Disclaimer: I do not own My Babysitter's A Vampire, but I do own the original plot and character of this story.
Although the names Benny and Erica are featured in this story they are not the same characters. Mine will change as the story progresses.
Chapter 1: G.A.T.E
Justin was in a very huge room that seemed to go on forever, a room where if you spoke you could hear the echo bouncing everywhere. The room was pitch black, foggy, ice-cold yet on fire. "It's like my skin is burning up but I am freezing inside; feels like I microwaved or something." He could not make out the image that he kept seeing in the distance. Justin approached what looked like doors and felt around for a handle, but he could not see or feel it. He started to get freaked out and was about to run when he heard the doors open and caused the room to tremble. The entrance made a rumbling sound and a blinding light peered its way out causing the room to instantly turn white; all he could hear was his name in whispers getting louder and louder until the darkness disappeared.
"Justin! Hello, Justin can you hear me? C'mon dude wake up we are going to be late for the first day of high school!" was all Justin could faintly hear while he wiped his drowsy eyes as the sun entered his room. He could see someone opening the curtains; he was still too sleepy and drowsy to notice what was going on.
"Are you just going to stare into space or are you going to get ready? I was waiting for you by the park, but you didn't show so I came by." exclaimed the other boy.
Justin finally came to his senses; saw his clock and realized it was Monday, August 28, 6:57 AM and the first day of school. He only had fifteen minutes to get ready since it was a very long walk to school and the first class started at eight o'clock sharp. He quickly jumped off the bed and tripped on his way to the bathroom in his room. He could hear someone laughing from his room, but ignored it and went into the bathroom. He quickly showered and came back into the room. He noticed his best friend Benny was sitting in his computer chair spinning around.
"Dude what are you doing here, I thought I was meeting you at the park?" Justin yelled with embarrassment since he was only in a towel. Benny tried hard not to laugh at his embarrassed friend and covered his eyes with his hand.
Benjamin Knight, or Benny, is Justin's best friend since age five. He is a loud, geeky fourteen-year-old goofball with light brown hair that is flared out to the left and dark emerald green eyes. At five-foot-seven he is three inches taller than Justin. His preferred wardrobe style includes striped polo's, slim straight jeans, a striped hoodie, and a pair of Vans and to top it off a military green messenger bag with a red star in the middle. He likes to think that he is a "ladies-man" but Justin thinks he's a "chick-repellent." Benny's likes are similar to Justin's, video games, especially Pokémon and Mortal Kombat, comics, movies and math to name a few. Both boys bring out the best in each other, bring out the worse, but would die for each other. They are each other's, other half.
Justin went into his closet to look for clothes while his best friend explained, "I was at the park waiting, but you didn't show up. I came by your house to see what was taking so long. Aaron let me in and told me you were still sleeping."
Justin interrupted, "I'm decent."
Justin Baywood is fourteen years old with Brown straight hair that is semi-flared to the right with dark hazel eyes; which depending on the light look as green as Benny's eyes or a shade of brown. Unlike Benny his preferred wardrobe style includes graphic tees, slim straight jeans, a pair of Vans, and a royal purple backpack. His likes are the same as Benny's with the addition of computer hacking, a lot more advanced than Benny thanks to his dad. Although Benny is the loud and outgoing type, Justin is more reserved and shy around most people, especially girls.
It wasn't always like that. When they were younger Benny was the reserved and shy one while Justin was the loud, funny and outgoing one; but that was probably because Benny had just lost his parents. It took a while for Justin to get through to Benny.
Benny finally took his hand off his eyes and continued, "I came to your room and saw you were twitching and tossing in your bed, I figured you were having some bad dream so I woke you up."
Justin was surprised to hear that it was a dream. It had felt so real, like he was there, wherever there was. Benny asked if he was ready because they needed to pick up their schedules. He got up late that he didn't even have time for breakfast. They made their way through the hall and down the semi-spiraling stairs. Justin and Benny went into the kitchen and found Aaron.
