Nice to be back guys! Water polo season is now over and I literally was always At t he pool 24/7 I'm going to try and get as much of this story done before the next school year! Enjoy! Mind you I'm a little rusty just getting back. Lol

ALICE POV

"Freak. No way. So Colt was thinking about drinking your blood?" Natalie asked after I finished the story.

"Yea, he wanted to for a few seconds I guess" I explained.

"Do you know what this means Alice?"

"Not really, no. What does it mean?"

"It means that he's probably thinking about you now." She said.

"Great." I thought.

Grabbing my iPad from my desk I lay on my bed turning on Netflix.

"Natalie you can go to bed I'm gonna stay up late and watch some tv." I said to her as she was brushing her teeth.

"What are you gonna watch? Anything I like?" She asked.

"I'm not too sure yet, I was either thinking about 'Buffy the vampire slayer' or 'how I met your mother'" I said.

Natalie gave me the weirdest look ever.

"What?" I asked giving her a weird look back.

"You're SERIOUSLY going to watch 'Buffy the VAMPIRE slayer'? That's like a disgrace to our nature of vampyres" she gave me her cold stare. She continued.

"Stake to the heart, burning in the sunlight, crosses, holy water, deforming faces! That leaves a mark on the mortals, thinking that every vamp is like that."

"Natalie, calm down, it's a 90s show. It's not really taken seriously now." (No offense to 90s shows, which I actually love).

"Alright fine you can watch it but I'm not watching it with you."

"I didn't know I needed your permission to watch a tv show like Buffy." I said under my breath. So I shut Natalie out, put in my earphones, and I watched 'how I met your mother' instead, cause I didn't want her glaring at me all day.

The next night was just a normal night of classes and lunch. Surprisingly. Considering colt wasn't near me today. Natalie was also missing today from lunch.

I caught up with Natalie later on, "hey where were you today?" I asked

"Oh, I was getting tutoring from Tiari uehara." She answered not looking me in the eye.

"You're a terrible liar, I'm going to ask again, where. Were. You?" I demanded

"Fine. I was with colt, we're starting to hang out more now." She said

"Oh." Was all I had to say.

"Haha don't worry Alice, I think he still has a thing for you. Actually, I'm pretty sure, he doesn't stop talking about you. He keeps asking me what your interests are and blah blah blah." She explained.

"Really? That sounds kinda stalker ish" I answered.

"Just a little bit" Natalie said

The next night was really awkward in a really annoying way. Fencing was no different. Colt showing off, the seven girls watching him, etc., etc. I still wondered why Ricky asked me about my shirt. So I got the nerve to talk to colt and ask him.

"Hey um, colt? Sorry to bug you." I apologized

"You're not bugging me." He said smiling I could tell that he was thinking about what happened with his jacket and my cut on my shoulder.

"Hey so uh," I hesitated. I could feel that hateful looks pretty much everyone was giving me.

I continued, "Why did Ricky ask me about what shirt I was wearing?" I said quietly.

"Oh," he chuckled. "He said he had a little crush on you and he wanted an excuse to talk to you" he said laughing. He laughed like Ricky had no chance with me, and that he had the better chance of being with me than him. "Pretty lame way to start a conversation"

"Oh haha." I said with my fake laugh. "Oh I almost forgot," I started reaching into my backpack, " I forgot to give this to you earlier, don't worry I washed it." I said giving him his jacket.

Every. Freaking. Girl. Gave me the I hate you look, and some gave me looks of why the hell does she have his jacket?! And lucky bitch. you know, the usual looks I get nowadays

"Keep it, I want it to smell like you." I gave him a questioned look. In my mind I think he was turning into a stalker. "haha, Alice don't think like that" like he was reading my mind, "I'm not trying to be the stalker guy. I want it to smell like you so that when I want it back, I can imagine you by my side when you're not there."

"That's really sweet actually," I said putting the jacket in my bag, probably making my backpack look puffy.

"Oh, are you not going to wearing it now?" He questioned.

"Oh it's just really hot right now, I'm wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt, I think I'm good" I said laughing

He smiled; his smile was so warm and comforting I could instantly look at him smile and ill feel better If I'm upset. Thinking about what happened to my shoulder, I was going to talk to him a little more about that but the bell saved me. It was the end of class and packing the rest of my bag. colt turned to me.

"Hey, um do you want to meet me behind the dining hall at dinner? I need to talk to you." He asked, "I don't want everybody to be around when we talk, I know all the girls are giving you these looks. I'm not stupid, I know how girl drama works."

"I just have to meet with Zoey really quick but I can meet you there after." I answered.

"Great!" He said with the cool guy look but inside I could see in his eyes say, OH MY GODDESS SHE'S GONNA SAY YES!

Say yes to what? I wasn't sure at the time but I'm pretty sure i had a good idea what I was gonna say yes about.

The rest of the day was a blur; one reason was because almost everyone was telling me the exact same thing. Lavender came to me and said "ALICE! Colt is gonna ask you out soon!" I gave a blank look.

"I kinda figured" I said.

The rest of the people that told me that, I pretty much snapped at them saying I KNOW!

Why so harsh Alice? You might ask, but when the 50th person was telling you that a guy was gonna ask you out when you've heard it for again, the 50th time, you get cranky.

Natalie came to me at vamp sociology, "hey, how you holding up?" She asked.

"Holding up? Oh! Yea, I'm okay I guess" I said.

"Alice, are you sure you want to meet him there?" She wondered.

"I don't know Natalie, a part of me wants to, and another part is just like, I don't know. But I think I should do this." I answered. Grabbing out my pencil case I open it up and see a note inside.

"Hey, nat" I said, Natalie turned around.

"Do you know who put this in my bag?" I wondered.

"No, sorry I don't, you don't think-"

"I already do." I cut her off.

Reluctantly opening the note, I slowly read the paper, my stomach turned with knots as I read it.

ALICE,

I KNOW YOU PROBABLY THINK OF ME AS JUST ANOTHER GUY THAT'S LIKE A PLAYER, BUT YOU HAVE TO TRUST ME ON THIS. BACK WHEN I GAVE YOU MY JACKET, I HAVEN'T STOPPED THINKING ABOUT YOU. I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS ISNT A SCAM OR A PRANK OR DARE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. PLEASE MEET ME TONIGHT

CR

Crap.

I finally met with Zoey, later that night and the reason I met with her had nothing to do with school.

"Hey Alice, what do you need?"

"Can I ask you about guy stuff?" I said. Regretting my question I turn around to leave.

"Hey, don't go. You can come to me for anything. I hope you know that." She said reassuringly. "What is it?"

I told her the ENTIRE story. Well except for the jacket story (that's what I'm going to call it now)

"Do you trust this guy Alice?" Was all she said.

"Some part if me does, another part doesn't." I said

"We'll want did the note say?" Zoey asked. Because it involved the jacket story, I left that part out.

"Oh you're talking about Colt Richards!" She said realizing. I didn't tell her his name until now.

"This guy is pretty new too, he came just about 2 weeks before you. Every girl started flirting with him, I've never seen him interested in anyone until the night you came." She said.

"Really?" I asked. "Wait, what are his grades like other than fencing?"

"He is actually really smart. And you are too, to be completely honest, I think you should give this a little more time to think about whether or not you want to meet him."

"I know," I said.

"Where's the best place that you can think?" Zoey asked.

There was only one place I could think of.

"Is there a pool nearby?"

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