Scarlet Skies by JA.Acero (the two towers ebook .txt) 📖

him. So whatever happened that night to anybody was his fault. Sam had told me that Felix had crossed the line and had gotten way too close to a Day student for his own good. Neither Sam nor head-master had described who it was that got bitten, but she wasn’t heard from again. Felix grabbed my wrist and licked it with his tongue. I shivered and snatched my hand back. Then I went under my skirt-part of my dress, to unlatch my vampire stunning staff. I took it out and it expanded
“You are forbidden from drinking human blood, you know that Felix!!” I got up and took a step back.
“What are you going to do about it? Report me? Stun me with the staff? Ooh so scary…I’ll just tell them that you got too close this time…I’m sure Lord Aaron wouldn’t like that very much, now would he?” he went for my wrist again, but a hand shot out instead. Aaron twisted Felix’s hand and Felix cried out in pain.
“I think you’ve gotten out of line Felix, we’ll talk later! Was it in your place to do that?” Aaron erubptedly let go and Felix went down on his knee.
“I’m sorry Lord Aaron, it won’t happen again. No I wasn’t in my place.” He stalked off and readjusted his jacket.
“Don’t worry, I’ll whip the thirst right out of him later.” He gave me a smile and took a look at my wrist.
“Do you want me to fix that? Or do you just want a Band-Aid?” he knew what I was going so he did the opposite. He pressed his tender lips to my cut, but he didn’t lick or anything, his eyes just turned red with thirst. That happened whenever he was really close to me. Electricity rippled thought his lips to my skin and I gasped in pleasure and amazement. When his lips parted from my wrist it was all healed up. Like nothing had been there at all.
“Uh, thanks. You didn’t have to waste time on me. I must be a pain_” he stopped me in mid-babble and lifted me off the ground. I hadn’t even noticed I’d been sitting in his lap the entire time. I blushed and looked around to see if anybody had seen. It was prohibited from the vampires to be too close with humans. It was just too tempting for some. (Especially the hormone controlled teenagers.)
“How did you know I was in trouble?” I crossed my arms.
“I smelt your blood all the way to the midnight dormitory, my class was a little aroused…” he put his arm on my shoulder and I looked up at his face. His black soft hair that was always in his eyes was lifted by the wind. The boyish smile on his lips kissed the top of my head. His glittering blue eyes turned red again and I pushed him back.
“We really shouldn’t be doing this…” I was heart-broken when I saw the rejection I had put on his face.
“Not that I don’t want you to, but we’re really not supposed to…I still count as a student even though I do this job.” I added. He gave me a cocky smile and I smiled too.
“Good girl, you always did do what you were supposed to do.” He rubbed the top of my head and we began to the head-masters dormitory/office. When we got inside I saw Sam in the corner covering his face.
“Sam, what happened? Are you okay?” I quickly rushed over to him and tried to pry his fingers off his face.
“Wow, not even a hello hug for your dad?” I looked over at headmaster and rolled my eyes. I got up hastily and gave headmaster an awkward hug. Head-master wasn’t really my father, more like adoptive dad. I remembered this day, like it was yesterday. When I was little I remembered I was in a snow storm, waiting for my parents. A rouge vampire had found me and wanted to drink my blood. I had screamed out “Please don’t eat me! Please?” when the vampires eyes where close enough I could see his red eyes staring at me through the snow. They were glowing hungry crystals and just when the vampire was about to take a deep bite a hand shot out and blood squirted out of the vampires face. It got all over my clothes and I had said “There’s so much blood! Help me!” I turned around and saw Aaron, but I didn’t know him back them. His eyes where glowing red because of the massive amounts of blood, with his hand extended to me. I took it and gave him a hug, even though I knew he was a vampire. That was as far as I could remember my past. Sometimes when I try to grasp my memories, and their almost just in reach, but I could never really fully grasp it. Ever since then I have waited on my porch for Aaron’s daily visits and we’d have loads of fun. Then one day head-master came home with someone, the little boy’s coat drenched in thick coats of blood.
“Be kind to him Amy, his family was killed by a bad vampire.” Head-master brought the boy in, and that boy was Sam. I called him my brother because I’d promised him that everything was going to be ok and I cared for him deeply. (Like a brother…sometimes) One day I found Sam scratching his neck till it bled.
“Stop hurting yourself! That must hurt!” I had taken his hand and given him a hug. I was just getting used to living with head-master as his adoptive child. I wonder how it felt for him, to lose his parents and have to just forget about it. I’m the total opposite of him; I’d actually want to remember.
