Car Drive
We bought a car from Seattle, it was a minivan, but at least we all had our own seats. Summer was driving she was the only one who had a license, Samantha was reading the map, she was after me the most coordinated person in this car.
"Oh fuck! I forgot my comb home, now I only have hair brush with me." Jennifer yelled out of nowhere. That interrupted my train of thought. And I guess Susan wasn't happy with her either.
"It's just a fucking comb! You can buy a new one from a store." Susan screamed back. Jennifer interrupted her from reading a book, I guess.
"Just stop it please? I'm trying to find the treaty line in here and I have concentrate." Wanda said, she had the hardest job. She would be trying to pin point where the treaty line were, just so that we could see where it went.
"So how long does it take to drive to Forks, now?" Hilary asked.
"Well if I'm reading this right then it should only two hours at most." Samantha quipped from the front seat. "We should go there to eat, I think we all need more energy after those flights."
Everybody nodded, nobody didn't really want to talk… Well about anything. It was comfortable silence but I could feel something looming in the air something dark. It was the same kind of feeling I got when we were going to Volterra. It always came. I know it was somehow stupid how always when we were going to go there, someone got this weird feeling that we shouldn't go or someone got sick. It was like someone was telling us not to go. So we never really visited Volterra, the place where legends said that vampires lived in there in the past.
Maybe we shouldn't go to Forks either, or maybe I was just paranoid and should just be lucky that I am here now. I was rid away from thoughts with jerk of my sleeve.
"What?" I asked. It was Hilary, she had this wary expression.
"Can you feel it? Like something bad will happen? " She said, "Well not bad maybe but something big, you know?"
"I know I have the same feeling in my guts. Telling me to turn around and never come back." I answered.
"Will you stop it with your feelings there isn't going to happen anything." Susan yelled from front of me.
"Yeah, just tell us how you can stop feeling and everything are going to be great." Wanda laughed. That closed her mouth. The rest of the drive we were quiet, the only thing you could here was Jennifer's light snoring and Wanda's quiet sleep talking.
The feeling didn't leave my body, but I tried to ignore it and push it to the back of my mind. A movement caught my eye, Samantha was turning the radio on. It was only 9 AM on the morning. We should be in Forks in half an hour. The weather was rainy and the scene was pretty much green, not the sunny and brownish Italy. It looked like there would be thunderstorm coming.
Jennifer was sad, she liked sun. Her hair went curly in the rain. Susan was reading her book. Wanda was sleeping and Hilary was looking through legends on here laptop. I just looked out of the window, the feeling got louder and louder every minute, warning me to turn around and run.
I looked Hilary she was concentrating on some legend. "What are you reading?"
"Well I'm trying see what would be the most oblivious things what vampires have, then I'm trying to find more things about werewolf's." Hilary answered, "I'm only coming up that vampires should be pretty fast, strong and pale, they are the only things that are mostly in every legend."
"So what you're saying is that we should look for pale people who are fast and strong at the same time?"
"That pretty much sums it up."
Well that should be interesting, looking at the fact that we are all pale. I looked out of the window and saw Welcome to Forks sign.
"We're in Forks and we're stopping at the diner to eat." Summer told us. It was funny how the warning bells in my head was still ringing, but I couldn't give a shit about it.
"You should wake up Wanda," I told to Hilary. She looked at me and back to Wanda who had drool on her face, and who was snoring a little. She looked so sleepy and peaceful.
"Rise and shine Wanda! Rise and shine." Hilary laughed and shook Wanda. Wanda opened her eyes and looked somehow disoriented.
"What now?" Wanda murmured, looking around.
"We're in Forks and we are going to go eat and after that who knows." I said. I could see that, there wasn't many people living in Forks, there wasn't lot of houses in here.
Summer parked the car to the parking lot of the diner. Everybody got out of the car and stretched. The diner was a small place and there weren't many people in there, it was after all only ten in the morning.
We walked inside and went to sit on the corner of the room where was enough space to sit us all. We looked through the menu and when the waitress came.
"What can I get to you?" She asked.
"We would like 3 chicken salads, one house salad, and 2 hamburgers and 7 cokes, please." I said.
"They come soon." The waitress said and left.
"So, you're sure you don't want to eat anything Hilary? I don't know when we are stopping next time to eat." Samantha worried.
"Yes, I'm sure. It's like I'm going to puke if I eat anything." Hilary smiled.
