"Excuse me, misses."
Reagan and Sarah turn their head to the sound of Ethan's voice, and he had his head out of the window as Benny drove the car.
"Do you happen to know where the vampire party's at?"
"Okay, I'm acting crazy because I got bit. What's your excuse?" Sarah chuckles.
"It's something you'll get used to," Reagan whispers to her.
"Well, if we're going to that party, someone who can drive should do it," Sarah says as she pulls Benny out of the driver's seat.
Reagan opens the door to the backseat and Benny enters on the same side. The two were squished together since there were lightsabers' hogging the seat next to them.
Benny felt his hands get clammy as he thought about being so closed to the girl he loved while Reagan's cheeks flush pink at the same thought.
Sarah and Ethan glance at each other with a smirk on their faces as they could feel the tension between the two teens in the back.
*
When they pulled up at Jesse's house and parked on the side of the street, Sarah and Reagan hop out.
"Okay, you guys need to stay in the car, got it?" Sarah tells the boys.
"No way! We ca--"
"Just stay!" Reagan shouts. "Please. We'll be back as soon as we can with Erica and Rory." Reagan lightly smiles.
"But we can--"
Sarah eventually got annoyed, so she hissed at the two of them, causing the boys to flinch.
"All right, got it," Ethan says.
Reagan and Sarah look at Benny.
"I actually wanted to stay in the car, so..."
The girls glance at each other before nodding and heading into the house.
When they got it, they searched around the crowd full of people in hopes to find Erica and Rory. Making their way into the kitchen, they found Erica next to Jesse's friend, Bobby, his arm wrapped around her shoulder.
"Well, look who finally decided to show up," Bobby smirks at the two. "I guess Wes talked some sense into you two."
"Oh, yeah. We had a real heart-to-heart." Sarah replies. "Actually, we need to talk to Erica."
"Alone," Reagan adds.
"So, now you have time for me?" Erica questions.
"No, it's cool." Bobby slides his arm off of Erica. "Be my guest. I'll go find Jesse. He'll really want to know the two of you are here."
As Bobby walks away, Sarah grabs ahold of Erica's arm. "Come on. We're not safe here. We have to get out of here now."
"You sound like my mother," Erica tells her. "Don't worry, party-pooper. It's not like I'm going to give in to peer pressure. Besides, nobody here is even drinking."
"Not yet." Reagan scoffs.
"Look, I know it sounds crazy but a couple of weeks ago I got bit by a vampire and now I'm a fledgling." Sarah tries to explain.
Erica nods before snorting. "Wow. You really expect me to believe that?"
"I swear. If we don't get out now, we'll never get out like... ever."
"Okay. You sound like something from Dusk." Erica tells her friend.
"Fine. I'll prove it to you." Sarah sighs.
But before anything else could happen, Jesse appears in the kitchen, wrapping his arm around her.
"I knew my girl would come around." He looks over at Reagan. "And you were convinced as well, Reagan. Good to know."
Reagan scoffs. "Actually, we were just leaving."
"Oh, no, no, no." Jesse pulls the girl back. "You would miss the main event. This isn't just another party. Stick around."
Awhile later, Jesse drags Sarah and Reagan upstairs with a few of his vampire buddy friends.
"We will have this whole town!" Jesse exclaims. "But the prophecy will not be fulfilled until we find our target. Two hundred-nineteen, soul-for-soul. It'll be an incredible night. Almost like something out of a movie."
Benny, who was watching from the stairs with Rory and Ethan, looks over at Reagan who was being held back by one of the vampires. She was looking incredibly bored but scared at the same time.
"Enough talk, we're hungry, the moon is full. Let's eat."
In the corner of her eye, she saw Benny, Ethan, and Rory at the stairs. She makes eye contact with Benny and discreetly shakes her head, warning them to leave. Benny nods before whispering to the two next to him and they crawl back down the stairs.
Once the boys got to the front door, they tried opening it to find out it was locked.
