Edited: 12/14/11.

Which To Bury, Us or The Hatchet by Relient K

No, I don't hate you,

Don't want to fight you,

Know I'll always love you,

But right now I just don't like you.

I yawned as the final bell rang for school to get out. I was exhausted but tonight would be a great night; it was going to be a family reunion, of sorts. Gregory, who was now a human, went to school with me and I relished the fact I did not have to sneak out in the late night hours to visit him at the cemetery.

After the Sackville-bagg family disappeared I assumed they did not become human. I figured they died. One could only assume they were dead and gone. The family disappeared in a cloud of smoke and I did not find any trace of them after that night.

"Hey, Leo!" I heard a voice call me out of my daydream. I sat up and looked as Amelia, my closest friend, bounced up next to me, twirling her strawberry blond hair around her index finger, nervously.

"Hey Amelia!" I grinned, pushing up the sleeves of my black sweater, "What have you been up too?" I pushed back my chair and began to collect my books. Amelia was this beautiful tall, lanky, red hair, girl with ivory skin and beautiful grey stormy eyes.

"I was talking to Rafael," She mumbled and kicked the floor with the toe of her black flats. I shifted to walk out of the classroom, "Yeah? What did you guys talk about?" I pressed.

"Well, apparently there's a new girl at the school. She should be here tomorrow. She came in today to get measured and he was in the front office." She smiled shyly. She was incredibly bashful.

"Oh?" I slid my back on to one of my shoulders and walked to the classroom door, "Goodbye Mr. Taylor!" I waved. "Goodbye Miss Thompson!" We walked out of the classroom, "Well, Amelia, I don't think that is all that happened during that talk!" I beamed.

"Well…no…" Amelia's face turned a scarlet red, "He sort of asked me out…" She began to fidget nervously was the hem of her shirt. "Did you say yes?" I squealed and began to prance to my shared locker with Gregory.

Amelia's face turned a deeper, more predominate red, "Well…" She mumbled. "AMELIA!" I screamed as I fiddled with the stubborn grey locker who refused to open.

"I didn't say yes, but I didn't say no either…" Amelia mumbled and began to twist the bracelet on her wrist around. "I froze." Her face returned to normal, "I couldn't speak, I just walked away. I was so nervous!" She began to ramble, "I made a fool out of myself!"

"I was nervous when I first started to date Gregory!" I smiled, "I was down-right terrified!" A flashback of the night Gregory took me home for the first time. It wouldn't have happened if it weren't for his mother demanding him to take me home. He also nearly turned me into a vampire, but I digress.

"I'm not good at stuff like this!" Amelia hollered; her eyes brimmed with silvery, wet tears as her face began to flush with frustration. "You aren't good at what?" A low rumble came from behind us causing Amelia squealed.

"That's mean, Gregory." I scolded him, "We were having girl talk." He grinned at me and kissed my cheeked, "Well, what was it about?" He pushed his way into the locker.

"Noth-" Amelia tried to scream out, but I cut her off "Rafael." I smirked as her already flushed face turned pink with embarrassment. "Oh?" Gregory said as he dug through the locker looking for whatever he needed, "He's cool. Why do you like him or something?"

"I don't know…" Amelia whispered, "I think I do…" Amelia looked at me for help. "Oh. He told me you he tried to ask you out and you just froze there." Gregory snorted and threw a book into his backpack.

"GREGORY!" I growled and slapped his arm. I looked at Amelia, she was on the verge of tears again, "Don't worry, Amelia!" I gave her a small smile. "Ouch." Gregory grumbled and closed the locker, "He's coming right now. He want's to know if you would let him take you to dinner."

"This is your chance!" I beamed, "Say yes when he ask you again!" A look of terror filled her eyes. "There he is." Gregory pointed with his head, "He won't bite. Let's go, Inamorata. Dad called me, we need to pick up some items from the market."

I smiled and hugged her, "Say yes! Call me right after if you can! If you need anything just call me!" She looked like a frightened rabbit in the middle of a dark road with a bright spotlight on her. "But…Leonora…" She whimpered and tried to grab my arm.

