Authors Note: So guess what, I'm on a freaking role today because not only have I posted a one-shot and a brand spanking new chapter of 'Lachrymose' but now you all get a new chapter for 'Midnight Tryst' as well. I'd just like to say thank you to the few reviewers who have stuck by me through the entire story so far and are taking the time to share their thoughts. I also want to thank you silent reviewers as well, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this story and I'd like to encourage you to send a review :) Anyways, it's nearing 1:30am and I'm still awake, typing away. Damn, I'll be tired in the morning but no matter. I'm happy that I'm finally sitting down and getting things done. Next I'm going to finish my next chapter for "Girl With Golden Eyes," it's been sitting in my documents for weeks now unfinished and it's time that I've sat down and worked on it. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter. It's short, and the next few chapters will be. But they'll get longer again as the story progresses. Twelve official chapters in and you know the drill by now, read and review folks.

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Chapter Twelve – Hard To Say

Amber POV

It didn't take us very long to reach the spot where we had all agreed to meet. We needed to find someplace that would be far enough from people that nobody would really see us, but make it not completely impossible to find. This would especially come in handy if the cops would have to come investigate after we called the accident in. We had decided that the best possible spot for the accident was about a couple miles from the turn off that you had to take to go to our campsite in the woods.

When running, it only took us around fifteen minutes to arrive. Usually it would have taken less time but we decided that we wanted to take a short little detour first. Everyone agreed that we all wanted to check out the damage done to our campsite during the vampire attack. It was quickly noted that we would have to clean it up later—our tents were still up but most our stuff was thrown all about in random places because we never had really gotten the chance to actually settle down. There were dried blood stains on the ground from where each of us was attacked. It was a very sad sight to see that the place that we had always loved to go to was in shambles. At the same time, it was a little frightening to know that the place that had always seemed so safe to us, was actually extremely dangerous for us when we hadn't even known it.

After checking out the campsite we finished running to the spot. When we got there Lester, Grace and Matt weren't there yet so we just decided to wait until they showed up. We all kind of agreed silently to relax on the ground a little ways away from the side of the road. This way when Lester, Grace and Matt finally arrived would see us when they arrived but it wouldn't look suspicious in case anyone else passed.

"So what are we supposed to do while we wait?" Olivia asked.

"Well we said that we needed to come up with some cover stories—we need to come up with a story that we can feed everyone at school about Brie." Roxie said.

I tapped my temple for an idea. Slowly a small plan formed inside my head, "I've got it!" I said.

Everyone turned their attention to me. We had fallen into silence since every single on of us had been lost in our thoughts.

"What is your idea?" Shay asked me.

"Okay well this will tie into how we met the Harper's on our trip as well. Okay—we were out exploring the woods on Saturday afternoon when we came across the Harper's cabin. Since we already knew Lester and everything he invited us in to meet Grace and Jeremy. We quickly hit it off and they asked us to hang out with them that night and watch movies which we all accepted the invitation. We ended up crashing in their living room that night because it was too dark to find our way back to the campsite when we finally realized that we had lost track of time." I explained. "We went back to the campsite the next day but the Harper's decided to hang out with us for the rest of the week. Very late Tuesday night Brie said that she had a pretty bad upset stomach and that she wasn't feeling very well. She didn't have any medication with her so she wanted to back home to get some. We took her to her house and dropped her off. She said told us to go back to the campsite and that she was going to sneak into her house, take some medication, get some rest for a couple hours before her parents woke up and then she was going to take her Saab back to the campsite when she woke up but unfortunately on her way back she lost control of the car and drove into the ditch." I finished.

Jeremy shook his head in awe, "Amber, how in the world do you come up with these stories?!" he asked while stifling laughter.

Roxie giggled, "She always did have a big imagination."

"Shut up." I said while sticking my tongue out at her like a three year old.

"You are so weird." Olivia said.

"Yeah but you love me anyways!" I said.

"Wait a moment, there is a small problem with your cover story, Amber." Jeremy said softly.

I turned my attention to him, "What is it?"

