Chapter three! This chapter didn't take me very long but it is LONG! This one's about when they meet Rudolph it was a lot of fun to write it so I hope it's really fun for you to read it. The chapter is when Gregory and Anna shows up, yeah, you probably on care about Gregory. Anyways in this chapter I'm ashamed of how I made the babysitter because I have Scottish blood in me so I'm like shaming myself.
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It was about 8:00 when the sun started setting and the light in Tony's room was a soft yellow-orange color. I was hanging out in Tony's room because my homework was done and I had nothing better to do, so I was sitting on the floor of his room leaning against his toy chest that sat at the end of his bed sketching the fireplace that was straight across from me into my sketch book. Tony at the moment was coloring a red vampire with a square head, sharp bloody teeth, and squinty eyes; it was only one in his very many collections of vampire drawings. He also had one of the gadget-but Tony was determined to call it an amulet so I just went along with it-that was colored yellow with a big red dot in the middle for the stone and a bunch of other colors for the spinning rings.
We had been sitting there for about three hours with no interruption and hardly any talking. He had told me about today from the start of school to the end, he was sent out into the hall for trying to be a 'wise guy' while he was actually telling them about his dream. It took every ounce of strength in me to not yell at him saying 'That was a stupid thing to say, no wonder they call you a freak!' So instead I just suggested that we color. After that was when we went into complete silence the only thing you could hear was the occasional voice of mom or the heavy footsteps of dad.
The door slowly squeaked open reviling dad with a golf ball and an extremely small golf club. He looked at me and put his finger to his lips as he went down to hit the ball. Tony hadn't seemed to notice the door opening or didn't even turn around when the golf ball rolled across the hard wood floor. The ball just barely missed my tucked in legs and continued on to hit Tony's out stretched foot. He looked do to see what hit him then looked up in excitement to dad standing in the doorway. Dad walked forward holding the golf club up in front of him and he was holding something behind his back "Look what I got yah." He walked closer and then I could see what was behind his back it was a whole set of golf clubs sitting in a blue container. I choked back a cry noticing he only said that to Tony and only had one golf club container.
"A golf club!" Tony said excitedly taking it from dad.
"Yeah," dad pulled the blue container behind his back almost hitting me in the process. I bit my cheeks to force back the yell that was starting in my throat. "A junior set of golf clubs." He put the container down in front of Tony, he looked at it with a disappointed look on his face. Dad didn't notice and just continued talking "You know the game was invented in Scotland."
Tony looked up and said in a really sad voice "But there's no one to play with."
"Well that's the beauty of golf," dad said happily "you don't need anyone to play with."
"But I want somebody to play with!" Tony said quickly.
"Well then I'll teach yah, and then you and Danni can play together." That did it. First he got Tony golf clubs and not me and now he wants me to actually play golf with Tony.
"I think NOT!" I said angrily. "First off you know me and my soccer team used to make fun of golf now you're asking me to actually play golf when I don't know squat about the dang sport!" I put as much venom and anger I could find in my very core to put into the sentence.
They basically ignored me and kept talking "You never have time." Tony said in that same small sad voice.
Dad sighed "Ah, look Tony I'm trying here."
Honestly! What am I invisible!
I heard clicking coming closer so I looked up at the door to see mom walk in with a long sparkly black dress carrying a black dress coat in her left hand "There you are." She said walking into the room. She held the coat open and dad held his arms behind him and she quickly pulled his coat up his arms while saying "The Babysitters down stairs." I was honestly hurt by her words, because they didn't think I could watch Tony. In San Diego it was 'don't set the house on fire' now it's 'be good for the babysitter'.
"Oh, good." Dad said pulling his coat up and buttoning it up at the bottom. He turned around and let mom straighten his tie.
"When are you going to be back?" Tony asked.
"Not too late hon." Mom said.
"It's business." Dad said straightening his coat so it sat comfortably on his shoulders. "Lord McAshton invited us" Mom was pretending to fix her earring but I could tell that she was examining Tony's drawings "all the investors are gonna be there." Dad said trying to tell/convince Tony that they had to go.
