"What a sad thought it is, that some of us will surrender and settle down long before we've met the person we are supposed to love."

-Beau Taplin// the pressure

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"TYLER WHERE ARE YOU!?" Edna shouts in panic looking from corner to corner for her son.

"Sshhh!" Edna hears him hiss, she narrows her eyes to see properly and sighs in relief when she sees her 9 year old boy.

"Tyler," she mutters in relief.

"Ma, I can't let him find me. Please don't let him find me," Tyler cries cuddling his legs.

Edna bites her lip harshly, trying to contain the tears that want to spill.

'He's so young, I don't want him going through this' Edna thinks.

"I won't Tyler."

'He's going to kill me. He's going to kill me. GOD HELP! PLEASE HELP! Everything hurts, I found out that I can run quickly but father got mad. He picked up a knife and threw it at me, I can't heal fast! I don't know what I can really do' Tyler thinks to himself.

"BOY!" Henry shouts stomping into the room. Tyler pushes himself further back into the wall, tears running down his flushed face.

"WHERE ARE YOU! EDNA WHERE IS HE!" He roars, the sounds of vases smashing to the ground make Tyler close his frightened eyes.

"I don't know Henry," His mother says.

"Yes you do!" Edna flinches.

Tyler not wanting his mother to get hurt stands up from the corner he was hiding in, Henry's eyes snap over to his small frame.

"Get here. NOW!" Henry points to the floor.

"Father please don't hurt me, I can be good. Really good," Tyler's lip wobbles.

Henry chuckles, "you need a punishment for being you."

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"So how was your night?" Tyler asks, I smile.

"It was fun," I reply.

"Okay," he says.

"Hey Tyler?" He looks at me waiting for me to continue.

"Yeah?"

"Can female vampires get pregnant," I blurt out, gosh it sounds like I want to have a kid with him. His eyes light up and he chuckles.

"Of course they can, but only if the male wants to get her pregnant," he shrugs.

I smile,"o-oh okay," he smirks nudging my shoulder.

"You want kids but you want to be a vampire?" He asks.

"I want kids, but I don't know if I want to be a vampire. I just feel like I was made to be a human, not a vampire."

He shrugs, "I was made to be a vampire. People now have the chance to have eternity," he quietly says.

"Yeah, I guess. Where are we going?" I ask looking around, nothing is really familiar.

"To my vampire coven," I stop in my tracks.

"Why?" He raises an eyebrow at me, it is still frightening to go there.

He sighs,"you can't be afraid of it forever, they aren't going to hurt you Shae," he says reassuring me.

"One almost did," I exclaim.

"Yeah but I killed him."

"Not fully," he grabs my hand intertwining my fingers.

"Just trust me when I say no one will ever hurt you, I could never let that happen," He brings my hand to his lips and kisses my knuckles.

I blush and whisper, "okay."

Eventually we arrive at his 'coven' that's what he calls it at least. I notice new sets of flowers have been put in and all in different colours, it's really beautiful.

He leads me to a little restaurant and opens the door for me and I step in, I wait for him to stand beside me. He grabs my hand again and leads me to a table near the window, he must have learned a lot of chivalry.

"So this is a date," I smile looking around, he smirks and nods.

"Yup."

I bite my lip and stare at him, his mouth his moving but I can't seem to understand what he's saying.

I really really like him, more than I have ever liked anyone.

Even Evan...

No don't remember him, forget him!

"Is something troubling you Shae?" Tyler softly whispers, I look at the table and nod.

"Naturally all girls fall in love, right? And that guy falls in love with you too. My guy was Evan Evens, the double E," I chuckle dryly. "We were so in love, we spent every moment together but one day I found him sleeping with one of my old friends. Everything he said to me was a lie, everything. And it still h-hurts," my voice cracks.

His eyes soften and he reaches across the table and grabs my hand rubbing his thumb over my knuckles.

"Do you want me to make it stop?" He whispers.

"How?" I croak out looking at him through watery eyes.

He stands and slowly walks to me, he crouches next to me and looks up at me. "I could make you forget."

I shake my head, "n-no I don't want to forget. I want to remember what he did so I won't be so trust worthy, I want to remember him like that. B-but I want you to make me stop thinking about that moment and keep feeling so affected and hurt. No, I don't love him anymore but it hurts."

He takes off my necklace and nods, "Evan Evens is a bad person, yes you had a bad past with him. But you're too good for him, all the pain that you feel make it turn into happiness of knowing that you aren't going to ever be with someone like him again. Know that me- Tyler King, will always protect you. Don't let the past memories of him affect you, feel proud that you made it through," I blink staring into his blue orbs. "You don't feel any more pain by Evan Evens."

"I don't feel any pain by Evan Evans....." there's a pause of silence, "but I love you," I wrap my arms around his neck and practically sit on his lap.

"I love you too," I feel him smile against my neck.

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"That was fun," I grin.

"Indeed it was, so you love me ha?" He grins.

"Well I said that," I chuckle and he bites his lip.

"I know."

"I truely-Sam?" I cut off my own sentence, Sam is laying on the ground, her eyes closed.

I rush to her, we are in the vampire area so something could have happened!

I panic as I see blood coming out of her ears and her head turned. "Tyler help me!" I cry, I shake her, "wake up! SAM PLEASE WAKE UP!" I scream.

Arms enclose around my waist lifting me off the ground, I kick around trying to get to Sam. I lookup noticing Marcus, "YOU BASTARD WHAT DID YOU DO!"

"Shae it's okay," Tyler says.

"No it's not! She's... dead," I whisper.

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