OK, we're gonna focus on Paige's life a bit more, so ya know what her life is like and stuff. On and it's gonna be Paige's P.O.V. Enjoy!

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Left In The Dust; Chapter 6: My Life.

"Where were you last night, Paige?" Shelby demanded me at the breakfast table. I glanced up from my Frosted Flakes. Shelby crossed her arms across her chest, waiting for my answer. I really couldn't answer her question without exposing my identity as a vampire. And plus I didn't want to lie to them; they were, after all, my family. Yet I couldn't tell the truth to them either. My life was just to confusing that even I didn't understand it.

I slumped slightly in my chair. "What do you mean, Shelby?" I asked, stalling. Shelby glared at me. "You know what I mean." I shook my head. I actually didn't know what she meant; the memory from the last night was a bit of a blur in my brain. Shelby sighed through her teeth and leaned closer. Shelby had red trimmed glasses; strawberry blond hair, blue eyes, stylish side bangs, light freckles on her cheeks, had on a yellow t-shirt with the words ARÉO in orange, tight jeans, Uggs and a blue watch. "I mean," she said slowly, as if I were stupid. "Where you, when, you cut class' yesterday, and, where did you go?" She said the skipped school part loud enough for Wendy and David to hear. David glanced up from his crossword puzzle and Wendy slumped her shoulders with a sigh.

I glared daggers at Shelby as she just smiled innocently with a shrug. "Again, Paige?" Wendy said in an annoyed tone. I sighed, just as annoyed as my aunt, crossing my arms across my chest. "Yeah," I grumbled light heartily. Wendy ran a hand through her hair, while David crossed his arms. "How many times have I told you, Paige? You need to go to school! You can't just skip school! How many times have we told you this, Paige?" Wendy exclaimed. "Ninety-eight times." I said. I keep track. You get kind of bored when you hear the same thing every day, so I just decided to keep track.

"Right," Wendy said, surprised. I was pretty sure that David had lost interest in this conversation. I took another spoon full my Frosted Flakes as Shelby glared at me. Now it was my turn to smile. Shelby glanced up at my hair. "Where did you get the blood?" She demanded, pointing at my hair. I knew she was going to ask that question some time. "I fell," I lied. "Going down the street." I added.

Wendylooked up from her baking in the kitchen. "That's why you need to stay in school, Paige," Wendy scolded, all though she wasn't that good at it. "So that doesn't happen." I couldn't help but roll my eyes and chomp on my cereal, which drowned out most of what my aunt was saying. Almost every day, this was the families number 1# conversation; talking about my latest school disappearance or something. And always, Jason would come to my rescue. Which he did. Jason poked his head up from his own cereal. "Y'know," Jason said, "maybe she has a reason to skip school; a friend could be sick or something." Shelby rolled her eyes in an annoyed manner. "Yeah right,:" she said, "Paige doesn't have any friends." At school, I given everyone the impression that I didn't have any friends, even though at did at the Sunlight Circle. Wendy shook her head at Shelby. "Don't be rude, Shelby." Shelby's cheeks flushed and she ducked her head down, munching on her cereal quietly.

Shelby was the kind of girl that never got yelled at by an adult; never got into any kind of trouble, never got a grade lower that an A- and neverdid one thing bad her her life. So in other words, she was a goodie-two-shoes. I couldn't help but grin at Shelby's minor embarrassment and ate my cereal nosily. Jason chuckled at his sister and did the same as me. Jason was about fourteen; chestnut brown hair, light blue eyes, had on a red hoddie that had DC in white letters on it, baggy jeans and DC sneakers. I mouthed 'Thank you' to him, he mouthed back 'No prob' to me.

David checked his watch and said, "Okay, kids, time for school." Me and Jason both groaned at the same time, while Shelby smiled and got up happily. I pouted and swung my school bag over my shoulder. "It's not like your gonna stay there the whole day." Shelby pointed out. Wendy grabbed my arm and whispered in ear, "Stay in school, Paige, I mean it." I nodded slightly and made my way outside.

