Stark struck
In your life time things will change but you just got to let it happen.
Chapter one the beginning
Alright, so I’ve been sitting here in my gloomy room trying to explain to my self what the hell just happened to me. My best friend, my boyfriend, me! Okay so let’s start from the beginning, perhaps which will help.
I was almost positive I was dreaming. I hadn’t slept all night so when I dream of me sitting on my bed and a strange boy coming close to me I’m unsure if its reality or not. His eyes were just too blue to be real. He just kept staring at me and walking closer and closer “carter?” the soprano voice questioned. Carter he just kept repeating my name louder and louder until I sat up “Carter” my dad mike bellowed from down stairs wakening me from my almost nonexistent sleep. I guess I was dreaming and had to get up. First day of school. Senior year, kind of, compulsory. So I got up and looked at my self in the mirror. My strawberry blond curls hung loose around my waist. I was very pail and had thin lips. But my eyes, I had very unusual eyes. They were a deep purple with little squiggle lines of silver running threw them and were surrounded by thick lashes that and to colour of my hair and my very petite figure were the only thing I got from my mother, my curls strong jaw line soft nose and red cheeks I got from mike. I pulled on my very old comfy jeans and threw on a yellow tank top. It was warm for September in my home town of stars hollow so I thought I could get away with it. With one more glance in the mirror I went down stairs made me and mike breakfast I usually talked breakfast and made our lunches mike did dinner which was either stake pasta or eating at our favorite diner. I climbed in my old beat up jeep and I drove down the all too memorable road to the all too gloomy school. I waited for Damien my best friend since like forever. Both our moms were friends they did everything together, even died together. They were car puling to get us from school and crashed, no one noticed till Damien and I started to walk home and saw the car flipped Damien and I both shrieked and ran to the car to find our mothers pinned to the ground dead. Damian walked up to my jeep shaking his long brown a hair out of his blue eyes they were. So dramatic. He was nicely built and very cute. He was gay after all. After a long hug we walked to class. That’s when it happened. See I’m the world’s biggest cults always walking into people. But I was okay with that its how my mom met my dad. So here I am walking when I walked right in to a beautiful, tall, mountain of awesomeness. He had light blond hair and giant brown eyes but of course by the time I realize this I’m sitting on the floor staring into those big brown eyes.” Hey watch…” he began and then stopped, looked at me, and ran. “Wow carter, love the effect you have on the intensely gorgeous” Damien laughed helping me up. “WH…who was that” I studderd “oh you mean the hottie you just ran down, that’s James stark outstanding isn’t he” Damien fluttered. I laughed at his gayness as we walked to class. “What is he like” I asked interrupting one of Damien’s grammar rants. Damien was about to answer when the bell rang. So I passed him a note. I know very third grade but I couldn’t risk my cell phone. In my sloppy hand writing I wrote.
“TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT HIM
DON’T LEAVE OUT ANY DETAILS OR ILL HIT YOU”
He laughed and in less time that it took me to write my note had a full description of James stark written. On a very pink piece of paper. I rolled my eyes and began to read the note.
“James stark, everyone calls him stark. He moved here to
Live with his uncle. You know that nice man. Mr. McKenna he works for your dad. He hasn’t seemed to be taking any interest in the girls here yet. He doesn’t play for my team though. He’s into sports like football, soccer, water polo. He speaks 14 Languages and I believe he might like you because he is staring right at you!!!
When I read the last part I snapped my head to look at him and sure enough tough’s amazing eyes were staring at mine. “Ms Tyler” I took my eyes away just in time to see my teacher grab the notes and begin reading them aloud. I covered my face and went to put my head on the desk and missed and fell right on my but. When Mr. Connelly read the last part stark smiled and left just in time for the bell to ring.
