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The lifeless rodent lay in her hands as she drained the last drop from its' body. Even as the thick copper taste slid down her throat her stomach still growled something fierce.
What was she going to do?
Leaning back on the old dumpster in the back of a fast food restaurant, Sarah sighed. If Benny's grandmothers' solution were not working or her feeding ... Then was it only a matter of time before she had no other choice but to kill?
That or starve.
The thought of Ethan and the pulsing vein in his neck suddenly appeared and the young fledgling shook her head ridding the thought from her mind. Something she found herself doing more often.
Wiping her mouth she stood up discarding the rat into the dumpster. Wondering, once again how this all started.
Two months ago
"Then I fell but hey it was sooo worth it!" Benny finished with a smirk.
"You're a perv, you do know that right." Sarah more so stated than asked. It was a rare occasion that she and Benny hung out alone but with a new semester came new schedules. Its just happened that the two shared second period study hall.
"Hey, I'm a hormonal fifteen year old boy. What else do you want from me?"
"For you not to climb a tree and watch a girl as she's changing. Do you know how much trouble you could've gotten in?" The fledgling rolled her eyes at the spell caster as he simply shrugged before turning back to her notebook, lazily doodling stick figures.
"It wasn't like that first off. I didn't know she'd be in her room. I didn't even know anyone was home in the first place. I was just trying to get my pants back." Sarah shook her head afraid to ask the next practical question. "And before you ask there is a good reason why they were off. I was looking through my spell book when I came across a transfer incantation. I was trying to transfer myself to the tree but somehow -"
"Your pants ended up the tree."
"Yep." A red tint slipped its way on the younger boys face. "It was a good thing I was wearing my good underwear that day. I don't even want to think about what would've happened if I were wearing my-"
"Fancy nerd boxers?"
"NO! And Battlestar Galactica is not nerdy. It's entertaining to the mind."
"Whatever you say." Sarah found herself rolling her eyes again just in time for the bell. Benny trailed at her heels as room 145 spread out into the hall with the rest of Whitechapel High.
"Ah man." Benny groaned looking down at a yellow slip of paper. "I've got Drama II next."
"What's so bad about that? You nerds like that live action role play stuff, dramas just like that. What's the big deal?"
Before Benny could respond a smell hit Sarah's nose prompting her eyes to flash from chocolate brown to neon green in an instant. Her human side recoiled at the odor but the undead side of her relished in it. She followed her nose, her eyes scanning the halls in every direction seeking root of the intoxicating smell. She was on the edge of salivating as it got closer.
"Hey there's Ethan." Benny pointed into a growing crowd of students, unaware of the sudden change in Sarah's behavior and there pushing his way through the mass was Ethan, his usually floppy brown hair lay against his forehead his pale skin tinted a light pink as tiny beads of sweat rolled from his forehead. The smell grew stronger with every step he took attacking Sarah's every sense until she could feel it surrounding her.
Was that Ethan?
Her chest heaved as their friend finally stopped in front of them, "What's up guys?" Ethan greeted Sarah with a big smile as always before facing Benny.
"Dude you smell like old socks." Benny coughed, bringing a hand to his nose.
The seer cringed lifting his arm to take a quick whiff, shaking his head quickly to clear his nose of the insulting smell. "Didn't know it was that bad."
"What happened?" Benny asked pinching his nose harder.
"That new gym teacher, Coach Willis, had us run the whole gym period. And if that wasn't bad enough the boys showers are broken so there's like twenty-five guys walking around smelling like me, worse than me really."
Benny fanned the air in front of him, "I seriously doubt that dude you smell pretty rank."
"Thanks a lot," Ethan said sarcastically. "That makes me feel so much better." He gazed over to Sarah noticing her chest rising and falling faster than usual. She looked almost ready to attack. "Um Sarah are you okay?"
"Fine!" She yelled stirring both boys to take huge steps back. She apologized after noticing their startled expressions. She felt light-headed when he started to move closer, "I have to go."
"Ok but are you sure you're okay? Do you want me to walk you to the nurses office?" Trust Ethan to worry.
"No!" she apologized again at the uneasy look on his face. "I mean I'm fine – It's just the bell is about to ring and I don't want to be late for class y'know?" She threw the last part over her shoulder as she started down the hall.
She thought the smell would go away but it didn't. It was always there as if her nose kept a personal memory bank of his scent permanently etched to her being.
The smell only encouraged her to notice more. Like the slow and steady way he breathed. The faint outline of the veins in his hands, arms and neck. The steady beat of his heart.
No big deal, she thought at first considering what she was, but when the constant thud of his heart and smell of him roared louder and she couldn't sense anyone else's, she grew worried. Really worried.
Sarah groaned. She had to stop thinking about that day it only crested her growing hunger which inspired her anger. Anger at herself for her lack of control. Something she could feel slipping away each day.
to be continued ... :)
