Chapter One

RACHELS POV

Dear Diary

My name is Rachel. My friends say I'm a warrior. Marco calls me Xena: Warrior Princess. I am anything but that. I'm a murderer. Well, not technically, but isn't imprisoning someone to live their entire life as a rat the same? I feel sick every time I remember David's cries. His last desperate cries of pleading and begging. Sure the creep deserved it, but that doesn't make me feel any better. He is now destined to live life as a nothilit. Just like Tobias.

After everything that has happened, do you know what the worst thing is? I have to go to school. I have to live out my life as a normal teenager…as if nothing happened. I don't know how much longer I can keep up this charade. I just thank God for this diary. If I didn't have it, I think by now I would have snapped. I would have blurted our secret out, and my friends I wouldn't stand a chance. They would either kill us outright, or worse – infest us. Then the whole human race would be doomed. Including –

"Rachel!" My mums voice pierced through my thoughts. "This is the last time I tell you! Get your butt out of bed and get ready for school now!" I sighed and reluctantly closed my diary. The rest would have to wait until tonight.