When he finally stopped laughing Damien helped me up. “Thanks” I snorted as we left. We got to our next class so early there was like one person in the room. And just my luck it was stark. Damien, still laughing pushed passed me and shook Starks hand “ hey man, sorry about earlier” stark grabbed Damien’s hand and replied “ hey no harm done. I’m stark but you already new that, and if I change teams you will be the first to know” that made Damien blush. Stark didn’t notice he was to busy staring into my eyes again. Okay my turn I decided. “Hey I’m carter. Sorry about, everything” I apologized with a nervous giggle. Stark shook his head. “Hey don’t worry about it carter. I should have been watching were I was going this morning” he paused reading my facial expressions. God I loved the way he said my name. “Oh I had a question. You guys seem nice and I don’t know anyone here. Do you mind if I hang with you for a bit” I sat there dumb founded trying to remember how to work my lips. Thank god Damien answered for me. I hadn’t noticed but the bell had rung and we were being stared at. I sat there impatiently waiting for lunch. Half way threw class I got a note. That I caught with my head. I turned around and Damien giggled. Stark looked sorry. I was guessing it was from him. Probably asking me to stop stalking him.
“Hey do you only pass notes to Damien
Because I don’t want to just sit and stare
At you I wanna talk to you. Think about it and
Let me know.
- James stark
My mouth dropped and then I looked in my bag for a piece of paper, a pen and my pride. To late the bell rang and James stark was at the door waiting for me.
. . .
Lunch was great Damien faked sick and left me and stark alone, we talked about everything. Our parents, school, music, animals. He was amazing he held the door as we walked he looked at me when we talked. The only weird thing is he kept staring at my eyes like they were bad. I’d have to ask about it later. “Carter, lunch has been really good” he smiled at me “and I was wondering if you would like to have dinner with me” he looked away kind of shy waiting for my answer. “I would love to have dinner with you stark. Where would you like to meet?” I asked. He smiled so big it was funny. “Um do you know where my uncle’s house is” he asked still smiling “Yeah, he works with my dad, I have been there a lot” his smiling was contagious. “Okay meets me there at seven, I know the perfect restaurant” he smiled again and started to walk away. I was sad to know that’s all. No hug even a hand shake would have been cool. As if hearing my thoughts he came back hugged me and left.
The rest of the day was good. Gym was easy all we had to do was run laps for six minuets to see how many we could do. I did eight. I know pathetic I am not athletic at all. the most exercise I get is cleaning my house because mike is lazy and would rather pay me to do that then get off his lazy you know what to do laundry. Last period was English and I love it. Mrs. Bourassa is a nice lady. She loves Shakespeare almost as much as I do. But still very passionate about grammar. Ugh, I hated grammar. The best part of class was staring at the back of Stark’s blond head. He was in almost all my classes. Except girl’s gym but that’s kind of obvious. Finely the bell rang and stark was nice enough to walk me to my car. He took one look at my beat up jeep and laughed. “Don’t laugh you’ll hurt her feelings” I squealed. He laughed and hugged me then he said “see ya at seven” and I drove away.
