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Chapter 4
When we got downstairs Gram looked up, "School is in four days. Do you have everything you need?" She asked. I groan, but then a thought floods to my brain: I'll get to see Alex again. I almost smacked myself for that one. Why does he have to be so gorgeous! "Nope, I don't need anything. Me and my mom went shopping before I left." I say.
After breakfast is over Zara leaves to go on a date with Nick. Before she leaves she tells me "Sarah why don't you call Alex and see if he wants to come over." She hands me a small slip of paper. "It's his cell. Nick gave it to me. You don't have to call him but since you guys will be bored having nothing to do, you should hang."
"Uh-huh ok, I don't think so, thanks for his number though." I say.
"Sarah will you please call him." She pleads. She looks like a little kid, so I have to swallow a laugh.
"Maybe, there is a more likely chance of no, but maybe. Alright?"
"That's fine with me." Then she walks out the front door. I can hear her drive away. I sit on the old plaid couch and turn on the T.V.
I don't end up calling Alex. I couldn't work up the nerve. But I was way too happy to get his cell phone number. So I just hang around the house (you can't do much when there's construction going on), I do ask the head construction worker about when the room will be finished. I got to take a peek at it. It was pretty big. It even had its own bathroom, which is really nice because I won't have to use the bathroom on the second floor. Eventually Zara gets back. "So Mrs. Lovebird how was the date?"
"Great, we went and saw a movie then had dinner." I bet they picked a movie they would have liked but then ended up making out during most of it. You want to know how I know that? Well her cheeks were still a little red and her breathing was faster than normal, her lips were also a little swollen I think. But I'm not saying that parts true, it was just a guess. "Well that's good!" I didn't bother asking what movie they saw because I bet she forgot it (since she didn't watch half of it). Then she has to ask the dreadful question:
"Did you call Alex?" She raises one eyebrow as she says it and a smirk forms on her face. "No… I did not." I say and look down at my feet, I started to feel my cheeks get hot. "Why? You couldn't work up the nerve?" She says smirking again. "Yes I couldn't work up the nerve alright. You happy now?" I kind of yell, she laughs. "I think somebody likes someone!" She teases. Now she is really pissing me off. But right before I can make a good come back, my phone rings. I pick it up "Hello?"
"Hey Sarah its Alex." My heart stutters in my chest.
"Hey Alex, what's up?" I ask, my voice starts to shake just a little bit, and I mean a little bit.
"I think I left my jacket over there, do you think I could come over and get?" My heart stops beating for a second, then starts up again. "Yeah sure, I haven't been doing anything today." I wince as I finish saying that, I think I gave him too much information.
"Why didn't you call? We could've hung out, instead of being bored out of our minds!" Zara must have heard what he said through the phone for she mouthed "I told you so." I glare at her. "Sorry I was driving around." I lie. I feel sort of bad though.
"Oh really, or did you not work up the nerve to call me?" He asks laughing. Zara starts cracking up because my cheeks are bright red. "Um, I'm not going to answer that question. If I said yes, how did you know?" I say now curious.
"Zara told Nick, and Nick told me." He says kind of chuckling under his breath. I look at Zara, and I give her the death stare. She starts cracking up again. I growl, which makes Zara laugh even harder. "Sorry Sarah." He says with fake emotion. "O.K. fine I admit that I couldn't work up the nerve to call you. You happy now?" I say curtly. He chuckles again. "I'm glad you admitted it. You don't have to be shy Sarah around me." He chuckles again. His chuckling is really starting to get on my nerves. "You're welcome Alex. And why should I not be shy, may I ask?" I snarl into the phone. "Because at school we'll see each other a lot so why try to stop being shy."
"Um, yeah know that's probably not going to happen, me not being shy and all."
"Well could you at least try, I'm not shy around you." I swear he is smiling when he says that. "No." He chuckles again. I swear if I hear him chuckle at school I will slap him. "O.K fine, do whatever you want. Can I still get my jacket though?"
"Yeah sure, whatever." I say like it doesn't matter.
He knocks on the door. Zara answers it because I'm ignoring Alex. He says hi to her, and then walks towards me and puts his hand on my cheek again, while I'm glaring at him. He just smiles, wow does he have a great smile. I look away from him to stop from thinking about how cute he is and his gorgeous smile.
I turn around and walk up to my room. I can hear them talking even with my door closed. I never am able to hear this well, Maine is definitely changing me.
