White Fangs [ON HOLD]

Chapter 6~ Vampires 101

Arielle P.O.V

I inhaled the sweet smell of Liam's cologne refusing to even move a muscle. I knew me just apologizing to Zayn would get Harry pissed off and those were my intentions. I hated the way he played with my mind and he really did still scare me, but I also did soften up to Zayn. He didn't want an apology and I gave him one because in my eyes he did deserve it after all. So did Harry but I would never admit that.

Liam ran his fingers through my hair and glanced down at my neck. His eyes widened as his hands traveled down the sides of my face to my neck, outlining the two holes that still laid bruised upon my skin. "Nialler come here and look at this.." he said tilting my neck. I allowed him to examine the neck bite I still had. Maybe he could tell me who it was, it was a long shot though."What happened?" Niall asked, rubbing the back of his head with a confused expression. "I fell" I blurted out breathlessly. Niall's eyes squinted and then turned to Liam for reassurance. "That's a vampire bite," he stated. Liam's eyes narrowed turning to Harry, who looked like he was deep in conversation with Louis and Zayn."Harry!" Liam shouted to get his attention. He walked over to us and smirked at me. Urghh this boy.

"Look at her neck" Niall said taking a seat on the sofa. His pure skin looked extremely pale while his blue eyes glistened in the dim light. I took a minute to stare at his gelled up blonde hair that was deep brown at the roots. He looked drained of energy. I winced backward into Liam as I was brought back to reality with Harry's long slender index finger examining my wound, circling around the bites and rubbing gently over then.I didn't mind since Liam was right there to protect me, well that's what I hoped. "Yeah and what about her neck?" Harry asked raising an eyebrow. "It's a vampire bite, have anything to share with us?" Liam asked suspiciously. "Oh yeah, I bit you" he said shrugging his shoulders and collapsing on the couch next to Niall. It was like it was no big deal for him. My eyes blinked a couple of times registering the possibility even though I couldn't remember a thing. "What!When!" I shouted turning to Harry who yawned at my sudden outburst. "Erm, the other night I think, you tasted good" he complimented resting his head on Niall's shoulder. I blushed and looked down rubbing my neck. He just complimented me on the taste of my blood and I blushed, that was just not right at all."Why did you bite me? And thats all that happened right?" I asked looking suspiciously down at him. There was no telling what could have happened, besides him sucking my blood obviously, but why me? "Well basically I was hungry or thirsty, same thing I guess. And uhh you were there so umm yeah. N-no nothing else happened.." he trailed off stuttering, ruffling his thick curls around, that shifted perfectly right back into place, and I think his cheeks turned a shade of light pink if i wasn't mistaken. He couldn't be blushing because of me, he said nothing else happened...but then again this is Harry Styles unpredictable and defiantly on my 'don't trust' list. He was hiding something, I couldn't read his emotionless facial expression but it looked like he just had a flashback. Yup, his cheeks are pink again. I mean there was no reason to get angry for him biting me since the damage was done already but it was frustrating not even remembering it. Though, my lip was swollen and had bit marks placed at the very top line of my bottom lip. Did we kiss or something, that was a possibility wasn't it, but no we couldn't have. He had just met me, it was probably spur of the moment and an infinite craving of my blood so he wanted to bite the vein in my bottom lip, is there even a vein in your bottom lip? Urgh this is so frustrating.

"I think we should have a group talk like right now, "I suggested batting my eyelashes at Liam. "Why!??" Harry whined. "Because I have tons of questions, and you should be fucking thankful I'm even agreeing to this," I retorted taking a seat on the carpeted floor. That shut him up. Louis sat on the floor next to me, while Liam took the other seat to my left. Zayn jumped on top of both Harry and Niall stretching his body across their laps. I giggled and brought my knees to my chest. "So I guess I'll start with asking why I can't remember when Harry bit me.." I said resting my chin on my kneecaps."It's called compulsion. Us vampires dilate our eyes while looking into our victim's eyes. When we do that it's almost like we just hypnotized the person into doing anything we say, and most times we ask them to forget current events. Like Harry did with you" Louis explained grabbing my hand and fiddling with my fingers. I let out a deep breathe starring down at the faded brown carpet. "How do you manage to walk outside in the sunlight, aren't vampires supposed to burn and blow up?Or sparkle?" I asked still starring blankly at the ground. "This isn't Twilight, we don't sparkle. Non of us are Edward Cullen.We have these special sun rings that allow us to enjoy the daytime light like normal people" Zayn explained holding up his hand that had a blue and silver ring resting just above his knuckle on his right ring finger. I nodded my head trying to understand how that was even possible. "But how does the ring protect you from the sun?" I asked confused on the topic. "A witch made the rings, putting a spell on the material to allow us in the sun, without burning to a crisp." Niall said without effort. Great, now witches were real, or so they said but then again I'm talking to vampires so I'm open to any fictional creature being real at this point. "Oh.." I simply replied amazed any of this was the cold truth. "So in a fight who would win? Vampires or Witches?" I asked turning to Liam. "Well you see witches try and keep balance with the world, channeling their energy from nature while others practice it for evil. Witches have an advantage over us since they are the protectors or keepers. They can disturb our mind set sending excruciating pain through our bodies immobilizing us. So in order to beat them, you have to be extremely quick and clever. The element of surprise wouldn't hurt. But witches would be the reining victor," Liam explained with concentrated eyes. "Going back to being quick, how is it that vampires can be anywhere in the matter of seconds?" I asked turning to Louis interlocking our fingers. He seemed harmless with his soft blue eyes, and inviting personality. "It's another trick we have. Vampires are clever and slick always wanting the element of surprise. So we can appear to a close destination very quickly by running. But it has to be close, we can't just teleport to another country, it doesn't work like that," Louis answered smiling gently at our intertwined hands. "Oh, and vampires can't enter a house unless invited in by the owner of the property, so we can't just run into anyone's house. I have no idea why things are like that but they are" Louis added with a loud laugh, making the room more exhilarated. "Sorry Elle but we only have time for at least two more questions.Our body guard Paul texted me to get the lads home, we have an important interview early in the morning," Liam stated slipping his phone back into his pocket. "Okay, umm do werewolves also exist?" I asked with curiosity and fear. "Yeah, the dogs exist" Zayn replied with a laugh. His laugh was soothing and made me smile. "They are bound to the moon curse while us vampires are slaves to the sun, but we have a shortcut" Niall said with a smile wiggling his fingers revealing his green and silver ring. I looked at the rest of the boys hands and they all had blue and silver rings, I guess since Niall is Irish he wanted a green one. With the tone of voice toward werewolves I've inferred that vampires are superior or that's how Zayn and Niall made it sound but I guess it's different views from both sides. I wouldn't want to meet a werewolf anytime soon, vampires are good enough.