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Mai had decided to sneak away from her grandfather's watch again. God, he was so unbearable that she wanted to leave this god forsaken place. She had actually sent a letter to her father trying to get him to tell her there was some other place for her to stay. She wanted so badly to leave. It's been two weeks since she sent the letter and nothing. Her father sent nothing back to her. God she hated him too. He put her into this situation and she hated him for her. Her head leaned back and she let out a loud groan. She wasn't going to hold back her sentiment to this fucking town nor the people who live in it. Who wanted to live in this fucking place? In the middle of fucking nowhere? It amazes her how people seemed to survive it out here.
By now the waitress had come and brought Mai her food and she greedily started to dig in. She was ravenous because of the shit her grandfather cooked sometimes made her double check what was edible. He decided to push his culture onto her. "Mai. Mai means coyote, your mother gave you a strong name." He told her this when she first arrived to Warwick. She knew this already, her mother always calling her little coyote as a little girl. She missed her mother, the only person who hadn't wronged her in her life. She also would die to have some advice for what she was going through currently. Mai had to stop her eating because of the anger she held at thinking of all the shit she had to deal with. She was in a bumfuck town, no friends, no wifi, no real food. She was also stuck her by the courts decision with their investigation on her father. Why could the man just keep himself clean from trouble? Then should could still be home with her friends. She could get some good coffee, sneak out to the nightclubs. She missed all the fun that was back in the city. Back on the other side of the country. She missed the hustle and bustle of the city. What the hell could she do here? She needed to have something to occupy her time or she would kill her grandfather for his crazy stories.
Luke didn’t visit the diner often, as going out for food was usually more expensive than he could manage. But this diner sold pretty cheap stuff and so far he hadn’t gotten food poisoning so he was treating himself to a meal. Well, he wasn’t really treating himself because he wanted to, but more because he wanted to see if he actually still liked to eat. Since the bite in the park, he hadn’t felt at all hungry for real food. He figured that going to a restaurant might kick start his body back into normal human eating patterns. Everything at the diner was packed with fat and sugar though and he had to be careful about what he ate. Luke was in perfect condition for someone his age, in fact probably even better than most. He worked out at least once a day and was part of pretty much every sports team imaginable. He always ate only the healthiest food and made sure to read the ingredients on everything. Despite that he still didn’t believe that he was good enough, thin enough, strong enough. So he kept working out and eating only low fat and sugar and low everything. The only semi healthy food on the menu was an eggs and vegetable omelette dish. He had always liked their eggs so he figured if anything could make him hungry, that would be it. The one issue was that there were no tables. Like everything else in Warwick, the diner was tiny and because it was also cheap it was always busy. The only free table was one of those shared tables where people could share a table with another person. Usually people used those tables to work. There was another girl at the table but Luke wasn’t a shy person.
“Mind if I sit, Mai” He asked her, but he had already sat down anyways. He recognized her from school, she was stunning. Eggs didn’t take long to make and his dish soon arrived, looking amazing and smelling completely unappetizing. Picked up his fork he stared down at his food with a creased brow. He would have usually been drooling over the idea of restaurant food, and now it was sitting in front of him and he couldn’t care less.
Mai looked up when she heard her name and she had this look. A look that said something along the lines of I will bite your head off. She wasn't the nicest person towards anyone around the school. Actually she hung around the troublemakers of the town. There has been many calls for her grandfather to pick her up from school or to pick her up from some businesses from around town. She was definitely a troublemaker and a big city kid. That was for sure from the light new yorkish accent that laced every word everyone got to hear from her. "I would prefer you not to," she seethed out. Why did everyone think she would just say 'oh yeah I don't mind'. But no that wasn't what she was like. She gave everyone a hard time whether they like it or not. Especially those who thought they had authority over her.