"Master's Justin and Benny, I have breakfast ready. Should I set it in the dinning room or in the patio?" Aaron asked the two boys in a fake British accent. Aaron is the long time friend of Justin and Benny's fathers from junior high. Along with Benny's Grandmother, Aaron watched over both boys while Justin's father was on business trips and his mother was filming movies. Both boys were a friend to Aaron he wasn't just the butler. He shared stories with the boys of their parents while growing up. The parents were a tight knit group and Benny got to hear things his parents did from many points of view, his grandma's, Aaron's, and Justin's parents.
"Aaron, what's with the accent?" Justin half laughed, "Anyways we are late so I'll just take the usual when I'm late. Benny do you want anything?" he asked as he went over to get two granola bars and two waters. "And Aaron can you tell my mom I'm going over to Benny's after school?"
Aaron agreed and both boys left the residence. While crossing through the park, that separated Justin's house from Benny's and the school, Benny asked Justin what the dream was about. Justin was too busy in his thoughts that he didn't hear him. Benny tried again with no luck, "Earth to Justin, are you listening to me. Did you go to another planet without me?"
Justin Finally snapped out of his thoughts and told him it was nothing. Benny knew his best friend to well to know something is up and he was not buying it. "You and me both know you are not a good liar Justin, now what's up? Nervous about the first day or what, because you are never nervous about school."
Justin had a puzzled look, he knows that Benny is right about lying, and he was never nervous about the first day of school. If anything he was eager that he's going back to school.
"No it's not that. You already know that when I dream things they happen sometime later in the future. Well this dream I felt like," Justin hesitated, "I was on fire on the outside, but on the inside I was freezing up. It felt so weird and painful to say the least. There was a dark room and doors I guess. Then you showed up and everything disappeared." Benny had a concerned look on his face. Justin had to reassure Benny that he was fine; he knows how Benny tends to worry when something happens to Justin.
"So what are the predictions for this year Justin?" Benny asked with his big trademark grin. It was something Justin did every new school year and Benny was ecstatic to hear every time because Justin was always right and to the exact detail. "Are we finally going to be cool, or score dates?" Benny said practically jumping up and down.
"We can do this standing still or walking. I would say walking just because we are running late, but you decide." Justin told Benny. Benny knowing how this works decided to choose walking. "Alright, give me your right arm." Benny extended his arm and poured water over their hands, while Justin threw some dirt over them. A breeze then swift by at the exact same time the sunlight hit their hands. Another breeze swift by only this time it was stronger; it blew their hair and the leaves on the ground started to fly around them.
Everything stopped when they finally let go of their hands. Benny and Justin knew this happened all the time so it wasn't a big shock to them. Benny just wanted to hear what Justin had to say.
"Good news, we are still dorks, geeks, nerds, whatever you want to call it. I saw adventures basically a fun and exciting year. And I saw…" Justin didn't know how to put this without sounding crazy or like something out of a movie. "…Magic?" Benny had his quit joking and just spit it out face. Except Justin had his I'm not joking this is serious face, "There's more," Justin continued and Benny literally stopped walking. "There were three others but I couldn't recognize them, but they had dark energy around their bodies. And they were cold and almost," Justin trailed off and looked down as he thought of the feeling he got a while ago. Benny asked what was wrong. "It's what I imagine death to feel like."
The boys finally made it to the school grounds. Justin's head started to hurt; it was like a combination of aches. Like someone was yelling in his ear, pulling his hair in all directions, hitting him with some kind of weapon on the head, or pounding his head on the wall. He put his hand on his head to dull down the pain. Benny noticed and asked if he was fine, but then he got aches of his own all over his body. It started with his legs going numb like they fell asleep and seconds later it started to feel tingly as if needles were piercing his skin. The pain traveled up and was now on his sides only these felt like jabs of fists. Once he thought it was over the worst pain he had ever felt was on his chest and was slowly traveling to his heart. He couldn't keep his balance and had fallen to his knees. He noticed Justin was also now on his knees since he couldn't handle the headache he lost his balance. To their surprise no one saw them or it was all in their heads because when it stopped they were standing in front of the school's glass entrances.
They both stopped right in front of the glass doors and sighed, "Here goes nothing." Both said in unison and opened both doors only to be greeted with a surge of energy through their entire body. Every feeling known to man was in their body traveling at nearly the speed of light. The pain they thought they experienced earlier was nothing compared to this feeling. It's like their souls were going to jump out at any second and both boys would just fall limp to the ground. Just when all hope was lost to keep their balance the pain left as fast as it had entered. And again everyone seemed oblivious to what was happening to the boys.