"Hey Zara why do you think Sarah is… I don't know. So shy?" He asks Zara. "I think because you make her nerves, and uncomfortable. But that's what I think. Why don't you ask her?" She answers him, and she pretty much got it right. And does she have to ask that question? "I don't think she'll actually tell me why." He responds kind of sadly. I feel sorry for him. He likes a girl who is really, really shy and doesn't really want to talk to him. "Well maybe you should try to get the same classes as her and talk to her there, so you two can get to know each other better." Great, now I might have him in all my classes? Thanks Zara. "That's actually a good idea thanks Zara. Hey will you tell Sarah I'm sorry for making her angry?" I swear he was smiling when he said that. Then he leaves and to make sure I know he's leaving, he yells up to me "Bye Sarah!"
After I hear his car pull out of the drive way which is unusual because that's not normal for a person to be able to hear a car pull out of a drive when they are 100 feet away and in between some walls, it's just not normal. I walk down the stairs where I met Zara's eyes and glared at her. Then I walk over to the plaid couch and turn on the T.V. Both Gram and Marrissa won't be back for awhile because there're both at work. I turn the channel to whatever news channel they have here. The breaking news story is that they found a young girl drained of her blood with two bite marks on her neck. The news people said this was the second body they found this week. I almost pass out. I've read a lot of fantasy/sci-fi books about vampires and werewolves, and by the looks of the wound on that girl's neck it was a vampire. I turn to Zara. She is paler than usual and turns to meet my eyes. "Is that wound from, from" She swallows. "A vampire?" she asks very quietly. I keep a modest expression (at least I hope I do) "Yes I believe the killings were made by a vampire." She whips out her phone and I bet dials Nicks number. He picks up. I walk over and put my head against the phone to make sure I can hear what they are saying. "Zara, what's wrong, where's Sarah?" He asks in a distressed tone. "She's right here standing next to me." She says, sounding very lonely and scared. "Put her on the phone Zara." She hands the phone to me.
"Hello?" I ask. "Sarah what is going on?" He sounds very distressed. "The breaking news story is about a young girl who was drained of blood with mysterious bite marks on her neck." I say while hugging Zara. "Does it look like a doing of a vampire?" He asks. "Yes it does." I say. "Alex and I are coming over, was this, the first or second killing?" He asks. "The second, the vampire so far has been killing women."
"O.K. we are on our way." He says. "Nick please hurry, I'm worried about Zara." She is looking paler by the second. "Just hang tight Sarah we'll be there as soon as possible." He hangs up. I sit Zara down on the couch, and get her a glass of water. After sitting down for a bit and with some water she looks a little better. "You alright?" I ask her. "Not really, I feel a little better." She says very weakly. "Nick and Alex are coming. They'll be here in a little bit." I say looking at her. About four minutes later Alex and Nick get here. Nick has a key I guess because the door was locked. He rushes over to Zara. He takes her up to her room. And this time I'm not guessing what they were going to do.
Alex walks over and sits next to me on the couch. The whole time I was talking to Nick on the phone and hearing the news I was freaking out but I kept calm so Zara would have someone sturdy to look after her. As soon as Alex sits down on the couch, I break down. I don't know what it is with this guy, he makes me show the weaker part of myself that I hate showing. I start crying, just tears falling down my cheeks. Alex pulls me into his chest. It makes me feel safe, that nothing can hurt me. I cry into his chest for a really long time, everything that I've been worrying about just comes out. He doesn't say anything, he just let's me cry.
Finally I stop. "Sorry, I didn't mean to ruin your shirt." I sniffle. "Its fine Sarah, I know you've been stressed out and upset. It's ok for you to cry like this, it's normal."
"Not normal for me. I never cry, well I do sometimes but rarely, it's unusual for me to cry." He reaches over and catches a tear with his thumb, and wipes it away. "You know Sarah, you can't always be the tough one, at some point in your life you're going to wish you had someone to take care of you." He says, looking at me straight in the eye. "Yeah I know but at least I can try." He rubs my back again, longer this time though. "Try what? Always be the tough one, you have to look out for yourself too Sarah, you can't always look out for others. Try to take care of you." I lean into his chest again and he wraps his arms around me. I can feel his face in my hair. "O.K. Mr. Wise One." I say in a deep voice. "I'm serious Sarah." He looks at me. "Yeah I know. I'll try O.K?" I answer him. "Thank you."