Chapter 11
A/n: I am SO sorry, I can not apologize enough. I've been having a really hard time lately with my emotions and keeping them in check and test and AP classes. Life very rarely takes hold of me, but when it does it's an unimaginable force of stress and confusion. Now that exams are almost over I think I should have time to write a bit more, but I can't promise that. I can promise that the next chapter is half way written though. We have everything for this story planned out, it's just getting there is a pain in the ass…sorry guys
Alexander kept a close watch on Vie and Aislin's car as we sped down the highway towards Hipsterville.
I was slightly excited to know that 1) I was going back there and B) I was with Alexander. "Why do you think she's going to Hipsterville?" I asked.
Alexander shrugged but held a troubled look as he kept his gaze on my cousin's vehicle. "I have a hunch…I just hope I'm wrong." He muttered.
I gave him a curious look. "What kind of a hunch?" I asked quietly.
Alexander shook his head.
"What is it?" I demanded. I was getting really fed up with him trying to 'protect' me all the time. I was going to be 17 in a few months, I was a junior in high school, heck I even infiltrated a vampire hideout last summer! Didn't he realize he didn't have to hide anything from me? Especially his thoughts on my cousin! "Alexander, please tell me." I begged.
He sighed. "It's a dumb id-"
"Just tell me!" I snapped. "I don't care how stupid it is! I don't have any ideas!"
"I think they might be hunting vampires." He said quietly, a tinge of hurt in his voice.
I sat shocked, how could she know? Would she go after Alexander?
"From what you've told me they're going after something called Krevs right?" Alexander added, taking my silence as dissatisfaction.
I nodded and he continued; "Krevs is the name of a vampire gang, I learned a bit about it while I was undercover as Phoenix. Jagger is in charge of it, no surprises there, but their goal is to turn as many humans as they can into slaves: blood, labor, sex…its some really nasty business, but I couldn't do anything about it." Alexander informed me, his grip tightening severely on the steering wheel and his unblinking gaze a notch away form a disgusted glare.
"That's…that's awful…and you think Vie is going to stop them?" I asked quietly.
"Perhaps." He muttered, shrugging.
I sat forward shocked, disgusted, and terrified at what I had just learned. How could someone want that? Even someone as demented as Jagger. Last summer he seemed very angry, but could he truly hate humans that much? "But…but why? Why would Jagger want to do that?" I asked quietly.
"Because he's messed up in the head Raven, he's completely crazy." Alexander responded before making a sharp turn off the highway. We were on the main street of Hipsterville within minutes.
I stared out the window and watched the buildings go by, for the first time in my life I was not happy to be here. My earlier excitement had been smothered by the truth of Jagger and his goals.
"Are we going to the Coffin Club?" I asked.
Alexander nodded; "That's the first stop, if they aren't there I'm dropping you off at your aunt's house an-"
"No you are NOT!" I cut him off. "I'm coming with you, please understand I am not letting you do this on your own, it's my cousin, I'm going to be seventeen in a few months and I don't want to be treated like a kid…especially not by you. I can take care of myself and I'm getting sick of you thinking I can't. If you keep holding my hand and putting me in hiding I'll never fully know how to defend myself. Let me do this with you, please." I had started out angry but as my speech progress I felt my tone and emotion sink into a pleading sadness. I need him to let me do this.
Alexander hesitated, looking more than hurt and I felt a pang of guilt. "Fine, you're right I just don't want anything to happen to you Raven, I love you far too much." He stared straight into my eyes and I had to fight back tears.
"I love you too…I'm not mad Alexander, but you can't keep treating me like I'm incapable of handling these kinds of situations." He nodded, but we didn't speak for the rest of the drive to the Coffin Club.
When we pulled up to the building I pressed my face against the glass, trying to spot the ever elusive Victoria in the line of goths, emos, and punks.
"I'll drop you off here, park the car and come back. Please just wait for me on the curb." Alexander instructed.
I nodded and stepped out of the car.
"Stay on the curb." Alexander repeated forcefully, as if it were the most important thing he'd ever say to me.
"Yes mom," I replied rolling my eyes and shutting the door, but not before seeing the sad look Alexander was giving me. A few moments later he pulled away and I continued to scan the crowed for Vie.
As with every other time I'd been here the line of goths and such extended to the end of the building and beyond. I hoped that Victoria's teal hair would stick out but I wasn't seeing it anywhere. Alexander soon joined me on the curb, we began at the end and walked beside the line scanning and searching for Vie.
"Hey! No cutsies go to the back!" some girl yelled at us as we passed her. She had her hair in two pigtails and looked like a doll that would be sent back to the shop. Her skin was pale and her blue eyes rimmed with so much black she looked like a comic book character.
"We're looking for someone, chill out." I snapped back.
"Uh-huh, no one's ever heard that before Barbie." She responded in her childish voice.
"Why don't you shut up and mind your own damn business you fucking whore, you're voice makes me want to throw up!" A male voice called from a few people ahead of the creepy doll girl, a very familiar male voice.
I smiled and ran ahead a bit to greet Primus and his girlfriend Poison. "Hello Birdie, making enemies with the new kids huh?" Primus joked.
"No…we really are looking for someone." I told him defensively as Alexander came up behind me and wrapped an arm around my waist. I forget how possessive vampires can be sometimes.
"Who would that be? We've been here for an eternity; maybe we've seen 'em." Poison asked grabbing Primus's hand.
"A girl, she's about 5'7", has brown hair with teal undertones, she's kind of tan and is probably dressed…eh…in a skimpy outfit." I described.
Poison shook her head. "Haven't seen any one like that…you sure this is the right place to find some one like that?" She asked.
"Yeah that sounds more like a Hip-Hop dance clubber, than a Goth one." Primus added.
"She's exploring different styles and ran off from us, she was really excited, but she's known for causing trouble so we were hoping to find her and keep an eye on her." Alexander explained in a smooth lie even I would have believed.
"No…haven't seen her…" Poison said slowly her face getting a slightly red tint as she actually looked at Alexander for the first time.
"Maybe you should look somewhere else." Primus said now becoming jealous of Alexander after witnessing his girlfriends reaction to him.
Alexander nodded. "Thank you, have a good evening." He grabbed my hand and we continued on.
I became discouraged when it was apparent she wasn't in the line. "I don't see her here." I muttered to Alexander as we continued in vain to spot Victoria.
I'd all but given up as we reached the entrance and of course, that's where she was, hanging on the bouncer. How did I not see that coming?
Grabbing Alexander I pointed to Vie, he nodded and pulled me along to the back of the building and around to the special vampire and band entrance. As we walked I looked back to give my cousin a once over and I almost screamed.
She was in a black, short ripped skirt, adorable lace floral lace corset with tights and gloves to match, high-heeled knee high boots with studs along the bottom, and a low cut sleeveless top. There was a black bow tied around her waist that extended enough to make it look like folded bat wings and a cute little bow in her hair.
What. The. BAT?! Those are my clothes! MINE! She ripped up my skirt and cut the top to be way too low! MINE!
The little witch! So that's what she was doing in my room the other day. She wasn't looking for freaking zombie movies she was looking for stuff to steal from me!
I was wondering why some things seemed to have gone missing. How stupid could I be?!
"What's wrong?" Alexander asked, feeling my dramatic mood swing.
"She-she stole my clothes!" I hissed, angrily.
"Don't worry about it Raven, you'll get them back I'm sure." He said quietly.
I sighed, god I'd sounded like such a whiny brat…
"We need to go into the club before she does, if we don't we'll lose sight of her." Alexander said quietly, taking my hand and leading me into the Coffin Club.