“Head-master, you called me. Aaron’s eyes looked at head-master thoughtfully, as if having a mind to mind conversation. It’s moments like these that make Sam very angry. Sam sometimes thinks the vampires take too much advantage of head-master and that they shouldn’t be allowed to even come to this school.
“Very well then, I shall see to it that the matter is resolved…” Aaron nodded and turned to me.
“Amy, I’m going for a walk, would you like to join me?” Aaron extended his hand like he did on that snowy day, and looked deep into my eyes. I wanted to go with him, but what about Sam? He needs help right now. Sam looked away from me and got up from the floor.
“See you later then, Amy?” Sam swallowed manfully and almost left, but I grabbed the hem of his jacket.
“What? What do you want from me? ” he snapped.
“I just wanted to know if you really where okay…So are you okay?” I tried to put my hand on his shoulder, but he shook it off and said
“I’m fine.” Then he walked off to the boy’s dormitory. I blushed when I noticed Aaron was still staring at me.
“Sorry you had to see that, it’s my fault_” He covered my mouth with his hand and frowned.
“Why are you apologizing to me? I should be the one apologizing to you for asking you for a walk while he was here. I know he has strong feelings for you, almost the same feelings as I have for you.” He took his hand from my mouth and sighed. He turned to headmaster and gave one more nod. Then he walked out and before I looked away in disappointment he said
“And Amy, why don’t you and Sam come over to the Midnight relaxing room. I hope I’ll meet you there.”
“Sure I’ll come, but I’m not so sure about Sam…” I looked over to the clock and realized tomorrow is Saint Choco Hearts Day. The day the Day girls get to handout chocolate’s to their crushes. All of them will be towards four main vampire boys who are: Felix, Brian, Zero, and 50% to…Aaron. His charming attractive looks, black hair that’s in his face, and sincere politeness makes him the perfect target. A couple of times I’ve seen some day students taking pictures of Aaron and I immediately confiscated them. I wasn’t JEALOUS! They were breaking the rules and curfew, which is 8:00. The only exceptions are for the wedges and we get weapons for vampires that get out of line. Aaron looked over at me, but I looked away, I had to pay attention to my duty. I have a retractable staff called Pearl-Rose which can electrocute and stun the vampire for a couple of minutes. Sam got the gun called Rose-Pearl, but neither of these weapons can harm humans. The gun acts like a regular gun, but it’s special for vampires.
“Amy, are you alright? You’ve been sitting there staring at the clock for at least ten minutes.” Head-master questioned me just like a father…at least I think this is how a father would sound like. Worried, concerned, proud, and that’s all I know. This is disappointing because all of my friends have fathers and their fathers have fathers and so on and so forth. But in another way, I’m kind of happy with my life right now. Nothings really wrong and the only person really getting on my worried list is Sam. He’s been doing his job, but sticking really close to me. The other day when I had confiscated those pictures of the Midnight class, I found a picture of Aaron and stared at it. Sam caught me and just as easily took it away from me. “We’re still on duty Amy! Stop daydreaming and pay attention to what you’re doing.” He had said. These words cut me really deep even though I knew he was right. Tears had streamed down my cheeks and I quickly wiped them away because my tears always put Sam through more pain. He slammed his fist against the wall and put his head down in shame. “I hate how I always make you so sad…and even then you still care about me! It doesn’t even make sense…” he was about to leave when I hugged him before he left. His thin blond/white hair fell into his eyes and he didn’t look at me. Then he left without a word.
Today was when he finally talked to me, well I talked to him and he actually replied. Right now we’re patrolling the east side of the academy. Suddenly I put my arms around him and said
“What’s going on with you Sam? Haven’t I told you time and time again that I care about you? If you’re in pain, you don’t have to go through it alone!” He stood there for a moment, in my embrace, and then pinned me to the wall of the midnight dormitory.
“Amy…do you really want to help me?” he pushed me against the wall tighter and realized I was bleeding from a deep scrape/cut from the wall. Sam’s eyes…turned red.
“Sam…what happened to you? You’re a…” I held my breath and knew what was going to happen.
“A monster, I know, but you still didn’t answer my question.” His gaze was on a firm hold to my eyes, sometimes drifting down to my neck.
“Yes, go ahead Sam, drink if it will help…if you would have told me I_” he licked my neck and he hesitated. I tilted my head against the wall wondering if that would help and he bit. I grabbed his shoulder and let him lean on me. I felt happy because this is a way I could finally help him. I wasn’t completely useless to him anymore and this would have good effects on him like being able to restraint his thirst. He was