29 guessing games (2/2)

She laughed again, ”How can you live on the coast and never have eaten calamari?”

He glanced over his glasses at her, ”Eating isn't a necessity for me.I only eat for appearance sake.”

She tilted her head to one side before asking, ”But you do taste it, isn't there things you just eat for fun?”

He laughed at her blunt question. ”Well yeah, I like sweets.” His smile widened before adding, ”Pancakes for example.”

She giggled, ”Surely not!”

His smile fell to a serious expression, ”Joslyn…” His words trailed off as he watched her pick contently through her chowder.Once she was happy with the things on her spoon she looked up at him waiting on him to finish what he was about to say.He shook his head and looked away, ”Never mind…” {She's so calm and comfortable around me still.Surely she must be suppressing her true feelings... but I'm not ready for this time with her to be over.I won't say anything else about it.} He ran his hands through his hair before looking back at her, ”Is it good?” He couldn't help but laugh as she nodded with a mouth full of chowder.He turned his focus back to his own plate, ”Alright, what did you say this was?” He pulled the fried oyster apart and watched as the greenish content spilled out. He snarled up his nose at it as he held it dramatically away from his face, ”Nope… Don't matter there's no way that thing is going in my mouth!” He dropped it back onto the plate and turned his attention to his half drank beer.

Joslyn tilted her head to one side in curiosity as she watched him take a long drink, ”Can vampires get drunk?” She shut her eyes tightly and winced as an unexpected shower of beer sprayed across her face.

Xavier spat and choked on the large drink of beer. He reached into his back pocket still coughing and pulled out his wallet. As he moved to stand up he tossed a $100 bill on the table and grabbed Joslyn by the wrist. He came over beside her before pulling her up and yanking her behind him toward the back exit.He, drug her along behind him as he made his way quickly to his Jeep. With supernatural speed, he unlocked the door and lifted her into the vehicle, too impatient to wait on her to climb in.He was already putting it into drive before Joslyn even got her seatbelt hooked.She caught a glimpse of Raven coming out of the front of the bar as they pulled out of the parking lot.Her phone vibrated. She glanced down to see a message from Raven.

[What the hell?]

[What is going on?]

[Are you in trouble?]

More messages poured in as she tried to type out a quick response. [I'll be fine don't worry. I think I may have just guessed correctly what he is, though.]

[OMFG girl!!! Are you sure you're not in trouble?! WTF did you guess?]

Jos glanced across the seat at Xavier.He was focused intensely on driving, and no wonder... her gaze fell on the speedometer of the vehicle to see that they were driving nearly ninety miles an hour.[Yea, I believe so...Mostly… ;)] She glanced back over at him before sending her next reply. [About my guess... I'll tell you when I know for sure.]

[Well that's not reassuring!!!]

Joslyn could feel the concern in the many exclamation signs Raven was using and decided to send one last text. [I'll be home soon, don't worry.]

Xavier drove at reckless speeds as he navigated the twisting and winding back roads of an area Joslyn had never been in.Her phone vibrated again, this time telling her the battery was about to die. {Great! Just what I need in a neighborhood I've never been in with someone who is acting like a sudden crazy person.Had he not been the one pushing me to tell him whatI thought he was earlier?} She glanced over to Xavier. ”I hate to break your focus here speedy, but um… Where are we going?”

He glanced over at her before looking back at the now dark road, ”Somewhere we can talk freely.”

She rose her eyebrows at him as her phone vibrated again, ”And where would that be?”

He shot her a skeptical look of his own suspecting that by now she was only pretending to be calm, ”Why? Planning on texting it to your boyfriend?”He glanced down at her phone.

She flipped the phone toward him, ”It's vibrating because the battery is about dead, not because I'm texting someone.”

He glanced down at the phone then back out the window, before muttering almost to himself, ”But you're not denying he's your boyfriend, are you?”

She stared at him, ”Are we really back to talking about this again?” She crossed her arms letting her phone drop onto her lap.

He gave a sarcastic laugh, ”Well, when the girl you've been obsessing about for the past 48 hours, suddenly pegs you… correctly mind you… as a vampire. It does tend to bring things back around to that topic.”

She shrugged, ”And why is that?You said you wanted to be my friend, wouldn't a friend eventually find these things out too?”

He smacked the wheel in frustration, ”Really?! 'Why' that's what you want to know?” He sent her a frustrated glance, ”Do you realize how hard it is to have a relationship for me? How many people I've told in the past that completely flipped out? I've had to erase so many memories because I fell for individuals who couldn't handle what I was….” He raked a hand roughly through his hair before shooting her a despite glance. ”To have someone so… calm about it… you can't understand what that means to me… and no, I have no 'friends' who know what I am who are not also vampire or of the supernatural realm.” He moved one hand from the wheel to her leg glancing over to read her reaction.

She glanced down at his hand, ”Do you normally get so handsy with your friends?” She looked up at him with a scold on her face. ”I bet it makes your guy friends super uncomfortable as well.”

He couldn't help but laugh as he replaced his hand on the wheel.”Don't you understand, the last person I tried to touch after they found out what I was tried to jump from a moving vehicle.” He smiled over at her, ”You can't fault me for wanting to see what your reaction would be could you?”

She shrugged, ”It's no big deal, I knew Friday night while we were still….” She selected her next words wisely, ”…in the ocean that you weren't human.I just couldn't pinpoint what you were.”

He shot her a questioning look, ”And how did you guess so easily this time.”

She answered matter-of-factly, ”You swam incredibly fast when you tried to catch me, you moved through the water with ease even while holding onto me, you got rid of the on-lookers without fuss, and of course your eyes.Vampires are the only thing that's eyes glow like that even in the daylight.” She shrugged again, ”That's why you wear the sunglasses all the time isn't it?” She leaned over and took the glasses from his face.

Surprised emeralds gazed back at her. ”….” He searched for words but couldn't say anything. He forced himself to look back out over the road as he began to slow the jeep down. ”Not exactly the only reason I wear them, but yes it does come down to my eyes and their ability to give away what I am.” He said as he whipped the jeep off the road. He pulled into a wide driveway and into a garage before she could even get a good look at her surroundings.

She responded sarcastically as she began uncrossing her arms and removing the seatbelt. ”Well, rule one of not creeping out a date after admitting to being a bloodsucker is to not speeding down back roads and pull into super shady garages.” She turned her head to glare at him, ”Really gives off the serial killer vibe, ya know.”She popped the door open as he continued to stare wide-eyed at her.She glanced up at him after jumping to the ground, ”Coming? Or are we just going to chill in here the rest of the night?” She shut the door and began looking around.It was a large 4 car garage with an antique Austin Healy 3000 sports car, a brand new Dodge Challenger, a Cadillac xt4 SUV, and 3 motorcycles.{Alright, so calling this a shady garage was a bit of an understatement...}