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Jane
"Ethan, Jane, Madeline! Get down here! Breakfast is ready!" My mother called. My seven-year-old sister ran down the stairs in a blur of black and blue. I began heading down the stairs as well. "Jane! Go see if your brother came home last night!"
I sighed. Ethan was my twin. He and I don't get along with each other and haven't since I was in sixth grade. Ethan had been in all of the gifted classes throughout elementary school, was bumped up to the seventh grade instead of going into sixth grade. and he was one of the smartest kids in that grade, too.
Me? I didn't mind that he was moved up a grade. That I part was perfectly fine with. He'd been ten times smarter than me my entire life. It was who he got mixed in was the problem, and it wasn't any of the good kids. Ethan dropped my friends Benny, Rory and me like flies within the first two weeks of middle school. Ethan had changed for the worst. He hated us almost instantly and didn't talk to us unless he was forced to do so. For the first semester of school he would hang out with his new friends until late at night. After a while, he stopped coming home most nights. T first my parents freaked out and called the cops nine out ten times, but as it continued, they got used to it as it happened over and over again.
The next summer, he was never home, really if he was, it was at night, and even then, it was a rare occasion. Halfway through that summer, he stopped eating, sleeping, and never was seen without his sunglasses during the day. His wardrobe consisted of red T-shirt; his leather jacket, black jeans and combat boots, even if it was in the middle of summer. It was hard for most to believe that he once was a regular old geek like my friends and me.
My parents were so fed up that they put him in counseling. We hardly even knew who Ethan was anymore, and it was scaring the entire family. They thought that the counselor could help my brother with whatever he was going through. If she helped at all, it made no difference. Three days later, she was found dead in her office. All the blood sucked out of her, just like any of the other victims in this town. The doctors said she had an unknown insanity problem that hit and she dropped dead.
Yeah, as if. Sure the causes were weird. But we live in the murder capital of the country, maybe even the world,(well maybe not the world, Santa Carla rivals). Well at least that is what they thought killed her, until they saw the puncture wounds in her neck and an unknown poison in her body. The same way that was found on many of the other people that were found dead in our town. The amount of missing people and kids were shocking. And nobody has ever left town because of it.
After the incident, I didn't see Ethan for two weeks. He didn't call, or say that he would be gone, or come home. He just was gone without a trace. One day he just showed up like nothing had even happened during those past two weeks. Though the signs were there, he was paler than normal and the humanity in his eyes wasn't there anymore. My parents though remembered, and they locked down the house. Nobody was allowed in or out until he told them where he went. Six days was how long we were there waiting for him to say something. He didn't, Ethan was more tight lipped than an army general on a secret mission. My parents had yelled at him screamed at him. Pleaded, begged, and cried, and yet Ethan didn't breathe a word. He only was allowed out because of his best friend, Jesse. Apparently, he was needed at drama club practice. My parents finally realized that they weren't getting anything out of him, so they let him go. As they left I had caught the words, "Dying woman", "powerful" and "hurry" come from Jesse.
I don't know what got into him, but I opened the door to Ethan's room, only to find it bare and empty. I closed the door and headed down stairs to the kitchen.
"Morning, Jane," my dad said. "Are you ready for your first day of high school?"
"Yep. I'm sick of summer. I'm super ready for school to start."
"Is your brother home? He promised that he'd be here before the first day of his sophomore year," my mom said.
"Well, I'm not fighting with him, and his room is empty, and one of his friends probably had a party last night. If he came home, he's already gone."
"I highly doubt that he even came home. He never keeps his promises! Whatever mess Ethan got into, he probably isn't getting out of it for a while." He sighs. "Madeline, could you go get the paper for me, please?" She jumps up and rushes out of the room. "Jane, I need you to take Madeline to one of her friend's house today if you don't mind. With all the missing adults and children, you have to take her."
"But dad-" I whine.
"No buts, after all, she was outside last night, and you know it isn't safe. Your mother and I are also getting a babysitter so that it doesn't happen again."
