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Uh oh, indeed.

"He could just be making it up," I said hopefully, "I mean, that is Larry Smith. He's always going around telling false stories."

Jason shook is head, "I can hear the truth in his voice."

"So vampires can hear when people are lying?"

Derrick nodded this time, answering with a small smile, "Built in lie detector."

"Well that just sucks. No getting out of things with you guys," I said putting my hands on the table and leaning back in my chair.

The three of them chuckled, but quickly became serious again, "We need to go check it out, make sure it was actually done by a vampire. There are some twisted sickos who would drain the blood from bodies after murdering them," Derrick said. I shuddered. Just the thought of someone like that on the loose near where I live is very, very scary.

"We'll go after school then," Cassie said, then wrinkled her nose in disappointment, "There goes my plans for the evening."

Jason shook his head disapprovingly, "You don't need to be hanging around with humans anyway."

"We hang out with Holly!" She protested, "And she's human."

"Yeah, but she knows about us," Derrick reasoned, Jason nodded in agreement while smirking at me. I blushed slightly. I'll never get used to how gorgeous these people are.

I saw Derrick not-so-subtly glare at Jason, who was now talking, "Finally, something exciting."

I looked at him skeptically, "Exciting? More like... frightening."

"Nah," he said flexing his large muscles, "Whoever this sucker is, the three of us can take him."

I laughed slightly, but then said thoughtfully, "What if it's that Old One, or whatever?"

I actually saw fear flash in Jason's eyes. Derrick replied grimly, "Then it would take a lot more than just the three of us."

Suddenly a pain shot through my body, but not in one certain place, it was like it hurt everywhere. I cried out, my back arching then quickly bending over with my head on the table, breathing heavily. The pain had gone as quickly as it had come. What the hell was that?

"Holly?" Derrick's panicked and concerned, but very soothing voice reached my ears.

I sat up, wiping the cold sweat that had broken out on my forehead away, "I'm fine. Just a... back spasm or something," I said shrugging it off.

Jason eyed me suspiciously, "Gonna be alright?" he asked.

"Mhmm," I replied, trying to sound absolutely fine. Even though I wasn't. Whatever that was, it definitely wasn't a back spasm. But Derrick and the others have more than enough to worry about with the body lacking blood and the Old One who is trying to murder their own species. Hmm. The whole 'Old One who is trying to murder their own species' would sound a lot more deranged if humans didn't do the same thing everyday. But, I must admit, having a ridiculously old, powerful vampire killing people is a lot more scarier than just people killing people.

--V--

After school, I convinced the 3 vampires to take me with them to Larry's property, where the body was found, even though they said I shouldn't come cause of the killer vampire that could still be lurking there. But, eventually, they let me get in the car and come. I mean, I got them to protect me, right?

I called Mom on my cell phone on the way there, telling her I might be late, and not to worry. After that was done, I texted Emily, canceling the plan to go over to her house after school. She didn't reply. I actually felt really bad for ditching her, we had talked about having a 'just girls' slumber party that we didn't usually get to do a lot, cause of Nick. Emily had been really excited, I'm probably really letting her down.

I stared out the window from my seat up front next to Derrick, who was driving. I had a killer headache, it hurt more than any I've ever experienced. I discreetly started rubbing my temples. My brain felt like it was going to start oozing out of my ears.

The car ride was silent, nobody really having much to say. So it was a relief to get out of the Mustang once we reached where Larry lived.

We figured the body would still be there. Larry had said the body was found right before he left for school while taking his dog out. So I'm sure the CSI, FBI... ABC, were still checking it out. It wasn't too hard to figure out where to go, as there were police cars and SUV's parked on the street along with the Mustang, and people bustling back and forth between the cars and somewhere in Larry's backyard.

"What now?" I asked, "It's not like we can just waltz in there and take a look at the body."

"We could like, freeze time and check it out, we won't get caught then," Jason suggested casually.

"You can do that?!" I gaped.

He burst out laughing along with his brother and sister, "No, haha, I was just, hahaha, messing with you."

I glared at him, but couldn't help the slight laugh that escaped me, "Seriously, though," I said when their laughter subsided.

"Well, I mean, we only need to glance at it," Cassie said shrugging.

I raised an eyebrow. Derrick explained, "Our brain is... well, kinda hyper. We can process things extremely quickly. We have to be able to do that when we're running as fast as we do, so we can take in our surroundings and not run into trees or something."

"So, if you just run past the body, extremely fast, like a blur, you can see if the person was killed by a vampire?" I asked, impressed.

