The Lost Boys

Not My Only Reason

Alexis sat there, crying. She didn't really know why she was crying so much. She was sad that she was caught by the Frog brothers, but at least it wasn't her parents. But there she was, bawling. Even though she shouldn't be crying this much, they were still sons of a bitch. They probably didn't mean to make her cry, or even tell her that they saw her at all, but they did. And they were sons of a bitch because of it. She was sitting there for about 10 minutes before she actually started to calm down and stop crying. As she was nearing the end of her tears, a figure came up to her. She didn't care who it was, as long as it wasn't one the stupid Frog brothers she didn't care.

As the figure came closer, she was able to determine through teary eyes that it was a man. He looked a few inches taller than her, broad shoulders, medium build, but as he came up to her, she realized she knew him. It was Jake from the beach earlier! She had totally forgotten that they were going to hang out later! She tried to quickly dry her tears before he got there, but it didn't work.

"Hey, Alexis! What's wrong?" he asked as he came up to her.

She sniffed, "Nothing."

"Okay, I know there is something wrong. I can tell you've been crying." He sat down next to her, and she immediately felt a little better, but the sadness was replaced with apprehensiveness.

"Fine," she sighed. "The Frog Brothers were spying on us earlier, and I found out"

"Who? Oh yeah, those crazy kids?"

"Yeah, they spied on us, and I guess I overreacted."

"Yeah, I wouldn't blame you. They are so serious they make everything seem a bit worse than it really is. Have you heard any rumors about them?"

She looked at him with a ridiculous 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, she felt a weird feeling. She couldn't really place it, but it was like relief, happiness, and a little realization all in one, but what she realized she couldn't really figure out. "I can't believe it," she lied. "I mean vampires? Pfft, they don't exist."

He laughed, "I know right? Yeah, they haven't really talked to anyone on the subject of it, so I can't really tell you if it is true or not. But I think it is all just a bunch of shit. You know?"

"Yeah, that's crazy."

"You know Alexis? I kind of think they might of set up the rumor themselves. I mean, they have practically no friends at school, and they just work in that shop of theirs all the time. Maybe to get attention, they set up the rumor in order to get attention you know?"

She thought about it for a minute. Maybe it isn't just rumors, what if it was true? She thought. Oh god I hope not. Who needs those dirty rotten shit-suckers anyways? "Yeah, 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'm over it now. I think I just overreacted, I haven't had social contacted in over a year, and I think all the drama is getting to my head."

"Well, let's forget the drama," 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. It was just the Crazy Frog Brothers talking… Right? "Okay, I'm ready to have some fun."

They walked up the stairs, and onto the pavement of the boardwalk. Jake put his arm around Alexis as they started down the walkway. They rounded the corner and 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.

"You deliberately walked past them like that didn't you?"

"Maybe," he said smugly. "But they deserved it by the way they treated you."

"But now that you've done that, they're probably going to spy on us again."

His smug face fell a little. "Hmmm, didn't think of that."

She laughed. "Well I guess it's too late now, let's just try to forget about it. Maybe they'll just stay in their shop since they've got no one to help them."

"Yeah, let's just hope. Now let's go do the fun stuff I promised." They laughed and went on the rides they had there. There weren't a lot of them, but they were rickety and old enough feeling 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. But Jake did manage to get her a small teddy bear. It was super cute of him to do, she didn't know how she was falling so hard for this boy, but she was, and she didn't even notice it. It was around 11 o'clock when most of the boardwalk started closing up.

"Hey, it's only 11. Why's everyone going home?" Alexis asked.

"You haven't seen the weather have you?" he pointed up.

She saw storm clouds forming and the wind started blowing pretty hard. "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 short cut."

As they walked he turned into a small alleyway between two shops. She didn't know which two, but they didn't seem to be far from where they were, despite them walking a couple minutes already. Jake suddenly stopped walking and they faced each other.

"Hey, what's wrong? I thought we were going through a short cut? We were right next to where we started." She asked.

He smiled, "Nothing, I'm just making sure we are alone."

"But it's going to rain soon, I thought we were leaving."

"It's only a little rain," his smile was starting to really creep her out.

"But it'll turn from a little to a lot in a few minutes so let's go," she rushed, trying to make him move toward the entrance. 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 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," his voice still deeper.

"H- How did you survive the sunlight this morning i- if you're a vampire." She nervously asked Jake.

"Oh, you're smarter than you seem Alexis, I knew that from the start." He said. "Well, I wasn't turned until before I found you crying. You see, I have been working with vampires for 6, 7 months now? They have offered me a place in their pack if I would help them find food and good places to hunt. I have finally made it to vampire level now, and you are my first kill."

