3. New findings
When Sarah walked home again with the news and the book she called her friends and asked them for coming to their 'second meeting place' - a small cottage from Hannah's parents. Their 'first meeting place' is still at Monsieur Londres or at one of them. When they came it struck Sarah for the first time that her friends looked very pale and also tired and that they lost weight.
"My goodness, Sarah! What's the matter with you? And why do we meet us here in our second secret meeting place? The whole way over here Michelle has complained that the sun hurts her! But she hasn't completely understood that it also doesn't really do us very well, although we explained it her... I didn't know that you look bad as well or even a little bit worse, as I'm feeling myself! Actually, I haven't noticed it like that..." Alicia stated surprised. "Alicia, I already can speak by myself!" Michelle whispered to her sister.
Sarah nodded and meant, "Yeah, something very awful happens with us! And it has to be something that has to do just with us!" The 4 friends looked at each other confused. Sarah breathed once heavy and continued, "Well, please don't make fun of me now, but I've got say something important to you!" The friends looked at Sarah curious. "I've got the feeling that we turn into... into 'vampires'!" The friends looked at her like fallen from all clouds and Alicia meant nearly contemptuous, "What? Vampires? We should turn into vampires? Rubbish! That's absolutely impossible! What just makes you think of such a crazy idea, huh?" Sarah didn't pay attention to it and continued again, "I've sensed these changes and went to Monsieur Londres. He told me a few things I didn't know before. Besides he gave me this book here!" She held out the black book to them. "Oh yeah! Very interesting! And what's the idea of this now?" Alicia meant. Catherine, Hannah and Michelle looked at her a bit punished. "Please believe me! I'm no kidding!" Sarah defended herself. "Here in this book stands also that vampires are sleeping during the day. They are conspicuous pale and live on the blood of the living!" "Yeah, please tell us something new, ok? We already know that. Finally you even told it us. And it may be that we're tired during the day. But we're nearly always like this, above all at school. And also the Vampire Hunting is partly the reason why. It's also right that we're very pale. But this doesn't have to mean that we turn into vampires right now for that reason. And how as well?" Catherine said, who barely said a word until then.
"Does this mean that you don't believe me?! All right then! I'll prove it you: we don't take human food any longer and we want something else: blood!" "Bah! We couldn't turn into vampires! Haven't you explained us that one has to be bitten by a vampire at first and then drink the blood of the vampire, have you? I'm, Sarah, but you're kidding! Really! You're crazy! Probably the whole thing with the Vampire Hunting became too much for you!" "Hannah!" Catherine snapped at her angry. "But it's true! She isn't quite normal when she stated such a thing! Maybe she got off too much sun! Sometimes this is bad for one's health!" "Hannah, you really ought to be ashamed of yourself!" Michelle meant now. Sarah, who didn't get this, said while she had leaf through the book, "This is another point! As you then probably know as well vampires avoid the sun and the sunlight! It can kill them! And that was why Michelle moaned. And be honest: when were you outside in the sun for the last time?" Hannah only shook her head contemptuous. "Why don't you actually believe me? Just look once into the mirror then I hope you will finally believe me!" So the 4 girls looked into the mirror and froze. "Well, what do you see? I'll tell you: you see nothing, absolutely nothing at all!" They stared unbelieving into the mirror, in which they actually expected to see their reflections! But they didn't see them.
"What... what does this mean?" Catherine asked nearly soundless. "That, what I try to tell you all the time! We turn into vampires!" "But...but how is this possible? We don't have a reflection..." Michelle said. "Don't tell me now that you didn't notice it in former times!" Michelle shook her head and meant slowly, "No, I didn't notice it! I don't look often into a mirror..." "That's true! I know that Michelle use very rarely a mirror! Well, rarely is said too much, actually nearly not at all! Natural beauty..." Alicia confirmed shrugging. Catherine and Hannah shook their heads as well.
