I apparently never left Damien's sight since he kept following me, which I didn't mind too much because my plan kind of involved him, so for once it was a good thing. I made my way back over to the others, managing not to drop Laddies hot dog in the mess of the people that were sprawled about the boardwalk. Once Laddie saw me he immediately ran over, much to Dwayne's dismay since he saw the one person who I've been keeping an out was following me.
"Did you get it? Did you?" Laddie asked excitedly. The kid loved his food, I could tell you that. I handed it down to him and he ran back off to Paul, jumping up and down but making sure not to make his beloved food fell onto the ground. I laughed at the kid as I stood next to Dwayne, feeling an arm make it's way over my shoulders as I leaned my head onto where his neck and shoulder met.
"Why's he following you?" Dwayne asked, nodding his head over to where Damien stood as he watched the scene...his cape flowing in the slight breeze the ocean had brought in. He looked like he was scanning the sight we were, if we even made one. David was leaning on his bike with Star next him keeping her normal helpless face. Marco was flirting with some girl who he might have as a meal later, and Paul was slightly headbanging to the music that could be heard from the concert area while he listened to Laddie's stories. Then you had Dwayne and I, leaning against a railing watching the new resident of the boardwalk.
"I wanted to see something about him. Find out if he's really what he says he is." I answered, keeping my head in place but gazing up to my mates face, watching the emotions read through it. He was confused, not that I blame him. "I want to take him feeding." I said quickly. Dwayne made a sudden movement, now standing in front of me.
"You want to what?" He asked with wide eyes, thinking he heard something different.
"look, we take him feeding, if he actually feeds then we know he's real and we know what we're up against. If he doesn't, then we kill him. Simple." I explained. Dwayne still thought it was a bad idea. His face never changed. I sighed and got up from leaning against the rails and made my way over to David since it was him who really had the final say when Max wasn't around. "David." I started, grabbing his attention from a group of girls who met his gaze. "I need you to decide something." I said as I started to explain to the blonde what I told Dwayne.
"Is that necessary? I say we just kill the kid" David replied nonchalantly. "He's on our turf anyway, it's no different than a Surf Nazi coming here and thinking they can do whatever the hell they please." I took a deep breath, it'll take some persuasion to please David into letting me do what I thought was best for us.
"Look, if he is a vampire, we tell Max. We'll see how Max wants us to handle it. You never know, maybe he has a different solution and might not be happy with the death of the guy." I said.
David shrugged, "So we don't tell him." I rolled my head back and looked at the stars in the sky.
"If you don't want to tell him, I will." I threatened, returning my stare straight into his eyes. "Max needs to know what's happening around here. We can't just keep him in the dark all the time. That's not fair to him."
David chuckled, "You really think he cares about us, don't you? The only thing he cares about is being in control of us." It was my turn to laugh.
"Hm, that sounds like someone else we all know." I claimed sarcastically.
"You know what? If you want to tell Max, go for it Princess. You can tell him all you want, he'll have the same idea as I do, just kill him." David ended before moving his gaze back to the girls he was checking out before. I groaned and left back to Dwayne.
"I'm taking Count Dracula Jr. to feed." I told him before heading over to Damien who still stood there awkwardly. I felt a hand grab my wrist and turn me around. Dwayne's face held concern with a mix of slight anger which was new.
"Wait, so after all of that paranoia, you're going off with him?" He asked with the anger in his face matching his voice. I snatched my wrist back.
"Well no one else believes me about him so I might as well. I'll be back at the caves before sunrise." And that was that.
Damien and I walked in silence, well with the sounds of the waves crashing onto the shore. It was a pleasant surprise compared to the usual personality of him being so talkative all the time.
"So where are we going?" He finally asked. I nodded ahead of us to a small party that was taking place a few yards down the beach. There weren't too many people so it shouldn't be too much of a hassle for one, maybe two, vampires to clean up.
"To get dinner." I answered.
"We're gonna feed? Tonight?" He stopped walking and looked at me weirdly.
"No, we're gonna do it in the middle of the day." I replied sarcastically. "Of course we're gonna feed tonight. We kind of need to do it everyday. Maybe every other day if we want to push the limits." He started to walk again trying to catch up to me from where I left him. "Have you ever fed like this before? With many witnesses?"
