I know... I know... It took forever. Don't be mad at me, be mad at my stupid teachers. My teachers all decided to have majorprojects, at the end of the year, at the same dang time. Plus, I had writers block which totally sucked. Both those put together... not a good combo. But who cares? I updated. Pluuus it's a biggie! Way bigger than all my other chapters.
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I moved my legs around, feeling warm sheets against my soft skin. I shot my eyes open as memories began to fill my head of the events that happened last night. Did he really kiss me? I arose from my sleeping position and sat up; stretching my sore muscles. Glancing at the clock I began to realize that my alarm didn't go off.
"Oh my god. I have fifteen minutes to get ready!" I said to myself. Ripping the sheets and blanket off of me, I jumped out of bed. I ran to the door and flipped on the ceiling fan light and headed to the mirror. Quickly, I brushed my silky, wavy hair with my fingers, loving the fact at how easy it is to get ready, now that I'm a vampire. I ran over and grabbed my foundation and mascara and began putting it on before I even reached the mirror. When I was done with that, I headed to my closet to pick out an outfit. Flinging clothes off the hangers and throwing them on the floor, I finally made a decision. I slipped on a white spaghetti strap sun dress and slipped on flip flops right after.
I grabbed my messenger bag, happy that I got everything together a couple days ago, and ran towards my door but paused in front of my mirror. The white sun dress fitted perfectly around my slender body, ending mid thigh, and it seemed to have made my brown wavy hair shine beautifully. I smiled at the 'new' me and headed out the door. I rushed down the hallway, ignoring Faith yelling at me for being in her way, and ran down the stairs which I was immediately in the kitchen in less than a few seconds. I love having vampire speed. I thought happily to myself; ignoring the fact that the "other mind readers" were in the kitchen.
"What are you guys doing up so early?" I routinely grabbed a bottle from the refrigerator and quickly without thinking gulped down the thick liquid.
"We wanted to see your miserable face as you head off towards the bus." Kyle said before biting into his toast. I finished the bottle and closed it up with the cap and swiftly threw it in Kyle's direction.
"Actually, Kyle and I had a few things we had to do early this morning." Daniel said while placing his empty plate into the sink. I walked over and picked up the bottle I threw, hitting Kyle on my to the trash can.
"Why can't you guys drive me there? I don't want to take the cheese wagon." I whined. They both laughed but shook their heads in unison. "Too much gas, sorry." Daniel muttered before leaving the kitchen with Kyle right on his heals.
I looked at the clock on the kitchen wall and saw that I had six minutes to get to the end of the driveway where the bus would pick me up. I grabbed my bag and headed toward the front door yelling, "Bye, I'll see you when schools out!" But before I could make it out the door Daniel called my name from behind me. "Hey Tori, don't forget this." He revealed one of the bottles which caused me to throw up a little in my mouth. "Thanks." I muttered under my breath. I opened the door and the bright yellow and orange colors from the rising sun filled the porch.
"Victoria." Daniel called. I paused and slowly turned to look at him. "Don't let anybody see that bottle. Collin, Clarice and Jack will be there to look after you." He gave a quick smile before continuing, "Have a good day at school." I gave him a fake smile before turning to walk down the steps of the porch.
After making it half way down the driveway, I began to remember that I had vampire speed. Stupid me. I thought. I started to run slowly but soon enough I was at the dead end of the driveway. I fixed my messed up dress, and combed through my wavy hair, happy that I wouldn't miss the bus on the first day of school. I peered past the tall trees and down the street and saw flashing yellow and red lights. Well, time to go to hell. I thought. I combed through my hair once more, making sure my hair wasn't sticking out in all different directions, when all of a sudden two large arms wrapped around my waist.
"Good morning, Victoria." A familiar voice whispered in my ear. Collin. I smiled and began turning around, in which he slid his arms off of my waist. "What are you doing here?" I asked. Behind me, I heard the bus stop with it's screeching breaks; sounding as if it was just going to fall apart, but I was trying to ignore it.