I felt Gregory tug at my fingers and began to walk away. "You will be fine! I promise! Bye!" I grinned and turned to chase after Gregory. When we walked outside, there was a tension in the air. Ominous grey storm cloud hung in the distance of the horizon, waiting to pounce at its unexpected prey any moment.

"How was class?" I smiled and wrapped my arm around his waist. "Alright. Boring." He snorted as he laid his arm on my shoulders. "Agreed!" I declared and began to play with the hem of his shirt, "Did you hear? We have a new girl here!" I grinned.

"Oh, yeah. Rafael said something 'bout that." Gregory let go of me and unlocked the car. "Yeah. I wonder who she is." I questioned him. Gregory shrugged and opened the passenger door for me, "Thanks, love."

He grinned and leaned down to kiss me before moving to the driver's side. He started the car; "We aren't going to the market by the house. We are going to the farmer's market that is out near the church."

"What do we need to get?" I asked glancing out the window. "Here" He tossed his cell phone into my lap, "He texted me in case I forget…" I clicked around to get to the messages, "It say's we need: thyme, basil, and tomatoes" He nodded and began to pull out of the parking lot.

We arrived at the Farmer's Market just as it began to drizzle. "Let me get the umbrella from the trunk." Gregory made a mad dash to the open trunk and quickly opened up the large, black umbrella before making his way over to my door.

I smiled at him got out of the car, "Thank you." I pecked him on the lips as I grabbed his hand. "Let's get what we need and get home. I don't want you sick." He wrapped his arm around me to keep me warm.

We wandered around the market a few times, "Where is the bloody basil?" He growled. I snickered at his use of vocabulary, "Right there, darling." I pointing to a bundle of herbs, clearly labeled 'thyme'.

"Argh!" He growled, "Don't say it!" I giggled as he snatched up the thyme. We walked to the cashier pay for the items. Out of nowhere, I felt my whole body tense up; someone was watching me.

I looked around, expecting to find someone glowering behind me or staring at me from a distance, but no one was there. There were relatively a low number of people at the market. It was of been obvious if someone was staring at me.

I glanced back to Gregory who was being handed a bag filled with the items we needed. "What's wrong?" He took one look at me and registered that my anxiety was high. "I had a weird feeling…" I mumbled looking around again.

"Nothing is out there, let's get home." He brushed my feeling off and began walked over to the car. "I know something was watching me." I said as I ran to catch up with him. He snorted, "You're crazy."

I glared at him, "I know what I feel." I growled and walked over to the passage side of the car, "and I felt something watching me!"

I jerked open the door and slid into the car. Gregory put the groceries in the back and climbed into the drivers seat. "All I'm saying," He growled as he put the car in reverse and began backing out, "Is that nothing is out there that goes 'bump-in-the-night'."

"Bullshit!" I snorted while crossing my arms, "You use to be something that goes 'bump-in-the-night'. So if you existed why can't other things like: mermaids, pixies, werewolves, or legit witches exist?"

He sighed, "Out of all my centuries of being a vampire, I never once met any of those creatures." I countered, "Majority of humans will go their whole life with out meeting a vampire!"

He smirked, "Majority of humans never fall in love with a vampire." I quickly smiled then frowned, "That is not the point!" He howled, "You smiled!" He grinned, "I'm off the hook!"

I slapped him in his arm as we pulled into the house, "No." He chuckled and reached for the groceries in the back seat. I got out of the car door and grabbed the backpacks. I looked back at him to see him reaching for his bag as well.

I kept walking up to the house without Gregory. "Hey!" I heard him yell, but I kept walking and went through the door.

"We are back!" I yelled. Their house had a very large foyer that was now filled with empty tables with a black tablecloth on it, with empty silver plates on them. In the center of the room was a large bowl of red juice that was dark in color making it look like blood.

Freda had a very antique, yet modern sense of style. She liked things a certain way with a certain sophistication. I think it's from the century she was from. To have things look extravagant and beautiful and where a party was more then getting smashed or as the Scottish say it: 'Mad wi' it'.

