I'd always hated walking home on my own, especially when I found out vampires existed. Ethan and Benny were most likely already home, because as soon as that bell rang they rushed out of that school quicker than anything. Maya and I had stayed behind a little longer tonight, she sucks at Math and I'm twins with a geek. Gotta love genetics. Two hands landed on my shoulders and I jumped, spinning around to face the mystery person "Jesus Christ Benny! You scared the shit out of me!" I exclaimed, shoving my boyfriend back by his chest.
"Sorry babe" He shrugged. Rolling my eyes, I watched confusedly as he placed a toothpick between his lips.
"You okay? You seem a little...different" I said, shaking my head.
"Nope, I'm the same geek you know and date" He winked, shrugging his shoulders.
"Okay. You headed to our house or what?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"Well, yeah. I was gonna see you anyway" He replied. I nodded.
"O..kay then. I thought you were with Ethan, though?"
"Nah, your mom and dad kicked me out, something about dinner and not enough for me. Anyway, you wanna go buy a go-kart?" He smirked, pulling a few notes out of his pocket. My eyes widened slightly.
"I guess. Can I drop my backpack home first? I hate dragging this stuff 'round with me" I sighed, shaking my head.
"Uh...I'll carry it" He shrugged, taking the brown backpack from me.
"You sure you're okay?" I asked. For some reason, to me anyway, it seemed as though he was stopping me from going home.
"Yeah, fine. Lets go sweetness" He said, placing his arm around my shoulder.
As his bare arm made contact with the back of my neck, I flinched away from him. But my eyes immediately narrowed as no vision came. No tingles, no pain, nothing. Looking up at Benny, I found him smirking still "Benny...I mean...What?" I stuttered, gesturing to his arm. He shrugged in response.
"Grandma found out a way. We can touch without you having visions" He admitted. I squealed excitedly, throwing my arms around his neck.
"Oh my god! This is amazing!"
"You're not wrong. We can do anything now, and I mean anything" He hinted. I chuckled.
"Alright Romeo, easy. Later, okay?" He sighed disappointedly, but nodded.
"I guess I could wait. 'Sides, we have a go-kart to get" He smirked, turning to face me. Taking my right hand in his right, he slowly started to walk backwards, pulling me with him.
"You seem different" I admitted. He tilted his head.
"In what way?" I shrugged.
"I don't know. Like you're not afraid to do anything" I sighed, shaking my head in thought.
"Is that bad?" He asked, pausing.
"It's different. Good, but different" I shrugged.
Benny took a few steps forward towards me, taking my other hand in his. He leaned down, resting his forehead against my own. I had to admit, the skin-on-skin contact was really weird, but I liked it. I wasn't sure why Benny's Grandma hadn't told me that she figured out a solution, but I didn't care right now. I was too happy to care. Benny laced the fingers of both our hands together, pulling me against him. His eyes narrowed slightly and he took a deep breath. His behaviour was totally different to how he usually was, and a normal person would've questioned it straight away, but if you hadn't noticed by now, I wasn't exactly normal. I bit down on my lip shyly as he nuzzled my nose with his own, causing me to giggle. He smirked proudly, moving his head so that his left cheek was touching my own. Feeling his breath on my ear caused me to shiver, and not in the bad way.
"You'd be surprised at how, not good I am right now" He whispered. I narrowed my eyes confusedly as he pulled back, the smirk still planted on his face.
"What?" His smirk widened.
"C'mon sweetness, we've got somewhere to be" He placed the toothpick back between his lips, once again leading me down the street.
It was 12:00 at night, and I hadn't been home once. So far though, Benny and I had bought a go-kart, he'd bought himself a black-leather jacket, and even bought me a silver 'E' necklace. Although it had to be said; Benny was not himself tonight. Sure he did the usual stuff; Made out with me, cracked jokes about jocks, talked geeky. But despite that, there were something's very unusual; He was cockier, had a bit of a bad-boy vibe to him, was actually using magic correctly, kept pulling toothpicks out of god-knows-where, and was very self-conscious. And despite all this, I was still staying with him. My backpack had disappeared somewhere, and unfortunately my phone was inside. I should've been worried, I should've been freaking out, but I wasn't. With the time being as late as it was, I knew my parents would kill me when I get home.
Benny and I were currently in a small park, both of us lying down on the spinning wheel. The sky was already dark, and the stars were starting to show up. Benny was on my left, his legs pulled up, and his right arm across my chest. My head was resting on his chest as we were in a 'T' position. His left arm ran across his stomach, his hand playing with my hair. My right hand held onto his right hand, my left resting on his thigh, while my legs stretched out, hanging off the edge of the spinning wheel. We both stared up at the sky, neither of us saying anything. The only sound that could be heard was crickets, the occasional bird, and some rustling bushes. With vampires and god-knows what else in Whitechapel, I was pretty surprised that I wasn't freaking out. But I always felt safe with Benny, no matter what.
"Benny, I have to get home" I sighed. The hand that was playing with my hair froze.
"No you don't" He sighed. I shuffled up onto my forearms, tilting my head to see him.
"Yes I do! My parents will kill me if I don't get home now" He rolled his eyes, moving up into the same position.
"Emm's, can I ask you something?" He asked, slightly hesitant. I nodded.
"Anything"
"Can you take care of this for me?" He reached into his pocket, pulling out what looked like an instant photo. He handed it to me and I inspected the picture. It was of Benny in the red-room, his ass being the main thing in the frame, but behind I could see a faint version of himself, a sinister looking version.
"Okay" I shrugged, sticking it into the waistband of my jeans.
"I'm serious, you have to guard it with your life" He said, putting a lot of emphasis on 'have'.