"I wanted to make sure that you got around the campus okay." His eyes seemed to have slipped down my body; getting a good look at me. "You look beautiful today." He smiled his bright smile and he grabbed my hand. "Let's go to school." He said sounding enthusiastic, but I knew he hated school.
We walked onto the bus and Collin, being 6'3, had to duck down a little while walking in the isle, which made me laugh. "Sit with me." I heard him say quietly. He paused in the isle and turned towards me while holding out his arm. "Ladies first." I rolled my eyes but proceeded to the window seat.
For a while we sat without saying a word, but every once in a while we would mention something about Daniel and them. There was only me and Collin and the old bus driver who occasionally looked back at us in the rear-view mirror; obviously listening to our conversations. But the silence was becoming unbearable.
"So about last night," I daringly began, "Thank you so much for taking me there. It was amazing." I looked away from the window and noticed Collin's white smile against his dark skin. "I knew you would love it." He stated proudly. I turned to look out the window again, fascinated by all the houses I didn't know existed. "And thank you for bringing me home last night. I was really tired." I chuckled a little, but quickly realized there was no need to laugh so I stopped. Why am I so nervous? I asked myself.
"No, problem." He said quietly. I looked over just to see if he was falling asleep or something because he was so quiet, but he just looked distracted. "Are you okay?" I asked. He didn't answer right away, but he shook his head 'yes'. He obviously wasn't in the mood to talk so I ignored him the rest of the way to school.
Getting off the bus, I glanced around the packed bus loop. There were all sorts of groups huddled together, talking amongst themselves, or there were a few who were just alone. I became relieved as I thought of how I can now block out everything around me so I wasn't overwhelmed by everyone's thoughts, which was one thing Daniel made sure I mastered. But I was still frustrated because I didn't know how to block my own mind from the other mind readers.
I stopped in my tracks, just to get a good look around, but a girl seemed to have not noticed me and bumped into me. "Hey, watch it." She said as she stopped with her friends. She crossed her arms and gave me a snotty look.
"Your the one who ran into me." I stated before glancing away; trying to ignore her but in the corner of my eye I could see that she wasn't finished.
"Excuse me, what did you say?" The attitude and "preppy-ness" triggered the heartburn in my chest, telling me that I should rip her head off. She flipped her bleach blond hair out of her face, and crossed her arms once again.
"Do I need to pound it in your head?" I asked with venom seeping through my voice. I was getting ready to pounce on her, until two large hands landed on my shoulders.
"Is there a problem Katie?" Collin asked in a gentle voice. I saw the bitch, excuse me, "Katie's" expression turn into a smile, and her tense shoulders relaxed.
"No Collin, I was just telling her that I was sorry for running into her." Katie said with the sweetest voice. I rolled my eyes and made a small gagging sound that only Collin could hear, which he did and I felt a small chuckle form in the bottom of his chest.
"Okaayy... Well this is Victoria, she's new here." He declared proudly. I looked up at him and he smiled, which I did the same. I looked back over to Katie and she glared at me, obviously jealous which made me happy.
"Welcome to Forest Creek high school Victoria. Hope to see you around." She quickly said before swiftly turning around and walking away with her groupies right behind her.
I turned around and Collin's hands slipped from my shoulders. "What a jerk." I said. His expression became confused, telling me that I had to explain.
"She ran into me and she did not say sorry, she was just sucking up to you. If you didn't come I would have kicked her a--" He slipped his pointer finger up to my lips, telling me to hush, so I did.
"Victoria, I have known her for a long time. I even dated her once, but that's not the point. I would believe you over her any day." I smiled and gave him a hug, happy that I had someone here with me at this new school.
"Let's go get your schedule and books in the office." He said as we released the hug. He wrapped his arm around my shoulders and we began walking to the office. People all around me began stopping their conversations and glancing in our direction, which I glared back. I ignored them, and focused on trying not to embarrass myself, which would just give them another reason to glare at me. As we walked through the halls, it seemed that everyone knew Collin, for they all said hi to him, gave him high-fives. Some even made him stop and asked him about his summer, which the conversation went on forever.
