Chapter 5

We were all caught and had to sit in the back of the bus for the rest of the day. It wasn't boring because Benny used magic to keep us entertained. We flew the bus through space and transformed it into a roller coaster. No one noticed of course that was our main concern.

As we got back to school Ethan and Benny were taken to the nurse's office to be treated for their injuries. Rory, Sarah, and I sat in the principals office looking down at the ground feeling ashamed. Principal Hicks came in and gave us some nasty looking faces.

"What is wrong with you five?" Principal Hicks shouted in a strict voice.

"It seems like whenever there's a problem it comes back to you guys! You clearly knew you weren't supposed to go in that area and what do you do? You go in that area! What didn't make sense to you?"

"It wasn't our fault it was Benny's idea!" Sarah complained.

"I don't care who's fault it is or who went in first, it was clear stated that you're not allowed in there."

"So what's the punishment?"

"Four weeks detention and a call from your parents."

"What? I still have two weeks of detention from last time!"

"Well you should of thought of that before you went in there."

The phone call was awkward, I haven't made a phone call home since grade five and of course I got grounded for it. We all sat in the office, Benny had a black eye with a scar under it and Ethan's nose looked all Jam. It felt like forever since the bell rang.

I didn't want to fly home or run super fast, I just took a long walk taking as tiny of steps as possible. I thought it would feel like forever but it was only a half hour. I walked through the door. My brother Jacob was watching T.V. and my parents stood in front of me with menacing looks.

"So anything interesting happen at school?" my dad said giving me a mean look.

I didn't say anything I just looked at the ground.

"Cody, answer me!" dad's voice shouted getting louder.

"ANSWER ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!"

I got so frustrated that I took my backpack and threw it at his face and ran upstairs. I didn't want to tell them truth mainly because I couldn't. They would freak if they knew I was a vampire. I opened my door and slammed it behind me. I belly flopped onto my bed. I was just thinking about stupid things, teenage hormone things.

I was thinking of running away to Australia and never coming home once I turn eighteen. I got over that in about an hour and suddenly felt tired. I drifted off to sleep a few seconds later.

I was awoken by a large thud coming from downstairs. I looked around my room with vampire night vision, everything seemed normal, nothing was out of place. I heard the thud again. Did my parents forget to unpack a box from almost two months ago?

I got out of bed, I was still wearing my normal clothes since I fell asleep in them. I walked down the steps into the den, the flashing static from the TV was blinding me. All of the lights were turned off except one in the corner. I walked over to it which didn't seem like a good idea.

The kitchen was all lit up and I could see people, my mom, dad, and brother had their backs facing me.

"What's going on?" I said in a tired voice.

They didn't answer me so I walked closer.

"What's going on?" I asked again."

Still no answer, my entire family had their backs turned to me.

"Look, I'm sorry for whatever I did just please talk to me."

I walked closer to them, they were sitting at a table whispering, I first walked up to my brother Jacob. I didn't know what I was thinking but I tapped him on the shoulder.

"Jacob, talk to me, when did I do something to you?"

Jacob ignored me so I went to my mom who also had her back turned.

"Mom, can you guys please talk to me, I want to know what's going on. If you're sending me away for all the stuff I've done then I understand."

Still no response.

"What does it take to get a conversation out of you people?"

I accidentally backed up against a small table that had fine china on it. It fell to the floor and shattered. It seemed to catch all their attention.

"Sorry, I didn't mean please don't ground me!" I shouted in a panic.

I got to the floor and started to pick up the tiny pieces of broken glass being careful not to cut my hands. I could see the shadows of my mom, dad, and brother standing over me.

"Okay I'm sorry!"

I looked up and gasped, it wasn't my family, I didn't know what it was. These things that resembled my families body didn't have faces, they had a bunch of stitches where their holes in their head should be and they were dripping blood.

I let out a small yelp along with my stomach doing backflips and my survival instinct screaming at me to run.

"Who are you?" I said in a shaky voice.

They tilted their heads and started moving towards me.

"What are you?"

They didn't answer me, they just kept walking towards me.

"Look, it's better if you don't mess with me! I'm a vampire!"

When I said that I hoped it wasn't a prank because I just admitted I was vampire.

"Just please go away!" I said my voice getting louder.

I retracted my fangs and hissed, but that didn't make them hesitate so I made my eyes turn yellow. They still didn't hesitate, I gasped again and ran out the door onto my porch, then I realized something was wrong.

The entire neighbourhood looked like it was hit with a nuclear bomb, there was a mixture of snow and soot in the air. I didn't know what was happening, but it probably had to do something with my family. My first idea was to fly to Ethan's house to see if him and everyone else was okay.

I got into a flying stance and jumped up only to feel the ground hit my body. I couldn't fly so I tried running at vamparic speed. I got into a running stance and took off but I was only going the normal human speed. I guess my powers couldn't work.

I knew one thing, and that thing was that this wasn't Whitechapel, I took off at a normal pace to Ethan's house, he would probably have an answer to this. I turned a corner and went all the way down the block to Ethan's house, it looked like a mess.

It looked like someone planted a bomb inside of it. I walked up to his porch and got to the door I knocked three times. I didn't have a coat on and I was in a t shirt. It was snowing meaning it was cold.

"Ethan," I tried saying in the most calmest way possible.

No answer on the door, where was everyone? I knocked again.

"Ethan, if you're in there please open the door."

I sighed in frustration and turned around not knowing what I was doing. As I turned around I saw a terrifying entity in front of me. It was a clown all mangled and bloody and had a giant smile on his face. I gasped again.

"Look, I don't want any trouble."

"You opened the portal, Cody, he world must pay!" the clown said in a demonic tone.

He grabbed me up by the shoulders and lifted me up in the air.

"ETHAN, ANYONE HELP HELP!"

"No one can hear you," the clown said. He took a deep breath.

"Vampire, you smell delicious, it's been a while since we had one of you."

The clown opened it's mouth and a giant worm crawled out of which had giant sharp fangs that stared me right in the eye. I don't know what I did but I screamed as hard as I could and suddenly the worm was able to scratch my cheek when it was about to eat me. Out of nowhere I was rising out of bed dripping in sweat screaming.

I was back in my room in my bed, I felt my cheek and rubbed it. I looked at my hand, there was blood. I thought I didn't have any blood, maybe being a vampire means I have infected blood. The cut wasn't healing, maybe because it's a different kind of cut.

Suddenly my mom and dad bursted into my room both wearing bathrobes.

"What's wrong!" my mom said in an agitated voice.

"Do you know it's two in the morning?" my dad said mad.

I didn't know what to say.

"I-I just had a bad dream," I said still shaking.

"That's one hell of a dream," my dad said, "now go back to bed and no more screaming, we've had enough of you for one day."

I didn't fall back asleep, I just stayed in bed the rest of the night huddled into a ball, I also grabbed my iPad and watched Netflix the whole night.