Haunted by Vampires
Disclaimer: I don't own The Lost Boys.
Author's Note: This story has been added to my weekly update schedule from now until further notice I'll update a chapter every Saturday! If that changes I'll keep you informed via my schedule on my bio page, that's all for now enjoy the chapter!
*EDIT 10/06/18* Chapter beta'd by exaigon.
Chapter 4: Bloody Pizza
Lily had just gotten to the bathroom when she felt something, no someone, watching her.
"Hello?"
"How was your movie?"
Lily turned around to face the area where Dwayne's voice was coming from. It was the doorway.
"You knew I watched a movie? Did you watch it too? Oh, I liked the part were Marsha got hit in the nose!"
"I wake up a bit earlier than the others usually, but I only caught the ending credits."
"Oh, do you like movies?" The little girl asked while getting her toothbrush out.
"Depends on the movie."
The girl nodded while putting some minty toothpaste on her Powerpuff Girl toothbrush.
"I like movies better at the movie theater. Oh, and drive-ins are the best... most of them are gone now though," she told him and he made a thoughtful hmm sound.
Then as Lily was about to brush her teeth the toothbrush is suddenly snatched away from her and starts brushing the invisible air beside her.
She giggled, "That one's mine get your own!"
Lily tried unsuccessfully to grab it, but it didn't work. Instead the ghost beside her jokes, "Clean teeth are important, and I just woke up so me first!"
She jumped up and down trying to reach it and someone flipped up her hoodie.
"There now you can hop around like a rabbit," Dwayne told her laughingly.
The girl pouted before pulling back the hood only to find the toothbrush hovering right in front of her face.
"Open up say, ah," Paul said in a sing-song voice and before she could protest he's brushing her teeth. Or trying to since most of the toothpaste ends up missing the inside of her mouth.
"Stop it!" She cried and somehow shoved him away, not realizing how much more solid he felt. Paul wiggled the toothbrush and she giggled again while telling him to give it back.
As soon as those words leave her toothpaste covered mouth the door slammed open startling her and the once floating toothbrush fell landing forgotten on the bathroom tile.
Why was her grandmother in here and why was she looking around the bathroom like she'd seen a ghost? That wasn't possible, after all, not even Lily could see her ghostly friends.
She wanted to, though.
Things had gone downhill rather fast after that. Lily was manhandled into sitting on her bed and trying not to cry as she dialed her dad's cell phone number hoping he wouldn't answer. Maybe she could hang up and tell her grandmother that he didn't answer. The girl was hopeful but as if reading her thoughts Star took the phone from her once she finished dialing the number.
Now all that was left to do was wait. Looking down at her feet she sniffled until her grandmother's angry voice made her jump.
"Damn it!" Star pulled back the cellphone from her face to see that the battery sign is flashing right before it turns off. "Where's the charger?" There was only one phone in the house and it had a cord and was downstairs, so the older woman knew this would be faster.
And she needed to work fast if her granddaughter was talking to those monsters.
Lily just shrugged only to have her grandmother ask again more firmly. So, the little brunette pointed to one of her unpacked bag. Star started pulling out everything looking for the charger only to empty the entire bag and not find it. Before getting frustrated and dumping out her other bag, getting the same result. Turning towards her granddaughter she demanded, "Tell the truth Lily, where is the charger."
The little girl looks confused, "It's in the bag."
Her grandmother huffed in disbelief before pulling her off of the bed. "Come on. I'm not letting you out of my sight."
The girl still felt upset, but it was leaning more towards angry now since she wasn't lying this time. It really was in the bag... her grandma must've just overlooked it because she was going through it too fast.
Following at a slow pace once her arm was let go of the two ended up in the hallway in front of the stairs.
"Where are we going?" Star looked at the upset child before sighing, "I'm calling your dad from the phone downstairs. You should know that hiding the charger is only delaying the inevitable."
"I didn't lie!"
Grams didn't believe her. "No more lying Lilian."
"It's Lily..." She's never had to actually tell her grandma that before, only her dad... She really was just like him. The little girl had wanted to be wrong about that given how nice her grandmother had seemed at times, but she really had been right at first... Her dad never listened to her either.
Ignoring the young girl who was close to tears, because of her thoughts and the situation, the older woman started to descend the staircase,
"Come on," Star called to the brunette from over her shoulder.
She could no longer stop the tears that cascaded down her face. She didn't want to leave!
"So, don't," Dwayne, who must have followed her from the bathroom, simplified the problem. She didn't once realize that she hadn't spoken those words aloud.
But how could she stay if grandma Star called her dad and made him pick her up?
A ghostly chuckle reaches her before the words, "Push her" were whispered in her ear by David who must have arrived sometime in the last few minutes.
"I don't want to," was Lily's barely audible reply.
"Yes, you do," Paul told her.
She was angry at being told she was lying and being made to go back home to her dad but that didn't mean she wanted her grandma to get hurt, did it?
"Just push her and you'll be able to stay with us."
