I have never felt any danger riding in cars. I mean, for me, about 30% of my entire life has been spent on wheels. You don't realize how dangerous driving us when you're little, you just always see your parents driving to and fro, no worries. But as you get older, closer to driving, you try it out some, and realize that just a little turn to the right, just a slip if the hand, could land you off the road, into a ditch, dead. But you never think thus when you're driving safely, when you're nit the driver. However, I was think all of these things as I glued my watch to Sarah's driving. She was driving like a maniac. We nearly drive off the dirt road twice (thank god that Benny's grandma has magic powers!). And it's even scarier with the fact that it's pitch black outside and we didn't know where we were. She had five people's lives at stake here... Well, she and Rory don't really count, and Grandma Weir could save herself, so could Benny, maybe. As you can tell, I was the most scared in the car.

I gripped my half broken wooden stick, which I could now use as a stake, as we drove up the road to the mansion. "We don't know the code to get through the gates!" Benny yelled to Sarah. "Who said we needed a code?" she answered. I gulped, squeezing my stick even harder, my knuckles turning white. Sarah revved up the car, and sped up, up crashing the gates and finally bursting through them! The front of the car was now totally fucked up, but were inside the courtyard.

I hadn't realized it, but Benny had had his arm around me this entire time, comforting me. I was thankful for it, using my other hand to squeeze his. I didn't look at him, but I knew he was smiling.

We drove up the grass courtyard, some of the vampires already out there, Erica was still out from when I got her. I saw her still rubbing her head, the bitch. Sarah drove right at them, only hitting one, the others getting out of the way.

"Rory!" Sarah yelled at him. "Okay!" he yelled back, opening the door of the moving car, jumping out and onto the grass. "He's our distraction." Sarah explained, now sitting in the driver's seat. I watched out the back window as he kicked one in the face. I laughed.

We drove right up to the front door. "They have him. I know they do." said Sarah, getting out faster than I knew vampiricly possible. We ran after her, Grandma driving the getaway car until we were ready to leave. She broke open the front doors, and ran to the middle of the house. "I smell his blood!" she yelled, leaving again. Benny and I stopped to catch our breath again. This was a big house and neither of us could keep up with vampires.

As Sarah went missing, two big vampires came out of hiding. "Crap..." I said aloud, holding up my stick-turned-stake. They laughed at my wimpy weapon, distracting from Benny reading a spell from his spellbook. He muttered a few words. The glowing ball of light hitting one vampire, who evaporated in a shower of sparkles. The other vampire backed up in fear, but Benny had muttered the spell again, hitting the other, ending in the same fate. Benny closed the spellbook with a clap, giving me a badass smile of satisfaction, tucking the book back into his jacket. I had the oddest feeling towards him. He was so fucking attractive to me right now, I could just… Kiss him! I should. I would!

"False alarm, guys, but he was upstairs at one point in time… I don't know where Ethan is now." Sarah turned up with the news. I stopped staring at Benny and looked to Sarah, the feeling gone. "We should get out before another-" Benny started, being interrupted with the many vampires entering the room from outside. Jesse led the way, a few bigger vampires and Erica following, lesser vampires after them.

"Alright, we will repeat: where is the cubulai animus?" Jesse said in a bored tone. "We don't have it! What don't you understand about that!?" Sarah answers. Jesse laughed. "And we're so glad you decided to join us again, aren't we? Your little friends were nearly killed!" Sarah rolled her eyes at Jesse's mocking. "Oh, give it up, Sarah! You don't belong with them, you belong with us! It's not too late!"

"Once again Jesse, I will never, ever join you!" Sarah hissed angrily. "No?" asked Jesse innocently, like there was something up his sleeve. "Maybe this will change your mind…" Erica came out of the crowd, dragging Ethan with her, his arms tied up behind his back, his feet tied together, and a gag over his mouth. We all gasped. Erica just threw Ethan on the ground in the middle between our two groups. Sarah was choked up, and just ran to Ethan, sitting him up. Jesse pulled her up by her hair, away from Ethan, away from us.

"What do you want for him?" Sarah cried. "Either give us the cubulai animus, join us, or watch your friend die." Jesse answered coldly. He released Sarah, who crawled over to Ethan. She removed his gag ad told Jesse, "Fine. I'll join you. Just don't hurt them." And with that, she took Ethan's face in her hands, lifting his head up so that their lips met.

They kissed for what seemed like forever, and for not long enough. The entire world was quiet, as we all watched, amazed. I glanced up at Benny, whose mouth was gaping open with surprise. I wanted to kiss him right now. What if we never got to!? Sarah released Ethan, who was still leaning in for more. She had silent tears streaming down her face as she stood.

"Rory!" Jesse yelled to his crowd. We all gasped as we saw Rory march out of the crowd and take Sarah's arms behind her, marching her back to the crowd. "Hold her, Rory." commanded Jesse, waving his hand at him. "I. Will. Hold. Her." Rory answered back.

Sarah groaned. "He's under Jesse's mind control!" With that, she did a kick in the air, knocking Rory in the face as sliding away. Jesse went for Ethan at the same time Benny did, I ran away from Erica, who was coming at me, using my stick to protect me. Everyone in between was being all discombobulated, unsorted from our original positions. There was absolutely no order at all…

"Everyone, SHUT UP!" Jesse's voice boomed. Everyone froze and looked at him. That's when I realized where I was: in Jesse's grip, yet again. He had me by my hair, my head back, I stared at the ceiling. "I'm getting extremely tired of this," he said. "Someone is going to come with us, I am going to get something done, something I should've done a while ago." And with those last words, Jesse jerked my head in position, the fresh flesh on my neck vulnerable. My world went in slow motion. I heard Benny's voice in the background, yelling no. Evil vampire laughter, Sarah letting out a screech. My life flashed before my eyes as Jesse sunk his fangs into my neck, biting me, as I experienced the worst pain I have ever felt in my entire life…

…to be continued…