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  “Can you feel it?” she murmured, looking at mequestioningly.

  I wasn’t capable of speaking at the moment, so I just nodded. It was remarkable and nothing like the frantic pace from before. Her steady heartbeat was clear under the palm of my hand. A strong, rhythmic pounding that didn’t resemble my own in any way.

  “It’s nothing like mine,” I mumbled, amazed by how hypnotising it was.

  “What’s yours like then?” she asked, looking at me. That’s when I noticed how close we were sitting. Our thighs were pressed together, my hand on her chest, her head only inches away from mine.

  “Errr. Hmm. It’s a strong pound, pumping all my blood through my body at once,” I said, trying my best not to stutter or fall over my words.

  “Can I feel it?” she asked, cocking her head to the side and looking at me with her blue eyes. I knew I should have said no, but I felt my head nod up and down. She released the hand around my wrist and placed it on my left boob. The heat immediately spread through my chest, warming me.

  “I can’t feel anything,” she muttered, looking concerned atme.

  “I told you. It’s only once an hour. I had one about half an hour ago, I think,” I said, thinking about when I felt one. My heartbeats weren’t exactly every sixty minutes, but I could feel my body preparing to ease the shock and rush of blood.

  “I’ll tell you when I feel one coming up,” I suggested, making her nod happily.

  “Okay, deal,” she smiled and, to my regret, removed her hand from my chest. I suddenly remembered I still had mine on hers, so I quickly pulled my hand back, pressing it under my butt to keep it from travelling back to her.

  “What’s happening now?” Heather asked, pointing at the screen. I shook my head to clear it and turned my attention back to the VDR.

  “Oh. That. He is telling her that he is leaving, she is crying and telling him that he is a bastard for leaving when they are expecting,” I translated the heartbreaking scene. The woman named Piper was sobbing uncontrollably while she clutched the vessel with her unborn child in it.

  “That’s so sad…”Heather whispered, her eyes attentively following what was happening.

  “Yes, it is. She is asking him why they conceived a child four months ago, when he had been dating another woman for six years. Now he is telling her that it was to stop her nagging and that he didn’t care where his DNA was used,”

  “What an asshole,”

  “Indeed.”

  “So, will he stay? What is she going to do?”

  “I’m not telling you just yet. I’ll tell you along the way,” I grinned, making her huff in annoyance. “That’s how a movie works, remember? You wait until things happen,” I smirked, digging my fingers in her ribs to annoy her even more.

  “Ha. Ha. Very funny,” she sarcastically said, making me bite my lip to hold back my laughter.

  “I’ll tell you later. Let’s just watch,” I said, masking the amusement in my voice.

  “Fine. But you better translate it right,” she demanded, making me shake my head in amusement.

  “Sure thing,” I agreed, still highly amused by her. She focused back on the movie and so did I. Or at least I tried. I glanced back at her, noticing how she didn’t look nearly as ugly as I used to think. I couldn’t understand why I found her freckles unattractive and I had noticed how I had started to like her unique, dark blue eyes.

  “Adrianna?” she whispered, sending chills over my spine when she said my name. I could only imagine how it would sound when she was laying naked under me, moaning myname.

  “Yeah?” I said, snapping back to reality where Heather was staring back at me. Her dark eyes looking deep into mine.

  “Why are you staring at me?” she asked, her head cocked curiously to the side.

  “Eeeehhhmmm… Just, scientific curiosity. Yeah, that’s it. Scientific curiosity,” I quickly said, not wanting to admit that I had been studying her features out of my own interest.

  “Hmm. Okay then,” she said, but I could hear the doubt in her voice. She probably knew that I had been looking at her in a completely other way.

  “What’s happening now?” she asked, her attention back to the screen. I also looked and smiled.

  “The woman with whom he had been cheating, is breaking up with him,” I explained, making her look back at me.

  “Why?”

  “Well, she has fallen for a woman. Besides, she figured that since he would cheat on his pregnant wife, he wasn’t husband material for her,” I grinned, enjoying the movie plot.

  “Oh.”