"Hey, Paige?" Jason said. I glanced over to him and gave him a nodding gesture to continue. "Why's your sweater soaked?" I glanced down at my sweater briefly and back up at him. "'Cause it was raining outside." I said. Jason looked at me for a long time before nodding. I was a bit confused; usually he didn't care about that sort of thing. But... I shook my head and headed towards my car. I chucked my back-pack into the back seat and sat in the drivers seat, shutting the door. I pressed the keys into the ignition, rolled out of the drive-way and headed off to the high-school.

The school wasn't that far away though; just a couple of blocks down my street. But I used the car anyway. Questions filled my head as of why it came over Jason to ask my questions like his sister. Maybe he's just curios. I reasoned. I was lost in my own thoughts when I pulled into the high-school parking-lot. I, as soon as I parked, opened the door, grabbed my back-pack and made my way into the school with a dead kind of look on my face.

I saw Shelby's car pull into the lot and walked a little faster, I didn't want to talk about last night again. The images of the man's terrified face filled my memory; I shivered at the memory. The reason I was even out at that time of night was because of my job; which was to protect humans from my own kind-and others-that were still hellbent on the 'Dark Times' and other past stuff that nobody in this damn generation gives a damn about. The Sunlight Circle tracks down those kinds of Midnight Circle people (the name of the hellbent vampires, werewolves, etc) and stops whatever the hell their doing; like a bloodbath (where lots of Vampires get together and drink a whole whack of humans blood), a hunt (werewolf thing), a slave trade or just some new born (not babies, bitten humans) that are out on the loose that nobody gives a crap about, so we usually take the poor kids in and the Sunlight Circle raises them. At the end of the night, there's usually blood.

I love my job.

I realized that I was smiling when I opened my locker and looked in the locker mirror. I smirked at myself and grabbed my History book, notebook and my Biology stuff out of the locker while shutting it. I scrambled my lock and made my way to History, my dead look back on my face. "Hey, are you okay, Paige?" Erica Thomson asked me from behind. I stopped and turned my head around. The people passing me made irritated noises and brushed past me and Erica. I didn't know Erica that well; all I knew was that she was usually hyper on either chocolate or caffeine.

Erica crocked an red eyebrow at me. I nodded. "Yeah," I said, as causally as I could. "Why?" Erica shrugged. "Well," she said, "you look kinda...Dead." That's 'cause I am. I said in my head, I wouldn't dare say that out loud. Erica gave me a long hard look before walking off into her class. I sighed as the bell rang with an annoying DDIINNGG. I made an irritated noise myself while rolling my eyes and headed off to History.

As I entered the room, Mr. Beaten, my History teacher, shot a look at me. I pretended not to notice as I sat in the back of the room. I was used the those kind of looks from teachers; because of my skipping-school-for-work thing, none of the eleventh grade teachers trusted me. Mr. Beaten never took his eyes off me. "Alright, class," he said. As he said it, the entire class was buzzing with conversations about everything but school. "Class," Beaten said, his voice getting louder. The class got louder, too. "CLASS!" He shouted.

Everyone shut-up.

"Now," Mr. Beaten said. "We're gonna continue on from where we left off yesterday..." I didn't give a damn of what he had to say after that. I slouched in my chair, folding my arms across my chest. Why was I even here? To write down notes that would be meaningless by next year? About real life? I didn't have an answer for the first two but the last one I knew that I was not here for that. In real life, I knew that I wasn't going to know who the first natives here or something pointless like that. I already had as taste of real life and it is not pretty. I glared at the History book as the teacher was telling the class about yesterdays lesson or something. I wasn't paying attention. I knew that in real life, it was a stinking hell hole that nobody could escape.

