High School

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"They're... Alright actually. Not as boring as I thought that they would be," he says, walking with his hands in his pockets. "What about you?" Emery wasn't so good at this kind of talking, just normal civilised conversation. His brother, obviously, excelled in the matter. Why did Emery's brother always do everything better than him?

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"The only class that I'm not bored in is choir." She says, then moves her shoulder in a circle. "One of the worst parts of this retched full moon is the day after." She whispers and rubs her shoulder with her hands. It sucked, and she knew that it wasn't like being a vampire where there is this constant hunger for human blood. Leela shudders a bit at the though, then brushes a loos strand of hair behind her ear.

 

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Emery stopped near their locker, where they always seemed to be during break, and he looked at Leela. He wondered what it actually felt like to phase, and it looked like the aftermath wasn't pleasant either. He grabbed Leelas arm and pulled her towards him, turning her so her back was to him, and he started rubbing her shoulder with his hands. "It sounds like it really hurts to phase." He mumbles to her, he didn't want anyone listening in on their conversation and thinking they were crazy.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"What part gave it away? The cracking of the bones or the growing of a tail?" She asks, allowing him to rub her shoulder. Thank god I'm not facing him. Her face was as red as a tomato and her eyes were closed. Her face cracks into a smile, though, when he shoulder starts to feel a thousand times better. "Thank you."

 

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Emery laughs, and after a while stops rubbing her shoulder, leaning back on the lockers with his hands in his pockets, mentally cursing himself for acting like this. He pretends to think for a second, "I think the part that gave it away the most, was definitely how you just let me, being what I am, touch you without complaint." He smirks slightly, reaching into his bag instinctively, then pulling his hand out empty. He had forgotten that he wasn't allowed to drink in school anymore.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"Hey, you're good with the backrubs." she says, and puts her book in her locker. "My shoulder feels just as good as it did before." She says, sticking her hands in her sweat pants pockets. Her head starts hurting so she unties her hair and lets it fall loosely around her shoulders, she didn't care if it looked good or not. "This must be torture for you." She says, glancing around at all of the people walking the halls, she knew he'd be getting hungry.

 

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Emery nods at Leela. Progressing through the day his eyes had got darker, from a brown to a black, his vision a little cloudier, and he could only just hear Leela's voice over the sound of heartbeats and blood rushing through peoples veins. It was becoming harder and harder for him to control his actions, just so that he didn't hurt anyone. "There's nothing I can do about it."

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"It's really not the right way to teach self control." She says, and leans against her locker. "If I were a," She shudders "vampire, I'd teach myself self control by putting myself in a room with one human, instead of like, five hundred." She adds, and adjusts her jacket. "Just think, we only have a couple more classes, then you can go home and drink all you want." She says, she had all of this quietly, so that only he could hear her. She didn't want to be misunderstood by somebody, they'd be the laughing stock of the school.

 

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Emery nods again, and smiles slightly. "I'll be fine anyway, I have to do this." He shrugs his shoulders, and watches some people walk past. Their movements seemed slowed down and blurred, he was seeing double for a moment, but that wore off after a few seconds. He moved to look at Leela, "But putting yourself in a room with one human is much different to five hundred, for one thing, you can't hear it as much, or smell it," He says equally as quietly.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela nods and clasps her hands behind her back. "True, I guess I never really imagined it." She says, and closed her eyes when a group of screaming boys go past. "Humans, I swear they're so obnoxious." She says with a smirk on her face. The boys hadn't helped her headache by walking by yelling at the top of their lungs. "You know what? I'm going to go to the nurse and take a nap on her bed thing. I'll see you at lunch." She says and rakes her hair back before walking towards the nurse's office.

 

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Emery nods and walks the opposite way to her to psychology, he sat at the back today, his head on the desk. He couldn't even hear the teacher, all he could hear was the blood rushing in people's veins, they're hearts beating. Every one of them, it was deafening, his head started pounding, his eyes reaching the pitch black of night. He dug his nails into his arm. He was starving.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela walks into the nurses office but stops, and her eyes widen. They were taking blood today, and a really really stupid idea hit her. She sneaks over to where they kept the packages of blood, making sure that nobody saw her. It wasn't hard to do with her small size. She grabs one package and stuffs it in her jacket then stands up. "What do you need, hon?" The nurse asks from her office and Leela jumps. "Oh, uh, sorry. I was wondering if I could uh. Lay down for a little bit?" She asks and the nurse nods. Leela lays down on the bed in the corner and puts the pillow over her head. Emery was going to have to wait until lunch.

