Abbey's POV
When we arrive at Jesse's house, I'm amazed at how big it was. It was more like a mansion.
We walk into the house, and I'm even more amazed. Everything was so lush and extravagant.
There were people talking, dancing, or singing along to the music. I walk over to where people are dancing and I feel my body trying to get lost in the rhythm of the music.
"We're going at it tonight, tonight.
There's a party on the rooftop,
Top of the world.
Tonight, tonight,
And we're dancing on the edge of the Hollywood sign.
I don't know if I'll make it,
But watch how good I'll fake it.
It's alright, alright,
Tonight, tonight.
You got me singing like,
Whoa, oh, oh.
C'mon,
Oh, oh, oh.
It doesn't matter,
Whoa, oh, oh.
Everybody now,
Oh, oh, oh.
Just don't stop,
Let's keep the beat bumping.
Keep the beat up,
Let's drop the beat down.
It's my party,
Dance if I want to.
We can get crazy,
Let it all out.
Just don't stop,
Let's keep the beat bumping.
Keep the beat up,
Let's drop the beat down.
It's my party,
Dance if I want to.
We can get crazy,
Let it all out.
It's you and me,
And we're running this town.
And it's me and you,
And we're shaking the ground.
And ain't nobody gonna tell us to go,
Cause this is our show."
I was so lost in the music, that I hadn't realized that Jesse was dancing with me. He caught my eye, and smiled. He pulled me into him, looping my arms around his neck, and putting his around my waist.
"You do realize this isn't a slow dance, right?" I ask him.
He smiles and nods and we continue to dance until the song ends.
When the song is finished, he leads me away from the dance floor and up the stairs to a room.
Jesse locks the door behind us and then leads me to a window seat on the other side of the room.
We start kissing and everything seemed to be perfect until I felt a pin prick on my neck, followed by a rush of fire.
"Ah," I cry out in pain. Did he bite me?
I'm all of a sudden lying down on the window seat and it takes all I have not to scream out while I'm writhing in pain.
I look up and see Jesse smiling down at me.
What was happening?
I could feel myself struggling to stay conscious, and I was losing the fight fast.
Everything was beginning to go black.
I lay there for a while, until I blacked out into an empty nothingness. I feel nothing, I see nothing, other than blackness.
Erica's POV
Erica was having such a blast, that she didn't realize Abbey wasn't on the dance floor anymore.
She looked at the time on her phone. 10:45 PM. She had to be home by eleven. She figured she should go find Abbey.
Erica makes her way over to where Abbey was dancing. She'd last seen her dancing with Jesse. However, there was no sign of Abbey or Jesse now.
She kept looking for Abbey everywhere and couldn't find her. She was about to go upstairs to check the rooms, when she ran into Jesse.
"Have you seen Abbey?" she asks him.
"She's a little busy…" Jesse trailed off, an undertone of menace in his voice.
"You bit her, didn't you?" she asked.
"Maybe," he said, with a wicked glint in his eyes, and a smirk on his face.
Erica tried to go around him to get up the stairs to check on her.
"Ah-ah-ah," Jesse says, blocking her way. "She'll be fine."
"Well," says Erica. "You better hope she wakes up in the next five minutes. I have to be home by eleven."
"Don't threaten me," he says. "I can be a great ally or a terrible enemy. Take your pick."
"Whatever. Just make sure she's awake by the time I have to leave."
"How're you going to pass off the confusion of being a newly turned vampire to her mom?" Jesse asks, amused.
"You're lucky it's a Friday," Erica says, getting mad. "Otherwise, I'd be knocking down that door up there and hauling her off with me."
"And since it is a weekend," he asks. "What're you going to do?"
"I can cover for her," Erica explains. "I'll tell her mom that she fell asleep at my house, and it was too late to wake her up."
"Good," Jesse smiles. "When she wakes up, she'll need to have everything explained to her."
Ugh. Now Jesse was getting on her nerves.