"Benny, okay! I promise" I reassured. He nodded.
"Good girl, Emma. Now, are you sure you wanna go home?" He asked, that smirk once again on his face.
"What I want to do and what I need to do are two very different things" I chuckled, rising into a sitting position.
"Okay then, what do you need to do?" He asked, folding his arms behind his head while lying back down.
"I need to go home, otherwise mom and dad will kill me!" I exclaimed, shaking my head.
"And what do you want to do?" He asked, sitting up. I bit my lip, moving so that I was sat in between his bent-up legs. He placed both hands on my waist, while my hands took hold of his bare forearms.
"I want to stay here, with you. We never have much time alone, and now that we do I don't want it to end" I admitted, shrugging.
"Leave town with me" My eyes widened in disbelief. He couldn't have been serious.
"I'm sorry, what now?" He rolled his eyes.
"Leave town, with me" He shrugged.
"Benny, I can't"
"Why not?" I raised my eyebrows in thought.
"Uh...I'm fourteen for one thing. My family are here, my friends, school. I can't just up and leave" I sighed, shaking my head.
"I suppose that's fair enough" He muttered, leaning back on his hands.
"Sorry Benny. Maybe when we finished school though, huh?" I shrugged. He nodded.
"Sure. Let's get you home gorgeous" He sighed, rising to his feet. He held both hands out to me, and I took hold without any objections.
"Benny. I think I love you" I admitted, biting my lip nervously.
"Well that's good, because I know I love you" He smirked, leaning down to press his lips against mine.
We pulled up to my house and I sighed from my spot on the go-kart. Benny wore a large black helmet, while I wore a polished-white helmet. My arms were wrapped tightly around his waist so that I didn't fall off, the kart was pretty fast. The lights of the house were all on, and I could faintly see my brother pacing through the living room curtains. I couldn't see my parents, and I was partly glad. I was pretty scared of what they would do right now. I stood up from the go-kart, pulling the helmet off in the process. Benny did the same, leaving his helmet on.
"So, this was a good night" He sighed, glancing at my house.
"Yeah, shame it has to end" I shrugged, crossing my arms as I turned to face him.
"I'll see you tomorrow at school though, right?" He asked, looking down at me.
"Of course. Goodnight Benny" I smiled, leaning up to peck his lips.
"Night Emm's" He smirked, sitting back down on the go-kart. I watched as he took off down the street, disappearing around the corner.
Turning around, I sighed in thought, it was time to face the music. I walked up onto the porch, lightly knocking on the door. Soon enough, the door swung open, my brother stood behind. He sighed in relief, yanking me into the house. Biting my lip nervously, I turned to face my most-likely-angry brother. He leaned against the wooden door, panting "Listen, Ethan..." I paused as he wrapped his arms around my waist, hugging me tightly.
"You have no idea how freaked out I was Emma! Benny too!" He exclaimed, pulling back.
"Wait, Benny? Ethan I was with Benny" I replied, shaking my head in confusion.
"Oh Emm's" He sighed, running a nervous hand through his hair.
"What?" I asked nervously.
"It wasn't Benny" He admitted. My eyes widened.
The next day I sat up in my bedroom, thinking over everything that had gone on. So, here's the explanation of just what happened. I'd found out last night that my boyfriend, hadn't exactly been my boyfriend. Since Benny's revenge on Hannah was taking a photo of his ass, he also ended up with an Evil-Twin. In short, the guy I'd spent hours with wasn't even my actual boyfriend, just a negative copy of him. Though it did explain the bad-boy vibe and look going on. When Ethan had told me, I was devastated. But any girl would be. I'd told my boyfriend that I loved him, and he didn't even know it. Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't one of those cheesy High-School girls that got all mushy over their first kiss, heck I didn't even like watching those kind of films. But I would've liked Benny to actually be there for that moment, not some negative copy of himself.
Though soon enough, my devastation turned into complete anger. This morning I'd walked into school, feeling like the fucking Terminator. I was out to destroy and nothing would stop me. Ethan managed to get himself locked in the red-room with normal Hannah, and successfully destroyed all the other negatives. But as predicted, Evil-Benny didn't go with them. And I figured out why. So when I found the jack-ass in the boys bathroom with Benny's Grandma's camera, I stormed in, intent on kicking his ass. It went a lot different than I'd planned. With the guy being evil, he managed to sweet-talk his way into my head again, bringing up everything that we'd done that night. And thankfully, normal Benny came in. He kicked his twins' ass and I willingly handed over the negative photo, letting my normal boyfriend destroy his Evil-Twin.
So here I sat; Underneath my blanket, hugging Teddy-Darth-Vader to my chest. Ethan was downstairs with Sarah, Rory and Benny, most likely playing video games or watching a horror film. But I couldn't get it out of my head. Whitechapel was starting to make its mark on me. I really wasn't sure how much more vampires, witches, Evil-Twins, and Sarah-looking people I could take. Which is how I came to my decision. I walked down the stairs, feeling like a zombie. My face held no emotion, I felt completely dead, and I had no motivation. So you can imagine how I looked, walking into that living room where the guys were sat. They all looked up at me, the smiles on their faces disappearing instantly.
"Emma, what's wrong?" Ethan asked worriedly, pausing the movie and running towards me.
"Ethan, we have an Aunt and Uncle in Toronto don't we?" I asked, staring up at him.
"Yeah. Why?" He asked with narrowed eyes.
"Because I'm leaving Whitechapel" I admitted. His jaw dropped.
Author's Note:
Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the chapter. I know it's a little depressing and sappy but, ah well. Anyways review if you can, it would mean a lot.