"Where are you going! Shouldn't we call the police!?" Tyler kept yelling after me.

"I'm going to find David, and no we should not call the police, it's hard to explain vampire wounds to rational people."

"Who the hell is David?!"

I sighed, and turned to look at him "Bye Tyler." I knew it wasn't really, if he was half as stubborn as I remembered, he'd follow me.

I jumped on my bike, leaving my bag, wouldn't need it, I was only riding until I found them, or they stopped playing with my head. Knowing David, something else was bound to happen, and soon.

*****

Midnight, I felt like Cinderella, some sickly twisted version anyway. For several hours I had been human again. But as soon as I was on the road, I had felt the aching hunger returning. On the upside however, I seemed to only be a half vampire. Woop de freaking do. At least I had managed to eat something before it got too bad. I was quite sure now that if anything normal ended up under my nose, I'd throw up what little I'd eaten.

Tired, I pulled my bike into an alleyway off the main road. As I expected, Tyler followed me.

"Why, are you sleeping here?" He asked, looking at me as if I was crazy, or suicidal.

"Not sleeping, just resting a minute." I said softly, I didn't look up at him, keeping my eyes down and letting my hair fall in my face. He'd asked me enough questions for one night without seeing me with yellow eyes.

The wind picked up suddenly, and my head shot up, I knew that sound. The faint whispering that never seemed to be just wind. I glanced around me, it took me a moment to notice anything, then I gasped, fury and terror shooting through me. Tyler was gone.

******

Towards sunrise I was exhausted, I had to stop or I was going to end up crashing. I wasn't sure what town I was in anymore, and I had been unable to find any money at home. So I slept in another alley.

I woke up....In the cave....What the hell....

Possibilities:

1 - I was dreaming, and therefore, still asleep

2 - The past day or so had been a dream, meaning I had never left the cave, and it had been a hallucinatory dream made by my blood starved brain.

3 - I was crazy, and kept jumping between reality and this fake dreamworld for the past three years of my life.

4 - I had been brought back while I was asleep.

I was leaning towards two and four....they seemed most likely.....

It was deserted, though the guys often waited for me before leaving, and it was clearly late at night.

I heard a muffle cry, coming from the hole in the floor. Lovely, I hated going down there, at least I didn't have to drop.

"mmmmph mmmphx!" Tied to the bar upsidedown by his feet, Tyler was trying to yell, his eyes darting around frantically. He was tied in such a way that if he struggled, or moved at all for that matter, he'd come undone and fall headfirst onto the rocks.

I flew up to him, his eyes widened fearfully. I pulled the wad of cloth out of his mouth and managed to get him down.

"A-Alex!?" He asked "What the-? How-?"

"Later." I said flatly, in no mood to explain.

"Why not just tell him now?" a taunting voice called out.

"Because this doesn't concern him. Or it didn't. I'm sick of this game. I'm done. Good-bye."

"Not that easy Alex," David said, his eyes flashing.

I glared "Yeah. It is." I slid a wooden stake out of my sleeve, it had been there since Isaac had given it to me. I took a deep breath, bracing myself for what I was about to do. And shoved it through my own heart.

*****

White room, clean, sterile, smelling of hospital antiseptic. Was I dead? My chest hurt like hell whenever I made the slightest movement. I floated in and out of consciousness for a while. Someone walked in, a bright green haired someone.

"Jesse?" my voice came out as a whisper.

"Jeez, they tell me your still not conscious and yet your talking."

"The hell happened?" I asked

"Broken ribs, punctured lung, they found you on your livingroom floor."

What. The. Hell.

"I-? What!?"

"Dad, beat you pretty badly....You can't remember can you?"

"Why are you calling him dad? He's my father..."

"Mine too sissy, though it doesn't make me happy, I think your still a little out of it. I'll let you get some rest." He walked out.

Yeah, like I would get any sleep now. My head was spinning. So it was just a dream. A twisted fantasy my mind made up. To cope with being abused. Why wouldn't I remember my own brother though?

I did though I reminded myself, he had been in my dream.

I didn't know when, or for how long, but I finally did drift off to sleep. Maybe when I woke up, things would make more sense.

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Chapter twenty XD

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