10-Close Contact

The city center mall was barely awake on Sunday morning. Only a few stary shoppers and the gang of girls were around, browsing through the clothes racks of one of the cheap stores.

"What do you think?" Taylor asked, staring at her reflection in the mirror.

"It's cute." Courtney told her, looking up from the racks. Taylor sighed and pulled the black jacket off her shoulders, placing it back on the hanger.

"I was talking about the situation we're in." Taylor sighed, placing the jacket back on the rail. The girls all sighed, too. No one wated to think about the plan, mainly because they didn't have a plan.

"We need to get rid of her." Gwen piped up from the chagning rooms. Arianna hit her head on the wooden frame of the small cupboard shaped room. She still believed it was her fault for everything that was going on.

"How?" Bridgette asked. "It was by chance we did it last time." Everyone stopped and thought. It was getting harder and harder with every passing day. No one knew what to do about Celia, and she only got closer and closer to arriving in Scarlatina.

"We could get Duncan to seduce her again." Gwen suggested, stepping out from the changing rooms. Arianna spun her around, getting a good look at the blue tank-top, then shaking her head. It didn't suit Gwen.

"Hmm, I wonder what's wrong with that plan?" Courtney asked, pointing out that Duncan was now her fiancee. No matter what it meant to the rest of the world, Duncan was never leaving her sight. "Plus, she'll already know of this plan if you've used it before."

Duncan was alone in the house. With the girls all out shopping, and Derick now living back in Canada himself (trying to improve yet another girlfriend of his), he was left alone. At least he thought it was.

"Duncan Hudson." The sly girl smiled.

Her blue eyes slightly twinkled through her heavily made up eyelids. Her black dress was strapless, only just about covering certain parts. Her ragged, black-gray hair was pulled into a ponytail, dangling down her shoulder. Overall, she looked like someone you would find on a street corner after the sun goes down.

"Now, what do I owe the pleasure?" Celia asked, moved forward, running her wrinkled hand along Duncan's cheek. She wasn't old, about sixty if she still aged, but only supposed to look twnty-five.

"Quit the shiit, Celia." Duncan spat, whipping his face away from her hand. That didn't seem to impress her much, but she still continued to smirk at him.

"Feisty today, aren't we?" She smiles, leaning in closer to his face. "I like feisty." She whispered, leaving a small lipstick mark on his ear. Duncan move her away, leaving the two in that position as Duncan chuckled in reply.

"Sorry, Divone." Duncan whispered back in her ear. "But I'm taken, engaged in fact. And my fiancee could kick. Your. ASS!" He prolonged out the 's', almost hissing in her ear. Celia could have easily killed him there and then for upsetting her. But she liked a challenge. Little did she know, Courtney would be a challenge.

"Well, I guess I'll have to meet her some time." Celia smirked some more, backing away so she could stare her lover in the eyes. "That way we can put that to the test." Duncan and Celai locked eyes, trying to stare the other out.

"What do you want from us?" Duncan asked, his eyes narrowed on the girl in front of him. Celia's blue eyes were full of excitement and horniness as she rubbed her hands over Duncan's perfectly toned chest.

"Oh, Duncan." She half-moaned. "I want what I wanted last time." Celia leaned in a kissed Duncan's cheek, tickling him with her black hair as she moved away.

"I've told you, Celia." Duncan whispered in reply. "I'm not interested in bitches like you!" He pushed her away and Celia stumbled back a bit, but it looked quite fake as she pouted at him in return.

"One day, Duncan, babe, you'll be all over me." Celia squinted her eyes, smirking at the vampire, before disappearing on the spot.

The palace, once again, burst into a place of panic and anger at the sound of Duncan's explanation. There was, literally, steam pouring out of Arianna's ears. She was now partially blaming Duncan for doing nothing about Celia when they had, had en encounter earlier that day.

"Duncan, you're a...WORDS DON'T DESCRIBE YOU!" The angered Queen screamed, apcing back and fore in the living room. Everyone was now getting stressed out and worried. Celia Divone had made it to Scarlatina, now they all had the right to be scared.

"Arianna, calm down." Nigel told his niece, pulling her by the hips, into the sofa beside him. The blonde eighteen-year-old threw her head back, taking in deep breaths. She pulled the pink hood back over her eyes, getting on her feet and turning to face Nigel.

"CALM DOWN?" Arianna screamed. Calming down wasn't an option.

"Yeah, that means don't be so stressed out and angry." Duncan told her. That didn't help at all. Arianna let out a loud, pissed off yell. She had nothing going for her, nothing.

"You're not helping here, Duncan." Nigel told him, throwing a pillow directed at his head. It didn't miss. The idiotic vampire got to his feet, slinging his arm around Arianna's shoulders, pulling down the hood. Arianna's eyes were bright red, and you could see she was trying to hide her fangs, too.

"Okay, you need to calm down." Duncan told her, which was obvious enough. "Celia didn't do anything, she hasn't killed anyone, yet."

Arianna took in a deep breath, her fangs residng to her mouth and eyes turning back to their normal black color. Duncan was right, there had been no reported deaths, yet. Which was a positive thing. If it carried on, things might have gone bit better for everyone, too.

Then, out of nowhere, tears started to spring from her eyes. She rubbed her head into Duncan's shoulder, catching him off guard. Crying girls was not something he could handle. Luckily, Courtney pushed him out of the way, letting Arianna cry on her shoulder.

"Three months as Queen and everything is already falling apart around me." Courtney tried rubbing her cousins back, but it wasn't doing a lot of good. "I can't handle it no more..."

"You can't change it..." Courtney whispered to her, letting her gingers glide thought Arianna's hair.

"Yes." Arianna sniffled. "I can."

A/N:

Having a good day :) I know A GOOD DAY! ME!

LOL!

On April 22nd I'm going for an amazing coach trip to somewhere up in England with Aaron to go meet his family :) Good times :) LOL!

OH! Can I point something out to you guys? Something that none of you picked up from the last chapter...I messed up. I said that Leah had already moved away, right? But, I said that she talked earlier on...No one noticed that! LOL! I did mean to write Ellie not Leah, I swear, but I still wrote Leah ;) LOL!

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