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Chapter 1
Monday. First day of school. Fuck. School is so damn boring, but it's a chore that's gotta be done. Obviously I don't go for the lessons they teach. I go to observe human interactions. It's always changing. If I am attempting to look like a 16-year-old, I better know how to act like one.
I shower with scalding hot water to relieve the tension in my muscles. Even after all these years and the ungodly amount of times I've enrolled in schools, I still get anxious. I don't know why. Not like I give a fuck about making a good impression.
After I finish getting ready, I give myself one last look in the mirror. I'm wearing dark wash skinny jeans, black Converse, and a plain black v-neck top that hugs my body in all the right places. I'm not overly thin but have perfectly tone, tan muscles thanks to my lycan genes. My long, dark, chocolate brown hair falls down to my mid back. The last thing I look at are my eyes…a dark forest green…same as my mother's. A sign that I still have time. They always change to a sharp, gold color the day of the full moon or right before I shift. At least I can hold off on wearing the green contacts. I hate those fucking things.
After gathering all my school supplies and stuffing them into a backpack, I walk out the door of my small house and make my way to the nearest bus stop. The house was somewhat close to town but secluded enough so that I could have my privacy. I can only muffle my howls of pain so much when it comes time for the full moon.
I shuttered just thinking about the pain. I've tried everything I could possibly imagine to even reduce some of it with no luck. I remember one time in particular in my early days when I tried staying in wolf form a whole day before the full moon rose.
Never again.
My body shifted back to human ever-so-slowly and then back to wolf form again. I experienced excruciating pain twice as long as I would have if I had just let it happen as it's supposed to. It was almost as if the curse was punishing me more for trying to evade it.
The only "remedy", so-to-speak, I've ever heard of was a plant called wolfsbane. It was supposed to halt any transformation while it was in your system…and no transformation = no pain. I had heard my parents talking about it was I was a kid, but apparently, the Volturi had hunted and burned the plant to extinction as fiercely as they had hunted us. They knew we were weakest during the full moon shift and the plant would also give us the ability to blend in better with society during that monthly night.
I pushed that thought out of my head when I arrived at the bus stop and waited patiently for my ride to school.
I'll think about it again in a few weeks when I have to.
On the bus ride to school, I try to memorize all the streets and routes, although it's difficult to concentrate on anything with all the noise. The kids won't shut up. Luckily, since it was already part way through the first semester, everyone pretty much sat with their usual friends (or so I'm guessing), and I had a seat to myself. Though that didn't seem to stop all the curious glances being thrown my way. Curious glances I could take. It's the occasional winks and wagging eyebrows from the puny, pathetic freshmen boys that were starting to get to me.
I need to get a damn car or a ride or something.
Finally, we arrived at the school, and within two minutes of stepping foot onto the campus, I'm approached by a lanky, ok-looking Asian boy.
"Hi! You must be the new girl, Isabella Swan, right?" my eyebrows furrowed. Damn that was quick.
"Uh, yeah. How did you know?"
"Word travels fast around here, and we don't get that many new kids," Noted. "Plus, you don't look like a freshman, so I figured you were the new girl. I'm Eric," he said holding out his hand.
"Nice to meet you, Eric. I prefer Bella, by the way."
"Do you need any help finding your first class?"
"Actually, yea. I have English with…Mason?" I said looking at my schedule.
"I have that class too!" Eric's eyes lit up. "Do you mind if I walk you to class?" I shook my head, letting him lead the way. Don't get your hopes up too high. I don't find your gender that appealing.
I learned long ago that I preferred the company of women over men. Men just didn't do it for me. Women are so much more complex. I mean I tried with a few guys over the year…especially during the early 1900s when being gay was…frowned upon to say the least. Not that I would've cared normally, but it was hard enough being werewolf during that time with everyone being all superstitious. I didn't need the extra attention. Eventually, I got tired of it. And it's more acceptable now anyway.
We walked into English class and after giving my normal introductions to the teacher, I took a seat with Eric taking the one right next to me. Then suddenly, I was hit with a familiar sickening sweet scent.
Vampire.
I went rigid in my chair and gripped the edge of my desk as I tried to calm my inner beast. A low growl was erupting in my chest, and I could already feel my canine teeth elongating slightly. I knew my eyes were already yellow since those always changed along with my teeth. I clenched my jaw shut and just waited for the creature to walk into…
…into the classroom? That couldn't be right? A vampire would tear this place apart.
In walked the creature. Looked like a vampire. Tall, muscular, good-looking guy with curly blonde hair. Skin that looks as smooth and hard as marble. Pale as fuck. Sure matched the description of a normal vamp…only his eyes were a topaz color…and he was in a classroom with a bunch of humans. I mean yeah, he looked uncomfortable, but that doesn't explain as to how he's not mauling everyone in here right now.
…And now he's heading to the seat diagonally in front of me…
Is he in this class?
A vampire. In a high school. In my English class. Full of humans. Appearing to look like a student.
It's official. Now I've seen everything.
"Vampire walking into a classroom"…sounds more the beginning of a corny joke…or a horror movie scene.
