Midnight Air

9

There was a stunned silence in the room as I finished my last sentence. My throat burned with tears welling up inside of me. Not for sadness but for anger. Anger that nothing I felt towards that man made anything inside of him better. Anger at myself for allowing myself for not doing more to protect my mother.

I looked around the room; their eyes all staring at me in shock and confusion. I didn't let it get to me in the moment so instead I stated, "Let's find this Abigael person. There's no telling what kind of shit that can happen while we sit here and talk to this kid."

Soja stood up loudly making me shudder at the sudden movement. "Purity. I understand that we need to find this girl as soon as possible but if you go in without any investigation then we can fuck this whole operation up. And the last I checked, I'm in charge of this team. I know you want to get out of here as soon as possible and I promise you that I'll try my hardest to get that done without getting you killed." His face was stern but just like earlier his eyes betrayed his concern.

The air felt tense in this situation and I could tell that Tyler could sense it because he cleared his throat.  Soja sat back down as we all finally looked back at David who looked like he was about to shit his pants.

"Are you guys ok? Y-ya'll look like you're going to tear out some throats and I don't want to be your target. S-so could you please put those away."

Soja and I both looked at each other and realized what David meant. Our fangs had started to protrude with our hightened emotions.

"I'm going to head to my room and start going through my book list for the English class I'll be attending Monday. Though I'm sure I've already read them all." I turned and started back up the stairs to head back to my room. I didn't want to have to deal with this tonight. I knew Soja was. I'm too pissed to be any good for anything at the moment. And if I went out like this right now without any kind of investigation done I could end up getting others or myself killed.

Damnit. I hate when I know I'm being too hot headed. The best thing for me to do right now is go up and get things ready for Monday and come up with a plan to start the investigation in the school. For all we knew this Abigael person may try to lay low for a while if she could sense other Vampires were around. But there's always that possibility she could still show up to class.

The darkness of my room called me, echoing whispers of despair and agony. The room felt dizzying as I tried to walk to my bed to lie down and bring back focus to my eyes. I squeezed my eye's tightly shut as I started to feel my nerve endings start to burn. I wanted to scream, oh God I wanted to scream. I feel nauseous. If I could still vomit I know that it would be trying to ooze out of my mouth.

A mans voice is creeping into the darkness. It's soothing while it yells what sounds like my name. I open my eyes and pull my hands away from my ears. My bedroom light is on and the whispers are gone. Soja is beside me with his hands on my shoulders. "Purity?! Purity, are you ok? You weren't coming to when I was hollering your name."

"I'm fine. It was just a nightmare; I'll be okay."

"You don't look fine to me. Look, we'll take care of this together. I'll be going to that school Monday as well so we can talk leads with each other here and there. Two sets of eyes are better than one." Soja looked at me with concern as he tried to reasure me. In all honesty I would love to be able to talk with him about it at the school. And with him there it'll be more conveniant.

"Okay," I started, "Monday we'll start this thing out like we're supposed to as a team." 

He smiled at me before nodding his head and started back down the stairs.