Shy's 3rd Person View

Nurse Valentina took the needle out of Shy's arm and put a small bandage on the spot.

Valentina tried not to breathe in too much of the scent of the small girl's blood, afraid she would attack her if she did.

But she couldn't help smelling a little of it, Shy's blood smelled unbelievably sweet, and mixed with a vampire scent as well.

The nurse looked up at the girl and smiled. "You can open your eyes now."

Shy's eyes were shut tight, but when she heard the Nurse Valentina speak, her cheeks flushed and she opened her eyes.

Shy eyed the small bandage and was glad the needle didn't hurt as much as she thought it would, but she had always been afraid of it anyway.

The nurse set the syringe of blood down on a towel.

The teenage girl was so defenseless and innocent, and on top of that, her blood was almost irresistible.

It's a shame. I was taught to ignore these kinds of thoughts. And I was doing so well without biting a human. But this girl is.. different somehow.

The Principal stood up from her chair to take the syringe.

"It won't take long for the results, but if you could just wait in my office for a bit.."

Shy nodded, "That's okay."

Leigh's 3rd person POV

Leigh sighed. Since yesterday, he hadn't been able to pay attention in class at all.

All he could think about was Shyann Summers, and had been a little worried about her safety.

He had never thought about a girl this much before, but he tried not to.

He had never fallen in love before, so he hadn't quite understood yet what all this thinking had meant.

Ms. Fang looked over at Castiel and gritted her teeth.

While his classmates were working on a paper, he was still staring out of that window, and she was fed up with not having his full attention.

"Castiel!" she finally snapped.

He turned to her, his expression bored and annoyed, and the sunlight through the window made his silver eyes sparkle.

"Yes, Ms. Fang?"he smirked and she glared at him.

"I'm not going to ignore you, you know. I'm getting sick of you not paying attention in class! Now, I know it won't do you any good, but I'm sending you to the principal's office! Maybe she'll know what to do with you.." she pointed towards the door and with a mutter of something unintelligible, Castiel stood up to walk out of the classroom, ignoring the the giggles of his classmates.

Shy's POV

I sighed and stretched.

The principal had been testing my blood in this empty science classroom she moved us both in for about 2 hours now.

And I had to use the bathroom.

"Umm.. can I use the bathroom?" I asked softly.

The principal looked up from her microscope. "Of course, dear, but I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany you... I'm very close to getting the results. But don't worry, all of the students should be in class at the moment, they rarely use the restroom on the floor near my office. You should be fine then."

I nodded and carefully walked out of the science room, down a flight of stairs, walked down the hall way towards the office, and opened the door to the girl's bathroom.

Regular POV

Castiel paused at the principal's door, smelling that familiar scent again.

No way that kid would come back after yesterday...

He sniffed again, it was indeed her scent.

But.. maybe..

Suddenly, the principal's door opened, and there was a teacher.

"Ah, Castiel." she smirked, "Got into some trouble again?" she motioned for him to walk in the office.

Gritting his teeth, Castiel took one last look at the girl's bathroom door, and followed the teacher.

Meanwhile, Rosalya was making her way down that same hallway to use the bathroom.

She sighed, wondering what Leigh was doing right now.

She had been in love with him for so long, but was still not ready to confess to him.

Rosalya flipped her long, pure white hair, and just as she was about to open the girl's restroom door, she picked up a scent and frowned.

"No way," she sniffed, "What would a human be doing in here? I must be imagining things.. plus it's mixed with a vampire's scent. Ah, whatever."

Pushing the bathroom door open, she noticed the scent getting stronger.

She quietly closed the door behind her so that the sound was barely audible, and tiptoed around the wall that covered the stalls and sinks.

Walking slowly down the hall of stall doors, she looked under them, searching for legs.

The irresistible human/vampire scent grew even stronger and she smirked.

No, she couldn't hold back from drinking a human's blood any longer.

Not this time.

Shy's POV

I pulled up my skirt and turned to flush the toilet.

Unlocking the stall door and pushing it open, I walked down the long hall of stalls, and turned the corner to wash my hands.

While I was making my way to the door,that's when I heard a girl's voice.

"I've never smelled a human scented vampire before."

I turned around, but no one was there.

But then she spoke again.

"Or tasted their blood. I'm thirsty, you know?" I heard a laugh echo through the bathroom and my heart pounded.

Turning on my heel, I reached for the door handle, but there was none there.

I looked down, horrified, to see that the handle was lying on the ground, and had obviously been ripped from the door.

"Sorry, but there's really no other place to run.."

The voice was behind me now.

"H- how did you.." I pressed my self against the wall as she slowly walked closer to me.

"If you're trying to hide from people like me, you should check every stall before and after you use the bathroom, you foolish little thing."

