Chapter 4
Theresa smiled as she rested her head on Jay's shoulder, the whole night had been perfect, between the six of them reliving memories from when they had all been teenagers, to getting to talk to Krista, and Gisele, and of course getting engaged, it had truly been a magical evening.
"Well here we are." Jay said bringing Theresa out of her daydream, sighing she lifted her head, and sure enough they were back at her house.
"I don't want to leave you." Theresa said sadness washing over her.
Jay smiled kissing her cheek, "neither do I, but I'll be back here bright and early tomorrow morning and we'll go see my parents to tell them the good news."
Theresa smiled back at him, as she leaned in closer until their lips touched.
"I love you." Jay whispered as there kiss ended.
"I love you too." Theresa said, as she turned her head to look at her house, smiling when she saw the curtains move, "I think my Dad is waiting for me to come in." Theresa said feeling excited to tell him the good news.
"I asked his permission to marry you in case you're wondering." Jay said squeezing her hand.
Theresa smiled at him; she hadn't really even thought about whether or not Jay had asked her Dad for permission, but thinking about it now it must have meant a lot to him that Jay had taken the imitative to ask him for her hand in marriage.
"Thanks Jay." Theresa said kissing his cheek.
"You'd better get inside though, I think we both need to try and get some sleep." Jay said smiling, Theresa nodded before getting out of the car, "until tomorrow, my love." Jay said blowing a kiss at Theresa, she laughed as she walked to the front door of her house, turning to wave one last goodbye to Jay before he drove out of her driveway and down the street, letting out a happy sigh, Theresa turned the handle to her house and walked in, almost bumping into her Dad who was standing right behind the door.
"Oh hi Dad." Theresa said surprised, she had seen him looking out the curtains at her and Jay but that had been in the living room.
"Hi, Theresa." Her Dad said slightly embarrassed, "did you have a fun evening?" He asked trying to make small talk.
"Yeah, it was awesome seeing everyone again." Theresa said smiling, as she saw him looking down at her hands which were at her sides, and Theresa knew he wanted to ask if Jay had asked her to marry him, Theresa smiled as she held up her hand revealing the ring to her Dad.
"Dad, I'm engaged!" Theresa said a little louder then she intended, since most of the maids would be a sleep.
"Congratulations!" Her Dad said pulling Theresa into a hug, fighting back tears, "my little girl is getting married, if your Mother was here she would be so excited." At the mention of her Mother Theresa felt her throat close a little, as she fought back tears, how she wished that her Mother was still alive so that she could celebrate this moment with both her parents.
"Come on let's go have some hot chocolate and you can tell me how he proposed." Theresa's Dad said walking into the kitchen; Theresa smiled wiping away a tear that had escaped from her eye as she followed him into the kitchen.
Anna listened intensely for the footsteps of her friend, Cassandra, a witch, she was going to be putting a spell on Odie so that the animal blood wouldn't work on him, and he would have no choice but to drink human blood, and since Odie was asleep Anna would have to do it quickly, especially since the planets would be aligning in three months, and when it was time to break Cronus out of prison then she would have to make sure that both her and Odie were strong, since Anna had no doubt in her mind that if they failed then Cronus would hurt her daughter.
Anna looked out the window again and smiled when she saw Cassandra, before rushing to open the door so that the noise wouldn't wake Odie up.
"Hi." Cassandra said as she walked inside.
"Shh." Anna said listening to make sure that Odie wasn't wandering around his room, when she didn't hear anything Anna tilted her head to the side, telling Cassandra to follow her.
As they walked into Odie's room Cassandra walked past Anna, kneeling down beside Odie's bed taking a tiny bottle out of her pocket.
"What's that?" Anna asked confused
Cassandra didn't respond, instead she tilted Odie's head back and began pouring the contents of the bottle into Odie's mouth, once the bottle was empty Cassandra stood up.
"He won't wake up for the next couple of hours."
"What?" Anna asked, "he's a vampire, and keep your voice down or else you'll wake him up!"
Cassandra smiled at her as she screamed at the top of her lungs, Anna gasped running over to her covering her mouth, "what the hell are you doing?!" Anna asked angrily, if Odie discovered her plan then she knew that he would never drink human blood on his own terms and then she would fail Cronus.
"Anna, does it look like Odie's awake?!" Cassandra asked as Anna took her hand off of Cassandra's mouth.
Anna looked at Odie surprised, he was still a sleep, before looking up at Cassandra confused, "how is he still asleep? That scream should have woken him up."
"I gave him a special sleeping potion that only works on vampires."
