Forever and Ever Pt. Four

"What are you going to do?" "I don’t know" "It was a big mistake killing him" "I know that but what was I supposed to do? Let him rape and then kill her? … Don’t start Joshua" "What? Man Patrick, she's made you soft" "I said don’t start!" I heard a door slam and figured Patrick had stormed into his room. Andrew walked into the room and I sat up to look at him. "What was that all about?" "What? You heard that?" I nodded my head and Andrew sat down on the side of my bed. "Well Ethan was a lycan, he was holding a truce together between the lycans and vampires" "Lycan?! And Patrick killed him? Why?" "Because he wanted to protect you, now a war is going to start" We both sat there in silence, I was the one who broke the silence. "Andrew? Was Patrick born a vampire?" "No, he wasn’t" "How did it happen?" "Ethan, Charlie, Patrick, Joshua, and I were all best friends when we were mortals. One day we were in the woods fooling around when we stumbled upon a bunch of vampires and lycans fighting. As you probably already know about the war between humans, vampires, and lycans. We were caught in the line of fire. Patrick, Joshua, Charlie, and I were all bitten by vampires. But Ethan was bitten by a lycan" "Why aren't you guys still friends with Ethan?" Andrew sighed, I could tell he was uncomfortable about the topic, but I didn’t say anything. "Ethan let the lycan in him take control and he wouldn’t listen to reason. The only good thing he did was initiate the truce" "The truce that Patrick broke because of me" "Don’t blame yourself Amelia, he was just protecting you. Get some more rest and I'll come back later with some food" Once Andrew had left, I laid back down and stared at the ceiling. I started thinking about what Andrew had just told me. I'd never meant to cause anyone trouble, I just wanted to get away from my family. Away from my life, I could feel the tears threatening to come back again, but I refused to let them out. Not again, not after what happened last time. After awhile, I just couldn’t lay there anymore. I got up and walked out into the hallway. I was going to find Patrick and thank him, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember how to find his office. I took a wild guess and turned left hoping that I chose the right direction. I walked for five minutes when I almost ran right into Joshua. Great just my luck. "Well if it isn't the little princess, come out to play?" "Leave me alone, I'm looking for Patrick" "Hmp, haven't you cause us enough trouble? We're going to have to go to war now because of your stupidity. I should have killed you when I had the chance your lucky Andrew came along" A door somewhere shut. "Just wait princess, I'm going to get you when no one can save you. Not even Patrick" Joshua stalked off and Patrick came around the corner. At first he didn’t see me, he seemed to lost in his thoughts, a troubled look on his face. Once he noticed I was standing there, his face softened a little but he still looked troubled. "What are you doing out here Amelia?" Now that I'd thought about it, I felt quite stupid. Why should I be saying thank you, he didn’t have to save me, I should be saying I'm sorry. "I just wanted to say that I'm sorry" "Sorry? For what?" "Because I was stupid and I almost got myself killed and that caused you to kill someone that was keeping a war from starting. I shouldn’t have been stupid" "Well I shouldn’t have been an ass" I wanted to agree with him, but I decided against it. "Is anything wrong?" He looked at me confused for a moment. "What are you talking about?" "You look like your bothered with something." "No, I'm fine, you should get something to eat" He walked away before I could say anything, so I decided to head to the kitchen. I was hungry after all. After Patrick left, I realized that no one had shown me where the kitchen was. Just Great! Now what am I going to do? I looked around, not sure what to do. I continued down the hall until I came to a closed door. I tried the doorknob and the door opened. The bright sunlight stung at my eyes, I'd found the front door. I looked behind me, there was no one there and I knew that if I walked out the door they couldn’t follow me until after dark. I stood there thinking for a few minutes. Did I really want to leave? I didn’t know what was out there. What are you thinking Amelia! This is your chance to get away. I heard footsteps and I turned around, Charlie and Joshua were walking down the hall talking. "What are we gonna do Charlie? We have to…. What the hell are you doing!" Charlie looked up to see what Joshua was talking about. "Come on! We can't let her get out that door" Seeing Joshua and Charlie start running towards me, my senses kicked in and I ran out the door pulling the door shut behind me. I ran towards the trees and I didn’t stop until I was sure I was far enough away.

"What are we going to do? Patrick and Andrew aren't going to be happy when they find out she got out" "Shut it Charlie, I know. We're in deep trouble" "What are we going to tell them?" "Tell us what?" Charlie and Joshua turned around to see Andrew and Patrick walking towards them. "Have you guys seen Amelia, I told her to go get something to eat but I didn’t see her in the kitchen or her room?" Charlie started fidgeting and Joshua looked towards the front door. Andrew looked at both men suspiciously, something wasn’t right. He could feel it. "Where is she! Why are you guys standing by the front door?" "Well…" Patrick knew instantly what was going on. "Tell me … you didn’t let her get out the front door" "We were walking down the hall and she was standing with the door open. Once she seen us coming she took off out the door" Charlie regretted saying what he had just said once he saw Patrick's eyes start to change color. "SHE WHAT!" Andrew started looking around nervously, all four men knew that until the sun went down, Amelia would be on her own and in extreme danger.