"Wow, popular aren't we?" I asked while walking away from one of his buddies. He looked down at me and rolled his eyes. "Oh yes. How could an extremely hot guy, me, not be popular." I could hear the sarcasm in his voice, which I was relieved, I hate conceded guys.
When we finally reached the office, Collin held the door open for me like a gentlemen, and we began walking through a hallway heading to the main desk. Several teachers that came out of their office waved and said hi to Collin, which made me curious on how he was so popular.
"Hi, Mrs. Lance. This is Victoria Blaine, she's new here." Mrs. Lance, an old lady, smiled at Collin, and glanced at me while nodding her head. She walked over behind her computer and started typing and clicking away. Butterflies started to form in the pit of my stomach; causing my heart to beat faster. I'm nervous. I thought. I felt Collin grab my hand and he squeezed it, before his thoughts popped in my head. Don't be nervous. You will be fine.Mrs. Lance ducked under her desk, but came up with four text books. What if nobody likes me? She walked up to the counter where we were standing and she handed me the four books and a piece of paper. "Here's your schedule and your books. If you have any questions I'm sure Collin will be able to answer it for you." She turned to him and gave him a smile, but it was almost a flirty-smile which made me gag. Collin took the books from the counter and handed me my schedule, before taking my hand and walking away really fast.
"It's seems like Mrs. Lance has a crush on you." I said, teasing him. He looked down at me with his dark eye brows covering up his hazel eyes, and with a frown on his face.
"No way. Enough of that, I want you to meet Clarice and Jack." I frowned as he pulled me out of the office and into the crowded hallways consisting of loud, talkative students who were informing each other about their summers. In the distance, two people waved in our direction which Collin waved back so I assumed it was Clarice and Jack. When we approached them, they welcomed me with a warm smile.
"Victoria, this is Clarice and Jack. They are apart of Mike's group too." Collin informed me. I smiled and held out my hand for them to shake.
"It's nice to meet you Victoria." Clarice shook my hand. Her bright blue eyes stood out from her tan skin which was half covered by her long blond hair that went down to the middle of her back. Jack had the same blond hair and bright blue eyes as Clarice did, he's just a lot taller. Jack shook my hand, "We have heard so much about you, it's nice to finally meet you." I saw Jack's eyes move up to Collin as he said this, which if I could have, I probably would have blushed.
The loud ringing of the bell caused me to jump, and caused everyone else around us to start wrapping up their conversations and heading to class.
"Hey Clarice, do you mind if Victoria puts her books in your locker?" Collin asked.
"No, not at all." Clarice said while opening her locker. Jack leaned up against the other lockers with crossed arms; watching everyone scatter to their first class of the day.
"Two more years in this hell hole and were done." I glanced over to Jack and chuckled. Collin handed Clarice my books and she closed her locker with force. She turned towards Jack after picking up her book bag that was lying on the ground. "We better get to class before were late bro." Jack jumped off of the lockers and shook his head. "We will see you guys at lunch." He said before walking off down the hall next to Clarice. I gave a small wave and looked up towards Collin.
"You have all of my classes." He stated. I became confused in which he noticed. "Daniel is good friends with the principal. He made sure you had all of my classes." He finished. I shook my head in agreement. I was some what happy with having the same classes, but I knew they only did that to 'keep an eye' on me, and to make sure nothing bad happens. He linked our fingers together as we began walking to the first class.
After turning a few corners, walking up a flight of stairs, we finally made it to our first period right as the late bell rang.
A lady, who was maybe in her 30's quickly interrupted the loud chatter. "Okay class, pick any seat you like." A few people cheered and rushed to certain seats, happy about the fact they could sit next to their friends. "But..." everyone hushed each other. "It won't stay like this. I will have new assigned seats by next week." The teacher finished. Everyone sighed and claimed that she was the worst teacher ever, but me and Collin ignored it all and walked to the two seats that were left in the back.