She gulped and waited for the inevitable bite to happen, but it never came. She felt the hands fall off her arms and she opened her eyes. She saw Jake's wide with fear, and blood came pouring out of his chest. It came pouring down like a mini rain fall, and she backed up as Jake fell to the ground. Behind Jake was Alan Frog. He was holding a stake that was obviously used to kill Jake. She didn't care about the blood that was around her feet, soaking into her shoes, but she did care about finding out why he was there. She was too shocked to see the person she almost fell in love with on the ground to feel hands grab her and lead her out of the alleyway and into the streets. As she was being led to wherever the hell she was going, she saw Alan in front of her, leading her and whoever was pushing her along to the comic book shop. Her only suspicion of who it could be was Edgar Frog, in which was true.

While he was led Alexis leading to their shop, Edgar was thinking of what happened. They had just killed their first vampire, and saved their first almost-victim-of-the-undead. He was pretty excited. Of course he didn't show it, but he knew Alan was thinking the same thing. But what were they going to tell 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 him first chance she got? He was only hoping she wouldn't yell at them again, she attracted too much attention to them before, now they were practically the last ones in the entire boardwalk, and they would certainly catch attention then.

They finally reached the comic shop. Alexis hadn't said a word the entire time, which made Edgar think she was going to yell at them, so before she did, Edgar decided he would talk to her first.

"Before you get mad at us and yell or whatever you're going to do, you better listen to us first," Edgar commanded. "First off, you can't yell at us, no matter how mad you get. If you do, you will just spend the night locked up in the shop, alone. I will not tolerate yelling at this time."

"Edgar, I'm not mad," Alexis told him.

"You're not?" Alan asked.

"No, in fact, I don't know what I am yet."

"Well, if you decide to be mad, don't be mad at us, we are the ones that saved you after you decided not to listen to us." Edgar told her.

"Which leads me to my first question, how did you know Jake was a vampire?"

"We had our suspicions of him since last year."Edgar told her. "He acted like he was one of them, but he was going out into the sunlight, but we figured he was part of them in some way, we just couldn't prove it very well. Then he started the rumor we were hunting vampires-"

"Which was actually true," Alan added.

"Yeah, that one was actually true, but we pretty much knew he was working with them as soon as that happened, but we confirmed it when he left your house. After he left, we followed him to a different house. We weren't really able to hear what he was saying, but we could see inside through the windows. There we saw him just sit around talking to a man for about an hour. We couldn't see the other man's features, but it was definitely a man. When they were done taking, your boy toy drank out of a wine bottle, and spilled it all over." Alexis shot an annoyed glace at Edgar when he said boy toy, but Edgar continued "What a fucking joker. After he drank out of the bottle, and 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 said to him, almost shouting at him.

"Then explain all the cuddling you did!" Edgar countered.

He got Alexis there, she actually couldn't explain it. She tried to change the subject, "Second of all, how do you know after he drank out of the bottle, he turned into a half-vampire?"

"You have to explain why you two were cuddling first!" Edgar told her.

"Vampires often disguise their concoction as alcoholic beverages." Alan told Alexis. "Better way to trick them into joining."

"Oh, that makes sense," she said. "Except it sounds like he actually wanted to become one, instead of being a victim."

"Yes, now that we have covered that," Edgar was 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?"

Even Alan seemed to wonder why that was, and it was obviously making Alexis a little nervous. "Well, to tell you the truth, I honestly don't know," she blushed a little. "I usually wouldn't stand for how he was acting, but something inside me just really wanted to trust him. But after he turned into a half-vampire, I felt a lot more cautious around him than I did before." They could tell she was being serious by the look on her face. It was a thoughtful, yet very serious expression. Obviously a true emotion one would think.

"Okay, we can believe you, for now," Edgar negatively commented.

"Well, it could have been his charm that brought you in," Alan said, ignoring is brother's comments. "Even though he wasn't a vampire yet, I'm sure his charm was a bit enhanced with hanging around those dirty blood suckers."

"If you haven't noticed yet, most vampires charm is more enhanced than a normal human's is," Edgar commented again. Alexis was just rolling her eyes at his comments.

"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 were a bit more serious about it!" She started arguing back.

"I am taking this seriously! You are the one who isn't!"

"Well-" Alexis was cut off.

"GUYS! Don't argue!" Alan started yelling. "Edgar, you do need to be more serious about it!" Edgar looked down, feeling betrayed by his own brother. "Alexis, you don't need to be acting like that just because Edgar is!"

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, I'm ending it!" Alan said, bit calmer than he was before. They sat there for a minute in silence before Edgar finally broke it.

"Alexis, I'm sorry I wasn't acting very serious," Edgar apologized.

"I'm sorry I wasn't taking you seriously," she apologized back. They all stood there for a second before Alan told them to shake hands to renew the friendship they just formed.

"I said sorry, and that was as far as anyone is going to get from me," Edgar said walking into the back room to help himself calm down.

"Does Edgar usually act like that?" Alexis asked.

Alan shrugged, "Similar, but not really."

