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࣪𓏲ּ ֶָ ✩◿@𝓮𝓬𝓵𝓲𝓹𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓼𝔂◸ 🂱 ࣪𓏲ּ ֶָ
CHAPTER ELEVEN—
are you hungry?

"This is the car that hit the mayor." Wednesday confirmed as she pulled the sheet off the car in the garage. Lasy shined the light a little more for her. "Yes, hold it there."

"Okay, this just took a dark turn!" Enid panicked as she looked around. "We need to call Tyler's dad right freaking now."

"Why?" Wednesday turned back to her. "So he can take me back to Nevermore and get me expelled? It's not gonna happen."

Lasy tapped Wednesdays shoulder as they walked back to the house. "What?"

"This is the Gates Mansion." Lasy confirmed with a shrug. "Why?"

"I'll fill you in, but look for clues of a Hyde. A monster." Wednesday explained as Lasys eyes widened some. "There's one near by. Have you heard of them?"

Lasy nodded her head as Wednesday rose her eyebrows, pushing the creeking door open. "Really? You have?"

"This is the night i'm gonna die." Tyler stared in fear at they open door, his hand grabbing Lasys as she walked infront of him.

"What do you know about it?" Wednesday stared over at Lasy as the four walked up the stairs together.

Lasy shrugged. "My Mom knew one."

Wednesday waited for Lasy to go on as she inhaled. "A long time ago. She didn't say much, only that they aren't always how they seem."

"Like, a disguise." Wednesday confirmed, Xavier racing through her mind. "There's proof that it's possible."

Lasy hummed with a nod.

The four stopped at a painting as Wednesday looked up at it first. "Here they are. The Gates Family. They scrub up well for psychopaths."

Lasy looked back at Tyler, his eyes pulling away from the painting to look down at her. He scanned her face, looking for any sort of questionable sign. Lasy sorta just stared at him, giving him a half smile as her hand tightened on his.  Wednesday began to walk right as they followed her, looking around the library that hadn't been used in a while. Dust making Lasy sneeze.

"Bless you." Enid mumbled.

Lady rubbed her nose uncomfortably. "Thank you."

Tyler glanced at Wednesday. "Seen enough?"

Her hand out reached and pulled one of the books on the shelf, having it move aside and reveal the secret room. Enid whimpered in fear as Lasy gaped in the middle of amazement and shock, her eyes dancing around the walkway as Enid shook next to her. "Who doesn't have a spooky built-in altar in their family library?"

"Ours is in the living room." Wednesday said in return as Tyler frowned his eyebrows in shock. "More seating for year-long Dia de los Muertos."

She walked in, Lasy right after as she pulled Tyler with her before letting go. She spun in a circle to look around the whole place. "Wow."

"You don't have one?" Wednesday looked in disbelief.

"Not me." Lasy shook her head. "Only stories from the aunties."

"Lasy, please don't fuel her." Enid held her chest in fear. Lasy reached over to hold her arm.

"They're still warm." Wednesday felt the candles. "Tyler, Lasy, you two check the rest of the ground floor."

Lasy nodded her head as she walked from the room as Tyler followed her. She looked back at him as they headed down the stairs. "We're on a team."

"Guess we are." he cracked her a small smile as they made it to the bottom. "Wednesday really hasn't told you about this?"

"I don't think she trusted me until she knew who my grandparents were." she said honestly as they looked around together. Lasy kept looking back at him, Tyler saw as she looked away. "Sorry."

"It's okay." there'd been a chuckle in his words as he stared at the back of her. "Lasy?"

"Mhm?" she hummed, trying to stay occupied until she caught his gaze in the mirror. Staring at her as she stared backed. She turned around to face him again.

"I'm glad you're here." Tyler told her. "I've been wanting to talk to you about something."

She pointed at herself as he nodded his head. "Are you really not going to your aunts wedding?"

Lasy shook her head as Tyler did it back. "Why?"

"We aren't close." she exhaled with a small shrug.

