HAYDON
I stopped and looked at her. Her hair shone a lighter brown in the sunlight and her eyes became orbs of shimmering gold. She carefully placed her hand on her hip and pursed her lips. She looked as though she were analysing me and for a while, and her eyes proceeded to gaze at my skin.
" Seems like vampires are getting more immune to the sunlight?" it came out more like a question as she then stopped her analysis and returned her eyes to mine where they stayed fixed into a deep glare.
I smiled at her, it seemed as though her mother was really sheltering her from the supernatural world. Almost all vampire hunters knew of our newfound vampire tricks.
" Tablets, injections, potions and even witch's spells can fix that problem.” I then stopped and proceeded to tease her. “Looks like mommy and daddy are keeping their little girl all innocent and away from the world of drugs”
She seemed offended and soon I felt her hands around my throat. I found myself leaning down into her face as she had used her strength to pull me down with her hands. I could almost feel her sweet breath against my skin and, although her actions had caught me by total surprise, I was utterly enjoying this situation and adrenaline pumped through my veins. Her hands were cold, but that just made it all the more thrilling.
“Looks like you’re a feisty little one, aren’t you?” I breathed gently.
“Watch your tongue you filthy, vile creature. I won’t hesitate to kill you,” she hissed out.
Her grip around my neck tightened, making me instinctively wrap my hands around hers. It was then that I felt the tiny sparks I had chosen to ignore earlier. Being so close to her was intoxicating. It was, however, an intoxicating feeling I had never felt before.
“I didn’t come here to fight.” I then loosened her fingers with my own and eventually managed to pry her hands off of my neck and they fell limply to her sides. She seemed shocked at my strength but quickly recovered and asked, “So what did you come here for? And why did you ask for me earlier on?”
I gulped down and quickly looked down to the ground. What was going on with me? Females never made me nervous, but Katerina had my palms all sweaty and my throat dry. I didn’t know Katerina that well. In fact, the only thing I was certain of was her deep hatred for vampires, and her equally deep hatred for me. However, the more I hung around her, the more I realised that there was still something about her that pulled me towards her. She was a magnet and I was a piece of weak, scrap metal, always managing to gravitate towards her. That was why I needed to end it here. My growing curiosity regarding her was a recipe for disaster. Ever since I had met her there had been a growing part of me which hated the idea of Katerina ever being hurt. It was an emotional part of myself foreign to me, but it had become too strong to ignore, and it was, unfortunately, what had led me to the next pitiful display of weakness.
"Look…” It came out louder than I thought it would’ve and so I cleared my throat and took the opportunity to look back up at her. “I just wanted to warn you in advance. The Haydon that you met earlier on today is not the real Haydon. I don’t want you getting close to me at all, it spells only death for you, got it?”
I stood there probably red in the face, and totally disgusted at my blatant “I like you so stay away from me” confession. Thankfully Katerina just seemed confused and eventually interpreted my words in a different way.
“Is that a threat or something? I don’t take lightly to threats Haydon. You said you did not come here to fight, but what you just said proves the contrary.”
I smirked in relief as I realised how oblivious she really was. I decided that this would be a good way to make Katerina hate me even more than she already did, in the hopes that her blatant hatred of me would destroy the magnetic affect she had on me. I just needed something solid enough to get me to stop being so disturbingly obsessed with her. Even this encounter was, admittedly, a product of my obsession, of me wanting to understand what it was about her that had me so curiously inquisitive.
“Yes, Katerina, it is a threat. Stay away from me, or else things will get really bad for you and your family. I’m warning you.”
Katerina and I stared at each other in silence for a moment, and then suddenly I felt a strong stinging sensation on my left cheek. I immediately placed my cool fingers on my hot skin and realised that Katerina had slapped me across the face. I looked up at her in disbelief while she stared back, huffing in red hot anger.
“Don’t ever threaten me or my family again, you filthy bloodsucking pest.” And with that, she stomped away and slammed the front doors behind her.
I stared at the door for a moment, still clutching my cheek which now felt slightly swollen. Was she holding back earlier when she had tried to strangle me?
Slowly I shook my head and chuckled, still unable to grasp what had happened. What I had just witnessed was the complete opposite of the goodey-two-shoes I assumed Katerina was. She was so much more, and it was then that I realised that instead of succeeding at trying to get myself to despise Katerina, I had done the exact opposite. The fire in her eyes had me bound in a cage. I, however planned to stay there silently, never wanting to draw her into the fire cage, never wanting her to burn with me. Katerina and I were born into this world as enemies, and I intended to keep it that way between us.
