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Chapter 26

Max's POV

Ten years later

"Harder Max! How do expect to knock someone unconscious if you punch like a three year old!" my grandpa yelled at me.

I was breathing hard and was slowly losing my patience with him. All morning we trained. All morning! I wasn't allowed to not even have one break. It was around lunchtime now and yet he still pushed me on.

"Punch harder!" he yelled again.

I looked up at the sack that was dangling from the roof of the barn one side and the other was tied to a weight on the ground. The sack was full of hall, thankfully, unlike some of the times where I had to punch the sack when it contained small stones.

I gave thesack a final punch, which sent it flying out of the barn.

I looked at him and was satisfied that he was grinning and shaking his head.

"No need to show off, boy," he chuckled.

"Me? Showing off?" I said with mock innocence.

He chuckled again. "You're the one who hit the sack over your girlfriend's fence."

My head shot up. "What?!"

"Your girlfriend," he said slowly and wore a big grin.

I shook my head. "I don't know what you're talking about."

"I think you do," he teased. He left the barn quickly before I could chuck a handful of hay at him playfully.

When he was out of sight, I went to retrieve the sack. I saw my neighbor, Helen pick up the sack and sung it over the fence. I ran up to it, picked it up and quickly ran up to the fence to thank her.

I froze when I saw who it was. Elena, Helen's daughter and according to grandpa: my girlfriend.

"Hey Max," she said cheerfully.

"Um...hi," I said lamely. I then blushed.

I'm assuming she saw because she burst out laughing.

I cleared my throat. "Um, sorry about the sack. It won't happen again."

"No worries," she smiled.

Gosh, I love that smile.

I love her flowing blonde hair, her deep green eyes….in other words: I love her.

Mum always thought it was amusing that I blushed every single time I see her. I catch Mum giggling like a little girl when that happens.

"Elena!" Helen called from her house.

"I better go. I guess I'll see you later then," she said.

"Yeah. I better go too. Bye," I waved awkwardly.

"Bye," she grinned then ran into her house.

I'm a total loser, I thought to myself.

I can't even talk to a girl! I'm fifteen and I can't even talk to a girl! Argh!

A while later….

"Can you believe it?" a woman that lived close to me asked.

I turned to her and raised an eyebrow.

"Believe what?" I replied.

"A fifteen year old girl has been taken by Vampires," she said, terrified.

By a Vampire? It's unusual to find Vampires lurking around this town. Children were mostly kidnapped by wolves (A/N: Not Werewolves, haha) or strangers traveling through the town. But it was unusual for a Vamp to come here.

"Who was it?" I asked.

She looked up at me with sorrow.

"Elena."

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