The Lost Boys
Not My Only Reason
A/N: So the next two chapters are getting shortened a little. The parts I didn't like the most came from these next two chapters, and they dragged on long enough I got a major writer's block. I made them too OOC for my tastes after reading it over. I'm really sorry if that was the stuff you loved most about this story, but hopefully it'll still work out and be good enough for those who liked it!
As the figure came closer, she was able to determine through teary eyes she knew him, it was Jake. She had totally forgotten that they were going to hang out. She felt bad and tried to quickly dry her tears before he noticed, but it didn't work.
"Hey, what's wrong?" he asked as he came up to her, worry written all over his face.
She sniffed and tried to smile at him, "It-It's nothing."
"I know there is something wrong, I can tell you've been crying," he told her, sitting down next to her. He held her face in his hands, and wiped her tears with his thumbs.
"Fine," she sighed. "The Frog Brothers were spying on us earlier, and I found out. "
"Who? Oh yeah, those crazy kids?"
"Yeah. I've been talking to them and they told me they saw us on the beach together earlier. I guess I overreacted."
"Yeah, I wouldn't blame you. They are so serious, everything seem a bit worse than it really is." he said, trying to comfort her. "Have you heard any rumors about them?"
She looked at him with an incredulous look. "I have been trapped in my house for a year straight with no communication to the outside world what so ever, what do you think?"
"I think no," he laughed. "Well, people say that they are hunting vampires or something. Can you believe it?"
Inside her head, a feeling of relief came over her. She couldn't let him know, though.
"I can't believe it," she lied, laughing nervously. "I mean vampires? Pfft, they don't exist."
He laughed, "I know right? It's all they really talk to anyone about, but I think it is all just a bunch of shit. You know?"
"Yeah, that's too crazy. Maybe they're just sniffing old newsprint or something."
Jake laughed. "Yeah, maybe. Well, you feeling better? Or you still upset?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I think I just overreacted, I haven't had social contact in over a year, and it seems any sort of drama is getting to my head."
"Well, let's forget them," he stood up, brushed off the sand, and offered up his hand. "And go have some fun."
She sat there for a second longer, having small last minute thoughts about him. She ended up taking his hand and brushing off her uneasy feelings. "Okay, I'm ready to have some fun."
They walked up the stairs, and onto the boardwalk. Jake put his arm around Alexis as they started down the walkway, which made the butterflies in her stomach flutter around. They walked past the comic shop; Alan looked up in time to see them walk by and nudged his brother next to him to look up as they disappeared from their view.
"Are you taunting them?" she asked him.
"What are you talking about?" he asked innocently.
She gave him a small smile and poked his side. "You deliberately walked past them like that didn't you?"
He grinned at her and shrugged. "Hey, they kinda deserve it for being shit heads to you."
She punched his side playfully and shook her head, but kept smiling to let him know she was joking around. "Don't be an asshole, Jake."
He laughed and kissed her forehead, making her forget about it all. "Whatever, let's go do stuff.
She nodded, and they were off. The pair first started off by going on all the rides. There weren't a lot of them, but they were rickety and old enough to pass off as dangerous and fun. They played a few games, she won a couple, he won a couple, but they didn't manage to get any of the super cool and giant prizes. Jake did manage to get her a small teddy bear, which made her heart melt. It was super cute of him to do. She didn't know how she was falling so hard for this boy, but she was. It didn't seem too long after that the boardwalk started to close up and people were heading for the exit.
"Hey, why's everyone going home?" Alexis asked, not wanting the night to end.
"You haven't seen the weather have you?" He pointed up to the storm clouds forming above them, and the winds that were starting to kick up.
"Oh it's only a little rain," she complained.
He laughed. "But it'll turn from a little to a lot in a few minutes. We better get going. We're pretty far from where we can leave, but don't worry, I know a shortcut."
As they walked he turned into a small alleyway between two shops. She didn't know how far from the exit they actually were, but it seemed this way wasn't taking them where she thought it was. When they seemed to be far enough away from everyone else, Jake suddenly stopped walking and pulled her to face him.
"Hey, what's wrong? I thought we were going through a shortcut?" She asked, trembling a little.
He smiled at her, creeping her out. "Nothing, I'm just making sure we are alone."
"It going to rain soon, I thought we were leaving," she demanded, getting very anxious.
"It's only a little rain," he said, quoting her. She didn't understand what was going on, but she tried to move them along to get away from whatever this was turning out to be.
"But it'll turn from a little to a lot in a few minutes, so let's go," she begged, quoting him back. He was starting to scare her now. His eyes didn't move, and no matter how hard she pushed him he wouldn't move. He grabbed her forearms, his grip super tight.
