"I'm fine." She wiped off the blood and looked at the scrapes left behind, before looking up at him. "Oh, are you squeamish around blood? Sorry." She muttered, tucking the bloody tissue in her pocket so he wouldn't have to stare at it.

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He nodded and let go of her hand when she started to wipe off the blood, and he put his hands back in his pockets. If his hands were in his pockets, he couldn't rip her hand off. Damiaan shook his head when she asked if he was squeamish around blood, but then he thought better of it and gave an embarrassed smile, "Don't apologize, it's just kind of gross to me." He could still smell it, and the metallic tang was starting to drive him insane. He didn't want to just leave, though, so he rubbed his nose and tried to cover up the twitching of his eye.

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"Are you ok? You don't seem very ok." Kelsie looked down at her hand, "Do you happen to have a band-aid though? The scrapes are pretty deep."

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Damiaan shook his head when she questioned him, and pressed his hand to his eye, "No no, I'm not okay, I think I just... need something... to drink..." He shook his head and took a step away from her, then another, "I should-- I should go. I'll see you tomorrow." And with that, he turned on his heel and ran all the way back to his apartment. He had been so close, so close, he just needed to get away, away from her, away from the blood, the blood...

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"Oh-" Kelsie started, but wasn't able to continue her sentence when Damiaan ran off back to his place. "I've never seen that kind of reaction before." She muttered, thinking that she should just walk back home instead of jog.

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Damiaan sat down heavily on his sofa, pressing his face in his hands and rocking back and forth slowly. How could he have been so stupid? He should have just left as soon as Kelsie started bleeding, that would have been less weird. He could have pretended that he had some sort of family obligation. Anything but running away from her. Now she would probably think about why he had run, and then her thoughts might turn towards vampires...

He bit his knuckle hard and began to suck on the little blood that came out. He needed some help.

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Kelsie couldn't get he mind off of the weird reaction her blood had given Damiaan. She understood that he didn't like the look of it but no one acts like that, plus...it wasn't even that much blood. She sighed and opened her front door with her good hand, making sure the first thing she would do was wrap up her hand.

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Damiaan ended up getting up and going to take a shower. The hot water made him feel better, but he couldn't shake the thought that he needed to apologize to Kelsie for his abrupt and strange exit, but he didn't know how to. So he just finished his shower and changed into some sweats before eating a nice, bloody steak.

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Kelsie had taken a shower and managed to keep her wrapped up hand out of the water, with great effort. She walked out and turned on the TV which was still switched on the news channel. Sighing at the news headline she closed her eyes, leaning her head back. The vampire was still out killing the government officials.

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After Damiaan ate his steak, which successfully satisfied his blood hunger for the moment, he turned on the TV and laid down on the couch. Sadly, the stupid vampire was still rampaging around, and that just turned his thoughts right back towards Kelsie and what she might be thinking of him right now.

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The next morning Kelsie woke up with a start, feeling something wet on her neck. "What the hell?" She muttered, screaming when she saw Efren looking at her with a smug expression. "What that hell!" She repeated at his form laying down in her bed. "How did you get in." Efren just pointed to the open window and sat up. "What do you want?" Kelsie sneered but then shook her head, "No, never mind, don't answer that. Just get out." She opened up the window wider and pointed out. Efren didn't want to listen though and stood up, resting his hands on her waist. "As I said, I want you back." He said seductively, making her push hard on his chest, successfully latching him off her. "Well I don't want you back asshole so just get out." She yelled punching him in the face, "Damn it!" She muttered realized she had used the hand that had the scrapes on it, Efren just looked at her hand and took the punch as a hint, climbing out of her window. "Ugh!" She groaned, seeing blood start seeping out of her wrapping again. "Shit face." She muttered before going to get ready for the day.

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Damiaan ended up falling asleep on the couch with the TV still on, with his head buried under one of his throw pillows and a blanket thrown over his shoulders. He slept fine until around midnight, and then he had to get up and get dressed, because his lack of blood was killing him. He was out for a few hours, then came back to his apartment, then took another shower, and went to sleep in his bed.

By the time he managed to get dressed and go to work, he was an hour late.

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When Kelsie got to school, she saw Sophia running towards her, "Hey!" Sophia yelled giving her friend a hug, "Hey? What's got you so excited?" Kelsie asked. "So how's Damiaan? Did you guys hit it off when I left yesterday?" Sophia asked ignoring Kelsie's question. "No, just about the opposite. I fell and started bleeding but he couldn't handle blood very well so he ran off." Kelsie muttered. Sophia just shook her head and pushed Kelsie out the school door. "Go and talk to him then, check up how he's doing." Sopia said when Kelsie gave her a questioning look. "I have school though!" Kelsie couldn't believe Sophia was actually telling her to skip school just to talk to Damiaan. "School doesn't start until an hour, you have time." Sophia smiled before pushing Kelsie further out the school doors. Kelsie just groaned and dropped her back pack, "watch this then." She couldn't believe that she was actually going to look for Damiaan in the book store he worked in. That totally yelled stalker.

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Damiaan apologized to Rhona about a million times when he finally made it to work, but the woman quickly dismissed him and went upstairs to her apartment. She wasn't feeling well, her back hurt. She needed surgery. Damiaan couldn't shake the thought that if she died upstairs in her apartment while he was working, he wouldn't be able to help but go upstairs and drain the woman dry.

He sighed and walked through the aisles of the store for a moment, trying to find something to read. He had finished all of his books. When he didn't find anything, however, he sighed in extreme frustration and went to sit behind the register, burying his head in his arms. He just wanted to go home and go to sleep...

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