Whatever he's going to throw my way it can't be that bad can it?

"I dare you to-" he started.

"What'd I tell you kids 'bout staying here after 4:30 if you aint using the library? Huh? Yall know what crime yalls commitin, It's littering! No leave before go on and call da Police! Go I say go!" the ol grouchy lady took out her cell phone and everyone scattered, hell even I did. Although I wondered how it would sound if she complained we were littering. I'm pretty sure she meant loitering. Within seconds everyone was gone. Me and Vanessa were cracking up even though she was out of breath. I guess Caren ran the opposite way even though her house was the other way. My guess was that she went with Brian. Kimberly finally caught up. She was a little chunky but very pretty. A bead of sweat dropped down her forehead. We started walking home when Kimberly finally caught her breath.

"Wow, are you guys on steroids?" she said. We laughed.

"Hey Kimberly do think your parents will mind if I kick it at your house?" I asked.

Next to Caren, Vanessa and Kimberly were my best friends but Vanessa's parents were…not cool. I remember when I first went to Kimberly's house I had a crush on her bigger brother, Stephen. I was going to turn 17 and he was going to turn 19. Of course the only attraction was physical. I hadn't seen him in a long time and wondered what he looked like now.

"Yea sure they don't care, what about your cousin, Sarah? Won't she freak?"

"I'll just call her and let her know, no worries. Let me just…shit" I muttered

"What?" Vanessa and Kimberly said at the same time.

"I left my backpack at the library." I said miserably, it was starting to get dark.

"We can go back and get it if-"

"No, I'll be fine. I can take care of myself. I'll meet you at your house. If I'm not back in about an hour assume then I was probably to lazy to walk to your house. Hasta luego."

"Bye…your house is further than mine..".

"C'ya".

I ran back to the library and on my way it started to drizzle. Just my day. I got there quickly considering I didn't have to watch how fast I ran around humans. I searched for almost 15 minutes when I finally gave up. I couldn't find my backpack anywhere. Not it was full on raining and I was soaking wet. Vampire or not, it not like we didn't fell anything physically. I cursed to my self and took note that I was going to need to buy a water proof jacket.

I stayed under an umbrella that was attached to one of the benches and waited hoping for the rain to die down. Of course, it rained harder.

"Damnet" this couldn't get any worse.

It took me Sarah 15 minutes to get me to school…and that was when she did break the speed limit. I would probably be there in 20 at the most….20 minutes of pure running in the rain. I sighed knowing I couldn't get sick but the cold rain falling hard hitting my skin wasn't exactly comfortable. I started to run and about a minute into running I noticed a car and I started walking.

A human seeing me run as fast as any car would be horrible, and I would get in big trouble. Then the car pulled over and stopped. I kept walking but glanced into the car to see if it was anyone I knew. The window was tinted so I couldn't see though it. Sure vampires had enhanced…everything but we didn't have X-ray vision. I walked ahead and the car moved up a little keeping up with my pace.

Ok… I started power walking and the car came up next to me still moving. The window rolled down and I scented vampire immediately. I panicked and ran without even bothering to see who it was. I changed my route not wanting to know whoever that was were I lived. The car was in full speed now, and so was I. Sadly I couldn't run at 150 miles per hour. The car zoomed in front of me blocking me. The car door opened and I started to run the other way. I heard footsteps behind me getting closer. I tried one of my illusions but just couldn't. I had concentrate if I wanted to do an illusion but right now the only thing I had on my mind was to get the hell away.

It felt like I was running for hours even though it had been no longer than a minute. I no longer recognized my surroundings and panicked. I knew we were still in the city of Hawthorne but I never ventured out my area. The footsteps stopped for a mere second and I felt myself being tackled to the ground. I was pinned beneath my pursuer. I struggled and thrashed and clawed but my attempts were useless.

"Would you stay still" I recognized the voice almost immediately.

