Chapter 6: Meet The Franklin’s

Eliza said that I had to change before we left so I put on some regular clothes I bought today. "What the hell is that?" I was confused so I asked, "What do you mean?" Eliza started walking to her side of the room and said, "Your outfit. You cannot show up to meet my family looking like that! We are high class and bad ass. You have to fit both categories or they'll never like you!" I rolled my eyes and replied, "Honestly Eliza, I don't really care what your siblings think of me. I'm going to show up, tell them what happened to Michael, and then I'm leaving! I made him a promise and I intend to keep it!" Eliza ignored me and said, "Come here...put this on and I'll do your hair and makeup since you clearly don't know a damn thing about it!" I rolled my eyes and held out my hand to take whatever outfit Eliza was about to give me. However, I was stunned when I saw the most beautiful dress I've ever seen. A blood red colored silky tight dress with a long slit on the side rising to my mid thigh. I was speechless until Eliza said, "It's a classic. I have an old place here that I kept all my special things. This dress was one of them. I wore it to a family reunion, much like this, but it never quite looked as good on me. I thought it would look much better on you, don't you think?" I snapped out of it and replied, "I- I don't know what to say. Thank you Eliza. It's beautiful, but won't I be overdressed?" Eliza laughed and said, "Oh god no silly! We dress like this to all our special family occasions. I haven't got dressed yet either! Now take a seat so I can do you hair! I'm starting to think you don't even need makeup, you have natural beauty and it shows!" I smiled and sat down in front of the mirror while I watched Eliza curl my hair into waves! I look... amazing! I stood up and said, "Wow! Eliza, I look great! Thank you." She smiled and replied, "Oh it was nothing! Now get your ass dressed. We have a reunion to attend to!" I slipped into the dress, Eliza did the same, and we walked out the door with Michaels body...

At The Compound-

We got to the Compound where the reunion was taking place. Eliza said that everyone was already sitting down waiting for her...and me I guess. "Alright, now wait out here until I tell you to come in." Eliza was whispering so I whispered back, "Why?" She rolled her eyes and replied, "You have to make an entrance, duh!" I rolled my eyes and agreed. I don't even know why I'm doing this, I should be in London. I was listening for when Eliza tells me to come in, it took awhile and I heard her saying that she brought a friend. A different voice said, "Alright, bring them in. I wish to meet whomever was good enough for you, Eliza!" Eliza yelled, "Come on in!" I took a deep breath and walked into the Compound. It felt like one of those scenes in movies when one of the characters are walking in slo motion. I glanced around the room while walking in because the place is HUGE! Then I arrived a few feet away from the table and said, "I'm Harper." I didn't get a good look at everyone because I was to busy being slightly scared and judged. Eliza spoke up and said, "Alright love, take a seat!" I smiled and sat down next to Eliza. Everyone was staring at me. Finally someone broke the silence, a guy. He said, "Hey Harper, I'm Zachariah, you can call me Zack." I smiled and nodded my head. The last one said in a deep voice, "Hello Harper. My name is Oliver, you can call me Oliver!" Eliza rolled her eyes and said, "Don't be rude Ollie! She's our guest!" Oliver rolled his eyes. I took a moment to examine his features and that's when I realized! It's him! The man from the restaurant, the one who turned me into a vampire. I nearly stumbled out of my chair trying to run away. In heels it was really difficult! Eliza shouted, "Where are you going?" I felt her follow me to the outside of the Compound. She grabbed my shoulder and said, "Hey, what's the matter?" I was shattered to my core as I answered, "Oliver... he's the vampire who turned me!" Eliza's face went that of a ghosts. She pulled me in and hugged me while saying, "I know how you feel right now, but Oliver is a beast. He kills and turns people for fun, but you can't hold that against him. Nobody can stop him. You just have to live with it!" I took a deep breath and replied, "Okay. I feel a bit better now! I think we can go back, so long as Oliver plays nice because I don't take shit from men!" Eliza smirked and walked me back into the Compound. We got in there and Oliver was glaring at me like no other! Zack looked like he was about to die of laughter from the tension in the room. Eliza broke the silence by saying, "Alright, Harper and I have something to tell you guys!" They leaned forward, eager to know what we were about to say. Eliza signaled for me to start talking. "Your brother Michael...I was there the day he died!" Zack and Oliver looked at me in shock and asked, "What happened?" I continued, "It's a long story, I'll just tell you the shorter version. Michael and I went clubbing, he wanted to leave, of course I didn't know he was your family, much less that he had people trying to kill him. Anyway, he snuck away from me and when he did he was taken, I didn't think anything of it until the next morning. I went searching for him and I found some locations in his car that led me to the place he died. I had to take down an army of vampires just to get to his body. And when I did I saw a stake in his heart." A tear ran down my face, I hate talking about Michael. It's still a sensitive subject for me. Oliver replied, "Alright, and what the hell did you do with my brothers body?" Zack put his hands up and said, "Calm down Ollie. I'm sure there's a follow up to that. You don't have to be rude!" I smiled at Zack and then said, "Eliza and I will bring him to you..." We walked to the car to grab the coffin with Michaels body in it, but when we opened the trunk it was gone!