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Previously
"You just don't get it! You don't get any of it!" Ethan then roars suddenly, taking both the vampire and himself by surprise as he thrusts himself out of his chair, and almost simultaneously hurls the seat to the left side of his room, with a strength even he didn't know he possessed.
"You never will get it..." he bites out in a slightly more calming manner, hating and cursing the tears now cascading pathetically down his cheeks.
"I'm trying to get it, Ethan!" Sarah yells out in despair, but the words only make the seer lose it more.
"I'm outta here." he grumbles out coldly, ignoring the girl's previous words, and the tears he now sees pooling in her own eyes, as he grabs a hoody from his closet and storms out of his room.
"What does that mean?" the vampire asks from behind him, hot on his trail.
"What do you think?" the seer coldly asserts, speeding his antics as he swiftly downs the stairs of his home, furiously wiping away his tears as he does so.
"Ethan!" Sarah exclaims louder this time, with an authority, she's never before used with the teen, in her voice. "You're not leaving this house!" she fiercely informs, ramming the boy into a nearby wall once downstairs.
But Ethan merely grits his teeth and forges the pointer fingers of both his hands into a cross.
"Watch me!" he equally as fiercely asserts when Sarah hisses and backs away suddenly, wringing her hands slightly, and watching helplessly as he swiftly backs further into the front room and away from her.
"Ethan, you better not take one step out -
The vampire attempts, just as the front door of the house slams loudly.
...E.S...E-Sare...E.S...
Falling Apart and Falling Together – Chapter 4
"Urgh! I've never met anyone so infuriating in my life!"
Sarah groans and exclaims dangerously loud, eyes momentarily flashing their fierce yellow-green, as she forces her fingers through her long, wavy hair, and growls slightly.
Her heart races wildly and her mind goes a mile a minute as she glares in distraught at the previously slammed door before her.
"What is going on? What the heck is wrong with him? Why is he so mad at me? What am I gonna do?"
The vampire whispers silently to herself, swiftly asking question after question as she closes her eyes and runs her fingers through her hair once more.
She listens to the blood pumping through her veins, and the heart hammering within her chest, and she attempts to calm herself, because she feels like eating something. She feels like biting painfully into something and eating it. She's so angry she swears her skin is heating up.
So she keeps her eyes closed, and inhales deep, reposing breaths, before finally calming within a couple of minutes, and nodding decisively to herself as she hastily fumbles in her pockets for her phone and car keys.
"What happened?"
Sarah freezes her actions at the sound of the little voice, and sighs helplessly before running a hand over her face.
It was too much to hope the small girl had slept through the loud quarrel...but the vampire doesn't have time for this! And she doesn't even want to think about the intense altercation herself, much less divulge it to an eight year old!
So she swiftly turns away from the door and makes her way towards the stairs of the house, bending to kneel in front of the little witch perched on the bottom step, and fix her with a small, not necessarily happy or sad, comforting smile.
"Jane, sweetie, I'm gonna call grandma over to watch you, so I can find and strangle your brother, okay?" she fleetingly rushes out, avoiding the small girl's questioning gaze as she finally retrieves her phone.
"Oh no you won't." a gentle, yet authoritative voice, suddenly speaks out and has Sarah's heart nearly exploding out of her chest, as she swivels around to find the aforementioned older lady already standing in the house, at the archway where the front room meets the kitchen.
"What the -
"As much as I'm sure Jane would love that, you're going to stay right here." the earth priestess interrupts the vampire's question as she makes her way further into the front room and toward the slack jawed girls.
"Is he at your place?" the sandy haired supernatural finds herself sputtering sporadically, as her brown eyes bore desperately into the grandmother, who shakes her head solemnly in reply.
"No he's not." the older lady sighs, before swiftly continuing and stopping the wound up vampire from speaking. "It's best to just let Ethan cool off though, sweetie. And right now your presence won't do that for him." she starts off loudly to avoid interruptions, before calming her voice to a more sympathetic one.
