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never lose me, regardless of what some crazy vamps wrote.”
    “I love you,” I said, locking my lips with his. His mouth gently caressed my own. I swept my tongue along the inside of his lips, tasting him, savoring him.
    “I love you forever,” he projected, pulling me tighter into him. His right arm wrapped around my waist, holding me firmly to his; his left hand cupped the back of my head, his fingers splayed amongst long dark brown locks.
    Our breath be c a me labored as we explored each other. I raked my nails along his upper back. I could never get enough of him.
    “Get a room you scallywags!” Craig yelled. Kellan and I chuckled together, slowly breaking away with soft pecks.
    “We’re in a room Craig,” I called back.
    “Get one where I don’t have to hear you suckin lips and bumpin bits with my mate.”
    “You do realize you’re in my house, right?”
    “Oh , but you’re torturing this innocent dandy.”
    “You mean Mel?” I looked at Kellan, smirking over his crazy best friend. He was entertaining to say the least.
    “Oh, yea, her too.”
    “You’re full of it man,” Kellan chuckled.
    “ Full of love for my love, right doll?”
    I heard Mel giggle. “Oh brother,” I rolled my eyes.
    “Let’s cut the crap. Pack your stuff Leka,” Kai sternly interrupted, clearly not amused in the slightest by the banter.
    “Somebody missed their hand grind today, ay?” Craig commented.
    “I’ll be in the car,” Kai announced. I heard the front door slam behind him.
    “You really want to stay with that?” Kellan asked as we moved into my closet.
    “Not really, but I don’t see where I have a choice right now. As much as I hate to admit it, I am safer with them. We don’t have any security aside from an alarm that a kid could disconnect with ease, let alone a vamp.”
    He nodded, gathering my shoes and stuffing them into one of my suitcases. Five minutes later my room was empty of everything important. All my clothes, shoes and accessories were stuffed into two huge suitcases; I carried my picture of Gran and me, my scrapbook from my birthday, my mother’s photo albums of me growing up, and a few pics of me and Mel. Kellan carried my luggage and had Craig come upstairs to grab my Paris picture off the wall behind my bed. I looked around at my room. It looked so stark now, despite the large furniture anchoring the space. It felt like I was leaving forever;  a sense of permanence had settled in. So much had changed over the last couple months. I’d lost so much, yet gained so much at the same time. I was closing the chapter on my childhood, despite being sixteen, and starting a new one, forced to be an adult a couple years early.

Chapter 5
     
    “Mind if I ride back with Kai?” I asked as we loaded my stuff into Kellan’s Beamer.
    He looked at Kai, sitting alone and annoyed in his car as he texted someone. “I’ll see you there,” he sighed.
    “Thanks,” I leaned in and gave him a quick kiss. “You going to get your stuff from your parent’s?”
    “Yea. I gotta talk to my dad too.”
    “Ok. See you later. Love you.”
    “Love you too.”
    “You know this so does not count for the whole seeing you before you leave bit, right?” Mel checked, standing beside the car with her hand resting on her hip.
    “Of course. Care to tell me why you’re not in bed sleeping though?”
    “Cause I’d be missing all the action. I swear so much more happens at night with you guys.” She turned to Craig who was standing behind her.
    “I guess. Promise me you won’t make a habit of this. You really do need your sleep.”
    “Yes mother,” she droned, rolling her eyes rebelliously.
    I laughed. “Later gator.”
    “After a while crocodile,” she smiled. We gazed at each other reliving the memory years ago. That was our daily goodbye throughout all of sixth grade. There was so much history between us. Her eyes suddenly began to well with tears. I held my arms out to her, welcoming her embrace.