"Take care of her… and of yourself." He stepped back, blinking.

Poppy blew him a kiss. Then she and James drove off together into the night.

And so the story continues…..

"So where are we going to go?" Poppy asked James.

"Where ever we stop when we run out of gas" he laughed. Poppy looked a bit worried. "Relax, I was joking. How about Vegas?"

Poppy's jaw dropped and her face lit up with happiness.

"Shut up, you must be joking me."

"Poppy why would I joke about where we are going? Anyway Vegas has a only has a small hand full of people from The Night World." James said as he changed gear.

"But, Vegas is a big place so why are there so few people from The Night World there. They would blend in perfectly." Poppy replied in a slightly confused state.

"Many of them wouldn't. Take vampires for example, many of them can't control their hunger and often kill without reason; the more suspicious murders there are the more people will start to point the finger at us."

"But people don't know about the Night World so how…"

"When humans can't explain things they often point then finger to the paranormal; paranormal being us. We will be perfectly safe in Vegas as long as I teach you to control your hunger."

He reached over to the stereo and switched on the radio. It had it tuned to a classical rock station. I sighed and slid down in my seat. I really did love James even if he did have a bad taste in music. I slowly shut my eyes as the night breeze ran through my hair. I started to drift of to sleep.

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When I woke up I was lying on the back seat with a woollen blanket over the top of me. James had pulled into a car park and had fallen asleep. I smiled. I couldn't get over the fact that I was going to spend the rest of my life with him. He was just amazing. I sat up slowly with the blanket still wrapped around me. I clambered over into the front seat and cuddled down next to James. He disturbed and looked down at me, he smiled and put his arm around me. I drifted back off to sleep again/

A few hours later there was a banging on the window.

"This is a public car park. Buy something from the shop or get out." An angry looking woman was stood outside the car with her arms folded. I gently rocked James.

"James wake up, we are getting shouted at. We need to move the car." James sat up suddenly and wound the window down.

"I'm so sorry mam, but we have been driving most of the night and I didn't know where the local hotel was. I'm sorry if we have caused any trouble." James smiled and winked at the woman. She blushed.

"Don't worry about it. Have a safe journey." She said and she walked off.

"How do you do that?" I asked as I spun around in my seat.

"Years of practice" he said and he winked; I giggled. I went bright red. Why do I always do this really girly giggle around James? God I feel like an idiot.

"How much further do we have to go?"

"About another 4 hours of driving and then we will be there." James replied as he started up the engine.

"Another four hours of classical rock?" I laughed.

"Fine, pass me your iPod" he laughed. "There is just no educating you into any other type of music is there?' he said through laughter. He plugged my iPod in then started to drive down the road. I put my iPod on shuffle; 'The zoo' by The Scorpions came on.

"Thought you didn't like rock" he laughed.

"I went bright red. Ok maybe I do a little bit" I giggled.

As we drove down the road I gazed around. There was an awful lot of countryside and an awful lot of cows. I just prayed there weren't any cows in Vegas. As I turned around I saw James head banging. Oh he made me laugh. I thought that guys couldn't multi task? Well I think James can; but he's a vampire so it doesn't really count. I laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" He asked.

"Oh nothing" I said still giggling looking out of the window.

After four hours drive we were in Vegas. There were a lot of tall building and bright lights. It was very different from the small towns I was used to living in. The streets were packed with people and shops and cars.