Toxic - K.B. Torres (chrysanthemum read aloud .TXT) 📗

in hell. Have fun." Lucifer said, before disappearing.
Luke grinned.
I sighed.
"One hour, then I'll need to eat." I said, taking my swimsuit top off.
"Shit, never thought I'd get this far with you." Luke said.
"Let's never talk of this." I said.
Luke kissed me, getting on top of me.
Luke traced kissed from my lips, then on my jaw, then on my neck, then on my stomach.
"I'm going to feel guilty after this right?" Luke said.
"Probably." I said.
"Do you have any birth control around here?" I asked.
Luke grinned.
He got up, went into the bathroom, and came out with a cup of water and a pill.
"You want to go that far? You must really be grateful." Luke said as I took the pill.
"Come on, before I change my mind." I said, before taking off the last of my clothes.

Emmanuel

I threw the door open. Luke was getting dressed. I could hear the shower running.
"Hey, Emmanuel. Anastasia's in the shower." Luke's voice was kind of dazed sounding.
It was only like that after he had slept with a girl and drank her blood.
"What did you do?" I asked.
"I won't tell you. You can ask Anastasia." Luke said.
I heard the water stop.
I knocked on the bathroom door.
"Luke?" She asked.
"No. It's Emmanuel." I said.
"Oh. I'll be out in a second." She called.
Almost a second later she came out in a robe.
"Did Luke do something to you? He sounds like he did." I asked.
Anastasia tensed.
"Come with me." She said, pulling me into her room.
"Do you mind?" She asked, a pile of pajamas in her arms.
I turned away as she got dressed.
"You can look now." She said.
I turned around. She was wearing a tank top and shorts that barely covered her underwear. Then I noticed. On the inside of her legs were bruises.
Girls only got those from sex with Vampires.
She wasn't a virgin anymore.
I exploded.
"I'm going to kill that son of a bitch!" I said, rushing to the door.
"No, Emmanuel no. Please don't." She pleaded, stepping in front of me.
"Why did you do it?" I asked. "Why didn't you ask me? Or someone else? Why Luke?"
"I owed him! I almost died and he saved me. I thought he deserved to steal my virginity! You are so ungrateful! He saved me! If he hadn't, I could have been killed. All you care about is Luke not getting his way! I hate you. I hate you and I want you to leave and never come back!" She yelled.
She hated me?
Did she not know how much she meant to me?
That I had walked into enemy territory just to get her?
That I would die and face whatever her dad could think of just to make her happy?
I will do whatever she wants.
Even if it means never seeing her again.
I turned and walked out.
"Emmanuel!" She cried out for me, but I kept on walking.
I bumped into someone.
Her dad.
Shit.
"Emmanuel. 'God is with us.' How ironic. God will never accept you. And, she didn't mean it. She loves you. She wasn't thinking when her clothes were off." Lucifer said.
"She said she hates me." I grumbled.
"She's in her room crying right now. Either you go back and comfort her, or I will kill you for making my daughter cry." Lucifer said.
I turned around and walked back to her room.
She was laying on her bed, face buried in her pillow and she was sobbing.
"Staz." I said.
"You hate me now, don't you. I haven't been nice to you, when you have risked your life for me. It should have been you, not Luke. I'm sorry." She said, sniffling.
"It's not too late to make amendments." I said.
"It's not like I can take my virginity back from Luke and give it to someone else." She said.
"Staz, I got angry because Luke never can be serious. He'll sleep with a girl, get her pregnant, and then leave her. He's done that to other vampire girls before. He'll do it to you." I said.
"But, if he does, I'll personally kill him and have my father torture him in hell." She said.
I laughed.
"What?" She asked.
"That, I would pay to see." I laughed.
"Okay then, pay up." Anastasia said, sniffling and holding out her hand.
"Pay for what?" Luke asked.
"Nothing." I replied.
"Jules wants us to go get lunch." Luke announced.
"Are they coming?" Juliet's voice sounded distant.
"I just fucking asked, you bitch!" He called.
"Let me change. I was planning on sleeping the rest of the week, but I guess that'll have to wait." Anastasia said, going in her walk-in closet.
"Change in there. Luke probably won't leave." I called.
"Kay." Her voice was rather quiet.
"Uh...guys, we have company." Juliet said.
She appeared in the room a moment later with Lucifer.
And a girl about his age with cherry red hair and bright icy blue eyes.
"You two. Come here." Lucifer said.
We followed Lucifer and the girl out into the hall.
"I'm leaving." Lucifer said "And boys, whatever you do, don't disobey her. Her bite is 1,000 times worse than her bark."
With that, Lucifer disappeared.
"Um...what is going on?" Luke asked.
"Sit boys." The girl said.
We obeyed.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I know, I look different, but I'm Eve. The original Eve. Lucifer has told me about you. I hear you two are messing around with my daughter." Eve said.
Eve is Anastasia's mother?
"Wait...You're Anastasia's mother?" Luke asked.
"Yes. And so far Luke, I don't like you. I like this boy better." Eve said, gesturing towards me.
"Of course the bitch likes Emmanuel better." Luke muttered.
"I'd watch that mouth. Just like Lucifer, I control part of your life. The living part that is. Even if you aren't human, I control your life." Eve scolded.
Just then, Juliet came out, along with Anastasia, who was wearing a black silver heart hi-lo tank top and blue acid wash super skinny jeggings.
She stopped dead when she saw her mother.
"What are you doing here?" Anastasia asked.
"Hi, Zaza." Eve said.
Zaza?
"Mom, what are you doing here?" Anastasia asked.
"Just thought I'd say hi." Eve lied. "I guess I've overstayed my welcome. Bye, Luke, Emmanuel."
Eve dissolved.
"We going?" Juliet asked.
"I guess." Luke said.

