I tremble, they're gonna eat me alive

If I stumble, they're gonna eat me alive- Metro

Chapter 5: Lightning (November)

I stood in front of my mirror, fully dressed in uniform, and fidgeted unnecessarily. It was a strange feeling; knowing that you did something that you don't need to do anymore, like breathing.

I knew I should probably go downstairs and get my bottles of blood from the huge room filled with refrigerators except they were heaters- for blood. We, the Animal Drinkers, were the only ones who were not allowed to hunt our prey freely. Because actual animals lived outside school and dorms walls, where the humans presided, we could not hunt normally as mature vampires do.

I picked up my boring black backpack, filled with my new books, and was inside the room with the refrigerators immediately. That's because everything now was immediate, standing, sitting, lying, running. Instantaneous.

Others were in the room getting stocked up also. I grabbed four bottles -the limit- and stashed them in my bag. Ayden was there, so was Edward, Bella, Jasper, Alice, and others who I had yet to introduce myself too.

I walked out of the room and checked my watch. Fifteen minutes. A girl with long black hair and a slightly darker pale skin came over to me waved. She held out her hand.

"Hi my name's Violet Gonzalez. Your Morgan, right?" She asked, her accent twirling the words, smiling. I nodded and took her hand.

"So where are you from?" She offered, inquisitive.

"Dunsmuir, California." Apparently vampires wanted their "roots" to still be there in the change from human rule to vampire rule, that meant no changing of town's names.

"I'm from Tulsa, Oklahoma." Cool. I grinned and smiled.

"Let me see you schedule." I got it from my pocket and gave it to her.

Violet "hummed" and stated, "I have second, third, and fifth with you. That's awesome, isn't it?" I nodded, glad for a friend already. We had two minutes to be down at campus and get situated in our chairs. Violet ran with me to the school, showing where my homeroom was before darting to hers.

I walked in; Alice Cullen was already there sitting on a desk swinging her legs playfully. Edward, Bella, and Jasper were there as well. A beautiful blonde and a huge mass of a vampire, also in the Animal Drinker uniform, where laughing also with them. I walked in feeling unsure about this.

Vampires, all in Human Drinker uniforms, were in the front standing, and a group in the back laughing just as the Cullen's, and some were scattered across the room. The emotion feeler -Jasper- looked up at my unease. Alice glanced up and waved at me to come over.

I went, and stood awkwardly slightly away from the group of couples. They tried to include me in their conversations, while I tried to exclude myself from them. The bell rang, and in a hundredth of a second everyone was in his or her seats. I took one that was available quickly.

Mrs. Bunkers was a long lanky woman with a tight-lipped smile –which was still as beautiful as any vampire- and had a prompt bun at the very middle of her blonde hair.

Announcements came on welcoming the new vampires and started naming off boring things about the school authorities looking for people who splashed blood all over a teacher's classroom and other things like that.

When announcements were over the bell rung again for students to go to first period. Walking, vampire walking I mean, down the halls, there was mostly white and maroon but occasionally you would see a glimpse of the same navy and black I was sporting. I sat down and class started. The first two periods were a blur. But P.E. was different, instead of doing human things like warming up and playing soccer and basketball, we worked on flipping out of a tree.

There were very tall trees, I might add. I wasn't scared of them, if I bumped into one I was the one who would walk away unscathed.

When it was my turn, I scaled up the tree easily.

And about when I was just about to flip, I heard a twinkling laugh. I paused and looked down. About 600 ft. down was a girl vampire laughing at me. How did I know?

I knew because in a loud clear voice she yelled, "Hey Human lover, why don't you come down here already and see what real blood tastes like."

I ignored her and started flipping and twirling, getting closer to the ground. About two feet from the ground I heard her laugh again. I landed in a position that would look like a human proposing to their love, except both of my hands were on the ground with my head bowed. I looked up raising my head. The vampire smirked and laughed again. Seriously, where was the teacher?

She laughed, "How did you like your fall, human lover?"

Red haze took over my perfect vision so suddenly I was surprised I was so mad. Then I, I swear, was suddenly deadly calm. I snarled and stood up. I was going to lunge if that… girl (I was thinking something else entirely) didn't stop the vocal chords.

"Shut up." I growled. The other girls glanced over to me, seeing my murderous expression, and looked away. Violet, who was also in the class knew to stay away from me now.

"Are you offended?" The vampire asked. I snarled.

Then, I felt something that startled me. It was a weird feeling, it was tingly but it caressed my hands. The vampire's eyes widened.

"Look I'm sorry okay-" I lunged at her, my hands automatically at her throat. I bared my teeth and she tried- tried- to pry me off of her. She screamed painfully, clawing at her throat and I looked away from her evil blood red eyes to see what she was fussing about.

On her neck, was what looked like blue lightning? I took my hands off of her. And was surprised when it went away with my hands. Cautiously, slowly, I stared at my hands, through the red haze, which was fading with the curiosity, and was startled to see the lightning blue fire sizzle and dance on my fingertips. It died out, eventually, but by then the entire class was staring.

The teachers clicked her tongue at me and wrote a referral for dentition for me for almost ripping a vampire to shreds.

After school, I was still dazed from P.E.; I went into the room where detention was for forty-five minutes of my existence was and sat down in the first chair.

A voice floated to me in my cloudy mind, "Hello sister, I knew you couldn't stay out of trouble."