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Chapter 7

The next couple of days me and Zara were getting ready for school and helping make my room look homier. Gram and Marrissa were home since it was a weekend. We had spaghetti on Sunday. "So what happened to Alex? I heard you took good care of him Sarah, I'm proud of you"

"We never got the whole story. All we know was that Alex and Nick had to take care of 'something'. We still don't know what that 'something' was. Thanks."

"Hmmm. Weird." Gram says.

"Yeah it definitely is." I tell her.

I wake up on Monday morning groggy. I had a really weird dream, one that had to do with a meadow, Alex, and flowers. I get up and take a shower in my bathroom. It feels nice and helps me wake up. I towel dry my hair and comb it out, and put it up into my usual style: the ponytail. I put on jeans and a white T-shirt and a white pull over hoodie. I walk out my door to get myself some breakfast.

Marrissa had gone shopping yesterday so she bought cereal, because it's easy to make than any other breakfast. Zara walks down the stairs in her new jeans, T-shirt and hoodie.

"You look nice."

"Thanks, you look nice too." She says giving a smile.

"Thank you Zara."

She walks into the kitchen and gets some cereal as well. I look at the clock on my LG Neon. It says 7:45 a.m. We have 15 minutes until school started. I was so nerves. Zara looked like it was a normal school day. Well it was even though it was the first day of school. When she finishes eating I got up and put my boots on.

"Ready to go Zara?"

"Yup, are you?"

"Yeah, totally!" I say.

I open the door and walk to my hummer and jump in. I turn the key and blast the heat. She jumps in "Let's go!" I turn around at start down the driveway. The school is only five minutes away. We get there with several minutes to spare, but before I can pull into a spot a red MINI cooper pulls ahead of me. I knew it was Nick and Alex, because two huge guys got out of the car. Zara glares at them. I laugh at her face. I pull into the spot across from them. I get out of the car and walk over to where they are leaning against Nick's car. I walk up to them, and go into complete girl mode on purpose.

I put my hands on my hips and put on a pouty face and say "Who was driving that car, you could've killed me and Zara." I start cracking up, and so does Zara , Nick, and Alex.

"You should have seen your faces, they were hilarious!"

"Wait, were you doing that on purpose?" Nick asks, while turning his head and looking at Alex.

"Of course, I would never, ever act like that a million years!"

"Good because I would never want to go out with a girl who acted like that." Alex says while looking into my eyes the whole time.

"Are you saying you want to go out with me?" I ask him.

He blushes a little bit "Yeah I am saying that."

I smile at him "Then I would love to go out with you!"

He blushes even more this time. I walk up to him. "So we're going out right?"

"Yeah, definitely." I wrap my arms around his neck, he leans in, I know he wants to kiss me. His lips are almost touching mine when I move my head and kiss him on the cheek. I laugh at his face. "You do not get to kiss me yet." I tell him.

"Wow today is really going to suck." He says flatly.

"No it won't since you have a girlfriend."

I step away from him and walk towards the front doors to go to the office. Zara follows me. I slow down a little to let her catch up. I open the door to let her in. She leads me to the office. The lady at the front desk is talking to some other girl about the dress code. When she turns around and looks at me and Zara, a thought pops into my head, but it wasn't my thought.

Who is that girl that's with Zara? I bet she's going to steal my popularity! And why does she wear stuff like just jeans and a T-shirt it's a disgrace to the fashion world.

What the heck! I think I just read her mind! I turn my attention to the secretary. She doesn't notice us because she is picking up something from the floor that fell down, and it happens again.

That girl Sasha is such a nuisance. Comes in all the time complaining about something or other.

I feel sort of disturbed. I can read people's minds it's pretty cool, but how can I do that. I'm just a regular human. Or maybe I'm not.

"Hello."

"Oh! Hello. You must be Sarah Thorn Zara's cousin. Here I have already made your schedule." She says handing me a piece of paper.

"Thank you."

"I'm Mrs. Nix, I'm so glad you're here Sarah." I try to read her mind again but it doesn't work.

"Thank you."

