Chapter 2
Dani was lying on her bed, gazing into a daydream when she heard the yelling. At first, she thought that her brother Jason was just messing around...until she heard the crackling and creaking of wood as it burnt. Leaping up, knowing that their parents were out, she rushed to Jason's room. She almost touched the metal door handle, before common sense forced her hand back. She ripped off her jumper and wrapped it around her hand, and then she quickly turned the handle.
Instead of the normal smell of Lynx and the sight of Jason's irritated face greeting her, smoke rushed into the back of her throat and flames lashed out at her. Ogod ogod ogod, she thought, jumping back.
"JASON!" She yelled, but couldn't see anything through the flames.
"DANI! GET SIENN-" Jason's screams turned into coughs as he yelled out at her from somewhere in the room. Fumbling, Dani pulled out her phone and dialled Sienna's number. The conversation didn't last long. Within minutes Sienna was next to Dani, her dark eyes darting around, looking for a way in.
"Call Brad and Van Dyke...Belle too." She said, handing Dani her phone, "Quickly." She added and disappeared down the stairs.
A strange occurrence gripped Dani at that moment. Breathe. Her eyes flipped out of focus. Breathe. Her ears heard only her brother's anguished cries. Breathe. She swayed back and forth. Breathe. Breathe.
BREATHE!
Her eyes snapped back into focus as fingers scrolled through the phone.
"Someone needs to call his parents." Belle whispered coarsely through the tense silence of the hospital waiting room.
"Didn't Dani call them already?" Brad answered after a few moments.
"No, Brad, she obviously has not seeing as they would be here, huh? Me and Van Dyke getting here before two freaked parents? I think not. And hmmmm, I wonder why she wouldn't have called them yet." Belle shook her head in disgust and walked out, no one stopping her. Brad didn't even bother to get annoyed at Belle's out of character outburst. None of them wanted a fight.
"I'll call them now." Adam said quietly. He cleared his throat and pulled out his phone. He stared at it for a moment then laughed harshly and put it to his ear.
"Hi Mrs Freeman. How're you? Yeah? Well, no...no everything here is kinda crap right now Mrs F," Adam ran a hand over his face a sighed, "See, there was this fire..."
Jason liked this place. Wherever it was. It was carefree, open and light. No risks, no fuss and not a deranged vampire in sight. The only annoying thing was two dark figures in the far distance, but Jason didn't let two anonymous people wreck his high. He looked over his shoulder and saw the most beautiful girl, his girl. Can you believe it? No! Jason laughed, How the heck did you manage that, man? She turned and beamed at him, walking over. He opened his arms for a hug and swept her up, spinning around. She laughed and kissed him sweetly, smiling.
"Tell you what, Freeman." She whispered, "You better hang around, because I don't know what I'd do without you."
"I do. Hang around in sweats for weeks, longing for my bear hugs and classic one liners. That's what, lil' darlin'." He grinned, winking at her. She punched him lightly on the arm and blew a kiss before sprinting away across the place. She turned and looked at him.
"Are you coming?" She called.
"Oh, yeah," he said, jogging after her. "Wherever you're going, Sienna Devereux, I'm going too."
Sienna Devereux wasn't having the best of days. That morning, her parents had flipped out about dating and how it was getting in the way of school work, which was stupid because Sienna didn't have any work. Just an excuse to liven up their day with an argument, she thought when she stormed out and went to Belle's early. Unfortunately for her, Belle was at horse riding. Since when had Belle done horse riding? So, alone, she went for a long, depressing walk along the beach. She thought about ringing Jason, but they were seeing each other later anyway. So she thought about lots of random things, but mostly about how she would love to go on a road trip. Get away a bit, you know.
Then came the good part of the day. She finally met up with Belle and got some lunch and bought a couple of new bikinis, then popped over to Jason's. Adam was there, and they all decided to go to the beach. It was another brilliant afternoon and really cheered her up, and the dinner was lovely. Great company.
Then came the disastrous part of the day. She got the call from Dani when she was about to get into her pool for a swim. She'd never moved so fast in her life, and when she got there she couldn't believe her eyes. It didn't take her long to realise the best way to get him out was through the window, and so that's what she did with the help of Brad, Van Dyke and Belle. They used the ladder that was still left out from that morning and managed to get a very damaged Jason out. Van Dyke and Belle stayed to put out the inferno.
Sienna still felt physically ill remembering this, and looked across Jason's hardly recognisable face. Her poor Jason. His hair, his eyes, his smile. Changed forever. Hospital machines beeped in the background along with Dani's steady and quiet crying. It was too much. Trying to remain composed, Sienna stood and kissed Jason lightly on the forehead.
"W-where a-are you g-g-going Sienna?" Dani sounded so scared Sienna felt even worse.
"I can't stay here. I need to help, do something. I doubt this started by accident, so I'm going to go and get something...anything done." Sienna didn't want to leave Jason, but she was no help here. Besides, if she didn't do anything she would just think about Jason, and that was unbearable.
With her head held high, Sienna Devereux left her scarred boyfriend in search for justice, and boy, did she get it.
N.B Hello again, so here's another one...hope you like it and thanks for the reviews! Made my day when I read each of them, thank you! I know it might not seem like a big deal, but it's the first impartial feedback I've had so thank you! Also the little reference above is a direct quote from the last book, so I don't own it. Nor do I own the characters.