Me and Scarlet were watching the movie Ant Man, but half way through the movie Scarlet fell asleep on my shoulder. I turned the movie off and carefully carried Scarlet upstairs and into the room. I laid her down on the bed and put the covers over her body. Then I closed the bedroom door, went back downstairs and laid down on the couch. I sighed as I thought of everything that had happened today.
How I found out that the girl I saved was the missing Princess or should I say the run away Princess. On top of that I felt horrible lying to her about how I got her stuff back. I didn't want to frighten her so I lied and said I waited for the guy who chased her to leave, when in reality the man was dead and I just entered his house to get her stuff.
Now that I know she's a Princess, I have to reevaluate all of this and no I don't mean I'm going to just leave her by herself. She wouldn't survive on her own even if she tried. But there are going to be people out there who are going to want to take her for themselves in order to get some money. And I have to be there to make sure that doesn't happen. Honestly if it was up to me I would lock her up in the room so she never steps out of this house.
Then she would be safe, but I knew she wouldn't have any of that. She's too damn feisty, she would probably sneak out. Another thing is I have to tell her what I am, but I'm just not ready to yet. I don't think she would be ready for it either. I got up from the couch, walked out the front door and locked it. I went back into town, keeping to the shadows in an alleyway until I found what I was looking for. There was an old man on the brink of death sitting down on the concrete floor. I walked over to where he was and crouched down facing him.
"Care to spare some change?" The old man said while holding out his shaking hand. I felt bad for what I was going to do but at the end of the day, I'll be putting him out of his misery. I smiled at him then and shook my head. I leaned in closer to his neck. I felt his heart beat faster, any minute now he will have a heart attack. I felt him shrink back but I held his shoulders in place. I then bit into his flesh and drained him of life.
After I was done I licked his neck so the two puncture wounds would heal and I left him there to be found. I walked back to the house stopping every few minutes to make sure no one was following or was around the house. Then I walked into the house, took my shirt off, slumped onto to couch while placing one arm over my face and let the other hand rest on my stomach as I fell asleep in nothing but jeans.
I didn't wake up until I heard Scarlet rummaging around in the kitchen.
"What time is it." I croaked out in my tired voice.
"Nine in the morning." I grimaced as she told me how early it was.
"Is it like a thing to wake up this early when you was in the palace?"
"Yea you could say that."
"Well we are going to have to change that." I said while getting up. I walked into the kitchen to get something to drink. Suddenly the rummaging stopped so I looked over to Scarlet. She stopped reaching for something in the cabinet with her hand still raised while she looked at my body. When she noticed I was looking at her she blushed and turned away.
Not being able to reach what ever it was she was trying to reach for, I walked behind her so my upper body pressed into her back. I heard her heart speed as I reached for the pancake mix. I smiled and placed it on the counter for her as I walked upstairs to take a shower. I guess she hasn't ever seen a half naked man either. I say to myself with a smile as I got into the shower. I got out of the shower ten minutes after, dried off, and wrapped a towel around my waist.
I walked out of the bathroom to find Scarlet bent down in the closet, I'm guessing to get something out of her bag. But when I walked out of the bathroom she stopped what she was doing and looked at me for a long time.
"You like what you see?" I say to break the silence. I'm going to have fun with her. Her innocence is just too cute. She gave me the as if look in return to my question.
"No, don't flatter yourself." She said trying to act all cool, but I knew better as she turned away while her face turned bright red. She got what she was looking for in her bag and hurriedly left the room. I laughed silently and walked over to the dresser to get a black long sleeved shirt,boxer briefs, and black jeans. I got dressed and walked back downstairs into the kitchen. Scarlet was finishing up with the eggs when I walked in. I sat at the table so where I'm facing her.
I look her up and down. She had on blue jeans and a tight fitted shirt. It looks like simple clothes, but if she walked into town like that, people would just know she's rich. We definitely need to go clothes shopping this week, probably today even. Scarlet was finally done putting food on both plates. She walked over to me with my plate and places the plate in front of me with a cup of orange juice. Then she joined me at the table with her own plate and drink. I looked down at my plate to see three pancakes, eggs, bacon, and sausages. I thought Princess's didn't know how to cook considering they had their own maids, butlers, and cooks at the palace.
"Is there something wrong with the food?" Scarlet asks me. I guess she caught me looking at her food without eating it.
"I'm just wondering. Do you know how to cook?"
"Nope, I just followed the directions on the box of the pancake mix and when I was younger I use to sneak into the kitchen and watch the cooks make eggs, bacon, and sausage." I guess it couldn't it be that bad. I say to myself. I picked up my fork and tried the eggs first and almost spit it out, but I caught myself. She put way too much salt in this, geez. She seriously couldn't have messed up the bacon and sausages.