And Sarah sighs in defeat before hanging her head down in thought, and allowing the wise woman's words to sink in and take meaning with her.
"I've never seen him so angry..."
"He's never had anything to get so angry about until now." the elder spell-caster echoes the vampire's soft musings, causing the younger girl's eyes to widen and shoot up suddenly to meet hers.
"How do you know?" she questions in bewilderment, wheels swiftly turning in her head, nearly as fast as her heart is beating.
"Wait! Do you know what this is all about?" she exclaims before almost instantly rolling her eyes and backtracking "Who am I kidding, of course you know what this is about! You know everything!"
"Not everything, but quite a lot of things." the gray-haired woman smiles slightly bemusedly, eyes twinkling in that special, secretive way only aged adults know how to pull off.
"Now, you just put Jane back to bed, and wait around for her parents to get back. Then you can leave -
"But grandma!" the vampire finds herself almost immediately protesting without thought. "There are all sorts of creatures lurking about out there, and...what if...what if Ethan runs into one of them..."
Sarah rakes her fingers through her hair, bites furiously into her bottom lip, and tries to figure out, for the life of her, why the elderly woman is suddenly smiling thoughtfully at her.
"Worried about him, even though you're angry with him...how sweet." she says gently, before sighing suddenly and fixing the younger supernatural with a firm gaze. "But as sweet as it is, it's a little in vain, my dear, because Ethan is not some poor, defenseless boy! He's a powerful, growing, adolescent seer...and the quicker you realize that, the better." she says with finality before turning on her heels and moving the short distance to the front door.
"He has more powers than you know." she suddenly speaks out once more, turning around and pointedly locking eyes with Sarah once at the door. "He can take care of himself...And he'll come home when he's ready, so don't worry."
Sarah swallows deeply, strategically ignoring the clenching of her heart, despite the older woman's words, as she nods her head solemnly and sighs softly.
"Goodnight ladies."
"Goodnight grandma."the younger supernaturals echo the gray haired woman, who then opens the front door only to be halted suddenly by a running Jane.
"But, wait! Wait! Wait a minute!" the small girl assaults the elder spell-caster with wide, angelic eyes full of question. "How did you even know to come over?"
"I thought you called her because of all of the ruckus..." a bewildered Sarah inputs, only to have Jane shake her head wholeheartedly.
"I didn't call her!" the little girl defends, before both girls look up to stare confusedly at the Earth priestess.
"That's for me to know and for you to...well you know." the lady merely smiles mysteriously in reply before exiting the house.
Meanwhile...a few miles into the back roads of White Chapel, Ethan wanders the deserted streets, kicking aimlessly at a rock on the dark pavement, and counting the many times his foot impacts the small stone as he walks.
Anything to keep his mind off of the truth of his reality.
Anything to momentarily distract him from the fact that he's losing it, and everything is falling apart around him, and caving in and collapsing on top of him.
Never, in his entire life, has he felt so utterly lost.
"I'm trying to get it, Ethan!"
The words repeat in the seer's head over and over again, reminding him of the hopelessness of his situation.
She didn't get it! She never would. She'd never get the weight of his affections for her, never know how much he truly loved her.
And even if she did, she'd never love him back...
But he can't ignore her relationship with this other guy, no matter how badly he tries!
Yet speaking up about it isn't getting him anywhere...
And trying to forget about her altogether isn't even worth contemplating, cause he knows he can't, even if he tries.
She's a part of him just as much as his arms and legs.
She consumes his every thought and fills his every dream, and forgetting her would be just as easy as forgetting himself.
Still...he doesn't know what to do.
Everything he does only worsens things between them.
And he'd made her cry tonight...and that's something he'd never wanted to do, no matter how angry he was.
He's lost. Torn. And still more than a little angry with her.
But after about 30 minutes of trudging the mystical down, Ethan makes his way home nonetheless. Because the second to the last thing he wants to do tonight is get Sarah into trouble and fired.
