Chatper 4 of Miranda's story

So he was changing. I was right. Damn, that meant I was the only one left. How fucking long did I have to wait before I was a vampire? It was dead annoying. I was getting a little edgy about the whole thing.1

"There's something else too." My mom continued. "When I took Daniel to his room, I smelled your blood. You weren't bleeding though. Were you blushing?" 2

"I don't know. My face got hot at one point." I admitted. She smiled.3

"I think you're in love." She whispered. I almost gagged.4

"Right." I snorted. I couldn't believe she thought that. "How do you know if you're in love?" I asked.5

"When you're in love you don't have to ask that question." She replied. I sighed. Of course she'd give me that. I guess I just had to wait. Ugh! I hated waiting. It was like death to me. Actually death would've been better. 6

She left. I went upstairs. The humans and vampires were in the kitchen. they all had their food. I saw Andrew take a quick sip of blood whenever the coast was clear. They had cows' blood in packs. They had caps at the end of the packets that they could suck the blood out easily. They had more of a preference for animal blood than human blood. It was helpful to my parents. They didn't have to worry about them hunting humans. It would've been dangerous if they did hunt humans since we have four in the same house. 7

I grabbed a sandwhich from the table. No one bothered me. I saw Daniel wasn't there. I could hear mom upstairs with him. That made me think a little. I was now the only freak in the house. That sucked. What would happen next? I didn't even want to think about it. 8

I heard the fridge open. I turned. Daniel was there. He looked like a vampire. He had longer fingers, he was extremely pale, his eyes were bright bright blue, and he was cold and hard. I could tell that from the way the light hit him. How were they going to explain that to the humans? They had to notice that he changed. They for sure would find out now. I waited for it.9

"Danny, you wanna play football later?" Andrew asked. 10

"Sure." Daniel replied. His voice was different too. It was like all our siblings voices, seductive.11

Andrew looked up. His eyes widened. Justine, Kayla, Matthew and Johnathan looked up. They all smiled. I knew that they were happy he changed. The others looked up. They shrugged. Apparently they didn't see a change. Why was that? This family never ceased to amaze me as well as confuse me.12

I looked away and went outside. I wanted some time to think. At that point certain things were starting to dawn on me. Dad was coming into the driveway when I went out. He got out and walked up to me.13

"What's wrong?" He asked.14

"Nothing." I muttered. I walked past and went down the street. I felt like a loner. I had no one now. I didn't have a brother who would understand me anymore. Next thing you know he'll fall in love. It's not fun to be the only one. It's not easy being different. Anyone who didn't fit in or wasn't accepted by certain people knew how much it hurt. I was alone. It was a change because I always had Daniel with me. 15

We were always together. We did everything together. Ever since we were born. We shared and did everything and anything together. We stuck together. We went through everything. We shared our cookies in kindergarten. We went to the park all the time. We took walks all the time. Now all of that was history. I thought we would change together. Apparently, it wasn't going to happen like that.16

I turned onto a different street. It was dark and normally would've been creepy. At least to other people it was creepy. I was use to walking down that street. At least with Daniel I could walk down that street.17

Then something hit me. Maybe Daniel and I could still do what we've always done. Maybe nothing will change. I mean it can't just change because of one thing right? We will always be twins. We will always be family. We can do everything we did before like there was no change. It wouldn't be hard. Once I change it'll be easier. Once I change it'll be like nothing ever changed. We'll be a little more durable but it's not like our lives together have to stop.18

That was a solution. We'd continue being as close as we were. We didn't have to change because of the vampire stuff. He could play all the games with the family until I changed. I couldn't be too far off. I could change at any moment. If he just changed I'd be changing soon after him. It was all so simple!19

I turned around and went home. It was dead quiet. Almost too quiet. I heard footsteps. They were quiet though. I walked a little quicker than normal. It followed in sync with my steps. I could hear it though. Thanks to my parents I had amazing hearing. I could pick up the steps. The only thing to do is self-defense. That wasn't hard. I can easily disarm someone, as well as get out of any grip. I suddenly turned around.20

What the fuck was his problem? It was Jason. He was following me. I was dead annoyed. I took a step back. He almost ran into me.21

"What are you doing out so late?" He asked. His smile was gleaming. I felt the heat in my face again. Damn him. He was making me blush. I finally knew what that was. 22

"Walking." I muttered. I turned and walked away. I knew he was following me. I turned again. He was right in front of me. Apparently he wasn't aware that I was going to stop again. "What's with you? Why are you following me?" I asked sharply.23

He didn't seem offended that I was being rude. His teeth glinted in the moon. "You seem angry. Why?"24

"None of your buisness." I growled. I turned and walked again.25

"It may not be my buisness, but sometimes it's nice to let things off your chest." He said with a soothing tone. I slowed a little. I could see he was walking next to me.26

"That maybe true, but I never let my thoughts and feelings out." I said quietly. "I don't trust people very easily." It's true. I never opened up. I did but that was only to Daniel. He was the only one I ever talked to. It's only because he listened. He was the best for talking to people. 27

