Night After Day

Chapter 6: "You're Insane"

I cracked up laughing. Which may seem pretty inappropriate but I was under a lot of stress. I wanted to see if he was laughing too, but there was only silence.

"You're kidding me, seriously?"

"Deadly."

"Your insane! There's no such thing as vampires!"

"Then why do you sound as though your trying to convince yourself?"

I was quiet, and when I next spoke I sounded more uncertain. "You're saying... That we are in a dungeon... Captured by vampires?" It sounded so ridiculous coming out of my mouth.

"Yes."

"Nope, nope your crazy."

"We'll see."

I wasn't about to argue with a boy who was obviously with a few screws loose in the head, so I sighed and slowly reached down for soft bundle that weird guy dropped on the floor. I shook it out cautiously and frowned. Clothes?

"What is it?" Owen asked.

"You're never going to believe this but I think they just gave me clothes," I walked over to the mattress and place the items out. I wasn't sure if I should put them on or not.

"What did she give you?"

"Umm, grey singlet... and blue jeans?"

He sighed, "lucky you, you're not staying in here."

I felt a guilty glimmer of hope and fingered the singlet. "How can you be sure?"

"Because if you were staying here then she wouldn't give you jeans, when I came in they just gave me thin tracksuit pants and a shirt."

I caught onto something for the first time. "You keep saying "she." Who? Have you met her?"

"Oh yeah." He sounded bitter, as if recalling a rather painful memory. I remembered my earlier question. "Owen, why are you in here?"

"Let's just say that I pissed off the wrong people,"

I realized out of nowhere how tired I was and quickly got dressed. Jesus, that's like, my worse nightmare, get captured by someone while in your school uniform. How much worse can it get?

"I'm going to bed... or mattress... whatever. Goodnight."

"Or good morning, good evening, high noon?"

I laughed despite myself. "Okay, I get the point."