Chapter 4

*Taylor's POV*

Who could be another vampire? I'm sure I would have noticed if it was any one in my class. I should have noticed if it was anyone in the school. This was just a great day to spend a prize day off looking for vampire tracks, just like the old vampire hunting days. Lately vampires had got it into their heads that it would be a good idea to keep a couple of million humans in farms. Breeding, selling and taking blood sort of like animals. Therefore more vampires had got out of hand. If you're wondering which smart-ass vampire thought of this idea, you have three guesses. If you guessed my brother, Liam, you would be right. I found the deer exactly where I had left it. You know I think Jim would kill me of he saw this poor tortured looking animal with me. I sniffed at the deer's neck, definitely a vampire. There seemed to be hand prints on the deer's hide, I examined them…Holy shit! There was more than one fingerprint. I sniffed the bloodied neck again. This was bad, there were probably about five different vampire scents on the deer and that was kind of gross, it was like sharing a drink with the same straw but more slavered in saliva. If the vampire's were coming into the island, why? I would need to check if any new were actually here and if there would be anymore. I hid the deer behind the bushes for nature to deal with it and brushed my skirt down.

"Hey, watch'a doin'?" a male southern accent made me jump out of my skin.

"Jeez! Jesse you scared me! I was just hanging out here, you know, I love the nature" thinking back on this excuse it was most likely the worst I could have come up with. Jesse didn't look convinced but he seemed to let it go.

"Well I'm out here because I have no-one to hang out with and I said to myself 'hey why not hang with Taylor she has a free day off, right?'" Jesse grinned at me.

"Talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. Hey Jesse, Jess, by any chance do you know if any new students are here or coming?" I asked.

"Yeah, I mean when you came you weren't the only new student. Apparently there has been hell of a lot of applications this year but the strange thing is the only the exact amount of people allowed in the academy was the exact number that arrived, the others were ill" he said. Hmm, if that wasn't suspicious what would be? There were either two possibilities, one; there was gonna be a boat load of vamps coming, two; this was all a coincidence and there was a new bloodsucking species that just happened to have human hands and a vampire smell. Yeah like that'll happen. We walked to the edge of a cliff viewing the sea.

"Ya' know there's something about you that makes me wanna scream and never come back but there's another part of me that makes me wanna stay with you and see what happens next" Jesse said, avoiding eye contact.

"What does your mind tell you what's gonna happen now?" I asked, softly. He turned his head leaning forward.

"Hi ya' soldiers" Hassleberry came out of the forest behind us. We looked at him that was the perfect moment for him to interrupt.

"Hey, I was just going so…see ya'" Jesse went off. Hassleberry looked at me…coldly?

"You were gonna kiss Jess" he even talked to me coldly; I frowned at him, slightly.

"I'm not sure what was gonna happen" I mumbled. Hassleberry made me feel sort of ashamed and uncomfortable, though I had no reason to be or did I?

"What' about Zane?" Hassleberry asked. I looked at him, how did he know? I shrugged and kicked a rock down the cliff.

"I don't know" I said, miserably. I didn't want to think about it.

"Well if you know what's good for you, you would stay away soldier" he said, gruffly. He turned his heel and walked away. That was slightly strange. I walked towards the school; I needed to do some homework.

¬At night walking towards the red dorms¬

I walked towards the dorm and it was dark. I heard Jesse voice around the corner.

"Come on I like ya' but only as a friend and if ya' don't leave me not for long" Jesse sounded like he was trying to be in control. I wonder what girl was attacking Jesse. I turned the corner and the girl seemed taller than him, wait a sec…

"HASSLEBERRY, YOUR GAY?" It was Hassleberry making moves on Jesse, his palms were against the wall and Jesse inbetween them. So that was why he was angry with me about to kiss Jesse.

"Well I'm not gay I just like males" he said.

"You know that's gay, right?" I asked. Hassleberry began to rub the back of his neck.

"Yeah of course I did, heh, heh" He said, unconvincingly. Jesse slipped away from Hassleberry and walked next to me, he turned to Hassleberry.

"I guess I'm ok with you bein' gay as long as you don't put any of ya moves on me. Well I'm gonna take Taylor back to her dorm, by the way there's a big package for you in your dorm. Wait, no not that way!" Jesse shook his head, frantically. I sighed.

"Jesse…shut up, Hassleberry, why didn't you tell me?" I said.

"Well you could have told me about Zane but I guess you didn't so I didn't" he countered. OK, he had a point. When we got to the dorms, Jesse had walked off to his dorm, Jaden had thrown open the door.

"Hassleberry, are you gay?" he asked suddenly. Hassleberry threw me a questioning look.

"Gay…gay…hmm…yes I am happy" Hassleberry said.

"Nice try. Why didn't you tell me? I thought we were best friends" Jaden looked a bit upset and confused. That's what I said but Jaden actually can use it, unlike me who had been hiding things from Hassleberry.

"I thought you might not want me in your dorm. How did you know?" Hassleberry asked. That's when I noticed there was something in Jay's hand.

"Well I don't care if your gay as long as you don't put any moves on me and I found this in your room" Jaden said. Sometimes it's like Jesse and Jaden are the same person. Jaden held out some material to him, Hassleberry took it and opened it and it was underwear! It read 'Gay Life is the Life'. I burst out laughing this was…well it speaks for itself.

"Oh Hassleberry, night guys" Then I walked to my room, still chuckling about the underwear and went to bed. It's funny I always secretly thought and that I wanted a gay best friend and now I do, it was kind of...cool?

¬At the harbour, the next day¬

I was sitting on a rock near the harbour waiting for the new students. The boat came into site and I glanced at it, approximately it would arrive in…ten minutes.

"Taylor?" Zane was looking up at me from the rock. I swallowed, my palms were getting clammy.

"Hi Zane, I'm sorry I was being selfish" I croaked. Zane looked at me with unchanging cold eyes.

"Why are you sitting there?" he asked. It was like I didn't just apologise.

"I think there maybe a boatful of vampires coming" I replied. Zane glanced at the sea and the boat was closer.

"Well that's your problem" he began to walk off. I jumped off the rock.

"Aren't you gonna say something? I said I was sorry and I…" I began but then Zane interrupted me

"Taylor look, I'm sorry too. I'm sorry I ever took interest in you. I shouldn't have confronted you about being a vampire. I didn't even know you well. So do us both a favour and let's pretend nothing happened, that I never met you. You said it yourself, you don't want to get close to anyone so don't apologise" Zane walked off and left me standing there. I didn't know what to say so I let him walk off.

I made my way to my rock when I heard voices and the boat hit the harbour. I turned to look at the new student and sure enough there were gorgeous looking students stepping off, all of which were vampires. As they got off they made a middle way for someone to walk through and it hit me as soon as I saw the blonde hair. I knew why they were coming and I know who orchestrated it.

"Miss me, sis?" Liam walked through opening his arms towards me.