Hello my lovely readers!!! Here is the next chapter. I thought that this story should pick up a bit more...
So here you are!!

Disclaimer: This story belongs to the lovely and talently Richelle Mead!!

Chapter 3

As I walked toward the cafeteria I saw Eddie waiting for me by the door. When he noticed me, he pulled his face into a pout but I saw that his eyes were laughing.

"What took you so long slow-poke? I'm starving here!"

I laughed and punched him in the arm. As we entered the cafeteria, it became dead silent and I noticed they everyone was looking at... us. Great. The silence only lasted about an eighth of second before everyone went back to what they were doing. As we walked past tables to get to the lunch line, I could hear people whispering about us. Some didn't even try to hide their interest.

"What's up with that?" I whispered to Eddie, "Do we really stand out that much?" It had been going on all day and I had just about enough of it.

"I dunno. I guess it comes along with being irresistibly good looking new kids." He batted his eyelashes at me and kept moving down the line. As he was putting something that looked mildly like barf on his tray - yuck - he sighed and didn't look at me.

"Just don't..." He paused and looked for the right words. After a few seconds he gave up and just spat it out. "Just, please don't go around slapping people. Okay?"

I burst out laughing so loud that people stared at me. I didn't want extra attention but I could help it! It was so funny! Eddie looked terrified - yes terrified - of me. It was hilarious! After a while he soon joined me, probably realizing how ridiculous he sounded.

Once we got our food, we realized that all the tables were already taken. Some people looked in our direction and looked like they wanted to ask us to sit with them, but nobody did. This was a great first day. I felt soo welcome. Bitches.

"Rose!"

I looked in the direction at whoever had called me and spotted Carson waving. I waved back and walked over to him, Eddie on my heels.

When we reached him I noticed two guys and a girl also sitting with him.

"Rose, this is Mark, Hunter, and Lena. Guys, this is Rose."

I smiled at them and studied them closely. Mark was a short guy, around my height. With brown, curly hair and an open, goofy smile, I had a feeling we would be swapping dirty jokes in no time. Lena was a pretty girl. She was Chinese, with shiny black hair and blood red lips. Hunter held most of my attention. he was around six feet, with blond hair and ice-blue eyes. Our eyes locked and I couldn't look away. Something about him almost reminded me of Dimitri. Dimitri... I missed him already.

"Hi! It's nice to meet you. This is my older brother, Eddie."

After introductions, we sat down to eat.

"So, where are you guys from? You don't look like you're from around here." Lena asked.

"We're from Montana, we used to go to a boarding school for athletes." Eddie answered, since my mouth was full. On the way to school, we had made up our cover story.

"For athletes, huh? You guys must be really fit then." Mark stared enviously at Eddies bulging biceps from under his t-shirt.

Suddenly my phone started vibrating in my pocket. I pulled it out, The screen said it was my Mom calling. I knew she wasn't calling to ask how my first day was. I gave Eddie a look a stood up to leave. From behind me I heard him telling them that we had to go, and then I felt him walking beside me. I flipped my phone open.

"102 and Maple street." Then she hung up. I didn't like the feeling in my stomach.

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Me and Eddie arrived shortly. We looked around and I spotted my Mom's new cruiser at the end of the street. As we approached, I saw that the door was wide open and the car was abandoned.

Eddie tapped me on the shoulder and silently pointed toward the darkened alleyway a few feet away. We both pulled out our stakes and slowly creeped into the darkness.

At the end of the alley, I saw something that made me want to throw up the sad excuse for food I had eaten minutes ago. Two bodies. A woman and her son. Lifeless and completely drained of blood.

The anger I felt was so over-powering. I started seeing red. Over the last few months Dimitri had taught me to control my anger. How to reel it in and control my actions. None of that mattered anymore. I wanted to make whoever had done this suffer.

I heard someone approach me from behind. Without thinking, I whipped around with my stake raised, ready to strike. Whoever it was grabbed my arm, making me unable to move.

"Rose! It's just me!" I looked up and noticed for the first time that it was just my mother.

I took a few steps up back and let out a shaky breath. Realizing that I had just tried to stake my mother.

"What happened here?" Eddie asked.

"I have no idea. I was driving by and noticed some movement back here. When I approached, I found them," She pointed at the bodies,"but nothing else. I just went and checked the rest of the block."

Eddie and my Mom talked for a few more minutes. Neither of them seeming to notice that I wasn't taking part of the conversation fortunately.

"Rose?" I looked up and they were both looking at me with concern. "We should go back before we're late for class."

