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Claire's POV
I woke up the next morning, tireder than I'd ever been. I had only had a few hours sleep in the end. I had barely slept a wink, I'd stayed up all night worrying about the new guys. I couldn't see how everything was a coincidence. One showed up in every class of mine and instructed to sit next to me, it was just too peculiar. But the worst part of it was the red bumps, I couldn't get them out of my head. What were they?
I knew I had to stay away from them, but I needed to know what they were, needed to know more about them. And that was my next mission...
Alistair's POV
Claire. She had no idea about any of us. She didn't know what we were or why we all sat next to her. I could already feel myself becoming strong again. After the last time my body had broken down and Claire was slowly giving me life! I pondered about Claire all night, evidently becoming restless about Physics two days. Viné kept up a constant stream of chatter but in the end it was too tiring and I shut myself in my room. Doing anything I could to distract myself from Claire. Even though there was a closed door between us, I could still hear everything that was thought by Viné and whatever she said. Sometimes it was hard to distinguish what were thoughts and what was actually spoken. From Viné I knew why she had spoken as little as she had to, to Claire. I could just manage to keep myself from stealing every ounce of life from her body but Viné and Phenex were a lot younger than me and had less time to perfect the art of calmness. Although Phenex had actually managed to do quite well considering he was only a few years old. I knew Phenex, like me, was well on the way to gaining Claire's trust. Which was one of the only things we needed to get our plan into action. Viné would take a little longer to gain trust seeing as she could barely control herself around such a powerful human, as was Claire, but as long as we were getting power from her, it didn't matter about how long it would take before the plan was effectively started. I couldn't wait. It was just too bad that Claire would have to die in the process.
Claire's POV
The school day passed in the blink of an eye. I had English with Phenex again today and we got on every better. I had a feeling that the red bumps were maybe part of my imagination. I purposefully looked for them today and saw nothing red protruding from their scalps. I finished all my classes and hurried out of TPU at the end of the school day whilst most other kids made their way back to their dormitories. I did not miss the dormitories one little bit! If Monica hadn't have bullied me on my first day then I wouldn't be living with my amazing friends, Eve Rosser and Michael Glass and I definitely wouldn't be going out with my hot boyfriend, Shane.
I quickly left Campus, hurrying to Myrnins Lair as I called it. His shack was always so dark and unwelcoming. It was easy to forget all about it though once you had been going there for 2 years, nearly everyday. Shane always complained about Myrnin working me too hard but he never had the guts to go and say it to Myrnins face himself. Neither did I, ever since Ada had turned bad I had kind of felt sorry for him. Maybe I was a good influence on Myrnin. That was hard to believe though considering how nutty he was. Just the other day I'd had to order in some new vampire bunny slippers for him because his old ones had gotten too small. He really was like a big kid!
I pushed open the big wooden door leading to his lair. The door creaked slightly as I pushed my weight onto it to shift it open. As always, no noise emanated from the bottom of Myrnin's lair. He was usually quiet when he was in the middle of a project. He hadn't told me anything about his new project, as always, in case I'm an alien trying to steal his work apparently. Sometimes he worries me. I walked slowly and quietly down the stairs so as not to alarm him and make him think I'm an intruder. As I neared the bottom of the stairs I could hear him muttering to himself, or maybe to Bob. Not that Bob ever listens.
'Now if I add this to this then surely I will be able to get this chemical to work.'
'Hey Myrnin,' I called through the ajar door leading to the laboratory.
'Good morning, Claire. I was just working on my new project. Please feed Bob while I tell you all about it,' Myrnin exclaimed quickly.
'Err, sure thing Myrnin but just to let you know, it's the afternoon, not the morning,' I replied before grabbing Bob's dinner. He had a diet of a snake at the moment. I hated feeding him dead rats and crickets. He was getting really big, slightly worrying.
'Oh, how have I lost a whole day? Not to worry, I lose track of time a lot,' muttered Myrnin. 'Anyway, I have been working on a new machine, not to replace Ada, but a machine that will be able to get rid of any creatures entering Morganville uninvited or intending to do bad. Therefore if this works we will have no more Draug situations or any other creatures from the mythical world. Unless there's unicorns. I like unicorns.'
