Wyatt and Wendy

Chapter 22

Wyatt

         When you get a text from your girlfriend to come to her room after school you expect certain things, what you don't expect is a group of people one of whom you despise  sitting on her bed waiting patriently for your arrival.

"What's going on?" I asked eyeing Matthew.

"We need you to tell us about Annie," Wendy said.

I glanced at Jake "why?"

         "Because you spent more time with her before she dissapeared than any of us in this room so what you tell us about her could help us find her," Matthew said.

 I thought I was forgetting her but it seemed like every time I tried they insisted on reminding me of her. I wanted to stop talking about Annie;  every time someone mentioned her name I felt a jab in my heart.

"How?"  

        "I can change into Annie and maybe you can ask her where she is, then maybe seeing you will make her realize how much she misses you."

        Matthew smiled "and all we have to do is tell you stuff about her?" Charlotte nodded and lay down on the bed closing her eyes.

"Tell me stuff about her and when you are done say "done".        

        I took a deep breath and began "smart, pretty, caring, sweet, great voice, dancer, imaginative, blond, blue eyes, loves Zac Efron done" Charlotte repeated all of that and when I said done she said her name.

         "OH GOD NO!" Charlotte screamed her voice trembling with fear, her body jerked on the bed and she broke out into a heavy sweat that soaked the bed sheets. "No! No!" She beat her hands on the bed tears running down her face. Her body went still for a moment making the hairs on the back of my neck rise. Was she... Her mouth flung open gasping for air, she grabbed the edges of the mattress as her body went up, her back arching. Her screams fell silent, her body tensed up and with a final "NO!" fell back unto the bed, and opened her eyes.

"What, what I Annie me I" Charlotte stammered out. She slowly sat up looking disoriented, her tears continued to flow sliding past her chin to her neck. Her "we can't keep looking bad idea disregard her totally and completely she was never alive she was never your sister put her out."

        She was blabbering incoherently "what happened?" Jake put his hands around her and pulled her close. "Matthew you need to leave" Charlotte said. Matthew looked at her questionably "please go" she whispered, he nodded slowly and left without argument.

When the door closed Jake asked again "what happened?"

 "She isn't a vampire," she said shaking.

"She's not?" Wendy and Roxy asked in unison.

Charlotte lifted her head and looked at me a glare overtaking her face "why didn't you tell me she wasn't a virgin?"

I swallowed hard, could Jake have been right? It wasn’t possible, she couldn’t be...no not possible.

"Wait what!" Roxy said.

"She's a ghoul isn't she?" I asked Charlotte my voice wavering fearing her answer.

"Yes, she tried to take my life."

 "What?" Wendy and Roxy said in unison once again.

"Ghouls want their normal life again but they can't so they try to take other people's bodies and live their lives. Annie tried to take my body."

The sound of silence filled the room. Everybody was speechless. There was silence but something screamed in my head over and over again "THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES"