SR: Juice Wrld - Lucid Dreams
twenty-two.
Eryn.
"What's wrong? Is it because you're scared to be with a girl?" Marina yelled at me, tears welling in her eyes, "is it too hard for you?"
My eyes widened. Was she joking?
I shook my head, a smirk twisting the edges of my mouth.
"Princess," I drawled, "it isn't about you being a girl." I stalked forward and caught a pink strand of her hair.
I curled it around my finger and then tucked it behind her ear. She backed up against the wall and I couldn't help but pin her there. It was my nature. I slammed my hand beside her head and she flinched, looking away from me.
"Then what is it?" she asked, her wide eyes looking at my lips for a brief moment. She kept tearing her gaze away, her heartbeat pounding loudly.
I sucked in a breath when her lips parted, sending a zing of longing throughout my body. My teeth sharpened and my eyes illuminated. I shoved my face in the spot between her neck and shoulder. The sandalwood scent that she emanated assaulted my nose and it took all of me not to sink my fangs into her pulsating jugular. I could hear the blood rushing through her veins. I ran my tongue along her jugular, loving the feel of its beat to the rhythm of her heart.
I raised my head slightly, my lips grazing her earlobe. "It's because you turn me on so much, I can't fucking think. You invade all my senses and break all of my control." My tongue snaked out and licked the back of her ear, a shiver rolling through me as my fangs brushed against her sun-kissed neck.
It took all of me to deny myself. Painfully, I dragged my mouth away from her neck. I was nearly salivating at the thought of sinking my fangs into her. She didn't dare move as I pulled away.
The look of pure horror on her face was enough to keep me reeling. It broke my heart to see her so fearful of me. I hurt her and I made her shrink away from me. There was no going back to that. I knew all too well how mermaids felt about vampires.
Tears began to well in my eyes and I cursed myself at being so weak. I'd spent years gaining the control I needed to make sure I didn't hurt anyone again, and here I was associating myself with the very thing I had no control with. Here I was, the very thing that I let control me. I turned around, my back to her.
"I'm going to help save your friends. I suggest you leave after that. Ally will be safe with me."
There was no reply to her and I sharply exhaled, wiping my mind from the pain I felt. It was like a switch, my emotions shutting up immediately.
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Marina.
I was enraged. More with myself than I was with Eryn. I hated that I just clammed up right in front of her. I was putty in her hands and to see her so broken... Clear tears poured from her when she stared at me with those orbs of damnation. It unsettled me, but when her resolve broke, I couldn't do anything with it.
I wanted to jump into her arms and hug her, but I was frozen in place.
I sighed and watched her as she slowly walked off. I was useless. I could slap myself in the face right now. Why didn't I say something? Do something?
Rather than act like a fish out of water.
As I cautiously approach the steps, and descended down, looking out the front window. I caught Eryn on the front porch, laughing as Sagan placed her hand in her arm. Sagan picked up her long silky red dress, grinning as she stared into Eryn's eyes.
I folded my arms and chastised myself for feeling jealous. I wanted to be the one going with her. I didn't want to stay behind and have other people rescue my friends. It was my duty to protect them. My father would be ashamed of me right now. He would want me to do what was best for my people.
"Uh, what are you doing?" Amelia's voice questioned.
I flinched as I whirled around to look at her. She was dressed in a puffy pink dress with blue rhinestones on it. Wings were attached to her back that moved slightly. A tiara rest atop her reddish hair. "You look nice," I tightly smiled, uncomfortable staring at her red eyes. There was something unnerving about a child vampire.
"I look ridiculous," she snapped, yanking the tiara off her head and snapping it into two effortlessly.
I looked around, wondering where that boy vampire. Right. "Is Denali here?"
"That's exactly who put me in this. I've been this age for quite a couple of years now, I'm tired of it," Amelia huffed.
"How old are you?" I asked, peering down at her. To me, she seemed eight years old, but I could be horribly wrong.
"Nine," she muttered as she averted her eyes, "and I've been nine, for fifteen years.".
"You've been a child for fifteen years?" I blurted, regretting it the moment it was out my mouth. My eyes grew wide and I covered my mouth as her red hot gaze settled over me.
"Yes," she hissed, "and I'll look nine for the rest of my existence. I was turned at this age, so I'm stuck looking like this."
I pitied her, no one would ever take her seriously, but her mind still seemed to be of a child's. I suppose she'd have that mentality forever no matter how advanced her vocabulary was. "I'm sorry to hear that."
"You know, I was going to go to that quaestor party with them. They promised me we were going to go. And then you showed up," Ami sat on the couch, her poufy dress looked as if it would swallow her whole.
I raised a brow, realizing this would be a perfect opportunity. "You were invited to the party?"
She nodded, a glum expression on her face.
I smiled, "What if I go instead of you? I'll tell you all about it afterward."
Ami frowned. "No way. That's worse than you being here."
I sighed. "I want to help save my friends."
"And I wanted to go to that party, we can't all get what we want, now can we?" she snarled, rolling her eyes, "forget I ever told you anything." Ami stood up and started to make her way out of the living room.
She stopped and turned.
"Do you know how to drive?"
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