“Both? Wow, well I might have to get some new recipes after a couple weeks of this.” She teased back but blushed deep red at the comment about being an attractive bartender. Piper hadn’t expected that but she should have. “I don’t know what your criteria for stalking is, but I’m pretty sure I don’t show up to your place of work looking for you without admitting it, having a drink and a snack instead…” She grinned a bit. “You see where I’m coming from here? Yes?” She hadn’t known Axel would be back tonight but she had hoped. Despite the current state of her emotions and her heart in turmoil she was rather smitten with the idea of someone who wasn’t normal, someone who had secrets like her…
“Actually…” She cocked her head to the side. “I haven’t fixed anything with my boyfriend, ex now. I can’t fix anything with him because nothing about me can change, at least not really.” She sat down on a barstool beside him and tried to explain. “My sisters and I live together, didn’t used to but it’s a fairly new endeavor. We’re…not like other women our age. There are things, secrets, both mine and theirs that I can’t talk about with anyone. No one would understand even if…I did.” She paused, trying to gauge his reaction to the way she skirted the actual issue in Dan’s and her relationship or lack thereof anymore. “Dan couldn’t accept that and I can’t accept someone in my life who can’t. Or…maybe it just had to be the right someone to share it with…I don’t know. All I know is there has to be trust or I can’t make a relationship work right now. Does that make sense?”
It was more of an explanation than she’d given anyone about it. It was better than anything she’d ever said to Dan on the issue. Why had she opened up to Axel when she couldn’t vocalize this to her own boyfriend, someone she claimed to love? “You might think that I’m…I don’t make any sense because sometimes secrets are horrible. I know they can be horrible when they come out… I just…” She looked Axel in his ocean hues and tried to think of why she’d been so open before realizing, yet again, he wasn’t normal. That’s what she wanted right? Someone more like her…? “Can I be forward? I know you’re not…mortal, if you follow.” Her eyebrows wiggled up and down. “What you tried to do to me last night…” She kept her voice low so no one but them could hear. She was close to his side. “Who are you?” She didn’t care what kind of creature, per say, but she had to know who he was; because who he was, was different than what he was.
He was a little shocked to hear that she thought he might be stalking her, it wasn’t the case. THe other night he had come just to have a night out of the house but this time was in hopes to actually see her, but he didnt think of it as stalking. “…..I guess I see were you are comiong from, but I’m not stalking you…I promise.” He told her with a smile.
As she sat down next to him and started to talk he listened carefully, taking every word on board. “That is understandable. If I was in your shoes I would be just as secretive as you are. Its not just your secret…so its not like you can just go blurting it out to everyone you go out with. As I said last night if he really wanted to be with you he would understand that you cant tell him everything jsut yet..If it got to the point where you trusted him enough to tell him then it would be good but if he keeps pushing you to tell him it is not fair on you or him cause it will make you just shut him out more even if you dont want to."The vampire explained, hoping that his words would help her in some way.
"I think you are making sense, secrets can be horrible but when they are not just yours you cant just tell everyone freely. If it was just to come out I am guessing it would be bad for everyone involved.” He gave her a small smile before she said he was not mortal. Axel shifted in his seat a little uncomfortably as he looked at her. How could he lie when she already kinda knew that he wasn’t normal after what he had tried and failed to do on her. He sighed and looked at her wishing he could just compel her to forget about him now. “….I’m not mortal….I’m just a nice guy who was cursed, well I view it as a curse many others dont…but to me it is…”
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