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This last 2 weeks I’ve been a bit anxious, not Christopher neither Leonard have been coming to school since then.
And the weirdest thing is that people didn’t seem to worry about it. As if it was normal for two students to vanish like that…well actually it is. Here in Zoneville that happens a lot but back to my point. My point is that is weird. Leonard just came from Italy
This is so annoying but what annoys me the most is that I give it more attention that I should. They don’t know me and I don’t know them so forget about it!!!
But I can’t cause that’s the thing, they don’t know me so why do they hate me, it just doesn’t make sense. Specially Leonard, when he’s seen me just once in his entire life. Aaaaah Annoying!!!
Even Mr. Kent
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Today is going to be a good day...I think. I dreamed of dad for the first time in my life and I don’t know how to interpret that.
Anyway today is the so expected St. Martyr's day and everybody seems to be excited. I really don’t understand why, if somebody is bound to die today I don’t see the joy in that. Since who knows when, people has been dying on this day, of course not just in this day but is more pronounced today anyway.
Jenny, now so confident about her powers has been throwing spells everywhere hoping that this year it will all work. Jeremy's been preparing his weapons to go hunting...idiot, seriously this people just don’t learn, why can't they just enjoy the day in a normal celebration? Why do they need to hunt? They could put traps in the border for the animals not to come near us or do something else like run from them maybe? *sigh* I don’t know how but I'm kind of predicting today's outcome, still...even like that I still thinking is going to be a good day.
We'll meet in school in a few hours; we have to help with the preparations. I finally accepted to help out and give some entertainment for the kids, I'll tell horror stories, brook will draw people and can you imagine what Jenny will do? Yes exactly read the cards. When I got downstairs I was alone already, I just worn my blue jeans and grey jumper and have a few crepes with syrup for breakfast. While in the car I was trying to think about a few horror stories to scare the kids.
I was a few miles away of the house, surrounded by trees when I saw something crossing the road in a blur, I lost control of the wheel trying to stop and I almost hit one of those weird trees. After a few minutes quiet in the car, I got out “please tell me I didn't hit it” I got out of the car looking around but I didn't see anything, no body no blood, I sighed in relieve and got back into the car as quick as I could. It was probably one of those animals they are going to hunt; I kind of fell sad for it.
Town was full of people; kids were playing outdoors, streets full of decorations and kids running from one place to another. I even saw a few adults with those red lenses, a few of them looked really sinister but I didn't pay much attention.
I drove to school without knowing that another nightmare was waiting for me.
I parked my car and saw jenny and Brook already waiting in the parking lot, Jenny was in costume already, Brook was wearing a white gown and she was carrying something on her arm, as I walked closer I saw what it really was, and I didn't want to think that it was for me.
"Is for you" Brook said giving it to me
"I'm not wearing that"
“Yes you are”
“No I'm not”
“Listen” jenny finally said interrupting us “you are a story teller, this is what story tellers used to wear so you need to wear it”
“Is a dress”
“What do you have against dresses?? You don’t need to take your clothes off just wear it on top of them…c’mon where did you leave the spirit?”
“In my closet”
After a few minutes of them chatting me into it I agreed. Everybody was wearing something so I also had to.
Ben was going to share kisses with the girls, with all of them cause they all wanted a piece of him, but I was more interested in seeing if the cousins where here.
Mr Garcia our Latin teacher took us to one of the upper level rooms where we could find a few chairs and decorations to finish up with the Gym's make up for tonight. Yes the rave will be in the gym and as Brook said we’ll have a lot of fun after we finish entertaining the little ones.
While coming and going I checked the corridors and the rooms which doors were open to see if I could find them. I really shouldn't even think about it cause it will get me into trouble but I just couldn't help it.
“Don’t look so anxious or they'll know you are looking for them” said Jenny ooops BUSTED!!
“I don’t know what are you talking about Jenny, I’m looking for no one, I’m just paying more attention you already know hoe clumsy I am sometimes”
“And it looks like sometimes you forget who you are talking to” she said with a smile “don’t worry is St. Martyr’s day and there is no way they are missing it, Leonard came specially for that so they are here”
I felt relieve, I wanted to confront them, both of them.