Luke

Good. It's going almost exactly as planned. Though, I never planned for Emmanuel. Or Juliet. Only for me. I guess I'll have to improvise, since Anastasia's always been rebellious.
As I waited, I pondered the outcome of this plan.

Anastasia

As we walked down the hall, I learned not to walk in front of Luke.
He grabbed my butt seven times before Emmanuel stepped in and smacked Luke upside the head.
"You okay?" Emmanuel whispered.
"If he's trying to bruise me he's succeeding." I said, walking next to Emmanuel. He put his arm around my shoulder, and I put my arm around his waist.
"Not fair." Luke muttered.

Piling in one of my limosines, I managed to get a butler to drive. I no longer trusted myself alone with a boy. Or two.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"I just thought we could stop by a couple of places in the mall afterwards. It's a surprise where we are eating. Guess." Juliet said.
"Hell? They have good human meat there." I said.
Luke inched away from me.
I laughed.
"What?" Luke asked.
"We all saw you inch away from her. And plus, we drink human blood. Theres no harm in being a cannnibal once and about 17 years." Juliet said, trying not to laugh herself.
"Wow Luke, I've never seen you want to get away from a pretty, sex-eligable girl. Especially the Sex-eligible part." Emmanuel said, narrowing his eyes.
Luke got up in Emmanuel's face.
"She told you, huh? You're just jealous it was me and not you. Guess what, maybe you'll two things today." Luke growled.
"What am I not informed on?" Juliet asked, looking between Emmanuel and Luke.
"Luke, Emmanuel, drop it." I growled.
They hesitated, still glaring at each other.
They aren't listening to me. Two more options: threats and distractions.
"Do I really need to tell Juliet what's going on so she can break it up and every limb in your bodies?" I threatened.
They didn't get out of each other’s face.
That's it, time for a distraction.
I made Juliet sit up front with the butler.
Then, I took my shirt off.
That ended the possible fight.
Thank god for blacked out windows.
"Staz..." Emmanuel said, flushing.
"Enough! I am tired of you fighting!" I said, sitting down to put my shirt on.
"Stasia..." Luke said.
I switched spots with Juliet, and rode all the way into a restaurant parking lot. I unbuckled and got out standing by the back door. Luke and Juliet came out, but I waited for Emmanuel until a hand pulled me to the back.
I gasped.
"It's just me." Emmanuel said.
"WH-what are you doing?" I asked.
"Making up with you." Emmanuel said.
"For what?" I asked.
"Being a jerk. I shouldn't fight over you." Emmanuel said. "I apologize."
"Really? If you're making up to me can we have make-up-sex?" I asked.
"Will I hurt you?" He asked.
"No." I said.
I undressed in the darkness.

Emmanuel

What I had done with Anastasia was the best thing I had done in my entire life.
God, I hope I didn't get her pregnant.
After fixing our looks, we met up with Juliet and Luke.
"What took you so long?" Luke growled.
"Well Luke, I just-" I started to say.
Anastasia clamped her hand over my mouth.
"Nothing. I dropped an earring in the back of the limo and Emmanuel was helping me look for it." Anastasia lied.
"Luckily, there was a line. We should be next." Juliet said.
"Juliet, party of 4!" A voice called.
We followed the waiter to a table.
Anastasia winced when she sat down.
"Oh my god, I didn't know they had a Rainforest Cafe nearby!" Anastasia exclaimed when she saw the fish.
"When we first came here, we sat by the gorilla, and when it went off, Juliet's reaction was so funny-" Emmanuel started to say.
"It was not! I didn't know they moved!" Juliet interrupted.
"Can I start you off with anything to drink? Do you need a few more minutes?" A female waitress asked.
"I'll have a bloody Mary." Juliet said.
"Make that two." Luke said.
"Actually three." I said.
"Sprite." Anastasia replied.
The waitress left.
"Girl, why not alcohol?" Juliet asked.
"I'm not feeling good." Anastasia said.
Uh-oh.
With immortals, signs of pregnancy show up immediately after sex, sometimes just a minute after. It always starts with sickness, then they'll crave some sort of sweet. Usually chocolate.
Luke seemed nervous. He figured the same thing.
Anastasia went pale.
"Are you okay? You look pale." Juliet asked.
"I'll be fine. I just have a headache." Anastasia said.
The waitress came back with the drinks.
Anastasia didn't order any food.
Now, I was worried.
When the waitress went to put our order in, I asked Anastasia, "Are you okay? You look sick and you were saying you were hungry until we got here."
"You had fries with your order right? I can be fine with a fry or two." She answered.
Juliet pulled out bottle of acetaminophen from her purse and gave a pill to Anastasia.
"Take it, it'll help with the headache." Juliet explained.
Anastasia popped the pill in her mouth and drank her sprite.
"Excuse me, do you mind if I borrow her?" A male voice said.
Lucifer.
"What dad?" Anastasia asked.
"Just come with me. I need to talk