His eyes met mine for a moment, and I panicked and immediately looked away. I grabbed my new cell phone and looked into the dark screen for a glimpse of my reflection. My eyes had gone back to green. I ran my tongue over my teeth but they had already gone back to normal length as well.
Guess the shock and confusion of a vamp walking into the classroom distracted the beast within me too.
He shouldn't be able to tell me apart from other humans as long as my beast behaves. I don't smell different than your average human…well I don't smell as good anyway. I don't smell bad, just not amazing. A human's scent compared to mine would be like comparing a freshly baked batch of cookies next to a piece of fruit or something. It's not that I stink…it's just that my scent isn't so alluring so I'm able to be overlooked by my enemies a little easier.
I let my body relax a little, but still kept alert as the class went on. Just because the vamp was keeping up a human appearance, it didn't calm my nerves. I was still very nervous.
If he's attending this school, that means he must live nearby…although the thought of a leech keeping a permanent residence near a town just seemed…weird. Then again, vampire student.
Ok, so say he is maintaining a residence nearby. Should I find out where that is and take him out? I don't want to be looking over my shoulder for the next few years and I've already settled here. I'm stubborn enough to not wanna leave. Besides, I've killed bloodsuckers before. If he has a mate, I'd have to kill them too. Can't have one running to the Volturi and telling them they know the location of a werewolf. Fuck that. Two vampires would be a little more difficult but nothing I haven't handled before.
In the mean time though, I probably shouldn't hunt. I don't wanna come across them in my wolf form until the proper moment.
…and I should probably wear my contacts tomorrow until further notice in case I get on edge around him again.
Damnit. Fucking leech is making my life difficult already.
As the bell rang, I thought of shooting for the door, but I wanted to make my discomfort as subtle as possible. I didn't want to raise any suspicions in the golden-eyed vampire.
"Hey Bella, you ok?" asked Eric as I watched it leave out of the corner of my eye. "You seemed a bit uncomfortable during lecture." Hmm. Uncomfortable doesn't even begin to describe it.
"Uh yea. Just a lot to take in, you know. I don't want to be behind for too long," I lied through my teeth.
"Well, if you need a tutor or anything, let me know," he smiled. Ha. Tutor. I've sat in an English class more times than our own teacher…
"I think I'm ok for now, but thanks for the offer," I replied, letting him down easy.
The next few classes thankfully went by pretty smoothly…and by that, I mean I didn't have another class with the bloodsucker. Although, I noticed that the halls reeked with that sweet smell.
Humans are so oblivious to everything.
I heard the usual whispers in the hallways about me ranging from: "Is that the new girl?" and "She's so hot", to my favorite: "I'll hit that". Sometimes it can be annoying to hear everything but it's moments like those that make it very entertaining.
I can't help it if my lycan genes make me damn near irresistible.
As always, I met a few more students in my other classes. Jessica, who is extremely annoying and talkative, I had in my math and government class. A guy named Mike, who was in my math class, was very flirty and would not stop hitting on me. And Angela, she was in my math and Spanish class. Her, I can see myself getting along with. She was quiet, but friendly and didn't ask too many questions. I had learned during a passing period that all three of them and including Eric, were all in the same group of friends (not that it should shock me considering the size of the school) and insisted that I sat with them for lunch.
"How you liking your classes so far, Bella?" Eric asked as we all got situated at the lunch table
"They're ok I guess. Shouldn't be too hard to catch up. Some of the topics they're teaching I've already learned back in Phoenix." And a hundred other places.
"So, why did you like, move all the way here from Phoenix?" Jessica asked. "Did you parents get transferred here or something?"
"I don't have any parents. They died when I was really young, and I didn't really get along with y foster parents so I got emancipated from them. I wanted to put as much space as I could between them and me as I could. A friend back home had told me about this town so I moved here," at least the first part isn't a lie.
"How'd you get the money to move up here?" Angela asked.
"I inherited money from my parents that I wasn't supposed to access till I was eighteen, but since I'm emancipated the courts granted me access early," same bullshit lies every time.
"Your parents must have been loaded," replied Mike.
"Something like that, I guess,"
"I like an independent woman," Mike winked at me. Oh God.
Once again, I was hit that sweet scent, only this time it was much more concentrated. I saw the blonde male vamp walk into the lunchroom with a tray of food. That's just so wrong.
My gaze darted to a little petite thing with the same complexion following right after him. She had short black hair, and sharp, pixie-like features. She was so small, and her movements were more fluid and graceful than any vampire I had ever seen before; it was almost as if she was dancing to music that only she could hear.
She's so beautiful…but they're all beautiful.
That must be his mate. My heart sunk momentarily at the fact that I was going to kill her, but I quickly dismissed the feeling.
Why the fuck do I care? She's one of them. It has to be done. I don't have a choice.
I watched as they sat down at an empty table at the far side of the cafeteria. I continued to smell that odor toward the main doors which confused me.
Could there be more of them?
As soon as the thought crossed my mind, three more blood suckers entered the doorway…tow males and a female.
Oh shit.
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