Chapter 7
The rest of that day was chaos. There were people delivering furniture, and all sorts of other packages. Then, there was the arranging of the furniture, yes, my room was big, but was it big enough to fit all this furniture? I wasn’t sure.
There was nothing for me to do or anyone for me to talk to. Shadow was off in his own world, doing who knows what and Scarlet was off picking out furniture. The only one who wasn’t busy was the one who I wanted to talk to the least at the time.
I mean, she was sure to be ad at me. We’d grown close over my first days here, and now I’d be sharing a room with a new girl. Eventually, I decided to talk to her, to get it over with.
She was sitting on the giant black recliner, drawing in her notebook. “Hey, Sapphire,” I said, sitting on the sofa next to her.
“Hey,” she said, her face serious. I sighed.
“What are you drawing,” I asked.
“You’ll see,” she smiled. The smile confused me greatly. At first, she was serious, and then she was laughing.
“Alright, look.”
The drawing was the most amazing picture I’d ever seen. It was a portrait of me, when I was human. The thing was, the only time she had seen me when I was human, I was practically dead, and after I was healed, I’m not sure if I was actually human, what with being healed by vampires and all. So, she had drawn this blankly, nothing to look off, no memory of me, yet it was drawn with every detail.
She had used oil pastels and maybe even watercolor paint. It looked like a professional artist, that is paid millions of dollars had drawn it. She looked up at me and laughed. I could feel the expression on my face, almost picture it in my head. My eyes would be bulging out of my head, and my mouth gaping open in shock. I calmed myself, finally bringing words to my mouth.
“This is amazing,” I said, looking at Sapphire sincerely. “I mean it. You have some serious talent.” She rolled her eyes, but I could see the hope sparkling in them. “How long did it take you to draw this?” I asked, staring at the drawing.
“I drew it this morning. I didn’t have anything else to do.”
“But how?” I let her assume what I meant. Her eyes were sincere with understanding. “ I never saw you when you were messed up. Sorry for my choice of words, but I didn’t. I saw you as your true self. The beautiful an shining you. It is a part of my gift. When I heal people, I’m almost blind. I have to have someone else tell me what is wrong, or if there is anything wrong at all.
“ I think it’s a bad part of my gift; I can’t see when someone is hurt. I just walk right past them, thinking that they are perfectly normal, but if I knew, I would heal them. I would find some way to do it without them seeing me. I just, I don’t know, can’t see them.
“If someone else was there, yeah, I could help them. They could tell me, but it isn’t the same as seeing it myself. It makes my gift almost useless.” She said, her eyes tearing up. This was the first time I had heard her talk for so long without stopping, besides the story about her father. I guess she saves her words for serious subjects.
“Hey,” I said, putting my hand on her shoulder. Her head was bent, staring at her shoes, so I raised to so I could look at her clearly.
“It’s not useless. You saved my life.”
“But…”
“No. No buts. You are important, you just haven’t discovered the rest of your powers yet. I mean, I don’t even know anything about my power, so you─”
“What power? She asked, cutting me off. Crap. I never even told her about it. I glanced over at her, to see if she had miraculously forgotten about it. She hadn’t; she still looked at me expectantly.
I took a deep breath and told her everything. Well, almost everything. I left out the parts where Bailey and the werewolves were included, since she wasn’t allowed to know about them. Throughout the whole story, she seemed wide-eyed and curious, and for a moment, I was glad that the subject had shifted away from her healing powers. It seems like that is all that happens around here. Random shifts in attention, like we all have a personality disorder or something of the sort. I smiled slightly, and she looked even more curious.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” she asked, seeming hurt.
“I don’t know. Like I said before, I wasn’t sure about it. I’m still not sure.” She nodded her head understandingly. “By the way, you aren’t mad at me about the whole Scarlet thing, are you? I mean, there’s nothing to be mad about, but I guess I’ll understand if you are.”
“No, of course I’m not mad at you. It’s just a girl. No biggie.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
“So, you want to have another slumber party? We could ask Scarlet and everything. This time, we could go all out. We could go to the store and buy all sorts of snacks. Ooh! We could set up a tent out back and roast marshmallows over a fire. Moon, it’ll be so much fun!”
“Sure, I mean, I don’t know about Scarlet, but if she doesn’t want to go, then we can still do it.”
“Yeah, we could probably get her to come though. We’ll say it is a welcoming party. She couldn’t say no.”
“Right, and you’re sure we can just go to the store?”