I called Damien as soon as I got home and told him to come over and help me pick out something to wear. Just then I heard mikes curser pull up and his boots slam against the pavement. Aw Crap the only guy I have ever gone out with was Damien, we were friends and he was gay. Mike was gonna spaz. “Mike” I called no answer “dad?” I tried “yeah I’m here carter what is it” my nerves suddenly caught up to my brain “oh, I um” I took a deep breath “I have a date tonight with James stark. Charlie McKenna’s nephew” I held my breath waiting for a response. Mike lowered the paper and looked at me “alright have fun” he said and I swore he muttered something about boys and raging hormones under his breath. Mike and I didn’t really have that strong a relationship; as long as I lived at home and didn’t get pregnant he didn’t really care. “Be home by eleven thirty it’s a school night” wow some parenting that’s a new step. A nock at the door saved me from having to answer. I opened the door to Damien’s gleaming face
“Sh, not here” I said walking to my room. We got in my small room and Damien squealed like a little girl. I smiled and looked at my pathetic closet. Damien pulled a chair out from my desk and told me to sit. He pulled hair stuff and make up out from his bag and put it on my dresser. I rolled my eyes. And started to object but Damien glared at me and I shut up. In a matter of 30 minutes I was looking good, my hair was in a sloppy bun with a few curls hanging in my face, I wore a nice pair of jeans and a soft purple cashmere sweater that hugged my “curves” and a wide neck line. My lips were painted a soft mocha colour and my eyes were dusted with a light periwinkle shadow that matched my shirt. “Fabulous” Damien glowed; aw he was going to cry. “Its six thirty I should go you can stay here ill spill everything when I get home” I said walking out the door. I was about to add something about pizza for him and mike since I wasn’t here to cook but was interrupted by a deep caught “you look great kid” mike said. What was this was he reading some of mom’s old parenting books on how to raise your teen daughter. Ugh I could see it now whole 27 chapters devoted on dating. “Oh uh, thanks dad” I said and walked out the door totally forgetting dinner. I drove to the McKenna’s house and walked up the steps. I knocked on the door and Charlie answered “Hey Charlie is um, James here” I asked nervously “yeah darling he’s right in the kitchen, don’t worry I’m leavin. You’ll have some previously I’m gonna go see what you daddy’s up to. You behave stark” Charlie’s familiar Okie twang was nice. “Aw thanks, you don’t have to go and can you possibly find out why mikes on a parenting kick. It’s driving me crazy…” I was cut off by Charlie’s head shake and walking out the door. “Sure thing sweetheart” Charlie laughed walking into the night. I stepped in to the kitchen and looked at stark whose back was turned; he wore a black sweater that looked amazing against his pail skin, and a nice pair of light denim jeans. He turned to me and smiled “well don’t you look pretty tonight” he said leaning on the counter top. I smiled at the complement and asked if he was ready to go. He looked at me with thous big brown eyes and said “This is the restaurant” I stared at him bewildered and he took my hand and hugged me, then in one swift movement he was behind me covering my eyes. “Walk forward” he commanded I did as he said and then he took his hands on my eyes. I gasped. On the balcony were a table and two chairs there was purple candles all around that smelled like vanilla and right in the middle of the table was a big plate covered with a metal dome type thing. “Its…I…” I couldn’t speak “Ya I sort of went over bored sorry” he was apologizing? “Sh” I said putting my finger on his lips looking around the room “you are amazing” I finally managed to say. He smiled and took my hand. Together we sat and laughed he made spaghetti and geek salad. I ate it with passion it was so good. He laughed “What” I asked suddenly self-conscious “You have spaghetti on your face” he said I grabbed the napkin and he laughed again “Here let me help” he took the napkin and wiped my nose (how I got it there I have no clue) then it happened he looked in my eyes and moved the piece of hair from my face and his mouth found mine. It was a nice kisses his lips we soft, my hands were around his neck and then he smiled and stopped. “I’m sorry” he said “no, no, you silly boy don’t be” he smiled and quickly kissed me again. He walked to the kitchen and came back with two canolies “huh” I gasped “I love canolies” he laughed “ I know Damien told me, you like them with chocolate chips and not that dried fruit crap” I smile I was going to hit Damien. After we ate he brought me into the living room and put on some low music and asked if I wanted to dance “oh I cant dance” I said apologetically “well come here and we will see how things end up” I smiled and took his hand he held me close and we started to move it was like we were floating. We moved across the floor with elegance and grace. That was a first for me. I looked up into his big eyes and my hands cupped his face I had to go on my tipy toes and stretch but eventually my lips collided with his. It was different from the first kiss it was passionate. His arms wrapped around my waste and he lifted me off the ground so I didn’t have to stretch as much. My hands moved to the back of his hair and played with the little hairs on his neck. He moved so he could place a line of kisses down my jaw line. And I saw the clock 11:35. Mike was gonna kill me! “I’m late I was supposed to be home at 11:30” I said stopping his kisses. He looked really sad when I did that, “Can we please do this again some time” I asked “hells yeah we can” he smiled that contagious smile.
