Chapter 5

i was writing today and i was like damn this is a long chapter when i realized i was on chapter seven and had only posted up to four.

“Wake-up sleepy head,” a voice cooed in my ear. “Go away Cylor; let me get like five more minutes of sleeping or something.” I waved Cylor back from my ear. “I’m not Cylor, but who is he, just askin’?” “You’re…...” I shot up to a sitting position to find Akumamaru straddling my hips and his face nearly touching mine. I screamed only to have a hand cover my mouth. “Don’t scream dumbass, you’re gonna get me caught by mister grumpy pants.” Get got off of me to sit next to me. In sudden realization I knew why he seemed so familiar and why I didn’t like him. He reminded me of…..me and my friend Cylor. Well, of whom I used to be. I looked at myself. I even looked different from who I used to be. I was no longer blonde, I had lost 20 pounds, I acted more mature and like less child like things. I didn’t cuss anymore or be rude or anything like normal teenagers act like. I had tried to shut out everything of who I used to be. I’d been trying to accept who I was and what will become of me and where I will be….forever. “You okay? Hello? Anyone there?” He waved his hand in front of my face. I slapped it away, “I’m fine. Now, get out of my room so I can get dressed.” “Well, fine, then,” he mumbled slowly ambling his way out of the room. As soon as he got out the door I closed it and slid down and leaned my head ageist the door. It didn’t make a difference who he was or what he was doing or how long he’ll be here. I am who I am and I will be who ever Jasper makes me, since he is my master now and forever. I went into the bathroom to take a much needed shower. As much as I didn’t want to admit it the realization had shaking me up a little. To find such a character in the son of…..in the middle of…..at this time and place. I shook my head sending water droplets everywhere. I dried off and put new clothes on. I walked out of the bathroom to find jasper sitting on my couch. “I heard what happened.” He said silently as I put my dirty clothes in the hamper, “Are you okay. He told me that you kind of zoned out on him. Did he hurt you?” He walked over to me and rubbed my still damp arms as my back was turned to him. “No, no, I guess I’m fine. He didn’t hurt me or anything.” He turned me around, “Then what’s the matter?” I tried to smile, but I don’t think that I was that successful in convincing him, “I’m fine, really.” He just sighed and hugged me and on this rare occasion, I wrapped my arms around his waist and hugged him back. And then, to my shock, I started to cry. For the first time in years I missed home. I missed my mom always yelling at me, my dad beating me. I missed those late nights when my friends and I would sneak off in the middle of the night to smoke or drink or go to concerts or just hang out. I missed all my teachers hating me and failing me at every opportunity possible. I missed all 8 of my half brothers and sisters picking on me and pushing me around, calling me the runt because I was the youngest. When Jasper kidnapped me I thought my life would be better. Yes, I would be forced t o love someone I didn’t love, but it would be okay because I would always know that he loved me no matter how much I hate him. Also that no one would be mean to me ever again. Jasper seemed to understand this he just rubbed my back and told me that it’s was okay. That everything was going to be okay and in that moment I believed him. After I got myself together Jasper suggested that part of this might be low blood sugar since I didn’t have much to eat yesterday. So we went down stairs and he told John to get me eggs with toast and a bowl of cereal. I saw john give the high eyebrow since I never eat that much, but didn’t argue. He noticed the eyebrow and explained lots of food, smaller portions of each. I sat at the table with my head in my hands feeling a headache coming on. I looked up to find Akumamaru kneeling on the table and had his face again inches from mine, “you got a headache or somthin’?” I punched him in the face, “You’re sure an annoying little s**t aren’t you?” Jasper grabbed him by the collar and dragged him off of the table, “This isn’t the way I raised you. Did I?” he grumbled. “I was just asking a polite question? What’s wrong with that?” “Yea, asking polite, non-intrusive, questions is fine. What’s not fine is you kneeling on the table and being inches from a persons face.” “Like you could call a human like her a person,” he grumbled under his breath. Jasper just slapped him, “In MY house, you follow; MY rules and you know what they are.” Later that day Jasper went out to walk the dogs. He said he wanted to get to know them better and that he didn’t feel it was safe for me to go out by myself because of last week’s could be injury. I was sitting on the bed one of the guest rooms listening to music when Akumamaru walked in. I took my ear buds out and glared at him best I could, “What do you want?” He sat next to me, “Hey I just wanted to tell you sorry. I don’t normally act that way, but I’ve just never seen a human