Made it.

I was so relieved when I pulled into Vic’s and Danyelle’s driveway; I felt as if a load of pressure had been lifted from my shoulders. Now that we had made it here I could lay Vic down with his sister and together we could figure out what was ailing him. She might not know a lot about vampires but she sure did know what her brother was and wasn’t doing. The drive there had given me time to cool down and start using my head to figure out what might be wrong with him. I snuck a glance back at him through the mirror. Judging on how the color had come back in his complexion and how his breathing was evening out I would say that Vic was in a little more control now.

As I went to park the car in its regular spot I noticed it. There was a rusty old car parked crooked in the middle of the drive. It hadn’t been there when I came to pick up Vic’s car and it sure as hell wasn’t parked there before. I would have just brushed it off as being one of their parent’s cars but then I started thinking that if Vic had a Mustang they would defiantly have a classier car.

Maybe a friend brought Danyelle home.

That of course just made me even more curious. If Danyelle had a friend bring her home then… what the heck happened to

MY car! I ran from the car, neglecting to shut the door and burst into the front without warning.

"Danyelle!" I screamed. She came running out of the kitchen with a worried look on her face.

"W-What's wrong?" she looked behind me than asked "Where's Vic?"

"He's in the car. More importantly where the heck is my car?" I yelled.

She avoided my gaze as she took a couple of steps back. "Well," she began fidgeting, "I should probably tell you the whole story.”

***Flashback***

Danyelle's POV

I made a sharp turn and flicked on Vanessa's radio. I was expecting some classical rock band to start blaring out of the speakers but found myself listing to 'Barbie Girl'. I quickly pushed 'next' and was greeted by 'Baby Love'. I pushed next again. 'Every Time We Touch', next, 'What is Love', next, 'Head under Water', next, I couldn’t believe my ears when the 'Barnie theme song' came on! I quickly shut it off after that, Vanessa's radio was cursed!

I took another sharp turn left and pushed down on the gas until I was going at least 90 down the rocky road.

I wonder why Vic never lets me drive his car.

I look down at Vanessa's GPS and saw that there was a movie theater on the next turn.

Sweet Movies!

After I sped into the parking lot, I slammed on the brakes and screeched to a stop in between the only two other cars parked in the lot. When I emerged from the car I caught myself twirling the keys around in my hand. I felt pretty kickass for driving her Jag around town, so I decided to elaborate on my new found image and walked into the movies like I own it. I was expecting to be greeted by an old dude playing with his mustache but instead I found something completely different. A Jukebox was set up on the counter blasting Crazy Bitch by Buckcherry from its speakers and the candy girl was jumping around the empty place with a broom in one hand and a half eaten candy bar in the other. She continued to do so until she spotted me. That's when she dropped the candy bar and ran over to me with the broom still in her hand.

"Hi," she greeted with a warm and candy filled smile. I smiled back but before I could utter a single word the jukebox started to skip. The girl gave me another warm smile and in one fluent motion she spun around and threw the broom like a javelin towards it. The box flew off the counter and smashing into pieces on the floor.

"So," she started turning back towards me. "What can I get you?"

Most girls might have turned around and walked out of the movies after seeing something like that but I thought it was awesome! She was a few feet away from the jukebox when it started skipping and then she just tossed the broom right at! It was so cool and random.

Ha-ha! I love it!!

Something about her randomness seemed very familiar though….

"Oh, I know you. You're that crazy- I mean that newscast chick for our school, Reece right?"
She grinned and nodded in agreement.

"Yep, that's me! I've been meaning to ask you how your head is doing."
I rubbed the back of my head.

"My head?" I asked

She nodded and continued "Yeah after that brain dead cheerleader Sue tripped you, you knocked your head on the refreshment table."

I moved my hand lower to where my head and neck connected and felt the decreasing lump.

How the heck did I miss that?

"So Sue was the one who tripped me, I didn't see who it was."

She shot me a look filled with concern.

***End of flashback***

"She was really funny and the best part is, is that she hates Sue just as much as I do!" I said

Vanessa nodded, "That's really great and I'm happy you found a new friend but what the heck happened to my car!" she insisted.

I looked down towards the floor. "I was getting to that part." I explained. "So there we were walking out of the movies after a great show when…

***Flashback***

We emerged out of the cinema laughing our asses off, at the latest Sue joke. I immediately stopped laughing when Vanessa's car came into my view. I gasped. The wheels on her car were all slashed!