"You can't do that! I exclaim. "I'm almost fifteen!"
"Yes, I can, Jane!"
"Why doesn't Ethan need the sitter? He's part of the family, too!"
"Jane, sweetie," my mother said. "When was Ethan home long enough to actually need the sitter?"
"Ugh, fine. Ethan gets off easy on everything!"
"No, he doesn't. He just doesn't listen. He's been grounded for almost a full year and it doesn't even seem to hit his scale of importance."
"My family is insane!" I scream and try to rip out my hair.
"One dead, and four are missing," Madeline said. She dropped the paper on the counter. "They're probably dead anyways. With three dead in the past week, there is no way that the missing people are actually alive."
"Madeline! Don't say things like that! Especially things that we don't know for sure," my father reprimands.
"Well, she's right. They are all dead at the bottom of the lake, most likely. Rotting away with the rest of the dead." Ethan was leaning against the door, smirking.
"Ethan Morgan! Don't put ideas into your sisters' heads like those. And where have you been? You were supposed to come home last night!" My mother shouts.
"Aren't I supposed to every night? Why would last night be any different?"
"It's different because today's the first day of school. You should have at least checked in!" My father yelled. Neither parent seemed to be making an actual impression on my brother.
"Maddie's right, though. No point in looking for the missing, probably all dead. They were more than likely killed by the vampires."
"Vampires?" Maddie gasps.
"All the right signs are there. Puncture wounds in the neck. Dried of all the blood. Unknown poison in the bodies. No pictures or signs of ether culprits and are only killed at night. Vampires are the only reasonable option," Ethan said with a grin in his face that made me nervous.
"Ethan, stop it. There's no such thing as vampires. Stop putting outrageous ideas into Maddie's head!" My father yells.
"Whatever. I just came here to get to get a book from my room." He left the room. Half a minute later the front door made a loud bang as it closed.
"Jane, promise me you won't get mixed in with your brothers crowd."
"Wouldn't think of it, or even let it cross my mind, Dad. Madeline we've got to go."
"Okay," she said as she hopped off of her chair and grabbed her black backpack.
"Bye Mom, bye Dad." And we left the house.
"JANE! JANE! WAIT UP!"
"Benny, why are you running?" I ask him.
"Had. To. Catch. Up. With. You," he pants. "Did you. Drop off Maddie?"
"Yeah. My parents are mad at me for last night, so my punishment is a babysitter for when my parents go out."
"Seriously? A babysitter at fourteen? No way!" He says. "Is she hot?"
"Benny, be realistic. The sitter could be a guy. You could be daydreaming over a boy."
"Jane. Just let me have my fantasy," he says. "What. does Ethan think of this?"
"Please, he doesn't even know about the sitter. Do you actually think he even came home last night?"
"No, because your brother is a dolt who hates his family," Benny says, choosing his words carefully.
"Close. Black had a party last night. And Jesse Black is Ethan's best friend. Where do you think he was?"
"So you haven't seen him."
"Oh, I've seen him alright. He was home this morning for, maybe, six minutes, saying that the vampires were the murderers. Vampires aren't even real."
"Your brother's an idiot, and he scared Maddie, am I right?" Benny asked.
"Yeah."
"Then I have an idea that will embarrass him so much that he won't even want to show his face at school again." I smiled when I saw the grin on my best friends face.
Ethan
"Jesse! You in here?" I call out when I get to his place.
"Yeah, Ethan. Come in," Jesse yells back. I walk in and go into the kitchen, where he is attempting to finish filling out his registration papers.
"You ready to go?" I ask.
"Yeah. Let's go. I've been trying to get bloodstains off the couch for the past hour, since you left to go talk to your parents. Maybe I should invest in red couches instead of white?"
"If you keep having parties with the invitation as vamps only, you are going to end up with your place trashed and stained with blood. Also, I'm looking forward to meeting this new girlfriend of yours, if she isn't another figment of you imagination." I smirk
"Hey, I resent that!"
