I walked upstairs to talk to Mary. I went up thinking that this was the second time I was having this conversation, but just the first time for Mary, but the second first time, do you know what I mean. Just as I arrived outside Mary's door I had A thought that sent me running to my room in search for my journal. As I opened it my suspicions were confirmed, it couldn't have been a dream because my journal was filled with pages about Santa Carla, and Marko.
I woke up the next morning and packed. I folded my clothes and placed them in the old suitcase that I had found on 80th street in Middle Village Queens. A teardrop fell from my eye as I took one last look at my room, for the second time. This really sucked, it was sad the first time and now I had to do it all over again. All the time that I had lasted in Santa Carla was taken away only to be given all over again. Mary walked in clutching her teddy bear. She was crying. "Hey Mary, you know that I'll still always come and visit you, right?" I said as I knelt down in front of her. She shook her head but that didn't make her any less sad. I had a thought, I walked over to my desk and pulled out a sealed stack of stationary and handed it to her. "You know that cotton candy spray you have?" I asked her. She nodded. "And the fruity perfume I have?" She again nodded. "Well I have an idea, why don't we write to each other, and every letter we write, we'll spray a little bit of out perfumes on it, okay?" I said with a smile. I thought it was a good idea, in fact I thought that I was stupid for not thinking of it last time I was in this situation. I gave her a big hug that she graciously returned. The airport was hot and uncomfortable. The plane ride was bumpy and long, and the ride to the house was sad and fearful. I walked in the door and was greeted by Glenda identical as last time, but I still only had one thing on my mind, finding Marko.
The boardwalk was chilly like the first night I was there, I guess that was because this was the first time I was there. I scanned the boardwalk looking for the boys and spotted the comic book store and walked right for it. The situation was Identical to the last first time…I noticed these two kids eyeing me as I picked up a superman comic thinking of my dad, man he was a "neo maxi zoom dweeby!" Judd Nelson always delivered when I went to the movies. I put it down when the boys approached me…Now the conversations would start…"More new meat, Alan.". . . Edgar said. "You guys don't remember me, right?" They stared at each other. "Should we?" Alan asked. I sighed. "I guess not." I was really depressed that I now had to redevelop our relationship, because I really valued them and they made me so much happier. "Well, what's your name?" Edgar asked me. "I'm Bernie." I said, I didn't ask them their names cause I already knew them, but they didn't know that, and I forgot I wasn't supposed to know that. "We're Alan and Edgar." They said. "I know…that those are very creative names." They didn't seem to notice my blunder. "Yeah those are our parents." Alan said pointing to these two sleeping 60s burnouts. "I'll see you guys around." I said waving goodbye. I was sadder leaving there than I was going in, and I was pretty sad. I scanned the boardwalk for the boys again and spotted them coming out of a video store and going to their bikes parked on the side. I ran over, not thinking that it could be dangerous if they didn't remember me. They all looked up but before I could let anything soak in I spoke. "Please, tell me you remember me." I said breaking down and ready to cry. "Oh my god." Marko said before he rushed over and embraced me tightly. I guess they did. "I thought you were dead." Marko said looking at me. I was confused. "I though I was home." I said. "What's going on guys, please tell me what's going on." No one spoke. "I'll explain." Every one was confused when David spoke because no one else had a clue why Time had rewound like that. We all mounted the bike and left fast due to the reason that we were all so curious about what David would say.
We walked into the cave and I sat on the couch. "Okay talk." I said to David. "Okay, you and Marko are soul mates and when someone tries to kill the vampire of him mate before they drink from each other, time will rewind." I sat their as my eyes widened. What surprised me was that it wasn't the whole time thing that made me think, it was the whole blood drinking thing. "So what happens now?" I was a little afraid to ask. "We live it out until that moment, and we save you." Now I was scared. "Save me?" I asked. "Yes, time wouldn't have rewound if you weren't gonna die." Oh great. "So it's possible that I won't die." Marko took my hand as David spoke again. "It's not only possible, it's very important that this doesn't happen." I was happy about that but still curious. "Why?" every one was confused now, I just wanted to know how David knew all of this. "Because you will both die, you and Marko." Marko squeezed my hand yet again. "Well how long do we have?" I asked him. "2 weeks and 3 days." He said. I held my head in my hands as Marko got up to take me to bed. "Come on." He said. I stood gratefully, I just wanted too sleep.