"It's locked," Ethan whispers to them.
As they tried to make a run for it to the backyard, they were stopped by the group of vampires.
"Woah. Where you are girls going?" Bobby questions. "You're just in time for dinner."
"Sweet. What's on the menu?" Rory asks excitedly.
The two next to him gives him a look. "It's us, Rory. We're on the menu." Ethan tells him.
"Oh."
"Don't they look delicious?" Jesse questions as he joins the group, still holding onto Sarah and Reagan by their arm.
"No, you can't! Not them. I know these kids. I'm babysitting them." Sarah tells Jesse.
"I'm sorry, but... wait." He looks at the three boys. "You still need a babysitter?"
Ethan scoffs while Benny shakes his head. "No, he does. He needs a babysitter." He points at Ethan.
"Why do you need a babysitter exactly?" Bobby asks.
"No one needs a babysitter!" Ethan shouts.
"Just because he's a vampire, doesn't mean he has to be such a dork-wad. I mean, seriously." Benny whispers to Ethan, but Bobby hears him and starts to charge at him, but Jesse quickly stops him.
"Initiations will follow tradition. Fledglings drink first." Jesse looks at Sarah. A vampire comes up behind Rory, pushing him forward.
As Sarah hesitated, Erica who was getting impatient pushes her out of the way. "Oh, I will do it!" She giggles at the sight of Rory, grinning with her fangs shown.
"Erica, don't!" Reagan yells, but she was held back by Jesse.
Erica sinks her fangs into Rory's neck. The two fall to the floor. As they did, Sarah breaks off two legs of a wooden chair and holds it out in a way to threaten the vampires.
"Stay back!" Sarah yells as Ethan and Benny hide behind her.
The boys found it as the opportunity to run out of the house, forgetting about Reagan and Sarah. As Sarah was busy with the other vampires, Bobby and Jesse drag Reagan away and upstairs.
"Let go of me!" Reagan shouts.
"It'll be all over soon," Jesse whispers in her ear. "You will feel great."
"¡Te mataré, monstruo!" Reagan shouts at the vampires.
"Fiesty. I like it." Bobby smirks.
They push her into a room and there were a few more vampires surrounding the room.
"I will never join you." Reagan spits.
"Oh, come on, Reagan. What do you have to lose?" Jesse chuckles. "You already lost your mom. You don't have the two dorks that you call your friends. So why are you hesitating?"
Reagan stiffens as her heart begins pounding, loud enough to where Jesse and the rest of the vampires could hear it, causing Bobby to laugh.
"Let me guess, you have a crush on one of the dorks." Bobby starts. "Which one is it? Is it the one who needs a babysitter? Or is it the magic one?"
Reagan furrows her eyebrows. The magic one? Was he talking about Benny?
Her thought was cut off as another laugh rings through the room. She looks back at Jesse.
"Oh, please. Do you think that dork likes you? If I recall, you left him. You decided that you didn't want to be his friend anymore because you couldn't handle the pain of your mother's death."
"Shut up," Reagan growls.
"So, let me ask you one more time. What do you have got to lose?" Jesse smirks. "Because from what I'm seeing now, they didn't bother coming back for you. But we will always be here for you. Join us."
Reagan hesitated. Was this the way to go? Because he was right. Benny and them didn't bother coming back to save her. They left her with the vampires. And Benny, he'll never feel the same way. Reagan doesn't have anybody else in her life.
"Let's do it."
She knew her decision would change her life forever.
*
Back at Benny's house, he laid in his bed as he thought about what happened tonight. Never in his life did he expect vampires to be real, nor did he expect to ever talk to Reagan again.
It was magical in his eyes. He's been in love with her since they met in kindergarten. Even when she stopped being friends with him and Ethan after her mother's death, there was not a day that went by without thinking of the Sullivan girl.
Suddenly, Benny had a feeling in his gut. Like he was forgetting something. Then, he remembered what he forgot.
"Reagan!"