Jason nodded, "I'll do it," he said before Derrick or Cassie could even open their mouths.

He smiled and winked at us before disappearing, and reappearing just as quickly. The smug expression was gone though, replaced by a grim one.

"It was definitely done by a vampire," he said, "to a vampire."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," I said holding my hand up, "The person that was killed... is a vampire?"

"Yep," he answered.

Derrick and Cassie exchanged a glance before disappearing.

"Clearly, they don't trust me," Jason said, rolling his eyes.

I giggled as the other two returned with the same revelation.

"Definitely done by a vampire. A freaky, powerful one, too," Derrick said, flipping his hair out of his eyes. I swear, I almost swooned. I kicked myself mentally. Stop staring! Derrick smiled brilliantly at me, and I returned the gesture.

"That body was sooo gross," Cassie said scrunching up her face in disgust.

"I wish I could see it," I mumbled, my curiosity was eating at my brain.

Cassie shrugged, "If you say so."

She reached out to me, resting her hand on the side of my head, "What the-"

Suddenly an image popped into my head. It was of a body, completely torn up, the neck especially was ripped apart, by what looked like teeth. Fangs, obviously. The dead vampire was not so beautiful anymore. I couldn't even tell what his hair color was, due to the blood caked in it.

The police probably figured it was a mountain lion. But once they studied closer, I'm sure they'll find the retractable fangs, and the fact that the person was dead before this.

The image suddenly disappeared, my vision replaced.

"What was that?" I asked Cassie.

Derrick replied instead, "Cassie has mind powers."

Oh no. "Can she read my mind?"

"Hello! I'm right here. And yes, I can read your mind, when I want to," she said with a sly wink at me.

I blushed a deep red. Has she heard all those thoughts about Derrick?

"Yep," she said grinning.

I blushed even redder, if that was possible.

A voice was suddenly heard in my head, And I can hear all those thoughts about you from Derrick.

What thoughts? I thought at her.

She just stood there studying her nails, smiling.

"What thoughts?!" I exclaimed aloud.

She just shrugged. "Ca-!"

Derrick cut me off, "Girls. Seriously," he said shaking his head, "We need to get that body out of here. Those policemen and FBI and CSI-"

"And ABC," Cassie said laughing, with a wink at me. I blushed again. I need to stop thinking thoughts that make me sound stupid.

Derrick ignored her and continued, "-will figure out that that person is not human, and that will definitely not go over well."

Jason nodded, "How are we gonna get the dead vamp out of here without anybody noticing it just disappear out of thin air?"

Derrick shrugged, shaking his head, "I don't know."

"Maybe we could distract them," I said gesturing to myself and Cassie, who nodded thoughtfully, obviously knowing what I had in mind.

--A--

"HEEEEYYY!!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

Cassie giggled as every single head turned in our direction. We started laughing dancing around like idiots. Everyone looked at us curiously. The ME and other people around the body had stood up and started looking bewildered.

Finally, the ME shouted, "Get those two out of here! We've got work to do!"

A couple of scary looking men started jogging toward us. We ran, still laughing, back around the house and to the Mustang. Cassie jumped into the driver's seat twisting the key in the ignition. When the engine roared to life, she peeled out of the temporary parking space and sped off down the road.

We were still laughing, the look on those people's faces were priceless. Cassie put her hand on my head again, "Check this out," she said giggling.

A scene started playing out in my mind's eye, no doubt Cassie got it from the mind of one of the workers. The ME and everyone else turned back to their work after the two crazy girls were chased off, but well, their work was gone. The ME gaped at the now empty place in the middle of the yellow tape.

"What the f-"

The scene went away and I burst out laughing again, "The look on his face!"

"I know!" she exclaimed, grinning and laughing.

By the time we reached their mansion, our laughter had subsided and we became serious again. Cassie parked Derrick's car in the driveway, and we got out, walking up to the door quickly. Derrick and Jason had snatched the body and ran all the way home, so they were already here.

We entered the living room to find a messy dead vampire on the floor. William was crouched on the floor next to it, thoughtfully studying it. Christopher stood a few feet away, looking at the vampire with a weird glint in his eye. I arched an eyebrow, but shrugged it off as anger for the vampire-killing vampire.

Derrick and Jason were nowhere to be found.

"They're upstairs, in Derrick's room," Cassie said, explaining.

"I don't think I'll ever get used to that," I said, following my now laughing vampire friend up a flight of stairs.

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