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Zoe walked inside. "Hi dad," she said seeing him sitting at the table reading the newspaper. He looked a little worried. ""What's wrong?" Zoe asked.
He handed her the paper. She glanced at the front page and saw an article that had caught her eye. The headling was Werewolves or What?
It was an article explaining that recently ten people had been found dead all around the city and all of them had some kind of bite mark on their neck and some people expected that it was some kind of wolf.
Zoe gaped at the paper in disbelief. It couldn't be… It couldn't be Simon could it?" she asked herself. She mentally slapped herself. Of course it couldn't be. Simon had died. She had seen it with her own eyes. It was probably just some kind of wolf like everyone thought it was.
"I don't want you going out late at night anymore," said her dad looking worriedly at her. "I don't want anything to happen to you."
Zoe resisted the urge to roll her eyes. She knew her dad was just worried about her but she wasn't a baby. She could take care of herself.
"Okay dad," she said to make him happy.
He smiled at her. "Hey Zo do you think you could go to school tomorrow?" he asked her pleadingly. "You have already missed a week and I don't want your grade to slip too much," her dad said.
Zoe thought about it for a minute but then she nodded at him. "I guess I'll go to school tomorrow," she told him glumly.
The next morning Zoe decided to walk to school since the exercise would do her good. Plus it wasn't that far from her house. She slipped her coat on and stepped outside into the chilly morning air. It was still dark outside since it was only about 6:30.
She was walking down the sidewalk and she kept getting the feeling that omeone was following her. She decided not to look back though. She turned the corner and broke into a fast fun. She could hear the footsteps following behind her. She kept running until she turned the corner to her school. She heard the footsteps stop and go back quickly in the other direction.
Zoe quickly sprinted up to the school yard feeling safe even though the few people who were already there were staring at her. Zoe had become pretty weird to some of them. She seemed so much darker than before and she had been missing a lot of school recently and no one knew why and when she did come she wasn't usually very awake. She was always falling asleep in her classes and she hadn't had any friends since her friends Lorraine had moved away.
Zoe didn't mind that they were staring at her. She was just glad that she had escaped from whatever had been chasing her.
Zoe was having a hard time keeping her eyes awake in all of her classes but the teachers were pretty forgiving since they knew what had happened to her.
After school Zoe walked to her house and found a note on the door from her father.
Go ahead and let yourself in Zoe. I will be back late tonight. Sorry but it's for my work and they need me. You can unthaw a pizza if you want. See you tonight.
Love,
Dad
Zoe let herself in and made herself some hot cider and warmed up one of the pizzas. Once she was done eating she did her homework and watched tv for a while. She found she was very restless and was having a very hard time sitting still though. She couldn't stop thinking about what had happened to her that morning.
Maybe she should have just stopped and let it get her. There wasn't that much left that was worth living for. But she couldn't leave her dad all by himself. But she should have just seen who it was that was following her.
Finally Zoe decided to go for a walk. She looked at the clock. It was 9 o'clock at night. She figured that her father would be getting home in about an hour or so. She wondered if she was going out on purpose to try and see what it was that had chased her but she managed to convince herself that she just wanted to go for a little walk.
She walked over to the park by her house and sat down on the swing. She felt like crying but she didn't know why. Maybe she missed Simon.
She heard a voice behind her. "Who is it? Zoe? Is that you?"
Zoe turned around to see Luke staring down at her.
"What's wrong Zoe?" he asked surprised to see her crying.
"I don't know she muttered. Have you read the paper recently?" she asked him suddenly.
"Yeah. Why?" he asked frowning.
"Did you see the article about everyone dying and people thinking it was a wolf?" asked Zoe.
He nodded. "Well this morning when I was walking to school someone was following me and I started running and they chased me until I got up to the school and then they disappeared. It think it was the person who had been killing people," she admitted fearfully.
"Oh Zo, I'm sorry they chased you but I don't think it could have been that person cause what about all the bite marks?" he asked.
Zoe closed her eyes and decided to tell him. "I think it was a vampire," she said quietly.
Luke stared at her. "Zoe I think you're just really tired and shocked at what happened to you he said still staring at her. "You'll feel better tomorrow after you get some sleep.
Zoe nodded silent tears streaming down her face. Luke unsurely pulled her into a hug and she rested her head against his chest. After a while he lifted her chin so she was staring up at him.
"You should go home and get some sleep," he told her. "Okay?" Zoe nodded.
He gently bent down and kissed her softly on the lips. Zoe's eyes fluttered shut. He quietly walked away. Zoe stood there for a minute touching her lips in surprise. Then for the first time in a while she smiled and made her way back to the house.