CHAPTER SIX
Eric's Point of View
As my alarm buzzed to wake me up I chucked it across the room and saw it shatter against my wall. It's not like I hadn't done it before. I turned on my I pod stereo and listened to my favorite song as I found a pair of knee length jean shorts and a white aeropostal shirt from my closet.
Go ahead and burn it down
I'm drunk and so is everyone else
In this devil town
They won't let me turn around
To get one last look at my baby
While she's still around
While she's still around
While she's still around…..
They were my favorite lyrics by 3Oh!3. They reminded me of Alexis. My past. I can't keep myself stuck in my used to be or has been relationship. It was a long time ago. The past. We can't keep ourselves stuck in it.
I grabbed my bag as I took one last look in the mirror before I left. Lucas, Vivian and Kyle were all sitting around the table watching the news as the were drinking their "juice pouches."
…with a high of fifty nine it will be a prefect first day of school in Elk River. Back to you in the studio Ted and Mary.
"Kyle are you ready for school? Were going to be late again and it's only our first day." I hissed. I was usually not a very happy person in the morning.
"Fine let's go." He growled.
We walked to the car as I saw the sun just beginning to rise. The news people were right for once, it was a nice day.
As he started the car he gave me a look of sympathy. "You dreamed about her again didn't you?" He concluded. He was right she had been in my dreams and I would never stop thinking about her. I loved her.
"Hello Earth to Planet Eric!" He yelled.
"Oh sorry Lucas and yeah your right she was in my dreams again." I spoke slowly.
"You know you'll hate me for saying this but it's been twenty years man! The odds of her being alive after she took a metal pipe to the head and dealt with major blood loss is probably one in a hundred." His smile slowly faded as the conversation of her came up again.
But she was that one in a hundred. She wasn't like any other human I had known. She didn't want to be a vampire when I met her but once she knew it was the only way to be with me she accepted it as truth and we planned it after her freshman year.
"Your mine and you'll never get rid of me." She always told me.
This car ride was going to be a long one.
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I didn't even need to look at my school classes. I always ended up with the same schedule every four years of high school. My dad made sure it was the way it work so if I ever wanted to end up in a college I would have the good grades for it.
"Hey wait up!" Lucas called. He was running at very slow pace barely enough to seem human. "I decided to take math with you this year so were in the same class first hour."
"You did what!" I yelled.
"Well you know that I love math! Plus lately I think you could use better company then just some random couple of girls." He laughed. We started to walk through the door as I realized there was not many people in the class just a few seats taken in the back of the room.
"Okay everybody take your seats. Class has started and there are is no time for introductions. I am Mr. Robinson and today we will be learning how to solve equations and find sectors of circles." He said keeping his nose in his books.
G is the sector and equals 160 degrees
The arc equals 36 pi. Solve for the area of the equation. I sketched the problem in my notebook just like every other student in the room. The answer was easy the answer was 22.47.
I'd been through this class so many times that all the problems seemed like simple addition to a senior. The funny part was watching some weird looks go across Lucas' face as he tried to figure out what pi equaled.
And then the class ball rang.
"How did you like the way geometry treated you?" I smiled at Lucas. But he just glared back realizing what he had gotten himself into.
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Most of the day had been going by pretty slow until my Shakespere's Memoirs class. I had been happy to join it as if it were the first time I was in the class. My mother read me stories by him many years ago.
My thoughts were shattered as I noticed a group of girls following behind me filled with the same usual people. I sat in my seat as I tried to be polite as I asked them to leave. When the warning bell rang they finally decided it was time to go as I sighed with relief.
Then I noticed a familiar face sitting across the room. She reminder me of her. I started to remember my last good memories with her but then the teacher walked in. "Good day class." She said in a formal voice. "Welcome to Shakespere's Memoirs. This course will include working with some of the greatest play written such as The Four Tragedies, and Romeo and Juliet. If you think you are here for fun and enjoyment think again. We will be working vigorously to understand the life and ethics of drama in the Elizabethan Era. If you do not believe you can keep up or that this is not the class for you please talk with me after class so I can switch your schedule." She said in a strict but smooth tone.
"With that said you will each be assigned a partner for the entire semester with whom you will work each day. This person will have to become your tutor, friend, and mentor throughout the year" She said excitedly.
Then she grabbed a hat with half of the classes names on it and let the other half pick who they would be with.
I had to be with her. I picked up her sent on a piece of paper.