"Alex?" my eyes widened. What was he doing here.

"You're a pretty fast runner" he said then smirked right after. So much for a complement.

"I'm assuming you don't have a ride home?"

"Ah…you have assumed correctly" I said, mocking him.

I noticed he was still on top of me and he still had me pinned. He looked at me as if waiting for me to faint or something along those lines with a stupid smile on his face. As if. When was he going to realize I don't do that. Even if he was drop dead gorgeous. I frowned at myself. I noticed how I kept complimenting him.

"Well you going to let me up or what" It was a question but came out like a command. He shook his head in confusion and let me up. He must be use to every girl fall head over heels on sight. Who knew what happened on contact.

"Well, I gotta get home" I turned to start running but he grabbed my wrist and I looked at him. This was the second time he grabbed me today.

"Your not going to run in the rain are you?" he looked at me like I was crazy.

"Well I'm not going to get sick…"

"I don't suppose you want a ride?"

"Sure" I mumbled.

We jogged back to the car and I got in. It was surprisingly warm and smelt good…it smelt like Alex. Hey! none of that. I scolded myself and began to relax once the heat got to me. My wet clothes clung to my skin and made me uncomfortable. I took off my sweater and tossed it in the back seat. It landed with a thud and I realized I must have soaked all the back seat.

"Oops, sorry. I hadn't realized it was that soaked" I took of my seatbelt and turned to get it. then something occurred to me.

"Hey…I didn't tell you were I live so where are we driving?" just then I saw the spot where we just were.

"You're taking me in circles?" I sighed.

He smiled and I saw that his fangs were barred. I looked away and stared out the window.

I really didn't want to tell him where I lived but what choice did I have… I saw that weren't driving in circles anymore but driving towards Kimberly's house. He couldn't know where Kimberly lived…right?

"Umm where are you going?" I asked.

"Of friends of mines who is the brother of a friend of yours". It took me a few seconds to register what he said but it clicked.

"Oh" I said sheepishly.

Finally we pulled into the driveway and I muttered a thanks. I opened the door to get out the car but Alex reached over and slammed it shut. He looked me dead in the eye and he looked scary.

"Why don't you like me? he demanded, his voice was almost intimidating. My mouth almost fell open, he sounded as if I answered wrong he would bite my head off.

"I never said I didn't like you" I said calmly. You just shouldn't think so highly of yourself. I added the last part in my head. Though who wouldn't when you were always being praised.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked me.

"Alex…umm… I really don't know your last name but I hardly think it matters" I replied. He smirked.

"If you did know my last name you would fall to your knees and bow down to me and kiss my feet".

I snorted "And what makes you so sure I would do that?"

Just then the door opened to the front porch and Kimberly came running out. She tapped on the window and was surprised when she saw me, she was even more surprised when she saw who I was in the car with. She was staring at him ad I rolled my eyes.

"Thanks for the ride" I told him and got out of the car.

Me and Kimberly ran back into the house to keep from raining. Her parents were downstairs watching TV and Stephen was in his room. I nodded and smiled and they smiled back. We ran upstairs to Kimberly's room. Then out of nowhere she started talking faster then I ever could run.

"Do you have idea as to what time it is?" she exclaimed and when I said nothing she continued "It's almost 7 and you have been gone for like 3 hours! And when we called Sarah and she said you weren't there but like, she sounded like she didn't care at all! And then I told my parents and they just brushed it off! And then I made a deal with them that if you didn't come back in an hour, but now you're here and you came in hotties car, om-i-god what did you guys do?"

"We did not do anything I was walking and he picked me up and dropped you off, he claims to know your brother"

"Really? That might be good news, If he does who knows when he will come to visit. Once he see's me he will know I'm his one and only" Kimberly fainted dramatically and we laughed.

