A new story here… that I promised you guys. :) I hope you guys are happy. And if you're not… oh, well.
This story sets two years after the lucifractor incident… thingy, as you probably read in the summary.
I hope you guys find this plot interesting, because if you don't, at least try reading the first paragraph… or first few words and see if it's good… hopefully.
Anyway, enjoy.
As music filled the air of a house of students celebrating the beginning of their senior year, Benny and his girlfriend, Erica, were standing in a corner, enjoying their time together. Ethan was somewhere that they didn't know in the house, probably enjoying his time too.
After two years since the lucifractor incident, things changed. Two years ago, Sarah had been 'missing' and all of her friends thought she was gone. Forever. Stuck in vampire limbo. First Ethan was in denial. But then, after coming back to reality, he cried over the events. He couldn't take it. Neither did the others, but Ethan seemed to be more heartbroken. After he got over that phase, he knew he had to move on. Still friends with the other supernaturals, he decided to meet other people too, and possibly, become friends. Once he became friends with two guys, he started changing his look and personality. Not just because of his new friends, but because he felt he needed to change. Otherwise, he would've stayed as a geek. Eventually, he dragged Benny into changing too.
Since last year, they've became more popular. But so far, Benny's more lucky that Ethan. While Benny had the love of his life beside him, Ethan was still searching left and right for the right person. At that moment, Ethan wasn't single. But he also didn't think that the girl he's dating was the right girl for him.
Right now, Benny was standing in the corner with his girlfriend. If anyone would see him at the moment, they wouldn't say it was the same Benny Weir two years ago. He was wearing a dark red plain t-shirt, a black leather jacket and dark denim jeans. Not the Benny you'd recognize as the nerd he once was. Rory was still their friend; he just preferred to stay as a geek. But being Ethan and Benny's friend, no jock would dare tease him. Or anyone actually. Heck, he could fight for himself.
And Erica… well, she failed, on purpose, twice in senior year. Everyone knew why she failed except for Benny. She was trying to spend more time as possible with Benny, even if it means failing twice and getting yelled at by her parents. In fact, she was a very smart student, but she didn't use her brain much. This year was the first year she wanted to use it since Ethan and Benny are pulling off the popularity slash being smart thing.
Benny sighed as he looked left and right for his best friend, but not bothering to move. He was just spinning his head around.
"Do you think he knows?" Erica asked.
"It just happened. I don't think he knows." Benny answered. "Where is he?" he muttered.
"Benny, are you sure you want to tell him. The last time this happened, he got super angry that he would've thrown a table at anyone who spoke."
"I'm telling him. He needs to find out." Benny said.
"I need to find out what?" Ethan's voice was heard, which made Benny wonder if Rory taught him that vampire ninja stuff. Minus the vampire part. Benny turned his head around to see his best friend with his eyebrows raised up and his arms crossed. He was wearing almost the same thing as Benny except that he was wearing one of his blue graphic tees.
"Um, Ethan, I know you're gonna be mad but…"
"But what?" Ethan asked.
"Well, Erica and I went upstairs and kind of… saw your girlfriend, Andrea, making out with another guy." Benny knew what would happen next, so he quickly hid behind Erica, hoping he wouldn't be injured this night. He could already see the fire inside his best friend's eyes.
Erica pulled the spell caster in front of her. "Oh, man up."
Benny was expecting himself to get hurt the next second since Ethan wasn't the type that could control his anger. But, unexpectedly, he saw Ethan calming down.
"It's okay, Benny. I'm not gonna hurt you. Not in front of other seniors anyway."
"That's… weird."
"I guess it happens a lot that I got used to it." He said. "I'll break up with Andrea tomorrow morning."
Benny nodded.
"Well, I guess I'm leaving now." Ethan said.
"Why?" Benny asked, shocked. Ethan was the guy that usually liked partying. But this time, he seemed dispirited. "The party just started."
"I know, but I need some time alone." He said.
Benny whispered an 'oh'.
After saying goodbye to his friends, he went outside. It was night time, so not much people were outside. In fact, two or three people were seen in Ethan's eyes. The only thing and the only person that could cross his mind was Sarah. It's been two years. He tried to convince himself that he moved on, but he didn't. Just after their first date, she was gone. He missed her terribly.
He saw a small rock and began kicking it as far as he could. Instead of releasing his anger on Benny, he wanted to do it on a rock. And when he said he was okay, he was lying.
He continued walking and thinking about Andrea and why she cheated on him while kicking the rock. He got so lost into thinking that he wasn't focused on what's around him until the rock stopped under someone else's foot, who Ethan guessed was a girl without looking at the face.
"Oh, I'm so sorry," he apologized.
"Ethan?" he heard a familiar voice. It was too familiar. It was the voice he's been missing for two years. The voice he wanted to hear. The voice that belonged to a person he wanted to stay beside him.