"Hey," Mom said now making it obvious that she was looking at the drawing scattered on Tony's colorful desk. "Look at those, those are great! I didn't Know you could draw so great."
Really mom, really? I thought to myself throwing her a dirty look, all you have to do is look at my sketch book and then we'll see who's getting all the praise. Wait no, you would still say 'Little angle Tony draws much better then little demon accident Danni.' While the whole time you're just smiling trying making it not seem like an insult.
Dad picked up one of Tony's drawing and gave it a once over before his brow twisted into a frown and he let out a sigh that in it said 'really, Dottie, you're praising him for this?' instead he thought better of it. "Right." he said sarcastically, "Great." He turned away and started walking out of the room and only stop to kick my foot and said "Night, squirt." OH MY GOD, I thought sarcastically to myself. Somebody actually knows I exist?
Mom bent down and hugged Tony's shoulders while saying "Good night, hon, I want you in bed by nine," She hugged his shoulders tighter "And don't give yourself any nightmares." She said in a dark voice pulling him closer and kissing him on the cheek. "I love you." She stood up and came over to me and squatted down in front of me. "And you, Danni, first off give me a smile." I kept my face straight and raised my eyebrows at her. She sighed and poked me in the stomach forcing a unwanted giggle to come out. She smiled at the fact that I gave in and continued talking "second off, I want you in bed by ten."
"Okay" I said flatly.
"Smile," She poked me again, and I smiled the fakest smile there ever could be, she took it as a real smile though. She patted my knees and stood up "Love you two. Be good." With that she quickly walked out of the room closing the door behind her.
A while later
It was officially 8:15 when the sun disappeared from the sky and it started to get really dark, but it was now 8:50. I had finished sketching the fire place about five minutes ago now I was watching my weird little brother as he dug through his toy chest and pulled out a black cape, that he had worn a few Halloweens ago dressed as Zorro, and tie it around his neck then race over to his desk and pull a blank piece of paper and draw something on it. I couldn't see what he drew but when he cut one out I notice it was a curvy triangle and when he put it in his mouth I figured out that he was pretending to be a vampire.
Just after he put in the second vampire tooth the door opened and flying in after it was the babysitter. She was talking even before she entered the room "Okay, Ty-"wait did she just call Tony, Ty-"it's time to…oh" she looked up at the lights and noticed that the lights were off. She turned around to turn on the lights; Tony had turned to face her so when she turned back around he hissed at her with his fangs visible from under his lips. She actually screamed before she realized that it was just Tony having a little fun so she played along with it. I started coughing to stop the laughter that was determined to get out; she threw me a nasty look before turning back to Tony cupping the sides of her face "OOOH, TUNY!" she screamed "What a f-f-f-f-f-f-f-r-r-r-right yo gave me!" she said in her weird Scottish accent. She walked over by to Tony's bed "I didn't see yo siton there." Tony hissed again "Yo nurly stuppod my heart, and it dun't need enough stuppon as it is, that's the truth uf it and yo wouldn't wunt to do that to Mrs. Ludna would yo?" Tony looked at me screwed his face up and did his weird shiver shrug thing that he does when he confused. I smiled at him, pointed my finger over my shoulder to the spot I thought our babysitter was standing and rolled my eyes. That made the corners of his mouth twitch but since he was trying to be a vampire and since they did show any emotion he had to try to swallow the smile for later use. The babysitter was saying more but I couldn't decode it. she came to the foot of the bed and turned to leave the last thing I was able to catch was "But mean while brush yor teeth and intu bud." She then turned her attention to me taking in the sight of me sitting on the floor by the end of Tony's bed and said in a very serious voice "I truuust yo wull luv him alun so he cun slup and yo wull be in bed and I wunt have to wurry." Before I could even responded she turned on her hill and walked out the door closing it in the process.
When the door was fully closed behind her I threw her a dirty look while Tony stood up and grabbed the side of his cape and pulled it over his shoulder so it was coving the whole front part of his body and said "Bed, for the undead?" then started making hissing noises.
I giggled "Count-Toncula, even the undead needs their sleep."