When his food arrived, she groaned for the fact this guy wasn't going to be leaving her alone. She knew they guy in front of her went to the piece of shit high school Warwick had but she wasn't good with name nor did she care too much to remember. She was waiting until she graduated before hitching her way back to the Big Apple. She missed it all, the noise, the lights, the him of the city life. It would be her chance to get back to where she belonged. Hopefully by then the police would be done scavaging through her father's apartment that she could move back in since it was paid for by her father's company. Which was still being run and sent her checks for whatever she needed. Although, that was because the vp had been trying to kiss added with her father.
“Sorry beautiful, but there aren’t really any other tables, so you’re just gonna have to deal with me for a little while longer.” Luke responded with a smile. Mai was stunning, although her personality was truly at odds with her looks. Like many teenage boys, Luke ran on very superficial terms. Despite hardly ever talking to Mai, Luke knew that she was quite the spitfire and known troublemaker. Part of being popular at Warwick high meant that he had to keep track of pretty much everyone at school. Know the new students, who is going out with who and which teacher was screwing which kid, it was all important in order to stay on the top of the high school hierarchy. If one doesnt keep track of the people below, it becomes impossible to prevent an uprising. That might seem dramatic in terms of the high school social hierarchy but when you’re a teenager, that’s all that matters to you. It mattered even more to Luke then it did to anyone else, because it made him feel good about himself. The past few years he had been finding it more and more hard to feel good about who he was. So, he flirted and he fooled around with guys and girls at parties and he tried to stay on the top at Warwick high, and that’s how he learn how to feel good about himself. So, yes he did know Mai despite never to having spoken to her. The most important thing he knew about her was that she was a city girl. It was easy to tell that she didn’t belong in a town like Warwick. She had a troublemaker vibe, someone who is used to the big lights and the fast-paced life of the city not some tiny forgotten about town. Perhaps that’s why Luke paid more attention to her than other kids at his school. She didn’t hang out with any of his friends but he still knew about her, The girl who had been somewhere else. The girl who had seen a world he would never get to see. Needless to say he was very curious about her. He wanted to hear all about the big city. People, the buildings, the big billboards in time square. He knew he was never going to get to go there, so you wanted to hear all the stories just so he could imagine he would one day.
“So how is life going for you in Shitville?” He asked with a smirk, pushing the food around on his plate. He didn’t want to eat it, it no longer seems appetizing to him. He knew he had to though It would be a waste of a perfectly good few dollars and he needed to figure out just exactly what was happening to him.
"Don't call me beautiful, shithead." She was angry, but not particularly at Luke. No, he was just the first person to come her way. Although, unknown to Luke, Mai had been the popular girl back home. She had friends, always smiling, well liked by everyone. What pissed her off was having to move to this place and that her father was a dumbass for his fraud scheme. She held that anger toward those action and takes it out on everyone. She had lost her mother's quite early in life and know her father decided to be a ass and get himself sent to jail. Now she had to live in a small town with a grandfather she doesn't know, who crazy by the way, and has to finish school here. She felt like she deserved to be angry.
Although, Mai didn't know Luke she could easily figure out his status among his peers. Athletic, good looking, eating healthy. She could see the image he upholds. When he asked how her life was going she just glared before going back to her food. A deliciously juicy burger and a side a fries plus her coke she was sipping on. Even with the high fat and super she was eating she didn't seemed worried about her weight. She wasn't perfectly thin but she was fit. It was probably from all the parkour she done with some of her friends back home. Something she hadn't tried doing since her move here. Mai was used to buildings not trees. "Why do you want my fucking opinion?" she asked after a couple of bites into her food. She questioned everything anyone said to her as well as what everyone done when around her. She had some small town folk move to the city and their kids come to school only to be trampled on. They could be truthful and Mai would always question it over the fact she knew things don't come free. Someone always wants something
Luke just smiled serenely at her angry reply. He had simply been speaking his mind. He found her to be quite beautiful, that was the simple truth. Sure, that didn’t make her special since he found many people beautiful, not even just girls. He was used to people with bad attitudes. Plenty of the kids in his friend group could be total angels one moment and assholes the next. In fact, he was one of those people. So he wasn’t bothered so much by her bad attitude. He wanted to hear about New York from her. He wanted to hear the stories of the people and the buildings and the dreams. No one had dreams in Warwick. It was the town of broken dreams, or at least for Luke it was. He was never going to get out of this place. He had to take care of his grandmother for at least 5-10 more year probably so college was out of the question. Not that he thought he was going to be able to go to college. They didn’t have the money and scouts hardly ever came to Warwick to see the team play. The town was too small to be of much interest. He knew that he was good enough to get an athletic scholarship but he doubted anyone would discover him in such a small town. His marks were good but not nearly good enough to get a scholarship, so he was resigned to staying here the rest of is life.“Because you’ve been out of this shithole before.” He replied without a pause. That was the honest truth, he didn’t see a reason to lie to her.
