Chapter 5.
Steve woke up a few hours later as he still hadn't managed to sleep during the night. He wasn't hungry as he had just drank from that ignorant reporter. Steve rubbed a hand over chin thoughtfully. Now would be a good time to think about how he was going to get Annie to come away with him. Then he would send word to Darren and wait until he came to save his sister. Now he had too options he could tell Annie some lame excuse to get her come and stay maybe a week with him and hope Darren would hurry or he could just take her. He decided on the more simple solution, He would invite her around for a drink and then tie her up. Steve would summon the rest of the vampaneze and they would be ready. Ready for when Shan came. Ready to end this war for once and for all. Ready for Steve to rule.
Annie tossed and turned in her sleep. She was dreaming again. Dreaming about Darren. She often had this dream
Annie and Darren were young again. They were sitting at the kitchen table. Annie had an ice-cream cone and Darren had a spider book. The brother and sister were laughing and smiling cheerfully. Not a care in the world between them. Then all of a sudden the kitchen became dark. Darren stopped laughing. Annie's ice-cream cone fell to the floor. Annie began to cry. Darren went pale. Their mother came running in but she was grabbed by one of eight hairy arms that belonged to a giant spider. Darren turned to Annie. "This is it," he said and stood up. Annie's tear stained face watched him running out of her sight. She felt so alone and cold. She began to shiver.
Suddenly she was sitting on Darren's bed holding Darren's favourite spider book. Darren turned to her "Annie I have to go now. I'm sorry." Darren jumped out the window leaving Annie sitting there staring. She didn't say anything. She just stared.
"No stop!" Annie cried, "Steve stop! Let him go he's going to fall."
"So?" came the reply. Steve laughed a blood curdling laugh that sent shivers up Annie's spine.
"NO PLEASE STOP!" Annie cried as she watched Darren fall to his death.
Annie woke up in a cold sweat. She had never dreamt that ending before. Usually she woke up after Darren had jumped out the window. Why had she dreamt about Steve? And even more importantly why had he… had he? Annie shook her head she must be remembering the dream wrong. But yet she knew she wasn't. It was only a dream anyway. It didn't mean anything at all. Did it?
Authors note: sorry for the delay in this chapter but I've been doing exams so I haven't had time to write! Well better late than never! Once again thanks for the reviews and keep them coming!