Disclaimer: Don't own Fright Night. That's why it's called fan fiction.
Author's Note: Oh yeah Chapter 3! You know what to do.
Ch. 3 The Shark
Adam and I staked out the vampire's house. At first we found nothing. One thing I noticed was that he had blacked out windows. Adam reminded me that a lot of people had blacked out windows in Las Vegas.
"I think maybe we should stop Evil. We haven't found anything," Adam said. I groaned. Stopping was the last thing I wanted to do. Suddenly, I we saw a car go by. We immediately ducked into the pushed. Even in the dark we could still could tell it was green.
"It's Amy," Adam said. I groaned. I hope she didn't see us. Charley opened the door for Amy. A sudden urge to go punch my former friend in the face overcame me. I than had a feeling of guilty. I was keeping a secret from Adam. I was worried he would think I would ditch him like Charley did. I knew I would eventually have to tell him about Annie.
"What a stupid car!" Adam said disdainfully.
"Never mind. Let's get the camera out," I instructed him. He got his camera out of his bag. We waited for Charlie's neighbor. Finally the man came out.
"Adam. Look at this," I said. Adam looked at the camera.
"He doesn't show up?" Adam gasping.
"He's looking over here," Adam said crouching done closer to the bush. I felt suddenly like he was the shark and we were his prey.
"What is he holding?" I asked him.
"It looks like a….." Adam began and then he looked at me fearfully.
"A body bag," I said trying hard not to scream. The vampire put the black bag in his truck and drove off. Adam and I looked at one another. We started running. We ran so fast that we barely saw were we were going. We only stopped running when we reached Adam's front door.
"He's a vampire!" Adam said practically chocking.
"I told you," I said breathlessly while clenching my side.
"Adam?" Adams mom called from upstairs.
"I'm here mom," Adam said. She walked down the stairs. When she noticed us she frowned.
"Adam, honey, what's wrong?" Mrs. Johnson asked.
"Nothing Mom," Adam said quickly.
"You sure. You look white as a ghost?" She said worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm sure," Adam said nodding.
"Well if you sure. Ed you staying for dinner?" Mrs. Johnson asked.
"Yeah," I nodded.
"We have to keep an eye on that guy," Adam said when he's mom was out of earshot. We then agreed to meet up the next night. I was glad that Adam finally believed me.
I decided to research on how to kill a vampire the next day. I got up early as usually. It was good that I didn't have a major test coming up. I wrote down a note about how some type of vampires could turn into animals, when my eyes were covered by warm hands.
"Guess who," a voice said.
"Angelina Jolie," I guessed, completely aware I was wrong. I knew perfectly well who it was.
"Nope?" Annie said sitting down next to me.
"What you doing?" Annie asked. Looking at my big stack of books.
"Project," I said quickly closer the book I was reading.
"You know what day it is?" She said smiling.
"No way. Been two years already," I said. I was surprised she remembered much less that I remembered. It seemed like it was yesterday. Things were so different back then.
Flashback:
"My mom told me she could drive us this weekend," Charley said as we were walking to school.
"Yeah. Can't believe we got tickets," Adam said excitedly.
"It's going to be…" I didn't get to finish, I had bumped into someone. I looked up to see it was Annie Welsh.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" She snapped.
"Sorry," I said apologized. I didn't know why, I was being so nice, when she was being so rude.
"Maybe if you weren't busy in dweeb land you would have seen me," Annie snapped. I rolled my eyes. She was one of those girls that go on our nerves. She was also dating Mark Young. A complete winner, if you know what I mean.
"He said he was sorry. You don't have to be a bitch about it," Charley retorted.
"Whatever," She said as she huffed away. I glared as she walked away.
"What a bitch," Adam said. I nodded.
"I bet you she is late for her slutafication. Did you see what she was wearing?" Charley said. I laughed
"Let's get to class," I suggested. I didn't know at the time that it was not going to be my only run in with Annie. After school, I studied at the library before I went home. I only got up when I need to get another book. Seeing the book I wanted I went to grab for it. For some reason it was hard to get out but I managed to.
"What? Oh, you again," I looked around to see Annie. I groaned. Great, she must have been grabbing for the book too.
"It's a free country. I could be here if I want," I snapped. I didn't feel like putting up with her.
"Whatever, probably best. Don't want to catch you nerd germs," She said rolling her eyes.
"Whatever," I snapped.
"Must be a record for you," She said smirking. I turned around.
"What is?" I asked her glaring at her.
"That an actually girl talk to you twice in one day," She laughed. She had a nice laugh, I realized. Suddenly an idea came to me. Under normal circumstanced, I wouldn't dare do it but I was feeling daring. I walked toward her; I then grabbed and kissed her. It took me a minute to realize that she hadn't pushed me away. When we broke the kiss she looked at strangely. Noticing she still had her hands in my hair she pushed herself away quickly. I watched as she ran out the library. She looked if she was running for her life. I had to admit as much of a bitch she was, she was a good kisser.
The next day something really weird happened. I was late for class for the first time in my life. My alarm clock didn't go off. I was putting books in my locker when it happened.