“You’ve seen places outside of this tiny town.” He added on just so she understood exactly what he meant. His eggs were getting cold and finally he shoved a piece of it into his mouth. It didn’t taste like anything really but it made him feel sick. Grabbing a napkin he brought it to his mouth and spit it out as discreetly as he could. That was not a good sign for him, he usually loved the food here.
God Mai didn't like that smile on his face. She didn't like anything about this situation, she just wanted to punch something hard. She didn't necessarily have a bad attitude or at least meant to have one. She was just hating on faith, destiny and everything else that would have put her in this small town. Though, unlike Luke she didn't have to worry much on what was after this. Her father's company, first started by her mother, was in Mai's name currently. She would be able to take control after she graduated which is why she still gets money from them. It is hers and she already had enough for her college funding so far.
"Yeah, everywhere is better then here." Mai had actually taken the long way to get to Warwick. A way for her to have more time with everything she loved and missed. She went through many states, cities, and towns. She seen the lives many people went through and she had the choice in whether she stayed the night and saw the town she was staying in. Warwick just seemed like a land version of the Bermuda Triangle. Something about the place was like a black void, things came in and not a lot came back out. Warwick was a mystery and not one Mai wanted to figure out. She had glanced up, waiting on his reply, just in time to see him try to spit out his food discreetly.
“I couldn’t really tell you if there are better places than here. i’ve never been out of Warwick, at least I don’t remember anything outside of Warwick.” Told her with a regretful tone. She probably thought that the people of Warwick with the most protected people in the world. Life in Warwick moved at a different pace than the rest of the world. Luke wasn’t sure why he thought that was true, after all had never been anywhere else to prove it. But he just had the feeling that things move slower in small towns like Warwick and the rest of the world wasn’t willing to wait up for them. Now he sort of did have something to prove that hypothesis of his. Mai seem to move a lot faster than everyone else at Warwick. He felt like she was from a whole other world, he’s been meeting a lot of so-called aliens from the big cities lately. That’s why Mai intrigue him so much. He knew that it was a stretch but maybe if he learned enough about the outside world, where things moved at a normal pace and you actually got to meet people you hadn’t known for your entire life, he thought that maybe he would one day be able to get out into those places. Maybe studying up on all the cities of the world, the governments, the laws, maybe one day that would mean that he could actually go to those places. But for now he couldn’t but Mai could transport him there without him actually having to go anywhere. If she were only willing to tell him some stories. At this point his obsession of getting out of Warwick was actually sort of unhealthy but he couldn’t help it. He knew he wasn’t the only one who felt that way, so many kids wanted to get out of the town. Folding up the napkin that he just bit his food back into he pushed his plate lately away from him. The thought of eating it now made him feel nauseous and the smell of it made him gag a little bit. He tried to play it off so that she didn’t get weirded out by the fact that he was spitting out his food but she had obviously seen him do it.
“You’re from New York right?” He asked. He already knew the answer with yet, word went around very quickly in small towns when someone new came but he figured it was the polite thing to ask.
Mai groaned inwardedly as he started talking about not having know what was outside of Warwick. She really didn't want to hear about this, so many people had asked her about New York and, although, she loved it she didn't want to talk about it because people didn't get away too much. Why couldn't people just leave her alone over the fact that she wasn't from around here. Or that she looked just like her mother. That was something that irked her since she was hearing people talk about her mother in ways her mother had never been in front of her. She could talk about her father and his dumbass decision or her insane grandfather but she was sick and tired of everything else.
