Take a deep breath....

Breathing deep, Gem stood against the door of the closed Smooth Bar.
I need to be more careful...
She felt sickened with herself.
Nobody in Demonia would consider a thing like that.
Hanging her head and still breathing deeply, she twisted her fingers around each other.
I'm like fool's gold. I look okay, but it's mostly fake.
Gem's mouth curved into a sly smile. "Heh."

The day was still bright, as the winter season close, and moving slowly
towards the spring time, it is still a good time to make up for lost time. So, Ray decided to take a walk around the smoothie bar. Not many people where around, maybe there at the bay, but one person was there that Ray was hoping to see... Gem.
Rays eyes where targeting onto her glimmering emeralds as her eyes and her long, velvet night sky as her hair. He brought his arms over his head to get her attention, waving them constantly, still falling for her ravishing, vampire, beauty...

The smell of blood almost repulsed her; Gem placed her hands over her mouth and nose.
"Get a grip," she muttered to herself in a wavering voice. "Don't lose it, Gem!"
One of her hands snaked down onto the pendant.
"I don't know what to do!"
It was your own fault for letting yourself get so thirsty!Don't you see how weak you're becoming?
"But everyone-"
Wouldn't it be quicker to just change? I can deal with it without the risk of becoming attached to anyone.
Her hand tightened around the stone.
"I do not think I can."
So Gem slid down the wall, slowly, into a heap. "I know you are right. I am sorry for getting so weak..."

He ran, heading for the bar thinking of his future, like as if he planned it out on paper.
"Hay! Gem!" She didn't respond,.
Ray walked to the back of the smoothie bar, he saw Gem, shielding herself into a ball, like she is locking herself away from the outside world. She clutched onto her necklace, the gem glowed ruby red, with the silver cross softening the gems light.
Ray slowly bent to Gems level, he held her tightly clutched hands, wrapped around her cross.
"Gem? What's wrong?"...

Her head buried in her knees, Gem's shoulders shot up to her ears.
Poor boy...in your current state, he is no match for you.
"S-stop it now..."
You just admitted you were thirsty. Why do you not-
"I would sooner die at the hands of a hunter than do that to him without him choosing." She sounded determined, but also very weak. Her voice was shaking with the tears that were sliding down her cheeks.
"I think I am losing it, Ray." Gem finally looked up at him, feeling misrable. Her tongue licked a fang delicately.
I don't want him to know that I am secretly contemplating biting him.
"I think it is better if you were not around me right now..."

Ray stood, looking at her in dis-belief, knowing what is going on with out a second guess. He tipped his head down, looking at the ground.
"You want blood... don't you?"
He remembered when he felt like bitting. He remembered the sorrow in which it gives to loved ones and the innocent.
He turned his back on her, for once, he had almost enough of vampire thirst. Although he is also talking about himself, his own problems.
"I will be back shortly, don't go anywhere..."
He walked to the front of the smoothie bar...

"Genius," Gem muttered sourly, feeling annoyed.
This was the irritating part--the more thirsty, the more...angry.
"And trust me, I am not going anywhere."

He returned with a drink, a blend that apparantly helps Gems thirst.
[Sos forgot what flavor it was >.<]
Ray handed her the drink
"Here, drink this. I don't know if it'll help but I saw you drink it before."
Again, he sat next to her, making himself comfortable...