"What is wrong with you Liam, why do you you look so agitated?" Lucas asked as they followed Liam out of the forest, Liam was acting too strangely.
"Hey, hey, hey" Liam turned backwards and said to the two following him, "I am too fucked up right now to say a thing, take a look at me, do I look normal?" Liam said pointing at his torn dress and injuries.
"There are strange things going on that you guys don't know about."
"Then explain those things to us." Jack said, "why are we friends?"
Liam realized that he had said a bit more that he was supposed to say to these two, so he took a deep breath, trying to calm down his emotions, but it was proving too difficult.
"Guys I don't know what's going on, My grandmom just died and now Max..,."
"Wait, your grandmom is dead? When? How? Why didn't you tell us?" Lucas face changed as he heard Liam, they knew Liam's grandmother as they crashed at Liam's place once, and they loved the woman alot, she was warm, welcoming and healthy.
How could she just die?
"Yes she is dead man, now you know why my emotions are all over the place, we don't know what happened to Max, but what if he is dead?" Liam asked his face twitching, he knew the truth, he knew that Max was dead, he just didn't know what happened to his body after he left.
Now he thought about it.
Who buried his body?
And now who took the body?
The second question, was the reason he told Lucas and Jack that they had to leave the forest because, if it was that beast that took Max then their lives were in grave danger staying there a second more.
But when he ran away from the beast that night he could clearly sense that the beast acted on impulse or it's instincts and couldn't probably be the one that buried Max after killing him. Liam felt these mysteries eating him up.
"He can't possibly be dead" Jack said shaking his head.
"Then how do you explain this?" Liam brought out Max's broken phone, "a phone cut into two by what? Max?"
"Then if things have gotten to this stage, then we have to report to the school security, we can't keep on guessing also we don't even know what happened to you too." Jack replied.
"What happened to me is past, what is happening to Max is what's present and we can't just walk up to the school security and report that our friend is missing, just missing?" Liam explained.
They soon got to their room but the air was thick with tension, everybody had solemn and worried expressions.
Meanwhile, Max stared at the body on the ground, his face full of worry.
The man's face was pale and Max could still hear his heart beat although barely, it was slowly weakening. He didn't know how he could hear the man's heart beat but even from a distance he could hear the heart beat.
He badly wanted to take the man to the infirmary and have the man taken care of, but that was where the problem was, he couldn't go out of the hidden alley.
The alley was shrouded in shadows, this was what he didn't notice before and didn't even care about, but when he tried to move out he felt like his skin was burning.
It wasn't like he was on fire physically, but the pain from the sun was unbearable, it was like he was directly tossed inside a microwave or put inside burning coal, he couldn't get out.
I'm not human anymore, am I?
Max was scared, although he could feel his heart beating, he felt that he was a walking corpse, if not that, how could a man who had his heart ripped by a monster suddenly feel alive and feed on human blood.
Talking about human blood....
Max's mind suddenly flew to the folklore creatures, one in particular that sucked human blood.
Don't tell me that I might have become a ...
Thinking about his actions earlier of sucking blood out of a living person and his inability to go under the sun.
I'm a Vampire?
Max stared at himself in shock. This was the only reasonable explanation.
Suddenly he heard someone's footstep drawing near to the alley, he couldn't see anybody yet, but the sound of the person's footstep was sounding right besides his ears.
Listening closely he found out that it wasn't just one person, they were....one ...two .....three...four...six.
They were six of them!!
Max started to panic, he had to get away from here as quickly as possible.
But what could he do now? Run under the sun? After knowing what he was? Or what he might be?
That was equal to seeking death.
Stay here and wait for whoever it was that was coming, to come and see him with an almost dead man at his feet?
That also, wasn't what he wanted.
Staring around, he quickly located a trash can.
Entering a trashcan?
Well, that was his only viable option, so he quickly removed the trashy stuffs from the can.
While doing that he discovered that he was oddly very fast.
He thought about carrying the unconscious man with him, but on a second thought, he decided to leave the man there his reason being that, if he couldn't take the man outside for treatment under the sun, why not let others do the job?
Thud! Thud!
They were six in number, six males, Max opened the can a little so he could see what they did.
Just then he saw them holding something in their hands, it was wrapped in a big black nylon.
A big black nylon?
Max stared at their hands as his heart started to beat faster.
Wasn't that trash they were holding?
Max felt dead, he just put his self in a tight spot.
"We are skilled, but I don think we can beat the Red Bulls, I have seen those guys play and I can't lie, they play better than us."
"I don't care about how we play, don't you guys see the beauty of Eric's sister?"
"You call him Eric here, but when you are in front of him you look so gentle and call him 'coach' with respect"
Max heart's beating frequency increased with every step closer they got.
"Hey guys something's on the floor right there"
"What's that?"
"It's a person, oh my god, let's check him out"
"Is he still breathing?"
"I think so, but it's weak."
"Let's take him to the school hospital immediately."
"What the hell happened to him."