I turn around and walk toward the door, when I walk out I'm greeted with a girl my age.

This must be Sarah Thorn Zara's cousin she's been telling me and Devyn about. She's really pretty like Zara. But she has a taller and leaner figure. Oh! She's smiling at me, she must be really nice.

Wow this girl is really nice. "Hi, I'm Sarah Thorn." I say as I smile at her again.

"Hi Sarah, I'm Issie. It's really nice to meet you."

Alex walks up behind her. He smiles at me and I can't help but smile back. It feels weird already having a boyfriend on the first day of school. Then to my disgrace, I read his mind. I wonder if I could turn the ability off?

She is so beautiful, I'm glad she's my girlfriend because I won't get jealous of other guys she might be talking to. Wow she has a beautiful smile, it lights up her whole face.

Wow Alex thinks I'm beautiful, I think it's funny that he would be jealous of guys I'll be talking to if we weren't going out because the other guys would be jealous of him.

"What's your first class?"

I look at my schedule. "Language Arts and Literature, how about you?"

"Same." He says.

"Sweet!" I smile at him again, and he smiles back.

"Follow me."

"I'll see you later Issie. Do you have the same class Zara?" I ask her as we start walking away.

"Yeah I do."

Alex walks with us. He puts his arm around my shoulders, it makes me want to laugh because he thinks some guy is going to steal me from him, which is so not going to happen. We all walk to our first class. We have this elderly teacher, she looks about 80 years old. I am so glad that when I looked at her I couldn't read her mind, maybe I could turn it on and off. All three of us find seats that are right next to each other so we could talk or pass notes.

She calls order to the classroom and starts going on about school expectations and the dress code and a whole lot of other things I wasn't paying any attention to. I was looking out the window, because I was seeing a man standing out there staring at me, then he waves and disappears, just like that.

I just keep staring out the window the whole class period since nothing she is saying really important. Finally the bell rings, I remember Ms. Iverson saying we would get our lockers in our next class. I walk out of the classroom followed by Zara and Alex. We meet up with Nick half way to our next class. Me, Zara and Alex all have the same schedule. I walk into my first class and see that girl that thought I was a disgrace to the fashion world, which was really stupid is in the class.

We didn't really do much either in this class, all we get is our locker numbers Zara and mine are next to each other's and Nick and Alex's were next to each other. After our second class we get lunch/recess. All four of us waited in Line joined by Issie and Devyn her boyfriend. We all sit down at their normal table. Alex sits next to me.

I look out the window again and see the man, then a car passes and he's gone again. I wonder who he is. Everyone else is having a conversation about how they hate their teachers' and blah, blah, blah. All I want to talk about is that man standing outside windows while he is staring at me.

I turn to Alex, he turns to look at me with an eyebrow raised "I keep seeing this man outside staring at me when I look through a window."

"Is it the same guy you keep seeing at Betty's?"

"Yup." I say. Zara turns completely white.

"If…" She lowers her voice to a whisper. "If he is a vampire, he could want you for his next meal. Have you seen anymore murders on the news lately?" She asks.

"What are you guys talking about?" Issie asks.

"There have been four mysterious murders where the young girls have been drained of blood." She goes pale white as well.

"We think it's a vampire but we can't be sure." Nick tells her and Devyn.

"The bite marks on their necks and being completely drained of blood, means it could be a vampire, but it also could be the work of a psychopath pretending to be a vampire." I tell them.

"I never thought it could be some crazed killer, but you could be right." Alex says.

"I'm going to go to the library. Anybody want to come?" Alex gets up to leave as well as Nick and Zara.

"Me and Devyn will stay here." She blushes because they'll be alone.

"OK, well I'll see you guys later." I tell them.

"OK bye!" Then I walk out the door with Alex, Nick, and Zara with me.

When we get to the library I go to a computer and pull up Google. I search "What do vampires look like?" It pulls up tons of different websites I click on the third one.

"This looks like the guy I keep seeing out of windows."

I go back to Google and type in "Who are the Vampires enemies?" I click on the first one this time.

