Chapter 3:
On top of a cold, brick building, the wind ruffled my hair. I looked to the pink and orange clouds that were lit up by the falling sun as I waited for night to fall.
"Lexi, is that you?" I heard Izzy call from the darkness of the shadows.
"Yes, how did you get up here?" I asked.I thought I told her to stay inside and lock her window. "Do you ever listen to me when I tell you not to do something, say, I dunno, coming outside at dusk when all the vampires hunt?"
"Oh. I was just getting some air. And no, you will never get me to fully listen to you." She raised her finger and impersonated her version of a phony baloney president. "Ma,am, I'm here to declare that the U.S. is now a free country!"
She and I both chuckled under our breath. "Well President red nose, I have to say, you picked a really bad time to declare something!" She immediately put her fingers on her nose.
"What do you mean?" Izzy asked in her normal voice. So naïve that she sincerely, positively, did not know what I was talking about.
"I'm patrolling."
"Patrolling?"
"Yeah." I responded. "You know that thing that I do when it gets dark and all the vamps start hanging out." I waved my wooden stake in the air, the silver writing with my name written pretty handwriting up the side (clearly not my handwriting!) glittered and danced in the sunset light.
She just stared back in utter and complete confusion.
"That thing where I have to loom in the shadows and pierce this wooden stick through the vamp's heart so they turn into dust and can't prey on any innocent people anymore."
"Oh. Sorry. Should I leave?" She asked innocently. I could tell she was trying to get me to say she could stay.
I was just about to say 'no' when I suddenly fell off the wall. Izzy started screaming behind me. The sound of another scream followed, the two cries were harmonized together to make a complete sound. I tried to pinpoint who it was coming from, and then I realized the second shriek was from me. All I could think about was what Izzy would do if I died. She would be so lonely and terrified. Stuck with Shaun. Shaun. I had to do something about Shaun and his mysterious behavior. Why was he acting so strange? I don't know, but if I survived this, I would figure out something. My whole life flashed through my eyes. I saw my family. My Mom on the beach with my Dad, me, Izzy and Shaun before 'they' turned into butts. The smiles on their faces. The thought that Dad and Mom once lived together with us and we all got along always made me smile. I seemed to be caught in the moment. Then the happiness faded and I was sucked back into stupid reality. Wind made my blonde hair fly up as the air under me ruffled my clothes. I fell, two stories. Because of my super-human strength I landed on my feet. But because of the shock, everything went black. Oh crap.