Chapter 17: To Soon?

Only dead silence from Oliver. I looked at him, confused, and asked, "Did you not hear me?" Oliver sat up in his bed and said, "Harper, of course I'm crazy about you, but I can't tell you what you want me to say!" A tear ran down my cheek. Oliver just stared at me, not even bothering to comfort me. I got up and quickly put my clothes on before storming out of the room in anger and embarrassment. When I got to the bottom of the stairs Oliver was behind me. He grabbed my arm and said, "Don't leave like this!" I swung my arm away from his grasp and yelled, "Like what? We clearly aren't on the same page like I thought we were. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go! I trust you'll show Elliot to his room..." I quickly left the building and went to the mall. When I got there I picked out a skimpy, slutty black party dress with heels. I left the mall and changed in the cab I took to a club I found awhile back. Basically the vampire buffet club. When the clock strikes midnight every vampire in the club can feed on as many humans as they want! Sounds like a great way to blow off some steam to me...

5 Hours Later-

Eliza's POV:

I heard everything that happened between Oliver and Harper just now. Well, I think everyone did. I ran up to Oliver and said, "What the hell just happened back there?" He looked down at the ground and in a straight face replied, "Harper told me she loves me...but I didn't say it back!" This drew Michaels attention to the room. I quickly asked, "Why not?" "I couldn't." He answered. Michael and I gave him a long glare until he spilled his filthy guts and said, "Okay, fine. You want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. I don't want to tell Harper I love her back because I can't make her happy the way she deserves to be! Harper deserves the world, and I can't give it all to her. Anyone in this world would be a better man for her, but not me. I'm not boyfriend material, in our 2,000 years of living I never have been and I never will be." Oliver pouted out of the room while me and Michael were shocked. We've never seen Ollie open up like this about or to anyone! I talked to Michael and he said that we should go looking for Harper. We don't want her getting hurt. I asked Ollie if he wanted to help us look, but he said she'll find her way back eventually and everything will go back to normal. I hope he knows he's lying to himself...

Harper's POV:

This is probably the most fun I've had in so long! I'm drinking, dancing, feeding, and I will most likely bring someone home! I hope that makes Oliver as mad at me as I am at him. It was finally midnight, one vampire on the second floor yelled, "IT'S FEEDING TIME!" I got to the first human blood I smelled. Drank them dry. Then I moved on to a few more. Finally, once all the humans were dead or compelled to leave I was still hungry. I ran over to one of the vampires and started feeding on him. Once I was finished I saw the veins running across his body. I threw him to the ground but when I turned around to leave it was that man that announced feeding time. "Where do you think you're off to, beautiful?" I smirked sassily at the man and replied, "I'm going to find another bar. I've had all the fun I can get here so I'm officially over it!" He stepped closer to me and whispered, "You seem sad. How about we go to my place to talk for awhile!" Honestly, talking sounded way better than sex right now. I just need to open up to someone about how I feel about Oliver. He opened his limo door and drove us to a huge hotel. We got inside and went all the way to the top floor where there was only one room. I smiled nicely and said, "I never got your name?" "It's Henry, and you are?" I shook his hand and replied, "I'm Harper Young, I just got to town a few weeks ago actually!" We took a seat on his couch and he asked, "Have you made any friends yet?" I shrugged my shoulders as I answered, "I'm staying with the Franklin's, the Original family. I don't know if you know Oliver, but he and I were together. We got into a huge fight before I left today, that's why I was at the bar!" Henry nodded and said, "Why don't I help you get the Franklin's off your mind?" I hesitated and replied, "I don't think that'd be very wise of me, I'm just a little drunk. I've learned plenty of times not to mix pleasure and booze!" We both laughed. Henry told me that instead of sex we could just drink for tonight! He's being so nice. One of the nicest people I've met in the city so far...

After a few hours I was feeling a little light headed and weak. I asked Henry where his bathroom was but he replied, "You don't need a bathroom beautiful. All you need is to relax, and I'm going to help you!" He started taking my clothes off along with his. I tried pushing him away from me but it was no use. He must've drugged me when he gave me that drink! I screamed and shouted and pushed him away but he wasn't stopping. He was rough and mean. He began kissing every inch of my body, I tried so hard to fight him. I'm just to weak...

Eliza's POV:

Michael and I figured it was fastest to get his witch to do a locator spell on Harper to find out where she is. A few moments later we saw that the map tracked her at a hotel. I quickly ran upstairs to Oliver's room and in an alarmed voice I said, "Good news, we found Harper. Bad news, she's at a hotel. And not just any hotel...Bates Hotel!" Ollie immediately jumped out of his bed and said, "We have to go get her, NOW!" Henry Bates is known for drugging and seducing beautiful women in his hotel! He doesn't get caught, and the women don't remember. But everyone knows the stories. Me, Michael, and Ollie all rushed out the door and got in a cab to get to Bates Hotel as fast as possible. We kicked in the doors once we got there and killed everyone who tried stopping us! We took the elevator to get to Henry's room. On the way up Oliver heard screaming coming from the direction of Henry's room. He got so angry. He was banging up the elevator and telling it to hurry up. When we finally got to the top floor we stormed down the hallways to find Harper. "STOP! GET OFF OF ME! Please..." It was Harpers voice we heard screaming. Once we got to the door Ollie kicked it down and ran in there. Throwing Bates off of Harper. We don't know how far he got though. Oliver and Michael were beating Bates up while I got Harpers clothes and dressed her so she wasn't naked. Harper pried out of my arms and hazily walked over to Bates. Ollie and Michael backed away, Bates looked terrified for his life right now. She whispered to him, "I'm going to make you suffer for this! Everyday of your life will be a constant Hell! This will be our parting gift until tomorrow..." Harper held Bates up against the wall by his neck and bit a chunk out of his shoulder! I'm constantly impressed by that girl! Harper spit out a chunk of skin onto the ground and nearly fell into Oliver's arms. I smiled knowing she was okay. Oliver picked her up and carried her to the car. Once we got in Harper whispered to Ollie, "Why don't you love me? You make me happy, I feel safe when I'm around you, do I not make you feel happy?" Oliver leaned down and kissed her on the forehead and said, "We'll talk in the morning, for now you just need to rest, baby..."