I got in my jeep and drove home Damien was in my room waiting for me mike asleep on the couch. I would here about being late in the morning. I walked in my room and Damien sideways glanced at me. When I said nothing he began talking about how he called his dad and he’s gonna stay here tonight. Finally I sat on my bed and he noticed that my hair had fallen out a bit and started to scream but I covered his mouth “sh your going to wake up mike and I was late coming home he’ll freak” I said in a low whisper. When I let go of Damien’s mouth he shook his head and explained “when you weren’t home at 11:28 I had a feeling you were having fun so I told mike I got a text from you saying you were going to be late, did you like the canolies” he asked without taking a breath. I smiled at my best friend and spilled everything from the balcony to the dancing to the kiss. He squealed after every time I paused. “Honey I am so happy you finally got your self a boy toy, but did it have to be the hottest guy in our school. Psht little miss I get all the hot ones and don’t share with my best friend” I rolled my eyes at Damien and pushed him on the floor.
A few weeks later and a lot more dates later, Damien and I drove to school and he was waiting by my parking spot. It’s not really mine I guess but I park there every day since like sophomore year. “Oh hey there carters boy” Damien smiled at stark and I laughed. “Hey there carters girl” stark joked. Damien pretended to fan himself as he walked away. “Good morning” I smiled “good morning indeed” he smiled back at me “so I’m your boy huh” he raised his eyebrows. I giggled “well you are a boy and I would like to take possession of you” I joked “so if I’m your boy can we ad a friend on the end of that?” I stopped in my tracks. Did he just ask me to be his girlfriend? As if reading my thoughts he said “last night was amazing and I know this might be rushing a bit but do you want to be my girlfriend?” I nodded and smiled because again my lips would not speak. He smiled at me and reminded me how my lips worked again.
Three magical weeks later he still wanted to keep me around. We spent all our time together, going to his house and dancing or staying at my house and watching a movie. I started to feel sad about Damien though he was always sad feeling like a third wheel. Well until one day. “Hey Damien, there is a new kid I heard he plays a on a team you would like” stark said winking Damien giggled and looked around the cafeteria for a cute little gay boy. “His name is Eric he’s average height, blond, tan. Your type” I joked just then the boy walked up and sat with us “and I invited him to sit with us at lunch” I added “and I am so glad you did honey” Damien glowed. “Hey I’m Eric, I was told I would like you” Eric said smiling at Damien. “You do not know how right that is” Damien said flashing his very toothy smile. “Well” I said “no that you have met I’m going to take my boyfriend and show him why he’s on my team” I said jokingly of course pulling stark by the arm. As soon as we were out of eyesight I was pulled close to him as we kissed. “So remind me again” “why am I on your team” he said between kisses. “Well” I said kissing his very intense jaw line. “I’m cute, I’m very good at kissing you and I’m intense you love me you can’t help it” I said giggling as he kissed my neck. “That is oh so very true” he said picking me up so he could kiss me better. Just then the bell rang. And he sighed. “We have class” he said sadly “we can be late” I said finding his cheek bone with my lips. He laughed and I knew I won.
We walked into class twenty minuets later. Damien and Eric were talking near the pencil sharpener and looked like they were hitting it off. We had a substitute so no one was working we walked over to them and smiled as Damien explained how him and Eric both loved that new love drug song by kesha. Personally I couldn’t stand it. Gym went by slow. Anytime I wasn’t with stark done but today was different it’s like I could feel something was wrong. Stark didn’t meet me by my locker after class so I walked to English alone. When I got there he seemed distracted like something was wrong.
