Chapter 7

I mentally scowled as Neferet made me stay behind after class, I wanted to go find Erik and the last thing I needed right now was a long chat with an evil bitch. I played with my nails impatiently as I waited for her to finish speaking to some scruffy kid. She finally finished and she turned to me with a smile.

'Calm down Zoey, you will be able to leave in a moment.'

Oh great, I forgot she can practically read my mind, how convenient. 'I really need to go Neferet.'

'Yes, in a moment Zoey, what you did into days Lesson was very rude and I expect that you give Erik Night a sincere apology.'

'Yes! Great, in fact I was going to go see him right now.' I started walking out the door as I heard her call out to me.

'I'm looking forward to tonight's circle casting.'

I turned around shocked. 'What! There was never a circle casting tonight!'

Neferet smiled at me. 'Well there is now, but I'm sure it wont be a problem for you Zoey Redbird.'

'No, not a problem.' I gritted through my teeth before turning around slowly and rushing out of the classroom. Great, just great, now I have to organize a whole ton of bullpoop for casting just hours away when all I really want to do is watch a movie with Damien. The more I thought about it the more appealing it seemed; I mean falling asleep in a hot guy's arms was supposed to be a stress reliever right?

I rushed to the library hoping that Erik would be there. I didn't know what I was going to say to him. Maybe I would have to beg that he wouldn't tell everybody that Damien and I are going out, that's if he hasn't already. Times like this I wanted my Nala. Why couldn't guys be more like cats? You feed them; stroke them a bit and they come purring at you for more. All the excess hair on the other hand-

Zoey! Now is not the time for comparing boys to cats, you have a major problem forming on the horizon. I didn't even want to begin to think what my friends would say if they found out Damien and I were together when I didn't even bother to tell them. And what about Damien, he wanted to keep this whole thing a secret until he thought he was ready to tell everybody. Expect me to ruin everything.

I almost reached the library as I unexpectedly bumped into Stevie Rae.

'Hey Zoey, where the heck are you off to in such a hurry?' She smiled.

I pointed to the library and steadied my breathing, I hadn't of realised how fast I was walking. 'Just going to the library, to do some stuff.'

Stevie Rae raised her eyebrows. 'Well if you're not really doing anything important then it'll should fine if I tag along?'

I sighed and decided to tell the truth. 'I'm sorry Stevie Rae, I've actually got to speak to Erik, in private.'

'Mmm, I love me some Erik, can you save me some.' She smiled.

I laughed sarcastically. 'No he's all yours, I love Da.' I cut myself off before I realised what I was actually about to say.

'What did you say Zoey?' Stevie Rae questioned.

I scrambled my mind for a cover up. 'I love Danish scones, bye!' I turned around and started walking in to the library, and realised I forgot to tell her about the circle casting tonight. I ran back out and yelled out into the darkness.

'Stevie Rae there is a casting tonight!' I stood there waiting for a reply and a few seconds later I heard her call back through the darkness.

'Already know Zoey.'

I walked back into the library, well that was one less thing to worry about, hopefully the twins and Damien found out somehow as well.

I walked around as fast as I could hoping to find Erik, and sure enough I found him sitting against a wall, reading a book. As I got closer I noticed his puffy eyes and knew that he had been crying. What the hell was I going to say?