"You have returned?" I heard Freda exclaim with a soft voice as she floated into the room; she never lost her that dreaminess about her. She was light on her feet and I never heard her raise her voice above that airy whisper.

I smiled at her, "Yes. Gregory is bringing the groceries in now."

"Oh good. I need to cut up the tomatoes for the…h-aa-m-burgers," I snickered as she felt uncomfortable pronouncing hamburgers, "and the thyme and basil need to go into the stew."

"Why didn't you wait?" Gregory asked as he came up behind me. "Gregory!" His mother exclaimed softly, "the groceries, please." She held out her hand, waiting.

"Yes, mother" He handed her the bag and turned to look at me. "Oh, Gregory, darling," She breathed, "Go help your father set up outside. We got those lovely covers to protect the chairs and tables outside!" then walked back into the kitchen.

I grinned as he frowned. He glowered at me then kissed me on my cheek before walking towards the backyard. I snorted, like he was going to get off THAT easy.

"Leonoraaaaa!" A voice sang out. I smiled; it was Anna.

"Annaaaaaaaa!" I sung back and looked up at her. Anna was on the spiral staircase in an ice pink dress that went perfectly with her long, straight blond hair and pale skin. She wasn't wearing any shoes.

"I can't find a good pair of shoes!" She whined. "I'll help!" I laughed and walked up the staircase, following her into her room. "I would ask Rudolph or Tony dearest, but they don't understand." She muttered as she began to show me her shoes, "I narrowed them down, but now I don't know which one."

There were two pairs of shoes: a plain pair of ivory flats and white sandals. "Put the flats on." I commanded her to do then sat on her bed. She slid them on and began to walk around in them. "I really do like these ones." Anna smiled and did a twirl in them.

I nodded and told her to slip on the sandals, which she did.

I pondered for a moment, "Flats." Anna grinned, "Good! I was hoping for that!" She turned and ran out the door, "TONY DEAREST!" she screamed

I snickered; it didn't bother me that she had a crush on Tony or called him 'Tony dearest.' I thought it was cute. Plus, even though Tony wouldn't admit it, he had a crush on Anna.

I walked to Rudolph's room to see Anna twirling in front of Tony who was trying to play a video game. "Don't you love my outfit, Tony dearest?"

Tony was trying to look around her trying to kill a zombie from what I saw, "TONY!" she howled. "Go away, Anna!" Rudolph scolded, "We are busy." Anna glared, unfazed by her bother's remark, "I want to know how I look!" She stomped her foot.

Tony paused the game and looked at Rudolph, his glasses barely standing on his nose. "You look nice." Anna pouted, huffing, "Just nice?"

I snorted. "Anna!" Rudolph hissed and glared at his younger sibling. "Anna looks lovely, doesn't she boys?" I slithered in to the room and stood next to Anna.

I heard them grumble. "Right, TONY?" I grinned as he turned a violent shade of red. "Yeah, sure" he mumbled trying to go back to his game.

Anna grinned and skipped away, "Let's go see Mother!" She sang and waited for me outside in the hall. I followed her down to the kitchen where I was shocked to see my mom hovering over the oven. "When did you get here?" I asked as she barely glanced at me.

"I've been here since one…" My mother stirred the stew; "I've been helping Freda with the cooking. The boys are outside." She said reading my mind. I nodded and went to walk outside when I heard the doorbell rang. I looked at my mom expectantly. She stared at me, "No one is suppose to be here for another hour."

"Anna, go see what the boys are up too." She nodded and skipped out to the back yard. I turned and went to open the front of the house. I opened the door and saw a girl about my height standing in the rain.

"Oh my, the rain picked up…" I muttered as I stared at the soaked girl, "Are you alright?" She gave me a nervous smirk, "A'm fine. Can ye gie's a haund?"

I looked at her blankly. After living in Scotland for over a year, my American ears never adjusted to the tones and sounds of the Scottish language. "Uhm…" I fidgeted nervously with the door, "What?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. My English isn't very good." She muttered, "Can you help?"