“Positive. Why wouldn’t we be able to?”
“I don’t know, it just seemed like we weren’t allowed to leave.”
“Oh. No, we can go whenever we want, as long as we tell someone we are leaving. Heck, we don’t even have to tell them where we are going.
“That’s cool. So, when do you want to leave?”
“Whenever you want.”
“Well, I want to get dressed to go out, first. I know we’re not going anywhere fancy, but I haven’t been out in a while. Besides the woods.”
“Sure, sure. Let’s say we head out in 30 minutes. I’ll be in my room watching T.V. Come get me when you are ready.”
“Alright. See you then.”
She walked off, and I stared after her. Those were the quickest plans I had ever made, and she talks really fast.
I walked to my bathroom smiling, in hopes of a good night. A totally unexpected night. Maybe, I thought, we can invite everyone to the party. The tent part could be just us, but we could make the party more social. Maybe even Shadow would come. My smile grew wider at the thought.
My reflection in the mirror showed that I had been in the woods, so I jumped in the shower. I wouldn’t have much time for anything else if I took too long, so I had to be quick. No relaxing.
I threw the robe that was hanging on the back of the door on and began drying my hair. Fast, like everything had to be. I brushed it fiercely, no time to straighten it. Then, I moved on to make-up, applying two light coats of mascara(who likes clumpy lashes?) and a dark line of black eyeliner just above my bottom lash line. It made my eyes look really wide, and pretty if done right. I tried my best, and with the time I had, it turned out pretty well.
I wanted to put on eyeshadow, the sparkly silver that had somehow gotten from my old house to this one, but I had no time. I know, I wasn’t going on a date or anything, but it never hurts to look nice.
Remembering that I was still in a bathrobe when I had to leave in like 2 minutes, I ran down the hallway and burst into my room. The closet doors flew open before I had time to realize that I had opened them. I grabbed the first things I saw, hoping that they matched. It was a purple an black v-neck shirt and a pair of black skinnies. It was a good enough match, so I grabbed a pair of black ballet flats and got dressed.
Eventually, I walked down the hall to Sapphire’s room. The door was open, and she was about to walk out of it.
“You ready?” I asked, smiling.
“I sure am. I already told Xander and everything.”
“Do you have, you know money?” I asked.
“Well, duh.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Haven’t you noticed? We’re kind of rich. Of course, Alix and Xander don’t see it that way, but I do. After living for so long, I guess your money just builds up.”
“Huh,” I said. I had noticed all of the nice things, I just hadn’t thought of it that way.
“Let’s go,” she said, motioning towards the front door.
“I’m coming,” I said and followed her. We walked around the house where I was surprised to find a giant garage. I swear, there was 10 cars in there. Sapphire pulled a key ring out of her big, black bag. A car beeped somewhere.
It turned out that it was in the front, near the garage door. It was a really good thing because I really didn’t feel like waiting for everyone to back their cars out of the garage, just to get to one in the back. I felt a pang of homesickness somewhere deep inside of me when I saw Sapphire’s car. It was a blue Mustang, just like mine, except mine was sitting in the school parking lot because a couple of evil vampires decided that they wanted to walk to “the mall” and then feast on my blood. Yeah.
“You like?” Sapphire asked when she saw me ogling her car. All I could do was nod.
“I wish I had one,” she said, catching my attention.
“What do you mean? You do have one, it’s right here.”
“No, this is yours,” she said, a smile hinting at her lips.
“Are you serious?” I nearly bounced up and down with glee. I realized, with a start, that it was my car. It had the same dream catcher hanging from the rearview mirror and the same little scratch from where I accidentally keyed my own car. “How’d you get it?”
“Vampires have their ways” I smiled and hugged her.
“Can I drive it?
“Of course you can, it’s your car.” She tossed me the keys.
I got in the car and took in the familiar scent of my watermelon perfume. Sapphire got in the passenger side, put her seatbelt on, and I drove off.
“You’re going to need to tell me where to go,” I said once we got to the driveway.
“You just go straight for a little while, and then turn at the first right. Its right on the corner,” she said, turning the radio on. An electronic style song came on talking about a black dress and tights was playing, but I wasn’t really listening. I wanted to talk about the party.
“So, about the party. You think we should invite everyone? The sleepover could be just us girls, if you wanted, but I was thinking if we invited everyone, it’d be more of a party.
“Yeah, sure. They could stay out with us, too. Me, Scarlet, and you could be in one tent, and then whoever else stays could be in their tents.”
