Chapter 3 - Him

After much thought, I decided to talk to my current employer and end my services. The baby would be taking a toll on my strength and I didn't want to exert myself.

The door was open so I walked right in. I found him in  what I presumed to be his bedroom, dressed in very little.

I apologised and told him that I couldn't work for him any more.

I also announced my pregnancy since it was already becoming pretty obvious.

To my surprise, he took it extremely well.

It was really lovely to meet somebody who seemed to have my back. I haven't really made any friends yet. People drift in and out of Moonlight Falls all the time. There are very few people who I recognise from when I lived here before.

That said, I had the shock of my life when I came downstairs.
'Dayvid?' I breathed.

My mind flooded with memories as I gazed upon that man. He was exactly the way I'd left him - tall, wiry and badly dressed, from a night shift at the stadium, no doubt. His skin was silvery-grey and his hair was cropped short and fuzzy, as always. Oh, that hair. My fingers gently caressing their way through that coarse, dark mop, over those splendid cheekbones and down the herculean arms. I was jolted back to reality by gunfire on the game he was playing and found myself placing a hand to my chest. A frown creased my forehead as I remembered who I was really looking at.

I ran up to the television and angrily jabbed at the 'OFF' button. I whipped round and confronted him.
'What the HELL do you think you're doing here!?'
'Liza? Is that you? Oh my God, it is you! What are you doing here?' He said, suddenly very aware of my presence.
'I'm starting a new life here, is what! Mum said you were living in Sunset Valley now! I just wanted to come home and now you've ruined everything! Why did you come back!?'
'This was and is my home too! I came back to pursue my sports career. I'm staying with a mate, Branch, until I can find a place of my own. I wanted to start settling down after...'

'After what? After you left me when I was in the darkest place of my life? I loved you, Dayvid. I really loved you. But you left me on my own when I needed you most. You sicken me.'

'I tried to call.' He mumbled. 'I tried to get through to you and explain but you wouldn't answer me. You should have given me a chance.'
'I gave you a chance. I adored you. I doted on you every moment of every day. I put my own heart in your  hands and you crushed it.'
'I was in a bad place then. I'm sorry.'
'You were in a bad place, you!? I was seventeen years old, jobless and I'd just found out that I was pregnant with a vampire's baby! I came to you, looking for comfort and what did I get? You told me that you didn't want to see me again, put me in a cab and sent me on my way home. Whereupon I was forced to break the news to my parents who were so ashamed they put me on the next flight to Champs Les Sims!'

He hesitated.
'And another thing...!'
'I was furious when I heard they'd done that to you.' He interrupted. 'I was so angry that I chased them away from this miserable town before I did something stupid.'
I was stunned. 'It was you. You did that to my home. My family home. That house had been in the Bird family for generations. GENERATIONS! Lost! All because of you! And you chased my family away? They told me they moved voluntarily! Oh, I bet you used that sick mind-wipe power of yours. You're the reason I'm in this mess. I was so happy when I got the money to move back here but now I wish I was still mopping the mouths of moaning kids back with Aunt Adeline!'

'I'm sorry I'm a vampire. I would change if I could, honestly.'
'This has nothing to do with your being a vampire.' I growled. 'It's the fact  that you rejected me. Me and your child!' I placed my hands on my little bump protectively. 'I knew full well that you were a vampire when I first fell in love with you. This is our unborn baby. Our little bundle of so-called joy. Well, not any more. I endured the morning sickness on my own. I went for my check-ups on my own. I sat and worried at night on my own. So I am going to raise MY baby on MY own.'

'Wow, look. I'm sorry. I know what I did was completely wrong. If you'd just answered my calls you would know that now. I want to help. I want to hold you hand.'

'Yeah? Well, if you so much as go near me again I will grab you by that hand and pin you down in broad sunlight until you're nothing but dust. DUST.'

And, with that, I marched out of the door.

I slammed the door whilst he was trying to say something, but I didn't care. I just wanted to run home as fast as I could, but both my emotions and my baby weighed me down.

I was no longer able to squeeze into my pretty nightclothes so I grabbed a frumpy shirt and an ugly pair of hot pink trousers to go to bed in.

I was worried that I wouldn't be able to sleep with all the goings on that night, but I fell into a deep, beautiful dream as soon as my head hit the creaky mattress.

I slept through the entire day.