Chapter 3

"Finally!" Surprised at the voice I glanced up not to show fear. Instead it was Kyle.

I rolled my eyes and put my hands in the air, like asking why. "What the hell are you doing here?" I demanded it from him with a stomp of my last step toward him.

"Do you think I'm so stupid that I think you wouldn't change the time! I've been here since 4:30."

"You're insane. Why do you want to hang around people who don't want you?"

"Because, I want the people who don't want me." A grin smeared over his face. "And I really want you."

"Never going to happen I'm sorry to tell you." I was really sorry for him. He had devoted himself to making me like him since the 7th grade. At once we were actually friends, 1st grade to 8th. I didn't take well to him hugging me and grabbing at me. Everyone else knew that, and they protected me when they could. The thing I hated most about Kyle was, no matter how many times my old boyfriends and best friends beat him up, he won't stop. Not even my own harsh words could do that.

"That's not fair. You won't even give me a chance! Maybe you could give me one day or date to try. I know you very well Dru, I won't let you go with out having one chance to know that I am wrong."

"Cant you just trust me! I know you and me don't fit that way! We're good friends, but together it's just not going to work!" My arms were flailing in the air. Why didn't he get it. Why wouldn't he go away! I didn't even want him for a friend if he couldn't understand. I did not love him and never would. I thought about it before, giving him a chance. I didn't work in books and it only worked once in a movie. Those were fiction anyway. "Trust me Kyle, it's a lost cause."

Suddenly everyone was around me, at my back making a half circle around me. And suddenly the bus pulled up. I turned away, with out looking over my shoulder I said, "Good bye Kyle." I took the first step on to the bus. I really did hope that would do it. It worked, Kyle didn't get on the bus. The bus ride was silent. At the mall I wasn't completely myself. When we got back I knew it worked because Kyle wasn't still at the bus stop.

I leaped and before I could pull my stake out the slightly attractive male vampire it dusted. My hand fell through the dusty air where his body once was. It through me off balance and I almost fell into the lake. "Ahhh!"

"Holy crap, Dru!" Dave grabbed my shirt in-between my shoulder blades, grabbing my bra strap too. The force he used to yank me back knocked the wind out of me. When he got a good grasp he grabbed my shoulder and I gasped for air.

I sat on a rock to catch my breath "Thanks big bro." I nodded at Dave with the first clear breath.

"Well what did you expect from your big brother." It was more of a statement then a question. I laughed and tried to stand. It didn't really work all that well. Dave was there though to sit me back down. I loved my big brother! I didn't have any siblings because my parents were actually "sent" to me they were kind of like my "watchers." The counsel was actually like a little government that sent out mentors from when you're born but there's also all these other people looking after you too. Like my gym teacher and the librarian (who's a girl not like stupid Giles in Buffy, she even makes me call her Mrs.) There are people every where to lend me a hand. Anyway because I had adopted parents I didn't have any siblings and Dave was happy to fill the place.

"Are you good?" Dave asked with some concern in his voice.

"Yeah, just help me stand up and I'll walk it off. It's just the lakes smell, it's over whelming." It wasn't really a truthful story. The lake did stink like crazy, but it wasn't what was keeping me from staying up right, that was more of the wind just had been knocked out of me. I looked up to see if Dave had his hand ready for me, and to see if he bought my story. He caught my guilty look rolled his eyes, then got up and grabbed my hand.

My knees wanted to buckle but I wouldn't let them. I ended up leaning strangely to keep my knees locked. "Do you think you want to sit down now."

"I told you I'm fine."

"Make some room. She's walking here!" Jack shouted with a smile.

"Shut up. Let's go." I ordered and started "walking" it was actually more like a tin man kind of strut.

When I got home Beth and John were there. They were waiting it seemed with impatient looks on there faces.

"Hey guys. What's wrong?"

John approached me first. "Listen Dru, the school called today."

Awe struck my face. It was only partially the looks on their faces that gave it away the other half was the feeling under my skin in my face. It was like I was sweating under the skin. I knew my face most have been red as I flipped through all the reasons. I knew it wasn't grades, but could it be my tiredness in class it was like I had been working double lately maybe my teacher noticed. Then it hit me, "Amy" When the looked up at me it hit me I had said it out loud.

"Was it about me accidentally stacking a vamp. In front of Amy Grey?" They looked surprised at me I couldn't tell if it was that I had known or if it was that I made a mistake.

John Shook his head in disappointment. "Dru, Amy was spacing out during class so the teacher sent her to the guidance counselor. She looked pale I guess. But she told the counselor she had been drinking passed out and had a dream about you killing a, monster, with a wooden stake?" And she also said she wasn't completely sure it was a dream. The counselor went to check it out to ease her mind while checking your grades, to show how hard you were working. Instead he found you were sleeping in class."

"Oh my god. I…I can't believe it. Dave made her pass out. We told her dad she was drinking and passed out. We thought we were in the clear. Holy Crap!" After that I collapsed, I huddled into a ball and grabbed my knees like I was cold. "wha…What's," I swallowed hard trying to regain my speech. "What's going to happen?"

"We're not sure yet."

"I don't want to leave. I mean there has to be a way, a spell. I can't leave!" I couldn't remember anything not my name, not anything. All I could see was a girl driving a wooden stack through a vampires heart while another girl watched in horror. I knew both girls but I couldn't tell who they were. Then just as fast as it all left me it all came rushing back I was the girl with the stake and Amy was the one watching. My hands were on my head and I was on my knees. I had laced my hands though my hair and pulled and screamed out of frustration.

"I don't think any thing bad will happen just do your best to get in earlier so your school work is better."

I shook my head to tell them the impossibility, "I can't it's like all the monsters are coming out more often. It's really annoying. It's like they're looking for me!"

"Well," Beth was talking now and looking for the right answer it seemed. "You have the best record in the slayer history. In, what six months now, you haven't let one monster get away."

"No way!" I breathed it in disbelief. "So now what, more of them just want to just kill me."

"Yeah," John continued "They want to be the best. The word is spreading quickly now. The best will come eventually and if you kill them then more and more will come because they'll bring witnesses that hide to tell the story and everyone wants to be the best. The only way out is if you kill the very best who feel too good to look for you. You find that being, and kill them. That way everyone is scared of you."

My hands were sweaty I was scared to know I had to kill the best. The weight was on my shoulders. "How the hell am I supposed to do that and not look suspicious in school?" my voice was getting higher and faster.

"Well calm down. You have a school break coming up in a week so we can go then. I know you only have six months but we can do this I promise."

"WE?! WE can do this! I'm sorry John but you're not the one all the monsters want to kill here! My life is on the line here and I don't want to gamble with it!" the anger overwhelmed me and became better than any drug.

John started again but Beth watching me clench my teeth and fist together cut him off. "Listen Dru, WE" she gestured at her and John. "Can help YOU" then she pointed at me. "Fight the monsters that are after you. Okay you need to remember that this is a team."

"I'm sorry but it just seems that Criss, Dave, Max, and Jack help a lot more than you and they are NOT, going to kill this guy with me. I won't let them get hurt even if I have to die for them not to suffer a scratch, it will happen."

"Like I said before, calm down. As if we would let you bring your friends with you to a massive slaughter. We can't put any of them in danger. I mean you taking them out patrolling with you is even against the rules." John said that like he was trying to comfort me.

"What, this is a massive, slaughter!?!?! Why the hell would I go! I'm not doing it!" at that moment I ran to my room and read myself to sleep.