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Chapter Thirteen – Liar

Jeremy POV

After I created the copy of Brie's body we decided to put it in the driver's seat to make the crash actually look like it was realistic. I noticed that Shay, Amber, Matt, Olivia and Roxie had all stiffened and were exchanging saddened looks with each other when they saw the copy of their best friend. Lester and I were able to push the car up on the right side of the road at a tiny 30 degree angle so when we would push the car, it would go sailing off the road and into the trees that lined the opposite side of the road. With me and Matt being the 'big-strong-men' we are, the two of us demanded that one of us would get to be the one pushing the car into the tree.

"I want to push it!" Matt whined.

"You got to hotwire the car!" I protested.

"Yeah but you get to call the call in and uhmm—" he cut off and tried to think for a moment of something else as an advantage I had over him, but of course he couldn't think of anything else.

"We're even!" I retorted.

I heard Grace sigh. She quickly stepped between us to stop our bickering although I could tell that she thought our argument was quite amusing unlike the other girls, including Shay.

Grace decided to let us come to a compromise, "How about you BOTH push the car into the tree. If you don't behave I'll let the girls push it." She threatened.

Matt and I gasped, "You wouldn't..." Matt cried.

She gave us both a small glare, "Try me."

I turned to Matt, "How about we both push it." I compromised.

"Makes sense," He said with a small smirk, he continued on, "with two 'big-strong-vampires' we can do twice the damage!"

I chuckled. "Well then let's get it done and over with." I said.

Matt and I positioned ourselves at the trunk of the car. Putting our hands palms down on the trunk, we looked at each other and then looked back to Lester and waited for him to give us the signal to push. It didn't take very long.

"Ready?" he asked us.

We nodded.

"On the count of three." He instructed. "One…two…thr—"

Before he even got to the end of the word 'three' Matt and I used all of our strength and shoved the car across the rode and into the trees. The car took off with an extremely loud screech from the tires that hurt even our ears. It took seconds to skid across the road before it finally slammed into the trees at an amazing rate of speed. Everything seemed as though it was going in slow motion, even the sounds. Finally, the car hit the trees with a tremendous crash and the sound of scratching metal filled the air.

I looked over to where the girls were standing not even ten feet away from us. Shay looked pained as she watched the car hit the trees. I wondered if maybe it was such a good idea for them to be here after all, it probably wasn't now that I really sat down and thought about it. The girls obviously were upset about this. I was brought from my thoughts when Matt patted me on the back.

"That was awesome!" he said.

I nodded and gave a small smile, "Yeah did you see the way it flew off into the trees!" I said.

"I know!" he replied.

I fierce growl came from behind us. With a gust of wind Matt and I turned around to quickly to find Amber suddenly right behind us. "You guys are so immature." she fumed, snarling once more.

I knew she was furious—and she had every right to be. From what I had gathered from their story, before they were changed Amber and Brie were extremely close to one another, they were like sisters. I knew that losing Brie was extremely hard on Amber, but she kept a brave face. According to Shay, it was really taking a toll of Amber's feelings though. Shay said that even though she had a strong and calm exterior her feelings on the inside were raging with fear, hurt, sadness, grief and even guilt. Although I am not quite sure what she could have to be guilty about. It's not like it is her fault that Vicente decided to attack them or that Brie was already dead by the time Lester and Grace arrived.

"You guys just don't know how to have fun." Matt retorted, ripping me from my thoughts.

'Bad move, Matt.' I thought.

Roxie looked at the both of us with anger swimming in her eyes. I knew it was only a matter of time before she blew a gasket or threw something at us with her mind. I had gathered so far that she had quite the temper, "We know how to have fun," she said icily, "but that back there was not fun. That was destroying one of the last pieces of Brie that we have and now it's gone."

Olivia nodded, "You knew that even though that was Brie's car and not ours, the car held a lot of memories for most of us," she said looking at me with a sad smile. "I know you didn't know her Jeremy, but we had a lot of fun times in that car."

Lastly I looked at Shay. She was looking at me in pain, I just wanted to run over to her and wrap my arms around her. I watched as two small blood droplets fell down her face, like I had noticed happen to Amber earlier. I knew that Shay wasn't as close to Brie as Amber and Olivia but Brie's death was taking a toll on Shay as well.

"I thought you were better than that Jeremy. How could you possibly think that this," she gestured to the chaos around us, "is funny…" she whispered sadly.

I felt my face crumple under her gaze. I quickly ran to her side before taking her into my arms without even thinking. Her dry sobs wracked my body as she started to quietly cry. She wasn't able to hold it back any longer. "I'm sorry Shay, I wasn't thinking. I'm so sorry." I pleaded in a whisper to her.

As she cried she grabbed a fist full of my shirt and rested her head against my chest. I looked up and it was then that I noticed that Olivia was crying against Matt as well. He was wearing a similar expression to mine—guilty. Although I knew that they weren't together for someone who didn't know them Olivia and Matt really did look like a couple.

Amber and Roxie were standing off to the side talking in hushed tones. I noticed Amber looking sadly from Shay and me to Matt and Olivia. She subconsciously wrapped her arms around her lower torso, as if it would keep herself from falling apart. From what I understood, neither Amber nor Roxie had a mate, or a 'boyfriend' as the humans called their mates. So they didn't have anyone to comfort them at the moment. According to Shay, Roxie just didn't really believe in love after she got her heart broken by her ex-'boyfriend' while Amber had a crush on one of their best friends from school.