  “What?” I asked, not liking how she reacted so negatively to it.

  “Why would she leave him for that woman?” she asked, pointing to the screen where you could see the two women kissing.

  “Why not?” I countered, not liking how homophobic she seemed.

  “I don’t know. I can’t understand, since I’m not into women,” she sighed, shrugging like it was a done deal.

  “You seriously never been attracted to a woman? Never thought: Damn, she is stunning?” I interrogated, not understanding how one couldn’t fall for both men and women.

  “Well, I can see when someone is beautiful, but I wouldn’t kiss them,” she defended herself, but I could hear a slight crack in her voice, like she was telling a lie.

  “Maybe you should. Try, I mean. Just to see if it isn’t something you like,” I proposed, like I would to anyone who said they didn’t like a gender. I was just trying to broaden her horizon, nothing else.

  “Hmm, maybe,” she mumbled, looking awkwardly back to the screen.

  “Isn’t there any girl that you would like to kiss?” I interrogated further, noticing that I really wanted to know.

  “No…”she trailed off, not looking at me.

  “You sure? Not even me?” I challenged, thinking back to how she hadn’t rejected me earlier when we were lying on the floor. She kept staring at the movie, but I saw how she started blushing.

  “I…”

  Chapter 5

  The Moment

  “NO, NOT EVEN YOU,” Heather stated, but I could hear how she tried to keep her voice steady.

  “You sure? So if you aren’t attracted to me, one little kiss won’t hurt, right?” I grinned, flashing her a wicked smile.

  “W-What? No, no, I don’t want to kiss you,” she clearly lied. I tried to hide my grin and brought my head closer to hers. She quickly moved away, but I just followed her and trapped her body with my arms. She whimpered when I brushed my nose softly against hers.

  “Are you absolutely sure?” I asked in a soft voice, our noses circling around each other.

  “Err… Ahem, yes. I… Oh. Hmm, yeah…”she muttered, her first yes answering my question, but the last yes definitely giving permission for something different. I placed one hand in the back of her neck and tangled my fingers in her hairs. I looked at her eyes and saw how she was staring at my lips. I slowly licked my bottom lip with my tongue and I could see lust appear in her eyes, clouding her judgement. I brought my wetted lips closer to hers and I felt her breathing hitch up.

  “Relax,” I whispered, feeling how nervous she was. I wanted nothing more than to kiss her soft, pink lips but decided to ease into it. I let my lips brush over her cheek, before planting them softly on her temple. I felt how she let out a contented sigh, not resisting me in any way. That’s when I left a trail of butterfly kisses on her jawline, before nibbling on her chin and letting my lips travel to her neck.

  She gasped, barely audible, when I gently nibbled on a soft patch of skin on her sweet neck. I kept sucking on the spot, occasionally sweeping my tongue over it or softly taking the skin in between my teeth. I moved my body so that I was partially straddling her. Feeling her pressed to me literally made me dizzy in my head.

  “Kiss me?” I suddenly heard, making my head snap up in surprise. Had she really just asked me that?

  “W-What?” I stuttered, not believing that not only she had given me a silent perm
ission, but was asking for it.

  “Kiss me,” she said, her voice firm, but her eyes soft. I felt a smile stretch on my face and nodded my head, my eyes still staring into hers. I brushed a strand of hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear, my fingertips gently running over her skin in the process. She closed her eyes and let her head fall back, her lips slightly parted as she enjoyed my touch. I cupped her face with one hand and slowly pulled her to me. She opened her eyes and kept staring into mine while our mouths slowly inched towards each other. I nervously wetted my lips again and shivered when I could feel her warm breath on my skin. Our noses brushed against each other, our heads slightly turned, our bodies slowly melting into one.

  Then finally our lips met.

  Or at least, that’s what I wished had happened. The moment we should have kissed, my doors automatically slid open and Father barged into my flat, his voice loud fromexcitement.

  “We made an extraordinary find!” he shouted, waving his tablet around. I groaned and pulled away from Heather, my body screaming to stay.

