Jasmine questions, “Is it just me or is that Janine girl really weird?”
“They both are,” replies Teresa. “Yesterday when Ciara cut her hand, they almost freaked out and had to go outside. It’s like they had a reaction to the blood or something.”
“Maybe they are vampires,” Jasmine jokes.
“Ha ha, very funny. But, something is definitely strange about those two.”
*****
Night has began to fall after a long day of grieving, and Teyana is letting off some steam by playing some basketball alone. Suddenly, she notices Janine walking towards her.
“What are you doing here?”
“I just came to apologize about my behavior earlier,” says Janine. “I was having a bad day, and I mistakenly took it out on you.”
“A bad day does not justify being a jerk to anyone, let alone someone who just lost someone.”
“I know and I’m sorry. How about we play a friendly game of one-on-one,” Janine proposes.
“Whatever.” They begin to play and things seem to be working out until Janine accidentally pushes her too hard and makes Teyana scrape her arm from the fall.
“Geez! Could you lighten up a bit? You made me cut my arm,” Teyana complains.
“I am so sorry,” she replies as she goes to help her up. She notices the blood and the thirst overpowers her. “Let me help you up.”
“No, I’m fine. It’s not like you meant to do it on purpose,” says Teyana as she gets up. She turns around and quickly brushes off the dirt on her clothes. Suddenly she finds herself in a chokehold by Janine. “What are you doing?”
“Shut up,” exclaims Janine as Teyana begins to cry. “Just be still and this will be over in no time.” She extends her fangs and quickly bites into Teyana’s neck. She screams at first, but falls silent after a while. Janine drops the dead body, and in rockets away from the scene.
*****
The night passes as no one notices the death of Teyana. The sun rises as friends will learn some stunning news once again. At Teresa’s house someone knocks on the door.
“Who is it,” she says as she answers the door. She opens the door to find a breathless Jasmine. She lets her in. “Have you been running?” Meanwhile, Janine is outside the house to listen in on the conversation.
Jasmine replies, “Did you hear about Teyana?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Somebody or something killed Teyana outside her house last night.”
“Are you serious? What is going on?”
“I don’t know, but something is not right.”
“Why did you say something,” Teresa questions
Jasmine replies, “I overheard the cops talking about how she had a bunch of bite marks on her.”
“Are you serious?”
“All I know is something weird is going on.”
Teresa queries, “What are you thinking?”
“I’m thinking that all this weird stuff didn’t start happening until those girls moved to town,” she answers.
“That doesn’t mean that they did anything. The cops believe that an animal did it, anyway.”
Jasmine replies, “What kind of animal attacks a person and leaves the body completely intact?”
“I don’t know,” Teresa answers, “but that doesn’t prove anything.”
“So, it doesn’t strike you as odd that someone kills Ciara first, and then her sister a day later. Explain to me how an animal would have gotten in that bathroom to kill Ciara. It doesn’t make any sense.”
“So, what if you’re right? What are we supposed to do about it,” Teresa questions.
Jasmine answers, “I don’t know, but we have to do something.”
As she hears the threat from outside the house, Janine quickly dashes to her home. Upon bursting through the front door of her home, she sees Jade sitting on the couch reading a book.
“Jade, we have to do something about this. They gonna be after us.”
Jade responds, “We wouldn’t have to if you just listened to me and calmed yourself down.”
“We wouldn’t be in this mess if we hadn’t gone to that party.”
“Are you seriously trying to turn this around on me,” argues Jade. “You are the one who killed those girls. You are the reason why we are always moving from place to place. I just wanted us to fit in.”
“So what gonna happen?”
“We just have to wait and see.”
“I know what I’m gonna do,” says Janine as she walks to her room.
Back at Teresa’s house, they are still plotting on how they could expose the girls for what they really are.
“I got it,” exclaims Jasmine.
“Got what?”
“Be at my house tomorrow afternoon. I know what we can do.”
“Alright.”
Chapter 5
It is the afternoon of the next day, and the planning session is about to take place. Jasmine is eagerly making her way to Teresa’s house. As she is walking she suddenly sees Janine standing in the middle of the street. Janine is glowering at Jasmine with piercing eyes. Janine notices this and decides to turn around and walk another way. All of sudden, Janine appears in her path, surprising Teresa.
“What th—”
“Surprised,” asks Janine as Teresa stands there speechless. “You should be.”
Teresa responds, “What are you?”
“Haven’t heard that one before,” she answers sarcastically. “Do we really need to get into this?”
“What are you gonna do to me?”
“Be patient. You will soon find out.” In a blink of an eye, Janine is standing behind Teresa, surprising her once again.
Teresa pleads, “If you’re gonna kill me, do it fast.”
“Don’t worry. You won’t scream for long.” Just as she finished talking, she extended her fangs and plunged them into Teresa’s neck. As she began to scream, Janine firmly placed a hand over her mouth. Shortly after, her body went limp. Janine dropped the body on the ground and sped off.
At Jasmine’s house, she is waiting on Teresa to show up for their meeting, growing more restless by the second.
“Where is that girl?” She takes out her cell phone and dials Teresa’s number. There is no answer and her voicemail begins.
“Wherever you are, you need to hurry up and get over here.” She hangs up to phone, and someone knocks on the door. “Took her long enough.” She walks over and answers the door, to only be surprised by a police officer carrying a large box.
“Oh, it’s just you.”
“Sorry to disappoint you,” replies Detective Jones.
“I’m sorry. Please come in.”
“I’m glad you called me for help,” he responds as he takes a seat on the living room couch, putting the box down in front of him “I knew I wasn’t the only person who thought this case was a little strange. So shall we get started?”