'It must be hard on her now, still loving a human when she's a vampire now.' I thought sympathetically.

As I thought this, Amber looked up in surprise. I had almost forgotten she was able to read everyone's thoughts. She looked at me with a new type of pain in her eyes, "You have no idea…" she said aloud as she focused down on the ground.

Luckily no one else was paying attention and didn't question our silent conversation.

Before I could reply to her answer, we were interrupted by Lester as he swiftly walked over to me to give me his cell phone. "Here, use my phone and remember the cover story. You can't be here when the cops arrive."

Thankfully Shay had stopped dry sobbing, as did Olivia. Olivia and Matt were now talking quietly with Amber and Roxie while Shay was just standing with me with her arms wrapped around me, sighing softly.

Grace spoke up from where she was standing with Amber and Roxie now, "Hey, the girls and I are going to head back to the campsite. It needs some serious cleaning it up before the cops show up if were going to keep them from being suspicious. It looks like the scene from a horror film!" And it really was. Her words had truth behind them because in reality, that campsite was the site of a murder. Grace continued instructing us, "You three can come there and help us as soon as you're done making the phone call." She said to Matt, Lester and I.

We all nodded in agreement and after a little surprise kiss on the cheek, Shay left and joined the other girls. Then all five of the girls took off in a fast blur as they ran through the forest at vampire speed. After watching them go, I took the phone from Lester's hand and quickly dialed 911. 'Might as well get it over with.'

"911, what's your emergency?" a ladies voice rang through the phone.

"Uhh—hello my name is uh—" I paused and panicked for a moment as I tried desperately to remember the name that Shay had made up for me. Suddenly it popped into my brain, "—Bob Culver. And, uh well, I was driving down the road while leaving town from a business trip when a came across a very bad car accident. They had crashed into the trees and it looks like it has been here for a while." I said to the lady in a panicked voice. I desperately tried to make it go a little lower than normal so that I could conceal my real voice. I heard a small snicker and saw Matt try and control his laughter as he laughed at my 'unoriginal' code name.

"Oh my—well how bad is it?" the lady asked me.

"Well, it looks like the car had swerved off the side of the rode and then crashed into a large portion of trees. The car is flipped over and is completely smashed. It doesn't look good at all." I rattled off.

"Can you please tell me where you are so I can send ambulances?" the lady asked.

I quickly relayed the directions so the ambulance and police knew where to find the accident. Luckily, Lester had checked the GPS in his car earlier and found the exact location of the accident. The woman told me that the police and ambulances would be there in about ten minutes.

She was about to hang up when I stopped her, "I would just like to let you know that I will not be able to be there when the police arrive. I have an emergency involving my mother. That's why I was leaving this way in the first place. You see, she was shackling her roof when she lost her grip on the roof and fell off, breaking her neck and getting a major concussion. Now she is in a coma and I need to get to the hospital as soon as possible." I told her, although obviously it was a lie. Grace, who was more like a mother to me that my human mother had ever been, was perfectly fine. What I told the lady was just a lie so that I didn't have to stay around for the scene of the crime. Besides, falling off a roof would not do any damage to a vampire, right?

'Speaking of falling, or rather maybe jumping, off roofs…Matt and I should totally do that sometime.' I thought absentmindedly.

I had almost forgotten that I was still on the phone until the ladies voice broke me from my dangerous thoughts, "Of course sir, I completely understand. Everything will be fine, thank you for calling the accident in. I hope your mother is okay." she said pleasantly.

"Thank you, have a good day miss." I said politely and then hung up the phone.

I handed the phone back over to Lester. Matt was still trying to hold back his laughter.

"Your mother fell off the roof?" he chuckled loudly.

"Shut up it was the first excuse that came to me head." I retorted. "You know what I was thinking though?" I said.

Matt raised an eyebrow, "What?"

"We should try that." I said.

"Try what?" Matt was obviously confused.

I could barely control my excitement. It was difficult, living with two people who were practically adults. Yes, they liked to have fun, but it was different with Lester and Grace. They seemed so mature and grown up. I needed kids my own age to hang out with and now I had it. Matt and I had already become pretty close friends, even though he was a year older than I was. Shay, Olivia, Roxie and Amber were great too.

I decided to let Matt in on my idea since I knew he would be the most apt to try it with me. "We should try jumping off a roof. I mean we are indestructible, right? So jumping off a roof won't do us any harm." I said, proud that I had thought of the whole plan.

Matt's eyes brightened at the idea and I didn't even need to be a mind reader like Amber to know that he was already completely psyched about the plan. I could tell by the way his eyes were slightly unfocused that he was thinking of the possibilities. I let out a small laugh as he spoke enthusiastically to the idea, "That sounds like so much fun! I am totally in."

Out of the corner of my idea I saw Lester playfully roll his eyes at our conversation. He decided not to say anything. Instead he addressed the impending situation, "Well if I heard correctly, the woman on the phone said that police will be here in about ten minutes. So I think that we need to leave the area and hurry to help the girls get the campsite cleaned up. It will only be a matter of time before the cops show up there or your parent's show up to let you guys know the news. Speaking of parents, we still need to talk to your parents about staying with us." Lester said.

Matt and I nodded at Lester, he was right after all. Stopping our chit chat and the jumping off roof conversation temporarily forgotten, we focused on the task that lied ahead of us. It would be difficult, but with all eight of us working together—we could do it.

'Our new family. It seemed to be working out quite smoothly.' I thought happily. But something still plagued the back of my mind. 'It seems too easy. Of course, things can't always be perfect, can they?'


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