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put her hand over her mouth. “Oh God, I forgot to phone Aunt Mary! What am I thinking? I was ready to leave and forgot to phone her! Jesus, my mind is totally fecked!” She turned and went to the landline, picked it up and hit speed dial number one. It started to ring at the other end.
    Zach stood to the side, giving her some space but also near enough to grab her if anything happened.
    “Yes Auntie, I’m sorry for not phoning earlier but today has been so weird. Can I please explain, without you interrupting?” She paused while her aunt replied. “Okay, here goes ...” and she went on to tell her aunt everything that had happened.
    She was amazed her aunt did not stop her from talking. Her aunt usually would butt in on a normal conversation and this was anything BUT a normal conversation.
    When she had finished telling her everything up to the point where she was on the verge of leaving the country in a jet, with a Vampire no less, she expected her aunt to go mad. However, the strangest thing happened. Aunt Mary went on to tell her she had to be careful and that there were some things she needed to tell Alex.
    Alex was a little scared, this was not the way she thought the conversation would go. She listened warily as her aunt first apologised for never telling her what she was about to. This scared Alex all the more.
    “Alex, baby, please stay calm, I know this is going to be difficult to hear and I know I should've told you ... but ... your parents – they didn't die in a car crash, they were murdered. It was because your mother was a member of a very old sect ...”
    “ What! What are you saying? That's crazy, they were killed in a car accident – you TOLD me that!” Alex's voice had risen and she was fighting hard to control her breathing. This was nuts, completely insane!
    “ Calm down Alex, I know this is hard honey, and I know I should've told you more as you got older. As the years went by I found I just couldn't do it. I wanted to keep you safe darling. I tried to do what I thought best ...”
    Then her aunt went on and she told Alex that she had an old journal of her mother’s and she should have talked to her about all of this and given it to her years ago. However, she realised that she would need it now and asked her to come and get it.
    “Aunt M, I can't believe you kept this from me. I deserved to know how my parents died and about this ... this ... book or whatever it is, you should've given it to me, you just should have ...” Alex couldn't go on. She tried to fight back the tears that filled her eyes, and failed, they flowed down her cheeks and she swiped at them to clear them from her face.
    Aunt Mary then said something Alex couldn’t quite understand and barely heard as her aunt whispered it as if talking to herself: “I have not done my job.”
    “What?!” Alex asked into the phone and she heard her aunt take a sharp breath in.
    “ Nothing Alex, it's nothing,” her aunt replied.
    “ It's not nothing – what did you mean by that?” Alex was confused and hurting and she was sure there was more to this than she could even begin to imagine.
    “ Alex, honey, I can't even begin to explain, just get here and I'll go and get the book I'm talking about. Maybe it will help.” Her aunt was obviously not willing to explain and Alex felt more than a little exasperated.
    “ So what about the fecking trees, Aunt Mary? I may as well ask as this conversation is already so far out there that talking trees can't make things any weirder! What was that all about?” Alex had been sure she could sense the trees or something, telling her to get the hell out of those woods. She had thought she was going a bit crazy when it happened.
    “ Ah Alex, that was just your sixth sense warning you of danger, that's all,” her aunt said. But she wasn't sure she believed her. Sixth sense, talking trees, Christ could this day get any worse?
    “ Okay, we'll be there soon,” was all Alex said before hanging up