Chapter 4 : Night Changes

Sitting on the edge of the bed, right next to both of her brother lying sick with fever, Rosa sighed and shook her head. Life never seems to give Rosa a break. There was no Tylenol, nothing that can help both of his brothers and now, at the time where she finally has her off day, both kids have high fever and yellow snot coming from their nose.

She has no choice but to go out in the middle of the night and make a quick stop at 7/11. What a pain in the ass her Wednesday night has been.

“I told you not to play in the rain, Tony. You’re sensitive to it. Look how worried you make me and mama. You too, Joey. Following your brother like that. You guys are driving me crazy.” Rosa says angrily while clutching either curve of her waist. She resembles more of their mother than their sister with the lack of presence their mother has  been. Not that it was her fault.

“We’re sorry, Rosa. We didn’t mean to make you worried. We promised we won’t do it again.” Antonio says to her as he lies down beside his brother Jonathan and both looks sad after being scolded by their sister.

“Yeah Rosa, we’re sorry.” Joey is the quieter of the twin. He is very soft spoken while Antonio is like a rebel, always cooking up trouble and his poor twin would copied his antiques. They are polar opposites of each other in terms of personality wise but both share an incredible resemblance to each other, definitely puts a whole another meaning to identical twins but being their sister, she could identify each and one of them for a mile. She practically change their diaper, she knows the difference 

“You guys are always promising me to be good but we all know what’s going to happen after that, don’t we?” Rosa sigh.

“The two of you just stay here with mom while I go out and buy some medicine, okay? She’s sleeping right now so don’t make too much noise and don’t move from your bed. No TV as well, you got that? Go to sleep and make sure you have good enough rest and we’ll see if you guys are well enough to go to school tomorrow.”

Both turned to each other with there face looking all annoyed and frustrated with the mention of school. When both later shift their gaze towards Rosa, they smiled and nodded to her.

“Okay Rosa. We'll be good.” Even though they are naughty most of the time, they are a sweetheart towards Rosa because they genuinely care about their sister so much. It definitely makes raising them a whole lot easier.

Rosa smiled and gave both boys a gentle kiss on their forehead. After that she puts on a sweater over her thin shirt and long sweatpants. She left her house not long after that.

Rosa puts on her hoodie and made sure her womanly figure is less visible just so she will look less vulnerable in the middle of the night and possibly avoiding the gaze of any drunkards that still wander around at that hour.

Thankfully that convenient shops  and 7/11 in Vacherie wasn’t too far from her home so it was easy to buy any medicine or just anything in case of emergency. Rosa walks passed by some old buildings with couple of teenagers, drunkards, couples dating and just a few hanging around doing their own business.

After a few minutes and finally entering 7/11, Rosa gets what she needs and left the shop area. She starts walking down the streets to go home and there’s not a lot of people anymore hanging around and it was odd seeing she was only at the shop for less than 10 minutes. Where did everybody goes?

As Rosa starts to walk by faster and passed by few abandoned buildings, she heard a loud groaning sound coming from a dark alley on her left. All the hair on her body stands up and she started to shiver from the fear of something or someone hanging around there.

She was about to leave when from afar, her eyes caught a foot moving weakly around the piles of boxes in the alley. Concern made her automatically run to the person and she was horrified by what she found. A man, all bloodied from his chest and blood dripping from his mouth was lying on the floor with his waist up leaning on the concrete wall. 

He was groaning in pain, eyes closed and sweats darted his forehead and neck. His shirt has torn marks and curved, intricate  tattoos swirls around his right arm which seems to lead up his neck. Rosa can’t help but blush at how gorgeous this man was.

Even with all the dirt and blood stains on his shirt and skin, he was the most beautiful creature she has ever set her eyes on but one thing that definitely puts her on the edge was the colour of his eyes.

It looks like it was glowing when he opens his eyes weakly. He only opened a slit when he quickly shuts his eyes tightly as strong pain overwhelms him. Causes him to hiss and his mouth was open wide when he breathes hard.

Rosa wanted to see more of his eyes so she bent down and tried to help him

“Excuse me, sir? Are you alright? What happened to you?”

In a blink of an eye, Rosa was pulled into his chest in a lightning speed and her mouth was covered before she could scream. The man tightens his arms around her waist and she could’ve sworn that he was growling at her in an  animalistic growl. He whispered into her ear.

“You make a sound, I will rape you and leave you here to bleed. Do you understand?” He has a thick accent, barely there but easy to point out that he wasn’t local or American.

If her mouth wasn’t covered and she wasn’t too terrified, Rosa  would’ve shrieked as loud as she could and glare at him. 

Rude much? She was about to help him for Godsake and this is what she gets in return? She decides to fight him off a bit , pushing him and even bit his hands but he retaliate in the most shocking manner.

Tears filled her eyes when she felt a sharp pain on the crook of her neck. She felt teeth, long sharp teeth puncturing her neck and when she heard a swallowing sound, she finally realize that this man was drinking her blood. 

She didn’t even notice the sound of people running from outside the alley and murmuring of them looking for someone nearby. Rosa was too distracted by the pain radiating from her neck and something else. She arched against him with a strangled cry, and clasped his face tight to the crook of her neck. The pain was over and an instant euphoria coursed down to her body like a firework. Her breathy gasp was covered by his large hands and bearing her nose to his wrist  she moan at how good he smells. 

After her surrounding  becomes quiet, Rosa’s vision and minds are so hazy that she didn’t even realized that the strange man finally releases Rosa's neck, giving her wounds a final lick and loosening his hold on her. When reality finally sets in, Rosa gasped loudly and pushed him away from here. She crawled away and lean on the wall across from him.

Rosa was panting uncontrollably. Her palm cups her wound, trying to stop her blood from pouring out but the oddest things seems to happen again.

Her finger trace down the place where the man has bitten and not even a scar was present. It’s like her neck was never harmed at all.

 Was everything that happen to her were only an imagination?

Her thoughts were proved otherwise when Rosa see the strange man has passed out and his lips has more blood stain. Her blood and some of the wounds on his body she has seen earlier is fully closed and healed but his fatigue made him passed out. No entirely with the way his eyes and lips was moving.

Sweats still wets his skin and he has a pained looked on his expression. Rosa contemplates on leaving him and call the police but seeing how bad his situations is, she decided on otherwise.

She sighed. Rosa went close towards him and touch his face. It was so warm against her skin and the more she stares at him, she couldn’t help the faint blush marring her cheeks.

She shook the thoughts of this handsome man in her head. After all, no matter how handsome he is, he literally sucked her blood and made her slightly dizzy. 

She checked once more to see whether he really has fainted but a painful moan escape from his lips. 

“Look, I know you are hurt but you have to help me here. You are heavy and I think can help you. At least for a short while until you get somebody to find you. My home is not far from here so you have to put on some effort for me to lift you.”

His closed eyes clenched tightly but later, he relaxes a bit and nodded. She places his long hands around his shoulder and bury her other hand on his armpit and slowly stands. She almost fell seeing not only the man is huge, her height only reach up to his chest. He was super tall that she had a hard time tilting her head to look at him.

Again she tries to peek at his eyes but it was closed the whole time and he allows her to walk him to where she wants too. At least it helps for now and maybe later she could feed her curiosity and find out more about this strange man. 

Just like that, Rosa was bringing a stranger home. She sure hope her family is asleep because if they weren’t, she definitely has a lot of explaining to do.