He looked up to receive a shock. "Sarah?" When he tried to talk, it seemed that he couldn't speak. It was like his voice was gone for a few seconds. But when he managed to get out words, he said, "No, I'm imagining this. I must be." He turned around only to see Sarah flash in front of him.
"Ethan, it's really me." She said, smiling. Ethan took a good look at her. She hasn't changed. Not a single bit. Same smiled. Same facial expressions she used to have. That soft voice he used to hear. Everything about her didn't change. Not in appearance, anyway. He still didn't know if she, herself, changed. But he didn't think so.
"But how? How did you survive?" despite the 'I miss you' he wanted to say, he was still shocked at the surprise visit from Sarah.
"Um, remember the last night you saw me?" Sarah asked. Ethan nodded. "Well, I knew I couldn't survive the lucifractor. When we got out of the building, I knew that the lucifractor's effect would spread everywhere in Whitechapel. The moment we got out, I flew away. Like to another place."
"But Jesse survived." Ethan said.
"That's because he's a two-hundred years old vampire."
"You could've at least called or something."
"I know. I'm really sorry for leaving without a goodbye and… making you guys worried." She said. "Please forgive me." The pleading eyes on Sarah's face were too hard to resist. He couldn't say no to her.
"I forgive you… that's because I really miss you."
Sarah smiled and went to hug Ethan. As Sarah did so, Ethan smiled and hugged her back. He had never been so happy to see someone. Maybe he had been this happy, but this time was different.
As Sarah pulled away, she kept looking at him from head to toe. "You've changed a lot. I don't see that nerd you once were." She giggled unintentionally, and then put her hand on her mouth to stop herself from laughing.
Ethan laughed. "It's okay." He said. "And I know. Benny changed too."
"To be honest, I thought you'd never change. I thought you'd stay a geek."
"Well, I guess I didn't." He noticed that she wasn't too happy with the change, but he let it slide for some reason. "Hey, were you heading somewhere specific?" He asked. Sarah shook her head. "Wanna walk with me? Anywhere?"
Sarah smiled. "Sure." Just as they started walking, she was wondering something. "So, what happened in the past two years?"
"Well, aside from my obvious change, um, Erica is still in school. She failed twice."
"Really? That must stink. I thought she was smart."
"She is. She just did this on purpose. For Benny."
"She's dating Benny now?" Ethan nodded, smiling for his friend's happiness. "I knew she liked him."
"I guess they were meant for each other." He said.
"What about you? Haven't you found the perfect girl for you?"
"I don't know. It's just that I just figured out my girlfriend's cheating on me."
"I'm so sorry." She said. She was really sorry about this, but she was also glad because she wanted a chance with him. She liked him a lot.
"It's okay. I mean, sure something bad happened, but at least my friend is back." He smiled at Sarah.
When Sarah smiled back at him, she felt like they were having a moment. But she knew it was just smiling. Little did she know that Ethan also felt something between them.
"Ethan, I have good news. I'm coming back to high school." She said cheerfully.
"Really? I thought you finished studying." He asked, obviously surprised by the words that came out of her mouth.
"Well, I didn't. And I'm so happy that this year, we're gonna be in the same grade."
"Yeah, I'm happy too." He said, just realizing that all of them were seniors now. Rory, Benny, Erica, Sarah and him.
He was too happy. Not just because of what she just said, but because she's back. That's all that mattered to Ethan.
"Well, I think we reached my home." Sarah said, looking at her house. "But I don't want to go in there."
"Why?" Ethan asked.
"Because I'm afraid of my parents' reaction. They're probably worried about me." She said. From her tone, he knew she was too nervous and scared to even speak. It seemed as if she was forcing her words to come out.
"What about I come with you?" Ethan suggested.
Sarah looked at Ethan with a thankful look as they walked to her house.
Just as Ethan rang the door bell, Sarah began to shake. She didn't know what to do at the moment. She didn't know what to expect. Yelling maybe?
Ethan held her hand. "Relax. I'm here beside you." Sarah didn't seem to mind him holding hands, but he was afraid of what she thought from the inside, so he let go of her hand.
When the door opened, Sarah felt like she was panicking. She wanted to run away, but it was too late. The door already opened. When her mom saw her, she hugged her without saying any word. She was too happy to see her daughter to even speak. Then, Sarah remembered that her parents weren't the kind that would yell at her. They were always nice to her.
"I missed you, sweetie." Her mother said. When she released her daughter, a tear was shown in her face. "Come on, I bet your dad wants to see you."
"Okay, mom. Just a second." Sarah said, looking at her best friend who was standing awkwardly.
Her mother nodded and got inside the house, not closing the door behind her so Sarah would get in after talking to Ethan. Just as Sarah's mom was out of sight, Sarah went to hug Ethan. "Thank you." She whispered.