Ignoring the last part of Myrnin's explanation I asked, 'How does it work, Myrnin?'
'Excellent question, Claire. Before it can work I need to run a few more tests to check that it keeps away all creatures and then all I need to do is activate it by pulling that read lever which will activate and as long as there are no unwanted beasts in Morganville it will hum steadily, just so we know that it is still on but if there are any creatures within the perimeters of Morganville then it will beep loudly. And it will keep beeping until those creatures have left. Understand? Which is good because only we can hear the beeping from inside this room so if we hear it, we run and tell Amelie who then issues an order to check every new person in Morganville to make sure they aren't evil,' explained Myrnin with a flourish.
'I understand, I think if it actually manages to work then we could have a great invention on our hands. Now I have finished feeding Bob, so what should I do next?' I asked as I watched Bob swallow the last dead rat. I gulped, making sure my lunch stayed down.
'You can come here and help me to test these different settings.'
I spent the next three hours testing different frequencies of the perimeter to first see if they could pick up on people. It could! It was really interesting to see how the contraption worked. As soon as Myrnin realised it was 7:30pm and that the sun was starting to go down, he dismissed me at once. I was to return back to work tomorrow straight after school as always. I took the secret passageway through the founders houses that were connected to Myrnin's.
Within seconds I was in the secret room in the Glass House. It already felt like home, I could hear Shane's game console, auditing gun shots, Eve banging around in the kitchen, making tacos for dinner. Michael was playing his guitar in his room. I guessed Shane's console was too loud for him to practice properly.
I quickly pressed the button, revealing the hallway and I dropped my books on the bed in my room. My bed was quite neat apart from the dirty clothes on the floor. I would shove them in the wash basket later before Shane could come in. Quietly, I changed into a purple vest and some denim shorts with some black tights underneath. I pulled on the new high top converses, my mum and dad, had gotten me the other week when I went to visit them. They were leaving soon. Amelie had managed to rind a way of erasing their memories so they will never remember Morganville or where I lived.
I quickly brushed my hair, leaving it straight and down. Checking myself in the mirror before walking out of my bedroom and shutting the door. I walked down the stairs and ran into the living room. Shane still hadn't realised I was home so I walked to the sofa he was sitting on and stood behind it, directly behind him. I waited until his game paused to reload and then I hopped onto the sofa and sat next to him.
'Hey Claire, when did you get in? I missed you today,' Shane said to before fore leaning down and kissing me. I kissed back and then slightly pulled away.
'I only got in a few minutes ago but I decided to get changed before coming to see you. I missed you as well,' I replied.
We spoke for a few minutes and got in a few quick kisses before I went to the kitchen to see Eve. She was wearing her Kiss The Chef apron and a red woollen jumper could be seen underneath it with a black mini-skirt and some black leggings with little choker chains hanging from the belt loops. No matter how gothic she looked, Eve always looked so pretty.
'Hey CB, how was Myrnin's?'
'Hey Eve, it was good actually. We managed to test a few theories for a new invention. How long will dinner be?' I asked.
'I'm just serving now. Can you go and get Michael honey, see if he wants to eat?'
'Sure.'
I left the kitchen, closing the door behind me and hopping up the stairs two at a time. Michael's guitar had become silent. I knocked on his door and walked in when he answered.
'Hey Michael, Eve's finished dinner? Do you want anything?'
'Yeah sure, I'll be right down.'
I nodded and walked back out. Michael seemed kind of down. Maybe he'd just been having a rough day. I made my way down to Eve and helped put the plates out. Michael appeared in the doorway, kissing Eve and sitting down. I watched him but he seemed fine now.
Shane brought out the Cokes and we all ate dinner. It tasted delicious, Eve was getting a really good cook. I forgot all about my studies apart from a bit of revision before bed, head resting in Shane's lap, his hand stroking my hair as he watched Tv with the others. I had a great evening in the end but somehow I felt slightly less full of energy. Maybe I was getting a cold. I was sure it was nothing to worry about. I went up to bed with Shane that night and fell asleep in his arms. His breathing slow and steady at the nape of my neck. Boy, I loved him!
