Erica's POV

Erica was satisfied. Abbey's mom totally flipped on her. She couldn't help smiling to herself. No doubt that Abbey would be able to go anywhere besides school for a while. It would make 'babysitting' her so much easier, and she was hoping it would get Jesse off of her back.

She decided to call Jesse and tell him the good news.

Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Hello?" Jesse answered.

"I found her," Erica said, triumph in her voice.

"Good," Jesse said, relieved. "Where?"

"Walking home," Erica explained. "She said that she had gone in the woods for a walk and said that she did it all the time back home."

"She was covering," he says.

"For what?" Erica asked.

"In the woods, when we were looking for her, and I found her scent and couldn't trace it," He explains. "I got a whiff of Sarah's scent too."

"So you think that her scent mixed with Sarah's?"

"Yes. I think she's also with those dorks."

"What do we do?" Erica asks.

"Once again, we wait." Jesse explains. "No doubt Sarah is going to discourage her from drinking human blood."

Abbey's POV

I looked at the clock on my phone. 7:45. Where was Benny? He said he'd be here in ten minutes.

My stomach was killing me. I was starving, and I was afraid to go around my mom.

As if on cue, the doorbell rang, and I ran down the stairs to answer it, but my mom beat me to it. I looked up to see Benny standing in the doorway.

"Abbey," my mom says. "This boy tells me that he goes to school with you. Is that true?"

"Yeah," I say, grabbing Benny's wrist, and pulling him into the house. "Mom, this is Benny. Benny, this is my mom."

"What happened to that guy Jesse?" she asked confused.

"I started to realize that that wasn't gonna happen," I tell her, I rush up the stairs, to my room, hauling Benny with me.

"Leave the door open!" my mom yells from downstairs.

"Yeah, yeah," I yell back. "I know!"

I shut the door behind us, even though I wasn't supposed to, and turn around to face Benny, who had made himself comfortable in the chair in front of my vanity mirror.

"What took you so long?" I ask him.

"My grandma had to brew the potion," Benny says. "You can't just conjure up a blood substitute."

"Where is it?" I ask, getting impatient.

"Pushy, pushy," he says.

"Sorry," I apologize. "My hunger is making me crabby."

"Obviously," Benny says. I give him a death glare. "Sorry!"

"Just give me the blood!" I almost yell.

Benny reached into his jacket pocket and pulls out a vial of red liquid. I walk over to him and he gives me the vial.

I rip the top off and start gulping it down.

"Yuck," I say, when I'd drank it all. "Ugh. It tastes like dirty socks."

"It's a sub for real blood," he points out. "It's not going to taste good."

"I really hope this isn't what human blood tastes like."

I go over to my bed, and lay down on it, sighing. My life was getting complicated. I was a fledgling vampire, who didn't want to drink human blood, and I had a vampire 'boyfriend' who I never wanted to see again. And as if that wasn't enough, I had been assigned a 'babysitter.'

Benny walks over to the bed, and sits beside me. I look up at him, with tears in my eyes. I tried wiping them away before he saw them, but failed.

"Abbey," he says softly. "Don't cry."

I sigh and try to calm myself, but the tears just kept on coming, and soon my eyes were so blurry, I couldn't see anything.

Before I knew it, Benny had picked me up and was cradling me in his arms.

"I'm s-s-sorry," I apologize to him. I had gotten his jacket wet.

"It's fine," he assures me. "Shh, everything's okay."

I rest my head on his chest, and try calming myself again.

Benny starts singing me to sleep.

"We'll do it all,

Everything,

On our own.

We don't need anything,

Or anyone.

If I lay here,

If I just lay here,

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know,

How to say,

How I feel.

Those three words,

Are said too much,

They're not enough.

If I lay here,

If I just lay here,

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told,

Before we get too old.

Show me a garden that's bursting into life.

Let's waste time,

Chasing cars,

Around our heads."

I didn't know why, but I was starting to have feelings for him. He was being so sweet. Guys usually shied away from girl's emotions, but for some reason, not Benny.

Benny's POV

Benny continued to sing to Abbey until she was asleep.

He picked her up and laid her down on the bed, and watched her sleep. She looked so peaceful, considering all of the stuff she'd gone through in the past two days. He tried to leave, but Abbey's hand was reaching for him.

"Don't go…" Abbey trailed off, sleepily. Her eyes were still closed

"I'm just going to open the door, so your mom doesn't get suspicious," Benny explains. "I'll be right back. I promise."

"Okay…" Abbey says, tiredly.

Benny walks over to the door and opens it, then turns around and walks back to Abbey, laying on the bed beside her.

"You came back," Abbey said, smiling.

"I promised I would," Benny reminded her.

"Mmm," Abbey mumbles. "Will you sing to me again?"

"What do you want me to sing?" he asks.

"Anything," she says.

Benny started to sing for Abbey by her request:

" The best thing about tonight,

Is that we're not fighting.

Could it be that we have been this way before?

I know you don't think that I am trying.

I know you're wearing thin down to the core.

But hold your breath,

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again,

Don't make me change my mind,

Or I won't live to see another day,

I swear it's true.

Because a girl like you is impossible to find.

You're impossible to find."

By the time Benny had gotten through the chorus, Abbey was asleep. At some point while he was serenading her, their hands ended up being intertwined.

Benny laid there, watching her sleep. Her breath was starting to get slow and heavy. She was starting to drift off into a deep sleep.

He knew that he probably should be going. He untangled their fingers and got off of the bed, then walked over to Abbey's side of the bed and kissed her forehead.

"Goodnight, Abbey," he whispered and ducked out of the room.

He was confused at why these feelings were starting to surface. The only thing he could think about was Rory, and how disappointed he would be.

Benny liked Abbey. He'd even serenaded her, and that was a first for him. There was something about this girl. There had to be. Something else besides the fact that she was a fledgling.

Benny ran into Abbey's mom when he was coming down the stairs.

"Where's Abbey?" she asked.

"She fell asleep while we were watching TV," Benny lied.

"Oh," she said. "Are you heading out?"

"Yeah," he says. "My grandma wants me home by nine."

"I understand," Abbey's mom says. "Thank you for being friends with my Abbey. She didn't have many friends back home."

"Not a problem," Benny says. "She's a sweet girl."

Abbey's mom walks him to the door to see him off.

"It was nice meeting you," she says.

"You too," he says, turning around before going down the steps.

He starts walking towards his house, fighting a smile the whole way there.

The first song was Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol, and the second was Fall For You by Secondhand Serenade. What do you guys think? Thanks for the nice reviews, and please continue to review.