"The Vampires most feared enemies are the pixies. These pixies are not like tinker bell they are undead beings that walk the earth and take away people's souls."

I keep reading to a part that gets really interesting.

"Pixies can hunt the vampires. If the pixie King does not have a queen he can receive blood tributes from the vampires. The vampire's blood makes the pixie King stronger so he can fight his need and not have a queen."

"All we have to do is find some pixies to stop the vampires. Does anybody know where we can find Pixies?" I turn to look at Zara.

"Yeah I know where we can find some pixies." She says.

"After school, why doesn't everyone come to our house?" I ask everyone. "And while you're at it, why don't you guys tell me the story of how there are pixies in Bedford!" I log off the computer and start heading toward my third class of the day. Sometimes I really hate school.

Finally the bell rings. Today was so boring. In P.E we didn't do anything. In art we didn't do anything. In every class we didn't do anything! I walk out to my hummer I wave to Nick and Zara because she is riding to our house with Nick. I know I'll see them in a little bit since they're coming over. Alex follows me to my hummer, and I hop in.

Right before I turn the key in the ignition Alex grabs my hand, then reaches out with his other hand to turn my face towards him. His face was so close to mine, "Sarah try not to be upset why we didn't tell you there were any pixies in Bedford. We didn't think we needed to." And without letting me answer he leans forward and kisses me, soft and warm. He pulls away but far enough that are faces are only a few inches apart. He looks at me expectantly "Fine, I just wish you would have told me O.K?" He leans in and kisses me again. I still can't believe he is kissing me. I pull away first. "We should start heading out." I pull out of the parking lot and start toward home.

As we walk up the porch I look at him from the corner of my eyes "You are a good kisser." He smiles and looks at me "So are you." I blush. We walk in the door, "I never thought you guys would get here in time." Nick says while smirking, I roll my eyes at him.

"So explain to me why there are pixies in Bedford." I ask all of them. Issie and Devyn weren't there because I didn't ask them to come over.

"There isn't a lot of iron here and that's all we have been able to figure out." Nick says, running a hand through his hair.

"The pixie king lives here. When my mom got out of collage she came here and got pregnant with me. I don't think I need to go into details of how, since you already know I'm part pixie." I didn't need an explanation of how but I got one anyway, isn't it convenient to be able read minds? Well the answer is no especially when I'm trying not to.

I can't believe that I'm pretty much a child of a rape. Betty said that my mother did willing, that she consented but it's still nauseating to think about it, that she "did it" with a pixie.

I pull out of her head immediately "So where can we find these pixies?"

"In a mansion, out in the woods, surrounded by iron." Alex tells me.

"OK when can I go see this mansion?" I ask everyone.

"How about this weekend, we can all go." Alex says. He gives Nick a look that says you have to be there.

Gram walks in the door followed by Marrissa. They told me what their jobs were but I wasn't really paying attention, all I remember was they said they both worked in the hospital. That was it.

"Are you guys going to visit the pixies this weekend, since being a weretiger and all I have super hearing so I knew what you guys were talking about. So are you going to or not, because I'm coming with you if you are." Gram looks at me sternly. The look she gives me is one that says "You cannot go anywhere near that place without me" I want to roll my eyes but don't.

"Yeah we're going." I say to her.

"Well I'll start making dinner. Nick, Alex are you two staying?" Marrissa asks them. I notice that she hadn't said anything about the pixies or join in the conversation about when we were going to visit them. I look at Alex trying to tell him I want to stay without saying anything.

"I guess I'll stay. What about you Nick." I give him a small smile and blush at the same time. I can tell he was chuckling, but trying to suppress it.

"Yeah sure I'll stay." Zara lets out a sigh of relief. Nick hears it because he puts his arm around her shoulders and kisses her cheek. I look at Alex; both of us almost start cracking up. Mine just turns into a kind of snort. This makes everybody laugh and makes me breath out a sigh of relief.

