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Author's Note: Here is chapter 5. You all know the drill. Remember to review. Also remember to vote in my poll.
Ch. 5 Explosion
The next week was very much like the week before. This time it took much longer to get Adam to talk to me. He avoided me like the plague. I wanted to tell him I was sorry, to explain myself. I didn't like not talking to him. It was weird. I kept trying. The closest I got to talking to him was during lunch on Wednesday. Finally on Friday, I caught him at his locker.
"Are you not going to talk about me?" I asked him. Adam turned around. If looks could kill I would be dead within moments. He turned back to his locker and slammed his locker harder than necessary.
"First you get me involved with this vampire mess, then you ditch me, then I find you making out with a girl that wouldn't otherwise give you the time of day. Of course I'm upset." Adam said.
"Look no one knows about us. We want to keep it that way," I said.
"You mean she wants to," Adam said. I didn't have the nerve to tell him that he was right. I couldn't tell my friend that he was right. It was easy for me to get off track. I needed to focus.
"Regardless, you can't say anything. Please Adam," I pleaded.
"Fine, I'm done. You can deal with the vampire by yourself. " He said. He zipped up his black gym bag. "I won't give away you or your girlfriend," He said saying the last word disdainfully. He walked away. I sighed. I slide down the wall and pulled my head to my knees. I was starting to really get a headache. That didn't go well as planned.
"Ed?" A voice said. I looked up and saw Annie. She was in her cheerleading uniform. She must have game today.
"Hey," I said. I didn't mean for it to come out as mournful as I did. She frowned when she saw my face. She grabbed my hand and pulled me in to the nearest classroom. She closed the door before she spoke.
"I'm so sorry. I know I got you in trouble with Adam." She said regretfully.
"He shouldn't have found out like that," I said shaking my head. She frowned again. She didn't know what to say. The final bell rang.
"I don't want to talk about it," I said. She nodded in understanding. She kissed me on the cheek.
"I'll call you later," She said. I smiled weakly. I didn't know what to do. All I saw was no win scenarios. I took a notebook out of my bag. It had a list of all things I would need for my vampire kit. It would at least be a distraction from the mess I was now in.
Adam still wasn't talking to me by the end of the week. It was like he wasn't even there. In homeroom, he sat down at the other side of the class room. He was always one sit ahead of me. It was a tough class anyways because Charley was also in it. Usually, Adam and I spent homeroom glaring at him. This time I was the one being glared at. I vaguely felt sorry for Charley. Then I remembered he was the one that actually ditched us. At least he was upfront and didn't lie about it. Mercifully the bell rang. I felt like a robot when I put my books in and closed the door.
"I still don't know why you don't like Charley," Amy said as her and Annie passed by me. I turned toward my locker. Of course she didn't like Charley. She couldn't tell Amy why though. I pretended I hadn't heard them and just walked away.
"Evil!" Someone called. I turned around to see Adam. I was walked toward me. I was shocked that he was addressing me.
"Adam what is it?" I asked him
"You've got a problem," He said. He looked serious and had dark circles around his eyes. I realized what he looked like. I had a feeling he was using again.
"What?" I asked.
"Come with me," Adam said. I followed him. He brought me to his car. I was confused as to why he brought me to his car when I saw the dents.
"You crashed your car?" I asked. He shook his head no.
"It was like it this morning. Look," He said pointing to the dents. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. What could have made that? Nothing human could have made it.
"Was it parked outside?" I asked him. He nodded. I bit my lip.
"What does this have to do with me?" I asked him.
"Well obviously your vampire did this, and I'm no longer helping you with it," He said. I groaned.
"Fine, be mad at me but it doesn't help if you say you're out. Look at this. Obviously he knows your helping me," I told him. He groaned.
"I guess you're right," He said stubbornly.
"I'm sorry about…" I began. He stopped me.
"I don't even want to talk about it," Adam said.
"Why are you so mad? Is it because I have a girlfriend and you don't," I said angrily. He glared at me.
"That's not it at all. I just don't like her. What's worse is that you lied about it," Adam said. I glared at her.
"Fine, don't like her but in the mean time we have to stick together. It's getting dangerous." I told him. He looked at the care then looked at me. It looked like he was trying to decide between the lesser of two evils.
"Alright, lets meet at the old tree house," Adam suggested.
"Why?" I asked.
"Got something there we need. If we're going to kill a vampire we need lots of crosses," He said. I nodded not sure what to say. He grabbed his bag and walked away. I wasn't so sure where we stood now, but at least he was talking to me.
Growing up, we had a tree house. Adam's father spent a week in the summer building it. We had camp outs in it. We called it the fortress. Those were the good times. We would spent ours pretending we were superheroes, or ninjas.
"How did you get all these crosses?" I asked Adam curiously. He still was sore with me and wasn't talking to me much.
"You know my parents," Adam said. I nodded in understanding. Adam's parents were really religious.
"We're going to need a lot of crosses," I said nodding with approval.
"Look, just so you know I'm still pissed at you," Adam said glaring at me. "But I'm too scared to even be disgusted with your existence," Adam said. I sighed. At least he was talking to me.
"I was thinking maybe we should tell Charley?" I told him. Adam looked at me like I lost my mind.
"Why? Going to join him and his friends? She's friends with Amy isn't she," Adam said with fury.
"Her name is Annie, So what does that have to do with anything?" I asked him furiously.
"You know what," He snapped back. We glared at each other for a few minutes. For the first time ever, we truly hated each other. For the first time ever, I wanted to slap him. Slap him so hard it would leave the bruise the size of a golf ball. He wasn't being fair.
"No, why don't you tell me?" I asked angrily.
"Well first of all she changed you. I mean look at what you wearing. I though you said you would rather chew your hand off then to where a leather jacket," saying this as though it was completely outrageous.
"Annie got it for me," I snapped.
"Of course she did," He retorted back. "The old you would bail on your friends, sneak around and go to football games," He said. I raised my eyebrows. He found out I lied to him about the football game. My anger had evaporated to something else, guilt.
"What's that smell?" Adam said suddenly. I sniffed the night hair. There was an unmistakable smell of burning wood. I looked out the window of the tree house. I saw white smoke.
"It's on fire," I yelled. Adam went to the door and claimed down the latter. I climbed out it as fast as I could. We ran towards Adam's house. I heard the unmistakable sound of an explosion.
Next Chapter: Ed goes further down the rabbit hole.