I tapped my pen lightly on the text book, lost in my own little world that was far from this one. I thought about what the Midnight Circle was doing right now. The Midnight Circle was very different from the Sunlight Circle; the Midnight Circle would try to wipe out the human race because of the Dark Times. The Dark Times is when all Vampires, Werewolves, Witch's, humans and Shape shifters lived together but the humans were scared of us. So, they had tried to kill us So we started to make their lives miserable but it was turning us evil, which we are not, so we wiped humans memories clean of us so we could live in secrecy.

I realize how strange that all sounds but it's only the truth.

I didn't bother with writeing what was on the board, I was lost in my Midnight World. Never to be found. Until the next bell rang of course.

I sat in Algebra class, bored. The teacher, Mrs. Miller, was explaining something to the class but, of course, I wasn't listening. I hated this class; not just because of the subject but the fact that Shelby was in this class, too. Sadly, me and Shelby were the same age; we weren't born in the same month or day or anything we were just born in the same year. My mother was a witch and my father was a vampire; I have absolutely NO idea how me and Shelby are related.

Shelby glanced at me the millionth time that class like a hawk. She always gave me that 'Don't you dare' kind of look at me. And I would always give her the 'What did I do?' look back at her. She would always roll her eyes and look back at the teacher. When she wasn't looking, I would mouth 'Retard' at Shelby and quickly scribble in my notebook before she glanced up again. I couldn't believe it, none of the Sunlight Circle people had texted me yet or anything. Maybe I don't have to skip school after all. I smiled at that. I could finally go through a day without coming home with a blood stained t-shirt and have the same conversation with my Aunt Wendy. Then something vibrated in my jean pocket.

My phone.

Damn it.

I glanced at Shelby whom had gone up to the board to answer a question, being the goodie-two-shoes she was. I sighed in relief. Thank God. I thought. I yanked my cell phone out of my jean pocket, putting up the texting keyboard on the phone. I pressed the TALK button that popped up the text that Sunlight Circle had sent me. I glanced around, making sure that no one was watching, and read the message. It said:

i now ur at scool but we hav found where new born vamps hav been comin from need u down at da docks in 10 TTUL Ronnie

Ronnie is one of my closest friends in the Sunlight Circle; I known her since we were about four. I pictured the African American girl in my mind; her dark, coffee like skin, long dark brown hair and puppy dog brown eyes. I texted her back:

kay b down in a sec XP

I put the phone back in my pocket quickly when Shelby returned to her seat. I needed to get out of here. But how? I glanced around the room casually. The class was only ten more minutes long but the vampire gang we were tracking down for the last two weeks would get away by then. So I had to think fast. Shelby had gone back up to the board to answer yet another question. I could use one of the spells Ronnie taught me, she was a witch, on the teacher to let us out of here earlier but I was to far away. Shelby returned to her seat while I was pondering.

"Okay," Mrs. Miller said. "Who would like to answer this question?" Bingo. Before Shelby could raise her hand, my hand shot up like a bullet in the air. Mrs. Miller gave me a weird look. "Okay, Paige, c'mon up!" She said. Everyone stared at me in disbelief. I couldn't blame them; I wasn't the kind to answer questions in class. Hell, I didn't do anything. Period. I got up from my seat and up to the front of the room, slowly.

I parcticed the spell over and over in my head: From the Calls of Past Witch's, I command your Mind! From the Calls of Past Witch's, I command your Mind! (Don't judge.) Erica gave me 'What the hell are you doing?' kind of look. "Don't judge." I whispered as I past her desk. Mrs. Miller gave me the marker for the white board. "Here you are," she mused. "From the Calls of Past Witch's, I command your Mind!" I said as quietly as possible. She gave me a weird look then her face went blank. I smiled. It worked. Now, I said telepathically, let the class go out early. Mrs. Miller nodded, turned around while taking the marker back. "Alright, class," she said in a zoned out kind of voice. "You may leave." Nobody moved for a second, then the started tripping over each other to get out the door.