As we sat down she began introducing herself. "I am Mrs. Hoogley.--" The class broke out in a chuckle, which she sighed but continued. "This year in Algebra you will learn--"
I couldn't focus, I was already falling asleep. Everything around me was being ignored and my eyes started to close slowly. Falling asleep already? I heard loud and clear in my head. My eyes popped open and I looked over at the smirking Collin. Yeah, I was, jerk.I thought. I saw him laugh, but we were soon interrupted by Mrs. Hoogley.
"Am I interrupting your staring contest?" she asked in a sarcastic way. I looked in her direction and noticed the whole class turned to stare at us. I wanted to run out of the classroom but I knew I had to stay so I slowly sank lower into my seat.
"No Mrs. Hoogley. We're sorry for interrupting." He gave her one of his warm, cute smiles that seemed to have worked, because she went back to what she was saying.
Nice job. Well, I can already tell who will be the teachers pet. I saw him in the corner of my eye flash me a look; so I ignored him. Ha. Teachers pet? He thought back. But I still ignored him and began falling asleep once again.
"Umm, excuse me." My eyes flashed open to a group of guys standing all around me. I rubbed my eyes and fixed my messed up hair. "Yes?" I asked, bewildered. A guy with brown spiky hair and blue eyes spoke first from the group. "My name is Alex." I was confused, and I'm sure my face showed it, so he explained more. "We're supposed to introduce ourselves to other class mates." I shook my head; understanding. "Victoria." I quickly said; still trying to wake up.
The three guys standing around me flew their hands out from their sides in my direction for a hand shake. I shook them all as the two whose name I didn't know introduced themselves.
"I'm Chris." One said. "I'm John." The other one said. I quickly smiled but wondered where Collin was. The three guys were blocking my view of the class.
"So Victoria, I'm guessing your new here?" Said Alex. I shook my head while trying to look past them, but there was no success. "Can I have your number?" Chris asked. I was shocked by this question. I have just learned this guys name and he's already asking me for a number. "Umm, I don't think so."
John laughed, while Chris dropped his head and walked away. "Don't mind him. He doesn't know how to handle him self when he's by a beautiful girl." Alex stated. I looked up into his green eyes, and smiled. Collinnn... Where are you? I asked in my thoughts. "Thank you." I muttered, waiting for Collin to burst through the group.
"So Tori, where do you live?" John asked. I rolled my eyes. "Not sure. I'm not familiar with roads and stuff." I muttered while trying to look past them. Finally I see Collin in my view walking towards me with a smirk on his face. Aww poor Tori can't handle a couple guys. I glared at him as he walked up to us.
"Excuse me guys, she's with me." He said in a deep voice, sounding as if he was just playing around. Alex and John were smaller then Collin, so when they looked up to see who they were dealing with, they quickly walked away.
"Bye Tori, It was nice meeting you." Alex said while walking away. I smiled and waved, and felt relieved.
"Princess Victoria, I have saved your life." He said in the same deep voice. I smacked him on his stomach, hoping to have hurt him, but he laughed. "Hey, what was that for?"
I glared into his hazel eyes. "You didn't save me early enough." I whined as I tried rubbing the sleepiness from my tired eyes. He laughed. "Your not the one who read their minds." He looked behind him, as if he was looking for someone and turned with one of his hands cupped around his face and whispered. "They have some dirty minds." His eyes widened and he acted like he was going to puke. "Ha. Ha. Very funny." I rolled my eyes, but was startled by the bell ringing.
"One down. Five more periods to go." He said while grabbing my hand. As we walked out the classroom I could see the three guys talking to each other and pointing at us, but I didn't care.
"What's next?" I asked. We were weaving in and out of the small groups of students huddled in the hall; still holding hands. "English." I sighed, but was relieved to have him to talk to during all the classes.
The next two periods went by pretty quick. They were the same as my first period class. Teacher introduced themselves, explained the what were learning, and more guys came up to me, introducing themselves and acted like jerks. It was lunch time and me and Collin were walking to the lunch room. We were getting stares and waves from people we just met in our recent classes.