"Well," he said. "Obviously we would have medication at our house so why would Brie have to drive home to get it then? People would ask why she didn't just get medicine from our house and that would screw everything up. There can not be any loopholes whatsoever."

Olivia laughed, "Well that's an easy answer. Brie is paranoid about taking medication that isn't her own. Her parents won't think twice about it when we tell them because they know how Brie is. But I have another concern. What are we going to do about Jeremy's call to the police? We can't let them know that it is Jeremy that is calling in. We have to make up a story about how he came upon her accident." Olivia said. She turned to Jeremy, "Do you have any idea what you are going to say to them?" she asked him.

He shook his head slightly, "Well, I hadn't exactly thought about it just yet and--" he trailed off.

Shay squealed slightly, "Oh, I have this one!" We all turned our attention to her, I laughed at her obvious enthusiasm as she told us her plan, "The rest of us will wait a little ways away while Jeremy will stay closer to the area, just in case they have position finders from your call. When the police answer you will say that your name is Bob Culver and you were on your way to attend to some very important business in another city when you passed Brie's accident. Being the gentleman that you are you decided to call in the accident to the authorities, giving the police directions but explain that you have an emergency in another town that you need to attend to and will not be able to wait for the police to arrive. After hanging up your phone we will all leave as quickly as possible and return to the campsite where we will clean it up as fast as possible and make sure that there is no other evidence. If the police show up we will explained that we were 'frantically be awaiting' Brie's return to our campsite but not sure if we needed to call anyone yet." she explained.

"Look's like I am not the only one that can come up with a good cover story." I giggled as I gave my best friend a high five of encouragement.

"Why does my name have to be Bob Culver?" Jeremy whined.

We all held back our laughter—we all knew that Shay wasn't the most creative person in the world at times.

"It was the first name that popped into my head when I thought of the idea." Shay said with a small shrug.

We heard the sound of tires screeching on concrete and looked up to see Brie's blue Saab speeding towards us. As I looked in the driver's seat I half expected Brie to be sitting in it and was quickly disappointed when I saw it was just Lester. Lester stopped the car and then he, Grace and a quiet looking Matt exited from the blue convertible. From Matt's thoughts I knew he was thinking about Brie and how her death had affected us all as well.

I felt a small wave of depression sweep over me as I looked at her cherished car. I made my way as slowly as possible towards the car and rested my pale hand on the car's hood. I felt some tears building up in my eyes but I wasn't so surprised this time when I felt a few blood droplets fall down my cheeks. Not so long after that I felt a small wave of tranquility spread over me. I turned my head over to Shay, 'Amber I know this is hard on you—it is for all of us. I hate seeing you sad like this.' Shay thought. I had a small nod of my head. I knew she was just trying to make me feel better because she cared. I felt Matt's eyes on me and I turned to him.

I rubbed my eyes slowly and then spoke to him, "It seems like just yesterday she was driving us to school complaining about me being late all the time." I murmured in a small voice that cracked at the end.

Matt nodded, "I know, I was thinking about that the whole ride here." he told me. From his thoughts I knew that he was telling me the truth.

I stared at the car for a long while but I was brought out of my thoughts when I heard Lester's thoughts, 'I know this is hard on you and your friends but we need to hurry. The sun is just beginning to rise and we have work to do before we run out of time completely.' He thought.

Roxie was next to speak, "So how are we going to do this, we came up with Brie's cover story when we got here—why she would have to go back for her car and we came up with a fake story on why Jeremy called in but wont be there when the police arrive." She said.

"What's the cover story?" Grace asked.

We quickly filled them in on our stories that we had came up with during their absence.

"Perfect!" Matt said as he gave us all a smile.

"Well what do we do with the car? How will we make this look like an accident?" Shay asked.

Jeremy grinned, "That is where super strength comes in handy." He said with a smirk.

"What are we going to do, push the car into a ditch?" Olivia asked sarcastically.

I noticed a small gleam in Grace's eyes as she spoke, "That is exactly what we are going to do." She said.


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