"What's wrong?" I asked her as she took a step forward. "My car just broke down nou." She pushed her way in. "Excuse me?" I glared at her, failing slightly to stand my ground "I didn't invite you in yet."

"Sairy. Its just so cauld."

"Well." I growled, "You could of waited until I let you in." She shrugged, "This is a nice hoose." She began to walk in circles looking around the foyer. "Yeah it is. So what did you need help with?" I slammed the door shut.

"Ah, I need to call my Nana. My car broke down."

I nodded and passed her my cell phone as my mom danced into the room. "Oh, Leonora…who is this?" She looked confused. "Oh! Guid Eenin!" The girl exclaimed, "I'm Iona!"

"Yes, this is Iona. Her car broke down and needed to call her…Nana." I grimaced. Something about this girl set my body in a state of survival. She gave me a huge negative vibe.

"Oh, well…Gregory knows how to jump a car, doesn't he?" She glanced at me. "He should." I shrugged. "Oh! How wonderful!" Iona exclaimed and clapped her hands, "I wouldn't want to bother Nana. She is so old and fragile!"

"I'll go get Gregory then…" I muttered, slowly making my way to the backyard where saw Gregory sitting with his dad and my father underneath the tarp. "Gregory!" I called for him and waved him inside.

He got up and walked up to me, "What's wrong, love?" he kissed me on the lips. "We need to go jump this girl's, Iona, car. Well, you need too. But I'm coming along." I frowned as I emphasized on the 'we'.

"That doesn't tell me what's wrong." He cocked his head to the side. I stared at him, blankly. "She gives me a bad vibe." He grinned, "That's all?" I frowned. He didn't get it. I was almost never off with the way I felt. She gave me a horrible vibe.

"Let's go talk to her." He grabbed my hand and dragged me along. "Oh, Gregory. Help this girl out won't you?" My mother was practically begging. She probably didn't want Freda going ape over this unwanted visitor.

"Yeah. What is up with your car?" He looked over at the girl, Iona. "I think the battery died." She looked up at him with those ugly baby blues. He shrugged, "Alright." He grabbed his keys off of the table by the door, "Let's go jump start your car."

"Thenk ye!" She bounced out the door. I finally got a glance of what she looked like; long blond hair, ugly baby blues, a narrow nose and full lips with beige skin. Gregory looked at me, "Are you coming?" I glared at him, "Duh."

I went to walk out the door with him when Freda came floating in, "Darlings, where are you going?"

"We are going to help this girl out. Her battery died. It shouldn't take more then 20 minutes." Gregory shrugged. "Hurry back…" Freda said quietly, unsure if she should let her eldest go. Gregory and I walked outside to see Iona standing by Gregory's car. "How far out is your car?" He asked as we approached, unlocking the car.

"Oh, just down south a wee." She said opening the front door and sliding in.

I glued my lips together as I slid into the back seat. I bit back the urge to snarl at the girl who decided she was allowed to sit next to my boyfriend. Gregory started up the car, seemingly obvious to what was going on, and began driving south.

After about 10 minutes I was getting annoyed. "You know, a little ways away means about 5 minutes." I snarled out, glaring maliciously at her seat. "Oh, maybe it was a little farther out." She said innocently.

"Don't worry." Gregory shrugged, "We will get you there and be on our ways!" I sighed in frustration and slunk down into my seat. After another 15 minutes we saw a car pulled off to the side of the road, "That's it!" She grinned.

Gregory pulled in front of it turned the car off. "Alright, let's go open the hoods."

We all got out of the car as Gregory opened up both hoods. "Go start your car, first. I want to make sure it has a dead battery."

She nodded and climbed into her car and tried to start it up. The car whined and grinded but didn't start. "Try using the windshield wipers."

"Why?" She looked at him confused. "Because you could have a bad starter. If the windshield wipers don't work, then it's a dead battery." Gregory told her factually. She tried to use the windshield wipers, but they didn't go.

"It's a dead battery. Leonora, go get the jumper cables from the trunk." He shooed me away. I nodded went to the back of the car, opened the trunk and grabbed all of the cables and walked back to him. He took them and hooked the up to his car batteries first. Then he put the others on Iona's car.

