Chapter 4

Kidnapped

Ethan's POV

"Great, we've lost our only good source of information!" Sarah growled.

"Woah, woah, were sorry we lost concentration." Benny said, holding his hands up and retreating to the corner.

"It's fine!" she sighed, she was very clearly over stressed and that was never good for a vampire, we would have plates and furniture being thrown everywhere if we weren't careful. I looked across the room to Amanda who had just come around, she was drenched in sweat and her eyes were red and bloodshot. The only thing keeping her upright was Erica and Rory who had a firm grip on her; she looked unhealthily exhausted and was a deathly shade of grey.

"Amanda, are you okay?" Benny questioned, a look of concern flashed across his eyes.

"What does it look like!?" Sarah snapped.

"Okay, okay, come on Sarah sit down, you are way too stressed." I said guiding her towards the crème coloured armchair.

"Benny, fetch Amanda some water please, Amanda darling are you okay?" Benny's grandmother quizzed. She only managed a weak nod before Erica and Rory shakily helped her to her feet.

"Here," Benny said sauntering into the room with the water and handing it too Amanda, she sipped it delicately and soon was looking better.

"I'm sorry, I ruined everything didn't I?" Amanda said bursting into tears.

"To say the least." Erica retorted, everyone in the room glared at her. "But you didn't do it on purpose or anything." She quickly added.

"I still don't understand why they want me, well my blood I mean! There is certainly nothing special about me, they must have got the wrong person." Amanda argued.

"Deniaaaaal." Benny sung under his breath.

"I doubt it! They wouldn't have gone through all this trouble if they weren't sure that it was you they really needed, we've been attacked three times!" I said

"It wouldn't be safe for her to spend the night on her own; she needs protection so she'll have to stay with one of us." Benny's grandma suggested.

"Well I think I'll take one for the team today! You can stay with me babe." Benny said

"Errrrrrr, yeah right lover boy, Amanda can stay with me." Sarah said, seeming a lot calmer.

"Well, you can't blame a guy for trying." Benny shrugged nonchalantly

"A- and the fangs? They're vampires? Why am I the only one shocked by this?" she questioned.

"Oh honey! That's just plain offensive to vampires, those evil blood suckers are halfblooded rogues. There's a difference!" Erica said, waving her arms animatedly.

"So what exactly are you? How did you do that bubble and Sarah had fangs…." Amanda flustered.

"Guilty." Sarah said raising her hand. "I'm a vampire and well so are Erica and Rory." She shrugged. We all stared at Amanda waiting for her reaction but she just stared, wide eyed and terrified.

"And ummm, Ethan is a seer and Benny a wizard of sorts. We need you to know the truth about us if we are to protect you against the rogues, they want you, why exactly we don't know but they do. Sadly they are stronger and faster than normal vampires and we haven't discovered why yet but I promise we'll try our best to protect you and we won't hurt you." Sarah said cautiously. Amanda still stared until her gaze shifted to me, boring into me as she thought.

"You!" Amanda said. "You said earlier attacked three times, what did you mean by that exactly?" she asked an icy tone edging her voice.

"That night we found you." I said, she gasped clapping her hand to her mouth.

"I knew my trances meant something, I saw you in it and, and her, the red headed girl but, but…..you all lied to me!" she shouted, backing away.

"It was for your own safety Amanda!" Sarah said desperately trying to get her to understand but she was too angry and scared, I could see it within her eyes.

"Oh God! Just get away from me." She shouted inching closer to the doorway.

"What? You're seriously scared of us when we just saved your but!?" Erica spat.

"No, no don't you even talk to me about saving me and protecting me because since I saw you all in the coffee shop nothing but trouble has come to my life. I don't even need protection okay; they've got the wrong girl! So, so just get away from me you freaks!" Amanda shouted racing right through the door and onto the street, I caught her arm just before she left, the searing pain burned through my head as pictures zoomed through my mind. One image took form of Amanda in her room at night, she was in a state of panic but I couldn't tell why until I saw a blonde headed rogue grabbing her and taking flight right out the window and into the night sky. The image slowly faded away and I began to see clearly. Erica snarled and began chasing after Amanda.

"Leave her Erica." Sarah shouted, chasing after the both of them. I seriously hadn't expected such a crazy reaction from Amanda, she was practically in hysterics and the vision showed me what would happen to her if we didn't protect her, how could we protect her thought if she wanted nothing to do with us, she was in denial of everything. I sat down on the crème armchair in though before glancing at the others, Rory was sitting on the floor amongst the broken glass of the window chugging down blood. He caught me staring at him.

"What? I pig out when I'm stressed." Rory said. This was all way too much. I glanced at Benny who was twiddling thumbs at the back of the room; I guess his parents would totally kill him for this. The room was a mess. Benny's grandma was examining the charred black wall from the searing white bubble and began tutting.

