Chapter 8

ETHAN WENT HOME AND GOTSOME THING HE WOULD NEED FOR THE CAGE PLUS THE KEY. HE WOULDN'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT WOUND HAPPEN IF HE HADN'T TAKEN THE KEY. HE TEXTED BENNY.

Benny I'm in the cage. -Ethan

A COUPLE SECONDS LATER.

Do you have the key? -Benny

No I left it right outside the cage of course I have with me. -Ethan

Hurtful. -Benny

Sarah: What are you doing in the cage come out here so I could rip your head off.

Alex: No I do.

Sarah: Why don't we both rip his head off so it could be twice as much pain.

I got to go. –Ethan

Good luck. –Benny.

Alex: What happened? Never mind give me my wand back so I could put you over a hole of lava.

Ethan: No.

Sarah: I never knew you would say no to her.

Alex: What does that mean?

Sarah: You know what I mean. Who is she?

ALEX GLANCES AT ETHAN AND SIGHS.

Alex: It's you! He loves you too!

Sarah: I-hate him.

SARAH RUNS TO THE CAGE. SO DOES ALEX. SHE TRIES TO REACH FOR HER WAN BUT SHE CAN'T REACH IT.

Alex: Use your stupid vampire strength.

Sarah: Who you calling stupid your useless without your stupid wand.

Ethan: Three more stupid hours.

Sarah: Either ways you will wash my car and make us lemonade by yourself.

Ethan: What about Benny?

Sarah: He's going to massage his grandma's 'bunions' again for a whole 30 minutes.

Alex: I thought he could sit through an hour of my brother talking about himself.

Sarah: If he's a nerd it won't affect him.

Alex: Or longer. Even Harper can't and she's the most normal in the family.

ETHAN SETS HIS PHONE ALARM SO IT GOES OFF IN 3 HOURS AND WENT TO SLEEP.

3 HOURS LATER…

WOKE UP BY THE WHISPERS AND HIS PHONE ALARM.

Sarah: (whispers) He's cute when he sleeps.

Alex: (whispers) I know but where going to do what lemonade and wash car thing or 1 hour talking about my brother.

Sarah: Both but 15 minutes.

Alex: Fine.

ETHAN YAWNS AND STRECTHES HIS ARMS.

Ethan: How was it?

Alex: Lemonade, wash car, and 15 minutes of my brother talking.

Ethan: Fine.

AFTER 35 MINUTES OF WASHING THE CAR, 15 MINUTES OF LEMONADE, ETHAN WAS DONE.

Alex: Now let's go to my brother.

ALEX TAKES HER WAND AND FLASHES OUT WITH SARAH AND ETHAN. THEY END UP IN HER HOUSE BY THE BASEMENT DOOR.

Alex: He should be here.

ALEX OPENS THE DOOR. SARAH AND ETHAN FOLLOW HER.

Alex: Hey Justin this guy wants to talk to you. Well, Sarah and I are going to the mall.

ALEX TAKES HER WAN AND FLASHES OUT WITH SARAH.

Justin: What do you want to talk about?

Ethan: I'll talk about Sarah if you talk about Juliet.

Justin: What's so special about Sarah?

Ethan: She's like Juliet. Vampire.

Justin: Is/was she your girlfriend?

Ethan: No but I wish since day one.

Justin: That's how I felt about Juliet. I remember the first day I met her.

-Flashback-

Justin: As expected. The place is very busy. Ah ha there open 24 hours. I don't know why I said ah ha. Oh there's one of their menus.

JULIET WALKS UP TO JUSTIN AND PICK UP THE MENU HE'S LOOKING AT.

Juliet: You know there take out menus. If you want a copy the trash out front has 20 of them.

Justin: I take photo graphs of menus. I'm an artist an Australian menu artist. Love your verity of sandywiches.

Juliet: I was so unbored with the Australian thing until you said sanywiches.

Justin: (laughs) You don't say that? Um I'm sorry.

Juliet: No don't be sorry. I kind of like fake accents.

Justin: I'm Justin.

Juliet: I'm Juliet.

-End of Flashback-

Ethan: Yeah mine was less romantic.

-Flashback-

Benny: What do you think?

Ethan: Benny!

