CHAPTER SEVEN

SARAH

I wasn't sure how to react about whatever the hell just happened but I sure as hell knew that I wasn't about to talk about it either.

Denver was staring at me awkwardly and itching the back of his head. He also looked like he was struggling not to cry and I was genuinely short of words. to say. I wondered if just patting him on the back and walking away until he sorted out whatever emotions he was feeling would help but I was not exactly familiar with the rules of the human world and doing the wrong thing could really blow my cover.

"It's okay, you don't have to say anything. I just needed to get her out of the way." He placed his hands behind his neck again like there was an unending itch.

"I-" My mouth slammed shut again because I didn't even know the right words to choose.

"Is she like? are you? she seemed really mad." I settled for and he nodded and started to retreat back to his door.

"I don't care about her, it's Okay." he answered and disappeared into his room. I didn't know if to be pleased that he didn't care about her or to be worried. I was going to do neither of them though because I had other problems to worry about.

I stood there in the hallway, feeling awkward and unsure about what had just happened. Denver’s door clicked shut, leaving me alone in the silence. I didn’t know what to think about the angry confrontation I had just witnessed. Denver’s attempt to brush it off as if it were no big deal didn’t make me feel any better.

I stood outside his door for a moment, unsure whether to ask him more questions or just leave him alone. It was a tough choice. I knew that pushing too hard might make things worse, but ignoring it felt risky too.

Finally, I decided to leave and went down the stairs, trying to clear my mind. The quiet of the building seemed to highlight how strange and unsettling everything felt.

When I reached the lobby, everything looked normal—people coming and going, a child laughing somewhere. It felt oddly out of place after what I’d just seen. Everything felt out of place in this strange world. I'd always wanted to explore the human world but definitely not under these circumstances. I was completely unprepared and I missed my brother so much, it hurt.

I knew he would be turning the place upside down now in search of me and that worried me. A lot of guards were about to loose their heads for a crime I committed or was forced to commit. Rhea was the last thing I remembered so I knew she had something to do with me being here.

I had never been more confused in my entire life. I decided to walk out of the house for a while. Even if I was going to get a solution to my problem, I didn't think it would be inside this house.

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I found myself going round and round the streets. It had been hours and I still couldn't seem to find my way back.

Why the hell was I so unfortunate? First, I got to this world looking like an abandoned sack of beans and now I couldn't even find my way back to the shelter I had made for myself. It was like a curse was following me around.

I kept walking past the same houses and taking different turns but still getting nowhere. It was frustrating. I was losing my fucking mind. I was losing my breath, my strength was fading. I still haven't recovered my powers back yet and it was so hard to live so ordinarily.

"Are you lost young lady?" A kid asked walking up to me in his cute little outfit. The outfit looked exactly like the one they made back in my world which I found stranger than the fact that he was calling me a young lady when he looked like he could fit into half of a potato sack.

"I am in fact lost, care to help me find my way cutie pie?" I stretched my hands to lift him up, I loved playing with kids. I grabbed him and he disappeared.

The kid disappeared. Shit just got a whole lot weirder. What the hell was he.

"What have you come to do here? What is your mission here?" his voice echoed around me but I could no longer see him. He became invisible. How does a kid become invisible? How did he know that I wasn't from this world. That thing is no kid and I needed to get out of here.

Fast.

I took to my heels, running as fast as my legs would carry me and not looking back but I wasn't getting anywhere. First, I was walking around in circles and now I was running but I wasn't getting anywhere. This was all him, this was all the weird evil man baby.

I stopped running and fell to the ground panting. My heart was beating like it was about to leave my chest and I had not noticed until now but I was the only one on the streets. it was completely deserted. Where did all the humans go? Did he kill them all? or were we in another world? his world.

What even was he? or it?

"I won't ask you again, Vamp. What. Are. You. Doing. Here?!" I couldn't believe such loud words were coming out of such a tiny body. My ears were bleeding, literally. I wiped the blood off shakily and looked up. He was in the sky somewhere.

"I don't remember how I got here and it looks like you have a lot of power so if you could please help me get out of this world and find my way back to mine, I would be really grateful." I answered and it seemed to calm down a little. He returned from the sky or wherever the hell it is he disappeared and stood in front of me again, this time not as a child but as me. He looked exactly like me.

I was a little startled but I kept cool. I had seen shape-shifters before. I had nothing to be worried about. I just needed to convince him that I meant no harm.

"You lost your way huh? Is that right?" it was weird answering that question especially when it looked like I was speaking to a mirror.

"Yes, I lost my way. I didn't come here to cause any trouble. I didn't even want to come here. I just woke up here and now I'm squatting with some humans who don't know who I am and I lost my powers and I just want to go back home to my brother. Just help me please."

"Oh, I'll help you but first you have to help me."

"What could I possibly help you with? I have no powers."

"Oh, you don't need your powers for this one. Your face is going to do all the work. You just wait and see."