Okay so the story is in Darren's POV and some parts are in my OC's but I'll let you know when that is. I hope you like it even though it's short and not that well written

I sat in History class with my best friend Steve Leonard, or Leopard as most people called him, and it was the middle of October, a forth of the way into the school year. I looked up at the door when a medium height girl with green eyes and auburn brown hair walked into the room. She was wearing a grey t-shirt with the words Cirque Du Freak in red, and the font made it look like it was written in blood across the front and jeans. Her black school bag was covered in numerous Cirque Du Freak buttons; I wondered what this Cirque Du Freak thing was as I looked at her.
I looked over at Steve and he was staring at her with a very dazed look in his eyes. She gave the teacher her new student papers and the teacher looked at them for a second before looking at the class and saying
"Students this is Erica, she will be joining the class" Erica walked over and sat in the seat on the other side of me. Steve passed me a note that had the words 'I call dibs.' written in his fairly readable handwriting, I tried not to laugh.

Later that afternoon, Steve and I were sitting at a picnic table waiting for his mom to come pick us up since my parents were at work and both our bikes had flat tires. I looked around and saw Erica sitting up against a tree, a boy wearing jeans and a black hoodie walked up to her, I couldn't see his face but saw her smile and stand up. She put her arms around him, and even though I didn't see it kissed his cheek. I heard Steve let out something close to a low growl, he was jealous. Erica and the boy walked off together after Erica picked up her stuff. Steve stood up
"Come on we're gonna follow them." I stared at him for a minute
"Why?" he rolled his eyes
"Cause Darren." he slowly walked the way they went so I got up and followed him. We followed them down an alley next to the old theater, where someone had apparently died. Steve saw them and ducked behind a crate, I ducked down beside him. The strange boy had Erica back to the wall, they were kissing, and again Steve growled. I laughed
"Steve why are you so jealous?" He rolled his eyes.
"Darren she's hot and I don't even know this creepy guy, she's kissing, he obviously doesn't go to our school." Again I laughed.
"So what if you don't know him, it's not like she's dating you?" Steve groaned.
"Well Darren, the guy is wearing a hoodie when it's 75° out here." I looked at him "What the hell does that have to do with anything?!" Steve looked up
"Where did they go?"

The next day at school I realized I had every class with Erica; this was really strange in my opinion. What I also noticed about Erica is that she never wrote her last name, just an H.C; she also really liked to draw stuff when she wasn't doing school work, I wasn't really sure what any of it was at the moment though. As Erica walked out of Biology class, I noticed a flyer fall out of her bag, before I could read it Steve snatched it up
"Hey this is a flyer for that Cirque Du Freak thing Erica's obsessed with and it's in town this week. Darren I think we should get tickets to see it" I took the flyer from him and read though it
"You just wanna go, because you're stalking Erica" Steve rolled his eyes at my comment
"Am not. I'll go by this place after school and get us tickets okay Darren". Sighing, I nodded
"Fine we can go."
After a long almost endless week, it was finally the night Steve and I were going to the Cirque Du Freak. I was meeting Steve at his house, so I rode my bike over there. After a few hours it was time to head over to the theater. As we took our seats I noticed Erica was seating in the front row. She had her sketchbook in her lap opened to a clean sheet. When the show started I saw her drawing different sketches of Mr. Tall and the Wolfman. One after the other I saw her drawing each different act with every detail as far as I could tell. When Larten Crepsley took the stage, I saw Steve's eyes move away from Erica and lock on him. After the show, I never saw Erica leave the theater, but there were too many people there so that wasn't weird. Steve looked at me
"Darren, go on home I'll see you at school Monday." Before I could say anything the crowd had separated us and I was knocked into a dark room, I felt my way around and found a stair case and found myself on the balcony above the stage. I glanced down and saw Steve talking to Crepsley.
*"I saw you watching me," Mr. Crepsley said. "You gasped out loud when you first saw me. Why?"
"B-b-b-because I kn-kn-know who you a-are," Steve stuttered, finding his voice.
"I am Larten Crepsley," the creepy-looking man said.
"No," Steve replied. "I know who you really are."
"Oh?" Mr. Crepsley smiled, but there was no humor in it. "Tell me, little boy," he sneered "who am I, really?"
"Your real name is Vur Horston," Steve said, and Mr. Crepsley's jaw dropped in astonishment. And then Steve said something else, and my jaw dropped, too.
"You're a vampire," he said, and the silence that followed was as long as it was terrifying.*

*this section of the fanfic wear Steve confronts Crepsley was copied directly from pg.99 of Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare. I did this so that this scene would be completely accurate. I most likely will do this for other important parts of the fanfic that are from the book, and yes you will be noted in the same way I am noting it now.

Mr. Crepsley -Vur Horston, or whoever he was- chuckled "What makes you think that I am a vampire?"
Steve stared at him "I saw your picture in one of my vampire books, it was from 1803 and you were with a woman, it said that she dumped you when she found out what you were."
"Well you seem to be a clever boy, and now that you've confronted me, why don't you go home and get tucked into bed." Crepsley started to turn away when Steve said something that I honestly never wanted to hear
"I want to become a vampire, make me one and I'll be your assistant"
Crepsley chuckled "Make you a vampire? Do you think I am crazy enough to blood a child?"
Steve kept bugging him "Please?"
Crepsley sighed "Wouldn't you miss your parents"
Steve sighed "My mom is a drunk so most of the time she doesn't know I'm there, and my dad left a long time ago"
"Well then what about your friends, like the one you were watching the Cirque with"
Steve sighed "Yeah I guess I'd miss Darren, but that doesn't change my mind. I want to join you"
"You have thought this through?"
Steve nodded
Mr. Crepsley took a deep breath "Come here," he said. "I will have to test you first."
Steve stood beside Mr. Crepsley. His body blocked my view of the vampire, so I couldn't see what happened next. All I know is, they spoke in low voices and all of a sudden Crepsley spit something out and said Steve was evil. I gasped and stepped back on to a creaky board. I ran off just before Steve looked up. I ran away. I left Steve behind and ran for my life.