Authors Note: Sorry for the late update but I was visiting my cousin for nearly two weeks and never got the chance to update or work on my fanfics at ALL when I was with her. :( My computers still broken but I managed to find a saved copy of my drafts for this story. Unfortunatly I lost two really, really long chapters of this (the twenty and twenty-first chapters--yeah, i wrote ahead, alot.) Anyways, I have two other stories to work on as well so updates won't be coming as frequently as they had been before my computer crashed. Also, this chapter is much shorter than the others but it's also in a different POV. Enjoy :)
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The Webs We Weave
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Escape The Fate
Chapter Eleven – The Webs We Weave
Matt POV
In all honestly, it was really strange going back to Brie's house knowing that it would probably be one of the last times I would ever visit it—and to steal her car no less so that we could crash it to fake her death. Lester, Grace and I ran at full vampire speed the whole way there. So far I loved running much more than all of my other enhanced abilities. There was just something about it that was so exhilarating. I kind of felt like a girl saying it, but I loved the feel of the air blowing through my hair, and onto my face.
'Wow that sounded really cheesy. Note to self, never say that out loud—or around Amber.' I thought to myself. I was glad she wasn't here, I would need to find some way to hide my thoughts from her.
It only took us around ten minutes to reach Brie's house running at a comfortable speed. A comfortable speed for vampires was apparently as fast as the usual highway speed limit — fifty-five. Although I'm surprised that anyone in our group of friends would know that. We all have a thing for driving fast. I think it's a teenager thing because Grace and Lester were very surprised when we told them that we never really followed the speed limit.
When we did reach Brie's house, we tried to be as quiet as possible sneaking into her house. The last thing in the world that we wanted was to wake up Brie's parents. That would be a complete disaster. How could we explain exactly why the three of us were sneaking into their garage to steal Brie's car? They'd probably call the police on us, friends or no.
"So what's the game plan?" I asked them as we started to slow as we neared her house.
I did something really cliché and rubbed my hands together as if we were trying to cook up some evil plan or something. I saw Grace snigger at me out of the corner of my eye. Lester held back his laughter as well, but he rolled his eyes at me when I looked pointedly at him. He started to tell us about the 'game plan' as I had put it.
"We are going to sneak into the garage by picking the lock. Then Matt, me and you need to hotwire her car as quickly as possible. Grace will open the garage door and then as soon as you get the car hotwired, we will remove it from the garage. Grace will shut the garage door and then we will drive away as quickly and quietly as possible to the agreed upon location we discussed earlier." he said seriously. I felt as if we were going over a military mission for Call of Duty. Lester looked pointedly at me and cleared his throat. He was successfully able to break me from my thoughts, "They don't have a security system we have to disable do they?" Lester asked me.
I shook my head, "Nope. Brie's parents said that they never felt the need to get a security system for their house. I think they mentioned something about it being unethical." I mumbled the last part.
"Why would you think that a security system is unethical?" Grace asked in a bemused tone.
I shrugged, "I don't know, maybe I used the wrong word."
Lester chuckled, "Well I'm glad they don't have a system." he said, "It would just made our job that much more complicated if they did."
"Exactly." I replied. I started thinking about what would happen if
"So let's get on with the plan." Lester said while rubbing his hands together like I had earlier, earning a twin smirks from his wife and I.
"Sounds good." Grace said.
We snuck up to the smaller garage door on the outside of the garage. Grace pulled a small bobby pin from her pocket. Lester and I watched her work her magic on the lock. After a few minutes we heard the sound of a soft click as the door unlocked, allowing us access to the garage.
"I never knew that you carried around bobby pins, Grace." I teased.
Grace turned to me and scowled, "I don't usually. But you have to remember I was born long before your time youngin'. Back in the 1900's, when I was changed, they were certainly common so don't make fun of them. But, the only reason I brought it tonight was so that I could pick the lock without damaging it." She said.
I snorted, "Right."
"Stop arguing you two—we have a job to do." Lester said.
