Now they needed something in return. Blood.Yesterday afternoon and all of today I hadn't trusted myself to be in the same room as Miranda and Tabitha....I was at the stage where I didn't have to sharpen my hearing to hear their hearts pumping blood. Instead, I had to consciously stop myself from hearing the blood rush through their arteries. I'd had to run out of the room when my vampiric sense of smell detected the first tell-tale scent that Miranda was entering her menstrual cycle.Not putting. "I didn't mean the shower... well, I do need a shower, but I wasn't coming in with you... unless you want me to?" she ended it with a wicked little laugh that set his Adam's Apple bobbing uncomfortably. "Go on..." He flitted up the stairs ahead of her, silent and graceful whilst she clumped up unsteadily behind him munching on some bread."Um... could you... like... turn away?" he asked, as she followed him into his room."Why, I'm going to see it all in a few days anyway." She pointed out. "I. " "I know, I know you didn't mean them but you said them. Why did you say them? Why were you drunk?" Grace asked not looking up from her book. "Two reasons, one bigger than the other, but two," he said moving closer to her, "One was because I thought you were mad at me for something so you tricked me into getting that close and then leaving." He looked at her for some kind of a response but there was none, so he went on. "And because... because they're shipping us out in about a month or two.". I smiled up at her, “Good morning.” She walked down her walkway to where I was standing on the sidewalk. “You ready for school today?” I laughed, “As ready as I’ll ever be.” She looked down for a moment and I had to strain to hear as she spoke, “Sorry about last night. I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.” I lifted her chin so she could face me, “Don’t worry about it. I actually enjoyed it.” As if the world had been lifted from her shoulders she smiled her million dollar smile at me, “Ok.”.