kept as a pet like you before and I wanted to find out more about you. People have tended to call me, a little, uh, abrasive.” I laughed and then realizing I was laughing stopped and tried to frown, “Yea, I guess they’ve got that right.” “So, maybe we should start over. Hi, my name is Akumamaru.” He smiled widely and stuck out his hand to be shaken. I hesitantly looked at it and slowly reached out my hand to shake it and said quietly, “I’m Alice.” “Aw, come on. You’re going to be all sky now. What happened to the brave young girl who punched me this morning?” “Hey, I blame that on low blood sugar, and don’t usually, you know, go around punching people,” Though I tried to be serious while saying this but a smile now dictated my face. “You’ll be fine around me then, I hate sour blood,” he made an icky face and we both started laughing, “You know when your not around mister grumpy pants your not that bad of a person.” “Don’t talk down upon him like that.” “Well, why not? He keeps you hostage here and tried to make you love him when you obviously don’t. I don’t know how or why your still here. I mean I got away when I was 13 and you’re what? 16? 17? 18?” I nervously fingered my dog collar chocker necklace that I always wore, “He saved my life and that’s the least I owe him.” He looked at me suspiciously but decided to drop the subject. I asked if he wanted to see the house and he agreed. When Jasper came home he found Akumamaru and me pleasantly chatting over a glass of wine. I was half way through my first and he was finishing his eighth. Apparently alcohol doesn’t affect vampires. I grew sleepy from the long day. Jasper pulled me next to him as I started to fall off into sleep. Apparently Akumamaru and Jasper thought I was asleep as their conversation progressed. “So, how did you find her? She is quite the unusual person, not someone you would find and suddenly fall in love with her enough to take home with you and you don’t seem the type to make rash decisions.” Jasper sighed deeply and ran his fingers through his hair, “I never planned to keep her, actually originally I was going to kill her. You see, she helped this old man out around the house, cooking meals, doing dishes, cleaning, and stuff like that. In order to have a clean kill for another person I needed to get rid of the old man, he knew too many things in all his years. Unfortunately she was there when I came to kill him. She was upstairs and I came up there was went to drag her down there to kill her next to him. She fought yes, like most people do, but she didn’t scream. I was already struck by her beauty and she seemed different from the rest. I thought that maybe I couldn’t kill her; maybe I’d just have to leave her in the middle of the woods to die or something. We got to the stairs and she kicked at the wrong time and in the wrong place so she fell down the stairs. I heard a loud crack and knew from the way her leg was positioned it was certainly broken. She just sat there and cried, not big bawling tears like some people do when I say ‘boo!’, but she just hung her head and big tears fell down her face. Then I did a stupid, stupid thing. I picked her up. She gripped my shirt and asked ‘When? When will this be over?’ Not, why or how or what did I do, but when. My heart melted. There was nothing I could do; I was wrapped around her finger. I took her home and cared for her and she’s been here ever since.” There was a long silence, “Wow….” Akumamaru sighed, “but you still don’t seem the type to make that rash of a decision.” “Well, I was already thinking of bringing someone to the house whether to make another one of us or to keep as a pet and opportunity presented itself so…” “So, you don’t plan to make her a vampire?” Jasper flinched at the word, “When she’s old enough maybe, she seems willing enough.” “My only question is why have you kept her so long when she obviously doesn’t love you as you love her?” “What do you mean by that?” “She does love you just not in the way you expect/ want her to. Now answer my question.” “I hope, I pray, that maybe someday she will. Could be from love, could be from desperation. I prefer love, but I’d settle for the other.” “Why doesn’t she escape like I did?” “You see that necklace she wears all the time?” “Yea, I’d think it a little edgy for you?” “Well, it is an actual dog collar. It tracks where she goes and if she tries to go outside the property lines she’ll get a shock so hard that it’ll knock her out cold.” “No way!” Jasper nodded, “Yes, it seems desperate, but I haven’t told her that so I know so far she’s stayed here almost of her own free will. So, why did you end up coming over here?” “Well, you see I was originally in the area cause I….” I tried to listen longer to the conversation, but it had been a long day and that glass of wine was settling in. I tried but it wasn’t much longer till I slipped into the unconsciousness of sleep.

Author's Note

sorry can't fix the paragraph issue yet, tried and tried but it insists on being a butt hole. You know i wonder how many people actually raed this?

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