Author's note: Here is the next chapter! I had part of this already written but wasn't sure how to start it off, but thanks to Gypsygirl suggesting I have a sleepover put in for Star and Nikki I was able to make the start pretty normal, but don't worry, a big twist awaits at the end of this chapter! (NO PEEKING! I'LL SET THE VAMPS ON YOU IF YOU RUIN THE SURPRISE!) Anyway, the sleepover was good and I was able to get in some references to another classic 80s movie very dear to my heart, but you'll probably be able to spot it, for anyone who sees the title and hasn't seen this movie, I advise you get it and watch it as soon as you can! It's beyond epic and one of my favourite movies ever (along with The Lost Boys of course!) so anyway thanks to all my reviewers and hope you like this chapter, please review! BY THE WAY I have noticed that some of the pen names might not show up (it might just be on my phone but I wanna be sure) so if you wrote me a review and the reply doesn't have a name it just hasn't come up but I've typed it, in that case all the replies are done in order from who reviewed first to last (for anyone who reviews more than once their replies are thanked in one reply) so I apologize for the confusion and hopefully it doesn't happen a lot more : (

Lostgirl4eva: I'm glad you liked the last chapter! I was trying to make it sweet because there hadn't been very many cute moments so I wanted to get some in :D whoo I have definitely got to see The Bling Ring! As soon as I get the chance I'll order it offline. If you want a really good Emma Watson movie, I just watched The Perks Of Being A Wallflower last weekend and oh my gosh! It was so unbelievably perfect and is totally in my top 10 movies of all time because it was so sweet, epic, funny and just 10 out of 10 for everything, definitely watch it if you haven't already! Anyway I hope you like this chapter : )

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Gypsygirl: You wanted a sleepover… you got it! I thought it was a great idea for a little non-serious start to a chapter, so thanks for the suggestion! I know that Adam can be such a meanie! And he's even worse in this chapter, sorry to say : ( but you'll have to keep reading to find out what happens! I'll try and get some more of Star in the story because I'm guessing you like her character? : )

I had convinced Mom to let me stay at home the next day, with the amount of sleep I had gotten after Adam basically said we were dead, it would only be a matter of time before I fell asleep in class and if a teacher tried to tell me off when I have much bigger things to deal with, I was pretty liable to tell them where to shove their class.

So I had basically slept until dinner that night, something about sleeping through daylight made me feel safer- maybe it was because Adam couldn't hurt any of us without risking burning up like meat at a barbeque. After dinner I had planned to go upstairs and try and get some sleep again when a knock at the door came. I had warned Edgar last night not to come near me today; boy was he going to get an earful if this was him.

I opened the door and was both surprised and not surprised to see Star standing on the porch with a bag over her shoulder. I smiled at her and she returned it.

"Hey, Star. Mike's just upstairs if you wanna head up?" I asked but she shook her head with a grin.

"I'm not here to see Michael, I'm here to see you, silly! I figured we were long overdue a girly sleepover." She said excitedly and I chuckled.

"Mike put you up to this in school, didn't he?" I asked suspiciously.

"No he did not, he just told me what was going on and I thought that a night without thinking about vampires or anything would cheer you up! I have all the ingredients for a girl's night." She said and held up her bag triumphantly. I laughed and she brushed past me before dropping her bag in the hall, I grabbed her in a hug and tried not to get her curls in my mouth, those things could suffocate you.

"Thanks Star." I whispered, somehow she had managed to make me feel a whole lot better before we had even done anything.

"It's no problem! Come on." She said and grabbed her bag and my hand before towing me up the stairs, we were just passing Michael's room when he opened the door and smirked when he saw Star.

"This is a surprise; I didn't know you were coming over tonight." Ugh, excuse me while I gag at him trying to be sexy.

"Well it's not a surprise for you; I'm kidnapping your sister for a sleepover in her room. No boys allowed." She ordered and pushed him back into his room whilst I burst out laughing.

"Alright, what exactly is in that bag? It better not be anything that can hurt me." I warned as I sat on my bed and she dropped the bag before opening it to reveal what looked like a lot of nail polish and her books for school tomorrow along with a change of clothes.

"I figured we could do our nails while we watch… This." She said and pulled out a video, my face broke into a wide smile as I recognised the cover of one of my favourite movies ever.

"The Breakfast Club? You do realise I absolutely love that movie?" I asked and she grinned.

"Me too! We can go put it on downstairs." She said and we headed down to watch it on the video player and television set Sam had begged Mom to get us, he even said it would count as both his birthday and Christmas present and that he would put his birthday money towards it.

"Hey! I was gonna watch TV." Sam complained as he came in from the kitchen and I waved the hand Star was not currently painting all different shades of pink to wave him off dismissively.

"You get it all day long and Star brought a video over for her and I to watch. You can either sit down or go upstairs, nothing is going to stop me drooling over Judd Nelson, okay?" I asked and he rolled his eyes before grinning.

"I'm sure Edgar would love to know that when he's not here you spend your time swooning over some guy in a movie." He threatened and I turned to him and smiled.

"First of all, if you ever refer to Judd Nelson as some guy again, I will be forced to kill you. Second, Edgar will just be thankful it's not a vampire I'm swooning over and third, shhh!" I ordered as the familiar setting of the library in which the five teens spend their day came up on-screen. Sam gave up after a few minutes and went in to fix some popcorn before joining us, Michael following shortly after but I made sure he sat away from Star so Claire Standish and John Bender would be the only ones making out tonight.