 

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Emerys head felt like it was going to explode, his throat dry and his stomach felt as if it was going to cave in on itself. He chewed on his pen hungrily, before realising what he was doing and stuffing it in his pocket. When the bell rang, his senses heightened, the sound deafening to his ears, he felt like death. He stood up, gathering his stuff and trying hard to concentrate on not ripping one of the other students open right there. He could almost taste the blood. He walked out of the classroom, and to his locker, everyone else heading to the cafeteria. He slides down his locker door and brings his legs up to his chest, burying his face in his arms, images of blood dripping from the girl he had killed rushing back to him.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela rushes out of the nurse's office and hurries to her locker. She knew he was there because she could smell him. "Emery!" She says, seeing everybody was out of the hallways. She sits down next to Emery and before she pulls the package out of her jacket she looks around, making sure there was nobody watching. "They were taking blood today." she whispers and holds out the package for him to take.

 

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Emery looks up when he smells the blood, something different about him. His skin was paler, and his face looked thinner, his eyes so dark if you looked into them you could feel pain, his teeth sharper, longer. The bruise on his face the only colour, he didn't look human anymore. He looked at the package, reaching out to take it before he heard her heart beat, the blood rushing through her. His gaze turns to her neck, seeing the vein throbbing, hearing it calling him. He can't tear his eyes away.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela's eyes widen when she sees him, and she looks away from his eyes. She had an uneasy feeling, but she held the blood in front of his face, trying to draw his attention to it and away from herself. "Emery, take it." She says, tears welling into her eyes. "Please take it." She repeats and her eyes closed, waiting to see what he does.

 

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This is wrong. This is wrong, I need to stop. Emery was screaming inside his head but he couldn't control himself, he reached out to touch her neck. STOP. Emery gained control, if only for a moment, he grabbed the blood in her hands and drained it, the blood trickling down his chin in a single line. He didn't take his eyes off Leela's for a single second while he drained it, something inside of him wishing that he was draining her instead. When he finished he stood up, wiped his mouth, and stood still for a moment, before he turned and slammed his fist into his locker.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela jumps up and looks at him. "Emery, calm down." She says soothingly. "It's okay, you're okay now." She says, and goes to touch him but she thinks better of it. Her hand stops in mid air and then slumps back down to her side. She opens her locker and grabs her wallet, then opens it and checks how much money she had there wasn't enough to buy an energy drink so she tossed the wallet back in her locker and shuts it.

 

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Emery rests his forehead on his locker, taking deep breaths, his hearing and eyesight back to normal, his skin still pale but not deathly. He turns to look at Leela. "I was going to hurt you. I was going to kill you." He states, looking her in the eye, his teeth clenched. He looks from her to the door, his mouth opens and closes, as if he's going to say something.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela smiles and leans against her locker. "I knew you wouldn't hurt me, Emery." She says, and it's true. Deep inside she knew that he wouldn't hurt her, she didn't know why she felt that way, she just did. "Look, you're the only vampire I've ever met, but I'm assuming any others wouldn't hesitate to kill me. You hesitated." She says and bites her lip.

 

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"But I was going to. I thought about it, about just... Just draining you, right here. I pictured it." He says, his body tense. Why didn't he kill her? Why did he stop himself? Emery scratched his neck and looked down at the floor, before looking back up at the door. "I'm sorry. I'm not staying around, I'm not going to hurt you." He begins to walk to the door of the school, to the exit. He was running away from his problems and responsibilities, all because of some girl. Why didn't he want to hurt that girl?

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela looks at him, staring at his back. She shakes her head and runs up to him, stopping in front of him. "You're not going anywhere." She says, her stubborn side kicking in as she crossed her arms and tapped her foot. She then sighs and grabs his hand, holding it up the her face. "You're not a monster. You can learn to control yourself, it'll just take time."

 

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He looks down at her, his hand cold on her warm skin. "I'm a parasite. I would eat everybody here if I got half the chance and I wouldn't look back or feel guilty about it. I am a vampire, I drain the blood from anything with a pulse without a second look. It is in my nature to kill, and you're telling me I am not a monster?" He looks away for a moment, making sure that no one was around before looking back at Leela. "There is an ugliness inside me that is impossible to love, to control. I am tainted." He steps away from her, removing his hand.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela closes her eyes. Shouldn't she agree with him? It was the way she was brought up, wasn't it? She shakes her head and opens her eyes again, this time a look of determination was in them. "You," She starts pointing a finger at him, "You are not a monster. You wanna know how I know? Well, I can't tell you because I don't even know how. All I do know, though, is that I can see it in your eyes. You don't want to hurt anybody, therefore, you won't. I believe in you, even if your screwed up family doesn't."

 

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Emery becomes annoyed, how could she not see how much danger she would be in if he was around her, she should fear vampires. He turns his head away for a moment before turning to look at her. "I have killed more people than any member of my family, and I meant to. I got satisfaction from their pain. Some of them I even prolonged their deaths. I want to hurt everyone, Leela." His voice sounded pained, and he finished his sentence off in his head. Everyone but you.