MoonNight (19 page)

I turned and walked.
 
When I felt Galens hand on my shoulder to stop me I broke into a full run.
 
He could not reach my speed.
 
I was the most powerful vampire.
 

I still made it to the airport with my luggage having no idea what I was doing there.
 
Should I just take a flight?
 
Because there was
nowhere
else for me to go?
 
My phone rang in my pocket.

“
Shut up
!
 
I don’t want to talk about this whole vampire werewolf thing! Okay?” I answered.

There was
a long
pause and then my
mother’s
voice came in, “Leslie are you okay?”

Oh my god, I thought.
 
This is what I get for not checking my caller ID.
 

“Oh hi mom.
 
Um
...
I miss you so much.
 
Oh I just wanted to, um, surprise you with something new so you know we can-”

“Leslie are you okay?”

“Yes
mom I’m fine.”

“Well I haven’t talked to you forever.
 
So how’s everything going?
 
Hope you have good grades because I’m meeting you at the airport in a week and you’ll be graduated!”

                
Chapter 10

“Oh yeah of course I have good grades mom.
 
I’d never let you down.”
 
I found a good airport seat to sit on.

“H-has this school changed you at all?”

I was about to say, ‘yeah I’m not even human anymore.’
 
But instead I said, “I made really important friends mom.”

“Oh honey that’s great!”
 
She replied enthusiastically.
 
“Remember I pick you up next week.
 
And you’re eighteen now.
 
What do you want?”
 

I studied the two bracelets that hung around my wrist.
 
One from Galen and one from Carson.
 
I looked back on life back home, and couldn’t find it.
 

“Leslie?” my mom questioned.

“I don’t need anything,” I said.

“Honey I have to get you something.
 
Okay well call me up whenever.
 
Bye, love you.”

“Thanks mom, love you too. Wait- Has any... strange man talked to you and mentioned me maybe... or has someone broken into the house...?”

“No.... why?”

“Just wondering.”
 
Then I shut my phone.

A ladies voice came on the intercom saying my flight was up.
 
That’s when I realized Galen had the tickets.
 
A loud whistling tune suddenly rang so close to my ear I jumped.

“Damn you Galen, why are you here?”

“Your plane tickets.
 
Better hurry or else there going to leave without us.”

“You think after you just... had-a-fight-with-Carson, and everything else that I’m just going to leave with you.”

“Fine,” he held up the tickets.
 
“I’ll just leave without you.”
 

“Ouch!” I suddenly yelped.
 
I felt a burning sensation on my arm.
 
And when I looked down at my wrist, the bracelet Galen had given me bubbled up then dissipated.
 
I looked up at him with shock, but he was gone.
 
The only sign of him that remained was the single airplane ticket resting atop my Cody Simpson suitcase.
 
Immediately I picked up my belongings and ran to the desk.
 
Then onto the plane.

The first sightings I got were sky ways, and a river, two towers connecting a stone archway, the city in the distance, and the dusky sky of a beautiful evening.
 
It was every bit of what my situation was not.
 
Welcome to London England.
 
I was sitting at a bus stop for no reason other
than
to pass time by.
 
I’m eighteen, arrive in London, and have no money.
 
Lovely.
 
Transportation was easy since I could move faster
than
any taxi in the world.
 

 
 
 
Where to go?
 
I don’t know.
 
Then it clicked!
 
The Big Ben tower was exactly where I needed to be.
 
The darkness was very inconvenient.
 
Yes those myths where ‘sunlight hurts vampires’.
 
It feels... strange to have experienced mythological reality in the past few months, and to find myself lost in London England on the streets.
 
 
 
The big yellow face of the world sank down altogether.
 
 
 
Then I heard a familiar whistle.
 
It was the same tune I heard him sing in the airport.
 
 
 
“Galen!” I was so happy to see him I
buried
my face in his shoulders.
 
 
 
 
“So one moment you hate me and the next your clinging to me,” his amazing voice secretly smiled.
 
“I see how this works.”
 
 
 
“Why’d you decide to come back for me?”
 
I asked.
 
 
 
 
“I might not be a perfect picture for you but there’s something about me that you shall know beneath.
 
That I would never do anything to hurt you.
 
No matter how many times you broke my heart.”
 
 
 
“Galen, you know Carson is my ‘soul mate’ or whatever they call it these days.
 
Can we just please get to where we need to
be?”
 
 
 
“Yeah,” he nodded.
 
“I think it’s time.”
 
 
 
And I found myself speeding by him again.
 
It was probably five minutes without a single breath of air, or even slight tiredness.
 
It rose up in front of my face like a giant.
 
The Big Ben tower.
 
 
 
 
“Galen stop!” I shouted so he wouldn’t smack into it.
 
 
 
But ignoring me he ran, and disappeared into the tower.
 
I had no time to think, only react.
 
I jumped landing my feet on to the side and did a back-flip.
 
When I was human, I was barely capable of half a somersault.
 
