The Vampire Hunter

Chapter Nine

I look up to see a pair of beautiful blue eyes staring back, it was Lloyd. He is really going to kill me? After all, he is a vampire. That is what they do. I'm sure he would not even hesitate to snap my neck. But I am surprised as he stretches out his hand and offers it to me. I refuse and get up myself and do my best to brush the mud off of my jeans.

"Leila, don't run from me, please? Let me explain." He begs, his once stern eyes turn soft.

"B-but, my parents. They need to k-know." I stutter, trying to catch my breath.

"Why do they need to know? What are they going to do?" He questions me with a serious look on his face.

I don’t know if I can trust him or not. But what is the worst he could do? Tell everyone? Kill me? I really didn't care anymore. Because I was capable of doing the same back, if it came down to it.

"My family, we are being hunted. By the First Borns. We are on the run from them. Because we know how to k-kill them." I say without looking at him.

"Your family are hunters?" He asks. Then his eyes widen as he says, "Did you kill Scott?"

I don't say anything, I know he's going to hate me either way. There's no point trying to cover this up anymore.

"Well, Did you?" He hesitates to raise his voice, but does it anyway.

"No! No! I didn't! My brother did! He just wants to impress my parents! He does stupid things, Lloyd! Everyone does!" I shout back.

"Are you saying my own brother died because your brother just wanted to impress your parents?" His voice begins to waver. Suddenly Baelen finds us and puts a hand on his brother’s shoulder, telling him to calm down before he hurts me. Lloyd then closes his blue eyes and starts breathing deeply, keeping himself under control.

"Lloyd, I know you don't want to talk right now. I don't blame you. But you need to know I don't like killing vampires, I never have. But I can't exactly tell my parents that, can I? I would never hurt you, or anyone.” I look at Baelan.

“And I wouldn't have hurt Scott, either." I know it won't make any difference, but that's all I could do.

I turn around and walk home leaving the brothers alone. I feel confident that I won’t be their next meal any time soon, but I cannot promise them the same regarding my family.

***

As soon as I reach the front door to the house, I hesitate to open it.

Act normal, just act normal.

What is normal, at this point? How can I, a daughter of vampire hunters, successfully act normal in front of said vampire hunters? I sit down on the front porch, rehearsing the lines in my head.

Hi, mum! Where have I been? Oh, just stalking this guy that I like’s brother. Turns out they’re vampires and they’ve just buried their other brother who was killed by my brother.

This whole situation involved too many complications, and too many brothers.

I think I have established the fact that Lloyd is a vampire, there is nothing I can do about that. But keeps spinning in my head is the fact that I was starting to warm to this guy. Do I still feel the same way?

What would my family think of me? They'd probably kick me out and feed me to the First Borns. And I don't blame them, I'm a disgrace to them. My whole life I've been taught to hate vampires, to spit at them for being abominations. But they aren't any different from us humans. Not really. All they do is go day by day trying to survive. Minus the killing people part. I could see it in Lloyd’s eyes, he cares. Him and Baelan are mourning Scott, and they are clearly capable of emotions. If only my parents knew this.

I find my feet taking me away from the front door. I needed to speak to Lloyd again, if he’s not sick of me by now. So I make my way to the hospital.