"I'm a vampire"
The words resonated inside of Alan's mind, he had known, he had known and yet hearing it directly coming out of her mouth in such a blunt statement still did its rounds on his thoughts, he hadn't expected it to be stated so simply, so factually.
'I thought… I thought that she would atleast talk around it for a moment… not just say it but at the end of the day, the way how she says it doesn't matter, there really is no need to beat around the bush anymore is there.' Alan thought to himself for a brief moment before his outward expression finally changed, turning into something more serious than it had been before as he slowly lowered his head and nodded towards her.
"I see… That… that's certainly something, I don't really know how to respond to that." Alan said towards her, his voice slightly awkward, he truly had no idea on how to follow up on such a statement.
Alice remained still for a moment before her eyes slowly widened slightly as she gazed at Alan who was seated before her on the bed, so close to her that she could hear his heart, it was beating fast, faster than normal and yet it wasn't the frantic beating that she had expected to hear from someone.
"Do you… not believe me?" She asked slowly, her voice clearly tinged with confusion at his quite lackluster reaction from what she had imagined inside of her mind. She had been thinking about the reveal for a while now, her mind and imagination had blown it higher and higher to the point that she had almost started to believe that as soon as she told the truth to him, he would start screaming, cursing at her or even raising pitchforks, reality however seemed to be much less dramatic in comparison to what her mind had conjured up.
Alan shook his head as he responded in an even tone.
"No, I believe you. As you said, I have my own secrets that are equally as unbelievable." Alan said as he lifted his right arm and brought it up to his neck and rubbed it slowly before looking back towards the paintings and then back towards her once more.
"I guess that explains… the cannibalistic paintings? That… those are quite gruesome to say the least." Alan said slowly, his voice still slightly maintaining that awkwardness however it was quickly disappearing with each word as he regained his bearings once more, much more quickly than any regular human would have whilst sitting on the same bed as a vampire after just discovering her true nature aswell as the fact that she painted about macabre scenes featuring herself eating others.
"That… Yeah. Those… those are paintings of the past… not of the current. I… I don't eat humans anymore, I promise." Alice responded as her voice lowered once more, the slight fear that had been momentarily overlapped by her shock at his reaction swiftly returning once more.
"You don't eat humans? But you're… a vampire?" Alan said in confusion, his tone slightly tinged with disbelief and a good bit of suspicion.
'Don't eat humans? What? Is that even possible?' Alan thought to himself in confusion, he had never heard of vampires that didn't feed on human blood, on every single story that he had ever read or heard about, vampires were creatures of the night that feasted upon humanity. But it was as these thoughts were coursing through his mind that his thoughts wandered back to what he had seen of the cullens.
'Though… they most certainly dont act like vampires in the stories, they go out during the day, though I havn't seen them ever go out into the direct sunlight, its still quite a bit different.' Alan thought before his gaze refocused onto the small pixie like vampire infront of him.
Alice nodded her head as quickly as she could, words spilling out of her mouth almost instantly, almost seemingly frantic in her denial about his assumption.
"No, no we don't. We drink Animal blood, only animals, it's why our eyes are amber and not red, a vampire that feeds on human blood has red eyes. Y'know like the ones in the stories and movies." Alice replied.
"Animal blood? And that works? If that works why dont all vampires just… do that?" Alan muttered out loud in confusion, the question getting out of his mouth before he could stop it, his curiosity, already peaked.
Alice froze for a moment, her body becoming slightly rigid for but a fraction of a second before it relaxed once more as her head turned away, her gaze looking out of the window to the left of the room.
"Because it doesn't work as well. It… doesn't taste the same and the effect isn't the same either. If a vampire drinks human blood, they're satisfied, there's no hunger left after a feeding. Animal blood… never truly removes the hunger, it lowers it, makes it more manageable, but its still there, a burning feeling in your throat, like you're thirsty and no matter how much you drink… it doesn't go away. It's present… almost all of the time." Alice said softly, her voice tinged with an emotion that Alan could only presume was… sadness.
"That, that must suck." Alan mumbled softly as his imagination instantly got to work, his mind putting him in her position almost instantly.
'Being unable to ever be truly fine unless you drink human blood, needing it to live normally… and the alternative is feeling like your dying of thirst all of the time if you dont want to kill someone. What… how hard must a life like that be?' Alan thought to himself, almost shivering at the mere thought of him having to experience anything like that himself.
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