Love Sucks || Vampire Ashton Irwin AU.

32.

There's always that moment of panic at some point in your life. For some, it's when something bad happens, and you have no idea what to do. For others, it might be something as simple as not knowing what to wish for when you blow out your candles on your birthday cake. And for a few, it's a relieved feeling that you get when you're right, but you want to be wrong.

That's how I felt.

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The day after receiving the text from the random, unknown number, I had had many mixed feelings about what to do. On one hand, I wanted to find out who this person was. Whether I knew them, whether I didn't. And on the other hand, I just want to leave it in case it's somebody who could be dangerous.

Uncle Theo always called me a risk taker when I was younger, ever since an incident at a rock climbing adventure thing that we went to in the evening when it was reasonably dark. He said that we could leave, go back home, and do something else - forgetting we ever came here. But I took the risk of maybe getting hurt in the dark.

I took this risk too.

I didn't tell Alexis, Ashton or any of the others where I was going, I just told them I wanted to go for 'a walk'. Of course, Ashton offered to come with me, and Alexis offered to take me shopping, even Michael offered to take me to the video games shop. I politely turned them all down though.

31 Crowford Road turned out to be a little bungalow at the end of a street. The grass was brown and dry while the walls of the house had weeds growing up it. They were painted a messy beige colour. There was a grey car in the driveway and that was the only sign of someone actually living here.

With that and the grey skies, it could be the scene of a horror movie. Question is, am I the villain or hero?

I receive a text from someone and reach towards my tartan skirt pocket to grab my mobile. It was from Ashton.

{From: Ashton<3}
Are you okay? You seemed distant this morning.xx

{From: Evi}
I'm fine :) I was just thinking about some stuff x

Technically I wasn't lying. I was thinking about stuff. This, to be exact.

I look up at the house again after putting my phone away. There's a knocker on the door that's shaped as a metal lion. I stare at it for a while, debating whether to actually knock or just leave and forget this ever happened. In the end, I knock four times firmly onto the door.

Turns out that I'm actually ten minutes late from the time on my phone, but oh well. Apparently arriving fashionably late is the new thing.

There's a lot of commotion on the other side of the door and by the time it finally flings open, I had debated leaving several times.

Now, I had really big expectations. I was expected this to be some kind of plot twist in my life that'll change everything. I thought maybe there would be some undying secret to my life that I never knew about and now I'm discovering it.

Turns out, it was just a middle aged woman standing in front of me, dressed in normal clothes with normal make up on and wearing a normal smile on her face. All very normal.

I start to wonder if I may've got the wrong house. Just as I'm about to open my mouth to speak, the normal lady grabs me by the shoulders and takes me in for a hug. I stand there, stiff, and don't react in any way.

When she lets go, she smiles at me more, but doesn't say anything. So I do.

"I'm sorry. I'm a bit confused . ." I trail off, not really knowing what else to say or how to reword the sentence.