8. The way out of the darkness
A week went by again. In this week these vampire-typical teeth grew also on the other 'young-vampires'.
But the incident with Evelyn shouldn't be the only one. Because in this week the true tragedy happened!
The friends were awake during the night, as many nights before, and talked to each other. "Have you actually thought about it who theoretically could be our Sorcerer?" Alicia asked into the some time ago arose silence. "Um, I already went through everything several times, up to the moment where we realized the unmistakable signs for the first." Catherine said. "And? Are you notice something there? If so, what?" Michelle asked now. "Yeah, I noticed something extreme interesting." The others listened curious.
"Actually we've done relative rarely something beyond the school and the Vampire Hunting. I conclude from it that it has to be something what happened only by day. Or at the Vampire Hunting, but I don't think that's what matters." The others nodded in the darkness. "There only one thing came to my mind. One thing that could have come to another end! I mean the thing with the apples and the angry man! Do you remember?" Catherine continued. "Of course I remember it! How could you just forget this? As furious as he was at that time..." Sarah remembered now and saw the pictures in front of her again. "Yeah, he chased us away when we, Hannah and I, would pinch the apples! I mean, what would he have done with us when he caught us?" "Um, I don't want to think about that..." Alicia replied. "Right, that was actually the only situation, which was quite ‚exciting' and unusual! And a few days later we noticed these signs! And there actually wasn't anything between this unpleasant meeting and the appearance of the signs!" Sarah stated. "This means that this man with the apples..." "...is our Sorcerer!" Hannah finished Michelle's sentence. "Yeah, I also came to this end!" Catherine admitted. "Uhh, it must annoy the man really hard that we dared to get his apples that he turned us just into vampires or let us turn!" Michelle said. "Well, we don't know how he did this to us. We don't know anything about him." Sarah meant. "Right! We only know where he lives. That's just all!" Alicia replied. "I even didn't know before that there's a house at all! And that where we even live some years here..." Michelle said and reveled in old memories once again.
"Whoa, uhh! Do you know what? I'm terrible tired now!" Catherine meant yawning. "No wonder it's almost..." Sarah said and looked at the clock. "...five o'clock." "The 'nearly-vampire-existence' gets even slowly on my nerves! Do the things go with you the same as well?" Catherine said. The others nodded in agreement. "Well, so what! Good night, um, probably good morning is better! I mix this up, too! Uh, it doesn't matter. Anyhow, have a nice sleep! And dream anything beautiful." Alicia said and at the last sentence she looked to her kid sister, who already laid there with closed eyes and a blessed smile played around her mouth. After that the others fell asleep, too. But only Hannah couldn't find any sleep at first and thought about some things.
Only when she heard the first birds chirp around outside and slight silhouettes of the morning sun shone through the small gaps of the boards she also fell asleep exhausted. But even after only few hours she startled up from her restless nightmare sleep again, soaked in sweat. She looked at the clock: 12 o'clock noon. She shook her head and got up.
Then her glance fell down at her still deep sleeping friends. At first she watched Catherine. Then she looked to the both sisters Michelle and Alicia. But her glance rested on Sarah. "Is this fair? The Slayer become this, what she actually even hunts! And that's all just my fault! If I haven't been threatened with house-arrest on this day, we wouldn't ever go to this house, on this day I saw the apple tree..." Hannah thought.
Then she sighed softly and sat down at the table, the head leaned on her hands. Then she took a sheet, a pen and set her thoughts into words. When she finished she thought about her plan throughout the day while the others were still sleeping. Finally it was afternoon.
Hannah only waited for the sunset and then she could carry out her plan. She only has to suspect that her friends will wake up in time. But these were going to sleep in the morning so 'early' that they caught up on the sleep and slept a little bit longer than usually. She didn't have to expect Monsieur Londres that he would think of the idea and come to visit them. Because this one looked after them not only one time up to now and left them simply alone. That was why she guessed that he wouldn't come today as well.
The sun went down slowly now. Hannah waited until it disappeared completely and the sky was covered in gentle blue, which would soon turn into deep night blue.
She read in Sarah's book to 'beat the time to death'. Around 2 o'clock in the night she felt ready and sneaked outside with a glance at her still sleeping friends. She walked slowly and measured to the house of the Sorcerer. She was determined to go to him and break the curse.