(A/N): Hey Guys! So, short chapter, but it's important, and leads up to a lot. I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Shari, Mia, Nicholai and Brooke.
Elaine
It was a strange feeling, that of being watched. Unusual, like someone's fingers were dangling just a few millimetres above your skin, the heat of their eyes upon you almost too much.
What was really freaking me out though, was the fact that I thought I was alone.
I was seated on one of the swings in my backyard, faced the forest that edged the clearing that the swing-set was in, just behind my house, and stared, wide-eyed, into its depths.
I couldn't see anything, especially anything that could be watching me, but I couldn't shake that feeling.
"Leo?" I tried quietly, knowing that the only person who could escape my notice would be him, what with his super-human knack for blending in with his surroundings. Either way, he would hear me.
A twig snapped somewhere nearby, and I smiled slightly, knowing he had stepped on it purposely, so I wouldn't be startled when he emerged from the tree line.
It was almost pitch black, with only a sliver of the moon able to light the ground below, so all I saw of him was the dark outline, barely a shadow.
I released the chains that held my swig secure, rising to my feet as I faced the figure, beaming.
"It's not even been a day," I informed him, smirking as he advanced towards me. "Were you missing me already?" He continued towards me without saying a word, and when he was halfway across the yard, still coming towards me, only twenty or so feet away, I notice something I hadn't before.
Leo was tall, but he wasn't that tall.
The smirk fell from my face, leaving it bare and full of terror as I started to back away.
"Who-?" I was cut off as, in a split-second, the man had me pinned, a foot above the ground, to the side of my own house. "Who are you?!" I cried, mostly out of surprise, when a face loomed before mine, still mostly invisible.
"Me?" The man asked, as if a little hurt that I didn't know who he was. "I'm just someone who wants to settle a score, girly." My blood boiled as he called me that, hating to sound weak before I realised that, when compared to him, I was very, very weak.
It was obvious, by this point, that he wasn't human. In fact, judging by his speed and strength...he was a vampire, like Leo.
Internally, I rephrased it.
No, Leo was a half-vampire...this guy would be much stronger than Leo could ever be.
And that left me in a lot of trouble.
(A/N): So, what did you think? Cliffhanger, sort of.