The Rock's of Beauty by Meghan Escott (books for new readers TXT) 📕

he said back defensively.
“Don’t worry about it. Sam probably thought the same thing didn’t you baby?” Sam nodded his head and got up, let go of my hand and left the room. Eric helped me up and then had to support me again when another stab of pain went through my back. I had to sit down again and this time, I did lose consciousness.
Chapter Four

I know it was selfish of me but I couldn’t be bothered to argue with Eric or Sam so I just stayed ‘unconscious’ and I let myself be carried to my room and be placed under the covers. I felt a kiss on my forehead and then whoever had carried me to my bedroom left and shut the door.
I opened my eyes and got out of bed and snuck down the stairs and hid to hear Eric’s and Sam’s conversation.
“What do you want Sam?”
“You need to stop seeing Lucy.”
“I’ll be coming as long as she needs me for. Why, you getting jealous about how much time I’m spending with her and you’re not.”
“No, but you’ve done your job now and it’s time for you to leave.”
“You can’t stop me seeing her.”
“I can. The school is getting finished next week and we’ll all be back there. I never leave her side at school. I protect her every minute of the day and she will have her friends with her in lessons. I can make Daksha or Abbas make her forget about you.”
“Do all you like, I’ll always be there to remind her about me.” Eric then turned around and slammed the front door.
I ran back up to my room and lay down in bed next to Kahn. The pain in my back had gone and it had a huge grey mass on it and if I wore a camisole, it would poke out the top therefore, I would have to wear jumpers or cardigans until that one changed then I would get another one.
I sat up and crossed my legs. I faced the mirror and looked at myself. I was a mess. My make up was smeared where I had been crying, my hair was greasy and slicked back into a ponytail. My hips, spine and ribs stuck out and I still had some faint scars from the collapse. I turned away from the mirror and started what I said I would do since I heard Sam and Eric arguing.
I started to mutter spells and thought of Eric and all that he had done to me. I thought about when he had sucked on my neck and how good it had felt. I thought about the time when I had showed him all my tattoos and I thought about the time when we had been so close to kissing.
As I concluded the spell, I clicked my fingers and a loud crack sounded and as I screamed, I fell back on my bed and closed my eyes.
“Lucy. Lucy!” Sam was saying in my ear and shaking me. I opened my eyes and sat up. Sam had fallen back in relief and was looking at me concerned.
“What happened?” I asked him.
“Your tattoo changed and you got a new one.”
“I know that but why did that happen?”
“What’s the last thing you remember?”
“I heard you talking to someone by the door then I came up here and then I don’t remember anything.”
“Eric’s gone now. That’s who I was talking to.”
“Who’s Eric?”
“You don’t know?”
“No. Should I?”
“No. Don’t worry, you shouldn’t.” Sam sounded relieved and he sat on my bed next to me. “Where have you got your new tattoo?”
“On my back. I won’t be able to cover it well. I’ll have to wear jumpers until it changes.” I said. I turned around and started to take my shirt off so Sam could see the new one and see what the old one had changed into.
“What are you doing?” Sam said stopping me undoing my buttons. “We had an argument remember and I left you and I shouted at you. You should be mad at me.”
“I don’t care about that. I want you to see them. I don’t even know what the one on my shoulder has changed into yet.” I carried on undoing my buttons and Sam walked over to the door and shut it. I used my vamp speed to sneak up behind him so when he turned around from shutting the door; I was inches away from his face.
“Why are you trying to back away from me?” I asked him when he cringed away.
“You’re just acting strange. You sure you want to do this?” he asked when I moved closer.
“Shut up and kiss me.” I said, putting his hands on my waist. He did what I asked him and kissed me. It felt like he had been longing to do this for ages but just hadn’t been able to. At some point he turned me around and pushed me against the door. He had also bit into my neck again and sucked until I was moaning and longing to bite into his neck. In the end I did and I turned him round and pushed him against the wall.
When I pulled away from him, he kissed me again and healed both our necks and pulled me to the bed and then sat down on the end. I licked the blood off of my lips and sat next to Sam on my bed. He finished undoing the buttons on my shirt and slid it off of my right shoulder. I looked down to find a Chinese symbol tattooed there. We looked at each other and both spoke at the same time.
“Jane.”
We laughed at each other and then Sam slipped my shirt off at the back so he could see the new hazy mess there. He sighed and traced a finger around it and then slipped my shirt back on while I did the buttons up.
“Let’s go and see Jane. You can feed your friends at the same time. They haven’t had your blood for a while and they need it.” Sam said, holding his hand out to me. I looked at my left hand and looked at the ring less forth finger.
“One minute.” I said and went to the corner of my room. I pulled the little trapdoor I had made when I was eight and pulled out the small box of possessions I kept there. I took the ring out of a white box and slid it on. I put the things back in the floor and shut the trapdoor. I turned to face Sam and showed him that I had the ring on. “I don’t know why I took it off and I can’t even remember putting it down there.” I shrugged and took Sam hand and left the room and went down the stairs and into the living room where all my friends were and Kahn was.
Everyone looked round when I walked in. They looked at the blood on my collar on my shirt and then at mine and Sam’s linked hands. “What?” I asked them nervously.
“Where’s Eric?” Sophie asked tentatively.
“Why does everyone keep on mentioning this Eric guy? I don’t even know an Eric.” I said in frustration.
“Don’t worry baby. Jane, do you know anything about Chinese symbols?” Sam said looking from me to Jane. I sat on the floor and crossed my legs, pulling Sam down beside me.
“Yes, I know most of them. Why did you want to know?” Jane said nervously.
“Lucy’s tattoos changed and it’s Chinese and we don’t have a clue what it means. We both thought you would know and Lucy wanted to feed you guys now that she’s better.” Sam said. Jane said she could say what it meant so I exposed my right shoulder and the tattoo that was there. I also extended one wrist to Sophie and the other to Jasmina.
They looked at each other nervously before biting into my wrist. Allisa and Katie bit next to Sophie and up my arm and Eliza and Hannah did the same on my other arm. All the time, Jane was concentrating on my shoulder. I cleared my throat and made an effort not to moan.
“Do you know what it means?” I asked Jane, Sam putting a hand on my other shoulder then whispering something in turn to Sophie, Jasmina, Allisa, Eliza, Katie and Hannah while Jane said what it meant.
“That means love in Chinese.” She said pointing to my shoulder. “Can I look at your ring tattoo? Out of curiosity?” she asked.
“Sure.” I said and then let her pull up my shirt so she could see the tattoo of the ring I had got on my nineteenth birthday. She looked at it closely and then shrugged and bit into my wrist. I healed the bites that I could and Sam healed the rest. I also pulled down my shirt so it was covering the ring tattoo. “Feeling better guys?” I asked my friends when Jane had stopped sucking. They all nodded and smiled at me. “Just think, next week, school will be finished and then we will be back there and back to normal. Well, as normal as we could possibly be.”
We all laughed and had a group hug and I and Sam had a long kiss. We had the usual chorus of ewws and mutters but this was the most romantic we had been in ages so we ignored them and carried on kissing.

Chapter Five

“It feels so good to be back.”
“I know but it feels so different.”
“No castles and towers, no old fashion lamps. It’s so strange. I leant into Sam and he put his arms around me. Sophie, Jasmina, Allisa, Eliza, Katie, Hannah and Jane did the same with their boyfriends. They had already got back to school but they had been waiting for us by the front entrance. They had run to their girlfriends before they had noticed them and surprised them from behind.
“Come on guys, let’s see where were meant to be.” I took Sam’s hand and he led me and my friends into our new school.
On each door, there was a sheet of paper saying what