Vanished Into Thin Air

Vanished Into Thin Air: Chapter 10

AN: Ok you guys I felt like I was negeleting(I just killed that word. Hopefully you can fingure it out lol) my fans. My summer has just been like super bussy so as a reward for being so panicent, I am posting all my chapters of Vanished that I hvae typed up. WARNING: IS UNEDITED SO EXPECT MAJOR SPELLING ERRORS

The Alliance of Knowing Citizens

“Ok, breathe Samantha. Everything is okay I’m here now. I will protect you.” David cooed in my ear, while rubbing my back soothingly. “Shhh, its ok my darling nothing is going to happen.”

I looked up into his eyes. I could see them coated with censured and worry. “David. There are people who think you are a ghost.”

He stared at me like I was going insane, maybe I was to believe foolish gossip, but what else would explain the reason Tyler got so mad when I hung out with David, or why Gina was always so infatuated with David. “What do you mean some people think ghost? You’re the only know who knows, at least I thought you were.”

“Gina and the posse that fallows her around all day believe that things of the supernatural are going on in Localville. They stay up of all hours of the night trying to do, crazy stuff like casting spells on people or whatever.”

David analyzed what I just said and then replied “The only way we are going to know if that’s true is if we see it for ourselves.”

“You fallowing them around and seeing if all the rumors true?” I asked wearily. David smiled brightly and nodded his head. “No! No way, I am not doing this! You go it easy, you just take all your make up and then just walk around and no one will see you! No way!” I leaped up from the bench and started sprinting toward my home as fast as my leg could carry me. I barely got a block before David appeared in front of me.

“Come on, Sam. It would make me extremely glad.” He pleaded with me staring down at me with his green eyes sparkling like two emeralds in the sunlight.

I stared into his eyes, which was a huge mistake, because once I looked into those dark green irises, I would have done anything for David. “Fine I’ll do it.” I whispered

“Thank you,” David whispered back and leaned down to kiss me lightly on the lips “I love you. I will make sure are completely safe when we are fallowing them.” He grabbed my hand we walk silently home. When we reached the door step David released my hand “Go put on a dark outfit and I will be waiting for you on your balcony.” With his words still lingering in the drum of my ear he vanished into thin air. Before I could think about the situation and let that little voice inside my head yell “NO! STOP!” I raced up stairs, and put on my only pure black clothing. I ended up in a black tank top, a pair of loose fitting slacks and my converses. Just as he promised David was standing on my balcony, the outline of his body was filled with the maroons and burnt orange of the sunset. A wide smile spread across his face, probably because this is the only time I ever wore a tank top in public, and took my hand in his.

“Do you always keep your promises?” I asked as he though of a way to get down from my balcony without going though the house

He looked down at me and smiled, “Samantha, when I was born a young man kept to his word to a girl he was smitten with.”

I smiled back up at him and bated my eyes “You’re smitten with me?”

“Yes,” He chuckled “Now, my dear Sam you will have to close your eyes because as a ghost I have the ability to be were someone else is or close to it anyways if I think about them. Any disruption in my though process can have a very negative effect so I don’t need you being afraid or worried. So, just close your eyes.” I fallowed his command and closed my eyes tightly shut. I heard David take a deep breath then if felt like I was flying. The feeling of wind surrounded me and embraced me in its coldness. I clenched to David’s hand afraid the air would push our hands away from each other and I would fall into an abyss and never return home and never see anyone, including my beloved ghost. Soon, I felt solid ground under my feet. I opened my eyes relived to find myself on a hill on the outskirts of town and not hovering over a dark never ending hole. I remember diving past her on the way to my house, mainly because it was the only high land in Localville so if they ever were a flood we would be doomed. I never noticed the ragged black shack with a busted roof and wood planks with large gasps in them.

“Brothers and Sisters of the darkness we have met here tonight to banish that awful Samantha Colden, who has stole my betrothed as described in my grandmother’s diary.” The wicked voice of Gina rang out. My blood froze over and it felt as if my feet were bolted to the ground. Gina’s speech continued. “We have gathered here under the waxing moon to conduct an Arabian banishment spell. This spell will not only banish Samantha Colden off this land, but keep her and her children off the land as well. Now, let’s begin.” I creped forward cautioning my every step. If I were to make any noise, I might be burned at the stake. I peaked though one of the multiple hole in the rotting wood in the side of the shack. I saw Gina her black curls pulled back into a bun with two little spirals beside her face, on top of her head was a pointed black hat that looks as if it had been made with a million black diamonds. She had thick eyeliner that made her like a raccoon and bright red lipstick on. Her off-the-shoulder black dress had a pin at the waist and looked just like the mysterious gems on Gina’s hat. The dress stopped at her knee but only a sliver of skin was showing because she was wearing five-inch knee-high boots. She stood on a platform with a stake in the center of it with a picture of an elderly woman with the hat that Gina was wearing on top of her head. Filling the room was teenagers dressed in what appeared to be Halloween outfits. Some were wearing black hats like Gina but without the gems, some were wearing ears that resembled wolf ears and even some had on white make-up like David would put on before he went out in public. Gina knelt in front of the stake. “Oh, great witch Delifen. You were the first witch in my family and you have pasted down your wisdom of magic from gestation to gestation, please help us banish a girl who caused an unnatural balance in the natural order of things in Localville. All praise Delifen.”

“All praise Delifen.” The crowd echoed. One by one they began to place items on the stake. Most of the items were obscure like hairs and flowers, but some truly frightened me. One of the people with wolf ears on brought a skull of a human and one of people with pale make up brought up a head of an angry stuffed wolf head. Gina began to arrange them on the stake and began muttering sounds that reminded me of how the animals called out at night when I went camping in the Everglades every year with my dad. Soon the crowed fallowed and yips and yelps filled the room. Then, Gina raised her hands above her head and began shouting words that sounded like they came from Latin. Then, Tyler, who was wearing the wolf ears, looked over at me peaking though the hole.

“There she is! There’s the traitor!” He shouted and pointed to my eyes. The noise became silence as all the people in the room tried to adjust their eyes to see me. I stood their frozen knowing it was all over, knowing that they were going to kill me when they got their hands on me. I felt a hand grab mine and heard a voice of someone I trusted whisper “Close your eyes Samantha.” Then the ground beneath me vanished.

I woke up in my bed room the covers pulled up to my shoulder and my head on the pillow. I would have believed all that just happened was just a dream, but the ghost whose name was David lying next to me was proof enough from me. He was studying a note that he handed to me it read:

Dear Sam,

I know it was you I saw watching us. I know that you were there. You can’t hide from that fact. I will find you and get you back for all you did to us. How you upset the balance we set. You WILL pay. I’ll make sure of it myself.

Be afraid,

Tyler, Co-leader of The Alliance of Knowing Citizens.