"Oh, no. You aren't going anywhere," his voice changed to a tone deeper than his own. "You are going to stay right here."
She pushed and pulled away from him but it was no use, she was stuck in his grasp. His eyes turned from his normal warm grey eyes, to a cold and unnatural yellow. His perfect smile had been ruined with fangs protruding from the front top of his teeth. He turned into a beast.
"Don't let this turn into more than it needs to, Alexis."
"H-How did you survive the sunlight this morning i-if you're a vampire...?" she asked him nervously. She was trying not to show her fear, but doing the worst job at it.
"Oh, you're smarter than you seem Alexis, I knew that from the start, "he taunted. "Well, I wasn't turned until before I found you crying. You see, I have been working with vampires for 6 months now. They offered me a place in their pack if I would help them find food and good places to hunt. They've finally let me join them, and you are my first kill."
Tears started to stream down her face as she tried once again to free herself from his grasp. He only laughed harder, and wrapped one of his newly strengthened arms around her to keep her close to him. He pulled at her long hair to open her neck up to him and sniffed at her throat to increase her fear.
"Please..." she begged. It was all she could muster out. She couldn't believe she had let herself fall for his charm, this was the way she was going to go.
His laughter increased and she waited for the inevitable bite to happen, but it never came. She felt the hands fall from her face and waist and opened her eyes in confusion. She saw Jake's wide with fear, and blood came pouring out of his chest like a mini waterfall. She backed up as quickly as she could into the wall behind her and watched him fall to the ground. Behind Jake was Alan Frog, holding the stake that was used to kill Jake. She didn't care about the blood that was around her feet, she was too shocked at the events which had occurred. She didn't feel hands gently grab her and lead her out of the alleyway and into the streets. All she saw afterwards was Alan holding her wrist as he pulled her along to the comic book shop. She could feel his grip on her wrist, and another pair of hands on her shoulders pushing her along, presumably Edgar Frog.
While they led Alexis leading to their shop, Edgar and Alan looked at each other in excitement with what just happened. They had just killed their first vampire, and saved their first almost-victim-of-the-undead! Although they were excited, they were worried about Alexis. She had just stormed off out of their shop a few hours ago over almost nothing, how would she handle this? Would she welcome it with open arms? Would she tell them she was going to kill them first chance she got?
When they finally reached the comic shop, they sat her down and closed up the shop. They needed privacy, and to stop the wind from picking up their comics. Alexis hadn't said a word the entire time, which made Edgar worry more about her reaction and made him the first one to say anything.
"Before you get mad at us or whatever you're going to do, you better listen to us first," Edgar commanded. "First off-"
"Edgar, I'm not mad," she mumbled.
"What?" Alan asked, worried.
"I'm not mad," she said, just barely loud enough for them to hear.
"Well, no matter what you can't be mad at us because we are the ones that saved you after you decided not to listen to us," Edgar insisted.
"How did you know Jake was a vampire?"
"We had our suspicions," Edgar told her. "He'd acted like he was one of them for a while, but he was going out into the sunlight and shit. We figured he was part of them in some way, we just couldn't prove it very well. We confirmed it when he left your house. After he left, we followed your boy toy until he was being really suspicious. We - uh, then lost him for a while... But we believe that's when he turned into a half-vampire. All he needed to do was make his first kill to become a vampire, and apparently that was going to be you."
"First of all, Jake was not my boy toy. We were barely even friends!" Alexis hissed, crossing her arms.
"Then explain all the gross lovey-dovey things you did!" Edgar countered, wanting to be right.
She bit her lip, knowing she couldn't explain that to him. She then tried to change the subject, "Second of all, how do you know he was only half?"
"You have to explain why you two were cuddling first!" Edgar commanded, oddly trying to get an answer out of her.
"After someone drinks the blood from the head vampire, they only become a half. In order to be a full-fledged vampire, they need to make their first kill," Alan explained. She gave him a silent thank you, and opened her mouth to ask another question, but Edgar cut her off.
"Yes, now that we have covered that," he said, starting to get annoyed. "Will you please tell us why it took you until we saved you from being a victim of a vampire to gain your trust, and it took him probably about 5 minutes?"
"Well, I honestly don't know," she admitted, blushing a little. "I usually wouldn't stand for how he was acting, but I guess his charm just...won me over..."
"Even though he wasn't a vampire yet, I'm sure his charm was enhanced with hanging around those dirty blood suckers," Alan confirmed.
"In case you weren't aware, vampires have enhanced charisma and personality to help pull their victims in," Edgar commented, making Alexis roll her eyes.
"Hey, don't you be rolling your eyes at me in this situation! We just saved your life! You could at least act a little more grateful!" Edgar raised his voice slightly.