"Haydence." I smiled. "Your with me." My grin was bigger than ever as her look on her face looked like the purely impossible had happened. Maybe she was just the person I was looking for.
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She walked over to my desk as I could tell all the other girls glared at her with pure rage. A person that important to me could do that to anyone.
"Well Hey Hayden what's up with you today." I smiled. I wondered if she could tell I was flirting with her.
"Um my name Is Haydence, remember?" She said with a point of dignity in who she was.
"Well I think I like Hayden better if you don't mind." I added. Now there was no way she couldn't know that I was flirting with her. My smile gave justice to the pride I felt right now.
"I that's okay I guess" She said sound still confused. Did she not have any recognition of what I was doing?
"Should we get started?" I questioned trying to get my mind off of whatever just happened.
"Lets."
"Well what play should we do."
"Well I think I like Othello." She said laughing as I began to laugh too at the thought of trying to strangle her. I couldn't do it even if I absolutely hated her. She reminded me too much of Alexis.
"Okay Othello it is!" I said going along with this little joke she had started. Al least I knew she wasn't afraid of speaking the truth to me, which was another quality that reminded me of Alexis. This girl had something special about her.
"Eric, Why are you really in this class? I mean is it because they way girls will look at you or just for extra credits to graduate. Because this does not seem like your type of thing." She said with a strong thought.
"Well the truth is, is that it's great to have the extra credits and all but it's mostly because of my mother." I said looking depressed.
"I'm sorry Eric. Did she pick all you classes for you, because it seems like something my parents would do too. Any extra way to control me they'll find it" She grumbled.
" Well actually my mom died when I was seven. She always used to read stories to me and a lot of them happened to be written by Shakespere. I guess it's my way of being closer to her." I smiled weakly.
"Oh Eric I am so sorry if I would have known I wouldn't have asked. It was rude of me." She said seeming embarrassed and ashamed.
"It's okay it was a long time ago and it's the past. We can't keep ourselves stuck in it." I interjected grumbling it as I spoke. I had told myself the same thing as I thought about Alexis this morning.
I saw the expression on her face change and knew something was wrong.
" You know maybe you could use a break. Skip last hour with me and maybe you'll feel better." I said.
" I'm so sorry Eric I can't…I um kinda promised Kaitlin I wouldn't go anywhere today. We're Hanging out in aerobics." She added. Obviously she was thinking about something really hard as I slipped her phone out her pocket and programmed my number into it.
"Okay well do you want your phone back?" I said laughing.
"What? She looked confused.
I handed her back her phone and said, "Call me!" as I left the room.
She had to be mine. I knew it wasn't right to behave this way but I couldn't control myself. I needed her.
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As I walked down the crowded hall I stopped at my locker and grabbed my jacket and set down my books on the little stand in my locker. As I started to turn around Adrienne was facing me. What is she doing here?
"Hey Eric!" She embraced me and hugged me so tight I didn't know what to do.
She was from the clan just to the north of us. They lived somewhere in Duluth. Their family was way bigger than the four of us that lived in Elk River. They had around fifteen in one neighborhood.
We were a small speck in the world compared to them.
"What are you doing here?" I said in a deep tone. She couldn't of driven four hours for no reason. Why would she come and see me for no reason at all after five years?
"We've come to check up on you again." Oh great. "You know make sure your not trying to turn anymore people into vampires."
"Shhhh! You say it like the whole world know what we are." I hissed.
"Oh Eric you are such a baby! You're the one who told our secret in the first place not me!" She smiled. "You lucky I was there to stop you while you were in the process of changing her or otherwise that good for nothing human would probably be alive."
She hated the Alexis for having the guts to even become one of us. She envied her being alive. Not only that but she envied her for being with me. I had dated Adrienne back in the sixties let's just say it never turned out that well.
"She was not a good for nothing human. She was way more than that. You knew why I was going to turn her. It wasn't only because I loved her. I told you what happened." I said paining at the thought of when she told me her story.
"Fine." She yelled. "I can see I'm no longer welcome here. I'll be watching you Eric. And don't you forget it!" She stalked off.
"She was one of the hardest vampires for me to get along with now. Not only did she enjoy watching the people I loved suffer but she knew just how to make them feel unwelcome.
Now what was I supposed to do about Haydence? Adrienne would find some way to toy around with her mind. Make her feel like she was just another charity case in my life. I couldn't let that happen not to her. I would make sure Adrienne left town tonight. I was no longer a boy toy she could fool around with.