Part 5

Sydney felt extremely nervous when she arrived at the party. Roane was already driving her nuts, he thought coming with him was the best privilege she would ever get in her life.

"This'll get you right up that popularity ladder," he was saying, his fingers running though his gleaming, perfect dark hair. "Seeing you here with me, what more could you ask for?"

A nice guy who's not dangerous, dark and creepy, and one who's not a self centred arrogant jerk? she thought, managing a weak smile, She hadn't seen Darlene or Shaine, or anyone she remotely knew. She felt tiny, and completely out of her league.

"I think I'll go get a drink," she said in a small voice.

"I'll go., you stay here," Roane said gallantly, and marched off.

As soon as he was out of sight, Sydney breathed a sigh of relief and hurried away, hoping he would loose sight of her in the crowd. She kept her own eyes peeled for Darlene, who had made such a damn fuss about coming. She had called twice after the first time to make absolutely certain that Sydney would be coming, She had shown up, as promised, but was regretting every minute of it.

None of the popular people had spoken to her. Though she had noticed Celina watching her. Her cold emerald eyes had sent shivers down Sydney's spine. She didn't like the thought of being stared at. It was extremely creepy.

Well, on the good side, so far, no one had made any attempts on her life yet. She wondered what that absurd note had been about. Despite being night and kind of cold, there were a number of people in the pool in skimpy swimwear.

Sydney didn't understand it. Were they all vampires with no body temperature? She snickered at the thought.

"Um, hi, listen, you don't know me, and this is going to sound a little nuts, but I need you to come with me right now."

Sydney frowned at the small blonde girl, who, as said, she didn't recognise in the slightest. "Why?"

"It's extremely important. Come on." The girl grabbed her arm and started towing her away, back inside the mansion, then out the front of the house and to a car parked a small way down the road.

"Crap," she said angrily. "Now where the hell did she go?"

"Who?" Sydney was getting annoyed. She didn't have a clue what was happening, and was starting to think this was all some huge practical joke, and everyone would be laughing at her tomorrow. "Who the hell are you? What's going /on/ here?"




The girl looked around, clearly frustrated about something. She pulled a set of keys out her pocket and opened the car door. "Elenia White. I'll explain everything in a minute, I have to go and find Adila. Get in, lock the door, and don't open it for anyone but me."

Sydney's eyes rolled, but she did as she was asked. Part of her thought the whole thing was kind of funny. Nothing like this ever happened to real people like her, it was the type of thing you saw on TV or read about in books.

Only now, something interesting was /finally/ happening, and to /her/, of all people. A gorgeous scary guy with a destiny speech, a mysterious warning about him, another warning her life was in danger, and a stranger dragging her away from the party.

For what? To save her from whatever had been going to kill her?

Maybe she could write her own book about this, she thought, sitting back in the front passenger seat. Of course, gorgeous and dark, Adian would be a vampire, to protect her from Shaine, his evil jealous ex girlfriend wanting revenge cause he came to his senses and dumped her. This Elenia White person would be a vampire slayer trying to save her cause Aidan did something to her in the past, which he now regretted since he had become good. Then after she and Adian had fallen him love, she would cure him with a powerful magic spell, make him human again, Elenia would kill Shaine with her slayer powers, and they would all be friends and live happily ever after.

Sydney chuckled to herself. Okay, so some strange stuff was happening, but not that strange. Wishful thinking she thought, waiting for Elenia to return so she could explain what was going on here.

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Zaire was bored the minute he entered the high school party. He should have brought along some of his own crowd, he thought with a smirk, to liven this dull crowd up a bit, like in that Marilyn Manson video.

More than a few girls had taken an interest in him. He could screw and kill all night is he wanted to. He needed to wok up an appetite before finding this vermin girl Shaine wanted him to deal with.

He scowled as some stupid bitch knocked into him.

"Oh, sorry," She looked up. Stroke of luck for him. Here was the vermin girl. Might as well get this over and then he might be able to think about something fun.

He smirked and grabbed her arm. "Come with me." She struggled, but he was too strong for her.

"Let go!" she snapped, looking around. No one took any notice. Even Zaire caught a few sly smiles as he pulled her towards the first empty room he found upstairs.

She tried to twist away, but he had her arms pinned behind her back. Holding them in place with one hand, with the other he grabbed her hair, yanking her head back and exposing her throat.


She was extremely tasty, and that delightful smell of fear gave the blood that extra zing that made the whole thing almost worth while.

"You stupid asshole!"

Zaire pushed the almost dead girl out the way, finding himself facing a furious Shaine. "What?" he asked, perfectly aware of the blood staining his mouth.

"That's the /wrong/ girl."

"You're point?" Zaire couldn't really care less if he had happened to kill the wrong human. They were all the same to him. It was one less human to worry about, what was the big deal anyway? Vampires killed humans, since when was that a crime?

He frowned as a familiar blonde appeared beside Shaine, shrieking at the sight of the now dead body. Zaire's eyes rolled. Elenia. Just great he thought moodily. "Who the hell invited her? She'll spoil all the fun."

Shaine glanced over at Elenia, eyebrow raising delicately. "No one did invite her. Or Adila over there."

"You'll both pay for this." Elenia's attempt at acid in her voice sounded more funny than scary.

"Yeah, we're shaking," Zaire said, folding his arms.

Shaine grabbed Elenia's arm. "You gonna kill her too?"

Elenia yanked her arm away and hurled a blast of orange witch fire at him. Zaire swore and dove out the way before it could hit him. It hit the lamp on the bedside table, shattering the light shade and bulb. By the time he pulled himself to his feet Elenia was gone.

"Shit," Shaine said angrily.

"Let her go," Zaire said calmly. "There's nothing she can do. I'll deal with her." His eyes narrowed as a cruel smile snaked over his lips.

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