"Oh no," I exclaimed "Vanessa's going to kill me when she gets a look at this!"

"Vanessa?" Reece asked.

"Yeah, she’s in your grade. She let me borrow her car and now she's going to murder me in my sleep!" I roamed around the car praying that there was some hidden camera that would pop out and tell me that this was all some crazy new reality show and that the real car was hidden away behind a bunch of trees or something.

"Vanessa Kyu. That’s her name, so what is she like hanging out with your brother or something?”

“Reece!”

She made a pouting face when I didn’t answer her question. “Danyelle don't worry about it, we'll just use my car." She started walking over to her green Jeep, which was parked next to mine, only to find that her tires were torn to shreds. Groaning upon the discovery of her irreparable tires she mumbled "Oh they are so puppy chow when I get a hold of them." Reaching into her back pocket she pulled out her cell phone, raising it up to her ear she began to start a muffled conversation. She glanced over at me a smiled then hanged up the phone. "My dad's going to swing by later and pick up the cars. Because this happened on our property we'll pay for the damages.”

I let out a sigh of relief. As long as I was getting out of this with my head still attached to my neck I think I would be okay. But I did still have one question left.

"So how are we planning on getting home?" I asked.

She turned slightly and pointed to this old beat up… Thing! I wouldn’t have even considered if it hadn’t been for its four untouched wheels.

Reece slipped a hand into her back pocket and pulled out a switchblade. She jammed the blade into the rusty keyhole to the hilt. I had never watched someone pick a lock before but I was pretty sure that that wasn’t how it was done. Ends up she wasn’t going to pick the lock, nope she just tore the whole thing off. Before I knew it she was under the dash hotwiring the car with only a switchblade and her bare hands.

***End of flashback***

"So let me get this straight. You gave my car to this girl you just met!" Vanessa yelled.

Well I guess I didn't get out scot free. "She said her dad was going to fix it." I whispered.

"Well her dad could be a drug dealer, for all we know that car could have drugs in the trunk!"

"No it doesn’t. We checked before we 'borrowed' it." I reassured her as I continued my story.

***Flashback***

"Reece you can't just highjack a car!" I yelled and okay I was a little excited to ask this next question but hey you would be too. "Where the heck did you learn to hotwire a car?"

She stopped tugging and pulling at the wires and looked out the side of the door. “Well in my time spent on the school new cast team I have met many characters. Some of them have talents that they are only too willing to teach the curious. Learning how to hotwire a car was something I picked up while interviewing a man who wanted desperately to steal the school Hostess delivery truck.” With that said she went back under the dash board and tried to work her magic.

About five minutes later the car roared/choked to life. Reece smiled at her success and motioned for me to join her in the car. I climbed through the driver’s door because the passenger's door looked like it was about the fall off if I touched it. It just wasn't my lucky day because it just so happened that this particular car was a stick and I couldn't drive a stick. After I was seated and buckled Reece placed her hand on the shifter pushing to drive but the stick wouldn’t even move from neutral. She tried again and still nothing, then she started to get really frustrated and kicked the shifter until finally it moved…into reverse,

"Err. Stupid car! Guess we're just going to have to drive this sucker in reverse." Reece said a little frustrated.

Okay I'm a little freaked out now!

Two of the rearview mirrors were busted and the same went for all of the lights. It was bad enough that the sun was setting and we didn't have any lights but now we were driving backwards! I think not!

"Reece maybe we should just walk home." I suggested.

"Walk! In these boots, I don't think so." I looked down at her feet to see them tangled in some sort of footwear that had all sorts of ribbons of multiple colors that crisscrossed around her ankles up to her knees.

That is the strangest shoe I have ever seen.

Suddenly without warning Reece slammed her foot against the gas petal and my forehead almost hit the dashboard. About halfway down the highway Reece started sing the most random songs ever and I found myself joining her as we sang the pig song from the Lion King and bazooka bubble gum theme song.

***End of flashback***

Vanessa didn't look too happy with me at the moment. Her eyebrows were frowned and she had this grim look on her face. I didn’t really want to face her wrath at the moment so I looked around house trying to find something else to talk about.

"Where's Vic?"