So by the next day which was (thank the Lord) a Friday, I had managed to go from feeling crappy to reasonably okay. I didn't even mind when I got a mountain of English to do over the weekend, I figured there are worse things that could happen. So by the next night I was doing alright and had managed to convince Michael to let me go to the boardwalk, provided he take me down and sat with me. Yeah because the last time he did, it went so well.

No matter how many times I told him I would be fine, Michael never strayed from my side, it was starting to get very annoying. I was digging around in my pocket for some change to buy an ice cream when I found a small note.

Meet me at the bar on the boardwalk, don't bring anyone with you. You'll be sorry if you don't show. –A

Shit.

"What's that?" Michael asked and I quickly scrunched up the paper and put it in my pocket, smiling slightly.

"Nothing, just a scrap piece of paper from English. Listen Mike, it's obvious that Adam isn't here tonight, he'd have turned up by now. Why don't you go hang out while I go see Edgar? I promise I won't go anywhere without loads of people around. I won't be long." I begged and tried to not let him see my hands starting to shake slightly, he clenched his jaw in thought before nodding.

"Alright. Meet me right back here in an hour, if you are one minute late Adam is going to be the least or your worries." I wish.

"Thanks Mike." I said and turned to walk in the direction of the bar, luckily it was down the same way as the comic book store so Michael wouldn't get suspicious. I had an hour, I just hoped I would make it through the hour.

From the minute I walked into the bar I got goosebumps, many of the men there gave me a once-over as I shuffled through the bar until I saw Adam seated in a both swirling a drink around in his glass. When he met my eyes he smirked and gestured for me to take the seat across from him, I slid into the booth and suddenly felt a bit isolated, we may as well have been the only two people in the bar.

"Nikki, I'm glad you're here." He said and I rolled my eyes.

"Well judging by the note, I didn't have much of a choice, did I?" I asked sarcastically and he chuckled.

"Guess not. I'm assuming you aren't old enough to drink. Can I get you a soft drink?" He asked and I shook my head.

"I'm fine."

"Now Nikki, it's not polite to refuse an offer for a drink after you meet someone in a bar. What will it be?" he asked with more authority this time and I gulped before rummaging through my head for a drink I could keep down despite the gnawing feeling in my gut that I shouldn't have come here.

"Coke." I said and he smiled before going to the bar, I let out a breath of slight relief at his absence and looked around. The exit was a good bit away, but I was sure if I had to make a run for it people would realise something was wrong and maybe give me a head-start. My escape plans were interrupted a few minutes later as Adam set the coke down in front of me.

"There you are, you look a little pale." He said and I gave a humourless chuckle.

"So do you." I answered and he laughed, it wasn't a pleasant one, more of a dark chuckle drawn out to make you squirm.

"You're very funny, even when you're extremely hostile. Drink." He ordered and I rolled my eyes before lifting the glass and downing the coke as fast as I could, my throat had been dry with fear so I had eagerly drank down the coke before setting the glass on the table.

"Satisfied?" I said and he nodded.

"Very. So how is your brother, Michael, is it?"

"You would think you'd remember the name of the person who killed your brother." I said suspiciously and he shrugged with a face of innocence.

"Just want to make sure I have all the facts straight. I'm not going to kill him, you know." I laughed at that, but the laugh was empty.

"You're a vampire who kills people just for fun and for the taste of their blood, do you really think I would believe you when you say you're not going to take the chance to avenge your brother?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I never said that." He said and looked up from his glass with a smirk, my stomach turned to ice as I realised he had some sort of plan to get revenge then.

"So what are you going to do?" I asked, my voice barely escaping trembling.

"To your brother Michael? Nothing. I believe, given the magnitude of what he's done, that simply killing him would be too easy an escape. I want to see him suffer, see the people he loves go through hell because of what he did. I'll destroy everything he cares about until there's nothing left. Then, and only then, will I finally grant him the sweet release of death." He said casually, as though he wasn't thinking about ruining my brother's life.

"Who are you going to hurt? I won't let you!" I said furiously and he smiled at me.

"You already have." He said and my mind screeched to a half at his words.

"What?" I asked, the feeling of dread coursing through me like a river.

"I don't plan to hurt anyone Michael loves in a physical way, per say. What I want is for him to see other's pain drawn out, I figured the best kind of pain he could witness was the very same one he went through. It must have been hell for him to become a half-vampire and battle with himself over his thirst for blood, putting his loved ones in danger with each passing day he fought his true self. I figured forcing him to witness someone else do the same would be an adequate start to what I have planned for him."

"But Michael told me he became a vampire by drinking the blood of the head vampire, the head vampire is dead. Max's blood can't be used to turn anyone anymore." I defended.

"True. But what your brother probably doesn't know is that once a head vampire is killed the next vampire in the bloodline takes over as head vampire. So seeing as I was the oldest before David, and he and the others are dead anyway, that just leaves me as head vampire." He said with a triumphant smirk and I scoffed.

"Who the hell would be crazy enough to drink your blood?" I asked and his smirk widened before his blue eyes flicked down to my empty glass.

"Refill?"