  “What?” I asked, my voice, in contrary to his, hoarse. I smiled, laughing at the irony. Heather got us both excited, however me just in a slightly different way than Dad.

  “We finally analysed her DNA and we found something unbelievable. Here, I’ll show you,” Father hastily explained. I looked at the structure and saw the usual indicators that said vampire, but also some abnormalities that I didn’t recognise.

  “Okay, why are you showing me the DNA of a vampire? And what are these abnormalities?” I asked Father, not understanding what this had to do with Heather.

  “What I’m showing you is Heather’s DNA,” Father grinned, his eyes wide in excitement.

  “This is Heather’s?” I murmured and took a better look at the sheet again. “It looks almost identical to ours.”

  “Exactly! Which can mean two things. One. Humans are an offspring of vampires. Two. Vampires are an offspring of humans. And since…” Father said, making the pieces click in my head.

  “And since we know that humans roamed the earth long before us, the only logical explanation is that we are offspring of humans…” I completed his sentence, my voice lowered to a soft whisper and my mind completely blown. We used to behumans?

  “What? Are you saying that humans transformed into vampires?” Heather asked, her face clearly showing her confusion and shock.

  “I can’t believe it,” I whispered, completely ignoring her.

  “Adrianna, what does this mean?” Heather inquired, placing a hand on my shoulder to gain my attention.

  “It means that somewhere in the past, the DNA of humans started changing and they became vampires,” I mumbled, knowing that this would change our whole history. We had a history before and after the first vampires were born. But this discovery meant that, from now on, human history was our own history.

  “You are a further evolved version of me?” Heather scoffed, looking at me with a glare that clearly indicated that she didn’t think of me as further evolved.

  “Technically I am,” I answered carefully, not wanting to upset her, while Father just bluntly said, “yes”.

  “Hmm… Still, why would human DNA change into that of yours? What would cause this?” Heather asked, a very good question indeed.

  “I have no clue. Maybe further experiments and testing will bring us the answer?” I proposed, making both Heather and Father nod. I smiled when I noticed that Heather was also very curious about the relation between humans and vampires.

  Vampires are like humans, which means that it isn’t wrong for you to be with a human.

  I groaned at this thought and looked at Heather. She was also studying the DNA sheet and Father was patiently explaining the similarities and differences. Heather nodded her head when Father gave a long, boring, unnecessary, scientific speech and looked up to meet my eyes. She smiled and I felt chills run down my spine. Even from a distance she could make my body physically react to her presence. She winked and licked her lips, making the temperature rise up a few degrees and turn my cheeks tomato red. What if Father had seen that little flirtatious exchange?

  “My dad!” I mouthed, pointing frantically at him. She shrugged and rolled her eyes.

  “Like he’d notice,” she mouthed back, brushing a lost strand of hair behind her ear to expose her neck to me. I groaned, trying to ignore her. So Heather walked towards me, Dad indeed not noticing that he was standing alone at the table.

  “Besides, he was the one who interrupted something. Shame. Who knows where our earlier situation could have gone,” she whispered seductively in my ear, making me bite my lip again. Now that was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. I quickly put some distance between Heather and I and cleared my throat.

  “Dad, this visit was lovely, but don’t you have to get back to the lab for more tests?” I addressed Father, knowing that I should be excited about this find, but the only thing that my mind could process was the thought of Heather lying underneath me. Preferably naked.

  “Yes, yes! Definitely! We need to run more tests, do more experiments!” Father ecstatically agreed, rapidly packing his stuff and running towards the door. I made a mental note to change Dad’s electronic key privileges so that he couldn’t just barge in anymore and happily waved at him.

  “Thanks, Dad. I’ll see you around,” I sang, wanting him to get out of my house as soon as possible. He waved goodbye, finally leaving me alone with Heather. Thank the gods.

  I quickly turned around, not wanting to lose another second with Heather. Disappointingly, I found her casually lounging on the couch, watching the movie roll by on the screen.

  “Heather?” I asked, carefully approaching her. She kept her eyes on the screen and only acknowledged me by nodding her head. I frowned my brows by her sudden coldness and sat down next to her.

