I can't post during the weekends so I'm thickening the plot and leaving with a good cliffhanger! Until Monday, keep the reviews coming!
The boys whooped as they pulled out and drove along the beach. Lily looked behind her to see that not only was Anton keeping up, he was beating out Marko and Paul.
David was silent but was leaning forward over the handlebars to go even faster, something he never did. She knew something was up that he wasn't telling her.
"David, what's wrong?" He didn't answer. "What's wrong?! I haven't seen you this panicky since I hit puberty!" He looked back at her with wide eyes.
That was a memory the Lost Boys swore never to talk about ever again.
He pulled into the trees and started swerving to dodge them. Anton was now hot on their trail. "Trust me, Lily Red. You're going to find out in just a minute."
Anton was soon right next to them. He kept looking over at Lily and winking at her. She recoiled in disgust, suddenly impatient for the cliff.
The rest of the boys stopped about ten feet. David skidded to a halt but Anton went sailing over the side silently, except for the puff of his engine.
Paul and Marko slapped each other five. "Awesome! Feast!" They ran forward but David stuck out his arm to stop them in them tracks.
"Not quite yet." He replied. "Five, four, three, two, one…"
The sound of an engine sounded. Dwayne gasped, "What the…"
Anton rose up in midair, carrying his bike between his legs. He was fully vamped out by that point.
"Nice try, David. You can only kill me once."
David felt Lily's arm wrap around his waist tighter. She didn't know who it was but David sure did. He also knew that he had to protect her with everything, even his life.
"That motorcycle the only way you've been getting action lately, Simon? Or going around in your old cronies' name gets you off too?" He asked smugly.
"David, what's going on?" Lily whispered her voice full of fear. David squeezed her knee gently.
Simon smiled evily at them. "You never told her the truth? How unfortunate!" He touched down, before the group. "How about this, I'll give you five minutes to get away. You have until tomorrow night to tell her everything or else I'll do it for you, while standing over your staked bodies."
David watched him get on his bike. "You're not in the position of making bargains, Simon." He informed him. Lily had a death grip around his waist.
He laughed, enough to make the hair on his neck stand up. "I can just take her now, if you want." He vamped out.
David revered up his bike and blasted into high gear. Lily struggled to hang on as they swerved. Lily looked behind her and saw only the boys behind them.
What on earth was going on?
They got up onto the highway. It was completely abandoned as it usually was at three in the morning. David slowed down some but not much.
Lily kept frantically looking around for any sign of him. Out of the woods, Simon blast out. His tires barely seemed to touch the ground.
"Looking for me?!" He snarled. His boot came flying out, nearly kicking them over. Lily struggled not to scream as she clung to David desperately.
"See you tomorrow!" He snarled. He jammed a large branch into David's back tire, using all his vampiric strength before disappearing into the woods.
If it were a human, it would have taken his arm off. But he had the strength to go through the metal meshing of the wheel, jamming it to a halt.
The bike swerved dangerously. It slide to it's side, taking Lily and David down with it. He gathered her up into a ball, holding her to his chest to protect her as he tumbled and slid across the asphalt.
His machine went tumbling down the highway like a tossed soda can before coming to a halt. He felt her fly out of his arms as he tumbled. He was unfazed and uninjured.
Lily felt the asphalt against her skin but not the pain. She rolled down the highway before sliding to a stop.
She could hear the boys yelling and running. "Lily!" David's panicked voice rose above the others as their boots clunked against the street.
Once they came to five feet, they could smell her.
Marko's fingers pinched the bridge of his nose while Paul and Dwayne hide their nose and mouth inside their shirts. She brushed her front off about to stand before David stopped her. His nose was also in the collar of his shirt.
"Is anything broken? Are you alright?" He asked, his hand on her shoulder.
"Yes, I'm fine." She told them.
"No, you're not. Look at your legs!" Marko nearly yelled, pointing.
She looked down and gasped. Raspberries lined her legs wearing her fishnets used to be. Nothing was broken but the asphalt did a number on her skin.
David struggled not to vamp out. She's your best friend. You're in love with her. She's your best friend. You're in love with her… he thought in a mantra as he took off his wool trench coat and his leather jacket. He used the jacket to hide the smell as he wrapped it around her legs. He lifted her up bridal style and handed her to Marko.
"You take her to Max's house. The store's closed tonight. He's got a first aid kit. The rest of us will meet you at home." He kissed her cheek before hopping onto the back of Dwayne's motorbike.
Lily rode on Marko's lap, sitting what could be described as sidesaddle. He was silent the entire way, confirming Lily's suspicions that there was something the boys weren't telling her.
He carried her to the front door. Max opened the door before he could even knock. Marko walked right in and set her on the couch in his living room.
"I just got the call from David. Is it true?" Marko looked at him. He removed David's jacket from her legs. "My goodness, Lily! What did you do, the concrete pissed you off so you decided to have a go at it?"
She gave a small smile. "Yeah. The good news is that I think I won!"
He bandaged her up the best that he could. It seemed that both Marko and Max were having trouble not vamping out when it came to her blood.
They got up to leave when Max whispered in her ear when Marko wasn't looking.
"I know they haven't told you the truth. I'll explain everything later. Just go to sleep and the rest will play out from there." He squeezed her shoulder. Then he said to Marko, "Tell David that I'm burning his jacket."
She fell asleep that night and knew what Max meant.
Metal screeched as the roof was pulled off. David attacked the driver as Paul, Marko and Dwayne went to the backseat. Lily watched the scene enfold before her unable to speak or scream in horror at what she was watching. But tears rolled down her cheeks that much she was sure of. Marko started yelling to David. She heard a baby crying and she fell to her knees when she heard,"It was back here. I think we woke it up. Something's wrong with it." From Paul, the boy she had always thought was her brother. David jumped the back, tossing the body aside. It landed at her feet when she realized that it was the Simon/Anton person from before. He had scratched David, and reached his hand up to lick his hand before passing out.
She woke up and realized her tears were real. So was the dream.
The boys were in the den when she walked in. They all looked up at her while smiles that instantly fell.
David threw his head back. "I'm going to kill Max!"
"When were you going to tell me?!" She yelled, tears still falling. Dwayne tried comfort her by putting his arm around her shoulders but she ducked out of the way.
"We weren't." David told her. "We never thought we had to worry about it."
"You lied to me, David." She whispered. "You would have left me in the dark, letting me think that I was a product of a one-night stand with Dwayne or Marko. That maybe, you guys were my real blood family."
"Lily, we are your family!" His voice was pleading when he saw that her eyes were full of hatred towards him, towards all of them. He loved her, he couldn't bear that.
"What about my mother? Is Simon my father? Or is that another little detail I'll have to wait until another mistake comes up?"
David shook his head. "No, the other one is. He never talked and you're never exactly a chatterbox either." He moved closer to her but she backed away to the point of standing against the Jim Morrison Mural. He got close but not close enough to scare her. "Lily, I love you. We all do. We never wanted you to find out because we knew this is how you would have reacted!"
She spat on his boots and said two words he didn't even know she knew. "Fuck you, David!"
Before he could even stop himself, his hand flew out. He slapped her hard enough that she fell to the floor. The boys gasped.
Her hand covered where his nail had scratched her cheek. She looked up at him with hatred he never knew she could possess.
"Lily, I'm so-"
Her boot flew up and kicked him where it hurt the most. (Use your imagination.) The wind came out of him as he fell to his knees.
The Boys all yelled out in pain for him. It wasn't a pretty site at all. They moved out to help him up as He tried to regain his breath.
Lily got to her feet and ran out the door.
"Well," Paul remarked. "That went well."