I was envious of her. Although my hair was much longer, her flowing, pure white hair stopped a few inches under her waist, her eyes were like a golden sunset, and her fangs were sharp, but not as sharp as I remembered Leigh's to be.

Other than that, she was a bit tall, with a perfect shaped body, and basically had everything I wanted in looks.

She would be called "beautiful" instead of "small and cute."

I had come to hate that word – cute. And today, it somehow made me even angrier to think about all of those times I'd been identified by it.. Today I felt I'd go crazy if someone called me by it.

But there was no time to think about that! My life was on the line!

"W- what do you want?"

I tried to push myself even closer to the wall.

"Oh, I bet you already know what I want, sweetie, blood." she inched closer to me.

I opened my mouth to scream, and she glared at me.

"Don't you even think about it. If you scream, I'll rip out your vocal cords."

I closed my mouth, and my eyes filled with tears.

I had never been threatened before, and it didn't exactly feel good.

"Hmm.. I wouldn't want your blood plastered around this bathroom... how about we take this outside?"

Before I could speak, she put an arm around my hip, lifted me up, kicked a hole through the door with surprising strength, and sped off down the hallway.

Regular POV

Castiel followed the teacher to a detention room as she gave him a lecture on paying attention, her back turned.

He looked around for a distraction, and when he saw his upperclassman Rosalya running with Shyann Summers in one arm down a hallway, she paused when she saw him.

He caught her scent again and he looked at the small, frightened girl, and smirked.

Rosalya eyed him and glared, mouthing the word "mine."

Castiel glared back. He had been thinking about Shy's scent for some time now, and he was craving her blood. What did Ms. Fang think he was looking out of the window for 7 hours straight for the past 2 school days and not even being able to concentrate on paperwork for?

He hadn't fed in months, and he was getting tired of it.

He bared his teeth, and Rosalya gave him a sweet smile before silently darting down the staircase.

With one last look at the back of the rambling teacher, he quietly snuck away to chase after them.

In Ms. Fang's room, Leigh felt like something was wrong, and was getting worried about Shy.

What if Castiel had found her in the principal's room?

He doubted the principal herself could protect Shy if he moved to attack her, who know what was going on?
He needed to see her.

Leigh raised his hand. "Excuse me, Ms. Fang, but may I please use the restroom?"

Ms. Fang smiled and nodded, "Please be quick."

Leigh stood up and silently walked out of the classroom.

In the science room, the principal had finally found out the test results.

"Well.. I guess I should have seen it earlier with the mention of those eyes."

She pulled out a book and flipped to a chapter about human vampires and quickly read over it.

"Hmm.."

She stopped on a certain line in the book -

"It is said that a human vampire can have their vampire side sealed, but if the vampire is strong enough, when the human is angered by something, the vampire may awaken again."

The principal looked up from the book and thought for a moment.

She didn't think there would be anything to anger Shy today, but how was she to know, anyway?

A sudden realization hit her.

Shy hadn't come back from the bathroom yet.

Shy's POV

The vampire girl with the long, white hair ran outside with me in one arm and had taken me to the back of the school, where there was a large forest of trees, but I had gathered my courage to scream on our way down the halls of the school, hoping Leigh or the principal would hear me, but I knew I had made the situation worse.

Nervously, I bit her hand as hard as I could for her to drop me.

She hissed and stopped in her tracks.

The girl had let me go, but she had tossed me while doing so, and I flew through the air, hitting one of my flailing arms on a tree that I passed by, and a screamed.

My back hit one of the trees and I gasped.

It felt like all of the oxygen had been knocked out of me.

I sank to the ground, struggling to breathe, and trying to ignore the pain in my back.

I looked up at her.

She was a few meters away from me, but even then, I struggled to press myself to the tree.

She was glaring down at me.

"How dare you scream? And then try to bite me?" she smirked, "I thought you were going to make this easy, but since you seem to want to resist, I'll make you suffer. You're a pretty disobedient girl."

Trying my best to push the pain aside, I struggled to my feet, already knowing it was useless, but tried to climb the tree that I had crashed into.

I heard the girl laughing behind me and I'm pretty sure I would have actually laughed at myself as well.

"How nice, being brave enough to try and get away from me."

I felt hands on my ankle and I gasped.

The hands squeezed my ankle so hard I thought it was going to break, and before I knew it, she tossed me into the air again and I hit another tree, and I cried out.

"AAAAAH!"

"Hmm. This is just too easy.."

She walked over to me again, grabbing me by my neck, and lifting me into the air.

Suddenly, a flash of red darted out from behind us and crashed into the girl, causing her to drop me.

