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He's Just My Everything

I Won't Stand By To Watch

~Erica's P.O.V.~

After the incident with the cliff, my feet healed over the weeked... no pun intended. Monday morning I was walking with Ethan to school, but I was cautiously avoiding talking to him about something... and I think he was too.

But something had to be said.

"So..." I started. "Ugh, I think my head hurts a little..." I said, waiting.

"Why? Did you hit it again?" He laughed a little, but he seemed strained.

"Haha, no. I think it's just aching."

"Well, here..." He turned out in front of me and hugged me. This. This is what I'm avoiding. This fluttery feeling in my stomach. This burning sensation in my cheeks.

Then the main thing. He kissed my forehead swiftly, more like a brush, but none-the-less a kiss. Now, I'm no expert, but friends don't do that. He pulled away and smiled at me, before he kept walking.

I'm really gonna have to talk to him today. This amazing boy kissing me means the world, but I can't let it happen if we're just friends.

After school.

After school, Ethan was pale and sick looking.

"Ethan? You okay?" He looked at me with narrowed eyes. They were yellow.

"I gotta see the nurse. I'll be back quick. Wait for me?" He then took off. I sat on the stairs and waited.

"Jones!" Sarah and Jasmine were there instantly. I sighed and tried to look natual. But as soon as I looked up, I was knocked down, Jasmine on top of me.

"Who do you think you are?!"

"Wha-"

"You're useless! He'll never see anything in you! You need to learn your place, Jones!"

"Jasmine Saint, get off of her!" Sarah said, voice ringing. Jasmine looked statled and jumped off of me.

"I-I don't..." She took off. I stared at Sarah intently. She looked sick too.

"Sarah..."

"Shut up. Don't thank me. She was out of control." She looked around and helped me up. But she didn't let go, and instead dragged me behind the school.

"Jones, you gonna stop. Stop talking to him. It'll- It'll end up just like the last one." Sarah's gaze casted away.

"What the-"

"You know what I mean! Jesse! He was mine at one point too, you know... he told me stories about his friend, Ethan. He said things you would not want to know. Jesse did terrible things, Jones. He's a monster. And Ethan's no different."

I was in shock. It was too much to take in. Sarah seemed to gag and she turned around away from me, before she slowly faced me.

Sarah Fox had fangs in her mouth.

"He turned you!?" I reached out to see if they were real, and her eyes flashed.

"You knew about vampires? He told you that too... it was the only way. Vampires can't have children. Jesse's done some fucked up things in his life, Erica. Don't... don't restart the cycle."

At this point, I realized two things. One: She dated Jesse. He raped her and turned her so she wouldn't be a mother. He left her for me and tried to do the same.

Two: Sarah Fox said my name.

"Sarah..." She shook and went to hug me, before she pulled herself back and hissed at me.

"Jas is the same. I turned her so Jesse wouldn't. Don't underastimate us, E-Jones." With that and a gus of wind, she was gone. I leaned against the wall to take it all in.

"Erica!" Ethan shouted when he found me two minutes later. He wrapped me in a rib-breaking hug. "Oh my God." I didn't realize it, but I was crying.

"You're wrong."

"What?"

"Nothing, Ethan. Just get me home, please?"

As we were walking, I dwelled on Jasmine's outburst.

He'll never see anything in you! You need to learn your place!

I shook my head.

"Erica, what happened back there? You've looked stressed all day, but now you look really strained."

"I... it's nothing." Of course I couldn't work up the guts. After Jasmine's outburst, how could I? They were right.

Ethan will only see me as a friend.

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