"I am grateful, but I wouldn't be rolling my eyes at you if you didn't sit and state the obvious in this situation," she started arguing back at him.
"Well I wouldn't know what you know about the situation, since you won't tell us shit."
"Well-" Alexis was cut off.
"Hey! Don't argue!" Alan called out. "You're lucky our parents aren't here to hear this shit, but we don't need all of the boardwalk to know about this.
Alexis then looked down at her feet, just stood there for a second before saying, "Well he-"
"I don't care that he started it," Alan said, calmer than he was before. Edgar gave a betrayed look at his brother, Alan just glared back at him. "I'm ending it."
They sat in silence for a second before Alexis sighed and apologized. "Sorry I haven't told you guys everything, and thanks for having my back."
Edgar shrugged and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, guess I'm sorry for being a little shit."
Alexis looked up at him and gave him a small smile in thanks. Edgar looked back at her and rolled his eyes a bit. He was a sentimental kind of person. She chuckled a bit, not taking it personal after figuring the apology was the best she was going to get.
After clearing the air, Alan looked at them and spoke. "Well, do you have any more questions, Alexis?"
Alexis thought about it and shrugged, figuring some of what she would ask would spark more arguments and shit. "I guess just, what do we do now?"
The brothers looked at each other, having another one of their silent conversations before answering.
"I guess the only thing left is to escort you home," Edgar told her, seeming relieved.
Alexis wished she could have gotten after him about what he said, when she froze. "Edgar, what time is it?"
He looked down at his watch. "Quarter to midnight, why?"
She jumped up in fear and ran towards the entrance of the shop. "Shit! I need to be home in 15 minutes or my parents will kill me, literally!"
She didn't get very far, since Edgar had grabbed a hold of her wrist and pulled her back. "Are you crazy? You can't go out there without protection!"
"I'm sure that all the vampires are gone Edgar, I think I can go out now," she said, shaking him off her.
"Actually," Alan joined in. "You never know with vampires. Even if we killed one of their useless servants, they could still be out there looking for food, especially since it's raining and everyone is gone."
Edgar looked at Alexis with a sense of pride as she looked at him with a sense of distaste. "Fine, but I still don't think it is very necessary."
"Don't worry, it's not the thrill of my life either," Edgar assured her.
Alan shook his head and grabbed a jacket from the back room and gave it to Alexis, "You'll need it in this weather."
"No thanks, I'll be good," she replied, trying to give it back.
"No, you're going to wear it," Alan told her, giving it back to her. "The storm's gotten pretty nasty out there. That's one of the reasons why we closed up early."
Alexis took the jacket, seeing she wasn't going to get anywhere. She didn't want to feel like she owed them anymore than she already did, but here they were. Escorting her home and letting her borrow their jackets.
Alan went back to get a couple more jackets from Edgar and him, Edgar, on the other hand, glared at Alexis as she leaned against the wall of his store. She was wearing one of his jackets. She may be a friend, but no one wears his jackets but him. He wanted to tell her, but it would have to wait for another day. He had to protect the blood-sucker-attracter from harm no matter how much he didn't like it.
As soon as they were all geared up and ready to go, they opened the shop. Alexis was sad to admit that they were right as she got a face full of water. They walked out into the pouring rain, the wind blowing its might into the three teenager's faces. They were having a hard time even getting through the boardwalk. The rain they could have handled, but the wind was just too much for them, even the short distance walking to her house. They hadn't gotten too far when they decided to call it quits. Alexis's parents were not going to be happy, and she was not looking forward to their reactions. They were able to a get everyone inside the shop and close up again before it started thundering and lightning.
Everyone was tired from their journey, even though it was pretty short. "This…is…why…you took…the jacket," Alan said between pants.
Alexis smiled and laughed, still panting as well. "Yeah, thanks for letting me borrow it. So, what are we going to do now?"
"Well obviously you'll have to stay in the shop for the night," Edgar told her as he pulled his jacket off. "There's no way we can get out of here in this weather."
"No! I told you that-"
"Yeah, yeah, I heard that. You only have to stay long enough for the storm to let up."
"But what am I going to tell my parents? 'I stayed over at some vampire hunter's comic book shop because they killed a vampire that was going to eat me and storm is too bad to walk home in.'?"
The boys thought about it for a minute before Alan spoke up. "How about you call them, tell them that you are staying at a friend that you met on the boardwalk's place, not telling them it's us, and then you stay here."
"That's actually not a bad idea," Alexis told him. "So where is your phone?"
"In the back," Alan pointed.
"Thanks." She told them, and went off to the back room to find their phone.
