~ Chapter II ~


As Charley sat across from Amy and Ed in the cafeteria of Cushing High School, Charley was barely listening to what Amy and Ed were saying, his mind was roaming through numerous thoughts, thoughts and feelings.

"Charley?" Amy said. "Did you hear what I said?"

Charley looked up at Amy and shook his head, trying to clear the present thoughts from his mind.

"No what?" Charley asked.

Amy glanced over at Ed and both Ed and Amy gave resembling looks, looks of worry.

"I said, what's going to happen now?" Amy asked. "Are you really going to have Jerry as your guardian?"

"NO." Charley snapped. "I wouldn't even have him as my damn - house sitter."

"Well what about Peter?" Ed asked.

"He lives in California now." Charley said. "So he can't. Amy, Ed, you both sure your parents wouldn't -"

"Nope, not my dad." Ed said with a laugh. "He's so mean, I'm surprised he still lets me live there."

"Amy?" Charley asked with pleading eyes.

"Oh Charley," Amy said with a sympathetic stare. "You know I love you but with us dating, my parents would never let you stay in the same house with me. I mean you know how my father is already."

Charley sighed with anger.

"Damn it," Charley whispered. "What am I going to do? CPS called this morning and left a message on the machine saying that they would be over Jerry's house tonight to do a home visit since he told that officer he was my guardian -"

"So then why don't you just let him be your guardian Brewster?" Ed asked.

"What?!" Charley snapped. "Are you nuts Evil? I mean have you forgotten that he's a vampire? A disgusting, blood sucking monster -"

"Yeah but he also the only choice you have right now Charley." Amy replied. "Besides it's only for the rest of this year. You turn eighteen two days before graduation and when you do, you'll be an adult and can go on your own then."

"NO," Charley retorted. "Absolutely not -"

"Then what are you going to do Charley?" Amy asked. "Huh? How are you going to deal with this? How are you going to handle CPS coming tonight?"

Charley sat back and sighed with a troubled frown. He had no idea how he would handle it. He didn't know what he was going to do, he was conflicted, and the bad part of it all was the fact that he only had a short amount of hours to figure out what he was going to do - before the arrival of CPS.


~ End Of Chapter II ~

Up Next: Chapter III