A/N Once again, thanks for the reviews. It's nice to hear you're liking it so far and i'm not just wasting my lunch hour.'Are you ready to go?' Darren asked.
He had been waiting downstairs for Arianna to pack for an hour whilst Larten and her parents were sat at the dining table discussing their plan of action.
It took a while to get Arianna to come out of her bedroom. She had locked her self in and spent a long time screaming and crying and mostly cursing at Darren.
Eventually when she calmed down, Lillian went in to speak with her and everyone, other than Arianna, thought it was in her best interests to go with Larten and Darren to vampire mountain, mostly to see if any light could be put on the situation.
She objected of course, saying how stupid all of this was and how she didn't understand that her parents thought she could be a vampire but eventually she realised that she wasn't going to win a losing battle, so in the end agreed.
Arianna looked up at him from where she was sitting on her bed. There was a suitcase on the floor that had all of two tshirts thrown in.
I take that as a no.
'Ari, we really have to go soon, and you can't take that with you.' He said, pointing to the suitcase. 'You won't be able to carry that around.'
'Well what am I supposed to use?'
Darren shrugged. 'You got a rucksack or something?'
'You expect me to fit everything in one of those?'
'Not everything. Just take important things.'
She studdied the boy standing infront of her.
'Why did you have to say something?!' She shouted, her mood shifting all of a sudden.
'What?'
'Why did you have to tell them?! Why couldn't you have just kept your mouth shut and left?!'
'Honestly, I don't know! I guess when I thought you might be a vampire I got excited because I haven't met another one apart from Mr Crepsley, and he's hardly a bundle of fun to be around.'
'So you're selfish!'
I didn't think of that, but maybe I am?
'Hang on a minute Ari-'
'Don't call me that.'
He sighed, starting to get angry. 'Fine, Arianna. I just got this weird vibe off of you and was curious, and surely it's better you know before you end up hurting someone!'
'You think I didn't know something was wrong with me?!' She screamed, shoving him in the chest. 'You think I've spent the past thirteen years completley unaware that i'm not normal!'
Darren took a step back, not wanting to get shoved by her again. It wasn't like it hurt, but he didn't want to be on the reciving end of any more abuse.
'Fine, maybe I wouldn't have used the word vampire, but still. I sort of figured it out! Do you know why we have no animals outside?'
Darren shook his head, confused.
'I killed them all! A few years ago I had a bad day at school, the kids liked to pick on us, having a witch for a mother, but i'd been feeling rough for days and so hungry, like I can't describe it. Anyway, we were in the art room and this girl, she threw a cup of dirty water all over me and that was the last straw. I turned round, picked her up by the throat and slammed her against the wall. The whole class thought I'd killed her, she was out cold for ages. The teacher sent me straight to the office and they had to call an ambulance for her.'
By this time Darren was leaning against the wall, listening with intrigue.
'Mum was at work so she wasn't happy when she had to come and pick me up. She arrived the same time as the doctors were carrying the girl out.
We sat in the office for ages with the headmaster, who was saying how my behaviour had been getting worse and my outburst was unacceptable, and how I might be responsible for a students death. She didn't die, sadly, but they expelled me and referred me to a counciller.
The whole car journey back was just awful. Mum didn't say a word, just kept her eyes on the road and I knew she would lose it when we got back home.
She made me sit down and went over to one of the cupboards and took out a book. She has loads of books on witchcraft and spells and all that stupid crap.
I sat there for about an hour, just watching her read page after page, her expression didn't change once.
When she finished she put it down and looked at me. I knew something was going to happen but I didn't think she'd try and kill me.'
'Kill you?' Darren seemed shocked by this. 'Your mum's so nice?'
'Yeah, of course she is!' Arianna laughed. 'A really lovely woman. She pounced on me. I could have got out of the way if I was expecting it, but that's not something you expect your mother to do, is it? She dragged me upstairs to the bathroom by my hair and was screaming about demons. I tried to get up from the floor but she hit me! Not even a pathetic punch, a proper one. It floored me. I just sort of lay there, completley confused and terrified and my head hurt too much to try and move. She was still shouting as she filled up the bathtub, something about getting the evil out of me. If I was just posessed then I would be okay but if I wasn't, well. I knew what was coming by then. I'd tried by best to drag myself out of the bathroom but couldn't.
She grabbed me and dunked me. I'd held my breath just before I went under but she just held my head down with two hands and kept shouting.
It got to the point where I was certain I would die. I could hear my brain yelling at me to breathe and all of my organs just slowing down.
Luckily, dad came home early. He was only working a half day and heard mum from the front door. He'd ran up the stairs and burst in to see her drowning me. He pushed her out of the way and grabbed me, picking me up and taking me to my room.
Do you know how nice it is to breathe Darren? It's the best feeling in the whole world. I swear, when you think it's the end..
Dad made sure I was okay, or as okay as I could be and locked me in. For hours I could just hear them yelling and things getting smashed and then it all went quiet. Everyone had gone to bed.
I'd sort of been in a daze the whole time. Lost track. Scared and confused about what had happened, but also bitterly angry. Angry at mum, the one person you think will protect you in life, angry at school whos fault it was that i'd snapped, and myself, for whatever was wrong we me. The anger and the hunger i'd been feeling for weeks just built up and I climed out the window and into the field.
We used to keep alot of cows and sheep. That's where most of our money came from. Wool and milk.
I walked towards them in some kind of out-of-body experience and I killed every single one. Drained one poor cow dry.
When i'd finished I went climed back up here and to bed, lucky that the rubbish bins are kept under here otherwise I wouldn't have been able too.
I felt calm, all my problems had gone away. That was the best nights sleep I ever had.
The next morning when I woke up I looked out of the window and saw mum and dad staring at the field, all the animals laying there dead. He put his arm around her.
How could he do that? His wife and tried to kill his daughter and he was comforting her?! They both looked up at me a few times, or through me. It's hard to tell.
After a while dad unlocked my door, gave me a hug and that was it. Nothing about it was ever mentioned. Not about me getting expelled, mum trying to kill me or me killing the animals. We just carried on, ignorning it. Everything was almost normal, apart from I hate baths. Water..
I've been like the elephant in the room ever since. Astrid and Niall know that something happened but have asked.'
Darren sat next to her, putting his arm over her shoulders. She moved away instantly.
'Don't think that you're my friend Darren. Don't ever think that I like you. I could have carried on with my lie of a life and been happy, but you've made that impossible now.'
She stood up, rearranging the clothes.
'I'll meet you downstairs in five.'