What just happened?
 
Was it meant?
 
Where did he go?
 
I found the entrance closed tight and shut with about twenty security cameras pointing in every which way.
 
Intellectual growth should commerce at birth and cease only at death.
 
Moral: I learn something new every day... Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
 
 
 
 
I slid down the side of the tower just waiting... maybe for him to reappear.
 
If it was an accident the I’d never forgive myself.
 
Never ignore the one who loves you most. Because trust me, one day you’ll realize that you have lost the moon while chasing the elusive stars.
 
Did Galen truly love me more
than
Carson?
 
Right now I was confused.
 
Still I needed Galen for answers, an explanation of the mysteries that remain.
 
About the bracelet.
 
 
 
“Leslie?” I heard my name.
 
 
 
“Galen!” I shouted on instinct.
 
 
 
“Um
...
no actually.”
 
Most exotic person I had ever seen in reality.
 
She was a colored girl.
 
Her eyes were covered in glitter and colorful makeup, her hair was in big pink curls and silver
print all over.
 
Her heels were bright red blocks.
 
The dress was red leather with a high neckline and shapes cut out revealing her skin.
 
I would say that the dress swished the ground but she was actually floating two feet off the ground.
 
My vampire senses instantly told me she was not human. “My name is
Sondra;
I was told that there was a vampire out here.”
 
 
 
The way that the word ‘vampire’ rolled off her tongue told me she was with them but was not one herself.
 
Obviously vampires don’t hover two feet off the ground.
 
 
 
“Yeah I just didn’t know how to get in.
 
I thought maybe Galen was an accident.
 
Not to sound rude or anything, but what
exactly
are you?”
 
 
 
“I’m a fairy.
 
No one told you?”
 
 
 
a
thousand things were racing through my mind.
 
Why hadn’t Carson told me?
 
Or Galen?
 
Or anyone for that matter.
 
Seductive Vampir
es.
 
Loving Werewolves.
 
And...
Exotic fairies.
 
 
 
“Can you give me a second?” I asked her.
 
She nodded retreating into the shadows.
 
 
 
I took out my phone and dialed a number I would have memorized forever.
 
 
 
“Leslie?”
 
Hearing
Carsons
voice made my eyes tear up already.
 
 
 
“Carson, why?”
 
 
 
“Why.... Leslie where are-
are you?”
 
 
 
“Actually I’m in London England, but why didn’t you tell me?”
 
 
 
“Tell you what beautiful.
 
I’ve told you everything.”
 
 
 
“About the fairies.
 
Is that nothing to you?
 
Carson, tell me!
 
Is that nothing?”
 
 
 
“I have a good explanation,” he said.
 
 
 
“Bring it.” I told him.
 
 
 
“I brought you too deep into this mess already.
 
And telling you would have just dug deeper into my guilty
conscious
.
 
I meant nothing.
 
But if that’s what you believe then fine.
 
Because to me a day without you is like a year without rain.
 
I can’t help I’m so in love.
 
I love you more then you could possibly imagine.”
 
 
 
 
A string of silence hung between us before I said, “Okay Carson.
 
I love you a lot too, more then you love me and I’m pretty sure you deserve more
than
this.
 
But just give me time to think about all this.”
 
And I hung up unwillingly taking a deep breath.
 
 
 
“Is everything okay?”
 
Sondra asked me taking my hand.
 
 
 
“Yeah thanks.” I smiled at the sweet girl.
 
 
 
 
“Come on let’s get in.
 
All you have to do is run more
than
sixty miles per hour.”
 
 
 
“Okay...”
 
I trailed off then backed up.
 
It was a lot like slamming into a toy tower.
 
Like you’re God destroying the town of Babylon.
 
When I entered it was so eerie it was frightening.
 
I was in a black lobby with an elevator and desk.
 
One very
,
very exotic lady sat at the desk.
 
The weirdest part was probably her blue hair or four single long eyelashes on each eye.
 
Sondra was talking to the lady at the desk.
 
Finally she waved me over.
 
 
I walked over to the elevator, only to be stopped.
 
 
 
“Wait-” Sondra stopped me.
 
“You need one of those.”
 
She pointed to the office secretary who was holding out a seven inch needle with a metal device at the end.
 
 
 
“Wh- what is that?”
 
I asked, voice quavering.
 
 
 
 
“It’s something everyone has to have
in order to enter.
 
All it
is
a
device that lets us know which region you’re in.
 
It tracks every
single vampire and fairy.”
 
 
 
Unwillingly I outstretched my arm hesitantly.
 
The
secretary raised her arm and stabbed.
 
But the needle bounced off as if I were made of steel.
 
Both of
their
eyes went wide on shock.
 
I stood there awkwardly with my arm still outstretched.
 
The secretary turned my arm
over
and tried once more but it didn’t work. I was stuck inside the Big Ben tower with two fairies.
 
And apparently most people would have the wrong image.