Yes, I'm back again, with Chapter 16:O

If your wondering why hardly anything is happening, it's because i'm building up to the good stuff, which will be starting in the next chapter, but I need to write out other things for it to make sense! :)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Morganville Vampires, that would be the totally awesome, Rachel Caine! :D:D

Chapter 16

CLAIRE'S POV:

BEEP! BEEEP! BEEEEP!

Urgh. Shut up, stupid alarm. I'm not a morning person, I hate morning's. Espicially since we have to learn in the morning.

I lugged myself out of bed and got ready, 30 minutes later I was down stairs, munching toast, feeling fresh from my shower. Alice and Eve weren't down yet, but I could hear them moving around.

I flipped on the TV and the academy's channel came on, with news about the school. I checked the other channel's, but there wasn't much on so I just let the Academy's channel play, not really listening to what the person was saying.

Thankfully, we now have risen enough money to demolish the old hospital building which was built over 100 years ago, however has been partly destroyed from time, and is not a safe building anymore. We will be rebuilding on the site a new libraby, seeing as our current one, isn't big enough...

Just then one of Monica's followers came in. I didn't know her name, but it was the louder one, that I thought was slightly crazy. She stopped dead in her tracks and just glared at me. I glared back. After, what felt like centuries of glaring, she stopped and smiled a bit. It wasn't a cheery smile, no it was an evil one. One that was plotting. It creeped me out. She lifted her chin, to say she was better then me and left the kitchen, heading upstairs. What was that about?

SHANE'S POV:

I walked through the kitchen door to see Lee and Michael there. Michael was eating Pop Tarts while Lee was riffling through kitchen draws. Lee looking up and grinned at me. Oh God, what now? He got some matches from the draw and shut it, then turned to me, still grinning. "What?" I asked defensably.

"So?" He replied.

"So?"

"Are you gonna ask Claire?" He said rolling his eyes, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Umm..."

"Come on man! Get some guts! CHICKEN!" He pointed at me and started flapping his arms like a chicken, making chicken noises.

"How old are you?" I asked him trying to change the subject. He stopped and smiled.

"I may have the body of an 18 year old but really, I have the mind of a 6 year old" He pointed to his head to exaggerate his comment.

"I kind of noticed" Michael spoke, after finishing his Pop Tarts.

"Stop changing the subject" Lee said tiredly. He pointed at me "Are you gonna ask?" then at Michael "You too Mikey boy, don't think your getting out of it" Michael's eyes went wide.

"But... But... She'll say no! I... don't deal well with rejection!" he replied. Lee grabbed the closest thing to him, which happened to be a tissue box, and lobbed it at his head. He didn't have time to react and it hit him. He rolled his eye's.

"There won't be any rejection! Unless you just don't like her, then say so!" Lee said and picked up the tennis ball from the kitchen table and started bouncing it. He caught it easily without looking, which didn't surprise me, him being a vampire and all. Michael blushed slightly and looked down at his empty plate. He mumbled something which I couldn't hear. "Speak louder man! Honestly, are you a man or a mouse?" Lee asked. It was obviously a lie, he has vamp hearing. Yesterday he was upstairs and I was making toast downstairs, when he shouted for me to make him some. Michael was out at the time, because he needed to get some books from the small library, and Liam just didn't care.

"I do like her, but what if she doesn't like me?" He said, louder this time.

"I can't ask Claire either, she will just laugh" I told Lee joining Michael, in looking at his plate.

"Urgh, your both stupid. What if she doesn't like me? She will just laugh!" He said mocking us "1" He started holding up a finger "Mikey, Eve likes you, it's obvious. 2, She will say yes. 3, Shane, she won't laugh. 4, You both like them so why not? 5, If they do say no, which they won't, then who cares? Atleast you had the guts to ask. Not many people can do that" He finished holding up his hand with his fingers outstretched.

"Fine" I said "I'll ask, only if Mike does" I replied smiling at him.

"But" Michael started, but Lee intrupted.

"Dude, just do it. You know you want to"

"Alright, I will" Michael said lifting his head, smiling slightly "How hard could it be?"

Finally, lesson's were over. I hadn't seen Claire all day. I needed to find her today, I promised myself. Also if I do then Michael will ask Eve, which he wants to but I know if I show him I'm willing to do it, it won't be hard for him. Plus if I don't Lee will terrorise me. Maybe if Michael went out with Eve then we could tell him about the whole vampire thing, and we wouldn't have to be secretive.

