10: Teaching you to touch

**Mild sexual content**

By the time Sebastian and I had finished eating snacks, it was already quite late in the day, and so he instructed me to enjoy a period of what he dubbed, "free time", before dinner where we were expected to receive two more families. That little piece of news did much to dampen my mood, and so I decided to utilise the lounge area. Much to my relief, it seemed that the room was empty of anyone, and so I sunk myself into one of the soft, velvet couches with a sigh. The more the day passed, the colder I got, the more lethargic I seemed to be getting as well. It was probably a side-effect of the mixing blood, but still, the feeling had me on edge. As soon as I switched on the television, I changed the channel to one of my favourite romantic-comedy series and just let myself be consumed by this little moment of normality. It was, however, cut short when I heard the sound of footsteps nearing the room, and immediately I sat upright and in full attention. Within a few seconds, Liam entered the room, and froze when he saw me. His face then brightened, and his lips formed into a beautiful smirk, while a slight scowl formed on mine. I was still upset about what had transpired in my room the last time he and I were together.
"Well, well! If it isn't my little pet." He then began nearing me and took a seat next to me. I shifted away from him, snuggling right against the arm of the sofa. He just chuckled and shook his head.
"Honestly, you do not need to be so afraid of me. I'm not trying to kill you... not like that moron Xavier. I'd just like to play with you."
"I’m not some kind of plaything." I said softly, making his eyes widen.
"Wow, are we vocal today! I like it." He then gently gripped onto my hand, and pulled me towards him, so that my body was pressed up against his. "Oh, come on, quit being so serious and gloomy! I'd just like to break this little exterior of yours. This little patient, peaceful and timid personality, and replace it with something feisty, strong and seductive. I want to break that desire-filled, lusty vampire out of you. I did such a good job of bringing it out of you the other night. It was so entertaining, wouldn’t you say?”
Entertainment? That was what Liam wanted me for? His life must have been quite boring if he was expecting anything interesting out of me. Besides, that confident, emotionally driven part of me seemed to appear more not than often.
Liam then shifted, grabbed my hands and then pinned me down to the surface of the couch. I made no move to even utter a word. His eyes held me in place, freezing me within his handsome features and cold, soft skin.
"Hmm, maybe, just maybe I can bring it out of you again. What do you say, do you want to become that desire-driven vampire I made come alive?"
And that was when I felt her again, slowly awakening from her slumber in the deep and dark parts of me. But I couldn’t let her take control, not now. And so I mustered up a stern, "She doesn’t exist, Liam."
He raised a brow and then asked, “Are you sure? Vampires are ruled by one thing, and one thing alone- lust- be it bloodlust or sexual desires. We’ve already established that you’re more like me than you’d like to admit, so why don’t you stop trying to resist what I see your body so desperately wants? Give in to who you are Phoenix, who you *truly* are." He said in a low, husky voice before leaning down and gently placing his lips on my neck. The sensation acted as the final spark to set my clearly developing desires alight, awakening the lust-driven part of me completely. And the one thing she desired the moment she awoke was the intoxicatingly pleasurable touch of Liam’s skin. I immediately shut my eyes and let out a loud moan and Liam's fingers began to untie and remove my coat, revealing what I now cared little to conceal in front of him. He pulled away from me and glanced at me.
"Honestly, I do not understand why you choose to hide such a gem of a body, my little pet. It's quite... frustrating. Are you trying to tease me?" He then began to remove his suit-jacket and unbutton his white dress shirt before tossing them to the ground. When I gazed up at his body, I immediately froze and gulped hard, as my breathing became heavy and uneven. His body was absolutely stunning, almost resembling an artistic masterpiece of vampire anatomy. I could not stop myself from unashamedly examining every curve and line etched into his body.
"Would you like to... touch me?" He asked lowly. Involuntarily, I nodded yes, and he took my hands in his and guided them up to his body and gently began guiding them across the surface of his cold, but soft, and supple skin. It truly felt as though I were touching cool silk.
He breathed out shakily and shut his eyes, eventually letting go of my hand, and letting me explore him independently.
"See, I'm not nearly as bad as you've made me out to be. I'm just playful, at best." He then bit at his lip when my hand travelled further down his abdomen right above the waist band of his navy trousers and he looked down at me through glowing red eyes.
"I think you've grasped at the concept..." He breathed before grabbing me and allowing himself to fall back onto the couch with me on top of him and with my legs on either side of his body. I stared down at him, slowly being overcome with my own crazy frenzy of lust initiated by the touch of his skin.
