Believers
“I can’t believe it’s been three days and he hasn’t shown up.” Mandy complained and brushed back her short hair.
“Cheer up.” Max looked out the window of the fifth story apartment.
Jeremy’s snoring could be heard loudly in the living room from the room where he and Evan were sleeping. Aaron was in class at college and Rodney was at work as a clerk at a local law firm.
The operation had taken months to set up.
From the notebooks they had learned almost everything there was to know about the modern vampire. They watched and studied the news for signs during their last few years of high school. Anything out of place that might be considered vampiric went written down in a journal. They each kept separate journals, in honor of Eileen. She had shown them how important it was to keep one.
The vampires hid in the overcrowded cities generally in the parts of town where no one sees anything, or they see things that aren’t really there. They blended in well, you couldn’t tell them from any one else. Their victims were normally transients or people society would never miss. Victims no one mourned.
When the first started writing in the journals there was a lot of talk about gang warfare in the news. Then slowly the gang numbers began to dwindle, instead of increase. The entire northeast part of town was riddled with break-ins and thefts of all sorts. Then slowly within a year the entire criminal element seemed to vanish into thin air.
Aaron was the first to notice it. Max then formulated a plan that would get them all into the city.
Mostly they had planned to go to the college just outside the city limits, because they could stay home and go to church regularly. However the city’s college was situated near a bad part of town. When Rodney and Aaron went to check out the campus, they noticed make shift missing posters for missing men and women. It was a tell tale sign. The teenagers knew they had to get into the city college. They had to route out the nest of vampires living in that section of the city, and kill them.
Rodney got a job as a clerk at a branch of his uncles old firm worked full time, and took his college classes online. Max and Aaron worked at the Hamburger Hut, and took classes at night. Jeremy had no inkling to go to college, he worked as a mechanic in the auto repair shop on the far corner of the street where they lived. Evan and Mandy were full time students, because it was too distracting to hold down a job and stay in school.
It was hard to distinguish what they were looking for when they first arrived.
It was actually Max who noticed it first. He’d been watching the teens that hung in and around the Burger Hut. He noticed of all the teenagers that came in to eat, only a certain group of three never came in. At first he wasn’t sure if they didn’t like burgers, but they never even came in for a soda.
The entire group began surveillance of the three. The three all stayed in the same apartment, went to the same clubs, and hung out like family. They were just a group of rowdy punker-goths. You wouldn’t have been able to tell them apart from any other teen at Iax, the club the frequented.
Mandy heard rumors of a strange pale man with a Russian accent, offering refuge to teenage girls in need of some place to stay with little or no money. She had heard that some of these girls disappeared, never to be heard from again. The odd thing was, all the girls who disappeared had no family for anyone to check with.
The group knew their skills would soon be tested. They had everything to confirm it was vampires, including the ever watchful sire.