The Vampires Pet

Chapter 13: Halloween

When I woke up, he was already gone, I sat up and rubbed my eyes. Yawning, I looked at the end of the bed and saw a big pink fluffy kitten teddy and a bit of paper beside it. No one was around, so I didn’t need to worry about judgement and grabbed the kitten, hugging it, and then I picked the paper up and saw the words, ‘I’m sorry my little pet.”

If he kept doing adorable things like this, I was only going to fall more in love with him. It was incredibly sweet, his handwriting was beautiful and elegant. I put the paper in the drawer because I was so keeping it, and then I jumped up and ran out to find him in the kitchen making me some cooked breakfast.

I went up behind him and hugged him around the waist, still holding the kitten. “Thank you,” I whispered.

He gave a small smile and said, “I take it you like your gift?”

I nodded against his back and he said, “good, now come sit down and eat.”

I did as he asked, and then we trained for a while, I was slowly getting good at it, he shared with me the knowledge of where to hit a supernatural and how to use your energy as well as the weight of your whole body to pack a powerful punch, I had managed to make him stumble back twice, I was human, so I’d never be able to really hurt a supernatural, but he was teaching me so that I could at the very least stun them, or drop them to the floor and give myself time to run away.

I had successfully swept his legs out from under him a few times when I panted, “I think…it would be a good idea…to have weapons.”

He stood up and folded his arms, which only made the muscles bulge and ripple even more, I tried not to drool because he was looking at me with a cold and serious expression. “Weapons are dangerous to train with.”

“But they would be so much more useful and effective for a mere old human like myself, I would love to learn how to use a blade or a sword.”

He rose his eyebrows at me and said, “you would rather a melee weapon, close combat?”

“Yeah.”

He looked at me coolly for a while and then finally said, “alright, I will teach you how to use a sword, but first you need to learn more hands-on combat and defence.”

“Eek!” I squealed and jumped up and down excitedly.

He frowned at me like I was some i.diotic child, but I didn’t care, this was going to be so cool.

I was still seeing Francesca too and therapy was slowly helping me, my night terrors had calmed down a lot, and she helped me learn some coping techniques. I still had my bad days, of course, but I was doing better.

I had been messaging Michelle everything that had been going on, she was still dating Amdis so I’m sure he let her know how things were too.

Because I’d been stupid and gone out to spy on him, he didn’t feel comfortable leaving me, so instead he had decided when he needed to feed he would pay for another room in this hotel and Michelle had offered to come visit and let him feed on her.

When she called me one night, I asked her, “how are you ok dating Amdis knowing he is also dating and sleeping with other people?”

She laughed and said, “I like him, he is my dream guy, but right now I’m happy with how things are, it’s fun and exciting, and he takes care of me, he is sooo incredibly sexy and hot too.”

“Yeah, but don’t you want him for yourself?”

“I wouldn’t say no if he offered, but I’m also content, it means I can also see other people still, realistically I know it’s highly unlikely a beautiful vampire will want to settle down, least of all with me, he would probably prefer someone more elegant and beautiful like himself, but I’m fine with it, honestly he’s so good in bed he leaves me absolutely exhausted for days, I need the break.”

I just could not understand being casual with someone as perfect as Amdis and not wanting more, but I let it drop, and we made small talk about less intense things.

On the day of Halloween, I was beginning to realise just how right Amdis was about the whole being in heat thing. I had managed to control myself and ignore it so far, but it seemed like it had come back with a vengeance, I was sweating so much I had to wear a red tank top and some pajama shorts I had. I felt almost nauseous, and it felt like I was on fire between my legs, my body ached for some sort of friction and release, but there was none to be had.

I tried to ignore it and focus on Halloween, my favourite day of the year. I forced myself into some leggings, even though they already felt damp with sweat, and I applied some natural glam makeup.

I put on some foundation, mascara, did a cat eye and wore a cream shimmery eyeshadow and added a soft brown lipstick. I left my hair down but using some butterfly clips I clipped my long fringe away from my face either side.

I left my room and found Amdis sitting on the sofa talking to Michelle on the phone. I quietly pretended to mind my own business as I made a drink.

“Yes, I look forward to seeing you too, my beauty,” he said, he laughed at whatever she had said, it was a very cute and boyish laugh, a laugh he never shared with me, I tried not to feel disheartened, after all, he was dating multiple women, it wasn’t like he was unattainable and settled with someone, not that I thought I could win his interest anyway, but it still made me feel better.

When he hung up, I asked, “Michelle?”

He looked over at me and answered, “yes, she’s coming down in a few days, she wants us all to go for dinner together.”

