Wild Soul [Romance, Fantasy]

[Sako-chan]

Hello people I'm finally back with a new chapter... Scuze pentru pauza kilometrica, am avut multe de facut si inca mai am... Oricum, sper sa reusesc sa recapat din nou atentia voastra ;)

[center]♫V.Not to be the only one…[/center]

I had no time even to climb into my bed, and I heard the front door. Just like I was, barefoot and wearing my pajamas, I followed Joshua. Where the hell was he going in the middle of the night?He went downstairs and exited the flat building. I followed him silently. I heard a crow and I saw a red shine. Even if the light wasvery low, I saw him.
Joshua had the struggling crow in his hand. In the second he plunged his teeth into its throat, the crow stopped moving. When he finished, he threw the crow in a trash can close to the place he was in. He had blood on his mouth and he licked his lips. The first word that came to my mind was…VAMPIRE.
I did not stay there anymore, I went back home and got in my bed, not wishing to think about what other animals…or people…could Joshua kill at that time. After a few more minutes, I heard the door open and shut and I immediately fell asleep.
Next morning I woke up soon. Joshua was still sleeping – wow, I didn’t know vampires could sleep. Because he was definitely sleeping, since his eyes were closed, his mouth was half-opened, and he was staying in a
weird position he would for sure change if he were awake, knowing I was next to him (his feet were climbed on the highest spot of the sofa, but his head was down on the floor, making him stay in a candle-like position that made my back hurt only while I was looking at him; plus, a thin wire of saliva –oh, yes, saliva! – was falling on the carpet from the corner of his mouth; surely sleeping). It was very hard for me not to laugh out loud and pester him the rest of his life about it.
I fried some eggs. While I was eating, Joshua entered the kitchen, wearing his light blue panda-head pajama. I couldn’t help pestering him at least about his baby-like pajamas, could I? Exactly. No, I couldn’t.
“’Morning. Did you sleep well?” he asked.
“Yeah. But how about you and your panda-boo-boos?” I laughed.
“Shut up!” he said, looking embarrassed down at his pajamas. “Pandas are cute.”
“And so are you wearing them! Oh, Joshie-poo just pooped in his baby pajamas? Oh, poor boy! But I’m not gonna change your swaddling band.”
He growled and his face turned red.
“You damn…” he murmured, throwing me a killing scowl.
“Err, calm down, dumb, I’m just kidding. Your pajamas are sweet.” I said, giggling.
“Um…Thanks…I guess…”
“I’ve cooked you some fried eggs…If that can be called ‘cooking’, though.”
“Oh…Thank you.”
He ate them and said they were delicious, but I knew he was lying.
We went to school in his car, he, at the steering-wheel, and me, on the left seat.
On the school’s hallway, Kim cut my way and dragged me next to a wall, where there were not so many pupils.
“You owe me some explanations. Where’s your car and how’s it going that you came to school in Joshua’s?”
“My car is fine home and…it’s not a so big deal…Joshua just offered to drive me and I accepted.”
“Oh really.” Kim said, sarcastically. “Like I’d believe you that easily. If Josh offered to drive you, then that means that this morning you were with him. How’s that going?”
“Well…Dad made me live in Joshua’s flat.” I said, trying to look indifferent.
Her eyes became big.
“No way!” she said.
“Way.”
“Whoa…Weird. I’ve never understood your father’s ideas.”
“Yeah, nor me, and he’s my father. Listen…after the classes, let’s meet at Greenbank. I have something important to talk to you about.”
“OK.”
After the last class, we both went to the park, on a less-circulated alley, and I told her everything that happened since Derek appeared and until the last night’s Joshu-vampire.
“Impossible!”
“Possible, and true.”
“Wow, so vampires exist…”
“Alice, Kim, can I speak something to you?” a voice said.
“Spying again?!” I said, noticing that the voice was Tom’s.
“Yes. And it’s very good I am.”
“Wait…you’re Joshua’s brother, right? Does that mean that you…” I started.
“…yeah, yeah, me too.” Tom interrupted me. “And so are…”
“…let me guess. Ben and Jake?” I said.
“Yes. And Derek and Joseph are part of another…err, similar group, I can say.”
“Whoa…many vampires.” I said.
“More than you can even dream. The ones from the Sin gang are vampires, too.”
“No way! Seriously? Are we really talking about the same shy Noah and sweet Milly?”
“Yes, we are. But don’t tell anyone about us, OK?”
“Um…OK…But why not?” I said, not even thinking at what I was saying.
Of course humans would kill them if they found out.
“It is…complicated.” he said, probably not even willing to think about that. One more thing: Josh…”
“No, he doesn’t know I saw him.” I guessed.
“Then I won’t tell him. I’ll tell everybody, except Josh. And I’ll ask the others do the same, OK? I’ll wait for you to tell him yourself.” Tom said, smiling at me.
“Thanks.” I said, smiling back.
“Come, I’ll show you something.”
“OK.” we said.