He distractedly kicks his little stone all the way back to his two-story house, counting once more, and allowing himself to temporarily forget his impending dilemma, because he knows he should apologize! But she should apologize too, for being blind and inconsiderate!
He isn't sure he'll be able to make the first attempt at amends when she's so carelessly breaking his heart...
The exhausted seer climbs the tree outside of his bedroom window and silently slips in through the cracked expanse, before settling into his bed and staring blankly up at his ceiling.
Sarah was falling for some other guy. He couldn't stand it! Couldn't take it! And he's still very much angry at her – furious at her!
But he made her cry, and that was unacceptable, so he will swallow his pride and somehow he will make the first amends.
He has to. Because if he doesn't he might lose her. It feels like he's already losing her. He can't do that. He can't.
So he'll apologize.
****E-Sare****
"No Erica. You just started watching X-Men. How are you going to tell me, basically the number 1 member of their fan club?" Ethan sighs out in defeat as an irritated Benny gestures wildly at a haughty Erica, who in turn tells him to shut up.
"Shut up? Really?" the spell-caster sputters indignantly, as Ethan distractedly fingers the pack of gummy worms in his pocket and muses on the rose in his backpack, while attempting to listen to Rory's aimless chess club ramblings.
"Jean Grey is not the leader of the group! I can't believe -
Benny's passionate declaration is suddenly cut short when the sounds of loud tire screeching abruptly invade the student parking lot.
"Whoa...check out that beauty..."
The group of four immediately look up to admire the cause of the sudden ruckus: a beautiful, red, GT Ford, Mustang.
"Give me a Mustang over a Porsche any day." an amazed Rory continues, as Ethan watches, only halfway interested in the hot car as he absentmindedly scans the parking lot for Sarah.
"I've never seen that baby here before. I wonder who drives –
"Sarah?"
Ethan can only manage a bitter eye roll and an incredulous scoff at the sudden sight of the female vampire emerging from the muscle car, as his three companions shout and gawk at her.
"I'm out of here."
The seer shakes his head, and rips his hand out of his pocket, before turning on his heels, only to be halted by an anxious looking Benny.
"Wait, E." the taller boy instructs, with a pleading look in his eyes. "Don't you wanna meet this guy? You know, size up the competition?"
Ethan sighs heavily, and runs a hand through his hair, before meeting his friend's concerned gaze with a relenting one of his own, and turning back around to face the scene before him.
"I don't know if I can do this?"
The seer mumbles, before looking up and having his heart skip a beat as he notices the caramel skinned vampire beauty staring directly at him as she makes her way closer to him and the rest of the group.
And his heart speeds frantically within his chest as he stares back at her, wanting to do so many things at once. Wanting so much to tell her everything, and to hold her in his arms, and make everything right between them.
But at the same time write her off and forget all about her.
How could she bring him here? How can she parade around with him right there in front of him?
Ethan's eyes narrow as they zero in on the possessive arm around Sarah's shoulder, and the teen crosses his arms across his chest, and ignores the sudden ache in his heart and the anger in his belly, as he rips his eyes away from the pair and onto some some chewed up gum on the pavement.
"Hi! You must be Diego!"
"Nice to see you're safe and sound, you nut. Hopefully you can manage to behave older than an eight year old today."
The seer's eyes abruptly shoot up to meet his petite friend's, at her sudden interruption. And he's slightly taken aback to find her glaring fiercely into him.
"For you Sarah? I'll upgrade to age ten so I can be more on your level." he wastes no time in swiftly grumbling out in reply however, as he glares equally as fiercely into the female vampire.
And she glares at him. And he glares at her. And the rest of the group glares at them both in tense, awkward silence that seems to drag on forever until...
"I'm Erica!" the blue eyed vampire attempts once more, smiling much too widely as she holds her hand out in greeting.