"Hm. Interesting."

Alan laughed, "If you call Edgar interesting, then I guess so."

"I heard that Alan!" Edgar yelled at them from the back room, and they both started laughing. "It's not funny!"

They talked about Edgar for a little bit, mostly just making fun of him, until he finally came back and glared at them. "You guys must think you guys are just the funniest shit around don't you? Well newsflash, you aren't." But that just made them laugh harder. Edgar stood there, waiting for their laughter to end, which took them a few minutes to finally calm down. Once they did he rolled his eyes and left to go check the time.

"Oh my gosh, do you talk about him like that a lot or something? Cause that was hilarious!" Alexis told Alan.

He laughed a bit, "No, it's just built up from the years I've spent with him." And they burst out laughing again. Neither Edgar, nor Alan could remember a time they felt so comfortable and really had a nice time with someone else other than themselves. Maybe they would have their first friend, their first real friend. Even though she was being rude to Edgar, he had to admit, Alan's jokes about him were actually kind of funny. They would be funny if they weren't about him though.

"Hey Edgar!" Alan shouted to his brother. "Are you did pouting yet?"

Edgar smiled to himself, they thought he was pouting, how nice of them. He quickly put on his scowl and walked out to them, "Yeah, I'm done." They were still laughing at him. "You guys gonna be done laughing soon? We have to close up and leave Alexis in here for the night."

Alexis stopped laughing and glared at Edgar. "Yeah, sure. You guys lock me up for the night, and you will be convicted of kidnap. Not joking."

"But you did yell, and I specifically told you that if you yelled, then you would be locked up in the shop for the night."

"But you yelled first!"

"No you did!"

"No you-"

"STOP IT!" Alan cut off Alexis. They both looked down at their feet again. "Do I need to babysit you guys?" They shook their heads. "Then act your age! Speaking of closing up Edgar, what time is it?"

Edgar looked up from his pouting, "About 11:45."

Alexis's head shot up, "Shit! I need to be home in 15 minutes or my parents will kill me, literally!" She stood up and almost ran out of the store, before a hand grabbed her shoulder and pulled her back.

"Are you crazy?" Edgar asked her. "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."

"Actually," Alan joined in. "I'm with Edgar one this one, 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, and she looked at him with a sense of distaste. "Fine, but I 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 is pretty nasty out there, I can tell."

She saw that she wasn't going to win and put on the jacket. "Fine, I'll wear it. But what are you two going to be wearing?"

Edgar looked at Alan, asking him that question silently. Alan looked at them and told them, "We got jackets in the back; I'm going to go get them. Behave, both of you."

Edgar glared at Alexis as she just 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, as soon as he was about to tell her that, Alan walked in and threw Edgar his jacket, with an emergency vampire hunting kit. He was still mad at 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.

They walked out into the pouring rain, the wind blowing it's might into the three teenager's faces. They were having a hard time walking up the hill to Alexis's house. The rain they could have handled, but the wind was just too much for them, even the short distance walking to her house was hard! They were halfway there when they decided to call it quits. There was too much rain and wind to go on, and Alexis's parents were not going to be happy, at all. It was easier to walk back to the boardwalk than it was to her house, but at the same time it was just as difficult. The relentless wind started blowing towards them again, but they were close to the shop by then and they didn't want to change course again. They were able to a get everyone inside the shop 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?"

Edgar thought about it, until suddenly he had an idea. "You could stay in the shop tonight."

"No! I told you that-"

"Yeah, yeah, I heard that. But you could actually stay here in the shop until the storm has let up enough to leave."

"That actually is not a bad idea. But what am I going to tell my parents? 'I stayed over at some vampire hunter's comic book shop because the storm is too bad to walk home in and they killed a vampire that was going to eat me.'?"

The boys thought about it for a minute, what was she going to say? Then, Alan had an idea, "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."

"Alan that's brilliant!" 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.

How was it? Good? I hope so. I'm still not a writer yet, so I have no clue if this is good or not. If people could review please, then tell whether this is good or not. But even if it is bad I will probably keep writing though. ;) I have a thing where I don't care if nobody likes it now, because later, somebody might like it, and that thing. You never know. But I would also like the reviews to tell me tips on being a good writer. It's not going to be my profession or anything, but it would be better to know these skills for future reference. Right now, were learning about persuasive writing in English, and I don't think that will be useful in this particular piece of writing…

But how about Edgar? He's not plenty negative! Just the happiest person alive! *wink* *wink* He may be friends with Alexis now, but he still doesn't like her very much. I had an idea throughout the entire story about Edgar, but I didn't want to use it because of what is going to happen later on. Even though it wouldn't really affect much (or maybe a lot) but it would have been kinda cute. I really hope that I will be able to get on with the story to when Sam shows up. But that all depends on what my mind is thinking at the point of time. Most of my story was made up right on the spot this time. :) See ya later!