David's words seemed less like a suggestion and more like an order. One that she felt like she should listen to more so than any other, even those her mother told her. But it was wrong…
Seconds seemed like minutes, minutes like hours as the voices started to blend together and soon she could not tell one from another as they continued egging her on. They wanted her to and were telling her to shove her grandmother down the stairs.
The more they spoke the more sense it all seemed to make.
It was the best, no, the only way to stay here... with them.
The little brunette continued following behind her grandmother.
"Do it!"
They were halfway down the stairs now and, as if possessed, Lily's hands moved of their own accord finding the back of the woman in front of her. Her grandmother.
She pushed.
The action felt freeing in a way that the young girl had never expected or experienced before.
Star gave a startled scream and tumbled down the remaining stairs while Lily just watched on in slight fascination. There was a snap but what woke the girl from her trance-like state was the small pool of blood that started to gather around her head.
Lily gasped and cried out, "Grandma!" Before running the rest of the way down the stairs.
Once at her grandmother's side she panicked, seeing the gash on her forehead.
"Grandma, wake up!"
Lily didn't know what to do or where to touch her. She could hurt her... even more than she already did.
Why did she push her!?
She didn't want to!
Was she dead?
"Don't worry she's not dead," David's voice reassured her.
"But she's bleeding..." The small girl whispered.
"Yes, she is," Paul's voice sounds stranger than she's used to. It was like he was longing for something, but Lily was too busy to ask about it. Instead she focused on the problem at hand.
"What do I do?" Was she asking them or just plain asking? The Emerson girl didn't know but Dwayne answered her anyway.
"We'll help you stop the bleeding. She'll be fine in the morning."
Even though Dwayne helped the others in telling her to push her grandmother down the stairs Lily still felt like he was telling her the truth. But she had to ask to be sure.
"Really?"
Her voice was hopeful, and the ghost soothed her fears, "Yes, now go get the first aid kit underneath the bathroom sink upstairs and a wet towel."
With that said she rushed back upstairs to do as she was told, still trusting the ghosts even after everything. They may have told her to do it but she was the one who chose to go through with it so it didn't make any sense to get mad at them when she was the one who hurt her grandmother in the first place; not them.
Back downstairs the three ghosts looked on for a moment before David bent down and touched the blood near Star's head. His hand didn't go through it for once.
Bringing his bloody fingers up to his mouth he tasted the blood while Paul and Dwayne watched his movements like hawks.
"Well can you taste it?" The blonde rocker looking vampire asked in excitement and hope.
David's expression changed, "Yes..."
The other two smiled and were quick to give it a taste themselves.
"Wow you're right! It's even better than I remember!"
"So, it's like Max said..." Dwayne said after he had his taste.
"Yeah... too bad we can't kill her yet."
Their leader looked down at the unconscious old woman.
"It's too bad the fall didn't do it for us," Paul told him
David smirked and shook his head. "No, I've got plans for Star and they don't involve a quick easy death."
Dwayne chuckled, "I didn't think they would. Hopefully, her head injury isn't serious I'd hate to have lied to the kid."
Paul just shrugged uncaring if it was. "The dog is long dead, so I don't care one way or another. Though I could get in the mood for some fried frogs in the future." He laughed with a toothy grin, "Yeah, some nice and crispy frogs."
"Sounds like a plan but first... what do you think about having some pizza tonight?"
The leader's grin was wicked, but Paul looked at him confused. "Pizza?"
Dwayne seemed to get their leader's meaning though. "I think he's asking how would you like a pizza delivery guy for dinner?"
"Wicked! Though is it too much to hope for a pizza delivery girl?" Paul asked hopefully.
Lily found the first aid kit after a bit of rummaging around and returned to her grandmother and the ghosts waiting for her. Even though she can't see them, the girl knows they're still there. It was almost like they weren't invisible anymore even though they still were. The young brunette couldn't explain it any better than that.
"Here it is. Now what?" She asked letting Dwayne direct her on how to clean the wound and then his invisible hands helped with wrapping it. Afterwards, she looked down to the big purple bruise on her leg which was bent at an awkward angle.
"Is it broken?" That was probably where the snap she heard came from.
"It'll be fine," David told her. Lily wasn't so sure and as if seeing her worry, he spoke again. "She won't be able to move around for a while but that just means you won't be sent away. That's what you wanted, right?
He wasn't wrong but that didn't make it right…
It's too late for that now, though, she tried to tell herself. Lily wanted to not feel so guilty and attempted to move her to the couch. It didn't work.
"She's too heavy... but I can't just leave her here all night..." Looking in the direction of the ghosts pleadingly made Dwayne offer to help which in turn got David to offer Paul's assistance. The two of them got her grandmother into bed. After Lily tucked her in, being as careful as she could be around her twisted leg, they all left the room.
"Do you think she'll be really mad tomorrow?" The little girl asked fearfully.
She probably won't even remember it. Paul said to cheer her up.
"...I hope so," Lily said with a glance back at the door leading to Star's bedroom.