"Close enough to invite you though, right?" he nodded his head, out reaching his hand with a little wave to encourage her to walk over. Lasy hesitated but pushed off the old desk she was leaning on, taking small steps his way as his hand seemed to mock her the closer she stepped. "That has to mean something, don't you think?"

Lasy assumed she liked Tyler so much for how simply he made talking to her seem. He asked her when it was a topic of just his opinion, genuinely wanting her thoughts on it. He'd say things for her if she wanted, but he always made it open for her to answer before hand. Lasy finally made it to him as their hands locked, his flashlight shining up on the two in the dark and creepy room. "Maybe."

"Do you think it'll be so bad with some company?" he rose a faint eyebrow to her.

Lasy laughed. "Did you just invite yourself to my aunts wedding?"

"If it means having to watch you grab twenty dresses but put on the first one and decide it's the right one, then yes." he laughed in response of hers. "Entertainment of the year."

Lasy shrugged. "If you thought that was entertaining...that wedding might be better. It's like...the Real Housewives of Nine-Hundred Year Old Vampires."

"Sign me up." Tyler shrugged with a grin, Lasy did in return as her thumb ran across her hand. "Is that a yes to me inviting you to your own aunts wedding?"

Lasy shrugged with the biggest smile on her face. She was totally on the verge of throwing up on him, and her hand was shaky in his. But, it was worth it. She'd rather feel that right there with him instead of running away and reliving the sickening feeling. "I'll pick you up at 2."

"At 2?" he blinked. "I kinda have school but I can-"

"No, two in the morning." Lasy blinked in correction with a serious look to go with his shocked stare. "It's bad luck for vampires to get married any time after three am."

"For Witching Hour?" he hummed. "Of course."

Lasy nodded once with a smile. "You'll fit in good. Just, try not to bleed."

"All white, you'll get me at two, no bleeding." Tyler confirmed as he went over it in his head. "Did I miss anything?"

Lasy thought really hard as she narrowed her eyes, Tyler mimicked her look before she exhaled. "If Great Aunt Sally starts talking to you, pretend you get a phone call."

Tyler nodded. "Think I can remember that."

Lasy nodded as she let his hand go. "I think you can remember too."

She looked back, nodding her head as Tyler did the same. "Right, we better get looking before Wednesday chops off our heads or something."

Lasy nodded her head in agreement as the two walked together, heading down the hallway. They neared the room at the end of the hallway before Lasy felt a small jolt, looking down just as the wood gave out and she crashed through the floor. Lasy yelped in fear, Tyler caught her arm and laid on the ground to hold her up. "Lasy!"

"Oh my god!" she panicked, hanging by one hand. "What the hell!"

He looked at the wood, pulling on it. "That board is rotting, look."

"Um, would you mind pulling me up first?" Lasy asked in disbelief. "Just hanging out here."

"Oh, that's right." he nodded, pulling her up by the arm. Just as her head was about to pop through where she fell, his body jolted backwards and was forced to let Lasys hand go. She hit the ground face first, huffing as she smacked her face on the concrete. She couldn't even process the pain as she heard a loud growl as Tyler yelled out in fear. "Lasy!"

"Tyler!" she shouted in fear, trying to look up the place she'd fallen from. "Tyler!"

Nothing.

Panic flooded her body as she looked around, in the basement of the house. It was dark, too dark. She fished her phone from her pocket and used the flashlight, hearing Enid screaming and the loud growls of the Hyde from the stairs. No Tyler. Lasy ran to the door, yanking on the handle and trying to get it open. She pushed on it, used all her force. Lasy backed up some before she threw her body against the door, having it fly open as she hit the ground when she got it open.

Lasy got to her feet and ran through the house, going back to the place she was. "Tyler!"

Her nose twitched, turning toward the smell and coming across his blood on the ground. She was familiar with the smell, it stained her teeth at one point in the past few days. She followed it quickly, pausing as it seemed to echo all through the house. She was lost, not being able to trace where he'd been. Lasy ran down the hallway and shoved the door open and found him right outside of it.

"Tyler." she fell next to him as he leaned his head back against the wall, the scratch across his chest bleeding out and paling his skin. "I couldn't find you. I thought I had your blood scent but it was too much that it clouded me."

