Trinity - Defying Destiny (3 page)

Chapter Four

I decided to curl up in the bed next to Nikkee. Vex had left me alone with her to collect my thoughts and process some stuff. He also told me I would be leaving in the morning. I was not sure if he was aware that I would not go anywhere without my best friend or not, but he is old so I presume he should know that.

I tried to imagine what ‘Mutual’ would be like. Would it be like a boarding school? Would Jason be there?

I reached down and pulled my phone out of my pocket and turned the screen on. I had no new messages or missed calls. A pain started rising in my chest thinking of Nikkee’s mum and dad. They were such good parents and would be going out of their mind with worry. Still, they had not messaged me or called to find out what was going on. A frown came over my face, wondering why?

“Hey,” came a croaky voice next to me.

I sat up fast and looked at Nikkee.

“Hey yourself,” I said with a big grin and then put my head on her chest and wiggled my arms around her, trying to give her the best hug ever in an awkward position.

“Your hair smells dirty and sweaty like really bad,” she said, the sound muffled in my long black hair.

“Sorry,” I said and lifted my head off her.

She looked at her arms and then at me.

“I was dying?”

“I know,” I simply replied.

“You saved me?”

“I’m not sure I think of it that way,” I admitted.

“Why not?” she asked as a small frown came over her face.

“I was selfish, I couldn’t bear the thought of not having you in my life and now I have turned you into a vampire,” I said in a quiet tone, feeling ashamed.

“Are you kidding me? This is awesome. I mean I felt kind of special being the only human around you all but now I’m in the IN crowd,” she said with a big grin.

Only Nikkee would see the bright side of the situation and I couldn’t help but grin back.

“You’re not mad at me then?” I asked.

“Oh my gawd Trinity, really? You know I would do the same for you,” she said and sat up fast wrapping her arms around me in an extremely tight hug.

My arms went around her automatically.

“I love you, Trin. I would have made the same selfish decision you did just so I didn’t have to live in a world without you,”

I smiled in her neck. I knew deep down, she wouldn’t be mad, but the look that was on Jason’s face when he’d seen what I had done made me think that I was the monster I feared being.

“How are you feeling?” I asked.

“Really good. I got to tell you, I had some strange dreams while I was out,” she told me.

“About what?” I asked and sat with my back against the wall.

“That someone was telling you Garth was your dad and how we can’t go home.”

“Oh, that,” I said and then added, “It wasn’t a dream, you were over hearing Vex talking with me and what you heard is apparently true.”

“Are you kidding?”

“No.”

I filled Nikkee in on everything I learned and had been told. She listened intently and barely batted an eyelash. She seemed to be handling everything really well, more so than I was.

“So Jason can feel your feelings and now you can sense mine?” she asked.

The door opened with a loud bang against the wall.

“Nikkee?” Jason breathed. He looked at me and then back to Nikkee. “We have to go. Leave your phones. Can you walk?” he asked her.

“Yes, I think I can, I feel great. What’s going on?” she asked a bit panicked.

“The FBI are on their way to this location now. We have to leave. Don’t bring your phones, they are being traced,” he said. He walked over to the bed at a fast speed, pulled the IV out of Nikkee’s arm and helped her up.

I climbed off the bed and stood there watching them walk out of the room.

“Hurry, Trinity,” Lachlan called out.

I looked at my phone that I still had in my hand and then tossed it on the bed and raced out of the room.

Nikkee had gone in the car with Jason, Sky, and Chelsi while I was in the SUV with Lachlan and Vex.

We had left the house without even shutting any doors behind us. We pulled onto the highway and noticed a stream of blazing lights heading off in the direction we had just come from.

“What are we going to do?” I asked.

“We will get to ‘Mutual’ and figure it all out from there,” Lachlan said next to me in the back seat.

“How far away is it?” I asked.

“A few hours,” Vex replied.

“Okay. Where is Garth?”

“He left a few hours ago. They found the bodies Trinity, and also Dustin,” Lachlan told me.

“Is he…?” I could not say it. I had only met him once, but he seemed to be an okay guy.

“No, he is not. I would feel it if he was,” Vex said.

“Our species have been discovered,” Lachlan added.

“That’s part of the prophecy. I would bring the enemies out of hiding. It makes sense that this would happen,” I said in a calm tone.