"Wow. Popular aren't we?" He mocked. I flashed him a look and he smiled. "Well... every guy in our grade seems to really like you." We walked through the double doors that led us into the loud, crowded lunch room.
"They don't like me. The only reason they know me is because the teacher told us to go around and meet new people." I explained. I could hear a small, deep chuckle erupt from the bottom of his chest. "Well... your not reading their minds." As we stopped to stand in the lunch line, I looked up and notice that he was looking off in the distance, distracted by his thoughts.
"That's not my fault. You guys won't teach me how to turn the stupid mind reading thing back on." I sighed. He snapped out of his daze and met his hazel eyes with my brown ones. "Daniel doesn't want you reading everyones minds. So he taught you how to block people's thoughts, and I'm pretty sure he won't teach you how to reverse it." He muttered quietly. I unlocked my fingers from his and crossed my arms. "How can I read yours then?" I said bitterly.
He grabbed a tray and started to load food onto it. Lots of food. "Well that's one of the first things we are taught. To get into other mind readers mind, even if they have it 'turned off'. Don't ask me how." I sighed because that was another question I was going to ask. I wanted to know how to do things, but Daniel is too overprotective to teach me anything. He always thinks I'm going to get killed, or be exposed to the public in some way.
I followed behind Collin and we made it to a table filled with other people that knew him. He sat his tray down and pulled a seat up next to another empty one. "Here you go, Princess Victoria." He said jokingly, but I didn't think it was funny. I sat down with a thump and Collin did the same.
"Everybody this is Victoria. She's new here. This is Daniel and Kyle's adopted sister." An 'Ahh, and Ohs' broke through the crowded table. I saw that Clarice and Jack were sitting with us, so I smiled.
All of them had something in common. They were all tan, and the guys were all the same height. "Everyone here is a werewolf." I stared in awe as he continued. "They are all waiting to graduate so they can join Mike and Daniels group, like how I am." I nodded, but focused my eyes on the table. Do they all know that I'm a vampi- I stopped what I was thinking and looked up to notice everyone staring at me.
"Yes they know." Collin said, answering my question. I sighed with relief and the bell for fourth period rang.
"Time to go to Zoology." He stated while getting up from his seat. I did the same and we headed out the doors into the hallways.
"I didn't know there were so many of you guys." I muttered. I looked up at the smiling Collin. "Yeah it's awesome isn't it?" He sounded like a little kid who was apart of some 'cool club', but I agreed, it was pretty cool.
We finally made it to our next class and we took a seat in the back, as usual. The teacher, Mr. Stafford began telling us about himself and about what we were going to learn. Are you thirsty and hungry? I heard Collin's voice pop inside my head, so I jumped. I looked over and glared at him. He noticed and did the same. You need to warn me when your going to do that. I saw him chuckle. Well are you? Your eyes are turning a little pink. But it's not too noticable. My eyes widened and I began to notice the tickle in the back of my throat. I guess I am. I turned my attention back to Mr. Stafford so I didn't get in trouble like what happened in Algebra when we were having a so called "staring contest."
Mr. Stafford was going on about the different types of subjects and what projects were in store for us in the future. I sighed but quickly got interrupted. I know some where we can go so you can drink one of your bottles. I closed my eyes; irritated about everything that has happened in the past few weeks. Why did I have to become a monster? Even though it was my thoughts, I'm sure Collin could tell the sadness and irritation that I was dealing with right now. Tori, your not a monster. This thought was deep and low and I'm pretty sure I heard a small growl form in the bottom of his throat that only I could hear. Yeah well, normal people don't drink blood. Normal people can't heal fast. Normal people don't read minds either. I stopped thinking as I noticed what I had thought of last. Collin I didn't mean that. I looked over and his face was expressionless. He then gazed away from me and didn't think a thought to me or said another thing to me the whole half of the period.
