"Please, shut up! I can't concentrate!", Stephanie shouted, her face twisted in annoyance and rage. She always had been the short fuse in the family.
She rolled her pale blue eyes and tossed her light brown twist and curls. She was lying on her bed with a magazine in front of her.
Her brother, Declan, was sitting at her study table and was playing some sort of game on her laptop and was yelling at the character.
"OH, golly gee, Stephanie, I am so sorry!", Declan made a fake innocent face and snickered. That was it. Stephanie lunged at him, shoving him off the chair to the floor. I sighed and rushed to them, grabbing Declan off the floor, away from Stephanie. Even though we were 17 years old, I still had to pacify Declan and Steph when they bickered away like this. Even now, that we were in boarding school, I had to control them.
For those of you who are wondering, I am Damien Westwood. I was the sister of Declan and Stephanie Westwood. Actually we were triplets. But Declan was always the baby. He looked younger too, his pale green eyes and almost- blonde hair, and his short skinny frame. All the three of us were skinny.
And we had such a shocking history.
Our parents had been killed in a car crash when we were babies. Only, a woman named Dorothy was posing as our mother, living with us till we were 16, when we found out that we were billionaires and that she was siphoning the money away, we had her arrested and we moved away to Eleanor Academy. Dorothy had turned Steph and me into mortal enemies and she had Declan sent away a lot so we never saw him. Now, Steph and I were getting back on track after spending our lives hating each other. Now we had Dex, too.
That's what we called him.
Despite being in boarding school, the three of us stuck together, like glue. We had the same friend's circle too. And we shared the dorm room. The three of us were inseparable. But I always had to break up their stupid quarrels.
Dorothy had always favored me over Dex and Steph and that made Dex shy and Steph, a hot head. Steph was rebellious and Dex was an introvert.
As for me, I am the extreme diplomat. I am the most logical, practical and sensible person ever. My grey eyes help calm people and my dark brown hair forms lovely waves at the ends, framing my face.
Apart from hair colour and eye colour, the three of us looked scarily alike. The doctor had even joke about having three twins!
But Dex, Steph and me were so vastly different by behavior and attitude.
"Earth to Damien, come in Damien…..", I was snapped out of my day dreaming by Dex and Steph's bad imitations of a navy radio code. I smiled at them and asked, "Isn't Loraine getting back with Ken?", I remembered Loraine, short and tiny, with jet black hair and eyes that were almost Chinese- like. The school's biggest gossip and the soccer champ, tanned and tall, Ken, brown hair and eyes, school heart throb.
I rolled my eyes, I hated love stories. "Yep, and so are Jesse and Dex", Stephanie gushed. I turned to see Dex, his face red, eyes down. Stephanie and I exchange glances and evilly teased him, "OHHHH Jesse!", tickled him till he cried. We loved to bully him.
"Well, are we going to the club or not?", Dex asked when he recovered. I nodded. As part of the welcoming party, Eleanor Academy had organized a night out at the nearby club. We all had to go. We soon skipped out of our dorms and went into the parking lot. Since we were billionaires, we had a car sent to us by our aunt and extended family. A Mercedes.
We hopped into the glossy black car, when Loraine, Jesse and Ken rushed out of the dorms. Soon we were all in the car, zooming off to the club. Stephanie had the wheel, with me next to her. In the back, Loraine and Ken were giggling about something and Jesse and Dex were just looking out the window. I glared at Dex; he was just too shy to talk, as was Jesse, her dark hair was cut so short like a boy's, and her dark eyes shone with excitement. Her tanned face was red, oh Jesse was the most peaceful, quiet and shy person I knew.
And also the sweetest and most selfless.
At the club, Loraine and Ken went off somewhere. Jesse just sat with Dex and they talked quietly. I glanced around, Stephanie was most likely to drink if I didn't stop her; more like if I didn't tell her that it wasn't juice, it was alcohol.
She was the most hare brained and impulsive person ever. I was so used to having to cover up for her and reel her in when she went over board. (Figuratively)
I was protective over my little starlets. Both of them. They were everything I had. I sometimes felt I was smothering them but they had told me that they needed it, it made up for not having a family. They loved it. which was exactly why I had to hunt them down now. I couldn't see either of them. Where had they gone?
I looked around and saw it…..
I saw a girl, really cute girl, she was biting Declan's neck! She was sinking her teeth into MY brother. I ran over to her and I was stopped by the disgusting sight of it. his blood spilt all over, I was nauseated. I bent over to throw up. I wanted to find Steph. I saw the girl and Dex again. Was she what I think she was? A… vampire?
I turned to run away. I had to see if Stephanie was okay; she was more likely to be in more trouble. "Ohoh no you don't" a guy stopped me. "Hey let me go!", I pushed him away, a full scale panic attack found me. I was gasping and reeling. I knew I would throw up! "Hey, hey, you're okay. You're fine", he held me, supporting me as I weakly collapsed.
He tightened his grip, he made me look into his eyes, I saw his face for the first time. He was beautiful beyond compare, his hair was dark brown and his eyes, oh his eyes were gorgeous; a stunning grey blue eyes that lit up like the moon with silver. He focused his gaze on me and whispered in a voice I knew belonged to an angel, "You will forget all about this. You will just go back with your brother and sister. Nothing ever happened in the Bitter Sweet Club, okay?", "umh", was all I could say. Wow! He was amazing. I knew what he was doing; he was using compulsion on me. it was a vampire ability. I knew I would forget everything.
Next thing I knew I woke up next morning with Stephanie and Declan in their own beds, across the room.
Then why did I feel so strange? Did something happen last night? Why was I with butterflies in my stomach at the thought of it? I had to find out. Did I black out?
I went over and saw Dex's sleeping face and then I saw it.
The mark on his neck.
I gasped, the only word that came to my mind was…vampires!