Anna smiled "ah Cassandra I knew that calling you was a great idea!"
"Well you weren't very specific on the phone, and I had no idea what you wanted me to do, so I decided that this would be the only way to make sure that I do the spell that you want me to place on him perfectly." Cassandra said, "So what is the spell?" Cassandra asked after standing in silence for a few minutes.
"Odie drank animal blood."
"Yeah so?" Cassandra asked confused.
Anna sighed she had forgotten she hadn't told Cassandra everything, "Cassandra, the night that I was changed into a vampire, a man named Cronus came to visit me and my daughter, Chloe, he told me that I would be of use to him, and before I knew it I was lying on the ground in the worst pain imaginable."
"Who changed you?" Cassandra asked, other than Anna she really didn't know any other vampires.
Anna shrugged, "I have no idea, the only thing I do know is when the pain finally went away, I was all alone, Chloe was gone, and so was Cronus, I learned everything that I had to do from a note that he left me which told me that he was going to have a very important job for me eventually, but he couldn't tell me yet, so he left me this necklace" Anna lifted the necklace to show Cassandra "and told me that if I ever took it off then he would kill Chloe."
"So what was the plan that this Cronus wanted you to do?" Cassandra asked.
Anna sighed looking down at Odie before looking at Cassandra, "Well I was alone for a few months before Cronus contacted me telling me that I would have to wake Odie up, because these heroes who were destined to defeat him put him back in Tarturas."
"In the Underworld?" Cassandra asked surprised.
Anna nodded, "So in three months the planets are going to be aligning, and when that happens Odie and I are to break him out of Tarturas, but if Odie's drinking animal blood then he won't be strong enough to help me, and I'm not strong enough to do it myself, and if we fail…" Anna said trailing off.
"Then Cronus is going to kill Chloe." Cassandra said feeling anger building up, "but if he's in Tarturas then how could he possibly hurt her?"
"He's super powerful, Cassandra, I don't actually know if he would be able to hurt her, but I really can't take that risk." Anna said her voice breaking at the end.
Cassandra sighed putting a hand on Anna's shoulder, "I'll help you."
"What?" Anna asked surprised.
"I'll help you break Cronus out of Tarturas, but first I'll help you by doing this." Cassandra said kneeling down beside Odie again, placing a hand on his head, closing her eyes, Anna watched surprised as Cassandra's hand started glowing, after a few very long moments Cassandra took her hand off of Odie's head looking up at Anna.
"When he wakes up he'll be starving, and will want human blood."
"How can you be so sure?" Anna asked skeptical, she knew Cassandra was an awesome witch, Anna had seen her do spells before but it seemed this time that Cassandra hadn't even really done a spell.
Smiling Cassandra stood up, "in his dream right now he's tasting human blood."
"Really?" Anna asked amazed.
"Yes." Cassandra said watching as Odie licked his lips before growling lightly, "and it looks like he's enjoying it."
"Thank you, Cassandra." Anna said hugging her.
"You're welcome, now let's get out of here before he wakes up, we need to make everything look as natural as possible, or else he will get suspicious." Cassandra said walking out of the room, Anna hesitated looking at Odie before walking to the door, hesitating she turned back around to look at him, "I'm sorry." She whispered as she walked out of the room closing the door behind her.
Chloe tiptoed as she walked out of her room, and down the hallway to the stairs, she stopped at the top making sure that she didn't hear any footsteps coming from behind her or from downstairs, smiling when she didn't hear anything; she began walking down the stairs as quietly as she could.
After Chloe reached the bottom she tiptoed over to Sandra's desk, sitting down behind it, taking out a piece of paper taking a pen out of the jar that Sandra kept on her desk. Chloe really wasn't sure what she was going to write, but she knew that she didn't belong in the orphanage anymore, no one was ever going to adopt her, and Chloe really didn't want to stay there until she was eighteen, there were still many things that she wanted to do, and Chloe knew that she would never be able to do anything as long as she stayed there.
Taking a deep breath Chloe began writing,
Sandra,
I honestly can't thank you enough for everything you've done for me these past few years, but I can't stay here anymore… I'm never going to be adopted, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life (or at least until I'm 18) stuck in this orphanage. There's so many things that I really want to do, and you know as well as I do that as long as I stay here I will never get to. I know I'm only 13 but I promise that I will take care of myself, my Mother taught me how to survive in the wild, and I will be OK, I promise.
Thank you again, Sandra, you were like a second Mother to me, and I will never forget you.
I love you,
Chloe.
