Chapter 17: Chap-17

Chapter 17

I got dressed in normal jeans and a logo shirt from a band. It was nice to not dress like a 200 year old girl for once. When I finished brushing out my wavy hair I heard the door bell and ran out my room and went downstairs to Ian’s bedroom to knock on his door. The doorbell rang again and I yelled for Lucas to go get it.

“Ian?” I whispered to the door. The door opened and there was Ian who had a bad attitude.

“I’m ready. I’ll take you out the back door’ Ian said. We walked outside together and the chilled air hit my face and I smiled because it was nice to have some fresh air in my lungs again. The clouds were a dark grey and you wouldn’t know it was morning. I hugged myself for warmth and Ian and I walked together towards the woods.

“You sure you still want to do this?” He asked.

“The ballroom or the fair”

“The fair” He said.

“Yep” I said. He rolled my eyes and started to hike together. We walked through the leaves and bushes for thirty minutes and when we finally met the town I saw that it was almost vacant. It was quite, but there were a few cars driving places and a couple people walking around. Black birds circled the buildings and it looked a bit creepy, but otherwise the place looked very cozy and a place I think I could grow to like. I saw a small candy shop on the corny of a street and I jumped and pointed to it. Ian tried to hold in a smile as we walked over to the shop and he bought me all kinds of treats.

“Thank you Ian” I said hugging him. He chuckled and shook his head.

“You’re welcome hazel” He said.

“Fair time” I said now pulling on his arm.

“Hazel, Stop it” He said at my excited tone that was almost childish. We were walking down the same street when his phone went off to a funny ringtone and he answered it before my laughs got any louder.

“What’s wrong?” he asked. There was a sound of buzzing coming from the other line and he rolled his eyes.

“Because every time you call nothing good every is going on” More buzzing and then Ian’s expression changed and you could see he was clearly upset.

“Lucas, could you just stop making a fool out of yourself and grow up! I’ll be there soon” Ian said. “No I’m not letting her come. I think she is old enough to be in this small town on her own. I’ll pick her up later, besides I think she is safer in a town be she than in a room with you”

“What’s the matter?” I asked looking up at him with a sweet smile.

“One of the workers cut himself badly in the leg, and the horrible person Lucas is, attacked him and now I need to clean up the mess. Here is some cash. Go have fun at the fair, meet you back in two hours” Ian said. He kissed my forehead and then was gone in a flash. I sighed as I felt lonely but free at the same time. I started walking around randomly and then ran into an auditorium. It was almost like a theater but different. I skipped down the solid steps and then noticed someone was sitting down in one of them.

“Fallon?” I questioned. He looked up from the small black book he was sketching into.

“Hazel Trinian, are you stalking me?” he asked.

“No I was just walking around and that’s when I saw you” I said. He nodded and then put his book in a bag and started getting up.

“It was nice seeing you” he said then started walking up the steps.

“Wait, can we hangout, or maybe talk?” I asked.

“I don’t think that would be a good idea.”

“I know every story has two sides and I haven’t heard yours, please talk to me?” I asked. Fallon stopped walking.

“Why do you care?” he asked.

“Because I like to understand things and im a little confused right now” I said.

“Can I ask you questions too?” he asked raising an eyebrow. I have to say I don’t think I was that interesting and I was sure my life story was already around town.

“I guess” I said. He sat down and I walked up to the steps he was at and sat down next to him.

“Why do you wear jades dresses?” He asked me. I blinked a little, but then answered him.

“They’re pretty and when I wear them I feel like I understand everybody just a little bit more.” I said. Fallon was wearing blue jeans a white shirt and grey jacket, heck, he looked like a normal guy.

“What are you doing out here?”

“Something bad happened at the house and Ian canceled our plans and left me out here.”

“Were you guys on a date?” He asked. He looked a bit disturbed but I laughed.

“No, I don’t feel that way towards Ian, he is like a brother to me” I said. Fallon nodded and I could tell he didn’t believe me.

“I’m not anything like Jade, and if you think otherwise I think I might slap you. I was out to go to the fair with Ian because we have workers in the house and I wanted to go to the fair. Now stop being rude to me for Jades mistakes.” I said to him getting right up to his face. Fallon looked surprised and for once his eye brows were apart and he looked at me with wonder.

“Do you have something you want to ask me?” He said now in a better mood.

“How much did you love her?” I asked.

“Ask me something else” he said now not meeting my eyes.

“How much are you hurting when you see me?” I said. He looked at me and shook his head and licked his lips and then he looked ashamed.

“I don’t and that’s why I’m so confused. When I see you, I see good, innocence, and an understanding. I don’t see someone looking at me like a murderer” he said.

“And you’re hurting?”

“No I’m not hurting anymore, but seeing you I the flesh scares me. I don’t ever want to feel that hurt again and because you are so determined to be my friend, it scared me even more”

“Sorry” I whispered. “I guess I have been prying.”

“It’s fine. It’s nice to finally talk to someone who isn’t telling me what to do, like my parents” He said to me. I smiled at him softly.

“If you loved jade why did you kill her?” I asked. “And why did you change the rest of the family instead of just killing them?”

“I was there, but I didn’t kill or change anybody. Jade told me what she was going to do. She knew what she was doing. I was there that night to stop the killings from happening. My father is the one who was more upset than me”

“Why changing them though?” I asked.

“I can’t figure that out” He said. “Maybe he wanted them to live forever sad for Jades death”

“That makes sense” I said. Fallon nodded.

“Why don’t you tell everyone?” I said.

“Because I want people to not talk to me; I like when they just ignore me and the dirty looks is a small price to pay for that.” Fallon said.

“Well you should go home then” Fallon said getting up again and now walking up the steps. I didn’t stop him, but I just stared after him.  I started back up myself, but I walked the way back to the house. I didn’t really want to go to the fair anymore. When I was in the woods I felt myself trying hard to find the way we came. An hour later I realized I was completely lost and I pulled out my phone when I saw something flash in front of me.

It was a vampire, and I didn’t know who it was but her fangs shinned and she gave me a nice smile.

“Human” She sang. I gulped but then I saw more flashing and I realized she wasn’t alone. The flashing stopped and I stepped back to see that someone was behind me.

“Silly, silly human” Another girl sang. She flashed in front of me and stood next to the other one. The short one had pink hair and her voice was a little higher and the one that just flashed in front of me was taller and had a deeper voice with black hair.

“Silly Yummy Human” The pink haired girl said. I gulped I know any second now I was going to be devoured by these two vampires and I was ready to die. Then someone came up behind me and covered my mouth of the screams that were soon to come. I closed my eyes.