The Witching Ways by Scarlet Vance (good book recommendations txt) 📖

be late," Mr. Sidney finishes.

Dave and Mr. Sidney talked in his office while I went to my locker and got my bag. I walk out the front doors and sit on the steps. I look around the school yard and I see Kyle sitting at a table eating lunch. I walk over to him and sit down by him. He looks shocked as I sit by him but he still smiles at me.

"So what are you eating?" I ask nonchalantly.

"Um...It's a egg salad sandwich my mom made me with carrots and celery." He leans in real close, "She's on a health kick and we all suffer when she is."

The look on his face is so hilarious that it made me laugh. I haven't laughed since before Darren kidnapped me. My laugh sounds so foreign to me but it felt so good to laugh that I can't stop. By the time I stop Kyle is laughing with me and everyone is staring at us. I blush as I my eyes meet with one set of forest green eyes. I look away back at Kyle with an embarrassed smile. Kyle looks at the guy I looked at then looked back at me with a sly smile.

"So, you noticed him," Kyle nudges me with his shoulder.

"I have no idea who you are talking about," I whisper my lie.

"His name is Alexander Mitchel, but everyone calls him Alex. He moved here a year ago with his twin brother and his aunt." Kyle sees right through my lie and informs me.

"Brother? Aunt?" I ask.

"His brother's name is Zackary, but he goes by Zack. You already meet their aunt." I look at Kyle shocked and he laughs softly. "Ms. Smith is their aunt. She took them in after their parents died."

I hear Dave calling for me and I turn around to see Dave waiting for me. I kiss Kyle on the cheek and tell him I'll see him tomorrow. Dave waits to talk to me til we are in the car, but he is talking about nothing so I tune him out. I head to my room when we get home.

"Wait! Scarlett, who was the boy you were sitting with?" Dave stops me.

"Huh? Oh! That was Kyle Woods, he is just a friend," I say trying to save Kyle.

"He better be," Dave says right before he slaps me across the face. "Next time you embarrass me I will give you a whooping you will never forget."

Her Story (Alex)

"How am I going to explain this to her?" I ask myself while driving home from school.

I pull up the driveway to the biggest house we've lived in for years. As the garage door opens I see that Zach and Cara are already home. Damn!!! This is going to be really bad. What if Zack tells Cara about my feeling toward Scarlett? This is really bad!

I walk into the house, but hear nothing. All of a sudden I hear a scream from upstairs. Great...Well as long as their mouths are busy. I flash up to my room hoping Zack will keep her busy enough so I can get our homework done. I know we are vampires but we are still required to do the same homework as everyone else.

As I am doing the homework, my mind reels to what happened to day during class. What happened to Scarlett to make her freak out like that? I have to know, I decided. Looking down at Zack's and I's homework I realize that it is already done. I listen carefully to hear if they are still busy. Hearing grunts and moans, I decide to leave. I rush out of the house and into the forest.

I look around to see where I ran to. There is a nice little house with a swimming pool in the back. I hear screaming and yelling coming from the house, then it all stops. The sliding glass door opens and a girl runs out of the house. She trips in the grass that is on the other side of the pool. A car starts from the front of the house and speeds off. I hear whimpering coming from the girl and I realize that she is crying. I walk forward to figure out who it is with out getting noticed, but by the time I reach her yard I step on a twig. Her head snaps up with wide blue eyes. Scarlett.

"What are you doing here?" she asks looking around frantically. "If he sees you here he will kill you!"

"He already left...Why are you crying?" I ask.

She gets on her knees and wipes the tears away. I kneel in front of her and take her hands. I grab her chin and lift her head to look at me. Her blue eyes are full of tears. If he hurt her, then I will kill him. Who was it anyway?

"Why do you care anyway? You are the popular guy and I'm just the weird new chick..." The last part she said to herself but I still heard it.

"Because you are more than just a 'weird new chick' to me." I lay my forehead on her's. "Which, by the way, no one has called you. And I am not the popular guy, that would be my brother. I am the brains and he is the brawn. Though both of us are strong, he just uses it more than I do. Sorry I'm babbling."