Chloe then folded the note and left it on a spot on Sandra's desk that Sandra was sure to notice it right away. After Chloe shut the light off she tiptoed to the door and unlocked it as quietly as she could, sometimes the lock squeaked, smiling when it didn't Chloe opened the door, and walked outside, closing the door as quietly as she could behind her, before running down the sidewalk as fast as she could so that she wouldn't get caught.
After Chloe was far enough away that she couldn't see the orphanage anymore she began walking, thinking about what to do next, she knew that she could survive in the wild for as long as she needed to, she could hunt, cook and create shelters for her to sleep in, and eventually she was bound to run into someone and maybe find a family… maybe someday, Chloe thought looking up at the sky feeling tears filling up in her eyes as she thought of her Mom, if only she was still here, she would be able to protect her.
"Come on Chloe, get a hold of yourself." Chloe whispered to herself, "you're on your own now, and you have to be strong." Chloe said taking a deep breath to steady her, before running into the forest where she had been found before being taken to the orphanage, the forest where it all began.
Theresa took a sip of her hot chocolate, every once and a while she would look down at her hand and smile, it still seemed so surreal that she was going to marry Jay, and be his wife for the rest of their lives.
"I'm very happy for you both." Her Dad said sitting down across from her.
"Thanks Dad." Theresa said smiling.
"I just wish your Mother was here." Theresa's Dad said sighing, Theresa sighed as well, and she wished that her Mom was here as well, how she would love to tell her all about her engagement.
"Hey Dad, how did you propose to Mom?" Theresa asked, realizing she had never actually asked her Dad this question.
Theresa watched as her Dad took a drink of hot chocolate before looking past Theresa out the window, "Your Mother and I were both young, around the same age as you and Jay, but boy did I love her, more than anything else in the world, she was the love of my life, and I really wanted to do something special for her."
"So what did you do?" Theresa asked dying to know now.
"I took her on a hot air balloon ride, and when we passed a hill I had a bunch of my friends spell out will you marry me? With candles." Theresa's Dad said smiling at the memory, Theresa smiled as well.
"Wow, I really wish that I could have seen that."
"Yes it must have been something to see" Theresa's Dad said laughing, "since your Mother screamed yes at the top of her lungs."
Theresa laughed as she imagined her Mom jumping on her Dad probably causing him to fall, sighing Theresa's Dad stood up walking over to Theresa kissing her head, "I'm going to turn in for the night, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Good night Dad." Theresa said watching him walk out of the room, once she was all alone Theresa began to feel uneasy, and she couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong, but it didn't take her long to remember as the same vision from that night came back to her, gasping Theresa opened her eyes taking a few deep breaths, "I have to tell Jay." Theresa said before looking at the clock on the stove, it was midnight, and they were going to see his parents tomorrow, and Theresa knew that she couldn't ruin celebrating with them, sighing Theresa decided that she would tell Jay tomorrow night, luckily she had a good poker face since Jay could read her like a book.
Atlanta smiled as she held Archie's hand, tonight had been magical, between Jay and Theresa (finally) getting engaged, and seeing their friends again, there were many laughs and many old memories had been talked about, and new memories had been made.
"I love you." Archie said squeezing Atlanta's hand tighter.
"I love you too." Atlanta said taking her seat belt off so she could kiss Archie's cheek; Archie laughed waiting for Atlanta to get comfortable again before taking her hand back.
"What an awesome evening!" Atlanta said sighing happily, "it was so nice seeing the gang again."
Archie nodded, "it was nice, but it wasn't the same without Odie." Archie said sadly.
"I know." Atlanta said fighting back tears, how she missed Odie.
For a while Archie and Atlanta didn't speak, Atlanta loved how they could sit in silence and not have it be awkward.
"Archie, look out!" Atlanta screamed as she looked out the windshield and saw someone crossing the road but they were standing right in the middle, Archie gasped gripping the wheel as tight as he could as he turned the wheel in an attempt to miss the person standing there, but he didn't and Archie heard a sickening thud as the car hit the person.
"Oh no!" Atlanta said getting out of the car and running towards the person, now lying in the middle of the street, and upon further review Atlanta discovered that the person that they hit was a girl.
"It looks like I broke her leg!" Archie said running to join Atlanta, and as she looked down she discovered that the girls leg was bent at a very unhealthy angle.
"We have to get her to the hospital!" Atlanta said looking at Archie who nodded, picking the girl up as gently as possible, walking over to his car and putting her in the back seat before both him and Atlanta sped off in the direction of the nearest hospital.
End Chapter 4, please review, I am having SO much fun writing this story, and I would really like to know what more people think.
I DO NOT OWN COTT.
