"Where would she go?" asked Theresa as she paced the room.
Jerry, Max and Harper all sat around the dining room table whilst Justin leaned against the island in the kitchen and Mason sat on the bottom stairs resting his head on the metal banister. Each and everyone of them either shrugged their shoulders or shook their head in response to Theresa's question.
"My poor baby!" She cried as her hands covered her mouth and her eyes widened in fear. "Walking the streets pregnant, alone and in labor!" She began to sob, "anything could happen to her!"
"Honey she'll be ok," Jerry comforted his wife and he walked over to her and embraced her in a warm hug. "Alex is smarter than what we give her credit for, she'll be ok. Besides when we searched her room for clues the magic flying carpet was gone so who knows, she could be home any minute."
Theresa nodded as she rested her head on to Jerry's shoulder as she continued to cry. When suddenly a soft but fast knock rapped on the door. Instantly Justin's head shot up and then he ran across the room to answer it. "Juliet!" He exclaimed when he seen his beautiful girlfriend stood smiling in the doorway, "am I glad to see you."
They wrapped their arms around each other tightly and Juliet began to soothing rub Justin's back. "Shh, it's ok," she comforted him, "come on, why don't you get your bag and then we can go." Justin nodded as he went to head downstairs.
"Wait," called Harper rushing over to Justin, "you can't go back to the school, Alex needs you!"
"I know," said Justin as he turned to her, "We're going to go and look for her, so we can bring her home where's she's safe."
"What?" Mason asked as he leapt up from the staircase, "When I mentioned going to look for her before you said that we need to stay here?"
"Well actually…" Began Justin awkwardly, "you missed heard me. I actually said 'you' need to stay here while I go look for Alex."
"What!" Exclaimed Mason angrily.
"Justin," interrupted Jerry who was now approaching his son, "what were you thinking?"
"Well," began Justin as he ran his fingers through his thick black hair, "I just thought it might be quicker if Juliet and I-"
"Juliet?" snapped Mason, "Her? Seriously? I'm Alex's boyfriend and the baby's father!"
"But she's my girlfriend."
"I don't care if she's your girlfriend or not I don't want her anywhere near Alex or my baby!"
"Hey!" shouted Juliet, "Alex is my friend! I would never do anything to hurt her!"
"I don't care it should be me with her not you!" Mason began to breath heavily, clenching his fists together in order to prevent his claws from appearing.
"No, you're wrong," said Juliet smiling, "because this way she won't have a birthing partner with anger issues."
Everyone in the room gasped and turned to Mason who had begun to turn red with fury, "Well, you're wrong because I would do anything to help Alex."
"Really? Because you really think you can control your wolf side during a time like this?" Juliet scoffed, "What was it you did again that time in Transylvania? Attacked my boyfriend and scratched me making me old… forever."
Mason laughed, "oh please Juliet everyone can clearly see you've gotten over that last part, it's not like I've ruined your life! You know like you nearly ruined mine when you split Alex and I up by biting me and turning me in to a wolf!"
"Right that's enough," Jerry intervened stepping in between Mason and Juliet, "you can all go to find Alex. Mason and Juliet, you both have qualities that can help find Alex faster, so use them so she can come home where she is safe."
Justin, Juliet and Mason all nodded silently as Mason and Juliet still shared evil glares with each other.
"Okay, so here's the plan," announced Justin as he snapped his fingers and a black back pack appeared on the coffee table. He immediately rushed over to get it. "In here I have a piece of Alex's clothing which she hasn't washed yet, some wizard text books on hybrid births and some potions. We can use her clothes, so Juliet can track her scent and we can use the rest of the stuff to help Alex through her labor."
"Well, I can track Alex," offered Mason, "werewolves have a better sense of smell and besides I think I know Alex's scent better than anyone."
"Actually Mason," began Juliet, "Vampires have the better sense of smell. Its how we find our prey."
"Actually Juliet," said Mason imitating Juliet's tone of voice, "that's not true, if it was then you'd be able to notice that disgusting dead animal and vanilla smell you have."
"Oh, so does that mean you've noticed that wet dog smell you have?" smirked Juliet.
Mason began to growl and Juliet hissed as her fangs began to descend from her gums.
"Guys!" yelled Justin, "we're suppose to be helping Alex, so quit fighting with each other! Okay, Mason you can track her scent, Juliet you can fly over and keep a look out. Now come on!"
