Finding Calypso

Family

Chapter Fifteen

~Calypso~

I wake up with my body snuggled against a warm chest. I recognize his smell and snuggle closer wondering if this is a dream. I feel James embraceing me tighter. When I realize a bit shocked that I'm really here.

My hands reach up between us as I settle them on his chest. I feel the muscles in my arms begin to shake like something inside me wants to push him away.

When I hear him say

"Come here"

He pulls me in closer, and I feel him bite deep into me. His venom put me under his spell.

"Ugh" I let out a gasp.

I bite him back and he laughs at my attempt to bring him the same pleasure. I fall deeper into him so in love, so happy to be back in his arms.

"What took you so long to come find me?" I ask.

Vowing In my heart that I will never leave his side.

The thought of the night he hurt me floods into my mind, but now they only feel like pleasurable thoughts. I beat myself up knowing the only reason why he left me is because I denied him. Denied him of the one thing I would never give him. The one thing I want to give him now, over and over again.

His hands run down me while biting his lower lip as he takes in the sight of my body. I let him touch me. Not one atom of me denies it. I feel one of his hand slip just past my waist band when he stops.

I let out a little wine that says please don't stop.

He chuckles and says

"Isn't this where you say I'm not ready? "

I think back at all the times we have been right here in this same scenario, and I would push him away. I hated myself for it and wished I could take everyone of those moments back.

I slipped my hand on his and pushed him deeper into my pants.

I hear him whisper "Caly" in pleasure as I make him feel me.

When the door flies open!

"Is she awake" I hear Gretchen's voice.

James pulls his hand away as I tried to hold him there. I was hypnotized by his touch, I didn't want anything to stop it. I could see James look at the door, but my eyes stayed locked on him. He looked back at me and chuckled.

"Well, I guess I should leave y'all girls alone to catch up" he slid off the bed with pure grace, and he leaves the room.

When flop Gretchen takes his place next to me. Sending me bouncing from her impact.

"Gretchen" I say excitedly.

When she wraps her arms around me and lays her head on my shoulder.

"I'm so happy you're here. We have so much to talk about."

As she said this, I begin to recall faint memories of the night before.

"So are you ready to meet Octavia?"

My heart dropped a bit still holding hate for her. Remembering when I saw James and her a little too close still makes me sick.

Hesitant to answer, I say

"Yes"

She jumps off the bed in excitement, and is already at the door waiting for me when I make my way off the bed to approach her. Just a little nervous to learn what's beyond this room. I don't recognize the home I'm in. It is absolutely magnificent. I don't think I've ever been in a home this nice. I followed Gretchen down the hall and down the stairs. Watching her glide as she walks. She has a new found her grace to her. Her pixie cut normally disheveled doesn't have a hair out of place. What was once an ashy brown now shines a golden sandy tone. Her whole body looks as if it illuminates.

We begin to approach voices murmuring in the kitchen when I catch eyes with James leaning against the counter pouring coffee in his cup.

Then Octavia blocks my view as she approaches us.

Gretchen joins her side like a little puppy excited to introduce her to me.

"Caly, meet the love of my life" Gretchen says, eyes glued to Octavia's undeniable beauty.

I could hear how genuine Gretchen was as she said this, and it made me want to like her.

Then James comes and joins me by my side. Just him being closer set all my worries at ease, and I gladly reached my hand out to great her.

Octavia shook it and I could feel she was honestly happy to meet me.

"I've never met someone like you" Octavia says, as she releases my hand.

"What do you mean?" I ask, happy that the tension had left the room

"I mean, I've never met another beast like you" Octavia responds.

I had almost forgotten about the night before and the animal that is inside me. She feels absent in my mind.

"Oh… Ugh, I've never met a beast like you before either" I awkwardly say, rubbing the back of my head nervously.

"Well, have a cup of coffee with Gretchen and I. I would love to hear more about you. It is rare for me in all my years to see something new" Octavia insists.

I pour myself a cup and come join them at the kitchen table that had fresh croissants laid out.

Gretchen offers me one before she grabs herself one and takes a bite.

"So I'm curious, I thought Vampires only drink blood?" I ask.

Octavia laughed at this.

"What? " I ask, feeling dumb.

"Not everything is like the movies." Octavia says, a little sarcastically, but not in a threatening way. "Did your family not teach you about other kinds?" she asks.

"I guess not" is all I respond. I remember when I felt my beast inside me. I had all this knowledge at my finger tips, all her instinct, and now everything feels lost. My inner animal gone. I try to search for her in the back of my mind.

Octavia's eyes flash at me, trying to read me. Wondering if I'm speaking the truth.

"Well, how about I tell you a little about me and my family and you tell me about yours?" Octavia goes on to ask.

I feel her curiosity, but it seems generated by ulterior motives. I wished James was beside me because I feel like I've entered an integration, but he had wondered off.

"I don't know what about me I could tell you" I answer truthfully. I don't know what I've become.

"Honestly, Caly, I don't know how you never told me" Gretchen chimes in.

"There is nothing really to tell" I say.

"I'm sure that's not true. You are a rare beast. I'm still not sure what you are" Octavia says, poking her nose in the air trying to smell my scent.

I sit awkwardly not knowing what to say when Octavia begins chatting away.

"Well, to answer your question, no, we don't just drink blood" she laughed out loud with Gretchen and that caused me to let out a little giggle.

"And we don't have to drink blood" Gretchen adds, as she looks at me, looking a little guilty at the thought of eating humans.

"Then why do you even do it?" I asked.

"With out fresh blood, we can't enter into the sun. For a long time it was illegal for us to feed on fresh blood, but since the monarchy fell vampires all over are coming back out into the light." Octavia said, obviously smitten. "I've been alone for a long time" she goes on in a sincere tone. "We're not born this way, we have to be turned. It has been forbidden for hundreds of years to make more of my kind. In all this time I had to watch my family die one by one until I was the only one left." She puts her arm around Gretchen, for comfort.

"But you're not alone now" Gretchen adds "we will always be a family."

At this moment I was happy to be here. We did feel like a family.