Before I got into the car, I looked back at my Mom covering the bodies in body bags.

"I'm sorry." Who I was saying sorry to - I wasn't exactly sure.

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"So, there was this really really cute outfit I saw over the weekend...."

Me and the new "gang" were walking toward the parking lot after school. Lena was beside me rambling on about something the same way that Lisa did. It was a week ago that we had found the bodies. I still felt sick just thinking about it....

"So we're all going to your house right?" Mark nudged me out of my daydream.

"That's the plan."

As we got the the parking lot, I headed towards my car that was parked right beside Eddie's. We had originally only planned on driving one car to school, but we were both receiving so much attention that it wouldn't have made a difference, adding another mustang to the picture.

"Wait... that's your!?!?" Carson looked at me incredulously, "All week we were trying to figure out who's mustangs those belonged to!!"

"Ya..." Eddie laughed slightly "We got them as gifts."

"You got MUSTANGS as gifts?" Lena asked suspiciously.

"Sure, our uncle left us a will when he passed away." I said in a sad voice, looking at the ground.

"He lived in Venice and was this popular artist or something." Eddie said nonchalantly in the same sad tone.

Oh ya, we were badass liars. So what if it sounded totally made up? Humans will believe anything if you kept a straight face.

As I looked back up I caught Hunter's eyes. I stared into those blue sapphires. Over the week, I had learned that Hunter didn't talk much. But when he did, people listened. He had a calming presents and was a pretty nice guy too. It still puzzled me why he was friends with Carson, Mark, ans Lena though. He wasn't anything like them.

When we got home, we all piled out of the two cars and they looked around in awe.

"Rich kids." I heard Mark mutter.

We dumped our stuff on the kitchen table and pulled out our homework.

I absolutely hate homework! I thought the stuff we got at the academy was bad, this was horrible. It wasn't because it was hard or anything. I was just... useless. To me anyway, I mean, I don't need to know math, writing, or history to be a guardian! I need to learn to fight and strategies - two things I was definitely not doing.

After a few minutes Lena sighed and looked up from her work.

"I can't take it anymore! If you don't give me a tour of this mansion this instant, I swear I'll have a hissy fit!"

We all laughed and I lead them upstairs for a tour.

After showing them the upstairs and main floor, I was going to go back to the kitchen to finish my work.

"Don't you guys have a basement? I saw a window when we got here." Hunter asked, raising one eyebrow.

Crap! I didn't want to show them the gym and pool because I was almost positive that one of them would ask what was in the two closets....

"Sure, why not." Eddie replied before I could say anything. "I have to warn you though, you guys might think it's a bit strange."

"What? Do you guys have dead bodies in there or something?" Mark joked.

Ouch. That was a bit too close to home. If you know what I mean.

Eddie lead them downstairs, while I brought up the rear. Following everyone reluctantly.

When we got down they were... speechless. It was kinda funny. Especially Hunter, who is rarely caught off guard.

"Wow." Carson breathed. "No wonder you guys kickass in PE class. You go hardcore!"

I burst out laughing remembering PE class. It was the one class we all had together. If humans actually thought that running twice around a track is a marathon, they should consider the 4 miles I run ever morning.

"Ya... I guess it's just out of habit though. I've been working out for so long that if i don't, I feel all gross and sick even." I said casually.

"What's in there?" Hunter asked. Pointing to the two doors.

"It's just extra equipment." Eddie said quickly. Too quickly.

"Cool, let's check it out." Mark walked over with everyone following him.

As he opened the door with the stakes inside an inch, I ran over and slammed the door shut.

"You don't want to go in there." I thought quickly "It smells like sweat."

"Really gross!" Eddie added, standing in front of the other door.

"Gross!" I repeated.

As the four of them walked back up the stairs, I slumped against the door I had just slammed and let out a breath I didn't know i was holding. I looked over at Eddie.

"That was too close."

"Tell me about it! Try explaining why we have a hundred stakes to a bunch of humans!"

Me and Eddie laughed at that. Little did we know that someone was listening in the shadows....

VERY IMPORTANT ANUTHOR'S NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm afraid I have some bad news..... don't worry I'm still writing! Anyway, for the next month I'll be touring Australia and Southern Asia. Very excited!! Which means = less updates. I know! Please forgive me! I'll TRY to update, but please forgive me if I don't. But I'll definitely be full on when I come back, which is around the second week of August. I am determined to finish this story before I have to go back to school.

Oh ya = I'm leaving at the end of this week, so..... if I get enough reviews..... I might squeeze in another chapter before I leave.

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