Inject Me Sweetly / Dusk Until Dawn

:Dusk Until Dawn: [Chapter: 15] //A Vampire Romance//

"You're looking rather pale today. Do you feel okay?"

"I feel fine..."

For some reason, I felt a little discontented. I was sort of expecting him to say something more... well I wasn't sure. But something different.

"Well. In that case, why don't you come over today? Dustin, you should come as well."

"I don't want to."

I pursed my lips at Dustin. His attitude towards Damian changed every five minutes. Sometimes he would at least remotely get along with Damian, and other times he was as antisocial as an angry cat. The least he could do was attempt to be nice.

I licked my lips, trying to get the dryness away. "Well you don't have to, Dustin."

Dustin's faced lit up and he nodded. "Good."

"You're so..." I laughed, in attempt to find the correct word for what he was. Would it be partial? But that wouldn't make sense. I shook my head. It didn't matter.

When we reached Damian's house after school, we all trooped into the living room. I sat down on one of the black leather love seats as Callie and Damian took a sofa across from us, and Ayden a chair to the right of the sofa.

There was a silence as we all stared at each other. Callie even took out nail polish and started to paint her nails. I raised my eyebrows at her. All the questions I had early had seemed to disappear as I sat down with the group of vampires. It was a little nerve-wracking.

But there were tons of questions I could think of on the spot. How did they become vampires? How do you become a vampire? How are vampire hunters decided upon? How do you even kill a vampire? Were they allergic to sunlight, garlic and crosses or holy water?

"How did you become vampires?" I finally asked, breaking the silence.

"Well," Ayden started. "A long time ago I..."

There was a moment of silence as I sat waiting patiently for Ayden to continue. I began to drum my fingers on the loveseat as the silence stretched on.

"And that's how we all got to be vampires."

I stared at him. "You just edited out the whole story!"

"Did I?" Ayden replied with a smirk while Callie and Damian snickered.

I growled at him and crossed my arms. "And here I was, ready for an exciting tale of tragedy."

Ayden smiled. "I'm just kidding. In the 1800s a clan of vampires attacked my family."

"You have clans?"

Damian chuckled, and I turned towards him.

"What do you think we are?" he questioned with a slight smirk.

I couldn't help but smile. "Okay, I get your point."

"Anyways, if a vampire intends to change a human into a vampire, they can release a special enzyme that allows the transformation to occur. The clan that attacked us only attacked us because they wanted their clan bigger."

"The bigger the clan, the more feared you are," Callie added, a small smile on her face. "Vampires can be nasty when it comes to their clans."

I frowned. "How come you can go out into the light?"

Ayden laughed. "Are you referring to myths? We don't burn in sunlight. It just gets a little uncomfortable because it warms up our skin, which is a feeling we are unaccustomed to."

"And garlic?"

"We have very sensitive noses," Damian responded instead of Ayden. "It's not just garlic either. It's all foods that have a sharp and distinct smell."