“Why aren't they here working like everybody else?”
“They do other things” Brook said
“What kind of things?” I continued asking
“Well their family are part of the council so they help them out” Brook said
“Help them out how?”
“Why are you so interested? Said Brook with a frown Busted again!!!
“I just want to know how important what they do is that frees them from wearing costumes and play around with kids while we are here” uuuf safe
“I see...we don’t actually know what they do, but they might as well go hunting like everybody else”
“Huh!!” My heart almost stopped beating. “How can they hunt their kids!! Do adults let them?”
“Don’t worry, they are stronger than you think” said Jenny
“What do you mean?”
“They are not actually kids and neither are you, Leonard is 19 and Christopher almost 18 so don’t worry they always go together, you should see them fighting”
“What?”
“Not in between them of course, even though they have the little tension going on just god knows why we haven't seen them fight each other. What I meant is when they defend themselves from others is like woow!!”
“They fought on school?” I was glad to see I wasn’t the only one punching people on school
“No, Brook saw them outside town tell her Brook” Brook didn’t look like that was appealing to her, I wonder if she stills feel uneasy about them.
“I went to glitz to get ink and stuff for my drawings a few months back before Leonard left to Italy, and there were this guys playing around you see or that's what I thought they were doing when I realised that they were beating up one of the guys, they wouldn't stop and they almost get me too if not because of Christopher and Leonard. They came from nowhere and in no second everything ended, it was so fast and so quiet that you wouldn't even have know there was a fight around the corner”
“Do you still feel uneasy about them?”
“No...I don’t even know why I told u that, I just felt like that at that moment if you know what I mean, I guess the way they looked at you disturbed me a little but I don’t have anything against them”
“We've never had” continued Jenny smiling
“You are happy today aren't you?”
“Yes I am indeed, I'm so happy to see that my spell worked”
“You think it did? Said Brook arching a brow
“Yeah I think so...we are about to start and nothing has happened”
“You shouldn't be so calm yet they day just started” said Brook and we let the conversation trail off.
The afternoon passed quickly, members of the council including Elizabeth Elizabeth
“What do you think you are doing?”
“No what are YOU doing, why are you going do you have a death wish?” She looked me into the eyes and then gave me crooked smile
“Give me the weapon Gabrielle”
“No”
“Gabrielle!” I gave it to her and she continued “this is something I have to do I've done it before I'll b fine”
“I really don’t understand you people. You say that people are dying and there you go, getting in the mouth of the wolf by your own free will, if you so much want to die give me a gun I'll shoot you myself”
“Gabrielle! I'll b fine ok don’t worry about me”
“I'm not” I said in a rush “I'm just concerned about this stupidity that you all are committing that's all” she gave me another crooked smile and I walked away. I didn't usually care about what she did but this just wasn't right and I cannot believe Jeremy is backing her up, member of the council or not she shouldn't go...and don’t get me wrong, I'm not worried about her.
As I walked towards the exit I saw 2 beautiful women, both with long blond hair, amazing figure and her faces were a mix of perfection and fantasy but they were pale, really pale. And next to them was Christopher...I should've known better, pale woman? They must be his family. I walked towards him and he suddenly turn to face me before I could poke him, as if he knew I was there all along. He just looked me in the eye without saying anything for a while, it shocked me. We don't usually have the chance to talk because he always kind of avoids me but when we do talk I can never get my eyes off of him.
“What do you want?” He finally said with that rudeness he's known from
“I...why are u going?”
“Excuse me?”
“You guys shouldn't go...is dangerous” one of the women from across the table half turned to look at him and he nodded. Did I miss something?
“Gabrielle what we do or stop doing is not of your concern so don't butt in”
“But you are too young how can they let you go?!”
“I don’t need your permission to do what I must”
“I know...I'm just saying is dan..”
