Chapter 17

*Warning* Act of self-harm is shown in this chapter

We all are standing around thinking of ways to leave. Levi has been stealing tiny glances at me and I don't know how I feel about it.

Luke and my uncle seem to be getting along pretty well after they had gone to go talk, I wonder what they talked about. After many failed ideas we all took a small break. "Ugh, I'm so hungry!" Liam said as he lightly banged his head on the wall. Luke and Levi haven't talked much, they keep their head down and I notice that they both keep digging their nails in their skin. "You guys can drink from me again" I suggest. But as soon as I say that everyone looks at me as if I have two heads. "What?" confused why they are acting this way when they have all done it before. "No," Luke says aggressively.

"Why not? You've done it before" I say. Luke looks up at me as if telling me to drop it. I roll my eyes "You'll starve. I promise it's fine". This time Levi hops out of his chair and walks over to me but he doesn't make it to me because Luke is standing in his way. "I said No," he says as he pushes Levi. I then get tired of them fighting and decide to do something about it. I walk over to my uncle's small lab area. I grab a scalpel and make a small cut on my wrist. They all look over towards me, their eyes are so black that I can almost see my reflection. My uncle runs over towards me and places his hand over the cut. "Why would you do that!?" He asks. I sigh and slowly move my uncle's hand, and nod my head so he knows that it's okay. He holds his hand up in defense and walks back to the area we were all talking at.

Levi is the first to make his way over towards me. He looks at me with his black eyes then smirks. I can't help but feel like something bad is about to happen. He grabs my wrist lightly trying not to hurt me. He licks the blood off my wrist while still looking at me. He then cups my face and kisses me, shocking me, my eyes widen but then I start to lean into the kiss. I feel him lightly bite my bottom lip and suck the blood out of it. We are suddenly pulled apart by Luke. He looks like he's ready to murder Levi. He punches him right in the face but it doesn't make a mark.

Levi pushes Luke back away from him, indicating that he doesn't want to fight. He looks past Luke and looks at me smirking. I touch my lip to feel that it's swollen. Luke looks back at me, in his eyes, there are so many mixed emotions, anger, sadness, and guilty. I hold my wrist out wanting to forget about the whole thing, but not really. Luke looks down at my wrist that is still wet from when Levi licked it. I wiped my wrist on my shirt and winced when my cut caught onto a string on my shirt but I ignored it. Luke grabs my wrist hard but when I flinch he instantly releases his grip a little. He starts to slowly drink my blood as he looks up at Levi. I don't know what's going on but I do know that they are having some type of stare-off.

Luke is the first to break eye contact as he releases my wrist and walks over to his seat to sit back down. Liam then starts to walk over to me. It looks like he's trying to hold back a smile. Once he's in front of me he leans down to my ear and says "Well... don't worry I won't kiss you" he then bursts out laughing. I roll my eyes at him and push my wrist towards him. He only drinks a small amount then he grabs some wrap and wraps up my wrist. He places his arm around my shoulders "How'd you get two guys to fall in love with you?" he asks. I shrug my shoulders and think about what I could have possibly done. "You have to be very careful now," he says. I look up at him confused. "What do you mean?" I ask. He looks up at Levi and Luke who are sitting in their chairs waiting for Liam and me to come back so we can talk about how to leave.

Liam then pulls me over to a corner and makes sure that the guys aren't trying to listen in on our conversation. "Well, you see.. in vampire history a Vampire can mark a human as theirs and no other vampire can touch them. And I'm worried that now they might try to mark you without your consent just so that the other won't try to do anything to you. So that means that you, young lady can't let them feed on you anymore or they might mark you out of anger."

I stand there and try to process everything that is just told to me. "So you're telling me that one of them can mark me as theirs and the other can't touch me or something like that?" "Yeah basically if you wanna put it like that," he says nodding his head. "Oh and also the human will be bonded to that Vampire you will feel drawn to them like a drug and you might even find yourself wanting them to feed on you" As he says that I feel like I already feel that way but about Levi. I look over at him and he's watching me closely. "How do you know you're marked?" I ask. "Well, sometimes a mark can look like a normal bite mark or sometimes they look like a birthmark shaped like a fang bite" My eyes then widen I look at Liam. "I think I've already been marked Liam," I say I start to panic. "What how?" He asks.

I lift up my shirt to reveal my stomach. There is a birthmark shaped like a fang bite. "When did this first appear?" Liam asks as he runs his fingers over it. " Well, I have had this birthmark since I was 16," I say as I pull my shirt down. Liam and I look over at Levi and he has a big smile on his face like he knew what we had just discovered.