He reached behind him to grab the ketch-up bottle he had gotten a while ago and smeared it over his mouth and put some on the teeth. Once that was done he turned to me and pointed his finger at me "Hush mortal or you will be my next victim." He said in his best impression of Dracula. "The undead sleep during the day I only sleep at night!"
"Whatever you say," I said laughing at how cute my little brother was being, "But you will be in bed no late then 9:45, got it."
He shrugged and then turned towards the window and started saying something along the lines of "a-brovo, in-toto." It sounded horribly familiar but I couldn't place where I had heard it before. I heard the squeak of a bat not too far away but thought nothing of it. I actually found the scene kinda funny Tony standing arms wide holding his cape up chanting something familiar while a bat squeaked outside. Tony grabbed his stuff animal monkey through it down and started to pretend to drink its blood I rolled my eyes at him and starred at his door. All of the sudden a shadow flew past over the door. Both me and Tony say it so we both looked at the window. His curtains moved a little but I just assumed that it was a breeze coming from outside. Tony slowly walked over to the window picking up the ketch-up bottle to use for self defense if something popped out at him. When he got closer to the window and saw that there was nothing there he reached over to put the bottle on the desk but he missed the first time but got it the second time.
I heard something go over me and when I looked up I saw something fly into the fire place. Tony saw it too and just stayed by the window. I couldn't tell what flew into the fire place but it was making a lot of weird noises, I looked harder and caught a glimpse of a bats wing. All of the sudden there was a flash of blue-white that left a spot on the middle of my eye. I looked away and blinked a few times to get rid of it and when I turned back I saw a…head? I didn't get it all I could see was a floating head the rest of its body-if it had a body-was hidden in the shadows. I took a closer look at the head it was definitely a boy only a year or two older then Tony, he had bloody red eyes and crazy hair. There was something off with his nose it didn't look right. I didn't realize that Tony had started walking towards me until I heard his feet hurry to the side of the bed.
The boy hit the back of his head which made his nose look like normal. Tony got a little braver and started walking forward; I didn't want Tony getting any closer then where I was so I stood up and grabbed his wrist. The boy started to talk "What…clan…are…you from…brother?" he said breathily, he definitely had a accent but I couldn't figure out what it was. Honestly am I invisible to everyone? "Have…the…lights gone?"
Tony opened up his mouth wide and his ketch-up coated fake paper teeth feel out of his mouth "ha….uh…who are you?" Tony asked his voice shaking.
A moment passed of just starring at each other then the boy took a deep breath and his bottom lip came up showing two very long very sharp pointed front teeth. Me and Tony took in a shaky breath and my grip on his wrist tightened. I knew we were both think the same thing the boy in Tony's fireplace was a blood sucking monster-a vampire. "You are not a brother." The boy or vampire said with venom.
"Well I'm not a sister." Tony said. Really Tony of all times to be a smart ass you pick right no, when our lives could be in serious danger?
The vampire barred his fangs again and hissed loudly in his throat "You're HUMAN. You're full of BLOOD!" The vampire seemed excited by this discovery.
"Gonna keep it that way, dude." Tony said as I pulled him towards the door. We ran the few steps that it took to get to his door but by the time we even made three steps the vampire was hanging on the door like spider man.
Tony made a weird sound as I dragged him over to the desk but when I turned around I saw the vampire loose grip on the door and he slide down it. It was actually really comical I could put the sound effect of a bomb in a cartoon dropping but not exploding if I really thought about it but it wasn't the place and time. The vampire just groaned and breathed heavily from where he lay flat out on the floor in front of the only exit we had unless we wanted to jump off of Tony's balcony. The vampire said in a low voice "I'm too weak."
I slowly stood and walked towards the vampire, even though he was a vampire he was still a boy and me having a little brother I felt sympathy for him. As I walked up I could hear Tony whispering behind me "I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid."
I rolled my eyes but found his words comforting "Do," I cleared my throat since that only came out in a whisper mainly to calm my nerves and steady my voice "Do you need help?" Did I seriously just ask a vampire if he needed help? The same vampire that just tried to kill me and Tony nearly seconds ago, am I going crazy?