I gently started roaming my hands again, over his abdomen and leaned down so that I was practically just teasing his lips with mine. He smirked as I did so. "I'm glad to see that you're a fast learner. But please remember, I like to tease, not to be teased..." He said, gliding his hand across my cheek and pulling me towards him as he captured his lips with mine. At this point, I no longer had control over my body as I moaned into his mouth and let his tongue invade mine. He then teasingly rubbed his fingers against my inner thighs. Liam was just about to hook his fingers into the waist band of my underwear and pull them down my legs when Xavier waltzed in and froze as he saw the extremely lust-filled ordeal in front of him. His face fell immediately, and although he tried to pull a scowl, a deep red blush stained at his cheeks. He immediately brushed his fingers through his luscious, slightly wavy black hair which, now that it was hanging in the front of his face, I noticed fell until just at the boundary of his sharp jawline. His hair along with the tone of his skin and the beautiful colour of his eyes gave him an almost ethereal appearance, and I felt my already lust-filled eyes pulsating even more at the sight of him. When he saw this, he took a cautious step back, now redder than before.
"Oh, Xavier, would you like to join us? I'm teaching my little pet here how to be a vampire."
He said nothing for a moment and just stared into my eyes, as if now being frozen under my gaze. It was only when Liam turned towards him and cleared his throat that he finally seemed to snap out of his daze. And when his mind returned, so did his scowl.
"What the hell do you think you're doing with this bitch?" He hissed out, still red in the face though.
Liam rolled his eyes. "Such a fucking pain in the ass. She's actually quite the interesting little thing. I'm sure she could be the sadistic dominant to your masochistic submissive."
Xavier fumed and then yelled from the top of his lungs, "I'm not a Goddamn masochistic submissive! They are just fucking rumours!"
But Liam remained unconvinced and almost amused at Xavier’s reaction, as though he personally knew something to the contrary of what Xavier had just said. Eventually, Liam chose to ignore Xavier, and turned his attention back to me, reaching up to move a strand of hair from my neck, and then sinking his teeth into the flesh before moaning deeply and sucking. I let out a low moan too and wrapped my arms around him, enjoying the feeling of euphoria.
"Fucking disgusting!" Xavier muttered, and then began clapping his hands to break up the feeding frenzy. "Hey! Stop that you two. I actually came here to tell you that it's dinnertime."
Liam removed himself from my neck. "Well tell everyone that we won't be able to make dinner. I already have something to eat right here." He said this before placing his mouth back on my neck.
And that was when Sebastian came in, and it felt as though the entire ground beneath me was shaking and shattering and swallowing me hole when my lust-filled eyes met with his completely shocked ones.
"Get your fucking hands off of her you disgusting, cold-blooded parasite!" He yelled out in a voice full of rage. Even his face was consumed by a burning, intense look of hatred. But Liam refused to listen. And so Sebastian grabbed my body forcefully from Liam's, clutching it close to his own body as though he were afraid that if he let me go for a second, he’d lose me.
"How dare you even think of laying a hand on her. You should be ashamed of yourself for even daring to touch her you filthy little leech!" He yelled out. His once blue eyes were now an angry shade of red as he stared at Liam. It was a look which somehow felt familiar to me, though I couldn’t quite say how or why. Slowly, Sebastian reached for my coat, and wrapped it around me.
"It's okay, Sebastian. He didn't hurt me." I whispered. I was, however, beginning to feel weak and limp and my eyes were beginning to shut slightly. Sebastian gazed down at me in concern, and then back at Liam.
"You are an imbecile. She is still in the process of trying to grasp her vampiric abilities, and here you are sucking away at her blood, weakening her further. I did not take you for such a foul player, Liam. Disgraceful, and dishonourable. That is what you are!" Sebastian yelled from the top of his lungs.
Liam shook his head and said, "It was not foul play. I was simply just playing with her. God, you're such a stick in the mud. Why must everyone always ruin my fun!" He was now grabbing at his clothing and getting dressed, absolutely furious. I, on the other hand was struggling to even remember where I was exactly and how I got to this giant room.
"Phoenix?" Sebastian whispered, but my eyes were already now shut tightly and all I could do was listen to the sounds surrounding me.
"Great, Liam, now you’re the one who killed her. Fucking idiot." I heard Xavier say. That was the last I heard before I fell completely numb and got lost in a void of darkness, unable to access any of my senses.