My Vampire Romance 24

After dinner everything seemed to lighten up.
Tabitha didn’t speak much still, but it was better than nothing at all.
The family was finally smiling me at and Jasper wasn’t being a royal pain- like he was earlier.
I smiled as I hung onto Mark's arm as we walked around the room, socializing with the family. It was funny, seeing as I didn’t even socialize much around my own family. I was always on the computer writing my own vampire stories. It was ironic that I happened to now be in one of my own.
"I'll be right back," I mumbled to Mark before starting to the bathroom. Nature was calling.
I walked up the stairs towards the bathroom, only to feel a hand on my shoulder. Good thing it wasn’t calling too much.
I turned to find Jasper.
"Kristine, I want to properly thank you for helping my sister. Everyone has tried to get a word from her, and were unsuccessful, but you got her to talk sentences in only an hour. You are a very special woman, and Mark is very lucky." He smiled charmingly at me.
Gawd, I hope he was just being a gentleman. I don’t need another vampire coming on to me, Especially one of Mark's family members; his cousin none-the-less.
"Thank you, but if you'd excuse me, Nature's calling." I quickly got myself out of that potential satiation as politely as possible and went into the bathroom.
I washed my hands before opening the door, only to find Jasper there, waiting for me.
I blinked. Something began to turn in my stomach. This wasn’t going normally. Something was up.
"Yes?" I asked, smiling the best I could, only to have Jasper push me into the bathroom and before I even had a chance to scream, Jasper had shut the door and was holding me against the wall with his hand clasped over my mouth.
It was useless to try and struggle. He was a vampire and I was a human. His strength exceeded my own, and it would be a waste of energy to even try.
I stared wide-eyed up to him. I had no idea what was going through his mind, but I knew I wasn’t going to like it very much.
"I'm going to give you the best gift a human could ask for; Immortal life. The kiss of death." He flashed his fangs at me and my eyes widened even more.
My body began to shake with fear. This wasn’t who I wanted my transformation to be with, nor was it how I had already envisioned it.
I envisioned a covenant ceremony in a grave yard –perhaps in Romania, or some place foreign- with candles lit all over the place and a coffin, draped with a beautiful black velvet and holding one black melting candle and our goblet. And there, standing like a gothic prince, would be Mark as he waited for me to be bonded with him for all eternity. Not to be forcefully transformed in a bathroom by his bipolar cousin- though he was good looking- I didn’t want Jasper, I wanted Mark.
He flashed his fangs to me one more time before he took a swift move towards my neck.
I jerked back, doing the only thing that I could do. I bit down on jasper's hand as hard as I could.
He cried out in pain, ripping his palm away from my mouth and I quickly took the opportunity to grab the door handle and force the door open.
I didn’t even get into the doorway before Jasper had me in his grasp again, pulling me back into the bathroom with him.
I was now on my last resort. I took one deep breath before letting out the loudest ear-shattering scream I had ever done in my entire life. It echoed -not only- in the bathroom, but throughout the entire house.
Jasper tried shutting the door, but something blocked it.
A Shoe; Mark's shoe.
He slammed opened the door, his eyes red and ripped me from Jasper's grip and into his strong arms.
I held onto him so tightly I thought I was going to puncture my palm with my own nails through his shirt.
Jasper's friendly and charming Demeter was now gone.
"What the hell are you doing, Cousin?" Mark growled.
"It was only a little taste, Mark. Nothing major." He flashed both of us a wicked smirk.
My eyes widened. To hell he was going to change me, he was going to kill me!
"Yo-you said you wanted to change me as a 'thank you' not drink me dry!" I shrieked, pulling myself as close to Mark as I possibly could. I happened to be in more danger than I actually thought.
"What?" Mark snapped his head in my direction and looked at me before looking back to Jasper.
He pulled me closer and his eye color turned a deeper shade of red than it already was. "She isn’t yours to touch, Jasper!" He hissed, flashing his fangs at Jasper aggressively. "I would never let you turn her! Never!"
Tabitha, Mr. And Mrs. Johnson, Luscious, and some other family members were now behind us to see what all the commotion was about.
"Come here," Luscious soothingly spoke to me and gently pulled me from Mark's grip. "Let's get you something to drink." He quickly whisked me downstairs and into the kitchen and poured me a glass of water and handed it to me.
He smiled to me as friendly as he could.
"It must be hard on you," He sat down across from me at the kitchen table. "Dating a vampire, then being such an extraordinary woman to have more than one want to be with you," He chuckled a bit as I slowly sipped down the water. "Or to know that everyday you are putting yourself into more danger. I admire your strength and courage, Ms. Curtin."
I smiled to him, thought I was still a bit shaken up from the encounter only moments ago.
"Thanks, Luscious. Must be interesting working AND living with an entire family of them."
Luscious only chuckled a bit.
"I may be in some danger now and then, but I don’t have any of them coming on to me left and right, like you do."
I laughed.
"If that happens, let me know."
Luscious and I laughed.
"I shall."
That’s when Mark walked into the kitchen.
I turned and smiled to him.
"You ok?"
"I should be asking you than," He hugged me tightly. He was scared I could just feel it. His family will want me to be changed into one of them soon, but could he do it? And was I really going to be ready for it? Was I even ready now? Was I ready to give up the life I have, my family, to become a goddess of darkness with the man I loved?
I couldn’t tell, actually. I honestly couldn’t tell.

[To be continued]