5

Ember sat at the dinner table, staring at her breakfast with a frown on her face. She couldn't sleep at all the night before. Every time Ember shut her eyes, she kept seeing the dead cat and hearing the person running away. The person that had killed the cat.

"Ember? Are you feeling alright, dear? You normal love bacon." Lilly little asked her daughter, pouring herself a cup of coffee.

'Yeah, and I also normally love scary, creepy things.' Ember thought as she looked up at her mother. "I'm fun, mom. Just not all that hunger." Ember said with a weak smile. She didn't tell her mother about the dead cat since she thought she'd just get in trouble from entering a misty graveyard at night.

"Alright, sweety. Then you can start walking to school now." Lilly said, sipping her coffee and walking back into the kitchen. Ember sighed deeply, pulling herself off her chair and leaving the dinning room to get her backpack. She then left the house to walk to school.

When she stepped outside, Ember looked over to the graveyard, which seemed to be free of mist or fog today. The sixteen year old girl frowned, knowing that, unless the person came back when she went back inside, the dead cat would still be laying there. Ember shuttered and looked away to walk to school.

"I can't find her!! Someone stole my cat!!!!" A little girl screamed in a panicked voice. Ember turned her head to her right and saw what looked like a six year old with her mother.

The girl was crying and the mother was trying to calm her daughter. She was hugging her tight in her arms.

"Don't worry, Sarah. Twinkle will come back. You know how she always gets outside and comes back after." The mother said, sounding panicked herself.

Ember couldn't help but stand and watch, feeling a not form in her stomach. She had a big feeling that twinkle was the cat that now laid in the graveyard.

"But she's always back by now. I WANT MY CAT!!!!!!!!!!!" The little girl screamed so loudly, it got a few dogs to bark in surprise. Ember couldn't take anymore and she walked away from the scene, continuing to school.

"That poor girl." Ember whispered, yawning tiredly and rubbing her tired, sore eyes.

She was tired but it wasn't the first time Ember had pulled an all nighter. Yet it was the first time she did it on a school night. Also, after the all nighter, Ember would usually crash around 10 to 11 am,

"Hey, good morning, Ember Little. How was your night? You looked horrible." Alison Davis, the dark skinned girl stated as she appeared beside Ember.

"Yeah, my little brother kept me up last night with whining. He heard about the ghost stories and now he's being a scaredy cat." Ember lied and felt her stomach not again with thinking about cats.

Ember once again felt its hard body when she fell to the ground. She saw it's dead brown eyes staring down at her. Ember saw the matted fur around the shoulders and neck, It's mouth a little open as if it were going to let out another cry.

"Ember?" Alison asked, a bit of concern in her voice.

'Huh, yeah?" She asked, pushing the memory in the back of her mind as she forced a small smile.

"Are you sure that's all that happened?" The dark skinned girl asked, frowning. Ember sighed and hung her head.

"Actually I ran into a little girl talking to her mother about her cat that didn't come home." Ember said, hanging her head. She felt guilty; she could have told the little girl that she saw a cat in the graveyard but then the little girl would be really sad. At least she wouldn't worry anymore.

"Oh, that. Yeah, there have been a number of pets on Fear Street disappearing. Just a few days before you moved in, there was a dead dog found in the forest. Some people would think it was Pete, the boy from the story we told you the other day.

Yet, besides a broken neck with blood on it, nothing was wrong with it. Except the fact that the dog was missing a lot of its blood." The girl said with a deep shutter. Ember looked at her with her eyebrows raised.

"So, you're saying that the animal were ether attacked by another animal who bites necks and nothing else, or a vampire attacked the animal?" Ember asked and Alison frowned, hanging her head to look at the ground.

"Why not? If ghosts can be real why can't they? It is Fear Street we're talking about after all." Alison pointed out and Ember sighed, which turned into a yawn.

"Ghost are human spirits that don't go to heaven or hell. Vampires are creatures that suck human blood. Now, I believe in vampirism, blood with a blood disorder, but not real vampires." Ember said, rolling her eyes which turned into blinking tiredly.

"Whatever. You'll believe the rumors sooner or later. I promise you that." Alison sounded a little mad as she walked away. Ember sigh yawned again, shaking her head as she tried to push this thought in the back of her mind as she walked to her first class.