Mai tried to turn her attention to her food. At least if she done that she could try to ignore the boy who was setting with her. Another thing she noted about the small town mannerism was that when everyone knew everyone they just assumed invading on then being alone was okay. Yeah, no Luke wasn't the first person to come over to and sit with her while she was by herself. She also assumed it wouldn't be the last time either. "Yes I'm from the big apple," she said angrily while she continued with her food. "But as someone I don't know asking me, already knows I'm from the east coast." Again this wasn't the first time someone asked and she was boring all the things the seemed to repeat as the conversation went on.
Luke gave her a long look as she replied angrily. He was still unfazed by her grouchy attitude and he wasn't going to let her bad mood effect him today. Or at least effect him more than he already was. He hadn't been in a good mood since he had gotten bitten. He had had a constant headache and was pretty much always nauseous. He refused to give into his temptations though and was trying to pretend that he didn't have an idea of what was happening to him. He was trying to pretend that he could just a normal high school kid, except for the fact that he had the constant urge to drink blood. Maybe it was just a faze... like going goth or punk... nope, he wished it was though. "I'm just trying to make conversation with a pretty girl. You don't have to attack me for it." He mused with a grin before crumpling up his napkin and putting it onto his plate. He wasn't going to eat anything else. His stomach was already rebelling against the tiny bite of egg and he had to swallow hard to keep himself from basically throwing up in his mouth.
"You're the one who lives with your crazy grandfather." He asked with a raised eyebrow. Usually he wouldn't have dissed her family right off the bat but she didn't seem like the kind of person who was so lovey with her family. Plus, her grandfather was sort of weird. But then again, so was everyone in Warwick. It was filled with oddities and people who would have probably been shunned anywhere else than the tiny town of Warwick.
Mai closed her eyes, took a deep breath before moving her plate to the side. She was no longer interested in her food because she just wanted some peace an quiet, some time to think. "You're not the first guy to come up to me, compliment me, and ask about my home." With art her attention on his guy, anyone could see the dark circles around her eyes. She looked tired an exhausted. She hadn't had a peaceful night of sleep nor has she been sleeping good for the past weeks. "So what do you want from me?" Usually that was a question to come out of a broke person yet she wasn't broken, not yet. She was angry, tired and ready to punch this guy's face. But she held back because she didn't need kicked out again.
When her grandfather got brought up, her nose flared with anger. Her knuckles went white as she fisted them. "That man may be blood to me but he isn't my grandfather." The crazy bastard she lived with had control of her until she was graduated from high school. He had never been in her life nor did she want him to be but here she was. The man was her mother's father, a sperm donor most likely. The stories she had heard of her mother was not the woman she had known for the beginning of her life.
"I'm sure I won't be the last." He replied with disinterest. He hadn't come up to her on purpose. She had just been sitting at the only table with space. It was just a plus that she was a pretty girl. He would have still sat there had she been a fat old guy. Picking up his fork again, he picked away at his eggs, slowly destroying the omelet. Cutting it up into tiny little pieces he began to arrange the food into patterns on his plate. It was a waste of food, he knew. But he couldn't give it back now so he was just taking out his stress on his eggs. Apparently he wasn't the only one who was stressed out because Mai looked pretty exhausted too. Although he didn't understand how someone who came from the loud city would have trouble sleeping in the sleepy little quiet town of Warwick. "I just wanted to try and eat. It had nothing to do with you. It's not all about you." He grumbled, loosing his cool for a minute. Luke wasn't really a bad person. He really wasn't. High school just hadn't been so kind on him and the added stress of.... you know, being a vampire hadn't been good for him. Most people would think that high school was his peak, him being a popular sports kid and all but really it was crap for him. He felt fake and disgusting all the time. Plus no matter how hard he worked out or ran or how healthy he ate, he knew that he would never be handsome. Most other people would call him handsome, or hot or whatever but he didn't believe any of that himself.