"Sorry, Rosalya, but I've already had my eye on this one since yesterday." a boy with shoulder length, flaming red hair and beautiful silver eyes had pushed the girl out of the way, and was smirking down at her, where she lay on the ground, glaring up at him.

"Castiel!" she spat at him.

Rosalya stood up, but the boy named Castiel had already made his way toward me, and had wrapped a arm around my waist, and I was being lifted from the ground.

Rosalya had run to hit him, but Castiel had climbed up a tree with amazing speed, taking me with him.

"Please.. put me down.." I wailed.

"Oh, shut up. You were dumb enough to come back to this school, anyway." he muttered.

I looked down. We were at least 12 feet in the air now, Rosalya glaring up at us.

Then I watched before my very eyes as Rosalya punched through the tree bark before we had reached the top, and she smiled as the tree tilted over.

"Damn." I heard Castiel grumble, and he held me tighter as he jumped toward another tree.

I screamed, and Castiel pulled us onto a branch to stand, throwing me against the tree and pinning me on it so that I could face him.

"Just be quiet, and don't make this harder than it has to be!" he yelled, and grabbed my shoulder, showing me his fangs.

He moved to bite my neck, and I couldn't help the tears that began to flow.

"Please..."

The tree wobbled, and I guessed Rosalya had punched through this one as well.

"Castiel!" I heard her scream.

Castiel grabbed me and carelessly threw me toward a tree, and I landed on a branch, my stomach crashing into it, and I slipped, but held onto it, dangling.

"HELP!"

Behind me, Castiel growled, "Damn you, Rosalya! Do I have to kill you, too?"

"Maybe you do! Get down here and fight me, you ass!" she shouted back at him.

My arms were going to give out, I knew it, I wasn't strong enough to hold on!

I tried to pull myself up, but failed.

My back, my stomach, my ankle, my arm, they all hurt terribly, and I wasn't strong enough to even protect myself.

I shouldn't have come back today. Now I knew.

Oh! What kind of birthday was this?

I tried to shout for help over Castiel and Rosalya's battle cries, but it was no use.

I wonder if Leigh would come if I called for him? No way, that's too embarrassing!

But, I might die anyway, and he could help, he's a nice person...

"L-leigh..." I tried.

"Please, help..!" I started to slip off of the branch.

"Leigh!" I tried again, tears flowing again.

I can't believe my life is going to end this way.

"SOME ONE! HELP! LEIGH!" I screamed one last time.

My hands slipped completely and I fell.

Someone caught me almost as soon as I had fell, and was lifting me up bridal style, and as we were gliding through the air, I looked up at my rescuer.

It was him.

The one I had called for.

Leigh looked down at me, smiling, "You called?"

"L-leigh..?" I blushed, I couldn't believe I had just asked for his help when we barely knew each other.

There was a light tap, and I realized we had landed on another branch.

"I'm sorry I wasn't here to help you before..." he looked apologetic, and he set me down gently.

I stared up at him, glad it was Leigh who had saved me, and shook my head.

"I... it's my fault I was in this situation, and I shouldn't have people rushing to help me, or anything like that..." Leigh smiled down at me. "Are you alright?"

I nodded, "Uh.. yes.."

"Nothing's broken?"

I winced. "I hope not.."

"LEIGH?" I heard Rosalya's voice, and we looked down to see that she was staring at Leigh in shock, pushing Castiel aside.

He narrowed his eyes, " Are you the one who's been hurting Shyann ?"

Rosalya blinked, "Wh- what are you doing? You're protecting her?"

Leigh hissed at her, "That doesn't matter! Answer my question!"

Rosalya looked hurt, "L- Leigh.."

Leigh let go of me and dropped to the ground.

"Was it the both of you?"

"Sure, maybe it was. What are you going to do about it, exactly?" Castiel glared at Leigh, and Leigh punched him in his gut, sending him flying into another tree.

Meanwhile, Rosalya met my gaze, and she narrowed her eyes, and quick as a flash, raced up a tree, and flew through the air, landing on my branch.

She slapped me across my face.

"Damn, you, human! Why is Leigh protecting you?" she screamed at me in rage. "He should be on my side! We're at least the same!"

"B-but.."

She bared her teeth, moved my head, and put a hand on my neck, now inched from my face.

My eyes widened in terror.

"Hmm.. I can sort of see why he'd want to protect you. Your so small.. and fragile.."

I felt anger well up inside of me, worse than I had ever felt it before, and a weird feeling of something spread through me, as if something was trying to climb out, emerge.

"And defenseless.."

I set my jaw.

"And weak..."

Whatever was trying to emerge, was getting very close.

"And cute.." the word that angered me escaped her mouth.

The feeling of a side I had never known myself to have before had awakened, and I felt my human self slip away to watch this new side take over.