Four

The next afternoon he brought me lunch in bed, which is so romantic. I'm liking him more and more, though at the same time I think maybe this is going too fast since I've only known him for two days and we've shared the same bed for a night. I really can't wait to talk to Jade about this until I had an epiphany I still had to make it past my brother when I got home. Well good luck to me on that, ha-ha like that's going to happen.

Tristan drove me home, opened the door for me as I was getting out and kissed me, man I wasn't expecting that! He is a great kisser I didn't want to stop and then of course I saw Alex standing outside the door waiting for me, sadly I broke off the kiss and said "text me later?" he nodded said goodbye and drove off. I miss him already. Now I had to be strong and fast for the on slot of questions I was about to be bum-barded with and run to my room and lock the door before he was on my heels. I called Jade; that will kill some of the questioning. "Hey Jade, I just got home, yes from my date! I have to dish come over quickly" I hung up and to my surprise Jade pulls up, she must have been in the area or something but I'm glad she was here. We both made a mad dash past Alex, but I think he was ready for my evasion technique. Damn him. "Alex, I know you have questions but I don't have time right now Jade and I will come down in about two hours and then you can ask me questions but not before. He seemed to accept this answer; before he could say anything, Jade and I were flying up the stairs to my room and locking my door.

"Okay Autumn, dish! I want to know, why weren't you home last night? This is so cool!"

"You're so funny; we just saw a movie, went to a bar, had ice cream, and then had a romantic walk on the beach before he took me back to his place—"

"You're telling me you spent the night in his bed?? Did you sleep in what you would sleep in, in your own bed?"

"Well yes miss finish my story for me! I did sleep in his bed in my trademark oversized t-shirts and panties… just the shirt wasn't mine. Nothing wrong with that and yes I did sleep in his bed even though he offered me my own room for the night. But anyway, he brought me lunch in bed! He is so romantic and he's 5 years older than me," I finished, panting a little bit. "So tell me about our new furniture. Mom said spare no expense, what she really meant is, don't be cheap but don't spend a fortune."

"We'll get back to that, he's 26 years old, that sounds like you're type of guy, now only if he were a vampire he'd be perfect for you! Ha-ha! But I went to Ikea and picked out some leather desk chairs and queen size beds black for you white for me and a bunch of other things that you will see when we went to school, but I didn't make too much of a dent in our budget. I spent $6000 of our $24000 budget. I've gotten everything so the rest I'm leaving in the account for anything else we need." I don't think she even notices how nervous I am right now… since she said "vampire" but that's okay I'll just play it off.

"God I love you so much! You're so good at this shopping and being reasonable. So we still have $18000 left of the crazy budget our parents gave us huh? That's cool. Well, Alex is going to have to help me move to school, but as you know I am currently car-less my mother is having Alex take me to by a new car!!"

I can't believe how beautiful she is. It's so tempting to just bite into her and taste her blood, but that of course wouldn't be the way into her heart. I want to make her mine, but I don't want to force her into the life I have even though I can feel how much it interests her to be a vampire, it emanates off of her like a wonderful perfume. At the same time taking her life away wouldn't be a positive thing and sleeping next to her was nice, something I am definitely going to miss when she goes away to school. I know I'm falling for her, but I won't tell her that that wouldn't really be fair to her I'm going to have to make the best of this next month and see where things go from there. Wait, I didn't leave the door open when I left to take Autumn home. "Hello Tristan"

"Jaiden"

"So big brother, courting someone are you?"

"You do realize Jaiden that we are no longer in the 17th century. It's the new millennium act like it. What are you doing breaking and entering in my house and how did you get a ring to stand the sun?"

"You're not glad to see me? Well, that's a shame. I procured a ring in my usual measures since I don't have the powers that were bestowed on you at birth."

"What you mean is that you coerced it out of a magical human, hopefully not in this country. Why are you here don't you have some skulking to do someplace in Europe?"

"Can't I come visit my brother for a little bit and just want to see you?"

"No you can't, you're evil you always want something, and now you're breaking and entering into my house and think that I am one glad to see you two that I'm going to help you. To that, I say you have lost your fucking mind. So get out of my house."