“I’m just waiting on Teresa to get here.”
“Teresa Williams?”
“Yeah, you know her?”
“They found Teresa’s body lying in the middle of the street not too far from here.”
“Are you serious,” she asks as she begins to zone out.
“Yeah, I thought you knew. I am so sorry. That makes this case even more important,” he replies.
‘Right,” she says after snapping back into reality.
“I’m not supposed to show anyone this, or I could get fired. But, they are just shrugging it off to the side as if it doesn’t matter.” He takes out a large case file. “We picked up a couple of files from the surrounding areas saying that there were similar instances taking place. Every single one was closed because no one could be charged.”
“So you obviously don’t think it was an animal,” Jasmine asserts.
“There is no animal that shows that much control to leave the bodies intact like they were,” he counters. “It has to be a person.”
“But, what about the bite
marks?”
“Maybe they used some sort of tool to cause them to bleed out?”
“Well, I think I have a suspect, maybe even two.”
“Give me the names.”
“Janine and Jade Hawthorne,” she tells him.
“Those nice girls from around the block,” he questions.
“None of this started to happen until they moved to town. Not to mention that they are Ciara and Teyana’s next door neighbors.”
“Got any evidence?”
“All I got is that they were at the scene of the first murder.”
“So were all of you. We are gonna need something stronger than that.”
“Maybe we could spy on them,” she suggests.
“If we do that, you can’t tell the cops that I was involved because without a warrant the evidence would be thrown out.”
“As long as we get something.”
“Fine, I’ll meet you back her later and we’ll go.”
*****
Later on that night, Jasmine is sitting impatiently in her living room waiting for Detective Jones to return. After waiting a few minutes, she hears a horn outside. She jumps up and quickly runs outside.
“Geez, what took you so long to get here?”
He responds, “I’m here ain’t I?”
“So, are we riding over there?”
“We are gonna walk. If we pull up in a cop car, they might spot us. You got a camera?”
“I can use the one from my phone.” The walk was usually long, but their anxiousness carried them along faster than usual.
In no time, they were walking up on Janine and Jade’s house. They snuck up to the living room window, which was open, and Detective Jones quickly glanced in.
He whispered, “I can see them sitting in the living room.” Jasmine starts to record the conversation.
Inside the house Janine and Jade are talking over their next move.
Janine says, “I’m tired of this Jade. I can’t, we can’t hide here forever.”
“Well, whose fault is that,” Jade replies. “You should have thought about that when you were out killing all those people. We just have to lay low for a few more days, and it will all blow over. We cannot let these people find out that we are vampires.”
Outside the window, Jasmine whispers, “Did you hear what they just said? They said they were vampires.”
“That would explain the deaths.”
She retorts, “That is impossible.”
“Obviously not.”
Inside, Jade says to Janine, “Did you hear that?
“Yeah,” she replies, “it sounds like it came from that window.”
Outside Jasmine, panicking, says, ‘They heard us! We have to get out of here.” They both look at the window, and Jade is gone. They both get up to walk away, but are surprised by what is there.
“How’s it going,” asks Jade as she grabs them both and drags them in the house.
Janine replies, “Well, look what we have here.”
Jasmine is terrified. “If you’re gonna kill us then do it,” she shouts.
Detective Jones interjects, “I just got one question first. How are you able to walk in the sun?”
Janine replies, “Do you really think that what you watch in the movies is how it really is? That’s insulting and now I am really gonna kill you.”
“Chill out, Janine,” says Jade. “We aren’t killing anybody.”
“Oh, yes we are!”
“I said we are not,” yells Jade. Now that they know what we are, they aren’t gonna try anything, or tell anyone. Isn’t that right?”
“You are totally right,” agrees Jasmine.
Janine says, “So, I’m gonna let you go, and you two are gonna get out of here.”
“Fine,” replies Detective Jones. Jade lets go of them and shoves them toward the door.
Janine replies, “Get outta here before I change my mind.”
Jasmine and Detective Jones are headed for the door when he suddenly pulls out a gun. Jasmine tries to stop him, but he turns around and shoots Janine. Her body falls to the floor, lifeless. Jade screams and launches herself at him with her fangs fully extended. She grabs him by the neck and lifts him up against a wall. Jasmine tries to pry her off of him, but Jade throws her across the room into a table.
“I gave you a deal and you kill my sister,” Jade yells at Detective Jones. She leans in to bite him, but he quickly pulls out a knife and stabs her in the heart. She drops him and falls to the floor, dead.
Jasmine says, “I’m glad that’s over,” as she limps over to him.
Holding his throat, he replies, “Me, too.”
*****
Later that night, Detective Jones was resting on the couch watching television, thinking about how he killed those girls. Suddenly, someone knocks on the door. He walks over to answer it, and sees that no one is there. Unexpectedly, something kicked him back into the house. In less than a second, Janine was standing over him. He was terrified.
“You though you killed me, huh?”
He was speechless, sitting there flabbergasted.
“You should know that bullets don’t kill vampires. Haven’t you watched the movies?”
He was still speechless.
“What’s the matter? Cat got you tongue? Don’t worry, I won’t be here long.” She kneels down and grabs him by the neck and holds him up against a wall. She extends her fangs. He sees them and becomes terrified.
“Just do it,” he begs.
“So now you can talk?” She lifts up the left side of his shirt and plunges her fangs into his side. When she finishes, she drops the body onto the floor and flees.
What started out as a simple move from one town to the next turned it a mass slaughter of a group of friends. None of them saw it coming, and now Jasmine is left behind to suffer alone with knowledge that will affect the rest of her life.
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