Lachlan just looked at me and I felt Vex’s eyes from the rear view mirror as well.

“We are not the enemy,” Lachlan pointed out.

“No, but you are also cut from the same cloth of those that are and were,” I said, but not knowing why I was even saying it like that.

“She is right,” Vex cut in.

“What?” asked Lachlan in an amused tone.

“Oh yeah, you watch yourself. I’m all smart and shit since I decided to be who I am destined to be,” I said with a smirk on my face.

“So you won’t defy destiny, but you will defy me?”

“Who said I’m not defying destiny? I’m still the same person I was twenty-four hours ago.”

Chapter Five

The drive seemed to be taking forever. I was trying to concentrate and not let my mind wander and dwell on the things that have me feeling so uptight. I kept sneaking glances at Lachlan to see if he was sensing anything, but he did not give anything away and I knew he would not.

I thought of Nikkee and wondered if she was okay. I was not feeling anything unusual or anything that felt like it wasn’t me so that must have been a good thing. I also wanted to know how Sky was, we hadn’t spoken since I got to Nikkee. I wanted to know how she was handling everything and whether she was alright. It sucked that I couldn’t have my phone to send them a text message.

“Are we going to stop soon?” I asked.

“What’s wrong?” Lachlan asked.

“Can’t you feel it?”

“No,” he said flatly.

“I’m starving,” I said with a sheepish grin.

“We can stop up here and have something to eat,” Vex replied pointing ahead.

He flashed the lights to Jason’s car in front and then they put their blinkers on.

The cars came to a stop at the 24 hour BP service station. I looked up at the sky and saw that the moon was nearing the horizon, so it would be sunlight in a few hours.

I opened the car door and hopped out, walked over to Jason’s car to meet Sky and Nikkee.

“Ladies room first,” Nikkee asked.

“Definitely,” Sky and I said at the same time.

I stood at the side of the servo looking out at the open land that spread out around it. It was a remote area with not many lights in the distance to see. Sky and Nikkee went inside to get us some food. They asked if I wanted to come; I just wanted to stay outside in the fresh air and darkness.

As I looked out I wondered if I could ever have a normal life, or at least one as normal as they come. Could I have a house like Lachlan and Jason? At the thought of his name, my heart ached. There had still been no time to talk, no time for questions.

Warm hands touched my hips and then slid around my stomach, then I was pressed along his chest.

I hadn’t heard him approach. I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I blocked everything else out from around me.

My body responded to him in that abnormal way I was starting to get used to. I liked it. It was a burning desire to be everything he wanted me to be. Every hair felt like tiny soldiers standing to attention with just one touch. I wondered if it was the same for him. Did he feel the same way as I did? Was his mind screaming at him to do things that his rational side told him he should not do.

“Yes,” he whispered in my ear.

Oh my gawd, the things that one word did to my mind was not human.

His hands gently turned my hips until my chest was touching his. Before I could think, his lips were on mine. It felt different than before. Every inch of his lips felt like overbearing electric shocks. As his tongue touched mine, I felt my body sag in his arms, and I reached around him to help catch myself even though I knew he would not let me fall. His hold on me was tight. I felt safe, as if he would never let me go. What had I been worried about? Girls can be extremely stupid sometimes.

He broke our kiss with a chuckle and grinned at me.

“Shut up,” I said playfully.

“I can’t help it. Sorry,” he replied.

“About that. Were you ever going to tell me?” I asked, not as angry about it as I was.

“I thought you would have guessed since Lachlan could,” he said.

“Yeah, well thinking back now, I should have.”

“Hey Jason, I have your food,” I heard Chelsi say from behind him.

He lifted my chin up and gave me a quick kiss on the lips, turned and walked over to where she waited on the bench.

I locked eyes with her. She didn’t look pissed off.  If anything, she looked presumptuous, like she had won something. I frowned and looked to Jason who gave me one of his sexy grins.

Nikkee and Sky walked around the corner and over to the table next to Jason. I felt conflicted. No, I actually felt like knocking Chelsi off the bench, away from my… well just away!

“Come on, Trin, before it gets cold,” Nikkee called out to me.

I let my conflicted jealous hormones float to the back of my mind for another time because my stomach had just reminded me that it comes first and should be tended to ASAP. I was going to have to remind it who was actually in charge here. Right after I eat something.

We had finished eating and were ready to go back to the car when I heard Nikkee ask Jason, “Why?”

