Haunted by the Immortals

Chapter 3

Cami

It would have been so much easier if Jeff had told Eve and Will what was about to happen. It was sudden for them, and that just made it worse and harder for me to leave them. I loved them and, and – my life would officially be over without them. We'd all grown up together and we still were. But now... now that I was leaving, we weren't.

I was going to transform into a young woman, whose dream would be to attend to Caltech, and maybe actually start a new, wonderful life with my own little family. Being out of Blakesville, I could do it. I would do it. Yet here I was, stretched on my bed, having not packed yet, and had no clue where Clara wanted to send me. I felt like I was some kind of assassin.

Will was the one who snatched me from my day-dream. He grabbed me by the arms – roughly – and shook me until I gazed into his confused eyes. They were filled with terror, fear and what I'd always dreaded – love. "What," he spat, "the, hell, are, you, doing? Shit." He was doing the thing where he tried to act pissed, but inside; actually, he was like an afraid, little boy. I knew him. "Tell me! Tell me that what Jeff just told me isn't true."

My shoulders sagged and I lifted them up in a very small shrug. "Yes," I whispered hazily. "It's true, Will. I'm leaving." I would've been very surprised if Jeff had told them why but from the looks of his face and Eve's behind Will, I was guessing he didn't – luckily.

"Why? God, Cami. We gave you everything. A family, a life, a home. And what do you go and do? Say that we're not good enough for you. Are we? Are we really not good enough for you?" I must have taken a little longer to reply because just when I opened my mouth, Eve lunged at me and tightly grasped my left wrist. "Tell me, you bitch! You little–"

"Shut up Eve," Will yelled. "No-one here, in this house, in this family, gets called that! I know what you were about to say. Don't try it with me, Eve. Just because we're mad with Cami doesn't mean we have the right to call her that." What was that? Was there still love in that statement? Or was that my mind trying to play with me and bring me down?

"Yo, asshole!" screamed Eve to him. She glared back at me, her eyes firing with hate and anger. "Yes I do have the right since she's not part of the family anymore. We can treat her anyway we like. She's just like her friends: Jessica, Theodora and Franny. All bitches. So go on, go to your girls. There's no doubt that they won't take you in. Then you can become the one girl you always were. Now that you go, you have all the boys in the college to sleep with. I'm sure you'll love that. And sorry to break it to, but I'm not in college anymore. So you can't taunt me anymore. I'm so sorry." She was mocking me about the whole Being Bitchy to Eve back in college.

"No, Eve, just–" I tried.

"No," she looked back at me, yet this time, in her eyes I saw tears and disappointment and fear. Her anger had mostly faded replaced by little, hiccups of sobs. "You don't. Why Cami? Why did you do this to us? To me, to Jeff, hell to," she paused and shook her head. "Will. What's Clara going to say? What will she–?"

I stopped her there: "Clara's the one who's making me go. She's the one who wants me to leave all this behind me and get a new, better future. One without the vampires;" I hesitated and risked a pitiful glance at Jeff who barely gave me a nod, "and magic."

Eve's eyes narrowed. "Do you mean that you're losing your powers that Clara gave you?" I nodded, tears blocking my vision so I didn't see the hug coming. The hug was hard and a little suffocating but that was just Eve's style of telling me that I couldn't leave, I just couldn't – not away from her anyway.

I sighed and pushed Eve out of the hug. I couldn't handle the sorrow or the tears shed. I looked at both of the boys and only one of them was crying. Will – the boy who fell in love with me instantly and at first I was too careless to realize; the boy who loved me right to this point; the only true best friend I would have; the teenage boy who I grew up with till this day; and most importantly, the man of my life who stuck up to me on the days I was in trouble or when he needed help, I would do the same to him. It wouldn't be the same without him in my life. I really didn't know what I'd do without Will. I was going to miss him – a lot.