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staring at me. The beautiful lake is a deep blue, and the moon is shining down on Jason like he is some kind of angel.
    Back in my room, Nathan hands me another take-out bag, and I suck it down. “Are you going to tell me why you’re out there with your temptation?” Nathan asks, and takes my hand in his.
    “I like him. I know I shouldn’t, and I know I need to stay away from him. But I don’t know if I can.” I pause and close my eyes. My craving for Jason isn’t bad right now. “Maybe I should call my mom and tell her I can't be here.”
    “That wouldn’t do much good for you. Your mother told me she was going out of town and wouldn’t be back until Sunday,” Nathan says, and I open my eyes. This is news to me. My mother didn’t tell me she was going out of town.
    “I didn’t know that,” I mumble, and he smiles.
    “Honey, are you going to tell me what happened to make you freak out like that?” I don’t want to answer him. I don’t want to hear him tell me how stupid I am for putting Jason in danger. “Victoria, tell me or I will ask Jason.”
    I sigh, and nod. “He kissed me,” I whisper, and wonder if he heard me.
    “You what?! You’ve got to be kidding me! Victoria, you have a blood lust for him, and you thought kissing him was a good thing?” Nathan shakes his head, and narrows his eyes on me. “What would you have done if you had killed him? Throw him in the6 middle of the lake?”
    My mouth drops open. After all of the years we’ve been friends, he should know me better than that. “I would never do that.”
    “You told me you would never kill a human like your dad. You said you don’t want to be a monster like him.” I flinch away. My father has killed many people, but I only saw it happen once. The memory still haunts me, and I will never forget what I saw. As the traumatic memory soaks in, I start to relive it.
    He took me out to a movie, and said he needed to stop somewhere on the way home. We walked into a store, and a man with salt and pepper hair stopped in front of us with a genuine smile on his face.
    “We are closing in five minutes,” the man said, and I glanced at my dad.
    “I would like to speak with you…alone please,” my dad said to the man, and he nodded. “Darling stay here I won't be long,” he told me, and I stood there in the empty store alone. I didn’t move or follow my father, not until I heard screaming.
    I ran down the hallway to the open office door. My father had the other man’s neck stretched as if it would have snapped at any moment; his teeth were buried deep into the man’s carotid artery. I began fighting my basic instincts, at the smell of the coppery gold my father had spilled. Bright crimson soaked into the man’s collar of his white button up shirt. The victim’s eyes were wide open in terror; his mouth was stuck in a silent scream. Tears stung the back of my eyes, and my gums throbbed as my fangs grew longer.
    I just stood there, frozen, but I must have made a noise because my father’s eyes popped open. I could see a smile while he was removing his mouth from the man's neck. He stared at me with bright, red eyes.
    I had never seen a vampire feed before, and watching my father made me sick but excited at the same time.
    I ran from the back office and away from my father. I ran out of the store and didn’t stop until I was down the street. I pulled out my cell phone to call my mother, but I knew that she would want to stake my father. I called the only person I knew who would help me, and be there for me. Nathan.
    That memory has haunted me ever since I witnessed my father feeding and killing someone.
    “I'm sorry I shouldn’t have said that, but what were you thinking? What if you hurt him? I know you Victoria. You would never forgive yourself if you had,” Nathan says, and pulls me out of my walk down memory lane.
    I nod and look at him. “I know I would have hated myself, but I don’t know if I can stay away from him. It's