9. Live is hard and unfair

So it went well quite a while. Sarah got better more and more and staked meanwhile one vampire after another. In the meantime, about 3 weeks went by when Sarah staked her first vampire.

Monsieur Londres always came along with her up to now, but now he was ill and Sarah had to do her patrol without him since two days. That was why Sarah always visited him, before she began.

She didn't believe so much that Monsieur Londres was so seriously ill, but wanted to prepare her for fighting alone.

She was very nervous on her first patrol alone. But she noticed that she could do it alone as well. That was why it didn't matter any more that she had to go alone.

Her parents didn't get anything at all of that. They thought that Sarah either would be good in her room or do something with her 'new school friends' Catherine, Alicia and Hannah. Anyhow, so Sarah told them. And there they believed her daughter, they didn't think about that Sarah told them one lie after another.

On an evening, when Sarah wanted to go first to Monsieur Londres and then alone to the cemetery again, her mother stood in her room. "You want to go out again? I didn't hear you coming last night." "Uh, yeah, Mom. Well, you couldn't, 'cause I was very quite. I know that you've got a very restless sleep and there I wouldn't wake you up, 'cause you've already slept..." "Well, and where you intend to go out to this evening?" "Um, I meet with Catherine and the other girls..." "Oh, really? But Catherine's mother didn't know anything about it that you wanted to go out with Catherine and the others." "Well, it was decided just short-term. Maybe Catherine couldn't tell her any more about it." "Sarah! You don't believe in it, do you? Don't tell us lies! We know that you haven't spent the passed time with the girls. We've asked them about it. They haven't taken you with them. They only see you in school. So, don't tell us that you want to go out with them. Well, I'm listening. Where and above all with whom you go out every evening?" Sarah stared at her mother. They had found it out. What should she say now?

She could hardly say: "Yeah, mom, that's right! I haven't met with Catherine and the others. But that's like this: I've known at my first school day that I'm the new Slayer and now I go constantly at cemeteries and hunt vampires there. I save the world with that!" Her mother would regard her as crazy and send her probably to a clinic or drag along to all the psychiatrists.

She thought about it feverishly and there something came to her mind, "Uh, yeah, that's so... it's true, I don't meet with Catherine and the others..." "But?" "I visit a man..." There her mother looked at her shocked and her thoughts went through, the thoughts of a worried mother about her just fifteen-year-old daughter who met with a man. Whatever for... "A man?" "Yeah, he's ill and I keep him company, 'cause he doesn't know anybody here except me..." "And what are you doing together?" Her mother tried to control herself and not to sound too hysterical.

"You know that I'm not so good in French. That's why he gives me help in French. He's Frenchman." Her mother stared at her speechless and stammered, "I... I don't believe that... That can't be true! You don't go there any more, did you get it?" "But, Mom, I..." "I've said no! You will see this man never more!"

"Mom, you don't understand. I have to go to him, 'cause..." Sarah meant nearly desperately. "What does it mean 'you have to'? Oh my god! I understand very well what it is about and it displeases me thorough. You won't go to him. Neither today nor tomorrow, nor at any time again! Besides, you have house arrest!" "I've what? Mom, I never had house arrest..." "That wasn't necessary in former times, it must be but now, 'cause you are not so good any more, like you used to!" With that she went out of the room and locked the door. "Mom..." Sarah shouted behind her mother and stared furious and stunned to the door.

"Well, that's the thanks that I save you from the vampires, huh?" she murmured angry. Then she turned around, took her coat and her stake, opened her window and climbed up the roof. Then she jumped down on the lowest point and set off to Monsieur Londres. She scolded with herself on her way.

After she had done her visit to Monsieur Londres and told him about the incident with her mother, she walked to the cemetery.