The whole car ride home from London all I could think about was this “prophecy” thing. I called Katherine’s phone about fifty times before it said “Your call has been temporarily blocked, try again in a week or so” which, yes, was EXACTLY what it said (which I thought was totally informal, but my opinion never really seems to matter, does it). Nathen kept poking me in the back of the head with a plastic “wand”, but I was forced to ignore it or my mom would throw a fit. The first pit-stop we made was Whitby, which is about 3 hours away from London. We stopped to eat lunch at a place called “Rip Off Rodney’s”, which, I’ll have to admit, is probably even WORSE than a place called “Cheap Charlie’s” my cousin Alexa told me about. Apparently, a health inspector tried to shut down Rip Off Rodney’s, but he got carried away by mutant roaches. I decided to stay outside, ‘cause I was definitely not eating food I didn’t even need to eat at a place possibly infested with mutant bugs.
After a few minutes of sitting outside the restaurant, my phone rang. I half-expected it to be Katherine, but it said “Unknown Number”.
“Hello?” there was a pause
“Is anyone there?” I asked. I heard breathing.
“walk towards the dumpster. Make sure you’re not being followed.” The voice sounded slightly distorted and vaguely familiar.
“Who is this?”
“Doesn’t matter. Now do it or else.”
“I don’t know who you are, but I’m not afraid of you.”
“Don’t be stupid. I wouldn’t want something bad to happen to your family.” I gulped and started walking over to the dumpster.
“What do you want from me?”
“You’ll see. Now, walk towards the park across the field.” I ran at lightning speed to the park.
“Now turn around.” I spun around, half expecting to see Damien. Thankfully it wasn’t.
“You’re a real doofus, you know that?” Alec grinned.
“Yeah, I know.” I walked up to him and punched him hard in the face.
“Ow. For a girl you have an amazing right hook.”
“Thank you.” I smirked. “Now what was it you wanted?”
“I heard about what happened at your family reunion with Katherine.”
“Is there some world-wide vampire network I should know about?” he chuckled.
“Nope, I’m just on speaking terms with Katherine now.”
“Oh. Joy.” I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes.
“She did tell me a few things about the whole prophecy thing, but if you’re just going to be mean…”
“No! Tell me! Please!” I half-begged.
“Okay, well, in the 1700s, when Katherine was 17, she was vain and selfish, coming from a wealthy family. Her parents sent her to live with a poorer family who lived around this area. There she met a man named Javier. Javier was a vampire who had supposedly lost his brother in a house fire.”
“Supposedly?”
“Javier was Damien’s older brother, Kieyra.” I was taken by surprise.
“So…there are TWO freaking evil dudes after me now!?”
“Let me finish. Javier was tired of putting up with Katherine’s mean-spirited attitude, so he hired a witch to put a curse on her so that she would have to live for eternity alongside someone as vain and evil as her, therefore, a doppelganger. Hell, more than a doppelganger. A complete double of her. Like a clone.”
“Then what happened?”
“He turned her into a vampire. Which brings us to the prophecy. When the aforementioned doppelganger reached the age of 17, she would fully take on Katherine’s personality and appearance, and would have no control over her own thoughts or feelings. Then Javier would come back to turn her into a vampire.”
“Is that what happened at dinner last night?”
“Precisely.”
“ There’s only one problem. I already am a vampire.”
“That’s the part I haven’t figured out yet.”
“Oh.” He started laughing.
“What?”
“You have such a great family. They just left without you.” I ran to the parking lot at Rip Off Rodney’s to find my mom‘s car gone.
“They’re probably just around the corner.”
“Whatever you say.” He chuckled again. I rolled my eyes and walked around the block. Nothing. Two more blocks and still no mom or Nathen.
“You done looking yet?”
“Go to hell.”
“Ouch.” I rolled my eyes.
“Sorry, I’m just really pissed right now.”
“You’re apologizing? That’s a first.” I rolled my eyes.
“Don’t get used to it.” I looked around one final time before giving up.
“Okay, how far could they have possibly gotten in five minutes?”
“Well, depending on how tired my mom is and how annoying my brother’s being, I’d say about 3 kilometers, give or take.”
“Should we go see if we can’t catch up to them?”
“First of all, who said there was a ‘we’, and second of all, I want to wait and see how long it takes until my mom realizes I’m gone.”
“Well,” he said, sitting on a bench beside the restaurant, “I’m going to wait with you.” I sat down next to him.
“Fine, but be prepared to sit here awhile.”
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