"Come on you lot we need to get this place cleared up." She said. We all moaned as she went to fetch the cleaning supplies from the hall cupboard and began handing them out to everyone. I ended up with a dustpan and brush and went to sweep up the glass from the broken window but I kept fumbling and shaking and so couldn't do anything properly. I kept thinking about the way Amanda reacted and her trances, why was she suddenly getting them.

"So tell me." Benny said, shocking me out of my daydream.

"What?"

"About your vision."

"How did you?" I began to ask but he cut in

"Look dude your my best friend and I know you end up looking constipated when you get visions and you totally just did so spill, what did you see?"

"Constipated? Really?" I questioned

"Yes, so tell me!"

"It was pretty bad, I saw Amanda getting attacked or more accurately kidnapped by a rogue."

"You what?" Benny asked in shock but he didn't have a chance to finish. Erica and Sarah burst into the room.

"Well, how did it go?" Rory questioned.

"We couldn't get her to understand us." Sarah said deflated

"Well at least you tried." I said

"Tried and failed." Benny sighed resting against the broom he had been given.

"We need to do something; I had a vision that she was kidnapped by a rogue at night!"

"Hey, how about we guard her house without making ourselves known to Amanda." Benny suggested

"Good idea darling, you can all take turns night by night." Benny's grandma said.

"Well I guess I don't mind doing it tonight." Sarah chipped in

"I'll do it to then!" I volunteered quickly, any chance of spending time with Sarah and I'd be there.

"Good, it's settled, now get cleaning!" Benny's grandmother said placing a cloth in Sarah's hand and some spray in Erica's. We all moaned, I couldn't think about cleaning when there was so much going on!

"Come on! This place won't clean itself!" she insisted, waving her duster frantically in the air. Great I thought, settling down with my dustpan, just great!

The cool night air washed over our faces as me and Sarah stationed ourselves next to the bushes in Amanda's front lawn. It was too dark to see properly but at least there was some light from the streetlights by the road.

"Okay I'm going to ask you something serious, it's been bothering me all day so please be honest." I said.

"Okay." Sarah replied

"Do I really look constipated when I have a vision?" I asked. Sarah burst out laughing.

"That's what's been bothering you all day?"

"Yes! And you promised to be serious."

"Well, you do…..but I think it's still kinda cute in it's own weird way.

"Seriously? You actually think that me looking…well constipated is cute"

"Yes, seriously." She said bursting into laughter again.

"Sarah!"

"What? Come on, how can this topic be serious?" she said sighing. I decided to drop the whole subject and steer onto something else.

"So are you calmer now?" I asked

"Yes, much calmer. Though I wish I could have convinced Amanda that we were trying to help her, it would have saved us from sitting here in the bushes as least!" Sarah said

"Yes, that might've made our lives a little better." I chuckled

"You have a sweet laugh." She said smiling at me, I couldn't help being captured by her gorgeous brown eyes.

"Thanks, but I think yours is much sweeter." I said, she laughed happily before we were caught by the wind; we were freezing under the cold night air.

"It's really cold." Sarah shivered whilst rubbing her arms to keep them warm.

"Here, let's get closer to keep warm." I shuffled over, removing my jacket and wrapping it around her for warmth; she nestled in close resting her head upon my shoulder. The sweet scent of her hair tickled my nose.

"Thank you." She said, gazing up at me from my shoulder.

"For what?"

"Everything! Your always really good to me and I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate it, a lot."

"You don't need to thank me for it, were best friends right? I just want to look after you."

"Why are you always so kind and sweet? Sometimes I wish you weren't it makes me look bad."

"Makes you look bad, how?"

"You know, because you don't get so angry and stressed and you don't just walk up to me and just rip the sleeves off my shirt!" she said exasperatedly, I remembered the time she had done that, she was red in the face, she stormed right up to me and bam within seconds I had no shirt sleeves. I laughed, thinking about it always made me laugh.

"I never mind any of that Sarah, you know I don't, I understand that it's difficult as a vampire and your urges are hard to control."

"Well thank you because I don't know what I'd do without you." She said. I gazed at her, how I wished I wasn't such a dork, and then maybe, just maybe, she would give me a chance. She caught me looking and began to blush a beetroot red as I wound my hands around hers, our faces slowly drifted closer to one and others, all I could see were her deep brown eyes which were intensely focused on mine until suddenly her eyes swivelled upwards.

"Ethan!" Sarah shouted, I followed her gaze up to the window, Amanda was dangling in the arms of the blonde headed rogue I saw in my vision, she was gagged and tied, looking a complete mess but it was too late. The vampire jumped down from the window onto the lawn in front of us sending dust from the ground everywhere and began snarling before swiftly disappearing into the night with Amanda in her grasp.