In Someone Else's Arms
Zero
When Zero first walked into the school and saw all the people he wanted to turn around and walk right back out. Unfortunately he got pulled along with the rest of the Academy crowd, who all looked awkward and confused. People shot weird looks at their uniforms but nobody was really surprised that they were here.
He glanced down at the schedule in his hand. Not that he really read it. He was scanning the crowd looking for Anna. She had disappeared early that morning and had been practically non-existent since the day after they had arrived.
"Hello, you must be the students from Japan," a stiff voice said. He looked up to see about a dozen boys and girls wearing what appeared to green JROTC uniforms. The boy in front seemed to be the leader of the group and seemed less comfortable with the situation than the other teens.
"We will be splitting you off into groups and show you around the school. After that you will join the rest of the school for the Homecoming pep-rally before your second period…" his voice trailed off as the Night Class students joined the group of students.
"Sergeant, we need to get going," a small, brown-haired girl came up behind him, lightly tapping him on the shoulder.
He jerked out of his stupor and began barking orders. Zero found him self stuck with Yori Wakaba, Shiki, Rima, and Akatsuki. Idol and Ruka were forced into another group of Day Class girls and they did not look happy about it.
"Hi," the brown-haired girl from earlier came up to them. "My name is Cadet Veronica Dark. It is nice to meet you all,"
Yori said a shy hello while everyone else just simply nodded. Cadet Dark smiled hesitantly.
"Shall we go?" she asked. When no one responded she simply lead the way, not waiting for them to catch up.
The classrooms went by in a blur and Zero lost track of how many they passed. When they reached the Fine Arts Hallway at the back of the school however he tensed. Anna's presence was all over the place. She'd been here recently.
"Is something wrong?" Yori asked.
Zero shook his head and followed the others. Cadet Dark led them into the choir room.
"Mrs. Bradley!" she called out.
The woman named miss Bradley turned from where she was watching a choir of girls in silver dresses and boys in silver vests do a dance number. Everyone in the room froze and turned to stare at the Night Class. He avoided the eyes of some of the girls, who were looking at him oddly.
"Veronica how good it is to see you!" Mrs. Bradley was an average sized middle-aged woman with short brown hair and green eyes that sparkled. "These must be the students from Japan, we had another group come by earlier. There were some new Beginning Choir students in there. Are any of you joining choir?"
To his surprise Yori raised her hand hesitantly.
"Wonderful! This is my Show Choir," she waved her hand at the students behind her. "We are performing at today's pep-rally. I'm sure you'll love it!" she said happily.
"Mrs. Bradley can we practice now?" a familiar voice asked.
"Of course Anastasia I'm sorry I got distracted," she turned back to the class, which was still frozen in their last position. The boys had their arms around the girl's waists and the girls were holding the boy's arms.
Zero met Anna's eyes and was shocked by what he saw. Her black hair had been curled to frame her face and she was wearing makeup that really brought out the color of her eyes. Matched with a sparkly silver show dress and character shoes, she looked like a million bucks. He felt his heart beat faster.
Zero pretended that he didn't see the guy holding her, even though he was kind of hard to miss. He had one of those blinding white smiles and good looks that he had come to associate with pureblood vampires. He pushed down the jealousy rising up and turned to leave with the rest of the group.
Before he closed the door he glanced back to see Anna twirling in unison with the other girls. She tripped and the guy caught her effortlessly and when she looked up and smiled at him he could feel the jealousy coming back. He closed the door quickly and tried to forget what he had just seen, but he couldn't.
He didn't want Anna to be in someone else's arms.
Even if it was only for a moment.