"Like it hasn't happened before, Jess."
"Point taken. But she Israel this time, and she is a fledgling."
"You, or one of the followers."
The smirk on his face was answer enough.
"Don't give me that look, Ethan. She said that she liked vampires, and she was a Dusker. It wasn't until after that she said she didn't want to be one!"
"Come on, we're going to be late."
"You are an idiot, you know that, Ethan?"
"Says the person who bit a girl without actually asking first."
LUNCH
Why do I even have to go to school? I already know all of this stuff. So everything is really boring to learn. What's even worse is that I the smartest kid in my grade and I'm a year younger than everyone else.
So, once I got out of class, I headed towards my regular table in the cafeteria. I had my coffee cup(one that you'd get at any shop.) filled with the sweet crimson liquid called blood. A few of my other friends were sitting there. Evangeline, Evan, and Richard. Eva and Evan were siblings. Evangeline was in the same age as me and in the same year. She and her brother moved to Whitechapel last year, and she had already been moved up a grade, her parents moved her up in the second grade to third. Evan was a junior and Richard was a senior. All four of us sat in silence. We really didn't have anything that we wanted to talk about that would be worth saying without being overheard.
For the most part, we were avoided, because, everyone figures out that if they were to do something that would anger us, we would become scary and cruel, and then rest of the student body figured out that those who angered us usually disappeared shortly after that. We were all quite, dark and sullen group at times. At others, we were the wild kids in town, the ones that threw crazy parties and vandalized town hall and the church, (which has happened before.).
To the rest of the school we were the Exclusive Drama Club. Otherwise, we were the vampires of the town. No one knew that except for us.
I hadn't noticed when Jesse walked into the cafeteria, or maybe it was the fact that he went over to a different table, to see his "girlfriend".
"Hey, Ethan! Over here!" Jesse called out. I said I'd see Eva, Evan, and Richard that I'd see them later and went to see what Jesse needed.
"Ethan, this is my girlfriend, Sarah. Sarah, this is my best friend, Ethan."
"So this is the girlfriend that I've heard so much about. I was starting to believe that you were imaginary."
"As you can see, I'm in the flesh. It was nice to meet you, Ethan," Sarah said.
"Likewise," I say to her darkly.
"Is it just me, or are two of the Drama clubs bad boys talking to you!" A nerdy girl with thick glasses and long blonde hair that was pulled back exclaimed. She was standing next to Sarah.
"Jesse, Ethan, this is my best friend, Erica Jones. Erica, this is my boyfriend, Jesses Black and his friend Ethan Morgan. Erica is the current president of the Dusk club."
"Dusker, eh?" I say. "You seem the type."
"Really?" Erica says and blushes.
"Yeah. I'll leave you three to yourselves. Jesse, I'll see in class, if you want to stay with you girlfriend for lunch."
"I need to get my lunch, and so does Erica, so I'll see you two later." Sarah drags her friend off to the lunch line.
"Okay, I believe you now, Jess."
"Why is it so hard for you to believe that I can get a girlfriend without imagining her."
"Maybe it is the reason that the last girlfriend you had, Jesse, was made up by your over active imagination," Richard said.
"Oh, shut it, Rich," Jesse snapped. We all broke out laughing. "Hey, I have stuff on all four of you, including that we are the cause of all missing in the town."
We all shut up. We went back to being the silent people that we were. At least until There was a crash over near the lunch line.
"You dork!" Sarah yelled. A geek had dumped Sarah's lunch on her. I laughed even harder when I saw that it was Jane.
"I am so sorry, I didn't see you there," Jane said apologetically.
"Whatever, just try to avoid me, geek." She headed back to her table and sat down next to Erica. Jane sighed and just headed back to her table to sit next Benny and Rory, aka, the geek squad. I still am having trouble believing that I am related to Jane and was friends with those three at one point in time.
"Wasn't that your sister that just dumped her lunch in Sarah?" Eva asked.
