I leaned against the cold brick wall looking out at the snow that fell heavily on the school campus. I pulled my sweater sleeves over my hands to try to keep them warm and shivered when a snowflake fell on the fabric. I was in the hallway that no one used, but was covered but had no windows leading to the barn at the House of Night in Tulsa. The snow fell so heavy that the dim lights around the campus could barely penetrate the dense, white blanket. I heard the click of heels already knowing who they belonged too. My mentor but also the one I was to defeat; Neferet. I had been trying to figure out why Nyx wanted me, a teenager who couldn't even parallel park or cuss, to kill a High Priestess whose power was enhanced with Darkness. To help but think I was complaining about a Geometry test the day I was mark, eesh. I would take that any day now.
"Shouldn't you be in class?" She sneered. I said nothing for a while and took in the anger that was beginning to build around the air between us.
"I came out to think about stuff. When I think I also prefer to do it alone." I told her with as much defiance in voice as I could muster. Even though I could somewhat stand up to her, she still scared the bull poopie out of me.
"Did you not learn manners as a child?" Neferet practically screeched. I bent my head using my hair to hide the smile that formed. She began walking again toward me making my whole body shudder. I hoped she wouldn't notice but the smirk I saw at the corner of my eye showed she did. How could I fight her and win?
"I did, but nothing to deal with pure incarnation of evil." I replied my voice beginning to shake as I felt talon like fingers around my waist and someone behind me. I straightened and tried to escape the hold but it was no use. She had me pinned against the wall against her. The bravery I once had drained from me as I was forced to look into her moss green eyes, the same ones that terrified me. I turned my head away not knowing it fully exposed my neck to the enemy. Moments later I felt lips that felt like silk graze the sensitive skin on my neck making me catch my breath. This was wrong, teachers and students could not be in relationships. Especially when they were trying to kill each other.
"Neferet! Stop!" I exclaimed as the lips found their way to my jaw and the corner of my mouth.
"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't. Chosen One." She said and spiting the last part as if it was a curse. Her lips soon found mine and almost immediately I felt my breath sucked out of me.
"It's fascinating no one uses this hallway anymore. Your cries will go unheard my dear." She admonished. Something awakened inside of me and the only thing I wanted was the woman standing in front of me. I cared not if she was another female or if she was my enemy, I only wanted her. There was one voice in my head; bad Zoey, she's EVIL or have you forgotten? It said. I pushed it away as I was pulled closer to the Priestess.
I kissed her back with the same passion she was giving me surprising the High Priestess in front of me. She bit my bottom lip making me let out an unwanted moan and a throaty, seductive laugh escaped from her.
"You like that?" She said. Our tongues danced together and she dominated the kiss right away leaving me to fight for any grounds with her. Her lips left mine and I whimpered at the lost connection. Then I felt teeth gently grazing my neck then a hard one followed. I felt te blood drain out of my body and the small tendril I didn't recognize in my mind began to form. Almost like another presence in my mind was forming. I didn't think anything of it and drowned in the pleasure I was receiving from the vamp. I took her wrist and held it to my mouth and bit down hard on the soft skin making her cry out as she lapped my blood.
Suddenly her lips left my neck after closing the wound and her wrist left my mouth. I slid to the ground as the support against the wall was clearly from her, left. I saw her face and knew one thing. We had Imprinted. I know realized the tendril of a presence was an Imprint forming.
"Bull poopie!" I yelled at myself as she walked away, laughing a triumphant laugh. I quickly stood and ran into my dorm wondering if someone was going to chop my head off like Loren and the other professor. That night I refused dinner and even the company of my friends. When they asked if I was dying I said no.
"Zoey, you need to eat." They said.
"I'm not hungry. Just leave me alone." I insisted. Shaunee and Erin looked at each other and something passed between them then the same thing happened with Stevie Rae, Aphrodite, Damien, Erik, Stark and Darius but to my relief they left. That is when I let myself unwind and sob. I was Imprinted with the most evil and vile person I knew which meant if I kill her, my soul would shatter or I will die too. But the more I thought about it the more I realized she couldn't kill me either, which meant she would have to abandon her conquest. I smiled wiping my tears away. I now knew a way to put the Priestess in her place.