"It's great to be somewhere else than Italy. I just hope nothing would happen in this trip. I wouldn't like to end up in a hospital." Jennifer laughed. We all smiled to that.
"We wouldn't want that now would we?" I said, "But we should decide where we go next and when were going to drive back to Seattle to our hotel."
"Well I think first we should go to the forest and look around in there, then we should check the whole town. Maybe come to eat here again and leave then?" Wanda suggested.
"I think it's great idea, the forest looks so lovely in here." Summer grinned. The waitress brought our meals to us.
"Yes. I think that tomorrow we should head to Nevada, but we could go through California so we can shop there too." Susan said.
"That's the deal then. So let's eat so we can go check the forest and the treaty line!" Wanda said.
We ate in silence, I think it was easier to eat fast when you didn't speak. I was eating my salad and watching the forest and the cars that drove pass us. I couldn't really put my thoughts together, somewhere I was excited for to be here and maybe see some creatures, on the other hand I was scared, the warning bells in my head was still ringing and more louder now. I didn't know which part to listen anymore so I lived with the fact that I was happy to be here.
I, Wanda and Hilary were ready before the others so we got to the car to take some thighs and maps with us, locked the place and waited for the other four to come with us. We were standing next to the forest enjoying the nature, when the others came.
"Let's go then." Susan said annoyed.
We walked to the forest the seven of us together. Everybody was watching around herself. It was beautiful in here. We were going to find a lake where we would turn to left and walk to that way and we should find the treaty line.
We had walked for an hour and were really far away from the town already. Everyone had picked flowers on the way. I was walking with Hilary on the front, we were the fastest hikers.
"You know there is a house near the lake, should we check that place?" Wanda said somewhere behind us.
"I don't think it would be wise, someone lives there, you know?"
"Did you see that!?" Samantha screamed out of nowhere. I looked to the place where Samantha were pointing, I didn't see anything.
"There isn't nothing in there." Hilary said, but there was doubt in her voice. We started to walk faster either way. But then I heard something, it was like someone had stepped on a stick that snapped then. I looked at Hilary who too had an alarmed look in her face. We looked behind us and saw them. There was three of them and they had knifes. They attacked Susan, Summer and Jennifer first, I didn't know what to do so I went to protect them, I could see that Hilary, Wanda and Samantha had the same idea as I.
It was big fight and I was stabbed with knifes more than five times and so were everybody else. The men's took our bags with money and car keys and left running away. I checked that everybody were okay, even when it hurt like hell. They weren't okay, everybody had cuts that were bleeding blood. Summer were lying on the forest floor, I went to check her and saw that she had a wound in her stomach and her breathing was weak.
"We have to run to the house maybe there is someone that can help us." I yelled to the others and tied some of my cuts with my sleeves and did the same to Summer.
"How can you expect us to run in this shape?" Susan said back.
"Well if we don't run and try to save our lives then we will die," Hilary shouted through her breaths, "Can you carry Summer?"
"I think so. But I can't the whole way." I tried to say but it came through like someone was trying to strangle me.
Hilary and Samantha rose first but they had to lean on a tree, you could see from the tears in they eyes that it hurt like hell. They had cuts on they arms mostly somewhere on their sides. I picked Summer up, the pain was too much, and the only thing that could take it away was to think that I had to help my friend.
One by one we started run through the forest for the forest. It was a long shot but I knew we would make it. The pain grew in every step I took and I knew that everybody else were in pain too. I had tears in my eyes but I didn't scream. We had to make it, we were too young to die, I just had to believe in us.
I could see the white house already between the trees. Susan was running next to me tears in her eyes too, she was slowing down and then she fell, Jennifer who was behind her stumbled over her and the only sound that left her was her cry for pain and then the sound stopped. Shit! We needed help!
I dropped Summer, and ran faster, we needed help fast. I saw when Samantha fell down too it was only me, Wanda and Hilary anymore. There was only 20 meters anymore and then we could get help. Hopefully someone lived there.
Hilary started to stumble and she puked blood all over the forest floor and fainted. Oh fuck! This can't be happening. I could feel my own consciousness slipping away and it wasn't far after Hilary when Wanda fainted too. Oh shit fuck fucker! The pain was already too much for me but I kept running. I came through the trees, to the back yard of the house and then I tripped. The last word that left my mouth was my scream for help. And everything went black.