“Because she is safer with Vex,” he said.

“She is safe with you, me, and Sky,” Nikkee pointed out.

“Chelsi needs to be in the car with me,” Jason said.

I frowned. I was looking away from them so they wouldn’t have seen it.

“Why are you carrying around your EX anyways? It’s a bit rude. No, it’s  flat out rude,” she told him.

“She won’t go in the car with them,” he said in a flat tone.

“Why, because they are vampires?” Nikkee asked.

“Yes,” was all Jason could say.

“I’m a vampire,” she pointed out.

“Yes, but you're my sister and Sky is a wolf,” he stated flatly.

“And Trinity is your girlfriend. You shouldn’t be choosing your EX over her,” Nikkee said getting angry.

“Trinity is no… Look, you don’t understand, this is all new to you,” he tried to explain.

“Make her walk,” Nikkee demanded.

“Nikkee, you know I can’t do that.”

The pain in my chest came back to the surface. I pushed and pushed hard to hide that I was hurt. I was not sure what we were, but he basically said we were nothing and yet we had a moment until Chelsi turned up with his food. All that kept swimming around my mind was that he still had feelings for her. Why else would he choose her over me? I felt so confused. Again!

“Whatever Jason,” Nikkee said and stormed off towards the car. As she walked past Chelsi, she bared her fangs and hissed. Chelsi rebuked back and looked terrified.

I turned my back on Jason just as he looked over to me. I looked out at the open fields again and just thought of the peace and quiet that I would feel if I just went and laid out there for a while. Just looking up at the new morning sky and think of nothing at all.

He grabbed my hand, “Trinity?”

I pulled my hand out of his. “It’s fine Jason. You don’t need to explain yourself to me,” I said and started walking toward the cars leaving him behind. As I approached Chelsi, she cringed and looked like she was trying to either make herself shrink or disappear. I raised one eyebrow at her and kept on walking past her, over to Vex’s car. I looked to Nikkee, she was really pissed off. She caught my eye and gave a small smile

. An overwhelming sensation swept over me. It made me sway and I reached my hand out and placed it on the car to steady myself. I hung my head down as if I was trying to get air. I felt so angry, so much rage was swarming its way around my body. I wanted to punch, smash, bite…! I snapped my head up again and forced myself to push her feelings aside.

“Nikkee,” I called out.

My way of letting her know I was ok and that she didn’t need to go all-homicidal on her brother’s ex-girlfriend who he happened to want in his car rather than me. Even though he only kissed me a short while ago. She had been staring at Chelsi. Her eyes flicked to me and I gave her a smile. She smiled back. It was as if she said ‘yes’ to feeling the same way. No, no I was all good. Sunshine, butterflies and daisy. Oh, don’t forget the rainbow, I wouldn’t want to leave it out and have it all offended on these grand happy feelings that I definitely was not having.

“Trinity?” I heard Lachlan call out.

I mentally shook myself. I didn’t like this. I didn’t like it at all. I was going to have to do something about it. Get to the bottom of the situation so I knew where I stood with Jason.

“Trinity. Get in the car,” Lachlan yelled out again.

I blinked. I had been staring at the acres and acres of long grass again. I turned, looked and saw everyone else were in the cars already waiting for me. I opened the door and hopped in. Vex was reversing out before I had even shut the door.

“What were you thinking about?” Lachlan asked.

I looked at him and he looked genuinely interested.

“What? You don’t know?” I asked.

“I sensed you were really hurt and then it just all went blank. I couldn’t even find any feelings other than my own, not a hint. You have been able to block me out before, but not like that. I have always been able to sense something small. But just then, it was like nothing. What were you thinking about?” he asked again.

I frowned and looked down at my hands, then out the car window and saw more fields of long grass just swaying lazily in the soft breeze as our car drove by.

“I’m surprised you couldn’t sense anything. I didn’t know I was stopping anyone. If anything I was yelling so loud in my head I’m surprised I didn’t yell out for real,” I said in a dead tone.

“You are getting too good at doing that. Be careful not to get too good,” he stated seriously.

“Why should I be careful? I don’t want any of you in my head.”

“If we can’t sense you we can’t help you or save you if you need it.”

“Lachlan, I don’t remember ever telling ANYONE I needed saving,” snapping and going back to looking out the window.