"No respect for your elders?" He asked with a chuckle at her angry reaction. He loved his grandmother more than anything so he didn't really understand what she was feeling. But he knew enough about her crazy grandfather to know that if he were his grandfather, he wouldn't want to be related to him either. It wasn't like Mai ever visited her grandfather either. Neither Luke nor anyone else in town had seen Mai before so she obviously didn't visit him in Warwick.
Mai rolled her eyes when he said it wasn't all about her. Everyone seemed to make it all about her or at least she made her problems come first before everyone else. She hated this town, hated everyone who lived here. She could barely stand everyone coming around her that decided to get all up her business. "You," she emphasized, "didn't have to set with me to eat. You could of stood somewhere," she grumbled. She was selfish and definitely the type to talk about herself. It was because here, she was the most interesting thing around. She also thought her problems where the most important. Nobody understood what she was going through. And even though she had been handed everything she ever wanted she was raised with manners. At least at one time she was.
"Don't fucking go there," she said in annoyance. That was the same thing her grandfather said whenever she went off on him. She was a disrespectful kid who will have a horrible time in reality. But that wasn't true, Mai lived in a big city where crimes happened and people had their rights to say what they wanted. She had been a popular girl back home, even held a position in student government. She had been in protest before. "That man is fucking crazy. Way into the whole native shit."
"Sorry Princess but sometimes you just have to fucking share. It's not your table." He said back to her with a grimace. He had been trying to be nice but she wasn't complying at all. It didn't matter to him if she didn't like him. They weren't in the same friend groups and he probably would never have to deal with her again after this day. He sometimes saw her at school but that was pretty much it. She wasn't someone who was important to his social statues, although he did find her amusing. The big city girl was obviously having some serious problems getting used to a small town. She was probably bored out of her mind here. Not that he blamed her, he was too. Although he had the advantage of being used to it. After all, he had lived his entire life in Warwick. You just had to learn how to make your own fun here. That's probably why the parties at Warwick were always awesome, that was the only way people had fun in small towns like this. That, and having sex. Those were pretty much that only things teenagers could do for fun. He wouldn't say no to either going to a party with Mai or sleeping with her, she was hot. "Hey the Natives are sort of important here." He said reasonably, grinning at her. He knew that his sensible take on this would annoy her like crazy. Like any town, knowing who had originally been here was important. They had shaped the way people lived and like so many other First Nations communities, weren't given proper recognition. He doubted that someone from such a big city though understood anything about that. Places like New York were too big to take a moment and just understand the roots of the city. Not that Luke was the most respectful of the heritage of Warwick, but at least he understood it's importance.
"Although he's still crazy. Even my grandmother thinks so, and she loves everyone." He grinned. It was true that his grandmother loved pretty much anyone, but there were a few people in town that even she couldn't stand.
Mai had let the table thing go. She didn't care too much but she was tired of people always coming over and setting with her, most of whom never asked her. Or they were like Luke and was already setting before they get an answer. She actually would of said sure or whatever if he hadn't just plopped on down before she could answer. She always seemed to stay to herself or was causing trouble. She was independent, quite so and she wasn't used to all the niceties and informalness of Warwick. But what got her blood boiling was when he said the natives were important, like she didn't give a duck about their culture. But that was false, she was half native. Her mother made sure that she respected the culture. Even told her a lot of stories and legends before she passed.
"Don't fucking push it," she said. "I know my fair deal of my fucking culture but that man keeps me up at fucking night to chant about and keep wardngs up because of the "curse" that plagues this land then it crosses a line." Her anger had spiked and people were glancing their way. Maybe this outburst made her seem more related to the man she lived with but at the same time he was gentler and soft spoken unlike Mai. "What ate you looking at!" she half yelled and half demanded as her hand slammed on the table. But Mai always had bad luck it seemed and her hand slammed down on her silverware which contained a knife. The same knife she had used before Luke sat with her to cut her burger in half so she didn't have to pick up the whole thing.