The spot where she landed during her fall drew the girl's eyes away from the door and an uneasy feeling settled over her as she looks at the drying bloodstain.
"What are you thinking about?" David questioned her.
"I don't know why I did it..."
"Yes, you do... you wanted to stay," David told her plainly but hearing that didn't make her feel any better.
"I did... I do! But I didn't want to hurt her," Lily exclaimed.
"Maybe you did," Dwayne added gently.
"What? No, I didn't," the young brunette protested adamantly.
"Then why did you push her?" Paul joined in on the inquisition because that's what it felt like; an interrogation.
"I don't know!" She screamed in frustration as tears once again sprung to her eyes.
"I think that you do," David told her as something that felt like a cold hand brushed the tears from her eyes.
Lily backed away from the hand. "Because... because you told me to!"
"So, it's my fault?" David asks in a monotone voice.
This caused the little girl to pause. "I don't know..." Her voice sounded lost but thinking about it she didn't blame him. Not really... she didn't have to listen, but she did.
"You did what you wanted and now you feel guilty about it even when you got the results that you wanted. That doesn't make much sense now, does it?
David's words hit home because she did want to stop her grandmother, so she wouldn't be sent away. And pushing her down the stairs did make it so she could stay... she got what she wanted, didn't she?
Lily thought so…
"...No, I guess not."
His words made sense. Her mom was always explaining things to her, so this sounded reasonable.
"Do you want to know what I think?" Dwayne asked after a prolonged moment of silence.
Lily looked towards his voice, curious. "What?"
"I think you don't really care that you hurt her-"
Lily cut his words off. "Yes, I do!"
"Let me finish," He reprimanded her in a stern tone. She went quiet.
"You only care that the end result may have killed her and not because you didn't want that to happen, but because death scares you. I'm right, aren't I? You're afraid to die... maybe even just seeing it?
The girl froze as an image of a dead baby, her brother, came to mind before she shuddered and pushed the memory away forcefully.
"I... yes it's scary but... I mean... you-you're dead... aren't you?" She gathered her courage to ask, "But you're still here too. How?"
She was glancing back and forth between where she heard Dwayne's voice and where she last heard David's.
"Yes, in a way we are dead but also not... think of it as an in-between that we got stuck in," the quiet one explained.
"I don't understand..." She grumbled causing David to pick the conversation back up.
"Do you remember the words in the sand that day?"
It took a minute, but she nodded her head. "About living forever?"
"Yes." She can practically hear the smile in David's voice.
"Grandma said it's impossible... it is, isn't it?"
At the time she wasn't sure her grandmother was telling the truth but if you could live forever then wouldn't people know about it? So maybe her grandma was telling the truth? David's next words pulled her from her thoughts.
"No, it's very much possible in fact we're immortal that's why we didn't truly die."
"Really?" She was suddenly very interested and rapidly forgetting her guilt revolving around hurting her grandmother.
"Yes, so what do you say? Do you want to live forever?" David asked.
Lily didn't even have to think about it. Her response was instant, "Of course, but how?"
"It's not hard. Just do what we say and soon enough we'll all get what we want."
"Okay," she answered trustingly.
"Good," David replied.
"Now then first things first... let's order some pizza. We're starving," Paul chimed in.
"Pizza?" Lily questioned curiously, "You can eat?"
"We can now thanks to you," Paul said excitedly.
Lily didn't know what he meant by that but was happy to have helped her ghostly friends.
"Okay, I'll call for some pizza. What kind do you want?"
Anything as long as there's no garlic, Paul answers for them.
"Alright... I think Grandma's wallet is in the kitchen with the phone, so I'll go order the pizza right now!"
She rushed off to the kitchen to place the order.
That night Lily ordered two large pizzas, one half pepperoni and half cheese and the other a meat lovers, as well as a Pepsi and some brownies. It was more than enough for her three ghosts pals and her, especially since she'd already eaten and even kinda brushed her teeth. But that was okay. She figured she was a growing girl and she'd just brush her teeth again afterwards.
Watching a piece of pizza disappear bite by bite was more entertaining than the TV for Lily. It was also pretty great that she got the chance to learn more about them while they talked over brownies. All in all, her mini pizza party/sleepover thing with her ghosts was a grand old time.
Most of the pizza ended up in the fridge via her ghosts buddies as she fell asleep that night on the couch, completely forgetting to go back upstairs to brush her teeth like she'd planned, while late-night cartoons continued to play on the television.
Once they knew she was asleep the ghost boys left the house and went to the shed where they stored their real meal, the unconscious pizza delivery boy. Paul would usually complain about wanting to feed on a woman but after so many years without he wasn't nearly as picky.
The three dragged the human, who was slowly returning to consciousness, to the place Lily had dubbed as the dead area and made sure to spill as much blood as possible on their graves as they fed for real for the first time in years. The screams could be heard for miles but with no neighbors around it didn't matter.
Lily slept peacefully unaware of the horrific murder taking place in her backyard.
Ignorance was truly bliss for the little girl, at least tonight... Tomorrow would possibly be a different story.
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