“Me too?” I asked surprised.

“Of course, you are her best friend, and she hasn’t seen you since that one time after your return home.”

That was true, I missed her. He stood up and coming over to me, he asked, “do you think you’ll be ok seeing her?”

“I think so, Francesca has been helping me work on things, and I’ve gotten used to her, my bigger fear is female vampires and if I can have therapy sessions with one, then I’m sure I can manage having dinner with my human friend.”

He smiled and nodded. “That is good, I am glad she is helping.”

I smiled back at him, I had noticed since becoming his pet he smiled a little more than he had before our bond, he was a little more affectionate too, usually only when I was in some sort of distress or crying, but, still.

“Are you dressed for a reason?” He asked suspiciously.

“Don’t worry, I’m not planning on running off again, I wanted us to go shopping for Halloween tonight.”

“You want to dress up as a cat or something?” He asked, deadly serious.

I burst in to laughter and said, “no, silly! I want to get some snacks and stuff, we were going to watch some horrors together, remember?”

“Right, yes. Ok.”

“Come on!” I said excitedly and taking his arm I pulled him out of the hotel room.

I doubt he had ever been pulled around by anyone before, but he didn’t try to shrug me off.

We got snacks, I was so excited and in my own little world as I grabbed crisps, some Halloween snack bowls, chocolates and sweets. I got some fizzy drinks of coke too. Amdis patiently followed me around the shop and would simply nod when I picked something up and asked if we should get it.

I caught an elderly lady smiling at me like I was some overexcited kid, I smiled back, and she said, “you two make a cute couple, I take it you’re getting ready for a party?”

“Oh, it’s just going to be us two, we are going to watch some horrors together.” I smiled.

She looked at Amdis and said, “vampire?”

He rose an eyebrow and replied, “yes, madam.”

She nodded, “well, you take good care of your sweet girlfriend.”

I waited for him to correct her, but he didn’t, all he said was, “I will madam,” and bowed to her.

Smiling, she left us to carry on shopping. We paid for our things, and when we got home I got out some of the decorations I bought, well, Amdis had bought it all. I hung up the scary fake picture frames that moved when you walked by them or looked at them from a different angle.

I got out some cheap skeleton dolls I found, a bride and a groom. Then I spread around some fake spider web and put the plastic spiders in them. Amdis watched me, looking amused by my enthusiasm.

I got the snack bowls out but left them on the side for later for when it was dark. I wasn’t very good at small talk and Amdis was stoic and professional most of the time, so it was pretty silent, in the end, I went to my room and watched some YouTube videos on my phone.

When it was finally nighttime I ran out of my room and saw Amdis looking out of the window.

“You ready!” I asked him.

“Yes,” he replied without even turning around, he had probably heard me getting off my bed, there was certainly no way I was going to be able to scare him or prank him.

I got the snacks ready and put them on the coffee table, everything looked so spooky and cosy. I turned the tv on and asked, “what do you want to watch?”

“I do not mind.”

“You’ve probably seen every horror movie there is, right?”

“Not all of them, no, most females I know or have known are not in to horror movies.”

“That’s boring.”

I saw a hint of a smile on his lips at my reply.

“Ok, have you seen the exorcist?”

“Yes, great movie.”

“Halloween?”

“Yes, again, a great movie.”

“Hmm, Freddy?”

“Yes.”

“Damn it, hellraiser?”

“No, I do not think I’ve seen that.”

“Great!” I got out the dvd for it and put it on.

When Amdis had gone back to clean up the…body, he had packed most of my things for me, including my dvd case when I’d asked.

I forgot just how creepy hellraiser was, and it was freaking me out, Amdis sat there still as a statue and that freaked me out more. I put my arm through his, holding on to it and said, “can you not sit so still it’s creepy.”

“My apologies,” he replied, and it was like he flicked a switch on inside, suddenly his chest was moving like he was breathing, and his body was more relaxed and less stiff, when I hid my face from the gore before me, Amdis put his arm around me and pulled me in against his body.

I had crazy butterflies in my tummy being so close to him, but I knew for him, it was only him comforting his pet, nothing more. He was right, being a vampire’s pet didn’t always have to be romantic, most of the time it was, but it could also be like friendship or family, platonic love instead of romantic.

I snuggled in against him anyway, any attention from him was better than none. He smelt so good, he wore a light musky cologne, but under that, his own smell was gorgeous, he smelt like vanilla and chocolate, yep, I swear he had a slight chocolate scent there too and maybe even slighter was the scent of blood and danger about him, oddly it was a very addictive combination of smells, and it almost drove me insane while I was in heat for him.