The vampire slowly turned his head and looked at my straight in the eyes Tony-who was now standing beside me-knelt down next to the boy. He quickly wiped his sleeve across his mouth to get rid of the remaining ketch-up still on it.
"What twisted kind of mortals are you?" he asked us looking between Tony and me with his Blood red eyes.
"I know you," Tony said as if it was a normal thing to know a vampire that just flew in your window and tried killing you then ending up on the floor in front of your door with you asking for help, yes that is an everyday typa thing. "I saw you in my dream!"
"Me too." I said under my breath bending down a little to get a closer look at his faces.
The boy's eyes were half closed "Must have been a nightmare."
"It was." I flicked Tony's ear and when he looked up at me I gave him a dirty look. He threw it right back at me rubbing his ear.
The boy's fangs weren't sticking out as much as earlier but they were still visible when he talked. His chest was rising fast and his breath was coming quick and short "I must leave."
"But you can't even walk." I said surprise myself with the gentleness in my voice.
Tony grabbed the boys wrist and helped him up as best he could "Who needs to walk" the boy said getting to his feet and ripping his wrist out of Tony's grasp, pushing me back in the process. When the boy was half way to the window he said "When I can fly." He climbed out the window and jumped up on the concrete balcony. He jumped off the balcony and just hovered in mid-air for a moment before gravity took over and he plummeted to the ground screaming.
Me and Tony both ran over to the window he climbed out first with me hot on his heels. Tony had to look through the little cut out hole/dip in the balcony wall while I was just to see over the actual wall and look down. The boy was laying face down on the ground sprawled out like a squished spider. Me and Tony looked at each other then I turned around and climbed back through the window.
I heard Tony scrambling right after me "We can't just leave him there!" Tony said with a little bit of plea in his voice. I walked over to the door and walked to my room "DANN!" he almost yelled fallowing me into my room "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO." This time he actually did yell.
I turned around and slapped my hand over his mouth "First off, you are gonna stop yelling so the babysitter doesn't come up here snooping." I pulled my hand away from his mouth and reached for my forgotten converse sitting by my bed. "Then, I'm gonna get my shoes on." I said as I quickly pulled and laced up the black converse high tops. "Finally, we're gonna go and see if we can g help that boy." His face lit up when I said I would help.
We quietly snuck down the stairs and when we reached the corner I peered around it and saw the babysitter eating some type of chip and starring at the TV where some weird show was playing really loud. I rolled my eyes and in a minuscule part of my brain said 'I hope we get caught and she has to never come around again.' she was an idiot we could of basically been dying up stairs and she wouldn't even know.
We easily snuck by her and out the back door that was in the kitchen. I had to make sure it didn't slam since Tony didn't know what the term sneaking out meant; well he didn't actually know what it meant to be sneaky. Once we were outside I finally took a breath of air we both looked at each other as if deciding if this was the best idea. We silently came to an agreement and nodded our head before running around the corner with all the bushes and as I saw the boy sprawled out on the grass I noticed that he hadn't moved. When we got closer I slowed down but Tony just kept right on and when he got closer he went down on his knees and slide the few feet to the boy on the slick grass.
When I got closer I went on the other side and kneeled "You okay?" I asked putting my hand on his shoulder.
"Don't look yet." He said still laying face down motionless. What the heck does he mean 'don't look yet' who is that aimed at anyways himself or us? I looked up at Tony and noticed that he looked as confused as me. All of the sudden I heard this beeping noise and noticed that a big red truck with a bunch of lights and gadgets on it was passing outside of the gates. It had a huge spotlight on the top of it that was moving around wildly and when I passed over us the boy pulled his face into his hands and slowly started sitting up muttering the word "Rookery."
He sat up on his knees and had Tony's arms around his shoulders so I pulled away and rubbed my thighs trying to get them warm. Tony Pulled back his arm as the boy sat back having his arms hold him up, the boy was breathing really hard so I put my hand back on his shoulder to see if it would help any. Can't believe I'm sitting right next to a vampire and not fearing for my life.
The boy pulled in a shaky breath "Do," he took a long pause to pull in a long shaky breath "Do you know," another pause for a breath "Where I can get a cow?"