When it was time to introduce ourselves to each other, Collin quickly got up and walked to the other side of the classroom. I sighed but decided to let him calm down. I got up from my seat so I could meet some new people instead of people coming up to me. I walked a few seats ahead of mine and quickly said a soft 'hello'. A boy with dark brown hair that was almost long enough to reach past his bright green eyes turned with no expression. I stupidly held out my hand even though I got a bad vibe from him, but surprisingly he shook it with soft pale hands.
"I'm Victoria." I said, sort of unsure if introducing myself was a good idea. He smiled, "Caden." His voice was deep and friendly. I sat down in the seat behind him. For some odd reason I felt that I should get to know him.
"Your new here right?" He asked. I shook my head in agreement, "Yeah, I moved here in the middle of the summer." He nodded, but his attention went somewhere else, so I followed it and met with Collin's eyes.
"I think your boyfriend is getting upset." He smiled slightly; trying to hold back a laugh. "He's not my boyfriend and he'll get over it." I answered dully. Caden shrugged and stared at me, which was when I was beginning to notice the fact that I recognized him from some where.
"Are you in any of my other classes?" I asked, confused. He shook his head 'no'. "I don't think so." He was cut off in mid sentence as the bell rang.
"Well it was nice meeting you Caden. Hopefully we can hang out sometime." I said quickly. I got up from the seat I was sitting in and grabbed papers from my desk and began stuffing them in my bag. I looked up and noticed that me and Caden were the only ones left in the class room. Collin, you can't leave me here. I thought, hoping he was close enough to hear that. As I reached for the other paper left on my desk my book bag slipped from my hands and landed on the ground with a loud thud.
"Oh, let me help you." I recognized Caden's voice and notice him on the ground picking up a notebook and my bottle. I rushed over to his side and snatched it out of his hands.
"Uh thanks but it's not much, I can get it." I rushed my words and voice was uneven. I bent down and picked up the remaining papers and stuffed it all in my book bag, hoping he didn't notice the contents that were in the bottle.
"What was that?" He pointed to my book bag that was now zipped up, but I knew what he was talking about.
"What are you talking about?" I said, trying to make sure I didn't sound like I was hiding anything, but I knew I was busted.
"The bottle that I picked up. It looked like blood." his voice was shaky. He was nervous and terrified.
I stopped what I was doing and tried acting normal as possible. "Blood? Are you crazy? It's a new energy drink." I lied. "Me and my friends made it. It's pretty good, I'll have to make you some." He slowly nodded his head, but his expression didn't tell me anything, so I didn't know if he believed me or not.
"Well I have to go to my next class. It was nice meeting you Caden." I walked off in a quick pace and headed towards the bathroom. On the way, something triggered inside of my head and the tickle in the back of my throat was worse than ever. Every person I walked by, I took a deep breath; breathing in their scent. I wanted so badly to just bite someone so this irritating tickled in the back of my throat would disappear. They all smell so good. I thought, knowing Collin wouldn't be around. I then felt a large hand on my shoulder and turned to notice Jack with a smile that I knew was hiding a worried expression.
"Come on Victoria, let's get you to a bathroom." A small voice said. I looked over to the other side of me and noticed Clarice. "No one's going to be your lunch today." She added, before laughing. I hissed at her, which she took a few steps away from me, almost running into someone. When we reached the bathroom and they shoved me into it, the late bell rang. I walked into a stall while already opening up my book bag. When I found the bottle, I chugged it quickly; feeling a rush of relief flow through me. I was beginning to get used to the nasty taste so it seemed to go down faster.
When I was finished, I threw it away and walked out of the bathroom expecting to have Jack and Clarice standing around, but there he was leaning against the lockers facing the bathroom.
"Having girl problems?" He muttered dryly, with a smirk spread across his tan face. I rolled my eyes and walked towards him.
"Well if you didn't leave me, I wouldn't be having 'girl problems'." I hissed. He held up his hands as if he was surrendering and began walking down the hall again.
I let a little distance form before I followed.
These are going to be the longest two class periods of my life. I thought with anger; knowing he was reading my mind.
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