I never told you what I do for a living.

I was waking up in a room I have never seen before to the light of a bright shining sun. The warm aroma of coffee was coming from out of the other room.

“Where am I?” I asked myself softly. I looked around the room. I was laying in a king-size bed with a lot of pillows. The room itself had a dark colour scheme with lots of black and dark grey. I liked it. Bright colours just weren’t my thing.

What happened last night? I remember the mermaid-girl, the party, the fight, Frank finding me in the woods last night but how the hell did I get here?

I was sitting straight up in bed, still feeling dizzy. I was still very weak, but it was already better than last night. A nice bed and a good sleep had done me well. I threw my legs over the edge of the bed, getting ready to stand up and to find out where I was but that went different than I expected. Standing up didn’t really worked well because I fell on the floor with a loud thump. As I was trying to get up from the floor, I heard footsteps coming my way.

“Gerard? Are you already awake?” The voice said.

It was Frank.

What did Frank do here? Was this his house? It couldn’t be, he told me he didn’t own a house.

When I looked up to the doorway, the other vampire was standing there. He was holding up two mugs of coffee in his hands.

“Can you get up by yourself or do I have to help you?” he asked softly.

He wasn’t feeling comfortable. His shoulders were hanging low and he had bags under his eyes. He looked at me with disappointment.

“I can get up by myself, I think.” I ran my hand through my hair as I answered him.

“Okay. Well, if you want coffee then I’ll put yours here okay? In case you still want to sleep a bit. I will be sitting in the living room when you wake up.” His eyes were fixed on me for a few seconds before he turned around with his own coffee.

I stood up with a lot of finding my own balance. I grabbed the cup and went down to sit on the bed.

The warm aroma was steaming from the cup and soothed the headache I was feeling. It was a long time since I had a proper cup of coffee, so this was a welcome surprise.

While I was sitting on the bed and drinking my beverage, I processed what happened the last couple of days and I decided to go to find Frank.

I stumbled into the living room with my half full cup of coffee. Frank was sitting on the couch, staring out of the window with the television on as background sounds. He was wearing a long sleeved, dark blue t-shirt with black skinny jeans. He looked awfully good in that outfit, even though it was so simple.

He had a nice living room. Everything was dark, just like his bedroom, but it was still very neat.

“Hey.” I said and he looked into my direction.

“Hey.” He said absently. “How did you sleep?”

“I slept well. I’m still a bit weak but I’m getting better.” I smiled at him but he turned his head away from me to look outside again.

I went to sit next to him on the couch and he didn’t acknowledge me for a while.

The sun was going down and sadly the moon wasn’t visible this night. It was becoming more breezy and cloudy outside. The cold November-weather was finally starting to show itself.

“I was worried about you, y’know.” Frank suddenly said, his eyes still focussed on what happened outside, not giving any attention to the television.

“I’m sorry.” I almost whispered.

“Never mind, it’s okay.” He softly answered.

Frank was playing with the hem of his sleeve. Something just wasn’t right about him. The look on his face was strained.

“What happened last night?” he finally asked, still without looking at me.

“I was bitten.”

“Really? I totally didn’t notice.” He finally snapped, now looking at me. “Tell me what happened.”

It wasn’t a question. He was resolute to know what had happened.

“I was invited to a party where humans were gathered so that we could eat.” I started to tell him.

“We? Who is “we”?”

There was a speck of worriedness in his eyes.

“Some mermaid-girl invited me.” I said softly.

“Wow, wait. You mean a siren?! Why the fuck would you go with a siren?” he almost yelled.

The worriedness turned into a razing storm of anger.

“I... I..”

Words wanted to form themselves in my mouth but they wouldn’t come out. There was so much I wanted to say to him but I couldn’t. I wanted to tell him that he is all I have been thinking about for the last couple of weeks but I just couldn’t.

“You know what? Never mind. Never –fucking- mind. I’m going for a walk.” He growled.

“I... Frank! Don’t go.” I said to him as he stormed past me to the door.

“Why not? You walked out on me, remember?”

Frank shut the door behind him with a loud bang. I heard him growl and yell out of frustration. I really hoped he lives in a mostly uninhabited area, because if the neighbours would have heard this they would surely come to check if everything was okay over here.

For me it was better to stay in and wait until he returned. I have to admit, what he just said hurt me. A lot. But it was better to let him cool down and let him put his thoughts in order before I would face him again.

I walked back to the living room and put on the volume from the television a bit louder. I wanted to find some distraction to the pain I was feeling in my chest.

Why did I suddenly care so much for this man? How?

As I let myself fall on the couch I pulled up my knees so my legs were against my chest. Some stupid show on National Geographic Channel about count Dracula was on. How ironic. I had hoped it would distract me a bit more but it didn’t.

I felt my eyes prickle and tears started to swell up in my eyes. Why do I fuck everything up? I can never do anything right.

While absent-minded watching television, I started to become very tired again. My body was still hurting from last night. I wasn’t surprised.

I watched the television for a bit and decided to go back to bed again. I didn’t expect Frank to be back anytime soon, so I better take care of myself.

My legs carried my heavy body back to the bed and I let myself fall on the pillows. Everything had that warm scent of Frank. Frank smelled like autumn leaves with the sweetness of honey but with the warmth of cinnamon. I inhaled deep and closed my eyes.

When he would come back, I am going to make this okay. I promise.

Notes

I'm sorry that this chapter is kind of.. short. I am very busy with some assignments I have to finish for school but I promise I will be back soon :)