I accelerated the car to it's highest speed , not caring if I would be given a speeding ticket because there was no way I was going to crash into somebody . The other cars looked like the slowest tortoises I had ever seen and I didn't waste a second to zoom past them . It didn't take much time for the police to start chasing me but they didn't have anybody that could drive safely within the speed that I drove so they slowly shrank into nothings behind me . I knew that the CCTV cameras would find out where I live and they would come within minutes but I would loose track of Warner if I don't reach as fast as I can back home .
I reached my house and ran out of the car without even turning the car keys off OR simply taking the car keys with me . "How fast did you come here ?! I could here you from the other end of the house !" Dad came running from the front door towards me . "I need to see Ben . NOW." That's all I said to him before running inside the house .
"BEN ! BEN! Where are you !" I walked around the whole house but I couldn't find him . "Where did he go ? "
Jennie came out from the basement and told , " Something's wrong with him , Rene . I had to tie him up . " I knew that it was all weird for Jennie but it was really great of her to handle it properly .
I followed her to the basemen to see him crying and begging an invisible someone to leave him be . " Please ! Don't kill me ! I did what you told me to !" He was constantly trying to move away from the chair , to his right . Even though there was nothing there for him to help be free . I had a theory of my own but I didn't know if it was true .
Since we didn't have any other ideas to go with , I thought it would be best to try my idea . "Jennie , untie the ropes and let him go free . " Dad , who had entered the room a while back , and Jennie had their jaw drop when I said it .
"What's going on here ?! " .It had been some days since I last saw Nathaniel and Cora . They had come to the room at this moment and Dad started talking about all that happened from their absence .
"Fine . You guys talk . I'll do it myself then . " Dad seemed to have forgotten the importance of the moment . They wouldn't allow me to untie Ben so I let them talk to themselves . I shouldn't have ignored Nath and Cora but I was too stressed to talk freely with them . I untied Ben and he swiftly went out of the basement room while the others looked at me confused , not understanding what I was doing . I followed Ben to wherever he was going . One thing that I noticed was that he seemed to go the right of the basement itself , except he didn't go there directly breaking the walls of our house . He was attracted and forced to be somewhere and I KNEW , that it had something to do with Warner .
Ben ran over towards the woods that started in our backyard . I had to take my steps far away as well as slowly because he looked back at almost every second to make sure that no one was following him . The woods were becoming deeper and deeper and it was becoming more hard for me to keep him within sight of me so I decided to go much nearer to him , with a trick that should've worked if I had been careful enough . I climbed one of the trees and started moving from one tree to another to catch up with Ben , me being only a few meters above him .
Unfortunately , the trees weren't very much visible to me either so I mistakenly stood on a much smaller branch and fell down , and that too , right on top of him!
"caecus!" I spelled before he could see me but he definitely had sensed me .
"Who's there ?! " He shouted looking around but he couldn't see me , or so I thought . " Who are you and why are you here ?" It hurt me a little to know that he had lost his memory of me but it also worried me that something was messing with his mind .
"I'm a nobody . Just a nature lover who got lost during my way out . Do you by any chance know where to I should head to leave these woods ?" I had to be as genuine as possible to make him believe me . The fact that he could see me even when I used a spell had me in shock . I was standing in front of him so he after squinting his eyes at me , he told , "Go the way I was coming . No turns . You will get away from here . " He kept on walking , not even checking if I was moving . I didn't want to be caught so I immediately walked the way he wanted me to go to avoid suspicions if he looked back .
I seemed to have bad luck right then because I had no idea how to find Ben again . But the other problem was I couldn't stop myself from walking the opposite way . It finally dawned on me that he had forced me mentally to go away from the woods , to avoid any followers behind him . Dad had told me that it was impossible for vampires to control a Berthims mind . Then how in the world did e mind control me easily , without me even noticing ?
Now I had too much problems . I had to find Jasper again , save Ben from his mind controller , make up with Cora and Nath , Waste time by explaining everything to them , and research on supernatural creatures much powerful than Berthims and here I was , not even able to control myself . I tried stopping myself from walking but my legs didn't even think of listening to me for one second . I had to free myself first before thinking of solving the other cases .