Summary: Follow Shane, Alyssa, Michael and Eve as they try and decipher the mysterious new girl Claire Danvers. When Claire gets dragged off by Monica and her followers, Shane and the gang have to trust in their instincts because while they wander in Monica's new found playground, Claire is being tortured to death. Will they make it in time to save her or will they be forever lost in the deep and dark Labyrinth?

The Labyrinth

Chapter 1

Shane's POV

Why is it that high school looks so much better on T.V.? And I'm not talking about that prance-about singing drama stuff. Ya know like real high-school that isn't set in the middle of nowhere in Texas and surrounded by vampires. That's right I said it, Vampires. Those blood sucking creeps with the red eyes and stuff. Yeah big shocker at how those things managed to run a whole town. I sighed. Morganville, I thought sarcastically, you'll never want to leave and if you do…well you can't, sorry about that.

"SHANE!" My sister Alyssa yelled. She ran into my room and jumped all over the bed.

"God Lyssa, stop it" I groaned. She just giggled and kept on jumping. I'm telling you that girl had a lot of energy when it came to pissing me off.

"C'mon Shane don't be like that" she said "You gotta get ready for school remember" I groaned again. Summer always ends too fast. Right the mum walked in with a huge smile on her face.

"Up!" she said "C'mon Shane school's here" I rolled my eyes. "You just can't wait for me to leave and give you your time can you" Mum just giggled. She and Lyssa looked exactly alike. They both had long blonde hair and pretty blue eyes…though Lyssa's were lighter and Mum's hair was kind of darker. All in all, they both looked like sisters.

"Molly!" My dad, Frank, called. He was at my door in a few seconds holding up two different ties. "Which one should I wear?" he asked us. Alyssa stopped and stared in thought at the ties…then pointed at the striped black and red one.

"That one…it makes you look younger" She said with a cheeky grin

"Huh" Dad said "I was gonna go with the yellow and purple polka-dotted one" I burst out laughing. I loved times like these when everyone was just happy. The girls and I knew that it wouldn't last long so we soaked it up. Every day when dad came home, he was drunk. He always complained about work and one day I had the nerve to say that no one gave a shit. That was when Frank snapped and beat me to a pulp. After that we all learnt that our Father was to be taken seriously.

"Well I'm off" He called "You guys get ready or you'll be late!" I sighed, and looked at Alyssa. She gave me a small smile. Mum walked out of the room and ruffled Lyssa's hair a bit. Alyssa mumbled something that would've gotten her in deep trouble if she had said it any louder.

"Hurry up and get ready Shaney" she said putting her hands on her hips. I snorted "You might wanna check that mop of yours Lyssa" She gasped and flew to my bedroom mirror.

"Aww" She groaned "This is gonna take forever to clean up" "Better get started then" I chuckled. She just glared at me and stomped off into her room muttering under her breath. I sighed again, wow I was doing a lot of that lately, and knew she would forgive me. We were always like that, joking around and messing about. We had one of those bonds brothers and sisters shared. She was shy around everyone but me and my two best mates, Michael and Eve. Eve was a true Goth princess and Michael was a musical angel…not that I'm gay or anything it's just what Alyssa and Eve say all the time. With a grunt I rolled out of bed and threw on a black shirt that had a picture of a smiley face with fangs, a present from eve, and a pair of grey jeans. I ran a hand through my brown hair which did nothing to tame it. No point in trying seeing as I looked just like the 16 year old I was. Shag cut hair, dark brown eyes, slightly tanned skin. Let's just say I have a dark complexion.

Alyssa bounded past my door singing 'Mind your manners' by Chiddy bang and I couldn't help but laugh.

"We're gonna be late Shane c'mon" She gasped while grabbing my arm and pulling me down the stairs. I quickly grabbed my leather jacket and put it on over my hoodie. We were out the door in T-minus 5 minutes and on our way to the glass house. We always went there on our way to school so we could walk with Eve and Michael.

(Small times skip)

"Hey I heard we had a new chick today" Michael said. Eve raised her eyebrow at him and I chuckled. Eve had this huge crush on Mikey and got a little jealous every time he noticed another girl. After a while she had realized she was being ridiculous but that didn't stop her from being curious.

"How do you know?" Lyssa asked. Michael grinned.

"Do you remember Derek Todd?" He asked. "That cute red -head guy, yeah I remember" Eve said Michaels eyes darkened a bit at that. "Yeah well his dad the chemistry teacher said that we were gonna get a new girl this year" Me and him bumped fists. I mean come on we were guys what'd you expect? Eve just rolled her eyes and we carried on walking in silence

I was walking down the hall saying hi to all my old mates that I hadn't seen in a while when all of a sudden Michael stopped walking.

"What is it" I asked looking in the direction he was. A small petite figure was walking our way trying hard to keep to not be noticed, which was failing considering the fact everyone was staring at her. She was wearing a pair of black skintight jeans with white converses that were patterned with skulls. I had a feeling Eve was gonna beg the new girl to tell her where she got them. She was wearing a black blazer on top of a white shirt that had a picture of a girl wearing headphones. I smiled to myself when I saw her tug the hat that she was wearing a little lower over the top of her shoulder-length brown hair. I suddenly realized that she was heading in the direction of Monica, the Bitch queen. The new girl walked right into her and toppled over.

"Watch it freak" Monica sneered. My blood boiled as I watched the girl struggle to pick up all her papers. I quickly bent down and helped her up.

"Maybe you should watch where you're going instead of making sure your ass still looks huge" The girl said back. I stood there shocked for a second and then I burst out laughing. The girl glanced at me before smiling a little bit. Monica looked flustered before smirking at the new girl.

"Do you have any idea who I am?" She asked. "Nope and I don't really care either" This girl has a backbone, I thought. I noticed how close I was standing next to her. I slinked off to stand beside my sister and watch the show.

"My name's Monica Morrell" Monica said with all the dignity she could muster. She hated being embarrassed and all the chuckles coming from everyone was proof of that.

"Claire Danvers" Claire said back "Remember the name sweet heart" and with that she adjusted her bag and set off down the hall leaving Monica staring daggers into her back and all of us standing there in awe.