"Leo, go turn on the car and get the engine going, but don't take it out of park." Gregory pointed back to his car, "I'm not that stupid" I hissed and turned around and stomped to the car. I climbed in the car and turned it on and pressed my foot against the gas pedal.

"Iona!" I heard him call out, "Turn on your car!" She did and the car roared back to life. "Thank you!" She screamed and dashed out of the car and tackled Gregory into a hug.

"Oh. My. God." I gasped, still glaring through the windshield. I was livid. At first, it was at the girl. Then my aggression was directed to Gregory chuckled and hugged her back. The hug was an awkward, one handed hug but a hug none the less.

He proceeded to take the jumper cables off and closed both hoods. "Alright. You need to keep your engine running for at least 20 minutes."

"Sure thing!" She smiled and waved at him as he got put the cables back in the trunk.

My phone started to ring and it was Freda. "Hi?" I mumbled into the phone. "Where are you?" She said softly.

I watched as she pranced over to him again and hugged him again, this time, he hugged back, completely. "We are…" I growled out, "About to leave. We will be home soon."

"Alright…" She whispered, "I will see you in a few minutes." I hung up the phone and glared at Iona as she walked to her car. I got out of the car and walked around to the side passenger door. He was already in side the car waiting.

I climbed in and slammed the door shut. "Hey…easy." Gregory said softly. I didn't say anything. I buckled up and curled up closer against the door. "Are you mad?" Gregory inquired after about five minutes of silence. After a moment, he asked again, "Leonora, you mad?"

Silence.

He sighed, "Why are you mad?"

Silence.

"Are you going to tell me why?"

I sighed angrily.

"That's a no."

I sighed angrily again, an obvious 'no' to his question. We pulled up to his house and I got out and walked to the front door, I could hear everyone talking and having a good time. I was furious. How could he hug her? Why didn't he see why I was upset?

"Leonora!" He called after. I could hear him jogging up to catch up with me. I pushed opened the door and saw crowd of people. No one seemed to notice me; they were too busy mingling with each other. I made a mad dash up the staircase and paused.

Was I going to take his room? I pondered for a moment. Yes, I will take over his room. I ran to his room, closed the door and locked it. "Inamorata!" I heard him call through the door. He jiggled the doorknob a few times.

"Love, let me in." He demanded. I ignored him and walked into his closet. I grabbed a grey hoodie of his and a pair of shorts that I left there just in case I felt the need to change my clothing.

"Leonora!" He hollered. "What!" I yelled as I slipped into the hoodie, put my shorts on and kicked off my skirt

"Let me in." He growled and kicked the door. "No!" I screamed. "Damn it!" He yelled again and punched the wall. I hated it when he lost his temper. I got up and swung the door open then high tailing it to the bed, where I quickly buried myself in the covers.

He came stomping in, "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU MAD?" I snarled, "Because!" I pushed the covers back. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" Gregory screamed at me.

"YOU HUGGED HER!" I snarled. He looked at me like I was crazy.

"Are you really upset because of that?" He threw his hands in the air and walked to sit on the edge of the bed next to me. "Love, she was just happy that I got her car working again." He pushed his way through the comforter that I buried myself in.

"You didn't have to hug her." I hissed and moved to get out of bed. "I didn't!" Gregory chuckled, which only caused my to lose my temper even more. "Yes!" I stared at him, "You did!" I growled and began to pace. "Leonora!" He snapped, "Stop acting like a kid! Stop acting like I cheated on you!"

I didn't answer him, I just stared at the grown as I tried to blink back the tears. "Don't cry." He hissed angrily before pulling me into a hug and kissed my forehead. "I'm sorry…" I whispered sadly. "Inamorata…" He kissed me again, "You need to relax…"Gregory mumbled into my forehead.

"Now," Gregory grinned, "go get dressed. You have a family to impress." I tumbled out of his grasp and walked into his closet and retrieved the dress I was going to be wearing for the night. Gregory handed me my school bag and gently pushed me into his bathroom to get ready.