"If you want a glass of milk…" Tony said. If he was closer I'd flick him in the ear.
"No, not milk, a cow, hurry." The boy said swaying a little.
Tony looked up at me and I knew exactly what he was thinking "No, Tony. That'll take at least an hour by foot."
"So, we have to help him."
"I didn't think that meant walking three miles!"
"DANNI, YOU PROMISED!" he said his face screwed up in disappointment.
I sighed and sat back on my heels, he had so much hurt in his eyes it almost made me want to cry. I sighed again and rubbed my hands over my things one more time "Go get you wagon, I'll walk three miles but I am not carrying someone three miles." He quickly got up and went running across the yard. He came back a minute later with his little red wagon in tow. He stopped the wagon basically on top of the boy while he turned to me and gave my neck a quick hug. I smiled at him "Let's get him in the wagon." He nodded.
1:15min later
We had arrived at the dairy farm at about 10:30. When we opened the barn there was only five cows inside. We dragged the boy over to the closest cow he instantly let go of our shoulders and walked to the front of the cow, me and Tony took a few steps back not knowing what to expect. The boy started hypnotizing the cow and then when he was satisfied he walked to the other side. The cow made a noise of discomfort at first but then went silent; with the cows silence came a horrible slurping noise. Me and Tony both made disgusted faces and tried turning away hoping it would help kill the sound.
"I think I'm gonna hurl." Ton said holding his stomach.
"Well go wait outside then." I hissed through my teeth. He did as I said and tipsily walked out of the barn. I looked around and noticed that only a foot away was a bale of hay I walked backwards to it and slumped down. I had just walked for more than an hour switching between pushing and pulling a very heavy wagon without any breaks or any slowing down, I deserved this. I didn't notice the slurping noise had stopped until the boy was standing right in front of me.
I fell right off the back of the hay bell when I noticed the boys had been waving in front of my face. He gave me an apologetic look "Sorry."
I threw my hand out in front of me "Help me get up and we'll be even." He smiled and pulled me to my feet, unlike a minute ago where it took all his strength to breath he pulled me up as if I was a feather. "How'd you feel." I asked walking towards the door.
He fell in step with me as we walked out "Fine, so much bet-" he was cut off when we walked out of the barn and saw Tony in the middle of the gravel road with a huge truck with a bunch of lights shining on it threatening to run him over. I felt something grab my shoulder then I was being yelled at to shut my eyes.
After a minute I could feel something rubbery and smooth under me while a breeze blew in my face "You can open your eyes now." I recognized the voice but I couldn't exactly place a face to a voice.
I took a deep breath and opened my eyes "WOW!" me and Tony said at the same time.
"Enjoying the view?" the boy next to me said placing his arms over his crossed legs. I mimicked his position but instead I placed my hands behind me and leaned back on them.
"Yeah," Tony said turning to look at the boy "and thanks dude, you saved my life, that truck was going to splatter me!"
The boy looked at Tony "You keep call in me dude? My names Rudolph." Ah so that's his name, Rudolph. Weird?
"Dude is slang," Tony explained, "like you call a friend."
Rudolph gave him a questioning look "Friend?" he said it as if he's never heard the word a day in his life.
"We did save each other's lives…didn't we?" Tony asked hesitantly.
There was a small pause before Rudolph spoke "Yes, we did, friends."
"My name is Tony." Rudolph nodded and then looked out at the night sky.
"Oh, yes everyone just ignore the random sister that play no part in this at all." I said sarcastically.
"OH." The both said at the same time.
"This is my sister Danni." Tony said gesturing to me.
There was an awkward moment of silence between the three of us before Rudolph broke it by talking to me "So Danni, are we friends."
I snorted "You, haven't saved my life yet." I put as much emphasis in the words you and my as much as possible. Tony obviously caught my humor but Rudolph didn't seem to he actually seemed kinda hurt by my words, so I put a hand on his shoulder he turned to look at me "I was kidding, you saved my brother's life and well that means you as good as saved my life as well."
He smiled at me and nodded "Friends?" he asked.
"Friends." I confirmed.
"Common let's play." Tony said excitedly.
"Yes, we play." They both started standing up and jumping on whatever we were on.