Luke just leaned back and rolled his eyes at her annoyance. He didn't have the energy to fight back with her with just as much flame as she spat back at him. He hadn't eaten in a while and he felt sort of weak in his bones. It was a scary feeling and he was a bit freaked out. He worked out almost every day, he had to look good. He never did look good enough to satisfy himself. Every day he looked in the mirror and wished that something would change, that he would be different. But every morning he would glance into the mirror and see the same boy with ears that stuck out too much and hair that didn't behave. He hated his face, he hated his body and even though he worked out all the time he couldn't change his image about himself. But he still tried, so he was used to the aches and pains of workouts. But this was a different feeling, it felt like the marrow of his bones were leaking out and he was slowly becoming a puddle. It only got better when he drank from the water bottle he had gotten form the hospital. But he had only done that once, he refused to do it again. He felt disgusting when he did, disgusting because it tasted amazing and made his body feel so good. But since he refused to drink any more blood, he was weakening slowly."You don't have to yell. Some people are actually trying to have a nice meal here." Luke told her dryly. He was completely calm, until he smelled blood. He still wasn't used to the fact that he seemed to be able to actually smell blood now, along with many other things. His gaze followed the smell until he was staring at Mai's arm. When the knife had flown off the table it had landed against her skin and now he could see the blood welling from the cut. Gulping loudly, Luke made a gagging noise and squeezed his eyes shut for a moment. He couldn't look at it, it smelled so good. just a taste, just a little taste, that's all i need He thought to himself. Wrenching himself away from the table he turned away from Mai.
"Look I have to go. Sorry." He said before running out the door. The second he was out he sank back against the brick of the diner. He had never felt a need so strong before. Never.
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Mai was looking at her hand not paying attention to the guy the was setting with her. Immediately her uncut hand went to grabbed napkins as an effort to get her hand to stop bleeding. By the time she looked up the guy was leaving and she just stared at him as he left. "Weak stomach," she muttered as she applied pressure. The waitress came over and replaced the napkins with a towel. Mai grumbled an apology, paid for her food and grabbed her bag as she headed out the door. She knew the cut wasn't too bad but she still needed to make her way to the hospital to have it checked.
Most people were surprised she didn't scream out in pain and while she still wasn't, she was cursing mentally as she went. This fucking hurt but she knew how to hold her tongue and the was what she was doing. So Mai left out the door, seven minutes passed since Luke up and ran out. With her car key in her okay hand she kept the bleeding to her chest and the towel fisted in it. She was walking towards her car so she could drive herself and have this checked and possibly get stitches depending on how the doctor thought it was going to be.
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Luke had never been squeamish about blood. He had seen his fair share of gory sports injuries. Balls to the face, bones sticking out of skin from falling the wrong way, he even knew a boy who had gotten his eye poked out while playing lacrosse. Like most people, he didn't used to like blood, but he did accept it as part of his life. You couldn't be afraid of getting hurt when you're an athlete. No one performs at their best if they are afraid of failure. You have to give 100% if you really want to make something of yourself and that means no holding back because you're scared. But now, blood gave him the shivers. Not because he dislike it now, but because he loved it. The smell, the look, it made him salivate like he was about to eat a good steak. But even steak didn't taste as good as that red liquid did. The urge to bite Mai when he saw the blood was just so strong that he practically fell over in his need to just bite her. Head hanging down, he latched a hand over his mouth as he sat beside the diner. He was right next to the employee entrance on the side of the building so he could see people walk past but wasn't really visible to passerbyers. Trying to take deep breaths, Luke would have missed Mai leaving the diner had it not been for her smell. Every person's blood was different. Hers was just a little bit more metallic and... he couldn't even explain it. But he knew that her blood smelled different than Ellie's had. He didn't even realize what he was going until it was too late. Suddenly he was in front of Mai and without thinking twice about it, he grabbed her by the shoulder, spun her around and slammed her against the car that she was walking past. It made a horrific sound, but he didn't care anymore. He didn't care if he hurt her or if anyone saw. All he knew was that her blood smelled amazing and he would seriously die if he didn't get some of it. Baring his teeth at her, he growled like an animal and grabbed her arm, there was still blood dripping from the knife cut.