I couldn't stop smiling. Shelby stared at Mrs. Miller. "Are you sure, Mrs. Miller? I mean we haven't-" "Don't argue with me, Shelby!" Shelby's cheeks turned hot with embarrassment and got up from her seat. I got my school bag and rushed to my locker. I quickly scrambled in my combination, shoving all my school text books into my locker. "Where are you going?" Shelby's stren voice filled my ears. I took the stuff I needed-which wasn't a lot though-closed my locker and walked past Shelby saying, "I don't have time for this, Shelby." Shelby grabbed my elbow.

"Your not leaving campus until you tell where the heck your going!" Shelby snapped. Have I mentioned that Shelby has never said a curse word in her life? I got out of her grip. "I'm very sorry," I said, I wasn't sure why I was apologizing though. "But you can't know." Shelby snorted. "Oh really? And why not?" She restored. I swatted her hand away when she made yet another grab for me to stop when I started to leave again. "For your protection." That's all I was allowed to say, really. I walked away from Shelby. "From what?" She called as I marched down the hall. When I didn't answer, she called, "I'm telling my parents that your skipping school again!" Shelby could tell the president of the United States for all I cared. All I knew was that I needed to get to the docks.

Now.

I pushed past some wild students and ran from the building. I ran to my car in nano seconds, I chucked my school bag in the back and started the car again. As I rolled out of the school parking-lot, I could have sworn I'd seen Erica wave at me.

"GET 'EM, PAIGE! GET 'EM!" Spencer Ryan, a werewolf, yelled at me as I tailed a vampire. I was at the docks where the innocent humans were being turned into vampires, chasing one of the guys that was the head of the operations. Me, Ronnie, Spencer and Kyle Morgan, a shape shifter, were on this Sunlight mission. I was close to the guy that I could smell his fear. I smirked. I made the giant leap between us and pinned him to the ground. He yelped in surprise as I rolled him over, so I could see his face. He had ash black hair and blue eyes, his skin was like skim milk.

I tighten my grip on his wrists. "How are you and how do you work for?" I demanded through my teeth. He looked the direction, at Kyle. "Answer me!" I snapped, digging my sharp nails into his flesh. He yelped in pain while I just rolled my eyes. "Wimp," I mused. "Okay! Okay! I-I'll tell you everything." I smiled. "Thank you," I said. I never loosened my grip. I didn't trust him. "My name is Salem," he said. "And?" Ronnie said, getting down beside me.

Salem bit his lip and shook his head. He knew what we wanted, he just didn't want to say it. "Alrighty then," I said. "I guess we'll just have to get the wood..." Spencer came up with a wooden stake. Kyle and Ronnie grinned as Spencer made a move to give the wooden stake to me. Salem's eyes widened with fear, every vampires weakness; wood. "No! Please!" He begged. "Here you are, boss," Spencer said, handing the stake to me. I smirked, taking the stake slowly. "Okay!" Salem said. "I'll talk." Spencer took back the stake. "Go on," Kyle said, guesturing for him to continue. "Keller sent me,"

I froze.

Keller was the number one vampire that everyone these days has been being sent by. And all of them said the same thing: "He forced me to!" Salem said it just then, too. "Of course he did." Ronnie said in a annoyed tone, rolling her eyes. All I knew about Keller that he was very deadly vampire that also was half shape shifter; pretty rare these days. I sighed and turned my head to Kyle. "Get the cuffs," I ordered. Kyle blinked twice. "What to you want me to do with 'em, boss?" He asked. "Whatever you want." Kyle shrugged, taking out the wooden cuffs Sunlight Circle gave us. Spencer and Kyle grabbed Salem, putting the cuffs on his wrists. Spencer took his cell phone from his jean pocket, obviously talking to the Sunlight Circle for back-up.