Ever since he met Abbey, it was Abbey this, and Abbey that. It made Erica want to hurl.
"I'll be back tomorrow morning to check on her," Erica threatens.
"What did I tell you about threatening me?" he asks
"I wasn't," she retorts. "I was simply stating fact."
Erica left without a backwards glance towards Jesse.
Abbey's POV
I wake up gasping for air. I'm in an unfamiliar room and the light coming in through the windows was killing my eyes. I quickly get up off of the bed, wait, bed? And close the blinds.
Now it was time to figure out what had happened to me. I remembered that I was at a party at Jesse's and we were dancing and when the song ended, we went upstairs and started making out on the window seat and then he bit me…?
So was I at Jesse's? And did someone move me after I passed out? I was so confused.
I sit on the window seat with my head in my hands. I had a killer headache and I was sore. I felt weak.
I heard the door open. I look up and see Jesse standing in front of me.
"Good, you're awake," he says, smiling.
"Yeah," I say, tiredly. "I'm still a little tired though." I remembered him biting me last night and I look back up at him. "What did you do to me?"
"I bit you," he smirked.
"Why?" I scoot back against the window, trying to put as much space between us as I could.
"Because I'm a vampire," he explains. "And isn't it customary for a vampire to turn the girl he likes?"
"No, no, no," I say, confused. "You can't be a vampire. It's not possible."
Jesse starts to smile. "Wasn't what you were expecting, was it?"
"You aren't burned by the sun?" I ask, incredulous.
"No," Jesse answers, trying to be patient with my questioning. "It just messes with our eyes."
"What about coffins?"
"I barely sleep."
"Holy water?"
"It can kill us if we're exposed to enough," he explains. "And to answer the rest of your questions, yes, stakes can kill us, and yes, the whole group that I hang out with are vampires."
"Including Erica?" I ask.
"Yes," Jesse says.
"Wow." Then something occurred to me. "Wait, if you bit me, am I a vampire?"
"Not yet," he replies. "You're a fledgling."
"What's a fledgling?"
"It's sort of like an in between of being a human and a vampire."
"How do I become a vampire?" I ask curious.
"Drink human blood," Jesse explains. "But, if you remain a fledgling and don't turn, in twenty-eight days, you're mortal body will die."
"So I have no choice?" I ask. "I have to turn?"
I was about to lose it. I wanted nothing but to high-tail it out of the room and run home, but I had a feeling Jesse would stop me.
There was a knock on the front door. Something I never would've heard if I wasn't a fledgling. Jesse takes my hand and we go downstairs to the door.
Jesse opens the door and Erica is standing on the porch, waiting for us.
"Good morning," she smiles at me. "How're you feeling?"
"Confused…" I trail off, dazed.
"Is she okay?" Erica asks Jesse.
"She's fine," Jesse assures her. "She's just having trouble taking it all in."
"Oh," Erica sighs, looking at me. "Well, I should probably get you home before your mother kills me for bringing you home so late."
"Huh?" I was too distracted by everything to pay attention.
"Abbey," Erica says slowly. "I'm going to take you home now."
"Okay," I whisper.
"You'll need these," Erica hands me a pair of Ray-Bans.
I take the sunglasses from her and gratefully put them on, sensing immediate relief of my retinas.
"Let's go," Erica says, turning to go.
Jesse releases my hand and kisses my cheek as I follow Erica out the door.
"Goodbye for now," he whispers in my ear.
"'Bye," I mumble.
I follow Erica down the sidewalk. We were silent. I didn't really care because I didn't really feel like talking anyway.
I notice the thickness of the woods and contemplate escaping into them, just to get away from Erica and to be by myself and think.
I slip into the thicket without Erica noticing and I start walking between the trees until I feel safe enough to stop.
I sit down and start to cry.
I didn't want this. I didn't want to be a vampire
The song that Abbey and Jesse were dancing to is Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae