Chapter 13: Facing Future
Suggested track: We Are The Others by Delain (Music Video Version)
One whole month came and went.
The whole month for Heath and everyone else involved was spent in talk shows, courtrooms, and counseling offices. Even though the visits, as entertaining as they might be, dragged on, that one month seemed to pass quickly. A lawsuit placed on the teenagers by Jared and Sophie's family soon was declared invalid because of both individuals' actions, and Jared's parents moved out of town and were never heard from again. Wounds healed, and life pretty much went back to normal.
Now, it was over. The investigation had been Heath's life for a week, and now it was over and he could breathe again, knowing his sister's soul was at peace. However, the whole event brought the nine teenagers (well, ten if you count Holt) together, or at least even more together than they already were. Valentine became one of them, though they found it hard to trust him at first.
To celebrate their strong friendship and their victory over Jared, all nine of the students went camping up at the woods. Heath had never really liked camping, and neither did Valentine (though he had never been camping, he soon discovered it wasn't his favorite), however just the thought of them all being together with fear of impending danger was a lovely one. So, they all pulled up to a large, open hill, pitched tents and started a bonfire. It was a beautiful night to go camping, but the full moon was out, and the wolves appeared to go mad.
"Who wants to be my queen and journey on the hill!?" Clawd shouted, rolling around the grass and pawing at nothing in particular. Draculaura ran up right away.
"I do!" she pounced on her boyfriend and began scratching him behind the ears. A snarl came from his mouth and he sat up, snatching her in his arms. Standing up, and turned around and started to run away with her, but tripped and fell, dropping her. Valentine, who was watching from where he was sitting, made a whistling sound.
"Looks like somebody can't pick up girls!" then, the vampire quickly remarked, "That was just about the stupidest thing I've ever said." Right away, Howleen leapt at him, not to hurt him, but just enough to alarm him and make him scream.
Valentine, realizing Howleen was just playing, stood up and acted like he was going to run away. Howleen began chasing him, and then Clawdeen joined in. the two she wolves chased him round and round the bonfire before he collapsed to his knees and began breathing heavily. "Okay, okay," he stuck out a hand to get them to stop. "I'm done. No chasing me."
Frankie tapped her phone with a smile. "I got that on tape! You guys are so cute." She showed the video to Jackson, who just smiled.
"if you had told me a month ago that our murder investigation would result in this video, I'd think you were drunk." Jackson grinned, then looked over at Heath, who had been a little quiet. "You alright, Heath?"
Heath nodded. "Oh, yeah." He looked up at the stars above, staring with intense curiosity. "Jackson?"
"Yes, Heath?"
"Do you think that when people die, they become stars?"
Jackson thought about it. "Well…I don't know. I guess we'll never really know."
Heath turned to Jackson, smiled, and looked back up at the stars. His attention was drawn from the stars to Abbey, who had moved away from Frankie and was now sitting beside Heath.
"You are being too quiet for taste of mine," Abbey told Heath, nudging him. "Say something funny."
Heath smiled, and he motioned for Abbey to come closer. "Come'ere, I'll tell you a funny secret. I'll whisper it in your ear." Abbey leaned closer, Heath simply licked her ear.
Abbey squealed in surprise, rubbing her ear as Heath laughed. "Oh, my God! You're so cute!" he shook his head, rubbing her shoulder. Abbey looked like she was going to yell, but she never did. Instead, her look softened and she took Heath's hand and led him away. She was careful which hand she held, for his left arm was mostly bandaged due to his bullet wound. When the two were distant from the others, Abbey batted her eyelashes at Heath seductively.
"Heath?"
Heath was confused. "Yeah? What is it?"
Abbey raised an eyebrow. "Remember train chase with Jared?"
"Yeah, 'course I do."
"Remember what I say in car before chase?"
Heath thought back to the incident, and a smile came to his face. He took Abbey's hand and touched his forehead to hers. "Oh, yeah. Well, we came out alive, and now is the best time…" he trailed off and wrapped his arms around Abbey's waist. "Wanna finish what my dad interrupted?"
Abbey grinned, showing off her white teeth. "I do, yes."
Both fire elemental and yeti walked off to Heath's tent. Heath unzipped the opening to the tent and let Abbey in first, but then he turned around and looked up at the sky. After awhile, he smiled.
"Goodnight, Harmony."
"Heath?"
Heath turned around. Abbey was waiting for him. He ducked into the tent. "Coming!"
He zipped up the opening behind him, and that was that.
And that, my little lovelies…
WAS THE END!
Not to worry, though. There's going to be a movie adaption of this sometime in the future, a smutty Heath/ Abbey documenting their little 'experience' (It's gonna be rated M, my younger audiences. Be warned!), and a sequel!
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