The Haunting in Chicago by Danielle Calamanco (readnow .TXT) 📕

wrong? Chris? Isn’t it nice to see you on Serenity and I’s romantic get away,” Jonathon says emphasizing the word romantic.
“Oh I know, I don’t plan on bothering you guys anymore, just wanted to tell Serenity that I was still alive, because I was apparently dead. I mean I don’t blame her when I was travelling someone did try killing me.” Right as Chris says this I see a glimmer in his eye. He narrows his eyes at Jonathon as if he is saying something telepathically.
“Well, I’m sorry that someone did that to you, but I’m sure Serenity is glad your back. Me not so much, I mean you did steal her from me for two years.” Jonathon says snidely.
“I’m pretty sure I didn’t steal her from you. You’re the one who moved to the middle of nowhere and made no time to talk to her when she needed you. I was there for her especially when she needed it.”
As this argument goes on, I slowly back away into the kitchen. This is so awkward, having the guy who you hope is the true love of your life, but leaves you for two years and the guy who was your true love but you thought died so you tried moving on, in the same room.
I open up a can of soup, it sounded really good since I got off the plane. I popped it open and threw it into the garbage. Then I pop open the microwave and put the can onto the plate. I put it on one minute and thirty seconds. I stood there waiting, hoping that Jonathon would come walking in cooling down from the argument, but right when I hear the beeper I hear a bang from the other room.
The Truth

As I run into the room, I see the boys on the floor rolling around trying to punch each other, but the room around them was completely destroyed. The ceiling was bent in many places and the curtains were ripped and torn to shreds.
“What the heck happened here?”
As the boys get up, I look around some more. The pictures are knocked off the wall and there is glass all over the floor. I look up to see that the ceiling window is broken. The door is shut, thank god, but seeing the damage I won’t be surprised if someone comes knocking on our door.
“Well? What happened here,” I say screaming again.
“You didn’t tell her, did you?” Chris says to Jonathon.
“Of course not, we just saw each other again today. I wasn’t going to just blurt it out.”
“Tell me what?” I say again yelling even louder.
Chris lets out a sigh and sits on the couch patting the side beside him probably hoping I would sit beside him, but all I do is stand there and cross my arms, popping my hip out, standing my ground.
Jonathon sits on the same couch but farther away. Knowing I wouldn’t sit down like they wanted me to, they began to talk.
“Babe, the past two years we’ve spent texting and talking on the phone. You always got mad at me saying that nothing has been going on. Well there was a lot of stuff happening to me. I wasn’t actually on the football team. When I said I was on a bus I was actually out hunting.”
“Hunting,” I say with concern in my voice, “you hate hunting.”
“I’m not really myself anymore. Remember my ex-girlfriend, Lexi. Well she wasn’t human. She was actually a vampire. One day when we were having se…”
“You had what with her!? You told me you hadn’t done anything with anyone since me.”
“Babe not the point, any way when we were doing it I felt this sharp pain in my neck then she got up and had blood all over her lips. I panicked thought that she was bleeding but then I felt my neck and there was blood dripping down my neck. Just then she grabbed my neck and twisted it and I died for a split second. I came back and my body was cold and my skin was pale, but I felt strong, stronger than I’ve ever felt,”“What happened after,” I say after trying a spot to hold myself up not wanting to lose my ground and not wanting to faint at the same time.
“She was gone, and all I was left to do was figure this stuff out on my own. When I told you she broke up with me, the day I told you I would break up with her for you. That was the day it happened. I was walking around Clearwater trying so hard to not kill someone for their blood. I went to the forest, I was about to end it all and leave you everything I had, but then I saw a deer and I ran as fast as I could and attacked it. I drank it till it was bone dry.”
“Ok that’s enough; I get it you’re a vampire. But what about you Chris how do you explain this?” I say finally sitting down preparing myself for what he was about to say.
“I also am a vampire; you know when I was sick in the hospital. When we met then I miraculously became better and I said it was all because of you. Well that was only half true. The real half is because my friend, Alexis, my ex-girlfriend that you didn’t know about until now, turned me. That’s how she and I got so close.”
I knew I needed to sit down. I’m glad I prepared myself , but I don’t think I prepared myself well enough because I was speechless.
“Babe,” Jonathon says standing up and coming to my side about to rub my arm right when I smack him.
“Don’t touch me,” after yelling that then I run into the bedroom and lock the door. I then lean against the door and start crying. Everything I’ve ever known was all a lie. Jonathon actually did stuff Lexi, but not just that she changed him into a vampire. And Chris I thought he got better because I came into his life, but no because his ex-girlfriend also turned him into a vampire.“Good job, bro you pissed her off.”
“Don’t call me bro. We are nowhere close to being brothers.”
“Oh shut up, you know your Lexi and my Alexis are the same girl. We were both turned by the same girl which makes us brothers.”
“That girl in there is my whole world and now she may hate me because I told her I was a vampire. She was perfectly fine without knowing that.“That girl in there, needs to know the truth. Maybe right now she is crying, but if you give her time to think she will come around and maybe just accept it or..” Chris says then looks down.
“Or what,” Jonathon says with a worried look on his as he walks to the door to the bedroom, then knowing that its hopeless to open the door he just slumps his back onto it and leans against it.
“Or we both lose her. You are not the only one that loves her, you know. I was in her life way before you were. I may not have been there in person but I was still there talking to her and comforting her through everything she went through.”
“I would have been there, if I had moved here earlier. She was my best friend the first day I moved here. She was willing to talk to me when no one else would. She literally is my whole world.”
“Whatever, we could sit here fight for years or we could try and find a way for Serenity to cope with this.”
Just as I hear this I get up off the door and head to the bathroom. I grab my swimsuit, which is a small, black two piece with silver rings holding the bottom and holding the pieces of fabric that hold my chest up. I come out of the bathroom wiping the tears from my eyes and fix my hair to have its natural wave. I make sure that my curves are popping out, because they are my best feature.
I walk out almost making Jonathon fall onto his back. I walk past the two boys without even looking at them. They both stood there with astonishment. Neither of them have never seen me in a bikini, mainly because when I was younger my parents didn’t like that I was skinny.
I walk past them to grab my sunglasses off the kitchen counter then I walk out to go to the pool.

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Publication Date: 10-15-2012

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