"This is crazy Marko, I mean I'm really glad that I'm here with you now, and I do love you Marko, but I thought I was home, I thought I was back in New York for good and then I had to leave all over again." He put his arm around me. "I know you did and I'm so sorry for that. But look at it this way, if this didn't happen you would be dead." I wanted to tell him that none of this would've have happened if I didn't come here, and I didn't even want to be thinking that none of this would have happened if I hadn't met him, because that was hurting me. "I know." I said. He squeezed me tightly as I fell asleep.
I walked into the main lobby to see David and Dwayne ready to leave. "What the hell did you do!?" Well I guess the leader knew about this because he just busted in with his buddies. David stepped in front of him before he could get to Marko. "Time turned, this is how it is, now, just because everyone else in the world is in this time, we've already been here and had our discussion, so you still must honor you word. Leave." David said. The leader smiled. "Do you forget that you intervened." He said. "You came between my time with Marko and Bernadette." I hated hearing him say my name. "No. You said all that you wanted to do was talk to Marko and Bernie, you attacked them, and that was it, the moment where you cheated." David said. "But here is where you're wrong David, I told them to come alone and they didn't, you were right there to stop us when you weren't supposed to be." He said. Unfortunately he was right. "But it shouldn't matter if he was there because you dishonored your side of the bargain before he did." I said meekly. "Oh no, he was there in general. Don't you get it? He told you to come alone." There had to be some way to get this situation in our hands. "What if he wasn't there to watch, what if he just happened to be there?" I asked. I had to ask, it was the only way I could think of getting the upper hand. "That wasn't what happened." He answered me. "How do you know that?" David asked, obviously intrigued with my idea. "Because I know. We'll see you around." He said as they all left. "So I guess that timed changed for them too?" I asked. I obviously knew the answer, it was more of a statement than a question anyway. "How much time do you think that bought us?" I asked. "Not much." Said David. And that was all he said, not much. That scared the hell out of me. "So, what happens now?" I asked. "I don't know." He said. I nodded and just sat confused and incredibly depressed.
Marko and I were walking along the boardwalk. "You know you have to go to your house, Ill be right outside but we have to do what we did last time we were in this time, you know what I mean?" He asked. That was kind of confusing but I did know what he was saying. "Yeah okay, let's just go." I said. Then I stopped. "Marko, is this burglars night?" I asked him, remembering that I had almost dies that night. He just looked at me sympathetically. "Everything will happen the same exact way, ill be there, but I has to happen, don't ask me, it's just the rules." I nodded as we got on his bike and went to the house. He kissed me as I walked in and did what had to be done.
When I got to the kitchen and got a glass out of the cabinet I heard the something fall in the living room. It was action time, okay what did I do? I went to check the noise. I set the glass down super quietly and went to check the noise I heard in the pitch black house. There was nothing there. I walked back to the kitchen and filled up my glass with water. I leaned on the counter and drank from the glass, facing the front door. I turned to fill up my glass a second time. Okay this was it…Three, Two, One…. "Don't fucking move, bitch." Holy crap! I knew it was coming but it was still scary. I dropped the glass in the sink and it shattered. "Turn around" he said it pretty calmly, but before I could move I heard a click. When I turned to face the three intruders my fears were confirmed when I saw the gun. I lost my breath immediately. The gunman just chuckled. "Come here." He had no personality to his voice but I obliged. He led me to the living room with his hand in the small of my back. Uncomfortable much? We stopped in front of the safe in the living room. "Open it." He said. What? "What?" I said. He grabbed me by the hair and forced me down to my knees. "Open the fucking safe." He said with the same lifelessness as before. "I…I don't know the combination." I said. "BITCH, OPEN IT!" this was the first emotion he showed, too bad it was so negative. "I'm telling the truth." I said softly. "WHAT?" he yelled. "I'm telling the truth, I don't know it." I sad it just a tad louder. He didn't say anything he just kicked me hard in the ribs. I fell to the ground and clenched my side. "I'll fucking kill…" Someone else just came in the room, "Get away from her." Thank god It was Marko, I thought he forgot about me! "What a stupid kid, to bad he has to die." I heard the gun click again, but no shot. They just ran out of the house..."Okay Marko, can we please get out of here?" I asked him, sounding so weak. "Yeah." He said as he picked me up bridal style. Before I knew it, we were back at the cave.