"We can't do this," She says jumping up.

She walks over to her house. I was going to leave but something inside me wouldn't let her go. I run over to her and spin her around. I push her up against the wall and kiss her. Hunger for more but not wanting to ruin everything. At first she tenses up but then she melts into me after a few seconds.

"No!" she pulls back.

She looks at me with tear filled eyes. Her cheeks are flushes and lips swollen. I now know why she freaked out at school today. Something had to have happened to her to make her not like physical contact. Her bottom lip trembles momentarily until she sucks it in her mouth and starts chewing on it. She grabs the back of my neck and pulls me into her.

"I don't know how to do this," she confesses.

"What do you mean?"

"I have never really been with a man willingly."

"You mean...?"

"Yeah, I was...raped...That is why I don't like physical contact. But that isn't the only reason..."

"You can tell me."

"My step dad is...abusive..."

I am going to kill him! I pull away from her and punch the wall. There is a huge hole in the wall where I punched. I look at her and her face is full of shock.

"Shit! Now it's my turn to explain."

The Explanation (Scarlett)

He punched the wall! And left a huge hole in it! What the fuck!?!?

"Now it's my turn to explain," he stats calmly. "Okay so I'm not exactly...human..."

"What do you mean you're not human?"

"Well I might look human and I was one once...but not anymore..."

"Don't tell me you're a werewolf or something," I say Laughing.

"Don't call me a werewolf! I am not an flea bitten inbreed mut!" he yells, pushing me up against the wall again.

"I'm sorry..." I whisper.

"I'm a...vampire..." he whispers back to me.

"You're a vampire?" I ask, not wanting to believe it.

He nods his head and flashes his fangs at me. Then everything goes black.

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I open my eyes to complete darkness. I shift and bump into something next to me. The thing moves and a musky scent fill my nose. Alexander. A light flicks on real fast and i have to blink my eyes so they can adjust. But before they were completely adjusted, something heavy climbs on top of me.

"No! No! NO! This can't be happening again! Get off! Darren, please!" I scream.

"Scarlett stop! Stop!" he shouts.

It takes me a few moments to realize that it wasn't Darren. I look at Alexander's forest green eyes and his spiky black hair. I wrap my arms around him, hugging him. Feeling safe, I hold on tight, not wanting to let go. With very little strength Alex unwraps my arms from his torso and lays me on the bed. I grab his neck and pull him down to my mouth. I kiss him passionately. I have never felt this way about a guy before and I want to know why.

"I don't want to hurt you. If me just leaning over you to grab a glass of water makes you freak out then what will happen if we do that..." Alex says, breaking away.

"You won't. I freaked out because I couldn't see your face," I reassure him.

I pull him back down to me and kiss him lightly. He tenses up at first but then he loosens up. He sides his tongue into my mouth and chases mine. He slides his hand up my shirt and runs his thumb along my erect nipple. I gasp and he chuckles. I pull him closer to me causing him to shift over me. I lift my hips to find his hard-on. We moan in unison. All of a sudden, we both are naked and it is dark again.

"No..." I breath.

"What?" Alex asks from the dark.

"Please turn the light back on," I beg.

Light flashes back on and Alex crawls back on to be. He kisses my flat belly and works his way up to my breast. He kisses each nipple and then plunges the whole breast in his mouth. He swirls his tongue the end and sucks on the whole thing. I grab the sheets and arch my back causing my breast to go farther into his mouth. He does the same thing to the other. The entire time while looking at my face. When he is done with my breast he trails kisses up my neck. He pauses at my pulse but keeps going to my lips.

"I'm ready," I say more to myself than him but he still nods.

He positions himself over me. I feel him against my opening. I look deep into his eyes and relax. He pushes into me slowly and inch by inch. When he enters me all the way I let out a little moan. I wrap my arms around his torso and grab his shoulders. He plunges into me slowly not wanting to hurt me. but I realize the slower me go the farther I will be able to prove to myself that I am ready to recover. As if reading