Miss Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen

here.”  Without waiting for a response, she made a beeline for the front door.
    “Hanna, wait… Don’t go like this .” Mason started after her, but I held him back.
    “I think you should let her have some time to process.  If you go after her now, she’s likely to lash out and say something she doesn’t mean.”
    “I can’t let her go like that.  It’s not safe out there at this time of night.”
    He wasn’t wrong there.  “Alright, I’ll handle it.”
    “But…”
    “She’s my sister, I’ll handle it.”  I could keep her safe from any of the regular street rabble without breaking a sweat.  “Maybe I can even calm her down.  I’ll call you later.”
    “Tell her… Shit, nevermind.  If she doesn’t already know by now how much I love her, I’m screwed.”
    “I’ll tell her,” I promised, offering him a brief smile before I hurried down the stairs in search of my sister.  Not that I couldn’t have hunted her down on my own, but having a bodyguard came in handy for once, as Isak pointed out her direction as soon as I emerged on the street below.   I held up my hands when they moved to follow, needing a few minutes of privacy.
    It didn’t take long to catch up to her, and I paced myself behind her, following her clipped paces as she stalked down the street.  Where she was headed was anybody’s guess, I doubt she knew herself.  I knew she’d heard me approach, but Hanna stubbornly refused to acknowledge my presence for a few blocks before she turned and stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. 
    “This isn’t bullshit, is it?  He was for real back there, wasn’t he?”
    “I’m afraid so,” I nodded carefully, not sure if she was mad at him or me or both of us from her tone of voice. 
    “And you knew, you knew this whole time and you never said anything.  Anja, how could you do this to me?” 
    Mad at me .  Ah well, I deserved it.  “I didn’t want you to get hurt.”
    “So you let me keep dating a vampire without telling me.  Sure, that makes total sense.”
    “No, I mean, I wanted to keep that part of it from you because his job is dangerous and I didn’t want you drawn into it.  I even warned him off of you for your own good.”
    “That’s why he disappeared, isn’t it?  That was you?  And here I thought it was because he freaked out when we started to get too serious too fast.”
    “Well, it was fast…”
    “Damn it, Anja, that wasn’t your call to make!” she all but yelled, quieting with visible effort after she realized how deserted the street was.  “No offense, but my relationship has nothing to do with you.  You’re my sister, and I love you, but stay out of my love life from now on.”
    “I’m sorry.”  My head hung miserably, what else could I say?
    “Jesus, what am I going to do now?  I invited him to come and live with me.”  A short bark of hysterical laughter bubbled out of her throat before it cut off with a squeak, her eyes flying wide with panic.  “I invited him in…  He can come in whenever he wants now, can’t he?  And I invited him into Mom and Dad’s…”
    I grabbed a hold of her shoulders and gave her a light shake.  “Hanna, it’s okay .  He’d never come after you, even if you go back there and break things off with him.”  I knew that deep in my bones or I never would’ve allowed him to keep seeing her in the first place. 
    “How can you be sure?  You barely know him.”
    “I know him pretty well.”
    “Oh that’s right, my sister the vampire groupie.  I forgot you knew about him before we’d even met.  I guess that makes Bishop one too then, right?”
    “I don’t want to talk about Bishop.”
    “He has to be,” she continued undeterred.  “Is that what his super secret job is about?  Vampire stuff?  And here I thought it was some kind of espionage.  Are they all a bunch of vampires?  What is it… the Order?”
    “I wouldn’t be throwing that name around if I were you.  In fact,