"Hi..." the long haired Latino sighs slightly as he awkwardly eyes the still glaring pair before him, and hesitantly shakes the beautiful blonde girl's hand. "I've heard a lot about you...I'm Diego." he smiles a perfect Taylor Launtner smile, that Sarah finally wrenches her eyes away from Ethan's at, and the seer rolls his eyes at.
"He's hardly gush worthy!" the brunette directs to a concerned looking Benny, before rolling his eyes once more and determinedly gritting his teeth as Sarah suddenly grabs onto the Latino's left hand and smiles up at him.
"Sorry about that, babe." the vampire's smile turns into a cute sheepish one, that has Ethan rolling his eyes once more, before growling slightly as an intense wave of possession hits him as Diego smiles back down and squeezes her hand slightly.
"I'm Rory!" the blue eyed vampire suddenly pipes up before swiftly and excitedly shaking the other guy's hand. "Sweet car, dude!"
"Thanks man." the Latino smiles friendly before directing his attention over to a still conversing Benny and a highly agitated Ethan.
"Benny" the spell-caster suddenly smiles nervously as he speaks up to the new member of the group, eying his best friend all the while, before loudly clearing his throat. "Ahem..." he laughs awkwardly before elbowing the seer. "Introduce yourself!"
"Don't push it. Just be happy I stuck around for this." the fourteen year old swiftly bites out in reply, with a firm look on his face that immediately quiets his friend's antics.
"This is Ethan." the calculus nerd deadpans, as the aforementioned teen rolls his eyes once more and looks any and everywhere but at the man before him.
"Ah...Ethan." Diego sighs in a thoughtful manner that has the seer's eyes shooting up to land on him.
"I've heard a lot about all of you, but you're the one my Sarah seems to talk about the most."
The seer can't help but roll his eyes in annoyance and scoff incredulously, at the use of the Latino's possessive pronoun.
"You do realize you're named after a children's cartoon character, right?"
"Good one, Ethan!" Rory immediately bursts into laughter, while every other member of the group, sans Diego, glares at the brunette for his cold remark. But he doesn't care!
He doesn't care about their glares, doesn't care if they're angry at him, doesn't care if they think he's lost his mind, because really, who the heck did this guy think he was? My Sarah? They'd only been dating a couple of weeks!
"Actually I believe I had the name long before Nickelodeon even thought of that kid." the tall, tanned man finally replies after a couple of silent seconds, eliciting sighs of relief from both Benny and Erica.
"Does that make it any less lame?"
Benny immediately slams his palm against his forehead in frustration, Erica sputters incredulously, and Rory laughs heartily once more at Ethan's comment as the seer clenches his jaw tightly, before fiercely meeting the murderous glare burning into him.
"Really, bro? C'mon." Diego speaks up. And the brunette rips his eyes away from the caramel skinned vampire to glare dangerously into him.
"Really, I'm not your bro." the 14 year old venomously directs, looking the taller guy up and down with narrowed eyes full of disdain, before sighing heavily and shaking his head at the continuous feel of the furious glare on him.
He looks over and meets Sarah's hard and venomous stare head on, and strategically ignores the way his heart clenches and aches at the fury in her eyes. This really was pointless...and Ethan scoffs slightly at the realization, before shaking his head once more, and returning his attention to the perturbed and slightly frustrated looking Latino.
"As exhilarating as this conversation has been, I can think of about one million things I'd rather do than continue it. So I'll be going now." he nods his head slightly, a blank look where his look of fury previously was.
"Wish I could say it was nice meeting you, but you know..." the seer veers off before turning on his heels and slinking away from the group, quietly muttering for Benny not to follow him.
He was done.
She didn't care about him.
All she cared about was Diego! She didn't even notice she was tearing him apart inside! Didn't even notice the pain he was in!
Ethan's heart continues to clench and ache as he trudges further away from his friends. But this time he doesn't have the strength to ignore it.
He was so stupid! Stressing himself out about how to apologize to her! Buying her flowers and candy!
The thought has the seer's blood churning with fury, as he abruptly turns on his heels and storms back over to the still conversing group with a vengeance.