"My best friends a vampire!" Tony screamed excitedly they both started hollering and laughing.
About a minute later my curiosity got the better of me and I had to interrupt their fun and had to ask "Hey Rudolph, where are we?"
"Oh," he said jumping around with Tony still "We are on a floating thing that is about fifty feet up tied in the ground with massive ropes!"
I poked the side and had to think about it, dad did say something about a blimp the other day. "So Rudolph, how old are you, I mean how old were you when you were…err…changed?"
He looked at me "I was nine when I was changed, but now I am 313."
"Holy shiz, that's old!" I blurted out before I could stop myself. "I'm sorry I wasn't thinking it just kinda popped out."
He waved his hand "No need to worry I know that it is old. How old are you?"
I sighed in relief "I'm 14 and Tony here is eight."
"14?" he asked me.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah I know, I know I look like I'm 12." I said shaking my head while pulling my knees to my chest and wrapping my arms around them.
"No," he said in his really cute accent. "I was just going to say that your one year younger then my older brother."
"Cool, do you have any other siblings?" I asked him.
"Just a little sister, she's eight then that's all my siblings." he said jumping higher.
I sat there forever looking at the big mansion in front of us while the boys continued jumping happily. I felt my eyelids start to get heavy when I noticed that my watch said it was five minutes to eleven.
"I think we should get home?" I said.
"What?" Tony objected.
"What," I said back at him sarcastically "It's almost eleven and you were suppose to be in bed two hours ago."
Tony sighed and flopped down on his butt "How do we get down from here?" his voice was a little breathy from all the jumping.
"Well fly." Rudolph said looking out at the open sky getting his footing on the slick surface. Me and Tony both gave each other weird looks that said 'do you know how to fly'
"But we can't fly." Tony told Rudolph.
He looked at the both of us then kneeled down in-between the two of us "I got you up here didn't I." he said it more like a fact then a question.
"I guess so." I said looking out at the sky.
"Then stay calm, friends." Rudolph smiled and I couldn't help but smile he was just so damn cute when he did. I looked at Tony and noticed he was staring uneasily into space, I reached over and put my hand on his knee he looked at me and smiled, we nodded in silent agreement. We looked over at Rudolph "Alright," he said standing up "let's fly." He reached out both of his hands towards us. Tony took his hand willingly but when I reached out I literally felt my stomach get knotted and twisted up. He looked over at me and gave a small smile "As long as I'm holding onto you, you're fine." I took a deep breath and grabbed his hand slowly. His cold fingers resting on the back of my hand made me shiver uncontrollably, but I managed to hide it. I looked at our locked hands and noticed compared to him I looked like the tannest person in the world. "Ready?" he asked us, we both shook our heads. He picked us off the blimp as easy as if we were tooth floss and we just hovered there for a moment before he started flying forward so we were no longer over the blimp. I bit my lip so I wouldn't scream as he did a nose dive towards the ground.
"WOW!" Tony yelled once we came out of the dive. "Wow, it's great to be a vampire." I barely heard him through my screaming mind. I was pleasantly surprised that our whole bodies stayed up right not just our hands.
"Membership does have its privileges." Rudolph said. I snorted at that comment and he just looked over at me and laughed.
We flew over the McAshton mansion "Hey Tony," I yelled over to him. He looked over Rudolph's head at me with a questionable look. "That's where mom and dad's at." I said pointing.
A little while later we were flying over some river with a bunch o house right next to it when Tony for the fourth time that night screamed "YEAH!" It was getting stupidly cold being up in the air and the river water occasionally spraying up and getting me wasn't helping. I started to chatter and I could basically feel all the heat from my body disappearing out of my head.
"Vampires are different then I'd thought they'd be." Tony said.
"Fathers seen to that," Rudolph started "were family not monsters. That's why we only try to drink cows blood."
"But, I thought vampires drank human blood?" Tony said, I swear if Rudolph wasn't between us all night his ear would be extremely sore and red.
"We do, but we gotta make do with cows." Rudolph said carefully turning around a bend of trees.
"Why?" Tony asked honestly confused.