"For what? I didn't do anything," he replied.
"You're wrong. You helped me a lot." Before she could let go of him, she got her face close to his cheek and kissed it. Ethan was frozen in his place. He was surprised that Sarah actually kissed him. It was on the cheek, but who really cared? It was still a kiss.
When she left, all Ethan could do was sigh. A kiss on the cheek on the first day. I wonder what would happen in a few days.
If this happened with other girls, he'd make no reactions. But with Sarah, it felt different. Maybe he did find the perfect girl.
== Next day ==
It was Sarah's first day in school for a long time. She wanted to see her friends again. She wanted to continue studying. She wanted to do many things she missed or didn't do in the past two years. Especially senior prom. They say it's much better than regular prom. She wanted to go so badly. But now, it was time to go see her friends… and the reactions on their faces.
She took her bag and went walking to school. When she reached school, she went to get her class schedule. First period was Science. Great, she thought as she mentally sighed. She walked to her science class only to see everyone inside. The teacher, the one she recognized two years ago as Mr. Hastings, turned around to see her.
"Well, I think we have a new student. Actually, she not even new." He said. Sarah just looked down and walked in. After she got beside the teacher, she looked up to see the students. There were Ethan and Benny, sitting and writing on their books, not even paying attention to what's happening. She just smiled. Every three students were sitting on the table. And the only table that was empty, and to her luck, was the one Ethan and Benny were sitting in.
"Sarah Fox, you may sit beside Morgan and Weir." Just when her name was said, Benny's head rose up. Ethan didn't even bother to do the same. Benny was too shocked to see Sarah back. But right now, he knew it was no time for questions. Sarah sat on the seat beside Ethan. Putting her bag on the floor, she noticed Ethan looking at her and smiling. "Hey." He whispered, knowing that he should be quiet in class.
Sarah said hi to him back, and then looked back at the teacher.
"Okay, class. I'm going to distribute last week's pop quizzes." And then he mumbled something about how the class should improve and get better at science. Just as he sat down on the chair, farting noises came out and all the class burst out laughing.
"Okay, who's the immature person who did this?" he asked, getting up from his seat and looking at each of the students. But then, he noticed Ethan and Benny high-fiving each other. He sighed. "I should've known it was you two." He pointed at Ethan and Benny. "You two... detention for a whole week."
"Didn't you give us detention this week already?" Benny asked, trying hard not to smile.
"I meant detention for also next week."
Ethan shrugged. "We always get detention. It's normal." He said that as if it was no big deal.
Sarah unbelievably looked at the two boys.
Mr. Hastings shook his head. "I just hope you don't affect Sarah. She's a very smart and polite student. I don't want you two boys ruining her. And I know you three used to be friends."
"Don't worry. I won't let those two goons ruin me." Sarah assured him.
The teacher just nodded, and then went back to distribute the papers, which he still hasn't done yet.
== After Science Class ==
"I can't believe that you guys would do such a thing in the beginning of the class." Sarah said. "And just like the teacher said, it's totally immature."
"No 'I miss you'?" Benny asked.
"Fine. I miss you. Happy?" Sarah said quickly.
"Very." Benny said. "But what happened to you?"
"I'll explain once I see Rory and Erica." Sarah said, looking left and right for her vampire friends.
It didn't need time. When walking with the boys, she heard Rory's voice. "Come on, Erica. I need a hunting partner." He whispered. But Sarah's super hearing was something useful at the moment. "There's no one that would come with me. Come on."
"You're too annoying to hunt with."
"I promise I won't annoy you. Please."
Sarah smiled and got behind her friends, who were not facing her at the moment. She tapped Erica's back. Her best friend fixed her hair, thinking it's her boyfriend and turned around with Rory. When she saw her old best friend, her jaw dropped. "Oh my gosh! Sarah?" She gave Sarah a crushing hug, and then backed away. Just as that happened, the other two boys came beside Sarah.
"I missed you, Sarah." Rory said, smiling.
"Yeah, me too. I missed you guys so much." She said.
"Are you gonna explain now what happened?" Benny asked.
Sarah nodded and explained everything that happened two years ago.
"Wait." Benny said, looking at his best friend. "When Sarah came in class, why weren't you surprised?" Ethan looked down as Sarah smiled. "Did you know Sarah was here?"
"Just since last night." Ethan said.
"And you didn't tell me?"
"You didn't come home until 1 AM... which your grandma told me. I was asleep by that time."
"What about when we were on our way to school?"
"Uh, I forgot?" Ethan said nervously. Benny rolled his eyes as Sarah laughed.
"Well, I better go to class." Sarah said, still laughing. She waved at her friends and went off to her next class.
Almost 3,000 words. But it's worth it. More romance is coming up in future chapters. Not next chapter. I think.
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Until next chapter.