I've been thinking the whole vampire thing over in my head and I finally understand how I feel about it. At first it gave me the creeps and I wanted to just walk away. I didn't though. I stayed and listened. Even though I know they could kill me in a second flat, I know they wouldn't. They act as if they don't care if I died, or about the human population, but really they do. They didn't kill me - maybe it was because it wouldn't be to good for the academy - but I like to think it was because they couldn't. I don't think they like being what they are, because if they did like being vampires and hated humans, why didn't they just drink from humans direct? Instead they hunt animals, and drink them. Plus they appoligised for doing violent actions, as if they couldn't control themselves. If they didn't care they wouldn't appoligise, just walk off.

I don't mind Claire being a vampire. Of course it will take some getting used to, but I think I will get over it. Truthfully it's awesome. I mean, you live forever, get ultra strength, speed and hearing, you can hide in the shadows and most inmportantly, kick anyone's ass. The only down side is the whole drinking blood thing.

I was thinking so hard that I didn't realise I had just walked into someone. "Sorry!" I said and gave an appoligetic look to the girl who was looking at me with a sad look. She softened and nodded, then walked away. I was walking with Michael and Lee to Common Grounds. Appartently Lee was meeting Alice, so me and Michael tagged along to get some coffee.

We walked through the front door and was welcomed by warmth and the smell of coffee. Alice was in the corner of the shop with Claire opposite. Eve was no where in sight. We got our drinks and headed over to them. Alice smiled at us while Claire was messing about on her phone. We sat down and Claire looked up. "Sup boys" she said with a smile. I returned it and mumbled a hey.

"What you on?" I asked nodded to her phone.

"Angry Birds" she replied with a grin "Damn pigs won't die" I started laughing and Michael had a smile on his face.

"Where's Eve?" Lee asked.

"She got held back for not doing some essay or somet" Alice responded. Claire turned off her phone just as Oliver, the owner, headed towards us with a dirty blonde haired boy in tow.

"Sup Oliver" Claire greeted him. He nodded back.

"Hello Claire, this is James, him and his band will be doing the live music on Friday so I need you to tell him the songs to play" Oliver told Claire then walked off. James stood there awkwardly. Claire patted the spare chair and he sat down.

"Hey, um, so... yeah... what songs will it be?" he asked looking at Claire.

"Erm..." Claire began "Do you know any Paramore songs? Because that's what Oliver wants me to do" she sounded a bit paniced.

"Yeah, I know them all!" He said cheerily.

Claire and James talked over songs I've never heard of and then he left. He had wrote them on a napkin to remember. "You excited?" Lee asked.

"Yep, and a bit nervous, what if I forget the lyrics or miss the notes? Or bail on stage? Or loose my voice? Or the crowd hates me?" Claire rambled, going over the possiblities of what could happen. Lee held his hand up to silence her.

"You'll be fine... Oh!" He said then added "Give me a shoutout!" We laughed.

"I'll try to remember"

"That means no" Lee said and pouted.

When we were finished Eve walked in, so we all went out to go sit on the grass outside. It was were they went for a picnic. Claire put on her iPod and music started playing. I had no idea what it was and by the look on Michael's face he didn't either. "Claire, what is this?" I asked.

"God! It's my favourite band of all time. I listen to them all the time. I'm performing their songs. Ring any bells?" I looked at Michael because I still didn't know. It was a band with a weird name, that's all I knew.

"Oh right, Paramore" Michael replied. Claire smiled at him for knowing.

"It's ignorance" She told us and started singing.

"If I'm a bad person
You don't like me
Well, I guess I'll make my own way
It's a circle, a mean cycle
I can't excite you anymore

Where's your gavel? Your jury?
What's my offense this time?
Your not a judge but if your gonna judge me
Well sentence me to another life

Don't wanna hear your sad songs
I wanna feel your pain
When you swear it's all my fault
Cause you know were not the same
No, were not the same, Oh, were not the same

We were friends that stuck together
We wrote our names in blood
I guess you can't except that the change is good
Hey, it's good, Hey, it's good"

She had her eye's closed and was dancing along where she sat. We were all looking at her and then burst out laughing went she lay down doing an air guitar solo and looked like she was having a fit.

Hey guys, I need to tell you something. Right well, I have one more week in school and then I get a week off so I will try to do one or two updates before then. When it is my break I am going to be writing out the rest of the chapters, so I can update really quickly and finish this story. Also during my break I will be writing out my other stories which I have been thinking about. I have loads of idea's so please bare with me. In the next chapter it won't be "We went here" and "we did this" there will be a lot more action and things going on. It will be getting interesting ;)

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-Molly^.^