We slowly opened the door, trying to be as quiet as possible. The three of us crept into the room. I made my way over to Brie's prized blue Saab with the top up, which was something that was a rare sight except in the winter. Grace opened the larger garage door while Lester closely observed as I tried to hotwire Brie's car as quickly as I possibly could. I had only hotwired a car a few times before—one of those times was to play a joke on a teacher at school—but every time I went I was always with people who actually knew what they were doing. I just hoped I was doing it the right way.
"Matt, are you sure you are supposed to do that?" Lester asked as I moved a couple of wires around.
I nodded my head, "Of course I'm sure, don't worry about it Lester." I said. To tell the truth I wasn't completely sure, I was just going with what my gut was telling me was right and which was wrong. Hopefully my gut was right.
After a few more crucial minutes I had completed the hotwiring. I turned to Lester, "Done." I said with a small smile on my face.
"Okay, get in the car. Grace is going to meet us outside." Lester said.
I nodded and then jumped into the familiar backseat of Brie's Saab. Lester got into the driver's seat and started the car. It started with a silent purr and Lester pulled the car out of the garage. Once we were completely outside I watched as Grace quickly shut the large garage door from the inside and then walked out of the smaller door that we entered and locked it behind her. She came and sat in the passenger's seat of Brie's Saab. Once she was in the car Lester took off in the direction where we had all agreed to meet which was a few miles from the turn off of our campsite, a likely place where Brie could have actually crashed.
As we drove in a comfortable silence, memories of Brie driving her Saab plagued my mind. In every single one of them she jamming her music extremely loud with Amber in the passenger's seat and me, Olivia, Shay and Roxie in the backseat on the way to school or to the mall or times when we were just cruising started to creep into my mind. It seemed like just yesterday we were being carefree while racing our cars around town without another care in the world. Her death had defiantly taken its toll the hardest on Amber and Olivia who were both extremely close with her. Shay, Roxie and I loved her like a big sister but we had never had the same close sister relationship that Olivia and Amber had shared with Brie. I knew it was exceedingly harder for them to deal with.
Over the past couple days it was hard for me to accept that Brie was really truly dead. Like I said, it was hard on all of us. There were times when we were sitting around the Harper house joking and playing around I would look around for Brie, waiting for her to put her two-sense into the conversation. The worst part was that I knew that Grace secretly blamed herself for Brie's death but it wasn't her fault. I didn't blame her and neither did Amber, Olivia, Shay and Roxie. None of us blamed her or any of the Harper's for that matter for Brie's death. Truthfully if it hadn't been for them we would have all suffered Brie's fate.
The sound of screeching tires drug me from my deep thoughts. I found that we had just made it to the spot where we had all agreed to meet at. I looked out the window to see Jeremy, Roxie, Olivia, Amber and Shay joking around and laughing about nothing in particular. Lester stopped Brie's Saab on the side of the rode and then the three of us stepped out from the car.
I immediately noticed Amber's eyes sadden as she looked at Brie's car. She slowly walked in a graceful manner towards the car. She rested her hand softly on the hood and wiped away a few tears from her eyes that would never fall. Not so long after that I felt a small wave of tranquility spread over us. I looked over to Shay and noticed she was trying desperately to calm Amber down. Amber may have had on a composed and collected exterior but I knew on the inside that seeing Brie's car and having to fake her death was hitting her hard.
Amber dabbed her eyes quickly and I was shocked to see a little bit of blood on her fingers. She acted like she didn't notice it and then turned to me, "It seems like just yesterday she was driving us to school complaining about me being late all the time." She said softly.
I nodded, momentarily forgetting the strange sight that I had witnessed. "I know, I was thinking about that the whole ride here." I told her.
We all went into a sad silence for a while but Lester broke it by looking anxiously at the sky. I had hardly noticed that the first signs of dawn were beginning to appear in the sky. The sun was just beginning to rise. We would defiantly have to work quickly now if we wanted to get this done in time.
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