“Yeah.” I smiled.
Then I saw a giant shopping center. There was a small gas station, a grocery store, a big mall, and a few other stores. I pulled into the grocery store’s parking lot and turned the car off.
We came back with 2 carts full of all sorts of party foods.
“I don’t know how we’re fitting all of this in my car,” I said
“It’ll fit,” Sapphire assured and opened the trunk.
We ended up covered in grocery bags; there was nowhere else to put them. We laughed and talked about what we would do at the party the whole way home.
When we walked in the house, we got a few weird looks, but when everyone saw we were carrying grocery bags they walked out to help us.
“What’s all of this for?” Forest asked, while putting away a couple of bags of chips.
“It’s for a party. Don’t put anything away, either,” Sapphire said.
I saw Star smiling. She knew what we were planning. Are you in? I asked in my head. She nodded slightly. Where’s Scarlet? She pointed upstairs. Okay. Thanks. I looked around to see if anyone had seen our mental conversation. Apparently, they hadn’t seen it. They were too engrossed in Sapphire’s invitation to the party. I looked back over at Star. If anyone asks, I’m upstairs. I’ll be right back. After that, I slipped around the corner. Music was pulsing from someone’s room. I guessed it was Shadow’s since everyone else was downstairs, and I didn’t think Alix and Xander were the type to listen to music like that.
I opened my door, and saw that the whole room was rearranged. I’d had it for 2 days and now it was completely different. There were 2 beds pushed up against the wall, next to each other. My purple one was closet to the door and the other one had a black and red design.
I couldn’t help but feel a little jealous. She got to pick out her own furniture, while mine was just whatever. I know, I should be grateful for everything they had given me, but wouldn’t you feel the same way?
I noticed that the closet doors were opened and I heard the clanging of hangars. I walked over and saw Scarlet digging through all of the clothes, crying.
“Hey, what’s wrong?” I asked, sympathetically.
“Nothing. It’s just, no one’s ever been this nice to me before. All this stuff is just so much.”
“I know. I felt the same way. I’ve only been here for a couple of days, so I really know what you mean.”
“Oh man! You just got here, and now I’m busting in here taking up all of your space.”
“No! I asked you to. I figured you wouldn’t want to room with anyone else.”
“I guess so. Thanks,” she said, sniffling.
“So, do you wan to come to a party?”
“What party?” She seemed to perk up a little.
“I don’t know, a welcoming party for this girl I know named Scarlet.”
“Really?” Her eyes were wide.
“Yes. It’ll be fun.”
“Okay, but I look all…gross.”
“Well then, lets get you cleaned up. Pick out an outfit, and then we’ll got to my, er, our bathroom.”
“Alright,” she said smiling lightly.
She picked up a sparkling red, spaghetti strap dress.
“Um, you might want to pick out something you can wear outdoors,” I said giggling. “Why?” she asked, hanging the dress back up.
“Because, the party’s outside. There’s going to be a fire and a tent and stuff. I guess I forgot to tell you about that.”
“Oh, that’s cool.”
She smiled and picked out a pair of brown short-shorts and a green t-shirt. “That’s better,” I said and grabbed a sweatshirt for later. She would probably need it. I showed her to my bathroom, and left the sweater on the counter.
“Come downstairs when you’re done,” I said, just as she was closing the door. I walked down to Shadow’s room and heard the music blaring. I knocked harder, hoping that he would hear it over his music. He obviously couldn’t, so I had to try something different.
“Shadow! Open up!” I yelled, and could hear myself over the music.
About 2 seconds later, he opened the door. “Can you turn the music down some?” I asked, pointing to the stereo. He walked away, turned the music off, and came back to the door.
“What’s up?” he asked.
“We’re having a party. You wanna come?”
“A party, where?”
“Out back. It’s sort of a welcoming party for Scarlet. You should come.”
“Sound like fun. What time did you say it was?”
“There’s no certain time set. It’s sort of like a camp out. There’s going to be a fire and some of us will be sleeping in our tents. Me and Sapphire bought a whole bunch of junk food already.”
“Junk food? Really? That’s a first. Usually, they don’t eat human foods, let alone junk foods.”
“Hmm. It was Sapphire’s idea, so I guess she’ll be eating some of it, and I don’t plan on giving up junk food any time soon.”
“Nice. I’ll come then.” He smiled.
“Cool,” I said, smiling” See you there.”
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