"It's okay." he winced as she looked at his wound. "Lasy."

"It's okay, I will get you some help." she promised.

"Your eyes." his words made her snap her eyes back to him. "They're red."

She couldn't feel when that happened, backing away some. "I'm sorry."

"No, it's-" he tried, Wednesday and Enid running over caught both their attention.

"Enid, take this." Wednesday passed the flashlight to her as she took Lasys place after she backed away.

"That thing is still inside!" she yelled out. "Lasy, your eyes."

Lasy frowned in guilt as she rubbed her eyes to try and get rid of it, squeezing them shut.

"Can you walk?" Wednesday looked at Tyler. Xavier came around the corner as Lasy opened her eyes. "Where'd you come from?"

"Thing told me." Xavier pulled his scarf off and handed it to Tyler. "Take this. What happened to him? Lasy, you should go. Your eyes."

"No." they all looked at her when she said it. "My car is close. I can drive him home."

"You have a car?" Enid gave her an odd look.

"You can drive?" Xavier questioned.

"He's bleeding, we don't have time for this!" Lasy cut them both short as she helped Tyler up. "It's a five minute walk max, close to the road."

"I can't believe you didn't tell me you had a car." Xavier spoke in disbelief as he got Tyler's other side to help his weakening figure toward Lasys car. "What the hell are you even doing here?"

"Wednesday invited me." she said back.

"To do what?" he rolled his eyes. "What happened to Tyler?"

"A Hyde got him." Lasy said back. "Not Hide and Seek, a Hyde Hyde."

"A Hyde Hyde?" he questioned. "What's that?"

"A Hyde Hyde." she repeated.

"Right, that clears it up." Xavier confirmed as they kept going. "What? Did you find a new trio?"

Lasy looked over in disbelief. "No."

"Looks like it." he argued. "You left the three of us in the library to-"

"Can we talk about this later when we aren't carrying a bleeding boy together?" Lasy cut him off with a dumb look. "Right up that hill."

"Do you know where to go?" Enid asked from behind her. "He's probably not in the best mindset to give direction."

"I know." Lasy said back. "Wednesday, grab that door."

Wednesday opened the car door as Tyler got into the passengers seat. She looked at Lasy when they shut the door. "Thanks."

Lasy nodded her head. Xavier caught her arm before she could circle the car. "Your eyes."

"It's okay." she mumbled.

"Are you gonna be okay?" he stared at her seriously. "If this is t-"

"I'll be okay." Lasy cut him off. "I just wanna make sure he gets home, and doesn't bleed out."

"Okay." Xavier nodded. "Don't eat him."

"Are you mad at me?" she mumbled.

"No." he exhaled. "Let's just talk when you get back."

Lasy nodded her head. She circled the car fast and got in as the trio stepped aside to watch them go. She started up  the car and looked over at him. "Okay, i'm taking you home."

"Mhm." he hummed, holding the wound and glancing at her radio as the very faint music began to play as she pulled put out of her hidden place in the woods. "You like this song?"

"Yeah." Lasy smiled slightly as she drove down the empty road. "I can change it if you-"

"No, it's okay." he promised.

i was lost within the darkness, but then i found her.

"You feel lightheaded or anything?" Lasy questioned him as she stopped at the sign. "Do you have orange juice at your house?"

"No, yeah. No, i'm good. Yes, there's orange juice." he answered her. "It's not that deep, I don't think."

"Still, there's a lot of blood." Lasy pointed out as she took a turn. "It's okay, I watched my Mom do stitches all the time."

Tyler glanced at her seats. It was an older car, a classic that had to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. The type of car they show off at shows, the type that had a third seat instead of a console. Tyler moved over some as Lasy looked over in disbelief. "Put your s-"

She stopped talking as he laid his head down on her lap due to how far away from the steering wheel she liked to sit, laying there as Lasy exhaled. If there'd have been any more cars on the road, it would have been a completely different story. She's have made him put his seat belt on, instead Lasy placed one arm over his body and rubbed his face while she drove with the one hand.