"Here!" he suddenly interrupts the teens, hastily reaching into his pocket and shoving the retrieved packet of gummy worms into Sarah's hands. "Sorry we argued last night!" he bites out while furiously tearing into his backpack, and retrieving the rose in its depth. "Share these with your tool box boyfriend or throw them in the garbage, I don't care! Just get them the heck away from me!" he passionately asserts, shoving the flower into her hands, and throwing his backpack over his shoulders once more, before swiftly leaving the group.
He barely makes it through the front doors of the school before the furious vampire closes in on him.
"What the heck is this?"
The seer can't help but scoff bitterly at the sight of his gifts in her outstretched hands, as he continuously makes determined strides towards his 1st period class.
"Nothing Sarah. It's nothing at all." he sneers slightly, before groaning as his back suddenly comes in contact with the lockers previously to the left side of him.
"What the heck is your problem?"
She glares lividly into him, pressing the candy and flower firmly into his chest as she holds him in place.
"Get off of me, Sarah."
"I'm starting to think you have some type of mental disorder!" the vampire exclaims, ignoring the seer's words as she glares yet even more furiously into him and presses harder into his chest with his small gifts.
"Sarah. Get off of me." the 14 year old bites out once more, before using his telekinetic abilities to force the girl away from her.
"You had no reason to be so rude to Diego!"
"I don't like him."
"You don't even know him!" the high school senior suddenly blows up, reaching her arm out once more to force the traveling freshman to face her head on. "And you never gave him a chance!"
"I don't have to!" Ethan exclaims with equally as much passion and aggravation as his counterparts, as he glares fiercely into her, strategically ignoring the stares of the traveling onlookers, as he momentarily silences her.
"Now do you mind? I'm gonna be late for class..." he grumbles crankily before thrusting open the doors to the pool area and hastily walking into the room.
"I don't care, Ethan!"
"Drop it, Sarah!"
"Why are you such a jerk?"
The passionate inquiry has the seer stopping where he stands, as his blood churns within his veins, and all his pent up anger and frustrations of the week seem to rise to the surface.
"Oh I'm a jerk, am I?" he quietly asks, as he slowly turns around to face his angry friend, his own anger barely concealed in the tone of his voice.
And she's panting and her chest is heaving and she's clearly livid; and he's enraged; and it's not a good combination! But he can't seem to bring himself to quit while he's ahead. Can't seem to stop the next anger drawn words from tumbling out of his lips.
"You're the jerk, Sarah! And you know what? Not only are you a jerk, you're a desperate jerk!" he barely registers what he's saying as he speaks from some unidentifiable place within his heart and butt.
"Diego's so smart. Diego's so hot. Diego's so perfect!" the seer continues on in a mockingly girlish tone, before fixing the vampire with a hard look.
"Think he goes around gushing about you like that? At least act like you've had a boyfriend before! It's really pathetic!"
Ethan gasps out suddenly as he finds himself abruptly being shoved into the body of water to his left.
"You may not want to be friends with Diego...but I thought you were mine." he hears Sarah's shaky voice speak, when he finally emerges from the depths of the water, spitting madly and furiously wiping at his face.
And when he's able to see her, he glares heatedly at her, furiously at her, and determinedly ignores the way his heart hammers within his chest at the realization that there's nothing but hurt in her eyes.
"You just spat all over that though, so consider it ended. Don't ever speak to me again!" the vampire finishes conclusively, before hurrying away from the 14 year old, who only grits his teeth in response before shouting after her, powerfully ignoring the agonizing pain of his shattering heart.
"I'll do you one better than that, I won't even look at you!"
Author's Note: Thank you so much for reading this! I worked EXTREMELY hard on it, like you have NO idea! Would greatly appreciate your feedback, but yeah, just thanks for reading! Hope you're enjoying the story thus far! And I can't WAIT for you to read the final chapter! Gonna try REALLY hard to get it up soon! :D God bless!
