Chapter 4: All The Drama Before
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Okay, now that we've read the mail, lets continue the story...
"Kids! Supper!", the housemother, Trudy, excalimed from the common/dining room.
Mick, Alfie and then Fabian came in rushing, they were always hungry first.
And very much slower, Mara and Amber came from upstairs holding tight the handrail.
Trudy seemed happy to see, technically, 'her kids' again, after a couple of months.
But something was missing.
"Where is Nina, Joy, Jerome and Patricia?" Trudy asked at the rest of the students' table.
Fabian, Amber and Alfie looked around, Mick kept scarfing his food, and Mara looked intrigued.
"I don't know. Nina went upstairs saying she was coming down for supper." Fabian stated.
Trudy looked around the table.
"Mara! Can you be a dear and bring Nina to the table?" Trudy asked Mara.
"Sure!" Mara jumped out of her chair and ran upstairs.
Mara knocked on Nina and Amber's room door, while slowly removing a small paper strip off her nose.
Nina opened the door, peered her head out, and was shocked to find Mara out there.
"Oh, hi Mara." She said simply, her face expressionless.
"Hi Nina. Trudy said to bring you to supper." Mara said and then chuckled at the tought, in some other complex way her mind worked in.
Nina looked back at her own room, to make sure nothing, or no one was there.
"Can we talk?" Nina asked.
"Sure." Mara replied without hestitation.
They both entered the room and sat on Nina's bed.
"What's the problem Nina? Is it Fabian? Did he forget your birthday again?"
"What? No! It's not that." Nina said, now with a worried expression on her face.
"I saw something in the woods, while I was out with Fabian...and I think I glanced by chance something shining from the object, or animal, or whatever it was making that noise's hand. I could just not forget about it. I swear I've seen that thing before." Nina explained.
Mara was just left mouth-opened. She closed it and started replying.
"Well, what if you just saw a leaf with water or something, or the moon, or some eyes. I don't know." Mara sure didn't have an explanation for this.
"So what do you think thi-" Nina started.
"Wait a minute. Why are you telling me this?" Mara asked.
Nina raised an eyebrow.
"I mean, not that it's nice to spend time with you and everything, I guess, but we really didn't communicate at all last year." Mara explained.
"Believe me, I'm desperate, and I really want to spend more time with you. You know. Get to know you." Nina stated.
"Oh, okay, I guess." Mara concluded.
Nina quickly glanced at Mara's nose.
"Why did you change your nose?" She asked.
"I didn't like it, simple as that. I asked for it to be a bit longer." Mara looked proud.
Nina chuckled for a second, then she heard footsteps coming towards the room.
Someone opened the door, and Nina quickly glanced at the hand of the person who was at the doorframe. It was a girl hand, and it had a silver ring, with a bright pink heart on it.
"Nina, you missed supper, go downstairs to eat your food alone." Joy said, smirking at her smart remark.
Nina glared at her face, and when she was gone Nina looked scared again.
Mara quickly saw her expression, than jumped in.
"Nina! You look pale! You look like you've seen a ghost.!" Mara excalimed.
'No not again! This cannot be happening again' Nina tought.
Instead of replying, Nina stormed out and raced downstairs. She was not going to leave this alone.
-One Hour Ago-
"Hey guys! Check the sweet couple out!" Joy looked from the tree branch, down to Nina and Fabian, relaxing from their date.
"Joy. I know what you're thinking. And I won't let you." Patricia said matter-of-factly to Joy, catching after her.
"Who's on a date?" Jerome asked, catching after behind the girls. Now the three of them were admiring Nina and Fabian cuddling from a tree. If you didn't know the situation, that would have sounded creepy.
"Fabian and Nina." Patricia said quickly. Joy smacked her hard in the arm.
"Don't say it! That couple is evil." Patricia and Jerome glanced at eachother than back at Joy.
'We are getting worried about you. Joy.' their eyes said.
"Oh come on guys! Get real. I'm not going to hurt them." She assured, but her fangs were coming our and her eyes were turning red.
"But it wouldn't hurt a little scare now, would it?" she asked, but didn't let her friends answer, because she ran away as fast as she could, with her supersonic speed.
"Joy!" both Patricia and Jerome exclaimed at the same time, running a the same speed behind her.
They all ran through tree branches, falling several time into bushes, and clinging into the branches again.
"Joy! Let's just hunt for animals and get back to the house before anybody sees us!" Patricia exclaimed when they stopped by the clearing.
Joy sighed, and dug her fangs into a branch, and saying something in between the lines of 'I'm not going anywhere'.
The plan didn't work, because Jerome quickly undug her fangs, took her whole body and clinged it over one shoulder, making her unable to move.
"Lets go home." He sighed and started climbing down slowly, her friend over his shoulder and his other friend following him.
-Present Time-
Nina walked into the common room.
"Nina, are you okay? You missed supper." Fabian asked after Nina came down, holding her shoulders lightly.
"Where's Joy?" Nina asked.
"Last time I saw her she entered the laundry room." Mick said, taking a bite our of his apple.
Nina didn't pause for a moment. She ran to the common room, then followed to the kitchen, then the laundry room. She stop dead on her tracks when she heard laughing from the washing machine.
She walked slowly to the machine, and opened the door, as slowly as well. She saw the three missing teens sitting inside, in a circle.
"Wait, what? What happened guys? Why are you sitting on a washing machine? I don't understand a bit." Nina stated, crossing her arms while the expression on her face changed.
"Uh, well. This is kind of our hanging out place. So privacy please..." Patricia said, closing the lid slowly, but Nina stopped her.
