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"Are you not seeing this?" I whispered in her ear, gesturing with one hand.
"See what?" she asked confused before looking around and seeing what I was talking about. "Yeah…about that," she said, looking sheepish. "I may have taken us to a vampire club," she finally answered, searching my face intently to gauge what I thought of that.
My heart started hammering rapidly, and I could swear some of the couples started to look my way as if they could hear the sound. It was one thing to hear Mason and Beckham off handedly discussing supernatural creatures. I hadn't actually seen anything too out of the ordinary with them other then Damon's wings and the fact that they were gorgeous and seemed to be good at everything. But seeing actual vampires? And the fact that Lexi obviously knew about this supernatural world, and had decided to break me into it without telling me about it? That was all a bit too much. I nervously pulled her off the dance floor, deciding that we needed to leave right that minute.
Despite Lexi's reassurances that the club was perfectly safe, and that we should go back on the dance floor and try to have a good time, I decided now was a good time to try and fulfill my next idea of what a girl's night entailed by finding some good pizza to binge on rather than havingmy bloodpossibly binged on…
Lexi proved once again how good a friend she was by only complaining a little before linking her arm with mine and leading me towards a door near the back of the club. The door ended up being a fire exit, which led out to an alley. We began walking along the outside of the warehouse so that we didn't have to go back through the club to get to where Max was hopefully waiting for us. The warehouse was even bigger than I had thought, since it seemed to be taking forever to get around it.
"I really thought it wouldn't be a big deal," she said, wringing her hands as we walked. "I mean you hang out with basically the three most notorious supes in our world all the time. I thought that this would be nothing compared to that," she explained.
I just stared at her. I guess it was stupid of me, but I hadn't stopped to think what else was out there upon finding out that Beckham, Mason, Damon…and I guess me, were more than we appeared.
"Please tell me you at least knew about the guys," she said looking scared for the first time rather than just nervous.
"Well yes…" I answered. "But it's one thing to hear about it, and another to see freaking vampires. Wait… none of them are vampires right?" I asked, afraid to hear the answer. I still didn't know what Mason and Beckham were. Lexi looked less nervous now.
"I've never heard that they are vampires," she answered unhelpfully. "But it's kind of a mystery what exactly they are."
I had a million more questions to ask but decided to ask them once we got to the car. It was dark, not just because it was night, but because there oddly were only a few floodlights along the whole side of the building. It had been warm when we left my dorm room, but there was a chill in the air now, and my thin top wasn't providing very much warmth. I was sure that Lexi was even colder in her tiny dress.
The air seemed to get frostier as we walked along, and I pushed Lexi to walk faster as fear inexplicably crept up my spine. A shriek sounded right behind me, and I stumbled in shock at the sound. I turned around and let out my own scream when a black shadow…person…thing…stood right in front of my face. Strangely Lexi ran in front of me, muttering foreign words under her breath, blocking me from the advances of the shadow creature.
Whatever Lexi was doing didn't seem to be working as the shadow stretched out a black vaporous hand that passed through Lexi's shoulder, stopping right in front of me. I took a step back, desperate to get away from the ghostly hand. Lexi let out a hum of frustration and began to chant the strange words faster, with more urgency. Despite the fact that I had started backtracking faster, the black silhouette hadn't moved any further away. Another scream choked in my throat as the hand finally touched me.
A young girl with black hair done up in two long braids was walking along a bright white corridor carrying a tray laden with two goblets, and a vase filled with dark red wine. The leather soles of her shoes scuffed along the stone floor as she hurried forward.
"You there," came a rough gravelly voice from behind her.
The girl stopped, the wine sloshing from the top of the bottle and drenching the tray. She looked scared of whoever the voice was coming from. "Yes my lord?" she answered nervously.
"Where are you going with that wine?" he asked with a suspicious voice. The girl didn't want to answer. She was one of the Queen's handmaidens, and had been sent to fetch the wine for her. The girl was trying to hurry because she knew that Master Beckham would be slipping in to visit the Queen soon, and she didn't want to disturb them. But this man could not find out about the Queen's secret. He had already done enough to destroy everything that made the Queen happy.
"I was just headed to the kitchen, my lord. One of the dignitaries just finished with their wine, and asked me to take this back for them. Is there anything I can help you with?" she asked, praying that he wouldn't look too closely at the tray since the vase was obviously full. The man said nothing, but made a shooing motion with his hand while still eyeing her suspiciously. The girl gave a sigh of relief and took a step forward, prepared to hurry away.
"Lara," the man said in the same growl, but this time with a triumphant undertone.
The girl stopped, beginning to shake with fear. He shouldn't have known her name. She turned around to face the man, sparks were starting to emit from his hands. She opened her mouth to scream…
I came back to reality laying on the cold gravel of the ground, with Lexi hovering frantically over me, patting me on the face, and yelling my name in a panic. She sat back with a sigh of relief when she saw that my eyes were opened.
"Are you all right?" she said, her voice trembling a bit.
"I think so," I replied, thinking back to what had happened. "What was that thing, and where did it go?" I asked, confused.
Lexi looked at me seriously, "That was a specter. I've never seen one behave like that."
"What exactly is a specter?" I asked.
"A specter is an echo from a supernatural who has met a violent end. I believe humans call them ghosts. Different names, same concept," she explained. "I've never seen one go after someone like that though," she said, sounding worried.
"Where did it go?" I asked.
"It disappeared when it touched you. It's like you absorbed it or something."
I shivered at the thought. I didn't want to have anything to do with that creature.
"And I just fainted when it touched me?" I asked Lexi, confused how I had ended up in the ground.