"So hurtful Tristan. What about that girl you had over? I can smell her all over the house and all over you. Have a good meal? But of course you didn't you want to be a 'modern gentleman' so then what was she here for? Wait her scent is familiar; it's that girl you and your loser friends have been watching. You've finally made you're move, what do you plan to do with her?"

"I must tell you none of this is any of your damn business, but I'm betting you know that! Just get out before I do something I've wanted to do for years!" Jaiden fled, but I knew he would be back of course that's what annoying little brothers did. You'd think he'd grow out of it after more than three hundred years, but no. He left me with a lingering thought that promised he'd be meeting Autumn, but he was going to be in for a bumpy ride.

"Alex I get you don't like him but you don't like any guy I talk to. You don't even like the guy that delivers the mail because he said hi to me. Don't you think you're taking things a bit overboard? Why don't you trust me to be okay? Don't even answer that I'm going to tell you now no matter what you say I'm not going to stop seeing him because it's what I want now do what mom said and take me to the car dealership so I can pick out my car." We left in that instant but Alex was still brooding like it was going to make a difference whether or not I did date the guy, it's not like I'm dating Tristan despite Alex because we only went on one date and I actually like him my brother is just going to have to adjust.

At the car dealership, I couldn't decide if I wanted a SUV or a sedan. I want really good gas mileage because Western is 300 miles away from home and actually civilization and to get to a decent mall, I had to go three hours into Iowa. To get to an amazing mall, I could either make the 5 hours to northern Iowa or the 4 to Missouri and, of course, come home, but still, that's a lot of driving to consider. It's not like I have a job to pay of all this gas, I mean I still get an allowance from my mother. The only thing I knew definitely was that I wanted a Honda, toyota or a Hyundai. The question is do I want a SUV or a sedan. I am a bit of a speedy driver and that is harder to do in a 'grocery getter' as my mother calls SUVs but the SUV hold more bags for shopping. So what carDo I want? Alex who finally got over his brooding he knows lots about cars and helped me pick out a Genisis, I got it in black it is such a sexy car, not as sexy as the Lexus that Tristan drives but still sexy in its own way. Per my mother's orders, my brother made sure that my car had all of my most wanted customizations, to keep me from borrowing her car. We drove off the lot with the car that day. I told Alex I was going to do some clothes shopping and was going to go pick up Jade so she could see my new car. First I called Tristan, he didn't pick up, but I wasn't leaving a message I hate leaving messages he'll know I called. Jade was next on my list I called her told and said I was on my way to her house.

"Autumn, your car is so much nicer than mine is! I love it!"

"Jade you drive a Toyota rav4 it's not a bad car I just loved the Genesis and yours is as new as mine is you just got it a couple weeks ago!"

"I know, I know. I didn't pick it out though. Anyway where are we going shopping, dad gave me a few bucks to spend on the both of us he said we need to save our money for things we needed like school supplies… I think we need it for all the college parties we're going to have!" I just laughed and we went to every mall in our area and that's a lot they all have different things to offer and three of them had our favorite store Torrid. We know we're plus size girls but that doesn't mean we can't look good. I mean after all 'real girls have curves', plus sometimes they have really good deals on clothes and some of them are designer!

We spent the rest of the day shopping until I got a call from Tristan. "Hey Tristan, I just wanted to say hi and I was wondering if you would like to join Jade and I we're going out to dinner, it's totally on us! Okay, we'll meet you at the Thai restaurant in Libertyville! See you then." I was extremely happy and picked up the speed to go see him.

"Hello ladies, how are you this evening? What have you been up to?"

"We did some clothes shopping around the area throughout Lake and Cook counties it's a before we go back to school thing." I responded, Jade was just smiling in a dumb nervous way.

"Well, how about we go in and eat, and you can tell me all about today's adventures and how you came about a new car, it's really nice."

We went in and ate and we told him all about today's events, he didn't seem to be the way he was this afternoon I wonder if everything's okay. We had fun and talked until the place closed and kicked us out. Jade definitely warmed up to him. Sadly we parted and he was gone.