Claire's POV

I was just about to fall asleep when there was a faint knock on my door.

"Claire?" Someone asked, it sounded like Shane.

I groaned and got out of bed, trudged to the door and opened it. Shane was standing there one hand on the door frame.

"Hi." I said. "Um it's…" I glanced over at my clock. "1am, what do you want?"

"Sorry," He said. "I just wanted to check if you were alright?"

I frowned. "At 1 in the morning?"

"Yeh… im gonna go." He started to turn round but I grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

"Stay." I said and realized just how needy that sounded.

"Are you sure?" He asked eyeing me cautiously.

I rolled my eyes. "Not like we're going to do it." I said.

He smirked and I moved out the way to let him in. I sat down on the bed next to him. "What happened?" He asked.

"When?" I asked.

"When you were with that Tyler guy, you didn't come back for ages!"

I sighed. "I was telling him about the vampires – no he needed to know!" I said when he started to protest. "But he didn't believe me, I got mad and ran out then went to a coffee shop."

"The one by campus?" Shane asked.

"Yeh, why?"

"Good, it's called common grounds. It's the only place in Morganville with a truce."

"Whats the truce?"

"The vampires aren't allowed to feed from a human. It's the only safe place in Morganville we can walk freely."

"That's pretty intense!" I said.

"That's not the only intense thing in Morganville." I gave him a questioning look. "There's a place called Founder's Square, vamp central, where the 'queen' lives."

I frowned. "Queen… like Amelie?"

He laughed. "Yeh, she likes to call herself that. It's pretty messed up but I guess it matches this hell hole."

"Why do you hate it so much?" I asked.

He froze studying me carefully. "The vamps killed my mother." He said softly.

I gasped, subconsciously slapping my hands over my mouth. "What happened?" I blurted. "I mean… that is if you want to talk about it, I don't mind."

He smiled but it looked forced. "Don't worry about it. After Imogen, Queen Bitch, burnt down my house, killing my sister we left Morganville. Well, more like ran away."

"Why would you need to run away can't you just leave anyway?"

He shook his head. "No, once you find out about the vamps you can't ever leave." He sighed. "And if you do… the vamps come after you."

"How did you and your dad survive?"

"My mom started to remember, about the vamps. I guess she couldn't forget about Alyssa which started to unwind other memories, why the fire started, who caused it, who they worked for."

"Why, who does Imogen work for?" I asked.

"The vamps, second in command. His name's Oliver, he's Eve's boss."

"Does she know?" I asked

"Hell yeh!" He said. "I wasn't going to let her work somewhere without knowing the second most powerful vamp in Morganville was her boss."

Eve's POV

Wow… so my boss was a vamp. Not just any vamp, second in command, second highest authority. And I was working for him, here!

I got my new job in a coffee shop called common grounds; Shane told me it was neutral grounds for vampires and humans. I hope he's right.

"What can I get for you today?" I asked when 3 girls stepped up to the counter.

The girl standing in the middle was such a hottie! Im not bi or anything but hey, a girl's a girl, of course we're hot!

Her hair was blonde and just below her shoulder's that shone even in the darkest of places. She had really visible curves and a good set of legs. Her tan, though, was obviously fake. Every boy in the room was looking at her and… drooling?

All in all, she just screamed bitch!

Two girls were standing either side of her, dressed like her but not enough to overdo the middle one's style.

"Hey goth bitch." The middle girl said.

"Hey Barbie bitch." I said.

Her eyes narrowed. "My name's Imogen, not Barbie."

"And my name's Eve, hi." I said all kindness leaving my tone. "What can I get you?"

"3 skinny latte's." Imogen said looking at her nails.

"Who's your posse?" I asked.

Her eye's narrowed again. "These are Sinead and Katie, and they are my friends."

"Whatever. $4.50." I said putting down their drinks.

Imogen slammed the money down on the counter and took the cups to strut off and find a table.

Yeh, such a bitch.

"Eve!" Oliver, my boss, called. "Shifts over!"

I held my hand up in acknowledgement and went to change in the locker room.

I realized my shift had ended early so I decided to visit Tyler. 249 Silverton Road was what he said.

Sure enough that was where he was, it made me a tiny bit jealous that Lucy got to live with Tyler and not me.

I knock on the door which opened a moment later to Tyler. "Hey." He said giving me a quick kiss.

"Hi, my shift ended early, I thought I'd drop by?"

"Sure." He stood aside to let me in.

I stepped inside and looked around, the layout was similar to Glass House but this wasn't a founder house.

Michael had told me that there were approximately 7 founder houses in Morganville. It meant that the Founder had personally designed those houses.

"Nice." I said nodding my head in approval.

Tyler nodded in agreement. "You want anything? Tea, coffee, coke?"

"Coke." I said still looking around.

He nodded then left into the kitchen. I took my chance to nose around and found a picture of me, Tyler and Claire at the beach in Western Super mare. I smiled and picked it up when I heard a crash from the kitchen.

I froze in place not daring to move but I had to see if Tyler was okay. I carefully put the picture down, trying not to make a sound, and tiptoed to the kitchen door.

Gently, I pushed it opened to find Lucy and Tyler kissing. My Tyler kissing that whore!

"Get your skanky hands of him!" I shouted and ran to tackle Lucy.

She fell to the floor and we were rolling round the kitchen fighting, pulling at each other's hair and slapping.

"Stop!" Tyler yelled just as I was about to punch Lucy.

I looked up in amazement to find him holding two hands up. "What so you're defending this bitch now?"

"Libby," Tyler said trying to grab for my arm.

"Get the fuck off me you bastard!" I screamed. "And my name's not Libby its Eve!"

I raced down the hallway to the front door, yanked it open and ran all the way back to Glass house. My home, where I was welcome, where the people I love treated me right.

Away from Tyler.