Their Vampire Legacy (Complete)

Chapter 38: Past meet Present

AJanae's POV:

My past is literally colliding with my present in the form of 'Mark Brennon' right before my very eyes.

"And hello to you too AJie. Wow! You look great. It's been too long."

"No, no it really hasn't. In fact it hasn't been long enough." I reply, not giving much attention or thought to him pitching up on my front door step, let alone how he found me in the first place. I grab hold of Dean's hand and begin to drag him toward the car, "C'mon Dean. We don't have time for this!" I hiss when he refuses to move, stubborn in his ways, as he glares at Mark sensing that I couldn't stand him and now apparently he can't stand him either without even knowing him. "Dean!"

"Fine. I am coming." he says in a low tone, still giving Mark the stink eye. I pull Dean along as we reach the car. I have to accelerate all the way there, hence me taking over the driver's position and fortunately Dean doesn't seem to mind that I will be driving in his new car.

I climb into the driver's seat, waiting for Dean to join me when I hear, "I call shotgun!" It's not Dean's voice. I am met by Mark at the passenger's side instead of Dean. I sigh aloud but choose not to say anything because that will only encourage Mark further. I have to make out if he is not here and ignore his presence entirely.

Dean restrains himself from knocking Mark out and enters the backseat of his own car, highly strung. He slams the back door of the car shut, making his dislike for Mark pretty obvious, not that I had a problem with it. "I will shotgun your face." he mutters beneath his breath though Mark and I both hear him.

"So this is the guy you choose to replace me with?" Mark gestures to a grumbling Dean at the back seat. "He's your new boy toy now?" he asks, rude as ever to ask such a question as that in the first place. He lost that right a long time ago.

I ignore him and set my foot down on the accelerator as we pull off causing Mark to almost fly out of the window. He can be thankful that he hadn't because if he landed in the road I would just ram him over to make sure that he is dead.

I replay the thought in my head and wince at the violence and brutality of it. This person isn't me. Mark just so happened to bring out the worst in me. He brought out the dark side of me, the side that I kept hidden in fear of someone seeing it.

Dean seems to click at who this person is with what Mark had just revealed. He fumes in anger, "Hey d*ckhead, don't talk to her like that!" He must remember the story that I shared with him of my past with Mark and how he cheated on me.

"He's not worth the waste of breath Dean." I tell him in hopes of calming him down because if he were to attack Mark now whilst I am driving at such a tremendous speed then it is more than likely that I will lose focus on the road and we will all ultimately die in a car crash. 

I'd personally deal with Mark at a later stage when he seemed more relevant.

"Ouch." Mark retorts as if hurt, though I know better.

"What are you even doing here?" I mutter, going against the plan to ignore him because the question had been eating away at me as soon as I laid my eyes upon him.

"I could ask you the exact same question AJie." he replies in a calm demeanour as per usual. Nothing seemed to rile him up though he riled me up with just the sound of his annoying voice.

"Don't call me that!" I snap, the sound of my previous nickname rolling off his lips affected me and hurt me more than he would ever know.

We fall into a silence at my outburst and I wish I could take it back because now I let him know just how much he hurt me. When he's around I just lose myself completely. I lose my temper and act irrational because it's Mark and my mind is quick to associate Mark with pain. I can't be around him because I don't like the person I become when I'm with him.