“Enough!!” He cut me off with such a powerful voice that all I could do was turn around and walk away. I don’t know why I even bother he's so impossible and so rude, at least Leonard is not like that, he just doesn't talk to me at all. Seriously what have I done to those two to be treated like this?!
In my frustration I bumped into Ben, I really felt like beating up somebody, where is Sarah when you need her?
“Are you ok?” He said so attentive as usual
“Yeah I'm great” I said not hiding my lack of enthusiasm
“Well we'll start in 5 min so you better go to your tent”
“yes sir” I said in a military way and he laughed, he really has a beautiful smile, and I started walking away when he called after me again so I turned.
“If u need to talk you know where I am” I frowned for a moment thinking about what he said an he just smiled “or you can come if you want a kiss too”
“Sure, I'll think about it” POOM!!! Somebody shot a gun and I screamed
“Hey you ok?” he asked
“What the heck was that?”
“Ooh right is your first time, it indicates that the hunting has officially started” my heart shrank as I saw Jeremy and Elizabeth walking pass me with weapons followed by Christopher and Family and the rest of the council and hunters. This is crazy, I walked away leaving Ben behind poor him I think he was still talking.
I found Brook and Jenny and together we went to our tents, I felt really annoyed which helped me with my stories. I talked about a lost girl in a weird town, meeting weir people and dying at the end as well as I talked about a mutant killer mum and about monsters in the woods. That will help to keep them from going near it for a while.
It wasn't really that bad telling stories, I was kind of enjoying it but even denying it I was worried. Damn I was scared myself because of this freaking situation. They are the only family I have left and they go on a hunt? Seriously if something happens to them I'm gonna kill them, even after dead I'll re kill them so they better come back. The sun was disappearing leaving space to the dark of the night and the moonlight. We were wrapped as soon as the sun started disappearing so the kids could go home safely and now was our turn to rave.
But my worry was growing bigger when I saw that a few members of the council plus a few hunters came back already but neither Elizabeth or Jeremy, Christopher or Leonard were back. What to do now? How do they expect me to enjoy the celebration like this?
“Hey Gabrielle, have you seen Ben? Mrs Laurent is looking for him” said Brook
“No, I haven’t” I said looking far into the woods
“Are you ok?”
“Yes, why wouldn’t I be?
“Why don’t you just admit that you are worried?”
“Cause I'm not, I'm just upset ok? Is late and they are not here yet”
“Look, I’ve actually seen your mum using those things”
“She’s not my mum”
“Whatever girl, just don’t worry she’s a pro”
“Talking about me?” said a voice coming from behind me, I turned and there they were. Elizabeth and Jeremy in front of me, no scratches no blood anything.
“What took you so long” I finally said breaking the silence
“I told you not to worry”
“I told you I wasn’t”
“Good then cause I’m going back…” What is she talking about “to the office, see you later” Tsk tsk
“Jeremy take care of her” she said and left
“Did you really go on a hunt?” asked Brook “what did you actually do? How big small were the animals that I don’t see a scratch on you? Jeremy smiled his same annoying smile.
“We didn’t bump into any”
“That’s a good thing right?” I said
“Yeah it is. Actually it might be that we won’t need to do this anymore, it’s been ages since the last victim and now is…9pm and still nothing happened….shall we get in? I need a drink”
“Yes let’s get in” Brook said. This two are sharing more smiles than necessary GROSS!!
“Ok guys you go ahead” Jeremy suddenly gave me a sharp glance “relax I'm just going to the tent to get my bag, I’ll be right back in 5 min”
“You’ve got 5 min starting from now” he said very serious and I left.
As I walked to the tent I realised that nobody was outside ooh spooky.
I took my bag and got out, on my way to the gym everything was darker, but the night was amazingly beautiful.
As I got closer to the side of the gym I heard a strong noise. Kind of like to rocks smashing, like what I heard when I went after Christopher out the cafeteria.