Me and Ronnie walked away from the scene all little, so we could talk. "I can't believe this!" Ronnie wailed. "Another one sent by that Keller creep!" I nodded in agreement. "Yeah, I know." I said. Ronnie saw the distracted look on my face and said, "Hey, what up?" I turned my head to face her. "I'm thinking about my family." I said. Ronnie nodded "Yeah," Ronnie followed my aimless gaze across the water. "I protect them," I ranted to Ronnie. "And what do I get? A damn bratty cousin that thinks I'm totally worthless; an Aunt that will stop at nothing to make me miserable with guilt and may I go on?"

Ronnie sighed and glanced over at a struggling Salem. "Y'know, Salem, struggling only makes 'em tighter." Spencer pointed out to him but Salem kept on struggling. Kyle was attending some of the new borns while he talked into Spencer's cell phone. "So?" Ronnie said, shrugging. "Saving peoples lives is what you get." I sighed and glanced towards the scene behind her.

"I'm sorry, Ronnie," I said. "It's just...I'm tired of keeping everything a secret from my family. And the fact that Shelby is a pain in the ass." Ronnie giggled slightly, shaking her head. "Oh, Paige," Ronnie said. I couldn't help but laugh along with her. I took out my cell phone and checked the time. 3:34. I put my phone back and said, "Can you guys take it from here?" I asked Ronnie. She nodded with an understanding smile. "Yep," I nodded and walked to the other side of the pier. I grabbed my school bag and headed towards my car. I jumped into my car, chucking my school bag in the back and drove away.

I thought about what Ronnie said about how saving peoples lives was important enough. I sighed and flipped the hair out of my eyes. Without breaking the limit, I drove as fast as I could to my home. Then I came up to the drive-way. Shelby's car wasn't there. I smiled. At least I could think up a story before Shelby could. I jumped out of the car, taking my school bag and jogged into my house. "Hey," I called. David and Wendy looked from what they were doing. "Paige," David said. Wendy put the her hands on her hips. "Your skipped again, didn't you, Paige?" Wendy said in a stern voice. I shook my head. "Not exactly," David crocked an eye brow and Wendy's expression turned from stern to confusion. "You see," I said. "A friend, that doesn't go to school, is horrible sick and needed my help. So that's why I've been skipping school." The room fell silent. Then Wendy had tears in her eyes. "Oh, Paige," Wendy sniffled. "You could have told us! We would have understood!"

She walked over and gave me a hug. "It's a good thing to tell the truth, ain't it, Paige?" David said, a smile on his face. What? It is halfthe truth. I smiled and hugged Wendy back. When we parted, I said, "I'll go to my room and call to see how my friend is doing..." I sniffled for effect. I walked to my room up stairs while hearing Wendy and David talk to the selves. I sighed as I entered my bedroom and took out my cell phone. I punched on Ronnie's number and waited for Ronnie to answer. "-Hey,-" Ronnie said.

"It's me."

"-Sup?-"

"How's it going?"

"-Salem is in Sunlight custody; the new borns are being taken care of and then you called.-"

I made a tsst sound and shook my head. "-How's it going at the Ruth estate?-" She asked. "I told them that my friend was sick." Ronnie laughed in the phone the silence. "-Um, sorry, but my minutes are turning into second, so I'll talk to you later.-" Ronnie said. I gave a slight nod. "'Kay, later." "-Later.-" The line cut off. I put my phone in my pocket and lied on my bed. I wondered what Shelby was going to do when she heard my story about my 'friend' being sick. I laughed when I imagined her flushed face with embarrassment when Wendy would tell her about how Jason was right about the sick friend. I shook my head slightly at the thought.

Well, this was usually my day; this. I would deal with Shelby and school tomorrow, right now, I was tired. I rested my head on the pillow, closing my tired eyes.

This, was my life.

And no one else's.

PHEW! This took a while! XD And, YEESH! Ain't Paige a curser? DX Anyways, this was just so you guys get an idea of what Paige goes through every day. Oh and if you guys ever read the book Night World by L.J Smith-also author of Vampire Dairies-then you will see simerlartes to this and the book. 'Till next time! Review!

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