"Because we've been hunted for centuries, we always have to hide, we want to become humans not eat them for dinner." Rudolph said. It almost seemed like he was reciting something that he's heard a million times before.
We did an upwards dive when we came to a dam typa thing we road for about five more minutes in peaceful silence when the house came into view. "Hey Rudolph, can you see what color that car is?" I asked him pointing to the fast moving lights.
"Green, man and woman inside, man talking very loudly and waving his hands."
Me and Tony gasped very loudly and at the same time said "OH NO! That's our parents!"
"No offense Rudolph but can you step on it!" I asked him in a rush.
"Step on what?" Rudolph asked.
"ARRRG!" I screamed "Just get us home NOW!"
"Alright." He said.
Before I knew it we were landing on Tony's balcony "Hurry, go crawl in bed." I said pushing him toward the window, I scrambled in after him and fallowing me was Rudolph. I heard footsteps coming down the hall so I had no time to run to my room. I turned around to tell Rudolph to hide but he wasn't there I did a quick once over to find him but he was nowhere in sight. I frowned slightly but turned and saw a very convincing sleeping Tony in bed I quickly walked over and pulled his glasses off and put them on his night stand. I sucked in a hard breath, I had an idea but I wasn't sure it was going to work; I walked over to the door and backed up about three steps. When I saw the doorknob start to turn I stuck my hand out like I was going for it and started walking forward only to almost smack right into my mom.
She stepped back startled while dad gave me a funny look. "What are you guys doing home so early?" I said acting like I was surprised to see them home.
"Mrs. Lundna, called and said Tony was missing?" Dad said slowly.
"Missing?" I asked backing up and let them get a full view of the room and walk in. They walked in and looked down at what appeared to be a sleeping Tony.
The babysitter came in last saying some gibberish in her weird accent "I saw what I saw and I saw what I didn't see that…I didn't see."
"He has been in my room since 9:30 when he woke up from an early night mare." I said walking to the other side of Tony's bed where I had been standing just seconds ago
Mom nodded "Why didn't you hear her calling you?"
"We both fell asleep around 9:45 and I just woke up and I decided since I was awake that I wanted a big warm bed to myself for once." I said feeling proud of how well I could lie and not trip over my words.
"But I was culling louder thun a wumon guvung burth, there's new wuy yo could huv slupt through me yullin." The babysitter said trying to prove me wrong.
"Look," I said putting my hands on my cocked hips to help me put my attitude into my words. "I haven't had a decent night's sleep in about a week and a half and I am a very deep sleeper, so you tell me why I didn't hear you calling? Plus, I wanna know why only Tony was missing, and not Tony and Danni? Also why was it that you didn't come into my room and check to see if Tony was with me?"
Her mouth flew open to argue with me but was cut off by dad "Yeah, I was just wondering that myself." He said starring down the babysitter.
She started talk but the words were mixed together and her accent didn't help so I could decode anything she said but a few words 'lair, gurl, and Tuny'
I lost interest in the conversation and wondered the room with my eyes a little bit. I almost jumped when I caught sight of Rudolph. He was hanging in the top corner of the far wall he put his finger to his lips and I rolled my eyes and turned back to watching my parents argue with the babysitter.
My dad hushed her and started sniffing the air "what's that?" he asked my mom.
She started sniffing too "I smell it too." She turned her had.
I gulped when I looked past her head and saw Rudolph's feet slip off the wall I sniffed the air and noticed a musky/earthy smell mixed with went concrete. It was the first time I noticed the smell and I just knew that it was coming off of Rudolph "I don't smell anything I lied."
My dad walked over to Tony's windows and shut them while mom went over on the other side of the bed and kissed Tony on the forehead. Dad walked over to the babysitter and gestured her to fallow him out the door. She gave me a nasty look and while dad and mom weren't watching but she was I put my right hand up and gave her a wave with just my fingers while mouthing 'bye, bye bitch' she gave me another nasty look before fallowing my dad out of the room.
Mom looked over at the door to make sure that she was gone then came over to stand by me. She put her arms over my shoulders and then gave me a small squeeze "Honey you are cold!" she said touching my face.