"Don't remind me. I ditched her and her dork friends when I was moved up a grade years ago."
"You skipped sixth grade, right?" She said.
"Yeah, and I'm glad for it. If I was still a geek, I might not have survived. Jane diet even know that I was being moved up a grade until I didn't show up to any of her classes that year. I don't think she even realized that I was moved up a grade until I wasn't in her gym class, since the entire sixth grade was in one class."
"She didn't notice for that long?"
"No, she thought I ditched school that day. Jane went home and told our parents that I didn't show up to school. And then didn't believe my parents when they told her I was bumped up a year."
"Wow."
"I know. I had thought everyone knew that I was bumped up a year. Even my baby sister knew, and she was really young then."
"Heads up, geek alert," Evan said. I turned to see Jane walking towards me.
"Hey, Ethan! How's my favorite twin brother doing today?" She asked with a fake smile on her face.
"What do you want, Jane."
"Just to see how my favorite brother was doing today?"
"I thought that you hated me."
"I do, I just wanted to tell you something that mom and dad are doing?"
"And that is?"
"After you didn't show up last night, and Maddie left the house after dark, they decided to get us a babysitter!" The smirk on her face said that she won this battle.
"And this affects me, how?" By now the entire cafeteria was watching us.
"You get the embarrassment of having a babysitter in high school."
"You mean, you get the embarrassment of having a sitter in high school. I don't ever show up at home to actually need a sitter. I'm never home long enough for it to even hit me on the scale of why would I even care?"
"Well, mom and dad will make you stay home."
"Yeah right, Jane. The last hundred time they said that I left maybe a minute later. Now get lost, we don't need you geekiness infecting our table."
"What if I don't want to?"
"You will ruin yourself and us. Sophomores and freshmen aren't seen together for a reason."
"You annoy me so much, Ethan!" Jane said and stomped off, getting laughed at as she went by.
"Nicely handled, man. She tried to make you want to go in hiding, but instead got it turned around on her!" Evan yelled. We talked for a bit until it slowly went back to the silence that we were all comfortable with.
Jane
"I am going to kill him!"
"Jane, calm down," Benny says.
"No! He embarrassed me on my first day of high school."
"You kinda walked right into that one, though." Rory just had to point that out.
"Not helping, Rory."
"We are going to find out what he is up to. And if we don't, I'll kill him myself."
"You are overreacting. He just got himself mixed up in the wrong crowd. That is perfectly normal for people," Benny said.
"Still, I'm sick of him. And somehow he's better than us because he's a sophomore!" I yell.
"I have a feeling that isn't the reason. The rumors are that the Exclusive Drama Club are higher up on the popularity chain than the jocks and cheerleaders. According to some of the upper classmen and freshman with older siblings, the members are supposed to be avoided at all costs." Benny said.
"You know how in some schools, the jocks and punks are the bully's. Here, they are. Most of the kids that pick a bone with them go missing the next day, some are even found dead," Rory said.
"I highly doubt that. If that was the case, Ethan would have left a long time ago."
"I don't know, Jane. We don't really know Ethan anymore. We haven't known him at all since sixth grade. When he abandoned us, he changed. Whatever happened, the Ethan we once knew is gone. He isn't coming back," Benny said. I looked over at my brother. I imagined the brother I once knew. The sweet, geeky kid who loved Star Wars and enjoyed hanging out with his twin sister and friends. Now, I saw a punk kid who went off the deep end at a young age. He had a dark outlook on life and his friends were troubled teens who had no care in the world or for their future.
"Yeah, you're right. Ethan's gone. My brother is dead. I need to forget about him and start a new life."
"Whitechapel! Look out; Jane Morgan is a new person!" Rory said. It was true. I was starting over without Ethan.
Hi, I know that I'm starting another story. I think I will actually finish this one this time. I am still working on all my other unfinished stories. I promise I will update them more soon. I have chapter two for this story almost finished almost finished and chapter three started. I really hoped you liked it! ;) Please review! -Delta