"That's now clear enough! We turn into vampires!" "But how and why?" Hannah asked. "Yeah, haven't you always said persistently that one only can turn into a vampire when one is bitten by a vampire and then drink also the blood of the vampire?" Catherine considered. "Well, this is just it what Monsieur Londres has hidden me! He said that there's still another possibility to turn into a vampire. You already know the other one. But it will only 'transmit' in this way, just like a disease. One can turn into a vampire when one is enchanted of a power or is covered with a curse or other things like that." "Uh and why weren't we told this even much sooner?" Alicia asked pointed. "I didn't know it earlier as well!" Sarah replied. "Well, that's all quite nice and fine, but there are still the remaining questions: who has done it to us, why has the one done it and how we get 'normal' again? I don't like to live as 'vampire'!" Michelle stated. An embarrassed silence followed this question. Hannah murmured into this silence, "Above all just imagine this situation: the Slayer and her 'helper' as vampires. As these creatures they actually even hunt... really too crass!"
Sarah explained, "Yeah, well, actually we aren't 'real' vampires as we know them yet! Only when you've bitten a human and sucked the whole blood and this one dies because of the heavy loss of blood you'll become a vampire. Well, and you just need the vampire teeth for that. And as long as you haven't these yet nothing actually should happen." She read further in the book. "Ah, there it is: the curse, which turns one into a vampire, can be broken. Provided that the 'Sorcerer' - well this one, who spoke the curse over the 'vampire-to-be' - has written down the curse and the 'return curse' as well somewhere and the poor 'cursed one' hasn't bitten and killed any human!" "Well, that's great! Now we only have to find this 'Sorcerer' and the return curse! No problem! We already know who this Sorcerer is! Well, no need to worry!" Alicia meant mocking and shook her head vigorous.
Sarah said, as if she hasn't heard Alicia's remark, "Um, I suggest that we stay in here the next days, 'cause I think that we shouldn't stay with our families!" „Of course not!" Hannah cut her short. "If we tell our families what's the matter with us they wouldn't believe us and pronounce us crazy! Then we were ready for a committal for the mental hospital, in their opinion... Shall we get also coffins according to real vampires, sleeping during the day and then go on the Hunting at night? But not at the Vampire Hunting, but now at the Human Hunting!" Hannah shouted furious, jumped up of her chair and wandered back and forth. The others were saddened silent. Sarah watched Hannah thinking. After a while she sat down again and sighed. "Don't forget, Hannah, that you only can turn back with a 'pure heart'!" "Yeah, yeah, IF we can turn back at all!" Hannah said bad-tempered. "Uh, don't hang your head, Hannah!" Alicia tried to comfort Hannah and put a hand on her shoulder. Hannah only looked at her pitiful and close to tears. "No, seriously! I think Hannah's suggestion with the coffins isn't that bad! It lends the whole thing here the certain something, more feeling and so on! Don't you think so, too?! We can also barricade the windows, so that no sun could come in!" Catherine said really enthusiastic. "Uhh, noo, stop it! Nobody gets me into such a thing! Not after nearly exactly this would happen to me with Krakatau and his servants!" Michelle warded off heavily. "Yeah, right. By the way, don't you think that this is a little too macabre?" Alicia asked now. They still talked quite a while about the pros and cons of the suggestion, until they finally decided against it. But they would barricade the windows. After that they walked home again and returned about at nightfall with their belongings. Mostly pieces of memories, but also blankets, candles, cushions, clothes, books and so on and boards and wood.
They told lies to their families, so that they could come in the cabin with the luggage at all. They told them that they all would be alone without their families and for that they wanted to sleep all together in the cabin. Because they always give a talk to them that they have to stand on own legs one day. With this reasons the families admitted defeat and they allowed it them.
They nailed up the windows with the wood, the boards and the laths, which they brought with themselves. Until they covered their beds, which only consisted of simple mattresses, and furnished the cabin as comfortable as possible, the night was almost already over and the sun rose soon. Then they were ‚dead tired' and laid on their mattresses and also fell asleep already soon.