That night Alissa slept over with my mom's permission after dinner. I knew that my mom was worried but there was no way that I was telling her anything about this. She would definitely say that I was acting out or crazy. She has never been on my side about anything that I do.

I waited for the dream to come. I needed a chance to talk to Nixon. Maybe if I explained why I had said yes then I could better the situation. Then the strangest thing happened.Nothing. No dream or hallucination. I slept like a baby and woke up headache free. My mom had put a bandage on my neck wound and if it weren't for that I wouldn't believe any of this had happened.

My mom drove us to school and we noticed that the parking lot had seemed a little gloomy. People wore sad looks on there faces as my mom dropped us off. We looked at each other and both ran towards the locker room. We knew that James's friends would be here first thing every morning.

Just as we thought they're heads were down and some of them as well as the Coach was even crying. Tears were welling up in my eyes. Alissa didn't need to ask the question but she still did.

"Where's James?"

Her voice seemed to pain all of the boys that were dressed up in training gear. No one wanted to answer so the Coach cleared his voice and answered, "He died last night. Someone broke into his house while his parents and sister were at a dance recital. He was stabbed in the heart."

I broke out into full blown tears as I ran out of the locker room and into the gym. I heard Alissa running after me but I didn't stop. People were too sad to even notice my crazy antics. Almost everywhere I looked there were posters saying you will be missed and you were loved James. I pushed my way to the girls bathroom and saw that some freshman were already in there crying.

James was very popular with everyone. His friendly face had touched everyone's heart. Alissa ran in after me yelling for me to wait. One of the girls said, 'I'm sorry for your loss. I heard you were going out," she said with sympathy.

After hearing that I fell against the wall and just let it all out. Alissa motioned for the other girls to leave the bathroom and then she made sure the stalls were empty.

Devin came in a minute later with Chloe and it looked strange because this is a girls bathroom.

His face was tear stained and he looked so distraught. I'd never seen him look like this ever. And it was all because of me.

"Chloe filled me in on everything after we got the news," he begun slowly, "Now I promise not to tell anyone but Aubrey, you need to explain this Nixon guy to me." Alissa walked over to Devin and pulled him in for a hug. It was a sore sight to see. Everyone was hurting just because I couldn't follow some simple instructions.

My eyelids were weighed down and sore from crying. I just needed to rest. Maybe five minutes..

"BREE WAKE UP!" I heard Chloe and Alissa yelling but they were too late. I was already sinking deeper and deeper.

Dream-

"My love?" I heard a familiar voice call to me. My eyes opened and I was sitting in his lap in the field of flowers. I jolted myself up and slowly backed away from him. His eyes were filled with love and care. It had to have been a trick. He didn't love me, he was trying to subdue me. Those beautiful green eyes and gorgeous face were just part of his elaborate disguise. He slowly stood up and was in front of me too fast for me to even comprehend.

I shook my head, "You don't love me vampire," it came out as more of a whisper rather than harsh.

He smiled at me and I could see his fangs. It was a hauntingly sexy smile that I had never seen him use before, "So you know then."

"How am I here right now?"

"Because I summoned you here."

I continued to back away from him, "Why?"

"Because it's the only way I can talk to you for now," he said inching closer to me.

I was about to run from him when I heard his voice, "Please don't run. You can't leave until I let you and I don't want to lose control and bite you again."

I didn't want him to lose control or bite me either so I just narrowed my eyes and sat down in the grass, "So where's your real body?"

He grinned and sat down next to me. I flinched as he began to stroke my hair as if it were any other night.

"I am currently in Romania as of now. I am a special vampire and it wouldn't seem fit for me to leave my duties for a human."

I leaned closer into him, "What duties?"

"I am what you would call royalty. Many vampires only dream of being able to do things like this," he said reaching over to kiss my cheek.

I was confused by all of this, "If you're in Romania, then how do you know me?"

He sighed then began, "I saw you for the first time 5 months ago in a shopping mall in Vegas. Me and my men were looking for someone that had information for us and I couldn't help but notice you. You were with your friend Alissa and a boy. You were glowing and your blood just seemed to call to me. If my men hadn't stopped me you would have probably died."

I nodded motioning for him to continue, "After that I stayed in Vegas for a little while just to watch you. You weren't very outgoing but you seemed to talk to people if they talked to you. Yet you always had this attractive aura around you.Not to mention your overwhelming beauty. I couldn't get enough of how gorgeous you are. I was addicted. So I told my men to bring me something of yours from your house."

My mouth went slack, "You stole the picture of me from my dresser." It was a picture of me at an amusement park from when I was 12. When it went missing I had just assumed that my mom had taken it. Guess I was wrong.

He nodded unapologetic, "Yes. All I had to do then was return to Romania and use it as a Talisman into your dreams. I preferably do this at night because of course I would be in a meditative state. Plus I didn't want to risk you dropping down at weird times of the day. Soon I got so in tune with your mind that I knew when you were sleeping. I fell in love with you before I had even been in your dream the first time. I really do love you, I just have a temper."

"So this justifies you for killing James," I asked in a harsh tone. He blinked up at me several times and narrowed his eyes.

"I sent my men to kill him because I told you that would. And I will continue to kill any other boy that you like because you are mine," he exclaimed giving me a dazzling smile.

He stroked my cheek with his hand. I knew that I should be running for the hills but what good would that do? I wouldn't be able to leave if I ran away and he's the only one that could let me go. Running would just waste time. Time.

"Nixon! You have to wake me up now!" I yelled jumping out of his arms.

His eyebrows furrowed, "Why? Don't you like spending time with me love?"

I kissed his cheek, "Of course. Its just that my friends would have probably taken me to the hospital by now."

He gave me a hearty laugh, "Casanova has my orders to monitor you. He won't let anything happen to you, don't worry."

My eyes grew wide, "Casanova is like you?"

"Yes. One of my best men," he murmured back seeming entrance by my braid. He began to put flowers in my hair.

I was in love with a psycho murdering vampire dream boy. And yet, it felt so peaceful. I didn't have to worry about dead beat dads or mad friends or even James. I could close my eyes and relax on Nixon's shoulder because he gave me comfort.

We stayed like this for what seemed like hours. He would ever so often kiss my lips or my neck. I would kiss him back and we would giggle and laugh. His hands caressed me through the dress as he kissed me and it felt so dangerously enticing. But I didn't want it to stop. I noticed that I simply could forgive him for killing James. I could forgive him for biting me. I would love him no matter what. Delusional or not.

He stood with my hands in his to pull me up. We both stared at each other intensely for a moment. Just me and him in our own little world.

"I should let you wake up," he whispered not breaking eye contact. I really didn't want to wake up. But I also didn't want to scare my friends by not waking up.

"Okay." I whispered reaching up to kiss him passionately on the lips. Our tongues seemed to intertwine with one another. My heart was beating like it never had before. He sensed that and smiled against my lips.

"I will see you soon Aubrey," he murdered. Our little world flashed away and my heavy eye lids opened to a pale white ceiling.