"Eve, pleaseeee," Yes I was whining, but I was desperate! I really didn't wan to be here right now "I really should go, Eve I-" before I could finish Eve cut me off "Nuh-uh CB, you just gone and made this even more interesting now." Oliver snickered over in the corner "She's right you know, we're all going to be paying extra attention now!" I groaned when I realised they were right, I should've just left it alone... Stupid Claire, stupid, stupid, stupid...

"Richard, carry on if you please." Amelie seemed slightly fazed by what had occurred but ordered Richard to carry on anyways. I looked over at Richard and met his eyes, whilst shaking my head, I was begging with my eyes for him not to read it. He gave me a small apologetic smile before carrying on, I let my head fall to the table, and I could hear Oliver, Myrnin, Michael, Hannah and even Amelie chuckling. Shane looked pretty confused from what I could see and Eve was smirking where she sat.

Richard cleared his throat and carried on reading,

"Claire blinked, because she was expecting an old, sick person; expecting it so much she looked around again, trying to find him." Myrnin cut in again "Hey! I don't look old!" I sighed and groaned and I could hear Amelie doing the same "No Myrnin, but the way Amelie was talking made it sound like you were old and sick, so that's what I expected!" He frowned and huffed obviously unhappy with my reasoning, but stayed quiet letting Richard read.

"But the only man in the room sat in a chair, peacefully reading a book. He marked the spot with a finger, closed it, and looked up at Amelie." Richard faltered slightly obviously uncomfortable with reading this, but he carried on "He was young, or at least he looked it. Shoulder-length curly brown hair, big, dark puppy-dog eyes, flawless, faintly golden skin. Frozen at maybe the age of twenty-five, just enough for creases to be forming at the corners of his eyes. Also..."

Richard stopped short and cleared his throat, before looking over at me. "Richard?" Amelie seemed pretty confused at his sudden stop "Carry on please." He looked back at the book to carry on and I banged my head against the table.

"Also, he was really, really... Pretty." I banged my head repeatedly into the table while everyone just gaped at the revelation, and my reaction. I stopped hitting my head and looked up only to find everyone staring at me, Myrnin and Oliver were smirking, "Well, I must say I have never been called...pretty before," Everyone laughed at Myrnin, apart from Shane he looked like he was going to explode, "God! Just stop! Yes I called Myrnin pretty, no I'm not denying it! Now can we please just get over it and carry on reading the damned story!" I yelled at them all and they seemed pretty - ironic much - taken aback by my outburst, to be honest so was I.

Thankfully Hannah took the book and started reading, "And he didn't look sick. Not at all.

'Ah, good, I've been waiting for you,' he said. He spoke English, but with some kind of accent, nothing that Claire could identify. It sounded a little bit like Irish, "I am not Irish!" Myrnin cried, Hannah chuckled but carried on reading, "A little bit like Scottish, but more...liquid, somehow. Welsh? 'Claire is it? Well come forward, girl, I won't bite.' He smiled, and unlike Amelie's cool attempt, it was a warm, genuine expression full of merriment." "So I can't smile properly now!"Amelie whined, we all stared at her and then burst out laughing.

After a few minutes we had all settled down enough for Hannah to carry on, "Claire took a couple of steps towards him. She sensed Amelie tensing behind her, and wondered why. Myrnin seemed OK. Seemed more OK than any vampire she'd seen so far, except maybe Sam, Michael's grandfather - and Michael, the youngest vampire in Morganville."

All of a sudden Shane stood up and his chair flew away "So that's it is it! You have feelings for him don't you!"

"What? Shane no I-" I tried to protest but Shane cut me off "It's obvious Claire. You know what, we're over!" With this Shane stormed out of the council room.

We all sat there gaping at the door before I felt cool tears making their way down my cheeks. Eve sympathetically looked round at me before enveloping me in a huge hug, "Oh CB, I'm so sorry." She whispered to me, it took me a minute, but I finally responded, I wrapped my arms around her back and sobbed into her shoulder, for what felt like hours...

IK no Clyrnin yet :( I will get there hopefully next chapter :) if anyone has any ideas about other extracts I could use they would be greatly appreciated :) X