All three of them walked out through the front door leaving everyone else stood in silence. Harper, Jerry and Theresa all exchanged worried looks with each other until Max decided to speak up. "Okay, okay!" he began laughing, "am I the only one who would love to see Mason and Juliet in the delivery room with Alex when she has the baby?" He continued to laugh as the others stared at him with blank expressions.
Justin, Juliet and Mason stood in a large empty field. The long shards of grass gently brushed passed their hips as the wind blew softly. They all looked ahead at the large forest in the distance. They could see nothing inside, instead all they could see was the large cluster of trees which towered over them. Justin rapidly ripped the back pack from off his body and began rummaging through it.
"I've seen that forest somewhere," Justin stated, "I can't think where but I'm sure its in one of these books, I'm sure of it. Juliet are you sure you've tracked Alex's scent to the right place?"
"Yeah, well I think so. I can smell the scent more in the air than near the ground so it's quite faint. It's probably because she travelled on the flying carpet and I can't see anything," said Juliet frustrated, "especially over that forest. It' just impossible to see anything through the trees!"
Justin through his back pack on the floor as he pulled out a large worn-out text book. "Here it is!" He called excitedly, "ok so I'm going to find out the name of this place and then use the location app on my wand to see exactly where we are." He then began to wonder off further in to the field, burying his nose in the text book.
Juliet and Mason watched as he continued to walk further and further away from them. Mason gave a heavy sigh and shook his head as he began to look to the ground. "This is useless," he exclaimed clenching his teeth together in anger. "Why are we stood here when we could still be searching for Alex?"
"Calm down!" Juliet ordered him, "Justin wouldn't do this for nothing, he wants to find her as much as you do."
"Then what the heck is he doing?" Mason shouted at Juliet aggressively, "he has been holding us up nearly the whole time we've been searching for her! He is seriously taking the mick now!"
Juliet began to laugh, "taking the mick, oh no matter how many times I've heard it, your British sayings still make me laugh."
"This isn't the time to joke around Juliet, we need to find Alex and I can't stand around waiting for him! I'll go on my own if I need to."
"Woah! Get you! I haven't seen you this worked up since the night we-"
"Don't even say it." Mason whispered as he turned away from Juliet. He looked in despair at the thought of Alex being in there alone, as his breathing began to become uneasy Juliet began to stare at Mason in shock but then the shock gradually turned in to sadness. After a moment, Juliet approached Mason and after a minute on hesitation she put her hand gently on his shoulder.
"Mason, I know it's hard but we can't pretend it never happened. I think about-"
"Juliet please!" he shouted clenching his fists tightly together and moving rapidly away from Juliet causing her hand to lose grip of his shoulder, "It's forgotten, it HAS to be forgotten."
"You haven't told Alex yet have you?" she smirked.
"No. And I'm not going to. Especially now."
"Mason," Juliet sighed, "you can't lie to her forever."
Mason laughed, "well, I can clearly see you haven't told Justin. So why should I ruin my relationship if you aren't willing to destroy yours?"
"You can't think of it like that."
"How else should I think of it!" he yelled as he stormed off towards the large dark forest that lay in front of them on the other side of the barren field.
"Mason, where are you going!" Juliet called after him desperately, "we clearly need to talk about that night!"
"No, we don't! and I'm going to find Alex seems no one else is!"
"Mason!" Juliet screamed as she watched him vanish in the distance. She stood staring helplessly as she watched his figure become smaller as he ran towards the forest ahead of him. As Juliet stood silently she heard heavy footsteps approach her from behind. Juliet spun around only to see Justin stumbling back over as he tried to haul the heavy backpack on to his hunched back.
"Juliet! I know where I know this place from it's the home… where's Mason?" He asked as he straightened his posture.
"Umm," began Juliet as she glanced back to the forest. "He went to look for Alex."
Justin stared at Juliet in confusion, he looked around frantically as his eyes widened in panic. "Where?"
Juliet took a deep breath, "that forest," she gulped.
"What?" Justin gasped, he ran quickly towards it but stopped suddenly before he could enter the forest through the sharp branches and overgrown bushes. "Oh no," he sighed as he stood gazing at dark forest before him. "There's Chupacabra's in there."