Benny: Those are state of the art alien detectors goggles.

Ethan: Yeah so?

Benny: A high school cafeteria is a perfect place to test them out.

Ethan: Yeah and a place to brand us as dorks for the next 4 years.

Benny: Give me those.

Ethan: No.

Benny: Give me.

Ethan: No you promise to be cool?

Benny: Yes I will now give me them back.

Rory: Hey guys. Hey over here.

Benny: Oh man.

Rory: The three amigos reunite. Do any of you have a buck 28?

Ethan: (scoffs) Okay that's it I'm getting away from you guys before I'm doomed to be-

SARAH WALKS UP WITH A TRAY OF SLOPPY JO. ETHAN SPILLS IT.

Sarah: Ah! Dork! Thank you so much.

SARAH WALKS AWAY AND BENNY COMES UP BEHIND ETHAN.

Benny: That is one babe-tastic tower of babe-ailon.

Ethan: So Was Juliet a vampire when you met her?

Justin: Yeah. Sarah?

Ethan: She was a fledgling. A fledgling is not a full vampire until she/he drinks blood.

Justin: What do you mean was?

Ethan: (sighs) I'll hate him forever.

-Flashback-

Sarah: Let him go.

Erica: I don't care how cute you are no one puts me in a trance.

Jesse: Why do you care about this meat? In 500 years you won't remember its name. Come with me and be what you're meant to be.

Sarah: Get through your tiny bat brain. If you hurt one of my friends I will make you regret it even if it takes 1,000 years. But I will never NEVER become one of you.

Jesse: We'll see.

JESSE PULLS UP ETHAN'S SLEEVE AND BITES HIS ARM. ETHAN FALLS AND BENNY COMES IN.

Benny: Ethan!

Jesse: Now either you become one of us or he does. Your choice. See you soon.

JESSE VANISHES WITH A SINISTER SMILE.

Sarah: Ethan!

SARAH GOES TO ETHAN'S SIDE.

Ethan: No!

SARAH BITES ETHAN RIGHT WERE JESSE BIT HIM SUCKING OUT THE VENOM.

Benny: What's she doing?

Erica: She's saving him.

Ethan: Sarah!

SARAH PULLS BACK AND ETHAN FALLS UNCONSIESLY. AT ETHAN'S HOUSE

Grandma: Don't worry honey. Sarah got the venom out. Your heart's still beating. You're going to be all right.

Ethan: Yeah but Sarah isn't. Benny I feel terrible.

Benny: What do you except? You got bitten by a vampire—(whispers) a vampire.

Ethan: Sarah gave up whatever chance of her life to save me.

Benny: She really is the 8 bucks an hour your mom pays her. Eh He. (Benny laughs)

Ethan: Benny.

Benny: I'm just trying to lighten the mood.

Ethan: There's nothing left for her now.

IN FRONT OF ETHAN'S HOUSE

Sarah: He'll be okay, right?

Erica: Yeah.

Rory: Ethan is like a rock when we were both sick with the pig flu. I was puking for like-

ERICA PUNCHES RORY IN THE ARM.

Rory: Owww! Well welcome to team V Sarah. It might not be awesome at first but after a few decades or so-

RORY EARNED HIS SELF ANOTHER PUNCH IN THE ARM FROM ERICA.

Rory: Owww!

Erica: So I guess we'll really be best friends-forever now. Huh?

Rory: Enough of the girl gag. Let's hit that after party now.

RORY ZIPPES IN THE AIR.

Erica: Welcome to the rest of your life girlfriend. When you're ready we will be there for you.

ERICA ZIPPES IN THE AIR. SARAH SIGHS AND ZIPPES AFTER HER.

-End of Flashback-

Justin: Hey at least she cares about you.

Ethan: Really?

SARAH AND ALEX APPEAR IN THE LAIR.

Alex: How was it? Terribly? Boring?

Ethan: He was talking about Juliet.

Alex: I'm so sorry.

Ethan: Don't be. But that did lead me tell him about the first day of high school and the most tragic event in history.

Alex: What' the most tragic event?

Ethan: Jesse…dance…bites me… saves… me wanting to kill him more.

Sarah: Basically I'm not a fledgling anymore. Any ways I got to go home.