I should’ve walked away, it could have been an animal, in fact all my senses were telling me to run away from the danger but something wanted me to see what was going on. As I turned around the corner I saw Ben on the floor, faint or dead? Oh my god I hope he’s not dead! I wanted to go towards him but something else caught my attention. Is that Christopher what is he doing? I stopped in place just looking at him; I couldn't move I was just watching. He was acting weird, what was he doing out here? His beautiful face was shining with the moonlight, his brown eyes, his lips…hold on. What’s wrong? His expression is different is not like the indifferent face that he always carries around, his lips are parted, pushed back showing…canine teeth??? The way he moves is funny…elegant, fast!! I couldn't work out what was happening and then I realised that he was being attacked…by another beautiful man, dark long hair, pale skinned like Christopher, his movements were elegant too but sharper, he looked stronger; his face had the same expression, why are they fighting?? His lips were also parted and his eyes…I gasped, RED EYES!!!
“We hunt for those with red eyes” Jeremy told me that, and I could sense that these weren’t lenses, they were real.
They both turned to look at me and for the first time I really saw what Christopher looked like. Not sure if the moonlight made an effect to it but it didn’t look human.
He wasn’t human, my heart was beating really fast, I was shaking. If I were Spiderman that alarm of danger in my brain would have started to ring. But I wasn’t scared, not of Christopher at least. I always knew something about him wasn’t normal, I knew he was different and before I could think about something else, the other beautiful man jumped over me.
I tried to cover my face but I could see him trying to thrust his teeth everywhere, I screamed and suddenly he was yanked off me. He tried to get me again but Christopher pulled him back again and again till we heard the town’s alarm.
People were coming towards us; in the distraction Christopher grabbed the man and threw him into the woods. He went after him but not before glancing at me.
I could see the frustration in his eyes…pain maybe? He had that look again, the painful one, I hate that look. And he disappeared.
I quickly went to check on Ben that was starting to wake up when Mr Garcia came and saw us.
“What happened here?” asked Mr Garcia very alarmed
“I don’t know” said Ben finally awake and very confused, people were gathering around us wondering what was going on, I even heard somebody saying that somebody else had been attacked close to the bridge. Mr Garcia asked me too and I said that I didn’t know either, and that was true…I didn’t understand what happened.
“I found him here…alone” I lied; something told me that Christopher didn’t attack him, he saved me from the other man he was protecting Ben, how could he be the one. It couldn’t, it doesn’t work like that.
“Hey here!!!” somebody yelled from the woods, my heart stop beating for a moment, oh my gosh they found Christopher, they’ve got him!! I helped Ben up and we all went together to the woods, it was safer not to leave anybody behind. We followed the man and after a few minutes walking we finally got to….I shouldn’t but I felt relieve when I saw that Christopher was nowhere to be seen instead there was a body, and strangely enough everything about it was familiar to me; from the clothes she was wearing to the position she was holding, wow!! This is weird it looks exactly the same as Brooks sketch, the one I saw inside the weird stuff file. And now that I think about it, something in that sketch called my attention last time and now I could see what it was. The two wounds on her neck…
Then my mind started working fast, red eyes, canine teeth, pale skinned, strength…I gasped.
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We were sent home after that. There have been three attacks and one death...too much for protection spells.
When I got home I had my shower and went to bed, after everything I've seen tonight I couldn't eat anything instead, I switched off the lights and I stared at the darkness thinking about everything that's happened since I came to Zoneville, I found out that one of my friends is a witch that the other one draws what's going to happen cause that's what she does even though she doesn't know yet, then there's this two gorgeous weird boys that everybody seems to be scared of. He rescued me from that hole without the adequate equipment and then tonight... I know what I saw, and he looked at me with those painful eyes again, it wasn't normal.
He didn't want me to find out there's no other explanation, it has to be what I'm thinking. I was supposed to b scared from all this revelation but I wasn't. I felt really good actually, like I was about to find the answer of all my questions.
I was really intrigued by this guy, in the outside he looked like a normal 17 year old teenager but he was stronger, he was faster, he was a vampire and he was in pain.
TO BE CONTINUED…..
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