Bright blue eyes regard him sternly as he awoke from a deep slumber. The dream still clear in his mind. Bridges with beautiful cascades surrounding them, flowers falling downward, roads curving beneath them. The brilliant blue of the water and the sky that now seemed dull compare to the brilliance of this blue.
"Come to hunt me in my dreams too?" he asked dreamily to a girl with the features of a goddess. Dark brown hair parted to the side. Straight nose, pink pursed lips, big round eyes that were so blue, he couldn't look away from those eyes.
She could come and hunt him all she wanted.
"No idiot, now would you wake up?" she said reaching down to take the blanket away from him, "I have something to ask you," she continued in exasperation.
He closed his eyes again. Sure that it was all a dream. Surely a girl like this wouldn't be in his room, at least not without paying first.
She pinched him. Hard enough to leave a mark and convince him it was no dream.
"Ouch. How the hell did you get in here?" Gabe asked startled. Damn her nails hurt, he thought with a hasty look at his arm.
"You have a very wide window with a very good view of the street," she answered eyed him with eyes that said she thought he was a wimp.
His eyes narrowed.
"What do you want?"
"I already told you"
"Fine, what do you want to know?"
She sighed. Finally they were getting somewhere.
"In the party tonight, how deep was the kiss that you and Lady Scarlett shared?"
He looked at her with wide eyes. You had to be kidding me. This dark beauty was in his room to know how deep him and white-haired girl had kissed?
"I'm serious," she said after a few minutes of quiet astonishment from him.
"I remember that there was tongue involved yes. Exchange of saliva and I'm pretty sure I'd been chewing on a piece of gum at some part of the night that had not been in my mouth prior to that kiss."
She closed her eyes, which he now noticed were dark with mascara and eye liner.
He had a feeling she was beautiful without the make-up too.
"You are an idiot," she said touching the bridge of that sculpting nose.
"Do you know what her saliva contains?" she continued without opening her eyes or giving him a chance to speak.
"It contains venom. Venom," she emphasis the word before continuing, "that would not kill you but would make you wish it had."
"Bright sunshine personality, I like that." he said giving her full smiled when she opened her eyes.
She gave him a murderous look.
If the venom doesn't kill me, he thought, she will.
"And now I have to take it out of you. Try and be more cautious next time you go out swiping saliva with strange girls," she said walking up to him.
He lay there. Too stunned to move. As she leaned down and kiss him full on the mouth.
She was moving her lips against his. Whispering words he couldn't understand but had a dim feeling they were in Spanish or Italian.
She bit down on his bottom lip and he couldn't help but gasp as she began to suck his blood out.
His whole body began to tremble as more blood was being sucked out of his lips. When she stopped, it was only to take a quick breath before moving up to suck his upper lip.
"All done," she said finally letting go of his aching lips after what had to be the longest two minutes of his life. Sitting back on the bed, she swipe a hand across her mouth.
He could do nothing but stare.
"What no questions?" she asked looking at him with eyes that burned his own.
He linked his lips, "Who are you?"
"I'm Sarah," she answer looking around the room. Taking in the band posters and books. Oh and the mess that took over 95% of the room.
"Why were you sucking the blood out of my lips?"
"I told you, I was getting out the venom that poisonous bitch put in you."
"What is this venom anyway? What does it do?" he asked not entirely believing her. The thought of her being a vampire was too amazing to let die so soon. He needed proof that what she was saying was true.
Sarah sighed, "It depends on the sex of the parasite that kissed you. Since it was a girl that kissed you the venom would have lured you in to her. Making you want to be near her all the time. Giving in to her demands until you died. You see the venom is addictive and the more of those kisses you get the more you want be kissed by her."
"Not as bad as you made it sound."
"If you think that you're a bigger idiot than I thought."
"What if it had been a boy that kissed me?" he asked.
"Then you would have a parasite growing inside you by now. Taking over your body little by little until you yourself became a parasite."
"Growing inside me?" he asked bewildered patting his stomach idiotically.
"Yes, growing inside you and taking over your body," she said giving him an exasperated sigh when he continue to pat his body.
"Is not inside you now idiot," she told him sternly.
"How would you know?"
"Because when I sucked the venom out I also checked your body for signs."
"Oh," he said letting his hands rest on the bed at last.
"So how did you know I had the venom inside me?" he asked when a couple of awkward minutes had passed by. And by that he meant it had been awkward for him. Sarah looked perfectly at ease and cool.
"I was there when it happened."
"You mean when she kissed me?"
"No, I mean when the Big Bang happened," she said with a roll of her eyes.
"Well I didn't see you there so please spare me the sarcasm," he said feeling his eyes harden.
"I was the one who pulled John away from you, you do remember John right?"
John. . . Brown Plain John.
"I could have taken him." he said refusing to sound thankful to the girl who had intervene in his behalf.
"He could have killed you," she said without emotion on her voice, "He was there to kill her keeping her from doing harm. Instead you show up with her to the party. To the trap he'd set up. Believe me, he was ready to tear your head off."
"He wanted to kill her?" he asked startled. Plain Brown John was now a murdered?
"He killed her," her voice kept that cold, detached manner as she continue to explain how he'd killed her and why. For Lady Scarlett to really die John had to make her kiss him first since only a victim can attack their masters. He had to do it quick also before she knew what was happening and used the venom to command him to stop. He then had to burned her bones to ashes to make sure no one could have access to her saliva. Someone had to suck the venom from him also but without a master the venom went dormant inside and so didn't need to have it removed immediately.
"Who are you people?" he asked when she was done explaining. Her face, her eyes showed how remote less she felt about death.
"That is not something you need to know now," she said standing up and walking with the grace of a cat to the window. There she paused and turn to look at him, eyes cutting him again with their hidden depths, "one thing you must remember about Carries is that when they kiss they bite hard enough to leave a mark. They are hard to spot to your untrained eyes but," she hesitated before pulling a string out of her pocket, "keep this. When it starts burning it means you're near one. The more it burns the more power the parasite possesses. Keep it well hidden for is not guarantee you will ever get another one." she concluded tossing him the talisman. A warm blue stone lay in the palm of his hand. It's surface cool like the night. Somehow he knew that when he turned his face upwards to the spot she'd been, it would be too late to say good bye. Too late to have a glimpse of those soulful blue eyes and too late to say thank you for saving his life.
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