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"She wants to drink your blood?"

"Pretty much."

"Well that sucks..."

"Literally," Ethan said closing his locker. Benny stood at his side offering his best sympathetic look not knowing what else to do, not after going over every possible option he could think of. "I wonder why she wants it all of a sudden?"

The spell caster shrugged, "Any blood spillage as of late, like accidental paper cuts or anything?"

"No."

"Nose bleeds?"

Ethan shook his head, "None. I've managed to keep my blood in my veins since the blood drive."

"Dude, what if Sarah still has the cotton swab?" Benny exasperated, hands flying as if that was the answer to everything. "That could be what's driving her crazy."

"Okay one, that'd be creepy -"

"Hello vampire. It's not creepy when you're a blood thirsty demon."

"Point taken." Ethan said stopping in front of his classroom door, "but Sarah wouldn't do that. Plus I threw it away so there would be no temptation on someone else's part."

The sight of Erica rounding the corner drinking from her travel mug emphasized Ethan's point. If there was one person to hover over Ethan's cotton swab it'd be her. Heck if she knew about his special blood at all she'd never leave him alone.

"So what are you going to do? Let the girl of your dreams starve for the rest of her life or offer up the good stuff?" Benny asked, pinching Ethan's arm as he did so.

"Ow," Ethan swatted his friend's hand away. "That hurt."

Benny shrugged taking his seat as the bell rang. Ethan placed his book on the desk allowing his mind into over drive. He had to admit Benny had a point, what was he going to do? - he sighed softly when he realized he didn't have a clue. His need to help Sarah was pretty high on his to do list but to become undead in the process? There was no way he could come to this decision on his own but who could he really go to? Certainly not his parents. They'd freak knowing their trusted babysitter was a creature of the night.

Benny was no help.

Erica was not an option.

Rory distracted too easily to ever hold a real conversation.

And Sarah was avoiding him like the plague. She hadn't even come to school.

But maybe...? "Hey is your grandma busy tonight?"

"Come on dude she's old." Benny smirked, turning to a clean page in his notebook. "The old don't do much."

Ethan resisted the urge to laugh knowing Benny would never say such things within a five mile radius from the elder earth priestess. "Yeah well after school we need to talk to her."

"We?" Benny's shoulders sagged as he huffed. "Come on dude I just got the new Gods of War, I thought we were going to break that puppy in after school and now you want to hang with grandma!"

"Benny," Ethan sighed, "we're still going to play but I think helping Sarah out ranks taking down demi gods virtually."

"Says you."

"Just be ready as soon as school lets out." Ethan said turning to face the front as the teacher finished writing the day's lesson out on the board. "Ok?"

"But the cheerleaders practice outside today..."

"Benny please."

"But- but ..." Benny stuttered, "Do you know what it means when the cheerleaders practice outside? They wear those cute little shorts and ... and-"

"Benny!"

"Fine", the taller boy whined, "but you sooo owe me."

Neither boy could believe what they were hearing but Benny's grandmother showed no signs of joking. "I saw this coming but didn't know it would happen so soon. I gave it a couple of years until your pheromones skyrocketed but I guess it happened earlier than I assumed."

"So...?"

"I think the real question here is," Benny interjected, pointing out the obvious, "why didn't you tell us?"

"I didn't think I would have to. Call me old-fashioned but I thought Ethan would get there on his own."

Ethan could feel the blood rush to his cheeks. This was awkward! "Dude," Benny swatted his best friend's arm excitedly. "Do you know what this means?"

"But...?"

This bombshell of news was so not in Ethan's criteria today. All he thought he had to worry about was thinking of a cure for Sarah and getting through school without being shoved in someone's locker but Grandma Weir completely turned that theory on its head. "But..." Ethan said again stopping short of himself when a little voice in the back of his mind told him it made absolute sense. The way Sarah craved just him and no one else. The crazy attraction or what Benny would call the border line obsession Ethan's had with Sarah at first sight.

The protective instinct.

The territorial possession.

The flirting.

Everything

"I - I...?" Ethan continued to sputter.

"Don't worry about it sweetie." Grandma patted his cheek lightly. "I think it's cute, romantic even. It's not every day that you learn of two lovers destined for each other."

to be continued ... :)