"You had some nerve," A voice hissed in my ear.
"Oh, it's you," I said usually similar phrasing she had used the day before.
"Shut it dweeb. You're very lucky I didn't tell Mark about the disgusting thing you did yesterday," She said folding her arms.
"Really. Well then you would have to tell Mark that you didn't put up a fight at all," I retorted. She would have glared if she wasn't blushing.
"I said shut up," She snapped.
"I don't have time for this. Unlike you I have class," I said closing my door. I expected her to take this as a hint to leave, but she didn't.
"What?" I asked. She looked at me and then drew closer to me.
"That didn't mean anything. Besides it was a really bad kiss," She said.
"Didn't look like you thought it was," I said taking a sip of my coffee.
"So you go lucky with one kiss," She snapped.
"Well maybe if I had another go at it," I said raising my eyebrows at her. She looked like she was thinking about it.
"Fine. But only because that I can prove to you your not that good at kissing," She said. She grabbed my shirt and pressed her lips against mine. The kiss definitely lasted longer than yesterday.
"I got to go," She said suddenly. She grabbed her bag.
"Until we meet again," I said waving once at her. I then realized I was so late. I ran to class. Days later, something even stranger happened.
"Did you hear?" Charley said. He was laughing about something.
"What?" I asked. He had just come back from getting a soda.
"Apparently, Mark and that Annie chick broke up," Charley said.
"What a tragedy," I said sarcastically. I suddenly felt happy for some reason
"It's the scandal of the year, obviously," Charley said rolling his eyes.
"Why did they break up?" Adam asked. Charley shrugged. I thought about it all day. I hoped I didn't get Annie in trouble with Mark. It was also irritating that I cared if I did or not. After school, I was the last one to leave of course. For the second time, something happened that was beginning to become a common occurrence.
"Hey," Annie greeted. She didn't have her usually venom
"Ok, we got to stop meeting like this," I told her.
"You're such a douche," She chuckled. I looked at her confused where was this going?
"Did you come here to insult me?" I asked her. She shrugged.
"Felt like talking to you," She said shrugging.
"Why?" I asked her confused.
"I don't know?" She said truthfully.
"By the way, I hope I didn't get you in trouble with Mark," I said.
"Quiet arrogant for a dweeb, aren't you. No you didn't. I broke up with him," She said. I wonder why she was telling me this.
"Anyways I better go. I hear dork is contagious," She said smiling. Again her voice lacked venom. Popular kids were strange. I closed my locker to find a note on it. It had a phone number on It and a note that said "Call me sometime" I put it my pocket. Not sure if I would use it.
I ended up calling. I didn't expect it to be a real number, but it was. I was surprised at how nice she was on the phone. I found that I liked talking to Annie Welsh. I found out a lot about her. I learned that her mom in the military and was overseas and she was an only child. She was also funny. It was weird to say this, but she seemed to actually liked talking to me. I grew too really like her. It was around the fourth time we talked for two hours that I finally got the nerve to ask her out. Surprisingly she agreed. I took her to the pier. Having a girlfriend was strange to me. It was such a weird experience, that I didn't even tell my friends. We dated for three months when she called me and asked me to meet me at the beach.
"Hey," I said. She was looked solemn.
"Hey," She said kissing me.
"What's wrong?" I asked her. She looked really sad. I realized she never looked sad in front of me before.
"My mom got reassigned," She said. I looked at her, I knew what that meant.
"You're moving," I said saying the words she didn't want to.
"Next week," She said. I noticed she looked like she'd been crying.
"Were too?" I asked.
"Phoenix. She got a job as at the military base there," She said miserable.
"I'm so sorry," I said.
"I'm going to miss it here," She said. I nodded in understanding.
"I think it's best if we break up," She said suddenly. I sighed. I knew it had to be done.
"If that's what you want," I said.
"It isn't. I want to stay here. There's nothing in Arizona. You're not in Arizona," She said. I looked at her touched about what she said.
"It's going to be ok. Arizona could be fun," I said trying to make her feel better.
"You will call me right?" She asked me. I nodded reassuring her that I was going to call her.
"We'll Skype too," I said. She smiled. I pulled her into a hug.
"I'm going to miss you," She said.
"I am too," I told her. She kissed me.
"Promise to say goodbye to me before I leave," She said.
"I promise," I said.
End of Flashback
We talked all the time when she was away. We would Skype until three in the morning. I was happy when she told me she was moving back. When she got back we resumed dating. It kind of ruined with what happened with Charley.
"We should do something special tonight," Annie suggested.
"Of course, we could go to the movies? I suggested.
"Will there be popcorn?" She asked.
"Yes there will be popcorn," I said laughing. Annie had a thing for popcorn.
"I'll see you later. I have track after school," She told me.
"See you," I called after her. She turned around.
"I l… see you after practice." She said. It wasn't until we were in the movie that I remembered, I had made plans with Adam. I had left my phone at home and had messages from him waiting me. I tried to calling him but he didn't answer. I knew right then that he was mad at me.
Next Chapter: Ed has some explaining to do.