I quickly reacted, getting into a defence stance and letting go of Nicholas. He tried to get in front of me, but I pushed him out the way, glaring.

"Get away, idiot," I hissed.

"I was just try-!"

He was cut off by the vampires jumping forwards and almost everyone in the room pulling stakes out of what seemed lie thin air, but was a secret holder somewhere. There was a secret passageway somewhere in the hall, but I wasn't quite sure. I could hear yells and cries of pain all around, mostly from Helios Agents and teachers. The Drakes looked freaked, unsure of what to do. I stalked forwars, towards the off guard vamp in front of me.

The idiot was just standing there watching other people fight.

So I staked him with the stake I had strapped to my leg.

"Lucy!" I heard Kieran yell. My head snapped to the side and arms pulled me back. I screamed and Nicholas grabbed onto my ankle, growling fiercely. He was tugging on my heel, trying to get me back.

"Lucky!" he yelled, sounding like he was in agony.

I hissed at the vampire that was holding me and kicked out behind me with the leg that Nicky wasn't holding.

Nicky? Oh, crap. I mean Nicholas.

Anyway, the vamp hunched over, throwing me out of his grip. I landed gracefully, but knocked Nicholas over in the making.

"Sorry."

I wasn't.

Vampires were swarming around me, and Hunter, Choe and Kieran ran to me. We all stood in a circle and I nodded at Hunter, who nodded at Chloe, who nodded at Kieran, who nodded to me, the link of the circle. It was all a secret sign and agreement that we had planned out through the first vamp attack to the school.

We all stood in defence position for a couple of seconds, all Drakes fighting off vamps but still staring at us oddly. All simultaneously, we began to make a break for it, running through the crowds and onto the grass outside.

I could hear fighting and crashing coming from the hall as I ran, but could hear the Drake's footsteps running behind us, too. I glanced behind me to see Nicholas looking worried at my feet.

"What? Oh, shit," I realised that the heels and dresses were slowing us down, restraining us from having a smooth break out. The girls also realised this and tore off their heels; so did I.

"Split?" I asked them. They nodded and we all ran in different directions, our share of Drakes following each of us. I was running in the direction of the fields, barefoot.

"Lucy!" I heard Logan yell at me.

"What?"

"Run faster!"

I didn't glance back, but knew that he was deadly serious. There were probably vamps catching us to us. Luckily, there was a fence and a brick wall coming up, so maybe we could lose them there.

"Fence!" I yelled, before tearing the bottom half of my salmon dress off. I let go of the material, hearing Nicholas get hit in the face by it and I laughed. The fence arrived and I jumped over it easily, then saw the brick wall.

"Crap."

I didn't realise how tall it was.

Suddenly Nicholas picked me up and ran up to the wall, jumping and pulling himself up. He looked at me and kissed my forehead before dropping me.

Literally, he dropped me.

I landed in a crouch.

"Couldn't have been a bit gentler, could you?" I asked him incredulously, panting.

He jumped down and looked at me.

"Not the time, Lucky," he said, then ran off.

I ran after him, full speed, trying to catch up. Let me tell you, it is hard catching up with a vampire, no matter how much training you have.

"Do you even know where we're going?" I hissed when I got him.

He paused slightly. "No…"

"Then let me lead."

He nodded and I turned right, bringing us to mine, Hunter and Chloe's secret hideout in the woods. We had found it when I first came to the academy, when they had showed me around. No one new where or what it was but us; we had researched it.

It was a proper house, and a very posh one, too. It had white leather couches when we found it, but they were all dirty. So, we spiced it up a bit and cleaned and it became our hideout. I knew that they' be here, soon enough, so I lead Logan, Nicholas, Isabeau and Duncan to the side and showed them the secret door.

"Here," I said. They all just looked at me, so I sighed and went down and opened it walking in. "Jeez, guys."

"What?" Logan asked me, walking in beside me. "Sheesh, Luce. Look at this place!"

"I know," I said proudly. "Now, there's a bathroom downstairs, one upstairs and about 5 bedrooms here. There's a lounge down there with a kitchen. Do whatever, I'll be in the lounge. Bye," I said, walking off and laying down on the sofa. I sighed and hugged a pillow to my chest with one hand while searching for the remote.

"Here," Nicholas said, walking up beside the sofa and sitting on the arm. He held it out to me and I took it from him.

"Thanks," I said, without looking at him again. I pressed the power button on the remote and saw the music channel come on.

I sighed and laid my head back, closing my eyes and blocking out Nicholas and the Drakes, just thinking about music and Alex.

I was about to drift off when I was shaken awake.

"Lucy? Lucy?" I voice said.

"One more minute, Mom," I groaned in a mumble. The person laughed and shook me again.

"Lucky, it's me."

"What?" I blinked my eyes pen and sat up. "Oh it's you," I said, drily.

"Look, I'm sorry I left," Nicholas said, looking me in the eyes.

"No you're not," I said. "I know you're not."
"But I am," He said.

"But you're not," I sighed. "Nicholas, just give up. I'm happy now, I have a boyfriend and friends that love me. That don't leave me-"

I was cut off by Nicholas' lips pressing against mine. I began to kiss him back then realised; remembered everything he put me through when he left. I punched him and he looked shocked for a second, then collapsed on the floor next to me.

I heard Nicole Sherzinger's 'Don't Hold Your Breath' come on and cried silently, pulling my knees up to my chest and sung along to it weekly until Isabeau found me.

A/N: SO sorry for leaving you hanging for ages but I've had a busy life with many break ups, make ups and cutting, but it's over now, so I'm back! Thank you all for reviewing and sorry if its crap again! I'm only just back on track, so I'll be a crappy writer for at least a couple of weeks, but I'm going to Turkey soon to get over it! Plus I'm sick right now, so Im down

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