"You may not be able to trust, that's fine. But if you don't trust you'll never get loved." He said touching my face. The heat rose up again. Dammit. I was hating that.28

"Doesn't matter. I don't know what love is anyway." I muttered. I was walking a lot slower. He was keeping pace with me though. 29

"You've never been in love?" He asked. 30

"No." I said. I was a little embarrased to say that. I thought I heard him laughing.31

"Really? It's hard to believe with your looks." He said. I stopped and glared at him.32

"That's probably why I didn't. Everyone just likes me for my looks." I said scathingly. I walked faster.33

"Look, I didn't mean it in a bad way. i'm just saying I would've thought maybe you would've gone out once or twice." He said.34

"Yeah. Right." I muttered. I turned onto my street. He still followed. I went to the door. I turned. He looked at me.35

"Good night, Miranda." He whispered.36

"Night Jason." I muttered. I went in and shut the door. Daniel was there in the living room. He was reading a book. He had a pencil in his hand.37

"Miranda! Look! It's so fun!" He said as soon as I walked in the room. He showed me the pencil and squeezed it. It shattered. He smiled.38

"Wow." I muttered in awe. I sat next to him on the couch. "Daniel, just because you changed into a vampire doesn't mean things between us changed right?" I asked.39

"Of course not. You're still my twin. Just my twin that I have to be more careful with." He smiled. He sat back and handed me a game controller. We started playing against each other. He was kicking my ass in it. He always did.40

Mom came into the living room a little later. We switched to a shooting game. She looked at Daniel.41

"Danny, do you need some blood or something?" She asked.42

"No." He said absently. We were on a level we never reached. It was going really well. Mom got annoyed though. She turned off the tv. "Mom! We were on a level we never got to before!" He shouted.43

"You can get to it later. Come on. You need some now." She said pulling him up. He tried to break her grip but couldn't. She dragged him to the kitchen. I looked at the clock. It was almost ten. I had to finish my homework still. I went upstairs and to my room. We all had our own rooms. It was really cool. If our family grew more then the older ones would sleep in the second house. Which was going to be awesome.44

I plopped down on my bed and got started on my homework. I hadn't gotten all my assignments though. I needed the math assignment. I didn't know anyone who was in that class in my family. I didn't have math the next day so I could get the assignments easily. I finshed by midnight. I didn't bother getting changed. I fell asleep.45

"Miranda, you've got five minutes to get your butt out of this house!" My mother shouted up the stairs. My eyes snapped open. It was almost seven. I had to get to the bus stop. 46

"Shit!" I muttered. I pushed myself up and changed. I had hip huggers and a tank top. I ran down the stairs and grabbed my shoes. I ran out the door without food. Probably stupid to do. I raced down to where my siblings were. Daniel was standing away from them. I was hopping pulling on my shoes. 47

"Slept in?" He asked.48

"Shut up." I growled. I pulled on the shoes and the bus pulled up.49

I sat next to Daniel. People didn't seem to notice his change. How oblivious were humans? Whatever. I started reading my book. Daniel was staring at someone. I was getting slightly irritated by it. Who the heck was he staring at? I turned my head. It was that same girl. She was looking at him too. Her face got red then she looked away.50

"What's with you?" I muttered. He looked at me.51

"What?"52

"Why are you constantly staring at that girl?" I asked.53

"No reason." He murmured looking away. I stared at him. Crap, he was in love! I could tell he was. He was staring at that girl. Just that one girl. He was embarrassed when I caught him. He was in fucking love!54

What was with that? I'm the only one left that's not in love! I was a total loner. What was wrong with me? What did I do to be a freak? It coudn't be just bcause I'm a bitch. That's a stupid reason. This was so stupid!55

I got off the bus. He followed. I looked back and he was smiling at that girl. I sighed and kept going. I knew what was going to happen next. He was going to talk to her. He would want to sit with her at lunch and all the crap like that. I guess that was great for him. I guess it wouldn't change that much if I said he should sit with her. I mean I could sit by myself a couple times right? It couldn't be hard.56

I walked to class with him. I had to follow him to find out where it was. We sat next to each other. He wasn't focusing on anything. I ignored it and tried to pay attention to the teacher. I just found myself thinking instead.57

What was going to happen now? I mean it's all part of life I guess. It just didn't seem fair. I was suppose to wait until I changed. How much longer? I was dead impatient. Everyone knew that. I couldn't wait much longer. I'd be seventeen soon. I'd be getting close to my mom's age.58

"Miranda. It's time to go." Daniel muttered. He nudged me. I stood and went to the cafeteria with him. I got in line and got my lunch. He didn't get anything. I sat next to him at the same table that we sat at the day before. He was staring at that girl. I sighed.59

"Danny, you want to go sit next to her?" I asked.60

"No. What are you talking about?" He asked. He was a horrible liar.61

"Go sit next to her. I'll be fine." I said. I smiled and pushed him to go. He hesitated then got up. He walked over and started talking to the girl. After a couple seconds he sat and they started talking. I smiled a little then looked down. At least he was happy.62

I sighed and got up. I took my tray and dumped it. I went down the hall to the library. This was great. I was all alone now. No twin, no family, no one. It was just me.