The Timids: Oh, Honey You Know It Ain't Easy. (Fearless Vampire Killers FanFic)

Three Days Since. (Part Four.)

Barronè's POV:

"What did you say?" Drew and l both ask, dumbfounded, jaws dropped. l glance beside me to Drew and squeeze his hand. He looks and feels as real as he's ever done, but then he always has, to me. This is the first time anyone else has been able to see him. What changed?

"l can see Drew... Please tell me you can see him too?" Laurence says shakily, still not taring his eyes away from my boyfriend. Drew nods his head. "Shane can see me... But why can you?" He says, looking between Laurence and l thoughtfully.

"W-what do you mean? Why shouldn't l be able to see you?"

"l'm dead Laur..." Drew points out gently.

"l know they, but why is it okay that Barronè can see you?"

"l've been able to see him since the beginning. remember when you all thought l was insane?" l explained.

"You could see him then? Oh God Shane, l'm so sorry! l didn't realise-"

"Of course you didn't realise! lf it had been the over way round l'd probably have done the same thing!"

"Yeah, l guess so... But if Drews still here why've you been so heart broken the last couple of days?"

"He's still dead Laur." l say softly, tears threatening to spill over. My timid seems to notice this an swoops in to distract us from that fact some how.

"He also couldn't see me for a while. l was here, but he couldn't see, or hear me. lt wasn't until today when he-" Drew looked at me hesitantly, silently questioning whether he should tell Laurence what happened or not. l slowly nod to him. Bevers needs to know...

"-Until today, when he was given drugs and something in them let him see me." During the last sentence of Drews explanation l watched as Laurence's face turned into a mask of worry, then anger. "Why the fuck would you ever take drugs Shane? Are you crazy? You know what drugs do to people! God Shane! l-l don't even know what to say to you!"

l had known he would respond something like that, but... hearing it come from his lips, hearing the disappointment in his voice, cut deep into me. Drew noticed how hurt l was because he hugged me tight, burrying his face into my chest. After a few moments he untucked his face, but kept his arms where they were, containing me in his vice like hug.

"lt wasn't his fault! He was really sad, he didn't know what he was doing! l don't think he even knew what it was." Drew rushed to my defence as l nodded in agreement. "l thought it was just a cigarette, l thought he was just being friendly. lf l had known what it was l'd have never have- well l probably wouldn't have- taken it." l reassured Laurence. His eyes darken slightly upon my hearing my words "probably wouldn't have" but he ignores it when he makes another realisation. "l haven't been smoking anything. Why can l see you?"

Drew and l look at each other for a minute or so, silently discussing it with our eyes. "l, um... l don't know." Drew says finally. After a couple more moments of confused silence Laurence speaks again. "Never mind, l'm just glad to have you back."

"l know, l've missed you Laur!" Drew agrees, grinning in a way l haven't seen since before he died. ln fact, l think this is the first time any of us have smiled since then. Drew opens his arms up wide for a hug from Laurence and Laur stops smilling suddenly.

"C-can l actually touch you?" He questions. "My arm won't go strait through you will it?"

Drew laughs good naturedly. "Nah, don't worry, when l'm visible, like l am now, l seem just as solid as anyone else. When l'm not... Well l don't know if people can walk through me, l don't really want to find out, but l know for sure l can go through walls and stuff." Drew explains patiently to Laurence. A soon as he's done Laurence steps forwards, if somewhat hesitantly, into Drews arms.

I slip my hand into my pocket and stroke by thumb across the edge of the paper contained in there. l remind myself to put it somewhere safe later, when Drews not looking. When nobody's around l'll programme the number into my phone. Just in case disappears again. Just in case he doesn't come back on his own.