Life changes in a short time

Chapter 16

1 ½ months ago

Back to Athena's POV:

We had gotten back home and the great Zack which I say with the most sarcasm in the world, came with us. We had been back for a week now and believe it or not when I told Grace what happened with Zack taking my cloths she laughed so hard she almost peed herself. Nate and I had been hiding Zack from everyone, I just was not sure if it would be ok if he was around and with Grace even if she like to hear about him. But my plans came to a stop when Grace and I were out shopping and just having some good old girl time.

Grace and I were at the mall when I heard my name being yelled from the other side of the food court. When I looked up there was Zack. Grace must have seen him because she grabbed onto my arm tightly and asked "Who is that?" I rolled my eyes and signed before he was in front of us. putting a smile on my face I intruded them to one another. We all sat down after getting some food, I did my best to block them out because they continued to talk the whole time. At one point I did not think Grace had even taken a breath throw out the conversation. Finally butting in I said "Zack where is Nate and why are you not with him like your suppose to be!" he chuckled "I left him at home I was tired of staying in the house all day and I would think you did not want me around your friends or family!" I could see him playing the sad card and it did make me feel a little guilty about keeping him away but it was his punishment for the stealing my cloths thing. I just gave him a knowing look "I'll call him to pick me up and ya'll can hang out or something!" I got up from the table and called Nate, 20 minutes past before he showed up and I jump in heading back to his apartment.

I was a little worried about going to Nate's apartment I had never been here before, he was always at my house. But now that I was here I understand why it was boring looking, plain white walls and all black appliances. The small amount of furniture was plain white as well and it looked really bad together. "Well this is nice!" I knew he was going to tell that I was lying by my voice. He just smirked at me saying "I know your lying but once we are married you won't have to worry about this place!" I just frowned, what did he mean by that. "Do you want me to cook dinner or go out for it?" Nate asked breaking my train of thoughts. I just smiled at him "why don't you cook I miss it!" He nods his head "well let's go shopping for dinner!" I followed him out the door and to the car.

Nate's ideal about shopping was for me to stay in the car and for him to run in and within 5 minutes he was putting the food in the car. I sat back and relaxed on the ride back to his apartment, if I knew that this was his ideal of shopping I would have stayed at his place.

Walking in we put up the food and then I headed to roam the place. I was in the living room looking around which finding out he really had nothing to look at but the TV worked thank god or I might have went crazy. "Nate how do you stay here?" "I don't most of the time we were traveling and then the whole school year I was with you most of the time, sleep, shower, and change was the only things I ever did here." he stated from behind me which made me jump, I thought he was in the kitchen. I turned around and he had the smirk on his face again, "just relax and watch some TV dinner will be ready before you know it!" I nodded my head and turned on the TV and channeled surfed the whole time.

"Dinner is ready!" Nate called from the kitchen, shutting off the TV I went in and the food looked great. We ate in silence until we were done. I helped him wash, dry, put up, and clean the counters off before returning to the living room and settling to watch a movie. I must had fallen asleep after starting the movie because I woke up in Nate's bed with him cuddling to me. A little bit of sun came throw the window, I guess it's morning time to get up. I wiggled my way out of Nate's arms and to the bathroom, which by the way is white on white. I would not mind it but it was bright in here after waking up. It took a few for my eyes to adjust to the lighting before I did my morning routine. After finishing up I walked back out to find a pair of basketball shorts and a t-shirt of Nate's waiting for me on the bed. I dried off and got dressed feeling very comfy in the cloths. I could smell bacon and eggs cooking which had my mouth watering and my stomach growl, heading out and into the kitchen Nate was standing there shirtless over the stove. A smile creped onto my face watching him cook. You could feel it was a passion of his and it relaxed him in a way. I never really noticed before but then again not by my choice. I was always pushed out of the kitchen or he would cook and make sure he was done for I got out of the shower or something, so this was a first with him. His shoulders were relaxed and he was humming to a song in his head. My heart started to beat faster just knowing that he was all mine, but with just my luck my phone went off right at that moment. I walked over to the counter were I laid it last night and see it was a text from Grace. I looked down on it and what I was reading had me stunned, but before I could fully read the long text Zack walked right throw the door with the biggest smile I had ever seen him have, on his face. He swiftly walked over and picked me up swigging me around. I screamed at first then I was just mad for some reason, he had no right to just pick me up like that. Once I was back on my feet he walked to Nate and gave him a big hug and walked into the bedroom for a shower.

