Chapter 7

Lola POV

"Okay Vanessa, how do you expect us to get out of here?" We had just woken up from a long night of restless sleeping, at least it was for me, and the guards were about to come to get us for our morning visit to the feeders, which the guards do for us every once in a while on specific days.

We are Moroi and we do need to feed, but in here we don't get to feed as much as I would have liked.

"Well, I was thinking that when the guards get us for our breakfast 'feeding' that we could steal the keys off of them and sneak away during the middle of the 'night'." Vanessa said, with an excited squeal as she got changed out of her sleeping clothes.

I don't know why she puts so much thought into what she wears since there are no cute guys that she can show off in front of here.

That's what she said that she used to do before she got put in here. She would always dress in her best clothes because she never knew what cute guy would be looking at her.

What a load of crap!

A guy should not like you for the way you dress, but for your personality.

That's why I don't dress to impress boys, I dress to make myself feel good. Although now that I am stuck in here I just wear sweatpants and sweaters, since we barely get out of our room or cell if you will, to make me feel in a good mood to dress better.

Just then I heard footsteps coming down the hall and a guard showed up at our cell and unlocked it.

"You first." The guard said while pointing at Vanessa.

Vanessa walked towards the door and the guard guy grabbed her around the arm and dragged her down the hall towards the feeders' room.

Another guard came down the hall and locked up my cell door. And then she moved on down the hall locking other doors.

I just sat around in our cell trying to pass the time until Vanessa returned, and hopefully with the key, by thinking about what my life would be like if I were normal.

Would I be a bitch just like my sister or would I be the opposite of her?

I think I would differently be different than my horrible sister since we are so different now.

Finally, Vanessa came back from her feeding.

"What took so long?" I asked her when she came back into our cell. "Did you get the key?" I asked in a much lower voice, as the guard walked away.

"Well...I tried. But the guard was looking at me the whole time! I could not get him to turn around for one second just to check the time or anything! I am such a failure." Vanessa said in one long breath.

"Okay, calm down." I said as I got up from my bed and sat down beside her on hers, I then put my arm around her shoulders to try to calm her down more. "Did you try to use some of your 'powers' on the dhampir guard?" I asked, curious.

"Oh, man. I did not even think about that." Vanessa said. Great I think I just upset her more.

"Don't worry about it, I will find a way to get the key to our cell when it's my turn to go to the feeders. I am much better at being sneaky then you are, no offense." I said laughing, trying to be funny.

"None taken. You are better at this." Vanessa said, in a soft voice, laughing a little too. I could tell that she had calmed down more and just in time because just then the door to our cell opened and the same guard was standing there looking at us.

"Okay, it's your turn now." He said, this time he was pointing at me.

"Good luck." Vanessa whispered to me as I got up to leave.

"I'll do my best." I told her, and then I walked towards the guard.

He grabbed my arm and led me down the hall towards the feeders' room.

When we got to the feeders' room he pushed me at one and told me to be fast.

The feeder was male, with short light brown hair and he had light unseeing blue eyes. I guess I'm going to be his last feeding today if they know what's good for him then the guards will cut him off. Weird that he is like this already we only just woke up.

Then I sat in the chair next to him as sank my fangs into his neck. He let out a little sound that people only make when having sex.

Eww!

Don't think about that, just think about the delicious blood that is flowing into your mouth.

It tasted so good, they rarely let us feed this much at one time. They think that if we are strong then we will use our elemental powers on them or something. Whatever.

"Okay, that's enough!" I heard the guard yell at me before I felt his hands on my arms pulling me away from the feeder.

I got up slowly, just to piss the guard off more, and then I looked at him. Studying him. He was a dhampir. Pretty tall, about 6 foot 7. With dark black hair and hard, black eyes. He had big muscular arms, but then most dhampir men do.

He will be really easy to charm and distract.

Then again I could just skip all the mindless flirting and just use compulsion on him and make him give me the key. Being as spirit user, at least I think that's what I am, I can use compulsion on Moroi and dhampirs with no problem.

I stared deep into his eyes and concentrated hard on putting him under my spell. I have not used compulsion on a lot of people so I don't know if I'm doing it right.

Finally, I see his eyes glaze over and I know I did it right.

"Give me the key to my cell." I said in a low, but demanding voice. I did not want any other guards to come in and see what's happening.

A goofy smile light up his face and then he reached for the keys hanging on his belt and took one off and held it out to me.

"Are you sure that this is the key that opens my cell?" I asked him, there is always a need to double check.

"Yes, I am sure." He said with that goofy, love-struck smile on his face.

"Good." I said. "You will not remember giving me this key when I release you from the compulsion." I told him and he nodded. I then put the key in my pocket and released him.

He blinked a few times and shook his head. Then he looked around us as if he did not know where we were. Then he looked at me and seemed to remember what he was doing because he took hold of my arm and said.

"Come on let's get you back to your 'room'." He was still shaking his head a bit as if to clear it, as he led me back to my, as he put it, 'room'.

When we got there he just slammed the cell bar doors shut after I was in and he walked away still looking groggy.

"Did you do it?" Vanessa asked, jumped off her bed when the guard had left.

"I did." I sad, as I held up the key to show her.

"Yes, you did it. I can't believe that we are finally going to break out of this hell hole!" Vanessa said as she jumped around the small room doing her happy dance.

"We can't leave until 'tonight' and we have to act the same and not excited or the guards will get suspicious." I told her as I put my hands on her shoulders to try and stop her bouncing up and down.

"Okay, okay. I'll try to act normal. It's just that it has been so long since I have been outside of this building and seen the stars in the sky at night time." Vanessa said, longingly as she sat down on her bed, and started fixing up her hair.

She is acting as if as soon as we get outside there will be a bunch of hot guys that she needs to look good for and not a bunch of trees with no town around for miles.

It's going to be a long 'night' of running around in the forest before we get to any sort of town and the sun will be out so we won't be at full strength.

That kind of makes me wonder why we are doing this. But then I think about my sister hanging all over that nice boy Jack and it just makes me sick and want to leave right now.

But I have to think rationally. Then again since us, Morois sleep in the day and are up at night that means that we will be running in the forest in daylight, with the sun beating down on us which will make us run slower.

"Maybe we should rethink our strategy." I said to Vanessa.

"I know that we will be running in broad daylight" Vanessa started like she knew what I was thinking. "But, it is the only time we can escape because there are fewer guards guarding this place at 'night' because we are all supposed to get weak from sunlight, so they don't expect anyone to try to escape then." Vanessa finished.

"Wow, Vanessa. Sometimes you are really smart and evil." I said, giving her a proud smile.

"Thanks, I think." Vanessa said, looking confused as to if she should have thanked me or not.

I just laughed. It was supposed to be a compliment, even though it didn't really sound that way.

"Lunchtime girls." A lady dhampir guard said as she opened our cell and was waiting for us to come out.

We will just have to wait patiently for the right time to escape 'tonight', I just hope that Vanessa can contain her excitement that long.

I thought as I watched Vanessa skip out of our cell with a big smile on her face. The guard gave her a funny look before she turned to tell me to hurry up.

Yeah, today was going to be a long day and it was only half over.