  “I…” I started, wanting to ask her to get back to where we left off, but the moment seemed to have gone.

  “What?” Heather casually asked, not even looking at me. I cringed and bit the inside of my cheek.

  “Nothing.”

  Chapter 6

  The Pool

  THE NEXT DAY, I awkwardly kept glancing at Heather. She had been slightly colder and more distant than before and I cursed at Father for interrupting us. If he hadn’t, we would have kissed and then we’d be cuddling up to each other instead of her staying at arm’s length.

  “Adrianna? I’m bored,” she dryly said, pulling at the soft flesh around her nails. I sighed because she sounded like a brat again. Now I had to entertain her. Us. And not in the way that I wanted. And not because she asked me either, but because I was also bored beyond belief.

  “What do you want to do?” I asked, raising an eyebrow and staring intensely at her.

  She blushed and looked away. “I don’t know. I could use some exercise,” she muttered, her eyes focused on an invisible spot on the floor.

  “Okay,” I agreed and knowing that she wasn’t going to expect this answer, I turned around and walked away from her. That would serve her right for playing hot and cold.

  “Okay?” I heard behind me, Heather’s voice a pitch higher as usual. “Hey, wait up. Okay?”

  I grinned. Bingo.

  “Yes. I could use some exercise too. Come with me?” I said, trying really hard not to make that a sexual innuendo. I extended my hand to her, curious if she would take it. I really hoped she would.

  “Sure,” she smiled, placing her warm hand in mine. I shuddered visibly from her touch, not believing how soft and warm her hand felt. I closed my hand around hers, not daring to intertwine our fingers. I tugged her towards a door that lead to a flight of stairs. We arrived at the floor underneath mine and as soon as Heather saw what I had hidden, she gasped in amazement.

  Underneath my house, I had hidden another world. A swimming pool stretched from one side to the other, a gaming station in the corner, and a small library and a reading desk in the other. It was my slice of heaven.

/>   “Woooah… Why didn’t you ever tell me this was here?” she asked accusingly, slapping my arm lightly.

  “I, ehmm… I never take anyone here. This is actually my personal zone,” I explained, not trying to blow up what a big deal it was to bring someone here. I really had never taken anyone here. I did most of the work myself and when it was finished, I never showed. I wasn’t even sure if people knew this place existed. Technically, I shouldn’t even have a second floor. This room was just a tiny piece of the world that was completely mine and mine alone.

  “This is incredible, Adrianna,” Heather whispered, admiring the sight. I felt a smile stretch on my face, foolishly loving how she liked this place.

  “Thanks. What do you want to do?” I asked, looking curiously at her, wondering what would be her bag of tea.

  “I would love to go for a swim,” she said, looking with big eyes at my giant pool. I swallowed nervously. I should’veguessed.

  “Oh. S-Sure…” I stuttered, closing my eyes to shut out the image of her wearing next to nothing. Didn’t work of course. I immediately felt myself heat up by the thought of her showing off that much flesh and knew that I had to do something here and now, or else I would jump her bones.

  “Do you have a swimsuit for me?” Heather sweetly asked, her head innocently cocked to the side. Damn.

  Think quick!

  “You don’t need one,” I grinned. She looked at me, confusion clear in her eyes. Only when I picked her up in one swift motion and started walking towards the pool, she understood what was going on. Panicked, she started screaming and thrashing.

  “Damn it, Adrianna, let me go! Let. Me. Go! You put me down, right now. Right now. Right now!” she shouted, trying to free herself from my grip. It didn’t work of course, I was just too strong. I chuckled at her futile attempts and threw her, without hesitation, in the cold water. She screamed until her body made contact with the water, then silence for a split second, before she came up and started screaming again. She started wading back to the side, pulling herself up and marching slowly towards me. I slowly backed away, cursing at myself. I thought if I threw her in with her clothes, I wouldn’t have to see her half naked. That idea backfired big time, seeing as the wet fabric of her clothes was clinging to every curve of her fit body and the cold water was making her hard nipples poke through her shirt.