Chapter 6
The four of them began to explore the second floor of the cabin. They encountered a lot of dust and cobwebs.
"We really need to have a word with the maid," Luke said. "She is obviously not doing her job."
Laura laughed while Scott and Stefan rolled their eyes at his joke. They looked inside every room, but only found two rooms that had any furniture in them.
"What do we do now?" Stefan asked. "There's only two beds and that couch is in no shape to sleep on."
"We'll have to double up," Luke said. "I'll share with Laura." He smiled at Scott and Stefan as he realized that they would be left sharing the other bed.
"I'm not sleeping with him," Scott and Stefan said at the same time.
"Fine, one of you will have to sleep on that lumpy couch downstairs. I feel I should tell you that some of those lumps were moving," Luke said. He was trying hard not to laugh at them, but he was having a hard time. He glanced at Laura and saw that she was fighting back a laugh too.
Scott and Stefan looked at each other. "You take the couch," they said speaking at the same time again.
Laura decided to intervene before a fight started. "Look you're both adults. I'm sure that you can find a way to share that bed." She took Luke hand and started into one of the bedrooms. "Now let's get some sleep."
Scott watched Luke and Laura go into the bedroom and close the door. "So what are we going to do?" he asked turning to Stefan.
Stefan walked to the bedroom door, opened it and looked inside. "It's a pretty big bed. I'm willing to try sharing it if you are."
Scott shoved past him and looked around. "All right we'll try it, but I warn you that if you don't stay on your side of the bed, I'll be introducing you to my fist."
"Believe me Mr. Baldwin, I have no intention of violating your sleeping space."
"What?"
"I'll stay on my side," Stefan explained.
They got into the bed and stared at each other a moment before turning to face in opposite directions. Fifteen minutes later, they were both sound asleep.
In the middle of the night, Luke and Laura woke to the sound of a shout and a thump. They both jumped from the bed and ran across the hall. They saw Scott and Stefan standing on opposite sides of the bed. Scott was rubbing his forehead and Stefan was holding his eye.
"What happened to you two?" Luke asked with a laugh.
"I woke up and he had his arm around me," Scott said. "So I punched him."
"It wasn't intentional, I assure you," Stefan said.
Laura was laughing too now. "So what happened to your head, Scott?"
"When I saw noticed how he was laying a tried to move away from him and I um…" Scott said as his face turned red.
"What?" Luke prompted.
"I fell off the bed and hit it on the floor," Scott told them. They all started laughing at him.
"Luke," Laura said motioning for him to follow her out in the hall.
He followed her right outside the door. Scott and Stefan watched as they whispered back and forth. They could tell that Luke was not happy with what she was saying. Finally they seemed to agree and they came back into the room.
"Luke and I have decided to sleep downstairs in front of the fireplace. Scott you can stay in here and Stefan you can take the room across the hall," Laura said. "Now let's get to bed."
They all agreed. Luke and Laura walked downstairs and laid down.
"You had to give him our bed didn't you?"
"Look it was the only way we were going to get any peace at all," Laura said. "Look on the bright side, I could have suggested that you share with Scott."
"And leave you alone in a room with the vampire? No way!" Luke said.
Laura laughed. "Come on lets get some sleep."
She turned over as Luke put his arm around her. A few minutes later they were both asleep.