Someone New to Love
Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Ellen Schreiber's characters and am not affiliated with her books.
Everyone always told me high school sucked, but I never believed them till now. Iwas fluent in all the foreign language classes they had at the school. I was way ahead in math even though it was the advanced class. In English they assigned "The Great Gatsby", I read that book when I was ten. So now I was considered the nerd. I think Damian did too well of a job teaching me and the one thing he never taught me, how to talk to girls my age, was something that I really needed to know.
Caitlyn was putting her eyeliner on in front of her locker while she was replaying her date with my cousin to me. I can't say I was enjoying the conversation much. First I didn't even like the girl and second she said "like" almost every other word. "And when we like kissed it was like magic, like really. I think I'm like in love with him." I had to suppress a gag after that last statement. I couldn't help thinking how stupid girls were today. "So what did Trevor think about our date?" she asked as she put her finishing touches on her eyes.
I wanted to tell her what he really had said. His exact words were "Beyond lame and she kisses like a dead fish." But I didn't think she would react well to that "uh…he doesn't talk to me about his dates," I lied.
I only had one class left of the day, gym, which was by far my favorite class. The only reason I like this class so well was because it was the only class I seemed normal in. I wasn't great at anything but I didn't totally suck. I was just normal and that was all I wanted to be. It was also the only class I had with Raven Madison. She made me feel like I belonged like no one else had. Trevor tried to get me to hang out with his love interests but the friendship instantly ended as soon as he'd break their heart. I did not have to worry about that with Raven because as far as I could tell they had a complicated love/hate relationship. Yea…they loved to hate each other.
Mr. Harris was teaching us archery today, one of the least sweaty sports I could think of. Since we stood around mostly it gave me time to ask Raven a question I'd been dying to ask her all week. "So…It was your boyfriends' party that Trevor crashed a couple weeks ago, right?" She nodded as she pulled back the bow. "Did you know everyone there?"
She hit the target close to the bottom. "Not really, it was only supposed to be five of us but then the crashers came." She said reaching for another arrow. "Why was there someone that you had your eye on?"
More like he had his eye on me I thought "Well I was just trying to find out his name. I haven't seen him around school." I knew he wouldn't be, because he is sort of a vampire, but there was no way I was saying that out loud.
"Oh? Well, describe him to me." She gave the bow to Becky and looked at me. "If you have been thinking about him for two weeks, which means he must of left an impression."
I thought about it for a moment all I could remember was him eye color, hair color, and that he was taller than me but who wasn't. "I guess I only remember a little bit about him. His hair was really light except for the ends that were red. One of his eyes was blue while the other was green but that's all I could really make out. It was kinda dark when I saw him." I told her trying to not seem too interested.
I instantly noticed a panicked look in Raven's eyes. "Has he talked to you at all?"
"No… He hasn't said anything to me. I just noticed him at the party and thought he was kind of cute." The last part was obviously a lie, but I could clearly see Raven was uncomfortable with the idea of him contacting me.
"His name is Jagger Maxwell; he hung around Trevor for a little bit, I'm surprised you didn't ask him about Jagger first." Becky said very quietly. "Alexander knew him from Romania…" She was about to go on but Raven gave her a look and she quieted.
There was an awkward silence for the rest of the class. It gave me time to think about the connection between Jagger and Trevor. Why had he never told me about him? It was weird how many secrets Trevor was keeping from me lately. He never told me that he and Matt had a falling out or that within the past year he had hung out with a gothic vampire named Jagger. It made me wonder should I confront him about everything. We had always told each other about what was happening in our lives but does that mean that he needed to tell me every detail?
I didn't feel like going home right after school so I decided to visit the graveyard. I didn't have a relative there but graveyards always had a calm about them that I liked. The sun was still in the sky lighting the entire area and giving it an almost heavenly feel. I walked through the rows of headstones towards a mausoleum. The huge house-like structure loomed over the surrounding gravesites. I walked around it to find a small bench on the other side where I sat leaning against the building. I pulled out my sketch pad and started drawing a pendant with large blood red ruby and silver etchings all around it.
Darkness had finally descended on me after my tenth necklace. I walked toward the gate but found it locked. Figures it would be, on the one day I decided to wear a black dress without leggings underneath. Being so short I knew I'd have an issue climbing the fence without the inconvenience of a dress. I followed the fence around to the back where the fence was slightly shorter and decided I scale the fence back there. I was just getting my footing on the fence when I heard a chuckle behind me.
I spun around to find Jagger's Metallic green and Icy blue eyes staring back into mine. His almost shaggy white hair with blood red ends framed his ashen face nearly covering up his 3 eyebrow rings. He had a short-sleeved black Pantera shirt, clearly showing a tattoo that read Possess down his arm. He was very slim but not so slim that he looked weak. There was just something about his presence that almost took my breath away.
Jagger looking at me with an evil smirk plastered on his face. His gaze then moved down to my bare legs. I didn't even see him take a step towards me but that didn't stop him from being almost on top of me. His arms snuck their way around me and pulled me close. "One bite here and I could make you mine forever," he said as his lips made their way down to me neck.
This was too fast. I hadn't even had my first kiss yet and he was going to make me his. "Jagger stop! If you want me you're just going to have to wait for me. I'm not ready yet." My arms tried to push him away with no luck. I could feel his warm breath against my neck. I moved my hand up close to his face and slapped him as hard as I could.
It must have startled him enough to let go because in the next second I was on the ground looking up at a very angry Jagger.
That's the end of this chapter. I promise it will get a little spicy in the next chapter.