15 minutes to midnight

Chapter 6 Final Bullet

2 minutes to midnight.

The Dracula turned around to me and said

" Hey sassy vampire I'm Dracula"

He raised his hand hoping I'd shake.

I gave him a suspicious look. Was he the man who did this to me? At this time I could doubt legitimate anyone! Well, I guess we'll have to find out... I thought as I raised my hand to shake hoping for another prick.

But before we touched .. a drunk man with a pumpkin over his head tripped right between us and landed on the table face down.

I jumped back trying to avoid him falling on me because I've been bitten before once.. but the Dracula leaped forward to help him.

" Ou man easy in there .. your watch almost pricked my shoulder," said Dracula rubbing his shoulder.

The man got up saying sorry , pulled off his old broken watch and flung it aside cursing it and started towards the room Inside with his hands raised for apologies. That's when I noticed the same ring around the man's finger.

It was him...

I picked up the watch with a handkerchief and slid it into one of my pockets.

"Mind a hangout?:" I said to Dracula and without waiting for his answer took his arm and started following the man with pumpkin.

The man entered the room and closed the door behind. I followed in as quickly as possible but he had disappeared!

I looked around the room no doors or windows but no pumpkin either!

Where could he have disappeared? I looked around at the spooky couples kissing and hugging... But none of them had the ring...

Dracula distracted me by putting his arms around my waist.

" I thought we were going to my place or your place... But if this is where you want. mm NOT bad. " He continued to talk to me with my least interest.

He had no clue what was coming to welcome him tomorrow. He still thought we were at the party wearing costumes but what he doesn't know was these costumes were gonna be a curse for him forever. Plus he JUST made me miss my culprit!

"I don't think that's a good idea either you f**kin idiot.." I almost spilled out the truth when the thought that he would be their next tracker halted me. I was sure since I was already dead for the criminals, they would definitely come back to kill him.

This was my second golden chance. Maybe I could use him to track them back.

The smile on his face faded away and saying sorry he slowly began to step away towards the door.

" WAIT " I shouted back, " I think it's not a good idea it's a fantastic idea...

" MY PLACE", I smirked and winked at him.

The clock struck midnight!...

A wave of sheer horror swept through my spine. I felt like a failure already but I wasn't giving up!

And again, without an answer, I took him to my hiding place...

In the morning same thing happened again. He was a Dracula forever. He rushed out sweating only to see me in my same costume from last night, sitting calmly at the breakfast table.

I told him to sit, and then told him the whole story. He agreed on helping me.

The next whole week we roamed around the town in the same costumes telling everyone we are celebrating post-Halloween.

I changed my getup off and on because I could easily do anything on my face to not get caught. So we roamed around for 7 to 8 days waiting for someone to track us but no one turned up.

On the 8th night, a thud on the roof woke us up. They had finally come. I jumped into the closet and hid there while Dracula pretended to stay asleep.

I could see a man coming up with chloroform cloth, put it over Dracula's face and dragged him out.

When he had left the room. I jumped out of the closet and started following them without making a noise.

We followed through the woods until finally, they arrived at an old wooden house. I waited behind a thick oak tree, till the man had gone inside.

Then I crawled up to an open window and peeked in through the slit.

It was an empty house. I saw the man drag Dracula to the fireplace and flung him into the fire. Tears rolled down my eyes as I saw him burning.

I waited for the man to go down a basement that opens from the floorboard and rushed in to pull Dracula out of the fire.

To my surprise, only his clothes burnt! Luckily the paint on his body was fireproof that had saved him.

He opened his eyes and asked me what had happened. I told him the story as we wrapped a curtain around him.

We decided to follow the man in the basement and so we did.

It was a long dark aisle. We had to tiptoe for around 15 minutes to reach a sliding door. To surprise, the man was nowhere. Well, he possibly couldn't have gone anywhere except that door.

Slowly I pushed it open and climbed up to find myself in the same room where the Halloween party was.

Although it was empty. We tiptoed to the door of the room and peeked out. There .. on the couch sitting the old lady who pricked me and the pumpkin man who also happened to be the kidnapper.

I couldn't hear them properly but what I understood was that they had the serum ready in the laboratory.

We waited for them to sleep and then went back down the tunnel to the old house.

We looked around the place where he had his lab apparatus. One by one threw all their serums into the fire.. and finally set the house to fire leaving it behind burning.

The next morning we changed our getup to become pest control and went down to the compound. Knocked at the door and went in.

As soon as the door closed behind I pulled out my g*n again and 2 shots of icicles .. both dropped dead on the ground.

We took all the Halloween party decorations and stuff and left the town.

Somewhere no one recognizes us.

One good thing about the incident turned out that I became the best makeup artist in our new town. People think I'm beautiful and attractive. And our daughter would say that her parents are the smartest people on earth. Who could have imagined what lies behind these layers of makeup?

Shhhhh!!!