“Dark Love”
Chapter 4


Brad goes up to Shelly’s room and softly knocks on the door. When she does not answer he opens the door to see her sleeping sound on her bed, he smiles and walks over to her sitting on the edge of the bed next to her as she lies there on her side with her hands tucked under her pillow.

“She is as beautiful as an angel.” Brad says softly as he moves the hair from her face. He laughs to himself saying, “Like I would ever know what an angel looked like, but I would have to say she is as close as I will ever get to one.” He cresses her arm as he calls out her name to wake her.

“Shelly… Shelly sweetie… dinner is done.” He calls to her. Shelly moves under his touch and slowly opens her eyes. She smiles up to him as she stretches out on the bed.

“Brad is it that time all ready.” Shelly says as she lifts her head to look at the clock on her nightstand. “Oh gees I have been asleep for an hour.” She adds laying back down on her pillow.

“Well we have about 15 more minutes but it is almost done.” Brad tells her still not able to take his eye from her. She looks at Brad and smiles; she pats the bed gesturing to Brad to lay with her.

Brad looks at her confused, “What do you want Shelly?” He asks her.

“I want you to lay down with me Brad. I have something I want to talk to you about.” She tells him.

Brad gets really nervous and says, “Well can’t we just set up and talk, I mean it seems like that would be best.” Brad says as he starts to stand. Shelly grabs Brads hand as he goes to stand pulling him back to her; she keeps pulling him until he is lying next to her.

“I am tired and I want to lie down.” Brad’s heart is racing and he does not know what to say or do, he knows what he wants to do and say, but is in fear of what Shelly may say if he does.

“I know you have something on your mind Brad, tell me what it is please?” Shelly asks him. She lays her head on his chest as he lays there stiff as a board.

“Gees Brad your heart is beating as fast as a Humming Birds wings.” She lifts her head looking at Brad, “So what I was thinking while I was taking my bath is true.” She pauses waiting for Brad’s reply.

He does not answer her as thoughts race through his mind, “What dose she think, does she know I have feelings for her, I do… I do, but do I tell her that, do I keep my mouth shut and see what happens. Aww, this is not good I just want to hold her and tell her how I feel. My heart is going to explode… clam down man.” He tells his self.

Shelly looks at Brad saying, “Brad are you all right, you know you can tell me. We have been friends for 4 years now, I know things are going to change between us and if you want to know the truth about it I have had an eye for you for sometime now.” She lays her head back down on his chest waiting for Brad to make the next move.

Shelly listens to his heart beat as it starts to slow; time clicks by when Shelly finally lifts her head again looking at Brad as he has this huge smile on his face.

“What Brad?” Shelly asks him smiling as well.

“So you like me… I mean I know you like me, but you have feelings for me.” Brad asks her.

“Yes I do.” Shelly tells him smiling.

Brad slides his arm under her and around to her back as he pulls her close to him, “Why did you not tell me then?” Brad asks.

“The same reason you did not tell me.” Shelly tells him smiling. The both go silent as the look at one another. Shelly can feel the heat build between them as he starts to pull her down to kiss him then she stops breaking the silence saying.

“I do not want to rush into this Brad; this is something that is going to take me into a whole new world of living.” Shelly tells him.

“I understand Shelly that was one of the reasons I did not say anything to you in fear that you could nerve see me as a man, only a vampire.” Brad tells her.

“I see you as a man Brad but I know what you are and I am sorry to say that it does scare me with the feeling I am having for you, so please do not rush me with this.” Shelly tells him.

“Take all the time you need I am not going anywhere.” Brad tells her as they hear a knock on the door; Brad looks at Shelly, “Well maybe to dinner but that is as far as I will go.” Brad says laughing getting up from the bed to go get the door.


After dinner Shelly sits in the living room as the house is silent, she kicks her feet up on the couch and sits back into the corner reaching for the remote to the stereo turning it on. It comes to life as Brad walks into the room.

“I was wondering were you made off to.” Shelly says as she sees him standing there with a bottle of wine and two glasses. He smiles and walks over to her she pulls her legs up under her for him to have a seat.

“Well I was finishing up the dishes and I kept hearing this little guy calling my name from the cellar so I thought I should go save him from his loneliness.” Brad says.

“Loneliness you say I guess the other 40 bottles of wine down there were asleep or did they just not like him.” Shelly says laughing.

“Not sure so I just brought him with me.” Brad says smiling as he poured her a glass and then himself.

“So were is Kevin?” Shelly asks taking a sip.

“He went into town tonight. To well… as he says to find him a chick.” Brad says.

“You mean to get laid. I have never heard Kevin say to find him a chick.” Shelly says giggling.

“Well… yeah I was just trying to be a little more on the couth side with it.” Brad says laughing; he sits back on the couch looking at Shelly as they sit listening to the music.

All of a sudden, Brad’s expressions change to a very serious look and his smiles fades away. Shelly sits up and touches his hand, “Brad are you all right?” She asks him.

“I just realized something, something you do not know.” Brad tells her.

Shelly looks at him confused and asks him, “What is that Brad?”

“Haven’t you ever wondered why we can go out in the sun, why we do not need blood to live, why we are here?” Brad asks her.

Shelly looks at him saying, “Yes I have, with what legend says what you are doing is imposable, but I thought when you wanted me to know you would tell me. So I just waited for the day, and it am guessing by the way you are acting I am about to find out.”

Brad pauses looking at Shelly, “Well where do you want me to start?” He asks her.

“Start where ever you would like Brad I do not mind.” Shelly tells him.

“All right I hope you’re ready for this, and if you have any questions please feel free to ask me.” Brad tells her and starts his story.

