It had been a few days since our first meal. The inside was extraordinary. The living room, kitchen, dining room, office and a bathroom took up the ground floor. Three large bedrooms, a library and a bathroom took up the second floor. The third held another three or four bedrooms and the tower was a double story room. Aurora and Solomon nabbed the bedroom nearest the tower, which I claimed as my own. Edwin and Elsie claimed a room on the third level along with Christopher and Emily. There was a small basement as well which we used as a sort of 'meat locker' by several bags of blood in a freezer that was once used for frozen food.
I had spent the first two days arranging my room so my personal sitting and music room was on the top floor and my 'public' room was on the bottom. The majority of my things were up above. The only things that remained 'down stairs' were my desk, an armoire and several boxes of shoes.
The third day brought a vision of them. They had planted in a home just off of the main house of another coven. They were planning on attending a school in the area, Mainfield, in two days. When I had relayed my vision to Emily, she nodded and went to work on making us her undercover agents.
"So," I heard Emily behind me causing me to turn around to look at her. "I've placed everything you need in a backpack including contacts."
"Whatever." I shrugged. I was one of the many 'school eligible' members of the coven. Emily considered herself, Christopher and Solomon 'too old' and left the rest of us to attend. Edwin was probably the only people who didn't give a damn about school. Aurora and I enjoyed school and learning unlike Elsie who loathed every minute of it.
"They've got a dress code." She commented.
"Okay." I looked around for the attire she mentioned and found it not long after.
"Thought I'd tell you and Aurora before Christopher breaks it to Edwin and Elsie." She shrugged. Then we heard a horrible scream come from up stairs.
"Too late." We said in unison and she left me to get ready. It was a crisp white shirt and a cream pleated skirt with black accents. Black leggings, shoes, tie, blazer for colder months, vest for warmer. You name it. I opened the door to my armoire and took a look at myself. I looked decent and not too long after I was dressed, Aurora and Solomon joined me in my room.
"Well, don't we look adorable?" she said over my shoulder looking at the two of us in the mirror. A trill of a giggle escaped her mouth.
"Well, ready to go?" I heard Elsie growl from the hallway. She made sure she was not one to be tempted with by styling her hair in a slightly messy bun.
"Grab a bite to eat before you all leave." Emily said from the living room waiting until she heard the rip of a bag of blood. Afterward our breakfast, the five of us escaped from the house with coats and hats: Edwin, Elsie, Aurora, Solomon and me. Once we were in one of the vehicles, we pulled out a container of brown contacts and placing them on our blood red irises to make us seem that more normal. The ride there was rather slow. We had spent the majority of it in near silence.
Once we were at the school, Mainfield, we were bombarded with various teens and preteens gawking at us. At times like these, I wonder why I'm not as vain as Emily or some of the other vampires we crossed in our path. The staring was something I had grown used to, it was the obvious jaws hanging open from the male body, and a few girls, that made it that more uncomfortable. I felt the tickle of a vision and Aurora had kept me moving the whole time.
They weren't attending school this time. They were staying at the homestead longer. They would be attending here. Soon.
"They're not attending here, yet." I whispered to the rest of them but Aurora had already gained that information. "They'll be here in a few days." I was amazed that we were fairing this well. Their blood, their untainted blood called to us. Elsie looked about the school ground uneasily, a few of the girls, young and old, were eyeing Edwin up rather conspicuously.
"Okay." Aurora's smiled and hooked our arms together. "Let's go and get our schedules." We pressed into the building. It was an old school; it'd been around since the late 50's, yet there were recent designs: bulletin boards, lockers, posters dedicated to drama, concerts, student council and the like. We walked into the main office and each of the ladies looked at us curiously. I looked at each of us.
"Ives and Abbot. We were called in earlier this week?" I let my eyebrows rise and one in particular nodded.
"One moment please." She smiled and began to print out our schedules one by one. Edwin got his first, Aurora got hers second, then I got mine and Elsie was last. We walked out as a group and began to find our class rooms and lockers. We luckily had lockers in a row
I looked down at my schedule as we were walking. It was split into two sets. The first was a Monday/Wednesday/Friday.
First hour: Astronomy
Second hour: Calculus
Third hour: French
-Lunch-
Fourth hour: AP History
Fifth hour: Study hall
The second was for Tuesday/Thursday.
First hour: Chemistry
Second hour: Trigonometry
Third hour: Study hall
-lunch-
Fourth hour: AP English
Fifth hour: Ballroom Dancing
"Ballroom Dancing?" Elsie's eyebrows arched as she peered over my shoulder. I looked at her then at her schedule. We had nothing together but her and her mate had practically all their classes together. I looked at Aurora's. She and I had the same classes to a 'T.'
"Well," Aurora began. "Ready for Astronomy?"
The class room was filled three quarters of its capacity of students. Each turned to look at us like we were some beautiful anomaly. There was a nun at the head of the classroom. She looked at the two of us before addressing us
"Welcome to Mainfeild," She smiled a generally warm smile. "I am Sister Hannah. Please take a seat where available." She moved her hand toward the pre-twentieth century desks. The whole front row was empty, probably from the student body fearing the teacher. Aurora and I took our seats just as the bell tolled the beginning of class.
"Now, since you are new to this school, come to the front and introduce yourselves." She smiled. Aurora and I took one quick look at one another, checking our contacts which still had the brown tint to them. We'd be safe for another few hours. I stood up first followed by Aurora.
"Hi, I'm Blythe." I smiled at the crowd and got a few returned.
"And I'm Aurora." She did the same.
"Oh, what beautiful names!" Sister Hannah gushed and took center stage again letting Aurora and I sit down. I leaned toward Aurora.
"How much do you want to bet Elsie's freaking out right now?" I whispered and offered her a smirk.
