod.

I don't think I can process all of this.

"I don't need anything more difficult in my life Tyler," I mumble.

"You're afraid of me."

"Well of course I am! You eat humans. You can eat me."

"But I wouldn't!"

"But you could," I reason and point a finger at him.

"But you would know that I would never leave you, I have eternity," I shake my head.

"Everyone somehow leaves me in the end... and I'm the one who has to pick myself up," I whisper, I look up and gasp when I notice he's in front of me.

He tilts my chin up and moves forward slightly, "not everyone leaves you."

I feel my eyes water, "how do you know?" My voice cracks.

"Sam hasn't left. I won't leave Shae, I won't."

"Why?" I ask.

"Because..." he trails off.

"Look Tyler, I appreciate everything but I don't need to be hurt more. I don't need anymore drama in my life, you have lied to me this whole time," I whisper.

"But-" I stop him.

"I know, you didn't want me to hate you. I just need to think things over," I whisper and stand up.

"Goodbye," he grabs my wrist not allowing me to move, I look down at his hand. My heartbeat accelerating.

He releases my hand but I can't help but notice how cold I feel without him, no matter how much I'm against him being a vampire, I just know he can't change that. But I can't help but want to still be near him.

"You know.." he starts, "vampires can also read minds," he whispers, my eyes widen and I look at his blue eyes.

They are so blue.

No wonder why I always had that feeling that he was looking deep into my soul, he was reading my thoughts!

"So you were violating my privacy?" He sighs.

"No. Just please don't leave me," he whispers.

I frown and push him away, "I need to leave," he grabs my hips stopping me yet again.

There's that feeling... Terror. But there's something else there, it's not terror or fright, sadness, it's something.... Happy.

"Don't leave me!"

"I SAID LET GO!" I shout.

"Maybe everyone leaves you but everyone leaves me too Shae, I know your story. I know everything about you-"

"No you don't," I shake my head not wanting to believe anything.

I don't want to believe he's a vampire. I don't want to believe that he reads my thoughts. I don't want to believe that he knows my life story.

"I have been waiting for you, for over a thousand years. So you would think that I would know everything, the truth is... I watched you." I pause, okay this is starting to freak me out.

"I know every feeling that you have felt, I know every heartbreak that you have dealt with, I know everything." I shake my head.

"Leave me alone!"

"You just don't like knowing that someone knows your life story."

"You don't know how much pain and suffering I went through Tyler! Was it you who killed my dads friend? Was it you when all of those reports were around about bite marks, WAS. IT. YOU?"

"NO! Don't assume things if you don't know anything about a person," he growls.

"I do know lots of things about you! You're a vampire, I know what you can do, I know what you have done-" he cuts me off.

"No. You. Don't. You know nothing about me Shae, you don't know one quarter of me! Every person that I have ever loved has died. Everyone. I wasn't going to turn someone into... me!"

"What are you then?" I ask.

"IM A MONSTER! I can't change what's happened and what I've done in the past, you or anyone else cannot change it. But what I can do is prevent people from being like me. Sure I've turned people, okay!?" He shouts backing up, "you're right, you need space," he spins on his heel and walks away.

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