"Scale of one to ten?" Lasy asked as she used the little scissors to cut the end of the thread after sewing up the Hyde scratch.

"Barley a seven." he said back as Lasy rose an eyebrow. "Ibuprofen helped."

"Mm." Lasy hummed, pulling away and shutting the first aid kit. Her heart stopped when he cupped her face and turned it to face him, blinking multiple times and holding her breath.

"Are you hungry?" the dark streaks under her eyes were back now, not as bad as last time but still there. "You probably didn't get to eat because you were out there with us."

"It's okay." she shook her head. "Big breakfast."

It wasn't a secret that Lasy was severely mocked by the wound and all the blood that had just been cleaned, the wash cloth in the trash can still filling up her nose. She thought she was slick and able to control the way her body gradually seemed to lean closer toward where he'd been the most hurt. Maybe if someone wasn't watching her every move it would have been unnoticeable. But, Tyler saw it the most. "It would be okay."

"What would be?" she crossed her legs in the chair she sat on while he had been on the edge of his bed.

"If you wanted some of my blood." the shocked look on her face was too comical to not laugh at. "I've given it to you before."

"Through a pint." Lasy backed off some, Tyler caught the chair with one of his hands to pull her back. "It'll hurt."

"I think i've had worse." he nodded down to his wounds. "I'm telling you it's okay."

Lasy wished it wasn't as tempting as it was. "I don't wanna hurt you."

"I'll be okay." he kept on, smiling at her as if he wanted her to. "You said you can stop if someone pushes you off. I will."

Lasy nodded her head. "Don't let me kill you. I don't want you to be dead."

Tyler nodded his head, tilting his head to the side. Lasy leaned in close, her palms pressed into the bed on either side of his legs. Her head pulled back to look at his face one more time before leaning into his neck and carefully pressing her fangs into the side of his neck. There was an initial wince as his face scrunched for half a second, but let it fade away at the way she moved her hands to press onto his legs rather then the bed.

Lasy was practically slipping out of her chair, Tyler noticed as he put his hands on the back of her legs and let her crawl into his lap. Her hands cupped his neck to push her fangs in deeper, earning a hum. She pulled back and moved down to do it again on his collar bone, letting the first wound slowly bleed. Tyler kept his hands on her waist, his thumbs pressed beneath the hem of her shirt and squeezing just slightly each time the switched where she was biting him. Her hand pull the rest of the unbuttoned flannel off his left arm to bite down on his shoulder, hearing him breath out and pull her body in closer when she did it.

He helped her out and slide the other arm out, letting the flannel go. A smile went across his face when her hands touched his arms, placing flat against his stomach afterwards. Lasy hummed against his skin when she sunk her fangs right into the part of his arm that always stuck out of the Weathervane tee, that always caught her attention when she'd go in and stare at him. Tyler's eyes flew open when he heard the front door slam, panic flooding his body. "Lasy."

She didn't move, he had to grab her by the face and yank her away. She breathed heavy with blood running down her mouth, staring in shock as her eyes were as wide as silver dollars. "I'm s-"

"It's okay, my Dad is just home." he cut her off, waiting for her to crawl off his lap to stand up. He walked toward his door to shut and lock it, then flipping the lamp light off. It was dark, put the lack of curtains from the bedroom window made the room almost blue, enough to know where he was. Tyler walked back her way, smiling as she did what he did earlier. Lasy extended her hand and waiting for him to be close enough to grab it. A smile went across her face, making him smile back and crawl back onto the bed with her.

Lasy grasped his shoulders as Tyler's back hit his bed, crawling ontop of him and biting down right above his heart were a lot of blood pumped to. She knew better then to push too deep right there, barley cutting into the surface. Tyler shut his eyes but kept his hands on her upper back, pulling her in closer like he wanted her fangs to be as deep and as painful as possible. He was forced to let her go when she got lower, biting right into his abs as her palms pressed into his collarbones.

Tyler exhaled loudly as he shut his eyes, a faint smile spreading across his face.

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kylie speaks

i guess xavier was right about
what he said about being shy
in the streets.