"Keira!" I heard Jasmine call my name again. I was tempted to ignore her again, I really was, but she had a knack of calling the teachers when she couldn`t find me. And so I took my headphones out of my ears, cutting of the Linkin Park song I was listening to. Placing the picture I was drawing on the bed I stood up.
"I`m in here Jasmine!" I called and less than a minute later a frantic looking Jasmine Paint ran into the room. Her brown eyes were wild, and her light brunette hair was wind-blown. She was taller than me but not by much. She was also my best friend; she was ever since I first found myself in the House of Night. Her skin was like smooth cocoa, which was much better than my pale skin. Her brown eyes, which were usually a calm and spunky deep brown, now shone our in leashed anger at me.
"Where were you?" She demanded loudly. "Didn`t you hear me looking for you?" The problem was that she was always calling and looking for me. I nodded at my drawing next to my IPod and understanding filled her eyes along with relief. Good grief what did she thinks I was doing?
"Jason." She said. Then I understood exactly where her mind was.
Jace was my best guy-friend and also my maybe-future-boyfriend. I`d never dated before. I know sixteen year olds were supposed to already have had many boyfriends but I guess something was wrong in me. I mean it's not like no one asked. There were a lot of vamps asking me to go out but….
But what worried Jasmine the most was Jace`s want for possession of her best friend-apparently me. He was known for being a flirt even while his V-ness was a mystery. A mystery I myself had no wanting to solve. Whether I liked the answer or not. Besides it wasn`t any of my business.
Jasmine saw it differently though. The way she saw it Jace had been trying to get what all guys want from day one. And to her he was bad news. I`d often tried to convince her that he was still ….well I couldn`t say human but…y`know. "Jace, "I told her." Is still in the pools around back." It was warm season so everyone who could, -ditching or just during free-time- would hang out at the pools in the back yards that the swim team used.
It wasn`t that I didn`t like Jace, it was just that there`s always some weird aura around him…some girls find that bad-and-sexy-boy aura really attractive but….not me. I could never hang out with Jace without wanting to be permanently on my guard. It annoyed the heck out of me, I`m telling you it did! Imagine hanging out with the hottest guy your school and not being able to be calm when he outs his arm around you ,and always having to pull away when he tries to kiss you! Erg! It`s really frustrating! Not to mention embarrassing! Heck! You try explaining it to your girlfriends and see how you fair! I sank to the bed grumbling under my breath.
Jasmine came and held my hand. "Don`t let the stress get to you sweetheart, a boy like that always follows his di-"
"Jasmine!" I gasped in waves of laughter.
"It`s true!" She replied! I laughed even more. Then stopped when I noticed some of the girls rushing downstairs in giggling mob. Jasmine and I looked at each other with what-the-freak looks and then joined the mob to see what the cause of it was.
"Alison!" I called out to one of the sixth-former girls. She excelled in my biology class and the teacher (Mr. Adams) always called on her in Latin. She turned and looked at me in confusion. "What`s going on?" I asked her and leaned over the railing to get a better view.
"High Priestess Sanari," she started. "Came to the dorm and was followed by a really yummy tracker dude, y`know, the guys who mark you? Yeah, he came in and now all the girls want a peek of him and maybe even a bite of him."
"Ah, i see. " I muttered under my breath. These girls, I thought to myself, are going to drive me insane, first they`re Go-Go-For-Gaga, then they have "Beiber Fever" and now they have an appetite for a tracker vampire! Sheesh… I couldn`t help being a little curious though, Why would a tracker and high Priestess Sanari come here? What must`ve happened; something big I bet.
Not wanting to miss out on something big, I wiggled through the mob of girls to see where they followed the tracker and Sanari with Jasmine following me.
"Haven`t you had enough boys already, Keira?" I heard an annoying voice announce behind me. Reluctantly I turned and looked Isabelle Mathews in the face. Isabelle ,well hell, I don`t even have to try, just picture the swim suit model types that cause guys to droll, then add medium long beautiful brown hair and illuminating green eyes and there you have her. She was the pre-Madonna and also the "The Girl" in the school, and for the last two years that I've attended this House Of Night she`s made sure to use every opportunity she`s ever had to make my life hell. She knew as well as I did that I didn`t date but loved to shove that in my face too. "Oh wait, I forgot you never even make it to the dating base with any of them. Aw, what`s wrong, honey? They get too scared off you and run away from you like everyone else?" A low growl sounded in my throat as all the girls around her tittered and giggled, wanting to rip her face off.
With an animalistic growl of restraint I turned away from her and started to walk away, only to be smashed right up into something hard and rigid. I expected the girls behind me burst out laughing at my stupidness and was surprised when I turned and found them all staring inn awe and shock at something above my head. I whirled around only find out that what I had slammed into was not a wall but a very tall and very sexy looking boy who looked a little older than me. That's not what freaked me the most. The thing that made my heart stutter and skip beats is that the sexy young tracker that everyone in this school who was female was the very male that marked me for the House of Night. The only thing I could do was stay frozen as his soul shattering blue sapphire eyes watched me through those narrow lashes.