"Yeah," I said "the window in my room sends cold air just flying at my face." This one actually wasn't a lie.
"Alright," she said giving my shoulders another squeeze "I want you in bed in five, got it." she said walking out of the room.
"Got it." I said as she gave one last look at Tony then closed the door.
I let out a breath that seriously felt like I had been holding forever and slumped back against the wall behind me. Tony instantly popped up and looked at me "Where did you learn to lie like that Danni?" he whisper yelled. He threw off his blankets and grabbed his glasses that were sitting on his nightstand.
I shrugged and saw Rudolph jump down from his hiding spot with a loud 'THUD' that I assumed was loud enough to bring mom running back questioning us. "So," Rudolph said standing up straight and looking between us and the door "those are your parents, they look nice."
"And tasty?" Tony said innocently untying his cape. I reached over and flicked his ear, be grabbed it and stuck his tongue out at me.
"No, nice, as in very nice." Rudolph said matter-of-factually.
"They have their moments." I said leaning my head back against the wall.
"I suppose I must take my leave." Rudolph said walking over to the now closed window. When he reached the window he turned around and looked at us "I haven't had so much fun with a boy near my own age since I really was nine. Thanks, dude." Rudolph said the last part putting his hand up in a farewell typa thing.
Rudolph turned back to the window as Tony said "You can stay if you want." He was obviously begging his only friend to stay.
Rudolph looked out the window then quickly pressed himself back into curtains trying to hide. I walked over to him and glanced out the window. There was a reason he was trying to hide, that huge truck with the hundred of lights was on the road that pasted by our house. Rudolph looked up at me then over at Tony then back to me "Maybe I should."
I gave him a quick nod and walked back over to Tony's bed, he was sitting on the end watching the window "Do vampires always sleep in coffins? Because that's going to be a problem."
"Just as long as the sun can't find me." Rudolph looked away from the window and started walking back towards us. "This," he said pulling open Tony's toy chest "would be excellent." Rudolph knelt down and looked inside.
I looked over the lid and saw that it was full to the brim with Tony's toys and junk "You'll have to take out all this junk." I said reaching in and grabbing a white wolf with fierce teeth and s sword connected to its side, I spun it in my hands a couple of times before putting it on the floor.
"Junk?" Rudolph asked, "It's a treasure chest!" he reached in and pulled out Tony's DS. It was already turned on so when Rudolph opened it he was right in the middle of playing Mario game. He pressed the buttons a few times "If have hidden in trees and have watched mortals play this game. What is it?"
Tony rolled his eyes "Nintendo, DUH." He said walking back to the top of his bed.
"Nintendoduh." Rudolph said still playing with the DS. "Can I play with this nintendoduh?"
I has to bit my tongue to fit back the laugh that was coming up. He actually thinks that's its name! "Its just Nintendo. Duh is just a word that people say when someone asks them a stupid question." I said standing up and pulling out a few more things so Rudolph could sit in the trunk.
"Duh." Rudolph said putting the DS back into the container that Tony was holding out to him.
Tony walked over and shoved the container under his bed "More like, DUH!" Tony walked back picking more stuff out and shoving it under his bed.
"Duuuuh." Rudolph said almost sounding like Dracula. I smiled and grabbed the last thing and handed it to Tony.
"DUH!"
"Duh." Rudolph sighed standing up.
"I'll teach you Nintendo tomorrow." Tony said, he sounded as tired as I felt.
Rudolph glanced outside and said "I know, you must sleep now, it's late for mortals." I grabbed one of the pillows off of Tony's bed and walked over to him I shoved the pillow down into the bottom of the chest.
"I'm going to bed now" I said grabbing Tony's head by the sides of his forehead "You," I kissed the top of his head, "don't have any nightmares." I turned around and looked at Rudolph "And you," I said in the most joking voice I could manage with how tired I was "don't kill him in the middle of the night." All three of us laughed softly "Goodnight you two." I said walking out the door.
The last thing I heard before I closed it was "You're sister's really nice."
Tada! Next task chapter four! It will be about the Tony's bloody nose, The graveyard and then a added in part by me.
~Proud To Be Imperfect