Blood, Lust, and Hatred *Chapter 26*

Chapter 26
“Somebody better close that fucking shade!” Schuyler grumbled as she slowly began to awake.
Schuyler lay tangled with Jesse, covering her eyes and then, upon opening her eyes, realized that Jesse and she were alone in the bunkroom. She grumpily shuffled over and shut the blind. She was just about to climb back into bed, when she heard laughter, so rather than going back to bed, she shuffled into the kitchen barefoot, and wearing black boxers and a gray wife beater.
“Oh, Hey Sky!” Gerard welcomed her.
“Morning.” She looked around. All the guys were sitting around the kitchen with the girls in their laps.
“Uh… we invited the girls over.” Mikey smiled.
“Apparently so.” Schuyler laughed.
“There’s coffee in the pot.” Bob gestured. Everyone seemed to be waiting for Schuyler’s approval.
“Awesome!” Schuyler made her way to the coffee pot and grabbed a muffin out of the warmer. “So, what are we doing today?” Schuyler smiled.
The guys visibly relaxed. “We were just talking about that actually.” Kelsey stated, she was perched on Lucien’s lap. His arms were around her waist, with her hands resting on his.
“Let’s go to the carnival downtown!” Tess suggested.
“Okay!” Everyone shouted.
“Let’s wait till later though, when it’s dark.” Frankie winked at Alexis, and she giggled.
“Oookay… I’m gonna go wake Jesse up and get dressed.” Schuyler put her mug in the sink, and walked toward the bunkroom.
Schuyler rummaged around and pulled out a pair of gray wash jeans, a black and gray long sleeve t-shirt, and a pair of combat boots. She was laying the clothes on one of the bunks, when she felt strong arms encircle her waist, and a head rest on her shoulder. “Morning love.” Jesse kissed her collarbone.
Schuyler leaned into him, “Hey you.”
“What’s going on?” Jesse whispered.
“The girls are her, they want to go to a carnival later.” Schuyler turned and wrapped her arms around his neck.
“That sounds like fun… what are they doing until then?” Jesse kissed her forehead.
“I have no idea.” She rested her head on his chest.
“Well what do you want to do?” he smiled at her.
“Let’s just talk.” Which of course she meant make out.
Jesse and Schuyler lay on their bunk and started making out. With so little alone time, they had to make up for lost time. Schuyler lifted off Jesse’s shirt, and he was inching her up when…
-Gasp- “Sorry! Not the bathroom!” Kati quickly shut the door.
Schuyler and Jesse looked at each other and then collapsed in a fit of laughter.
“That wasn’t awkward or anything.” Jesse pulled on his shirt.
I guess we’d better go out there now.” Schuyler laughed. “You go ahead, I’m gonna get dressed.
“Okay I’ll see you out there.” Jesse said as he pulled on a pair of jeans, and a black sweater. He gave her one last kiss before going out to join the others.
Schuyler pulled on her clothed, slapped her hair into a bun, and put on some eyeliner and Chap Stick. She headed out to join Jesse and the others.
“I am soooo sorry!” Kati exclaimed when Schuyler entered.
“It’s really okay, you gave me a good laugh.” Schuyler assured her. –Oof- Schuyler clutched her stomach.
Jesse jumped up, rushed over, and grabbed her. “Querida, are you okay?” he asked, his eyes and voice full of concern.
-Mhmm- “Yeah I’m goon.” Schuyler straightened. “Just a little ‘hungry’.” She shot Jesse a look. “I’m gonna go out and get something to eat.”
“Oh well, why don’t we all go! I know this great little café down the street that would be perfect!” Alexis began to say.
“NO! I... I’m... gonna go on my own, you guys go ahead and go to the carnival. I… me and Jesse!” Schuyler groped for an excuse. “We need some… alone time?” she desperately hoped it would work.
“Oh… okay, come on guys!” Gerard exclaimed, sensing what the true meaning of what hungry was.
“Uhm… okay…” The girls headed out with the guys close behind.
“Okay, let’s go.” Jesse said firmly.
“We should wait till it gets darker.” Schuyler reasoned.
“No, you need to feed NOW.” Jesse led her off to the bus. They were about 20 feet away from an all day bar, where Schuyler intended to feed, when she screamed, clutched her head, and fell to the ground.
“What’s wrong?!” Jesse dropped to her side.
“Make…it…stop.” Schuyler struggled to spit out. She was writhing on the ground, clutching her head.
Jesse tried to read her mind to see what was wrong, and was struck by a wave of noise. Jesse pulled out of her mind. “Dammit. Okay, Babe this is going to hurt, but I swear I’m trying to help you. Jesse eased back into her mind and braced himself as he took on some of her burden. He couldn’t believe it, the noise, when lessened and stifled. Were voices, thousands of voices. As far as thousands of miles away, and not only vampire voices, voices of everyone. Schuyler stopped writhing and slowly uncurled herself. Jesse felt the voices slowly subsiding. Jesse felt the voices slowly subsiding. Jesse pulled Schuyler into his lap and started rocking back and forth, rubbing her back and kissing her forehead.
“What was that?” Schuyler hoarsely whispered.
“I’m not sure, let’s get you fed, and then we’ll go back to the bus and figure things out.” He kissed her forehead and helped her up.
Leaning on him Schuyler made her way to the bar.