Chapter 9:
Vampire
The next morning I woke up twenty minutes before Lexies' alarm rang. This time I was going to let the alarm wake her up. I ran to the restroom first and it was cold and lonely. I looked at myself in the mirror and I looked like I had just woken up from a bad night of sex. I headed back to the room to grab a towel; it was time for me to smell good. I ran to the shower room and stepped onto the ice marbled floor. I turned the knob up to the right to release warm water. As soon as the water pounded against my skin, my muscles had relaxed and the texture of the water felt so good. I shampooed twice, applied body wash onto my skin, and conditioned for a minute or two. After I stepped out of the shower to grab the towel, this sudden air embraced me and the skin on my arms had gotten goose bumps. I got the chills for a bit.
When I got back to the room, I noticed Lexie's alarm was in pieces lying about on the carpet. I looked up to find her standing on her bed. She gave me an apologetic look.
"I didn't know how else to make it shut up," she defended. I bent down to pick up a piece of the alarm that had a button on it.
"It's called the off button," I told her as I showed her the piece.
"Oh, right," she said.
I began to slip my underwear underneath my towel and then put on my bra over my towel because I felt uncomfortable being butt-naked in front of her. I then proceeded to draw on the repulsive uniform they made us wear. I looked for my blow dryer so that I can straighten my split bangs in a curvy way.
"I thought your hair was straight," Lexie commented.
"No, I just straighten it. It's naturally loose curls," I retaliated. I then, proceeded to do my eyeliner and mascara.
"You don't wear foundation?" Lexie asked.
"Nope, my skin is clear as it is and I don't want to fuck it up," I replied.
"Oh."
"No offense," I told her quick.
"None taken," she said as she finished doing her make-up. I was done by the time the clock stroke 7:15.
"It's pretty early, are we still going in car?" I asked her.
"Yes we are," boomed Kayla's voice out of nowhere. She walked in through the door.
"How'd you-"
"Vampires have amazing hearing," she cut me off.
"We can hear from almost a mile away."
"Sort of like dogs?" I asked her unsure whether she would take it the wrong way.
"If you're going to compare me to a dog, I'd appreciate you compare me to a cute husky puppy," she said with a smile.
"Sorry," I whispered.
"It's okay; you've got lots to learn, now, chop-chop. The guys are getting impatient already." She sped off in a blur towards the door.
"Did you-"
"Vampires also have major speed," Lexie cut me off. We made our way to Malik's white Chrysler, and once again I was stuck with the crazed love birds in the back.
As soon as we pulled up to the lot, Mason was already standing by his car in his uniform, that may I say really brought out his eyes and muscles.
"Early again," Mason teased Lexie.
"Oh put a sock in it," she hissed. He found it amusing. Mason noticed me walking behind the blood-thirsty lovers and motioned to me.
"Good-morning," I told him.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Let's just say my stomach feels queasy with all the snogging those love birds like to do in the back. They almost ripped each other's clothes off. They didn't even seem to notice me being pushed back into the window," I replied in a calm way. He only laughed.
"Well, how about I pick you?" he said nervously. I kind of got nervous to reply back.
"Will you be my knight in shining armor," I teased and gave him a smirk. He gave a light laugh.
"Only if you don't lag to get ready in the morning," he replied.
"Deal," I said as I extended my hand out to him. He got a hold of it to shake, and once again the electric current spread through my veins. I pulled back and so did he.
"Is that like some vampire thing?" I asked him unsettled.
"Umm, no, I don't know why that happens. It's odd that it only happens with you," he replied shyly as he rubbed the back of his neck. I looked away.
"So, listen. Do you have any idea what happened to Aunt Maggie?" He got a hold of my forearm and pulled me away from the group. He pulled me to a bench that stood beside a freshly cut bush.
"Umm, yeah, I do," he whispered.
"Well, what happened?" He began to look around before he got closer to me.
"A shape shifter," he simply said. My head flinched back a little.
"Didn't Stephen tell you some of us have special abilities?" I nodded a yes to him.
"Well, what you thought was your Aunt Maggie was actually a shape shifter that works for the Conclave." He began to lose me.
"The Conclave is like emperors of the vampire world, or species. They set the rules for us so that we're able to share the community with humans." I just kept staring at him.
"The reason they had a shape shifter transform into your aunt was because they found out about the incident with Stephen. I told them that you kept pursuing your idea of something strange happening with the people on campus, so they decided to find out themselves what you knew," he whispered. I began to soak in his words.
"They've been watching me?" I asked him.
"Not that I know of, why?" I remembered the mornings that I woke up with the window open.
"My window has been left open in the morning when I've clearly had it closed the night before," I told him.
"What?" he began to search my body.
"Mason, I'm fine. I don't think they touched me," I reassured him. He stopped.
"If it was just a shape shifter, then how did the window shatter and the doors fly open?"
"Some of us are able to have more than one ability, but it's rare to find any who do."
"What was her second ability?"
"She can control the weather." I remembered the wind spiraling all over the place with trails of leaves.
"Why did she react that way?" Mason leaned his upper body forward placing his elbows on his knees.
"Shape shifters don't like to be questioned who they are when they have shifted.
