Erica's POV

Erica was almost a block from home when she realized that Abbey wasn't behind her anymore.

She turned around and started walking back the way she had come, searching for Abbey.

Erica considered looking in the woods, but she didn't want to mess up her hair.

"Dang it," Erica sighs. "Jesse is going to kill me."

She was also worried about Abbey too. She was a fledgling and who knew how she would handle blood lust if she came across someone bleeding?

"Well," she thought. "Better go tell Jesse I can't find her."

Erica cringed internally at how pissed Jesse was going to be. It was not a good thing when he lost his temper, someone usually got hurt.

She started towards Jesse's, dreading telling him that she lost Abbey.

Abbey's POV

I was leaning against a tree, almost about to doze off until I heard a twig snap. I look around and don't see anyone. I close my eyes again and there are footsteps coming up to me. I slowly open my eyes and see Sarah standing in front of me.

"Abbey?" she asks. "Are you okay?"

"I don't know," I say, shakily.

I was trying so hard not to start crying again. Especially in front of someone I didn't know all that well.

"C'mon," Sarah says, helping me to my feet. "I know someone who really wants to see you."

"Please don't take me back to him," I begged her.

"Who?" Sarah asked, confused.

"Jesse," I whisper.

I was pretty sure that I never wanted to see him again, especially after what he did to me.

"Why?" Sarah asks.

"He bit me…" I trail off. "And I'm so confused, and I just don't know what to do, and, and…" and I was crying again.

Sarah hugged me and let me cry on her shoulder. I was probably ruining her shirt, but I think she understood. I didn't know how, but she did.

"Abbey," Sarah said. "I'm taking you to Ethan's."

"Um…" I say uncertainly.

"Ethan's not going to hurt you," Sarah assures me. "He's harmless."

"It's just that he and Benny sprayed me with water yesterday while I was on the way home."

"Oh boy," Sarah said.

Sarah takes my hand and leads me out of the woods. Turns out, I was in the woods behind Ethan's house.

Sarah knocks on the door and waits for someone to answer.

Ethan opens the door after a few minutes.

"Hey, Sarah," he says, looking questioningly at me. "Hey…Abbey?"

I'm looking down at the ground. I didn't want to be here and I was pretty sure that Ethan hated me.

"Hey Ethan," Sarah replies. "We've got a problem. I need you to invite her in. She'll explain everything."

"Is she a…?"

"Yes," Sarah nods.

"I knew it!" he exclaims, smiling.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Sarah said, starting to get annoyed. "Just invite her in."

"Fine," Ethan relents. "Abbey, would you please come in?"

"Thank you," I say, looking up at him and stepping over the threshold.

Ethan leads us into the living room where Benny and Rory were sitting on the couch watching Galactica.

They look up when we walk in. Benny looked confused and Rory looked bummed.

"Guys," Ethan says. "We need to talk."

Ethan nods towards the empty space on the couch next to Rory. I walk towards the couch slowly, all of them staring at me.

I was sure I looked like a mess. I knew my hair looked like a rat's nest and my makeup was probably running down my face from crying.

"Go on," Sarah says, softly. "Tell them what you told me."

I look up at everyone in the room and they're all looking at me, wondering what I was about to say.

"Last night, there was a party at Jesse's, and Erica took me," I explain. "I was dancing with Jesse and when the song ended, he led me up the stairs to a room and we started making out and then, he uh, bit me…"

I looked up at their faces. Every single one of their expressions was some sort of shock.

"So you're a fledgling?" Ethan asked. "Or have you turned yet?"

"I'm still a fledgling," I assure them. "Drinking human blood seems disgusting."

"It's not that bad," Rory says.

"Huh?" I asked, shocked.

"Me and Sarah are vampires, too," he explains.

That would explain why I didn't see him coming when he bumped into me. I guess some sort of vampire super speed or could they fly too?

"That's why I was in the woods," Sarah says. "I was looking for lunch."

"So I can feed on animals and still turn into a vampire?" I ask, relieved.

"Not quite," Sarah explains. "You have twenty-eight days to drink human blood, or your mortal body dies."

"Yeah," I say. "Jesse explained that to me." Then something occurred to me. I looked up at Sarah. "Why were you in the woods looking for food? Trying to find some stray hikers to sink your teeth into?"

"No," Sarah says. "I drink from animals some of the time."

"Then how're you a vampire?" I asked.

"It's a long story," she says.

"One that does not have time to be repeated right now," Benny says.

I look up at him, confused.

"Why?" I ask, curious.

"When she says long story," Benny explains. "She means really long."

They all nod their heads in agreement.

Looking at Benny reminded me of something.

"Why did you guys spray me with Super Soakers yesterday while I was walking home?" I ask Ethan and Benny.

They both look at each other, deciding what to tell me.

"When we saw that you were hanging out with Jesse yesterday," Ethan explains. "We wanted to make sure that you weren't a vampire."

"So, what you're telling me, is that you sprayed me with Holy Water to see if I'd burn?"

"Pretty much, yeah," said Benny.

Erica's POV

"She was your responsibility, and you lose her!" Jesse says, exasperated.

Erica cringed at Jesse's raised voice.

"I'm not her babysitter," Erica says. "So stop acting like I am."

Jesse took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.

"Did you look in the woods?" he asks.

"And risk ruining my hair?" Erica asked, pointing to her blond locks. "No."

Jesse took another deep breath, struggling not to snap at Erica.

"Well, go look!" Jesse started to raise his voice again.

"Why don't you do it?" she asks. "You're the one who wanted her to be a vampire so bad."

"Fine," Jesse says, struggling his with his composure. "We'll both go."

A few minutes later, they were searching the woods that Erica and Abbey had passed on the way to Abbey's house.

They had searched every square inch of the forest, it seemed like, and no sign of Abbey.

"I can smell her," Jesse says. "Her scent is still lingering."

Erica nodded, fearing that if she spoke, Jesse would finally snap on her.

"I can't trace her though," Jesse says, annoyed.

"What do we do now?" Erica asks.

" We wait," he says. "She'll come around eventually."

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