Sarah had been talking to Erica and Erica hadn't really been paying attention. She was actually thinking about Benny…and his blood…again; it had been almost a week since they rescued the kids from being sucked into a door with their evil troop leader. Since the parents had left town and Erica was picky about whom she bit, her and Sarah needed something to get them by. Benny had offered a "substitute", which turned out to be mostly his blood.
Erica claimed it was the best she ever tasted, but Sarah argued that anything tastes better when you're hungry. But still, Erica couldn't stop thinking about it and she didn't know why.
"Erica!" Sarah waved her hand in front of her best friend's face. "Hello?"
"Huh?" Erica looked at her. "I'm sorry, what?"
"Whoa." Sarah snickered. "You've been spacing out for the past week. What is going on with you?"
"Nothing." Erica lied; she couldn't even figure out why she thought about Benny so much and sure as hell wasn't going to tell Sarah about it.
"Okay." Sarah backed off, not believing her but not wanting to push it any farther. "Then can you help me with my problem?" She reached her locker and opened it.
"What is it?" Erica leaned up against the side.
Sarah sighed. "I think…I think I have a crush on Ethan." She admitted.
"Whoa, no way!" Erica laughed. "Really?"
"Hey, look, he's saved my life dozens of times AND he's been helping me control my…vampire urges."
Erica rolled her eyes; she hated to admit, but thing 1 and thing 2 were really big help when it came down to it. "So, tell him. Geek's been crushing on you forever, it'll be the highlight of his week."
"What about you, huh?" Sarah smirked at her. "You said so yourself, Benny's blood was the best you've ever tasted and you couldn't stop thinking about it."
"YOU said everything tasted better when you're starving." Erica countered. "And I said Benny's BLOOD, not Benny himself."
"What about me?" Benny asked, walking up with Ethan by his side.
"Uh." Erica stuttered, suddenly feeling nervous. "No-Nothing. I gotta…class…uh…" She rushed away before any of them could notice that she was blushing.
"Did I miss something?" Benny asked Sarah.
"No." She laughed. "Erica's just being Erica." She closed her locker and started walking with them.
"That was not Erica." Ethan stated. "Erica usually has something snarky to say and suddenly she can't form a complete sentence around us?"
She pulled him closer and leaned up to whisper in his ear. "It's not you, it's Benny. She can't stop thinking about him."
"Are you serious?" He looked at her. "But…she hates us."
Sarah shrugged her shoulders as they reached her class. To Ethan and Benny's surprise, as well as to her own, she kissed Ethan on the cheek before walking in.
Ethan smiled and looked at Benny, who gave him a thumbs up.
"Congrats, buddy." Benny patted his shoulder.
He rolled his eyes and pushed his hand away.
"Why?" Erica groaned at lunching, putting her head on the table.
"Why what?" Sarah asked, sitting across from her.
Erica grit her teeth; she didn't want to tell Sarah what had been running through her mid all day, but she was her best friend, and she needed someone to talk to.
"I need Benny's blood." She admitted. "I've tried and I've tried and I've tried, but so far, no one I've drank from is satisfying enough."
"I'd be careful with that, Erica." Sarah warned. "Benny's blood WAS really good, but around something like that, you can't control yourself and you might end up draining him completely."
Erica scoffed. "Thanks for that." She looked up at her. "I made complete fool of myself this morning, didn't I?"
"Yeah." Sarah nodded. "But they didn't really say anything about it. I mean, Ethan brought it up, but I told him it wasn't anything to worry about."
Erica narrowed her eyes. "You told him, didn't you?"
"I had to!" Sarah whined. "He would have been asking questions all day if I didn't tell him."
"I thought you wouldn't mind him talking to you all day."
"Yeah, but not about someone else."
"Hey guys." Ethan sat next to Sarah and she smiled at him.
"Hi." She greeted. "Where's Benny?"
"Running late. He had some chemistry situation going on and he almost got caught using magic, so he's trying to erase our Chemistry teacher's memory." He explained, biting his sandwich.
"And it's done." Benny sat next to Erica. "Our Chemistry teacher has no recollection of what happened in the past hour."
"Are you sure you did it right?" Ethan asked. "Last time you used that spell on someone, Coach Morris forgot who he was."
"It got us out of doing push ups though, didn't it?" Benny smirked.
"You could have used them." Erica crossed her arms.
He laughed sarcastically then glared at her. "I do magic, not push ups."
"Maybe it's time you do push ups instead." She smacked his arm.
"Ow!" He grabbed it. "Hey!"
"See? That wouldn't have hurt as much if you had some muscle there." She stood up from the table and left.
"It still would have hurt!" He called after her.
First chapter's short, but I just want to see if you guys like it (: I know I'm taking a little longer than usual to finish my Lucy/ Kendall story, but that's only because 1, I've run out of ideas and 2, I may or may not have...forgotten how the episode went.