“I do have one question before you start Brad?” Shelly says Brad nods for her to continue, “Why now do you want to tell me this?” She asks him.

“Because I want to spend the rest of your life with you and I want you to know everything about me and the rest of us.” Brad tells her folding his fingers in with hers.

She smiles at him, “Then go head I am all yours tonight.”


“All right then I will start off with what we are… You know we are Vampires but we are far from what the others are like.” Brad looks at Shelly the look on her face told him she was not sure what he meant.

“Well you remember when we first met?”

Shelly nods saying “A day I will never forget.” As she smiles at him, Brad laughs, “Sorry about that, I told you I was going to make you my slave, the way I do that is by drinking your blood making you a Vampire but not like me. You would be the type of Vampire that sleeps in the day and walks the night drinking the blood of others making them what is called a zombie, that is the only way you would live. Life as you know it now or what you see us doing would no longer be part of your world.”

“So I would be like the Vampires I see on T.V and in movies?” Shelly asks him.

“Yes…” He says,

“So I could not make another Vampire only these zombies you say.” Shelly asks him.

“Yes, only a True Ancestor can make another Vampire, which is what I would have made you if I were to bite you.”

“So you are a True Ancestor, as well as the others?” Shelly asks him.

“Yes, that is why we can move around in the day as well as the night, and we do not have to rely on drinking the blood of others to live. All though there are some of us that enjoy drinking the blood of others not that they need to but they just like to do it.”

“But they make other Vampires by doing that right?” Shelly says.

“Yes they do and that is the reason that brought us here. See where we came from in the old country some of the True Ancestors were getting a little carried away with the villagers. They would see a pretty girl or someone they wanted as a slave they would bite them to make them theirs. Well for these vampires to live they had to feed. Once the livestock was all killed off they started on the villagers and in turn changed them to zombies, they started attacking other villages. Everything turned to pure chaos and went down hill. The King seen this and sent out his Armies to slay all zombies and Vampires be they were True Ancestors or not. They attacked our castle in the day knowing they would only have a handful of us to fight off, killing the others in their sleep. They killed everyone but us 6 we were off playing in the forest when the Kings Armies moved in…” Brad pauses as a tear streams down his cheek he rests his head in his hands and continued.

“They slaughtered everyone then set the castle a blaze, knowing if they missed anyone the fire would kill them.” Shelly touches the back of Brad’s head softly caressing it. He looks up as his eyes start to glow that clear gray Shelly remembered from 4 years ago. Startled she pulls back her hand and sits up straight not sure what Brad was going to do, but she did not move.

“After the bastards left and the fire stopped burning we went in to see if anyone was still alive. We found Mother holding Sara both of them ram through the heart and burned.” Brad says, as the anger inside him grows stronger. “Father decapitated and burned as well. Kevin and Little Charlie’s family gone, as well as Darryl and Darren are all slaughtered by those bastards.”

Shelly’s eyes burned from the tears that were forming there feeling the pain of Brad’s loss.

“All because of his son my retched cousin, we lost everything we knew and loved.” Brad says his anger still strong.

Shelly afraid to speak finally says something, “Him… Your Uncle… is he the one that you are running from.”

Brad glares at Shelly his icy gaze burns thru her; she clutches her chest as it feels as her heart is being squeezed. “Brad please stop this?!” She begs him as she tries to break his gazes from hers but she could not.

“Brad please you are hurting me Brad. I am not you’re…” Shelly stops finding it hard to breathe, “Bra…” She whispers to him as a tear streams down her cheek.

Brad finally snaps out of his rage as he seen Shelly start to cry, he grabs her pulling her close to him holding her tightly to him, “SHELLY!! I am so sorry. My God what am I doing, I could have killed you. SHELLY!!” Brad yells again pulling her away from him to look at her when he did not feel her moving under his hold.

When he finally looked into Shelly’s eyes, they were filled with tears for Brad and the others.

“I am so sorry Brad for your loss. I know what it is like to lose a loved one. I lost my mother and father at a young age was well.” Shelly says, “I know it is not the same how…” Brad cuts her off.

“Yes it is the same, how they died is not the fact here it is that someone took them away from us.” Brad pulls Shelly close to him again as Shelly wraps her arms around him, they sit there in silence while they both weep for the lost of the others family.


As the night went on Brad and Shelly were found by Kevin lying on the couch wrapped in one another’s arms fast asleep.

“Hey you two, don’t you think the bed would be a better place for this?” Kevin says smiling over the top of them. Shelly opens her eyes as she waves her hand in front of her nose.

“Gees Kevin next time fined a girl that does not bathe in her perfume.” Shelly tells him.

Brad laughs saying, “I agree they can probably smell you all the way upstairs, if not back in town as well.”

Kevin smiles, “That was her only down fall but man she was HOT so I over looked it.”

Kevin started laughing as he walked out of the room calling out, “Take it to the bed you two, Nite,” he chuckled going up the stairs. Shelly pulls herself up from the couch and starts to walk away as Brad reaches out and takes her hand stopping her. He rises from the couch pulling her to him slowly; he wraps his arms around her pulling her closer looking into her eyes.

“I know you said you wanted to take this slow Shelly but…” Brad pauses still looking deeply into her eyes.

Shelly reaches up touching Brad’s cheek as she pulls him close to her she kisses him with a deep and passionate kiss. Brad wrapping his arms around Shelly pulling her to him until their body’s touch he feels her heartbeat a slow and steady beat as the warmth of her soul fills him completely he pulls her closer never wanting to let her go for fear this day may never come again.



Dark Love Chapter 5