After class he drove me home and we just sat there waiting for mike to get home. Mike came home and grumbled about work as I made dinner “stupid serial killer, there have been so many dead bodies in the forest lately” he actually seemed afraid. “You to be careful out there I know with all your walks out there it must be dangerous” he said. Ya walking that’s what we do “alright dad we will” I said “we are going to go to Starks after super alright” I asked “Charlie gonna be there?” he asked eyeing stark suspiciously “no mike he’s at bill’s something about a bear” stark said looking as distracted as ever. “Well alright you to behave all by yourselves, maybe you should call Damien?” mike said fishing for anything that would make us not be alone. “Damien has a date dad” I said raising my eyebrows “but I thought he was, you know, gay” the way he said gay bothered me. I rolled my eyes “he’s going out with a boy” I snarled “no I’m going to leave before you say something I will regret” I added with a grimes mike looked shocked then continued watching the game. I grabbed Starks hand and practically flew out the door. I had completely forgotten about asking him what’s wrong as I continued to rant he stopped the car so fast If I hadn’t put my seat belt on I would have hit my head.
“Love is irrational the more you love some one the less anything makes scene” Stephanie Mayer
Chapter 2 my boyfriend is a vampire and what not.
“What the hell!” I screamed staring and him. “We have to talk about something, I can’t hide it any longer” he said in a straight stare out the window. I just sat there waiting for him to say something. Seven deep breaths later he spoke “I come from a long line of people like me we are called the lamia we grow up but stop ageing at a serten age about 18.” He paused looking at my face “most of my ancestors survive on drinking human blood” he saw me cringe and wrapped an arm around my waist “but I don’t I was raised to drink animal blood. I’m a good guy everything I have shared about me is true. My parents just recently died so I came to live with Charlie…” “Wait” I interrupted “Charlie’s like thirty something” he laughed “yeah some times when we stop drinking blood we don’t age” he looked at me analyzing my face trying to think if I was okay. “Why are you telling me this? Why now? Why not before? Who else knows? Is anyone else one?” He waited patiently for my breathing to return to normal “I was going to never tell you, to protect you, but Charlie has warned me that a new coven of lamias are coming. Well three are lamias two are a kind of us called valcra they are made lamias not born like me. They were taught to drink animals like me but the one valcra has tasted human blood so it’s hard for him to be around humans. But there coming and they are going to start in school. I need you to be safe. Damien knows his cousin Emily is a valcra. And as far as I know no one else is like me” he looked at me with his crooked grin I loved and I smiled back “So what do we do?” I asked a little scared “well we are going to meet them they are at my place” I must have looked terrified because he grabbed my face between his palms “it’s going to be okay, I won’t let anything hurt you. I had to tell you though. Because…” he hesitated “I love you and want to spend the rest of my life with you I cant live without you” I heard nothing after he loves me “you love me” I said “well ya of course, don’t you love me?” he looked worried it was my turn I put my hand on his cheek and smiled “I love you more than you’ll ever know” I said bighting my lip. He put hi finger on it “you only bite your lip when your worried about something, what’s wrong” he said cocking an eyebrow “well, what if they don’t like me” I said shyly “your not worried about being in a house full of sadistic inhuman blood thirsty vampires. You’re worried that they won’t like you. Wow you are one complex creature Carter Tyler” he kissed my nose and started his car. We got to his house go out of the car and we walked up the steps to see the beautiful craters that awaited us.