Damien shook his head. "I only used to go to bars with less people in them, maybe lead them out into an alleyway if I felt like it. Sometimes it would end in a bar fight, I would always win though." I chuckled at him attempt to sound tough.
"Hey!" One of the males at the bonfire shouted to us. "You here for the party?" He sounded too excited so that indicated he was already intoxicated.
"Heard it wasn't to be missed. Jack told us about it and said to come by!" I answered with a fake excited voice and fake name. Who would Jack be?
"Oh Jack! Yeah I know him, he's a cool dude!" The guy exclaimed clearly too drunk to care that Jack was fake. "Can I offer you two a drink?" He asked, with two already in his hand. Damien shook his head.
"I don't think you'll be willing to give up the drink we want." Damien replied and I rolled my eyes.
"Uh whatever dude." Drunk guy said, looking at Damien like he was crazy.
"What the guy means is that, we'll take a drink that you clearly have enough of here. We wouldn't want to be a burden or anything." I said. I felt my fangs shoot out of my mouth and tackled the guy to the ground, stabbing my teeth into his neck. Screams were heard all around and as I finished drinking the dude dry. I looked up and saw Damien standing there, his eyes wide. "What's wrong? You seen a ghost?" I asked with an amused tone. He shook his head and lunged at one of the party goers who tried to run, letting his teeth sink into the screaming girl while I took off after one of the two other girls who decided to run. She tripped over her own feet and looked at me with pleading eyes.
"Please don't do this!" She yelled, holding a hand up as if that was going to help her. I wasted no time in sucking her dry, she didn't taste as bad as the first guy. Damien was already done and raced towards the last girl. Surprisingly he showed no mercy to her at all.
"You done?" I asked him while wiping my mouth with the sleeve of my shirt while he stood there looking proud of himself. So he was a real vampire, that's not good at all. He nodded and looked around at the mess. I started picking up the bodies and threw them into the fire that was still lit from the party. Soon they were all in there and while I had my back turned to Damien I felt him grab me by the neck and arm, holding me in place.
"So you're a real vampire huh? I knew it. And the rest I'm guessing are real ones too." Damien said, his voice no longer the immature sounding one. Now it was deeper, his eyes still were glowing orange from the feeding while mine changed back to the dark brown they are originally. "You've only known me for a few days and you brought me off alone onto the beach without your little friends? Or even your mate? Did none of them believe you when you spoke about me? Did they think you were just...being paranoid about me? You'd think they would believe you, but it seems all they did was blow you off."
I struggled against his grip, but since he just fed his strength outweighed my own. There would probably be bruising soon. "I must admit, I did put on a good show, didn't I? Pretending to be a little annoying newborn, right?" He turned me around to face him and I tried to bring my knee where the sun don't shine but he blocked it. "Ah ah ah. We can't have you doing that right now." He looked over to the water and saw the sun was starting to rise. "Now I'm going to let you go, but just know I'm only doing this because we both need to be alive in order to fulfill my plan." He threw me to the ground, letting the sand splash around us both and started to walk away but turned around for a second. "It won't matter if you tell any of the others about this conversation, it won't change anything." Then he was gone.
I raced to the caves as quickly as I could manage. One because of the scene with Damien, and two, because of the sun rising quickly. Luckily Hudson's Bluff wasn't too far from the area of beach we were at and with the speed of a vampire it didn't take as long as it would a human to go there.
I reached the caves right before the sun came up and ran down the stairs, almost stepping through step number four. The cave wasn't quiet at all for it being sunrise, I could still hear Paul's music playing, the lyrics of the song echoing off the walls. As thought, all the boys were up, Star and Laddie were in the bed trying to sleep probably. Dwayne was the first I saw, but then again he met he at the door.
"We have a slight problem."
A/N- So Damiens a bad guy? Who would have thought?! I didn't think I would have this chapter done by today, since I thought my family was going to have to go to a hotel since we have a leak in our pipes so theres no water. My mom and I had to go to Walmart and we bought 20 gallons of water. It looked like we were preparing for the apocalypse...
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If you didn't know, I started another story! It's called 'Till the Death of Me and its another Lost Boys story so if you like this story, you might like that one!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I will see you next week!