Zara and Nick up to her room for some privacy. I just sit down on the couch next to Alex and snuggle into his side. He turns on the T.V and before I can ask him to change it because I already knew that there was another girl dead right before the reporter started talking about the breaking news story. Alex looks at me with a concerned look.

"I knew there was another murder even before the reporter said anything about the breaking news story." I tell him. Then I go into some sort of trance.

A girl in a short black skirt and pink top is walking down the street from a party. She was carrying her big black heels in her hand. She turns down a alley way, I try screaming at her to stop, to not go down there but she couldn't hear me. A figure steps out into the shadows. She stops and starts to turn around but he grabs her arm and sinks his teeth into her neck. Drinking her blood, I try to attack him to make him stop, but again I can't help her. I wake up with a large gasp.

"Sarah? Sarah? Sarah are you alright?" Alex is slightly shaking my shoulders. He looks stressed out and really worried.

"Yeah I'm fine but another girl is going to die to night." I tell him. I notice Gram and Marrissa are standing next to him.

"I just saw it. The vampire is following her right now." I knew there wasn't much time to waste. Without thinking about it, I push my mind outward, trying to find the vampire's or the girls thoughts. Eventually I find the vampires.

Finally my next dinner, I've been waiting for her to cross through any dark and unlit place. She is beautiful, such a shame that she will be my dinner. Yes she is turning down an alley. All the beautiful girls aren't the smartest ones. She is walking into the alley. I run past her, I appear in the middle of the alley blocking her path. I feel my fangs protruding down from my gums. I rush at her and sink my teeth into her neck. Her blood is so warm and delicious.

I let go of my extreme concentration. "It's too late; he has already begun drinking her blood."

"How do you know this?" Gram asks me. Before I answer I sit up but everything spins around and I black out.

I wake up in the morning a little lightheaded. I walk out into the living room. Gram left a note on the table for me:

Sarah I hope you are alright. There are some pancakes in the oven if you're hungry. You blacked out last night after doing something. I already called the school to tell them you were going to stay home today. Alex was insisting on staying with you but I told him you needed your rest. I really do hope you can tell me how you knew we couldn't save that girl. Be careful.

Gram

I walk over to my backpack. I search through it to find my phone, I turn it on, while I wait for it to load up I turn on the T.V, of course the breaking news story is about this girl. The same girl I saw. I look back at my phone which has now finally finished loading. It was already 1 o' clock in the afternoon. I try to remember when I blacked out.

Before the whole news story, it said it was something like the 10 o' clock news. So if it was about 10 o' clock and probably about 10:10 p.m when I pulled out of the vampires head, which means I've been asleep/knocked out for roughly 13 hours and 10 minutes. Wow that was a long time, I am glad Alex didn't stay because he would have been bored out of his mind.

I sit around the house all day, I eat some of the pancakes that Marrissa made. I watch T.V until Nick, Zara, and Alex get home, well home for Zara, not home for Nick or Alex. Zara walks up to me and gives me a hug I didn't need to read her mind to know how concerned she was. Alex walks up behind her and sits down next to me on the couch. I turn to look at him, he grabs my face in his hands and kisses me.

Oh great Sarah and Alex are gonna go on a make out fest. Well I guess that's how they feel when me and Zara go up to her room…

I pull out of Nicks head immediately, I also pull away from Alex, and he gives me a questioning look. I give him a look that says "I don't want to talk about" so to keep my mind off my new weird ability, I say "How was everybody's day?"

"OK we didn't really do anything they just gave out lists of assignments we are supposed to be doing, which reminds me, all the teachers gave me ones to give you." Zara hands me about 5 papers, all of them lists of assignments.

"Everybody else had the same kind of day?" When no one answered I assumed that's what it meant. Nick and Zara tell me and Alex they need to talk about some things. Even before they started to sort of yell at each other, I already knew they were going to get in a fight. But instead of worrying about that I sat on the couch with Alex and snuggled into his side.

After Zara and Nick's argument/fight, I spread out on the couch with my head in Alex's lap. When I could no longer hear Nick and Zara, I sat up and turned to face Alex. I had no idea what I was going to tell him but I needed to at least let one secret out.