Tom took both me and Kim on his shoulders and started running with a speed of about 80 km/h. He stopped in a field full of multicolored flowers. The sweet scent of the flowers was floating in the air, and the beautiful colors of the petals looked divine. My head was floating spinning because of the fast, unexpected move before. Tom lay on the grass, looking at the sky. We stayed like that for a few minutes, then I heard a familiar voice.
“Hey, what are they doing here?” Jake asked.
“I thought this was our place!” Ben added.
“They know, guys.” Tom said.
Ben and Jake immediately knew what he was talking about and looked at Tom as if he had an atomic bomb instead of head.
“How the hell?!” Jake asked.
“Alice followed Josh, last night, when he went hunting. And, by the way, don’t tell him the girls know…I suppose you already know the reason.”
“Yep, fine then.” Ben and Jake said at the same time, laughing, then they sat o n the grass, in Turkish position. “So…is it true that you and Josh moved together?” Ben continued, turning his head in my direction.
“Yeah…dad’s orders. Anyway…what kind of bound is between you and my father? Does he know about vampires too?” I asked.
“It is…complicated. And yes, he knows about vampires.” Tom said.
I started getting bored about the word “complicated”, because I had the impression that everybody was hiding something from me, and it had been twice already in less than an hour that I could hear it.
“He ordered Josh to look over you so that what happened with Derek won’t happen again.”
“And, more exactly, who’s this guy, Derek? I mean, I know he’s a vampire, but what does e want from me?” I asked.
“That’s…complicated too.”
Again? Oh my. I sighed, knowing that I wouldn’t get anything more from them.
“By the way, where’s Josh?” Ben asked Tom.
“He went after that pink diamond he had received from Lungersburry and left in California.”
“That was in…um…1800 or so…” Ben said, thinking.
“Almost. It was in 1797, remember?” Tom said.
“Oh, yes! I remember now. I met you for the first time two years earlier.”
Oh, dear God, that’s so weird. I wonder how old they are…Antique, probably.
I heard a phone ringing.
“Yes?” Tom answered.
He listened to what the other person was telling him, then said “OK” and slammed the phone.
“We have to meet Josh on Bloomsbury, next to the British Museum. He said he met somebody-I-don’t-remember-the-whole-name-locks or so. He seemed worried. Alice, you and Kim should stay here.”
“I don’t think so!” I objected. “I’m coming with you! Anyway, Joshua will be mad at you if he finds out that you did not keep an eye on me.”
“Oh, fine. Did anyone tell you before that you’re impossibly stubborn?”
Kim and me looked at each other, since she was the last one who told me that just a few days ago.
Tom took us on his shoulders again, taking us to a silver Volkswagen. We all got into the car.
“Why are we going by car?” Jake asked.
“So that Josh won’t find out that the girls found out (yeah, I know that sounds weird) that we can go there faster without the car.”
When we arrived on Bloomsbury it was already late, the museum was closed and there was nobody around. Except, of course, Joshua. He guessed why me and Kim were there too and did not ask anything about our presence.
“OK, so wazzup?” Tom asked.
“I’ve met a guy Brilocks, like I told you, and he said he spied the ones in Hell – Nicolas asked him to – and they were planning to catch Alice again, but this time it is worse.”
“What do you mean by…worse?” I asked fearfully.
“They are going to use…drastical methods. They want, through you, to reach your father. You know he…err, you know what his job is like. He threw in jail one of the Hell guys and now they want revenge.”
So Joshua already had a story made for me, but I believed nothing from it. I knew that dad was working for an antitheroristic organization – like C.I.A. or F.B.I. – but I did not know what to believe anymore. Anyway, I decided to act as if I believed him.
“And what should I do?” I asked.
“Not only you. Kim, too. I am absolutely sure they’ll use her to reach you too.”
“And then what should I do in these conditions?” Kim asked, worried.
“There’s nothing to worry about. I’ve already worked out everything. You’ll stay in Tom’s flat.” Joshua said.
I could see the smile that passed like a flash on Tom’s face, then disappeared as fast as it appeared.
“But can’t we – me and Alice – stay in the same flat, and you guys in another? Anyway they’re neighbouring.” Kim suggested.
“No way. That’s what we decided, and that’s how it will be like. If you, girls, stay in one flat, alone, it will be easy for them to catch you.”
“Still, I don’t think so. My parents are awful. Even a summer camp scares them, with lots of teachers, what would they only think when hearing the idea of me living alone with a boy?” Kim said.
“I’ve worked this out, too. I’ve spoken to your parents.”
“And they agreed?!” Kim asked, astonished.
“I made a long speech about the idiots who are after Alice. I told them that they would do anything to reach her - they would even use you! -, that you were both in danger and that even Alice’s mega-protector-when-it-comes-to-boys dad agreed. So they approved too.”
“Hey!” I protested. “The thing with mega-protector-when-it-comes-to-boys is mine!”
Joshua giggled.
“I’ve already brought your stuff to Tom’s place. Let’s go.” he added and we all entered the car.
Good for us that Tom’s Volkswagen was big enough to keep inside six not-so-thin persons.