"No. First I want Joy to explain why was she watching me and Fabian on a date from a tree!" Nina was calm, but furious inside.
The trio looked at eachother.
"Wait a minute. Were you all watching me?" Nina asked. Now she was furious inside and out.
The trio got out of the washing machine using super speed.
"Wait another minute.." Nina was now confused.
"...what are you?" she asked.
"Let us explain." Jerome said from behind her, scaring her.
"But I think we should tell everyone." Patricia said, locking a tough descision.
Joy just glared at Nina.
"Lets meet at your room." Joy concluded.
"With the rest of Sibuna." she added.
Then the three speeded away.
Nina was left in a state of awe. She took her time to go around and call the others.
When the seven people were at Amber and Nina's room, with the door locked, the confession started.
"We're vampires." Patricia said simply.
Nobody gasped, the teens just squinted their eyes and tried to understand the situation. It was House of Anubis. The fact of this happened wasn't weird at all.
"So. How did that happened." Alfie asked looking up.
"Well..." Joy started explaining.
-Two Months Ago- -Night of the Dance-
Joy, Patricia and Jerome were walking home early, since they were the only ones without dates, and that tought really didn't fit well with all the happy couples around the room, especially since each one of them liked someone else that was taken.
But instead of walking home, they walked all the way to the forest, getting deeper and deeper and deeper...
-Present Time-
"...And then we felt a sharp pain, as something attacked us by surprise. But we don't remember anything else from that night. We woke up the next day, feeling like we could anything, but that day was the day we all went home. So nobody else knew what to do. It was done." Joy finished.
All the other members just sat there, intrigued on what could have attacked them.
"So you have no idea what might have attacked you?" Nina asked.
"No, not really. It could have been more vampires." Jerome stated, straching the back of his neck.
"Also, you don't have to worry about hurting you. We leave every dinner to hunt for animals in the blood. It's enough for us." Patricia said, walking over Amber's bed and sitting down.
"And finally, you cannot tell anyone about this, okay?" Joy asked.
A chorus of 'okay's and 'sure's came out from the rest of their group.
"I have two questions." Fabian raised his hand.
"Sure, ask away." Patricia replied, not looking up from her nails.
"Do you stay ageless and are you going to be like this forever." Fabian asked.
"No, we age, and the only way to return human is by taking a certaing type of snake, which can't be found in the UK, and making it bite us in the neck. So that's a big No-No." Patricia answered.
Everyone heard what they needed to hear. After a while, everyone left to their rooms. Nina and Amber stayed in their's, of course.
But while Amber was mindlessly painting her nails, Nina was thinking. Deeply.
Bring Sibuna. Forever. Misterious words kept repeating in her mind. Sibuna was no more, she knew that. But when she told herself that, she felt like a lie was growing more and more in her heart, and it will soon overtake her.
Bring Sibuna. Bring Sibuna. Sibuna. Sibuna. Sibuna. Sib-
Her train of tought was broken by the sound of Victor's voice.
"Children! Everyone come outside. We have a situation to discuss." His voice filled the house.
'Argh! What now!' Nina complained in her bed as she stood up.
One by one. All the teens came out from their rooms into the main hall. Except Mara, who was in the common room.
"A friend of mine and therapist, Dr. Pax, has created a theraphy box at the end of this hall." Victor said as all nine walked over the end of the boys hallway.
"Here it is. The doctor I told you about, Dr. Pax, has placed this room in here, so everyday you enter, click the 'record video' button on a camera, which is located inside there, sit on the seat, and you will tell all your secrets to the camera, like if it was a theraphy session." Victor finished.
All the students started talking really loudly to eachother. After they silenced, Mara raised her hand.
"Why, exactly, is this here?" she asked.
"Because me and Dr. Pax feel like you students need your talking. We've been worried about you all. Every student must do it everyday, starting tomorrow, for one hour each segment. When you close the door behind you it will close and lock, locking you in there. Only when one hour has passed the door will open. It can also be opened from outside. It's also soundproof, so nobody can eavesdrop on your conversation." Victor finished.
They were all confused. Why does a therapist wanted to see them? They were just another group of unestable teens which had no control in their lives. Right? What information could they have?
Nina stepped into the box, wanting to start a day earlier, and closed the door behind her, as it clicked and locked.
The room was small, only two people could fit in it. There was a seat covering half of the floor of the room, and a camera in a camera stand. The room was all a cold metal, never escaping darkness. But it wasn't really dark, was there was a roof lamp and a air conditioner in the room. The seat only had a wine colored pillow protecting it from people sitting on hard and cold metal. Nina pressed the record video button on the back of the camera where she found it, then started talking to the it.
Nina's Camera Session #1
"Hi. I'm Nina Martin. I don't know why am I doing this. All my secrets should be kept secrets and secrets only. But obviously that rule is broken now." She chuckled for a second and became serious...
"But seriously, if you need to know, I've been hearing weird voices in my mind all day. But, I wouldn't really call them words. They are more like mumbles. I really couldn't hear them right..." she continued. Nina kept talking and explaining her somehow interesting life for an hour, then she heard the door click besides her. She pressed the stop video button and stepped outside. It was a little bit later than 10PM. Nobody was outside, so Nina decided to go to bed.
When she entered to her room, Amber looked up at her and gave her a soft smile.
"They are making blood-tests tomorrow." Amber announced at Nina.
Oh great. That's all she needed.
Nina didn't reply. She just jumped into bed and buried her body under the covers.
She started thinking.
'Please God. Please make time stop or slow down at least!'
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Too late. Alarm Clock won this time.