We stepped threw the front door and stark protectively put his arm around my waist and half hid me behind his body. I had to stretch around his wide shoulders to see the group of vampires. A tall one with browns hair and brown eyes as big as stark sniffed the air and a low snarl rose from Starks chest. “Oh come down” the gorgeous blond with eyes like mine said running her fingers down the sniffing male’s chest. “Clay is just a little. Hungry” she said with a giggle. She had a very cute little Okie twang like Charlie’s but less strong. She was smaller then me and I was small, maybe about 4’9 and very petite. She walked. Well more like danced over to us with the boy attached to her hand never taking his eyes of me. “I’m Ava” she said smiling “these are my sisters Bianca and Brianna” she said pointing at the two girls in the back of the room. One was brunette and very tall with big blue eyes the other had long blond hair she looked identical to Ava except the eyes hers were a dark green and oval shaped, almost cat like. The blond one stepped forward and shook our hands “I’m Brianna nice to meet you” she said with a warm smile. The brunette (Bianca) walked up and for the first time I noticed a man with fiery red hair and blue eyes that matched Bianca’s. “And I am Bianca” she said shaking my hand “this is Zen” at the sound of his name the man pulled his arm tighter around Bianca’s waist. “I, I’m carter” I said still a little shocked. “Aw. She’s so cute, I want myself a little human” Ava said “you had one” clay said laughing and wrapping his arms around Ava. She giggled looking as happy as ever and suddenly, for once in my life I new what I was born to be. Ava looked at me “oh darling, stop thinking that because stark is thinking the complot opposite” she looked at my confused face “H…How do you know what we are thinking” I studderd stark brought me around to see his face. He put his arms on his shoulders “Ava can read what’s in most peoples minds, but what are you thinking you cant be one of us” shark all but screamed the last part. I could feel the anger rising in me. I tried to calm down my breathing and spit threw my teeth “you don’t want me to be like you, to spend the rest of your life with me. So is everything you said a lie or just that because I love you” he flinched and I realized that was a sucky thing to say. I went to apologize but stark closed his eyes “not here, we’ll talk about this later, but we are going to be here all night, and you need to here most of this. Call mike say you’re spending the night at your new friend Ava’s house. Ava will drop you off tomorrow and come in and meet mike, he’ll believe it” he looked away. “But were am I going to go” I said trying to see his eyes “oh, honey its going to be fine, your staying with me, and I’m staying here we all are. Well, Bianca and Zen are going to live out in a house about a mile from here. They aren’t going to school like the rest of us they look to old” she giggled as Bianca clenched her teeth. I remembered that Ava could here me in my head “you’ll tell me what he’s thinking later right” I thought, she nodded one jerky head bob and turned to kiss clay.
“A trio of rouge lamia is walking around town and no one can figure out who they are!” I shrieked stark put a protective arm around my shoulders, we were sitting on the balcony discussing a situation that needed to be dealt with. I sat on the bench close to stark Brianna and Bianca on the other one. Zen was hovering around Bianca’s shoulders and Ava and clay were shearing an over sized comfy chair. “Carter, darling calm the heck down, everything is going to be fine. We will kill the male and his mate will be so grief stricken she will be easy to take down. The third is the hard one. She’s alone and bitter and doesn’t care about anyone except her mate. Zen killed him a few cemeteries back. For going after my sister” Ava bit her lip on the last part. ”ever since then she’s been planning ways to kill Bianca, to get back at Zen” Brianna chimed in. it was a lot to take in. but I managed to do it. “Okay so everything will be good, you promise? Who’s going after whom?” I choked “everything will be fine I promise” it was Stark’s turn to talk “Ava will go after the male his name is miles then Brianna and Bianca will take out the mate her name is kalliee. Then Zen clay and I will take out the third one her name is jacey. I was going to ask why they new so much about them but was interrupted by a yawn. “Hey, your tired its three o’clock you should go to bed. Come on.” I didn’t have time to object stark had me in his arms already inside. As we lay in bed I remembered the very mean thing I said earlier. “Stark?” I asked “mmmm” he replied sleepily “I’m sorry about earlier I was just mad you know my temper” I apologized “its okay lets just talk about it in the morning, come here” he said pulli8ng me to lie across his chest. The sound of my heart beat and Starks breathing sent me straight to sleep.
. . .
I woke to the smell of pancakes and bacon and hash browns and something else that smelled extraordinarily remarkable. I sat up sniffing the air. This was the first time I really saw Starks room it was nice very him. Black walls and white shelves that had layers of books. He had posters of the beetles the red hot chili peppers and muse. And on his desk was a picture of me and him in the woods behind his house. He had a small leather couch by the bay window that looked out on to the woods. And sketch pads on the coffee table. My thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door Ava? I thought. She entered “hey Hun you’re awake. We got some breakfast down stairs if your hungry” I new I smelled something. I wonder what the amazing thing I smelled was. As I got out of bed Ava took me by the hand “cinnamon buns” she said with a smile.