"You felt that right?" both boys exclaimed to each other and in return just nodded to answer their questions.
"Whatever that was, wasn't normal!" Benny exclaimed and Justin agreed. They both were heading down the halls and making their way into the gym where they were to pick up their schedules.
Benny kept looking around because there were lots of hot girls walking around. "Look at all these babes Justin. Hey hot stuff!" Benny winked and smirked to a blonde girl walking by who completely ignored him.
Justin noticed and couldn't help but chuckle, "Dude!" smacking his friend in the chest and Benny mouthing a what. "Do you really want to be called a loser this early, can't you at least wait 'til I'm gone." Justin pulled Benny so they could finally get their class schedules.
They both met up in the middle of the gym and felt a slight headache and tingle, but they decided to ignore it and walked out to the main halls. They exchanged schedules and when they saw each other's schedules they both exclaimed at the same time, "You didn't tell me you signed up for the G.A.T.E. Program!" They gave each other wide looks. "What are you talking about, I didn't sign up!" both said in unison.
They looked at each other to stop talking at the same time. "Are they at least the same classes?" Benny asked with concern in his voice; Justin nodded while Benny sighed with relief.
"Where to buddy?" Benny asked as he swung his arm over his slightly shorter friend's shoulder.
Justin just smiled and said "English, second floor."
They walked into the class and sat near the back across the teacher's desk. They saw a girl talking with the teacher, like if it was a gossip class. It was a couple minutes before class begun and Benny decided to talk with Justin for a bit.
The bell rung and more students started to pour in filling the empty seats around them. The teacher stood up at the sound of the late bell and instructed everyone to quiet down. "Hello class, my name is Ms. Jager and I will be teaching G.A.T.E. 9 English. Also my Teacher's Aide will be helping you and me throughout the year; her name is Alison. I've had her before so she knows what to expect behavior-wise and work-wise." she explained to everyone. Who in return gave a sigh because they knew she was going to be a strict teacher.
Ms. Jager looked like a woman fresh out of college, probably no older than twenty-seven, but was thirty. In fact she looked like she could blend in with the high school seniors; she was literally that young. For a lady that young she looked very professional. She wore a white blouse with high sleeves that had a belt wrapped around her waist and formed a ribbon off to her side; along with cream colored stripped pants and a pair of heels. Her hair was long, sleek, and a shade of golden brown. She wasn't that tall because if Benny stood next to her, he'd slightly tower over her.
She shared a quick story of the first day she started to work at Baywood High. She didn't know if she should take the remark as a compliment or be offended.
"This little incident happened two years ago. The year was 2026, I had just moved to Knightwood Bay from Bakersfield, California. Luckily there was a position open for an English teacher at the high school. I applied and was given the job without much interviewing. It was the first day and I was just getting back from lunch to get ready for the next period. I was walking to my class when I was stopped by security." She stopped to chuckle a bit and continued as the class listened attentively, "I was asked 'what was I doing out of class without a pass' mind you guys, I wasn't wearing the attire you see now, I wore what some of you are wearing. I continued to walk away and again was stopped to show them my 'I.D.'; so I took out my state issued I.D. and she just gave me an 'I am so sorry, I had no idea' look. And she basically left, really embarrassed." she waved her hands in the air in a mocking way as she said the last part.
At this point the class was in laughter because not only was it funny, but also they felt like they might have actually connected with her. With the little anecdote the teacher shared they all felt like she may not be so bad, in fact she may be fun.
The class finished going over the classroom rules and class rubric just when the bell rang. The teacher told them good luck with the rest of the day and dismissed the class. Justin and Benny got up and started to walk out the door talking to one another when Alison quickly walked by and they all bumped into each other. Justin's vision was blurred and everything was going dark. He tried to hold onto something and managed to pull on Benny's messenger bag and slumped to the ground knocking Benny down in the process. "Justin what was that for?" Benny trailed off when he noticed Justin was lifeless and blood was seeping from his nose. "J-u-s-t-i-n" he said extending his name far to long for his liking, "JB wake up, are you okay?" he asked as he poked his shoulder. He didn't get a response.
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-Dominus Trinus 13