1 month and 1 week ago

Grace and I we sitting on my bed with the music playing kind of loud. We were just sitting there enjoying the music, letting the vibrations cover our body's and let the feel of the instruments smooth over our minds. I had noticed a change in Grace for the past week but I was not sure if it was the right time to ask about it. The text she had sent me a week ago told me enough for my liking, I just wasn't 100 percent on board with her dating Zack. I knew they were having fun together and believe it or not Zack was helping Grace and my Mom on the wedding. I know a male even being interest in this was a shock to me, Grace jumped on the ideal and my mom just took it in stride. My biggest fear about him helping was he would play another joke on me or Nate at the wedding, but when I brought up the ideal to Nate he just told me not to worry he would not do something that stupid on a special day like that. I knew I might have been over reacting but this was Zack, he liked to play pranks. Then when he hugged me at Nate apartment the morning after he was with Grace, I felt mad at him for no reason. Why would I be mad he hugged me that was not me at all but I could not come up with anything to explain why that happened in less it had something to do with my gift. But that would not make any since because I've had my gift for a long time now and nothing had changed with it, or could it be the fact that Nate can block it from me now changed the way I can read vampires. I had to push those thought way this was just supposed to be me and Grace time, and that mint that my brain should not be in overdrive to the point I get a headache. Her and Zack had been together nonstop all week long and we had no time to hang out. But today that changed, Nate took Zack to do guy things and it was just us girls. The song had just started to change into a hard bass song that could make your heart skip a beat if it was set up right. With my eyes closed I felt the bed move but no sound was heard, the player had stop as well. I felt eyes on me and I pecked throw my closed eyes and seen Grace standing in front of me with this look on her face like she wanted to tell me something but she was afraid she say it wrong.

"Grace just come out with it before your head starts smoking from your thinking!" I heard her huff out a large amount of air before the bed sunk down were she was sitting. "You might want to sit up for this it's weird!" I opened my eyes fully now and looked her straight in the face, the seriousness was on her face so I sat up and nodded my head in understanding that this was important. She took a breath in and out before she started talking. "Athena, do you believe there are other thing is this world beside humans?" She had a nerves look on her face so I nodded my head yes, trying to keep my mouth shut so I don't interrupted her. "Well you also know that I really like Zack and so far I believe he has been nothing but truthful to me!" I nodded for her to keep going. "Well Zack's a vampire, but don't freak out he won't hurt anyone!" My eyes were popping out of my head when she said this, god what am I suppose to say back to that. "Grace, don't you think that is a little off in left field, I mean that not possible there just mythical!" I looked at her seeing if she believes the lie that just came out of my mouth, and to my surprise she rolled her eyes at me. "Just forget it, let's talk about something else!" I was ok with a subject change and once she leaves I'm going to kill Zack she doesn't need to know the whole vampire thing, but for now I need to push the thoughts of how I was going to kill him. I zoned back into what Grace was babbling about and decided that It was something that I really didn't want to hear about. She had been going over and over what her and Zack had done for the past week. It had turned late and she decided to head home, once she had got out the door and enough time had pasted I headed back to my room to make a phone call.

Nate's POV:

Zack and I were out doing guy things but the funniest part of this whole thing was Zack was not able to shut up about Grace. I knew the girl was sweet and all but I had never seen him like this before. "Hey man, can we stop talking about Grace and your time for now?" He just rolled his eyes before saying "I had to listen to you about Athena the whole time I needed your help, payback is a b***h now isn't it!" I knew he was right so I let him talk hoping his mouth would seal shut. We were heading out to feed after the bar Zack had forced me to go in, but the place was not that loud until a football game came on, it was a old one but drunk people don't seem to care much. I heard my phone beep in my pocket and I removed it quickly seeing it was a text from Athena I opened it

We need to talk your friend made big trouble it read. My eyes popped out and not in a good way. I look over at Zack and he was off in his own world by the look on his face. I called Athena, she answered after the second ring.

Athena: ZACK'S An i***t!!!

Nate: Ok stop yelling at me and we can figure this out!

I could hear her breathing in and out trying to gain some control.

"Ok, what has he done now?" "He told Grace he was a vampire and they have only been hanging out for a week. That is what he did!" "I'll get to the bottom of this you just relax I have everything under control. I love you." "I love you too." She hung up after that and thank god because Zack had a look on his face that just made me laugh. It was a mix between scared, horrified, and she wasn't suppose to tell anyone. I just stared at him letting the ideal that I was mad get to him. He raised his hands "Nate, look man it slipped out and I froze up, but I didn't think she would believe it!" I just shuck my head "we will talk about this later, right now I'm hungry so let's feed!" What was I really suppose to say to him, it was his life and the way he talks about her today made me think that she was someone special to him. I know a week it not enough time for something as like or love to happen. But when you are like us that is all the time it takes. I remember reading in some book about how the body works of a vampire, when I came across this part that tell the brain when you meet the one for you. So the whole soul mate, mate, or whatever you want to call it is true, but I also believe that you can choose that person. I know it sounds weird but I need to know how my vampire body worked before I could start becoming more human again. I'm getting off topic brain I need to focus on feeding.