KATERINAI sat in the bathtub, which was filled to the brim with warm, aromatic, water which emitted puffs of steam and fogged up the room. I was still unable to fully comprehend Haydon Veneziano and his outrageous threat. Who did he think he was? Who did he think I was? Clearly Haydon had been born into this world a privileged twit, believing he was the end all and be all. As if I actually wanted to hang around him like a little puppy. Of course I was not going to get involved with him.This, however was not what bothered me. I had picked up on the words “I don’t want you getting close to me” almost immediately, but had chosen to ignore them, because acknowledging them would have been too awkward for us both.Was Haydon afraid that I would develop feelings if I hung around him too often? Maybe such a thing had happened with other hunters or girls he had met in the past, but I knew I was certainly not one for developing a feelings for so
HAYDONThe slight feeling of wooziness was slowly creeping over me as I downed my forty eighth beer- no that was no understatement. I was sitting in an abandoned warehouse with three other teenagers I had met at the liquor store. I recognised them from school, and they invited me to hang out with them. Admittedly, I did use compulsion and hypnotism to get them to invite me with them since I needed some...distraction and saw this as a perfect opportunity for some small-scale mischief. Also, I had been the one who had been able to purchase the liquor because of said compulsion so it was a given that they would invite me along.The three teenagers fell into the stereotypical “bad boy” category which suited me quite perfectly. The leader was a tall, lank boy named Dean who had messy black hair and the brightest blue eyes I had ever seen. He offere
KATERINAI was walking peacefully down the street, just minding my own business when his scent caught me off guard. Why did the universe hate me?"Katerina," Haydon sang as he walked closer and closer toward me. I tightened my fingers into a fist and kept on walking, pretending not to be fazed by him, but inside I was a whirlwind of fear, irritation, and hot rage. "Oh, Kitty Cat, don't be like that, come on talk to me!" he whined. He was now standing right next to me. His scent was lingering in the air. I sniffed it and sighed softly. Then I focused back on being angry with him.
KATERINAAfter about an hour or so, the school bell rang, signalling the end of gym period. So, I quickly got into the shower and got dressed. Honestly, I did not know what the point was of having PE so early in the morning. Now we were going to be sweaty and smelly the rest of the day. Once I had finished tying my shoelaces, I grabbed my things, packed them away and ran to my next class-mathematics- which I was running late for, again. After mathematics I went to science and the English and then lunch. I walked toward the table where my friends were seated with a tray of macaroni, Greek salad and a box of lukewarm apple juice in my hands. I sat down and looked around for Haydon, almost instinctively and found him further away, at a table crowded wit
KATERINA"They're what!" I yelled as my brother and I continued walking home from school. I had just received the most disturbing news of the day! Today just seemed to get more and more interesting!"Dating. Haydon and Evangeline are dating," my brother said for about the fifteen hundredth time. The more I heard it, the more shocked I got, the angrier I became. I gaped at him in disbelief and slowly felt the rage bubble up in the darkest, deepest parts of my belly. I could not, however, understand why I was so angry though. What could the reason possibly be?"Since when?" I screamed out louder than I should've.
HAYDON"So where exactly is this place for underground fights again?" I asked Jeremy as he grabbed himself a glass of blood from the refrigerator. "At the edge of the town in the old abandoned factory. The code is nine four eight three and the password is ‘Bleed’," he said. Honestly… how original."Uh huh. And what will I be doing there?" I asked. "Well after the fights for cash, there are rounds where everyone can fight anyone till the death.""And who will be there?"Jeremy plopped himself on the dark green
KATERINA"Excuse me?" my mother said while putting a cake tin into the warm oven. "Umm Haydon told me to tell you that he invited some friends over from Italy to umm stay here?" I said sounding totally unsure. "For what purpose and why was he talking to you again. Doesn't he have a life?" my mom said while flicking her long straight black hair away from her eyes. "How must I know mom. I don't read minds like you do." I said sarcastically. She burst out laughing. "Leroy come here quickly!" she said still laughing. My fiery redhead, blue-eyed father came r
HAYDONLuke, Brian, Christopher, Boris and Francis stood in my living room with shock all over their faces."Who is she and what has she done with our Haydon," green-eyed brunette, Luke asked as he came closer toward the black couch that I was sitting on. He had a strange look on his face, resembling a mixture of constipation and squinting."What are you guys talking about?" I asked. Christopher made his way closer to me and sat beside me, his black, wavy hair bouncing as he sat down. He flicked his blue eyes toward me. Then inspected me very, very closely. So closely, that his face was literally in my face."What are you doing? Ever heard of a thing called personal space?" I said, mocking Katerina slightly as I remembered when she had said the same thing to me.