The Bad-Ass Vampire Girl (if vampires existed!)

Chapter Twenty Four - The Conculsion

So here it is, the last chapter. It's extra long to make up for the last really short one. Hope you like it! You know the drill - VOTE, COMMENT, FAN!

Thank you for all your support while I was writing this. It's the first thing I've ever finished and the longest thing I've ever written! *Blows kisses to everyone*

Chapter Twenty Four - The Conclusion

I slept on and off through the day, lulled by the wind rushing through the trees and the steady beating of rain on the tiny window. As darkness fell, the trees took on a sinister twisted look, whipping madly about in the unrelenting wind. Time was passing slowly on my watch, dragging until the meeting time.

Nothing changed.

OK this was stupid, the only person who could help me was me, and here I was sitting like a deer in headlights waiting to die. There is so much more I want to do with my life, places to travel to, music to discover, friends and family to love and here I was doing nothing.

I went back to the door to have another look. There is more then one way to open a door.....the hinges looked rusty and old sitting in rotting wood. I searched my pockets wishing that I still had my bag with me, but the only things I could find were my door keys and my useless phone. Hacking at the the soft crumbling wood round the hinges with my keys, I thought that at worse, I'd waste my time and limited energy, at best I'd be able to detach the hinges.

Totally focused on scraping at the wood, working away at any weak points first, I ignored the pain of the hard metal digging into my fingers. By the time I realised that it was slowly getting light again, there was a pile of sawdust and chunks of wood at my feet. The hinges were now suspended in thin air. For some reason I'd hoped that the door would just fall down but it was just my luck that the whole thing still looked as solid as before.

My adrenalin was slowly ebbing away, and stars kept appearing before my eyes from the lack of food, water and sleep. I refocused on the new problem. The phone was too thick to use as a lever, but would it be too weak if I broke it into smaller pieces. I dismantled it first, using the hard protective outer case. Starting at the top I carefully slid it in and using all my weight to lever it. At first nothing happened, then suddenly with a shudder the door shifted slightly. I tried the bottom section next, managing to move it slightly out. Now all that was holding the door was the lock itself on the other side. Gripping my fingernails into the tiny bit of wood now sticking out, I pulled with all my might, using one leg as a lever on the wall to help me. The whole thing fell, with a great big shudder and fell on top of me.

I came too, my head pounding and a weight crushing my ribs making it hard to breath. The open doorway taunted me and I started to cry at the total despair at having got so near yet so far.

"LILY, LILY!"

OK now I knew I was dying, I was hallucinating. I closed my eyes and relaxed, it was like drifting off on a big cloud.

"Shit Lily! Speak to me Lily, you OK?!"

Why would I be hearing Jay's voice? Someone really did have a sick sense of humour. A hand moved to my neck; strange it felt warm. Well, it was a weird dream.

"Hang in there Lily, I'm going to call for help. Don't you dare die, or my life really won't be worth living..."

Help? I opened my eyes slowly, but there was no-one there. Yep totally imagining it, I thought when you died you're life was supposed to flash before your eyes, not make you hear the voice of idiot ex-boyfriends.

Blackness slowly crept up, wrapping me in its sensory depriving blanket and I floated away.

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