"Hey do you have any dry clothes, I think I'm going to take a shower these clothes are freezing" she looked at me and saw I was dripping water all over the place. She threw me some Pajamas and a washcloth at me and I went to the bathroom. I turned the shower on all the way hot. I took the wet clothes that clung to by body off and went into the shower. The water felt nice on my skin and I started to wash my body. After I cleaned myself up I stood in the shower letting the hot water hit my back. Finally I got out and noticed I had no towel. I poked my head out the door.

"Kimberly…Kimberly get me a towel" I whispered loudly. I didn't really want the whole world to hear and I wouldn't really want to disturb her parent with getting me a towel.

"Kimberly!" I hissed.

Out of nowhere a towel smacked my face and I saw Stephen laughing at me. I thought about throwing a brush at him but decided not to. All I needed to do was break the boy's arm or back or something pretty important. I closed the door and wrapped the towel around me, it was pretty small, to small but covered everything. I blow dried my hair and but it in a sloppy loose sloppy bun. I turned to get my pajamas. Nooo I left them in her room! I'm going to have to make a run for it. I dreaded this because the towel was really short and I had to pass Stephen's room first- whose door is wide open. Wait…I'm a vampire I can go and he won't even see. Or I can use an illusion. No, I try by best not to use my illusions for rally silly reasons.

I got outside the bathroom looked left, then right. I ran and right when I was about to get inside Kimberly's room of bright flash blinded me causing me to halt, slip and slide…then fall stupidly. Kimberly

started bursting out laughing and I glared at her, I got up quickly still holding the towel to my body and walked into her room.

"I'm so sorry It looked like shadow and I though I was seeing thing" she said between laughs.

"Might I ask, why do you have a flashlight to begin with?" I said shaking my head.

"Well I was looking for something but never mind just go change in the closet or something".

I turned and got into the closet and changed into the clothes she gave me. When I came out she was on her bed queen sized bed and I flopped next to her. We started to talk about random things like flowers and the teletubies. Finally we went to sleep, and I slept dreamless and worry free.

. . .

I woke up and got ready for school. My clothes had dried over night in the dryer and I put them on. One was ready I went downstairs and turned on the TV putting it low so I wouldn't wake anyone up. When I checked the time it was only 7:30 so we still had a lot of time. It was very quiet upstairs and I only hear the rustle of blankets. I walked up to Kimberly's room and saw that she was still sleeping. I shook her lightly.

"Are you crazy we are going to be late for school" she just slapped my hand away but I kept shaking her, harder now.

"Wake up! We are going to be late for school".

"Since when did you care" she said through pillows. Although she did have a point, I don't know why I was so eager to get to school.

"Just get up and get ready" as a result she hit me with a pillow and I frowned.

"Chill out its Saturday, goodness now go back to sleep or something"

It's Saturday? I looked at the window and saw that the street was empty except for the few early birds who water there lawn. There were no kids walking to school like there usually was. I looked at the calendar Kimberly had hanging on her wall and saw that it was indeed Saturday. At least it means not school.

"Well I'm going to walk back to the library and search for my backpack" I told Kimberly

"You're crazy" she said and I left downstairs.

I went outside and jogged to the park. When I got there I'd never guess to see what I saw. Blonde, drinking from a little boy probably around the age of 8. I stared in shock as she sucked the life out of him. Her eyes were red and I was afraid she was going to kill the boy.

"Hey! Hey! Stop!" I yelled walking towards her but keeping my distance. She looked up at me blood thirsty throwing the boy's limp body aside. I could still hear his heart beat and sighed in relief. Poor thing. Blonde was walking towards me, blood all over a dress.

"How dare you interfere with my feeding! How dare you!" she screamed.

She charged towards me and I found myself paralyzed on the spot. Move, Move! I screamed at my body but I just couldn't. I know I wasn't frozen in fear…she was keeping me like this...she paralyzed me. That's when I started to panic. She was getting closer and I stood there frozen and she came forward to attack me.

And there was nothing I could do about it.

Happy Thanksgiving!