So I tried the bacon and sausage next. Both were way too hard to the point if I was human, my teeth would have broken. Next I tried the pancakes, I was a little hesitant though. But as I put a small slice into my mouth, I noticed that it was very good. The pancakes were the only thing that I ate and when Scarlet got up to use the bathroom, I quickly threw the eggs, bacon, and sausage outside. I then cleaned both of our plates and cups when Scarlet came back downstairs.
"How was it?"
"It was good." I lied through my teeth without looking at her.
"Hey I have a question, and I hope you don't mind me asking." I say while turning around to look at her.
"You can ask me anything."
"How old are you?"
"I'm twenty-one, how old are you?"
"twenty-four." I'm twenty-four in human years, but in vampire years I'm over a hundred years old.
"So I was thinking we should go into town, to get you some better clothes. You know, so you can blend in." I suggest.
"Yea I was thinking the same thing yesterday. But I was wondering if you could teach me how to defend myself."
"You don't need to defend yourself, you got me for that remember."
"Yea but I don't like feeling weak or like a nuisance. I don't always want to depend on you. i don't want to be a damsel in distress who has to be saved every time." Scarlet tells me, but that is exactly what I want. I want her to always depend on me no matter what.
"Do you not want me to fight for you?" I asked feeling a little offended.
"That isn't what I'm saying. I just don't want you to risk your life for me." I gave in, I didn't feel like going back in forth with her, so I agreed to teaching her some fighting techniques later on this week. A little after going back in forth with each other, Scarlet went upstairs to grab her money and I made her wear my hoody to cover her shirt and her hair, as we left to go into town.
We made it back in town fifteen minutes later. I showed her around since she didn't get to see the town all that much in the last two days. As I was showing her around, I looked over to look at her. She was amazed by what she saw and I couldn't help but to smile to myself. Before I met her, my life wasn't great.
It felt like I didn't have a purpose, but when I'm with Scarlet, I feel like I have one now. I know at first when I said I would be her knight, I was joking, but now I'm pretty serious about it. I want to protect her as much as I can. I want to risk my life for her because she is worth it, whether she knows it or not. That is why I can't tell what I am yet. I don't want to lose her. We walked some more as we came closer to the mall. Once Scarlet walked into the mall she looked awestruck.
"You never seen a mall before?"
"No, my parents would always send someone to buy us our clothes for me. My parents never really wanted me to leave the palace. They said it was too dangerous."
"I see." Is all I said to her. The mall was pretty crowded today so I grabbed Scarlet's hand as we walked by other people. She of course was blushing the whole time, but she never said anything or moved her hand out of mine either. So I'll take that as a good sign for now. We stopped by some stores as I made her try on clothes. It wasn't easy though, she was use to having expansive clothes. But finally she settled on a few t-shirts, a bunch of hoodies, casual jeans, shirts, sweat pants, and tank tops. I even showed her the Victoria Secret store, and yes I had to go in there with her. Just in case something happens. She picked out a few underwear's before we left.
"Are you hungry?" I asked, she just nodded her head. I took her hand again and led her to the food court and let her pick what she wanted to eat. Apparently she never had pizza, so that's what she wanted. I had her go find us some where to sit down at while I got our food and drinks. As I was being wrung up at the register and got our food, I scanned the food court. I found Scarlet sitting down, but she looked nervous. Thats when I saw a man sitting down with her. I quickly walked over to her while dodging people on the way. I set her food down by her and looked over at the guy.
"Can we help you with something?" I asked the man in my intimidating voice. He was dressed in all black with a black cowboy hat. He was Caucasian with blue eyes and he seemed to be tall.
"No, I was telling this girl here how pretty she looks." The man tells me while smiling. Something was off with him though, I can see why she was nervous, but I wasn't.
"Okay, you told her, now leave." I say not liking this man at all. He got up from the table and looked over at Scarlet one last time.
"Hope to you see you again soon." The man says while tipping his hat towards Scarlet. I just stood my ground until he left and neither of us could see him again. As soon as I felt like she was safe, I sat down and we ate our food.
"What was that all about?" I asked Scarlet.
"I don't know." Was all she said while looking down. After we were done eating I led us back outside of the mall and started to walk home. We took the long way back home so I could circle the house to make sure no one was following me. That man back there from before was up to something, I could feel it in my gut. As we got to the house, I dropped Scarlets hand to unlock the door. I let Scarlet inside first while giving her all of her bags. Before I entered the house, I turned around to look at my surroundings. I took in the airs scent to make sure no one else was around, that it was just me and Scarlet. Once I was convinced that it was just me and her, I walked in, shut and locked the door. Then I got dinner ready while Scarlet put all of her belongings away upstairs.