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The next day, Sunday, went by slowly, Derrick came over around 10am and said he had to hunt, so we couldn't hang out. To my relief, I learned that Derrick's family and the majority of all vampires drink animal blood instead of human. For the rest of the day, I listened to music, surfed the Internet a little, and read. Come Monday, the day was a lot better than Saturday. Well, at least until I got to school.

I drove to school a little late due to oversleeping. I had been exhausted last night and not even my obnoxiously loud alarm clock could wake me up this morning. My wake up call had been Zack jumping on my bed, which was not very pleasant.

Once I parked my Camero, I began walking to the entrance of my high school. I felt a sting of pain when I remembered I usually met up with Nick before homeroom at the school doors. Not today. I felt like crying, but I blinked hard, dismissing the tears before walking into my homeroom class 3 minutes late.

"You've been late a lot these past few days," Emily said as I sat down at my desk.

I shrugged, not looking at her, adjusting my notebooks and pencils like I had OCD or something. She stared at me suspiciously.

"What's up with you, Holly?" She asked, then looking thoughtful added, "Does it have something to do with Derrick Sorenson?"

My head whipped around to face her, "What?"

Emily shrugged, "Well the day he came to this school was the same day you started sulking around and zoning out on me and Nick," she explained. I winced when she said Nick's name. Maybe he's forgiven me, though? I frowned. No, probably not.

Of course Emily caught my expression and asked, "Something wrong? You better give me a straight and honest answer, 'cause I'm getting sick and tired of 'Oh, yeah, I'm fine, don't worry about me'," she said trying to imitate my voice, making me laugh.

Suddenly a look of false amazement came over Emily's face, "WOW! You laughed! Call the newspapers! The local news station! Heck, call CNN!"

I chuckled, "It hasn't been that long, Emily." My smile drooped a little when I realized I really hadn't been doing much laughing around my friends lately, just sulking.

Emily shook her head at me, "Now, tell Emily what's wrong," she said, making a steeple with her hands.

I grinned for a second, but let it drop before speaking, heaving a shaky sigh, "Well... I had a fight with Nick."

Emily frowned, "About what?"

I sighed again while saying, "Derrick."

"What happened?"

I explained to her in detail how it went down, she sat listening intently.

"... he's never yelled at me like that before, Emily! I don't think we'll ever be friends again," I said exasperatedly.

She hit me in the arm, "Don't say that, Holly. You and Nick are tight, you're bff's, you'll always be friends. Just give him some time to get over it. He's just acting like a jealous baby."

"I still don't see why you think he's jealous," I said with a frown.

"Holly!" She smacked me on the forehead with her palm.

I rubbed the spot she hit me, "What was that for?!"

"Shoulda had a V8," she explained laughing.

I glared at her and turned around in my seat.

By lunchtime Emily had cheered me up a lot. She got me laughing and smiling non-stop. I felt really thankful for having such a great friend. But when I thought about this I stopped smiling, because I realized my other best friend, wasn't my friend anymore. I kind of felt like someone I really loved died, I didn't wanna hear all the 'it'll be okay's from Emily, it only made it worse. I'm glad it really isn't that he died, because that way, there's still a chance we'll forgive each other.

"Well, it was fun while it lasted," Emily said, sighing when she saw my smile disappear.

"Sorry," I apologized while opening the café doors. We grabbed our food trays and started walking towards our table. I stopped in my tracks when I saw Nick sitting there, glaring at me. I grimaced and turned to Emily.

"I'm gonna sit somewhere else, Emily." I couldn't face Nick.

"Whe-" She started, but I started walking away already. I looked around the cafeteria and locked eyes with Derrick. He smiled brilliantly at me and I began walking towards him.

When I reached the table I sat down beside Derrick and across from Cassie.

"Hey, Holly!" Cassie exclaimed, smiling broadly.

"Hey," I replied. At first, I had been nervous around them, but after a couple of hours I became really comfortable with them.

I looked over at the blond-haired vampire next to Cassie, "Sup, Jason." He simply did that nod all guys do as a greeting sometimes. I smiled and turned to Derrick.

"Hey."

"Hey," he said grinning.

"You guys like this school so far?" I asked them.

"S'okay," Jason replied shrugging, "Just like any other high school."

"I think it's fun!" Cassie said happily, winking at a cute guy at the table beside us, making me laugh.

"I like it a lot," Derrick said staring at me, "I'm glad we came here." I felt my cheeks heat up slightly.

Jason scoffed, "High school is so boring."

"Why is that?" I asked, "There's drama, scandals, football games, girls," I said gesturing to all the girls staring dreamy-eyed at either Jason or Derrick, while some were sending me jealous glares. I flinched when I saw Nick shooting daggers at me (or Derrick, maybe?) through narrowed eyes.

"It's always the same thing," he replied, "Same drama, same scandals, football is boring, and vampire/human relationships don't tend to work out all that well."

I felt my heart drop at his last statement. I glanced at Derrick who was staring thoughtfully into his untouched mac n' cheese.

"Doesn't mean we can't have any fun," Cassie said winking.

I glanced back over at Nick, who was attacking his chicken with a fork violently. My gaze then rested on Emily, who was sending me a puzzled look. I just turned away, facing the vampires again.

"Hey Holly, you wanna-" Cassie stopped mid-sentence and angled her head to the side slightly, like she was listening to something. Which she probably was. With her vampire hearing she could tune into every conversation going on in the café clearly. Derrick and Jason did the same, making me feel a bit left out. Cassie let out a 'hm' sound.

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

Derrick opened his mouth to answer, but stopped, closed it, and his golden eyes widened, "Uh oh."

"'Uh oh'? What 'Uh oh'?"

He gestured to a group of kids a few tables away, they were all leaning toward one person I recognized as Larry Smith. He was one of those kids who came to school everyday with some story to tell. I never really listened to them, they're usually pretty ridiculous.

"That kid says the police came to his house last night," he said.

"And?"

"They found a body on his property apparently," Jason said solemnly.

My brow furrowed, that still didn't explain the 'Uh oh'.

"The body," explained Derrick, "was completely drained of blood."

Sorry that this is so short! I woulda totally made it longer, but I wanted a cliffie. Hehe. Review, or no update! I'm gonna be mean and set a minimum reviews lolz, I want atleast 10 pleeease! Thank you. Peace out.