As we laid in the bed, I thought Marko was asleep but he spoke. "You have to wake up early tomorrow and go to the house, it's what you did last time." He said, I tried to remember what happened last time, but it would all be a huge surprise in the morning because I just couldn't remember. "Okay." I said and I fell asleep.
It was early and I was scared. I hated not knowing what was gonna happen, but I got up and got dressed and left.
I was outside the house, alright, here it goes…
I walked in the house to Glenda with a scared look on her face. I realized that she was scared for me instead of about my location all night when her raging husband stormed into the room. I smelled the alcohol on his breath the minute he got in my face and started yelling. "How the fuck did my lamp break? And why was there broken glass in the sink!" Wow he was really drunk and it was so early. "I..." he wouldn't let me finish. "And where were you all night you fucking whore." I was so taken back by this. When I looked over at Glenda, this ass hole slapped me right in the face. It knocked me right off my feet. That really hurt too. He left the room and Glenda followed after a silent sorrowful whisper to me. I wiped the tears from my face and went up to my room. I laid in my bed and put my head in my pillow. All I could think about was how ready I was to just leave the house again and meet Marko and the other boys at the boardwalk. Unfortunately I had to wait until tonight like I'd promised Marko. Eventually, thank god, my thoughts put me to sleep and that put a temporary stop to the stinging on my face from the unnecessary slap given to me by dear old' dad.
Glenda woke me up about an hour after I fell asleep. I sat up to hear what she had to say just so I could go back to bed. "I'm so sorry about that Bernadette." She seemed really upset. I remembered this. "Glenda, has he ever hit you." I already knew the answer but I still had to ask. "Yes." She confirmed his abusiveness. "He only gets like that when he's drunk, though." Wow what a great excuse. "Later, he won't even remember." I nodded at her, I had heard all this before. "Really sweetheart, I'm sure he won't do it again." Hah yeah he will! I couldn't even look at her the same knowing that she was gonna leave me to die in a few days. She hugged me and left the room. I laid my head back down on my pillow. Great, a smacker, the cherry to the top of a magnificent new life. I fell back to sleep wishing I was still with Marko.
8:30. I was supposed to meet Marko at 9. I went to the door to leave when Coveny walked up behind me. "Where are you going?" I stayed facing the door. "Out." I said, I didn't even wait for his answer, I just walked out the door and ran to the boardwalk. I saw Marko and the boys and ran to them.
"I forgot how much I hated him." I said, they all knew that I was talking about Coveny. "Yeah I know." Marko said as he put his hand on my back. I spotted the Comic book store and remembered the Frogs that I hadn't seen in a while. "Hey, I have to do something guys." I said breaking away and running into the store.
I looked all around for the Frogs. I suddenly heard a voice behind me. "Hello memory loss girl." Edgar said to me. "Hi, I just wanted to come in here and apologize, I must have sounded crazy the other night." He smirked. "We like crazy here." He lightly hit my shoulder. "And we like you, you're not too bad." He said. I Smiled. "Great, well, I'm gonna go now, just wanted to clear that up. I'll see you around." I waved and started to leave. I felt something hit my back. I turned around to see a baby blue comic book hit the ground; I bent to pick it up. Vampires Everywhere, Oh I remember this! "It's on us. Watch out for the vamps." Edgar yelled. Ahh, to be back in their good graces. "Thanks guys." I yelled and ran back to meet the guys.