I could hear voices talking quietly. They sounded female at least so it must be Rose and Lissa. Slowly I opened my eyes and turned over to see to females, one with dark brown hair and one with platinum blonde hair.
"What's happened now?" I asked while sitting up and rubbing my eyes tiredly.
"Lissa had a bad dream again," the brunette, Rose, said. I sighed. I felt sorry for Lissa and Rose, Lissa always had nightmares about the accident and Rose would always get the brunt of it. Having the bond didn't seem so fun, especially since Rose always suddenly appears in Lissa's head at the strangest time.
I noticed our neighbour's cat Oscar sat on Lissa's bed rubbing his head against her purring. I noticed him take a cautious glance towards Rose occasionally; you see animals-for some reason-hate Dhampirs. Oscar, suddenly sensing my presence jumped over to me and climbed under the warm blanket to curl up against my leg. The strange thing about that is that I am a Dhampir and yet animals love me, we're still dumbfounded when an animal comes anywhere near me.
"When did we last do a feeding?" Rose asked Lissa pulling me out of my thoughts. "It's been like…more than two days, hasn't it? Three? Why didn't you say anything?" Rose looked at Lissa with confused eyes, I couldn't remember if it was my turn or Rose's to give Lissa blood this time.
She shrugged and wouldn't meet Rose's eyes. "You were busy. I didn't want to-"
"Screw that," Rose said shifting. I stood up and left the room only to wander in the kitchen.
"Hey Jeremy, how's the calculus coming along?" He gave me a thumb down with one hand on his forehead and his eyes glued to the book sadly. I opened the fridge with one hand while the other searched for something edible. Suddenly Lissa came through the door looking much better that she had had some blood.
"Is there anything to eat?" I shook my head and was about to sit down until Rose came stumbling through the kitchen
"You shouldn't be up," Lissa said with concern. I noticed Rose's emotions were mixed with fear an adrenaline. Someone was here.
"We have to go. Now,"
Lissa's eyes widened, and then a moment later, understanding clicked in.
"Are you…really? Are you sure?"
I nodded to show that Rose was telling the truth and that we needed to get out of there fast.
Jeremy watched us curiously. "What's wrong?"
"Liss, get his car keys." He looked back and forth between us three.
"What are you-"Lissa unhesitatingly walked over to him. I could feel Jeremy's confused emotions and Lissa's scared but trusting one's, I could also feel our stalker's determined emotions, and he was close. She smiled and gazed directly into his eyes. For a moment, Jeremy just stared, still confused and then the compulsion took over. His eyes glazed and looked at her adoringly.
"We need to borrow your car," she said in an angelic voice. "Where are your keys?"
He smiled, Rose shivered slightly. She never did like it when Lissa used compulsion. Reaching into his pocket, Jeremy handed over a set of keys hanging on a large red key chain.
"Thank you," said Lissa "And where is it parked?"
"Down the street," he said dreamily, "At the corner, by Brown." Four blocks.
"Thank you," she repeated. I started walking out the door so I didn't hear what Lissa said after but I did hear her and Rose catching up. We stepped outside and like that we were off running down the street. I stayed ahead on guard since Rose was most likely still dizzy from the bite. I kept pushing, vaguely hearing Lissa and Rose speaking. I could just make out Jeremy's green Honda; we were so close. Ten feet from the car, a man stepped directly in our path.
We came to a screeching halt. It was a guy maybe in mid-twenties and VERY tall, probably six-six or six-seven. I could feel Rose's lust and annoyance mixing together and could already tell that she was going to be a lot of trouble for him. I smirked but it instantly dropped and I was in defence mode.
I managed to get a few good kicks and punches before arms surrounded me and kept me from preventing any more damage. Suddenly Rose lunged for the guy but he was fast like any guardian and swiftly side-stepped her attack and simply pushed her to the side. Because of the lack of blood and the vampire endorphins still in her system Rose stumbled and lost her balance resulting in her heading for the side walk. Instantly the guardian was at her side holding her arm and staring at her neck. Luckily she notice and moved her long hair over the wound.
We both had grown our hair long just for that reason. In fact my red hair was about waist-length now if not longer. My head turned to the guardian holding me and my blue eyes scanned his face. They were both new to the school.
"You can let go of me now, I pose no threat," he turned his eyes to me and nodded slightly. Once I was released from his grasp I held onto Lissa's hand. The guardian I attacked stepped forward and introduced himself.
"My name is Dimitri Belikov," he said with a slight Russian accent. "I've come to take you back to St. Vladimir's Academy, Princess."