Kathrina POV"Oh my gawd! Why did you do that, Kathy?" Lita asked me as we walked into class."He deserved it," I said as I made my way to my seat. "Oh, goodness." Lita buried her face in her palm as she buried her face in her palms.Some of our female students burst in and Lita jerked up her head."You see…everyone in the class is going to know about your daring and brazen act. They're distributing the news." I glanced at her and she motioned at the girl who just walked in and her now talking to another group of girls, stealing glances at me."I care less about the gossip." I am just happy about what I did. Rylan's cake-marred face flashed on my face and I giggled, making everyone in the classroom avert their gaze to me.Lita leaned forward and whispered into my ear. "Are you crazy now?" I flicked a stare at her and stopped giggling as I caught the eyes of some students staring. The teacher for the class after lunch break walked in and everyone went straight to their various seats
Kathrina POVWalking into the locker room the next morning filled with other girls grabbing out their class books from their lockers. Taking out my textbooks from my locker for the first two classes this morning, I glanced at three girls who walked in, making some girls In the locker room gasp as they walked up to me.I closed my locker and turned to face them. They stared at me disgustingly and I exhaled as I took a step to leave the room but one of the girls blocked my way. I tried taking another way but another girl stepped out, blocking the way. "Who are you girls?" I asked."I'm Lilly," the girl with golden curly hair said."I am Summer," the girl with pink hair snapped at me."And I'm Ginger," the third girl introduced.They leaned forward and said almost in a whisper. "And…we are going to be your nightmare."I opened my mouth to talk and just then, Trixie walked in, making all the girls in the locker room start leaving, murmuring. I stared at Trixie. Her now red dyed hair was
Hayden POV After school hours were over, I quickly headed out some minutes after Rylan left the classroom, flirting with the brunette English teacher. Getting out of the building, I walked stealthily to the parking lot. I had an important meeting to attend to and I really don't want to get seen by Lita or Kathrina at worst because we are sure to continue arguing about what happened this morning. That's the last thing I would want to do now. I have to deal with urgent matters too at the pack immediately after the meeting with a business partner. Skye has messaged me earlier of the current situation of the pack.Reaching where I had parked my black Range Rover Velar my phone rang. I took it out of my pocket and swiped to receive without glancing at the screen to check who the caller was for I know it probably could be Skye."Skye, I'm on my way. I'm leaving the school now, so…""You've got a meeting tomorrow with the alpha queen and other alpha's from your bloodline," Skye said, int
Kathrina POV The next day in school, I put my locker combination to unlock my locker, glancing at the last set of girls who rushed out from the room. I was already five minute late for the first period glass. If only I had hopped into my dad's pickup truck this morning alongside Monna and Morley instead of lying that I needed to use the toilet so as to go back to my room, change my lipstick shade to rosy orange in order to look a bit different in front of Hayden today then I wouldn't have to ran down to school after Morley's bike failed to work. He had actually activated a bike lock on the bike.What could be more of a morning bad news than when I saw Hayden's text this morning. He said he wasn't going to be in school today. Ragefully opening my locker to grab my textbook for the first period, I squinted at the pristine red paper folded in half sitting on my English textbook. What was it? Who kept it here? I didn't see this yesterday.I took it and felt the rough texture of the pap
Kathrina POVAfter school hours on Friday, I ran into the girls locker room and grabbed my sports pair of black shorts and a pouchy-like yellow tee. After changing into it, I ran out to the soccer field.Getting to the center of the field, I joined the last line of girls doing jumping jacks as warm-up. I glanced at Lily, Ginger and Summer at the front line and darted my eyes to Trixie advancing. Her hair was tied to a bun. Almost reaching us, she stopped and smiled back at someone. I trailed her eyes to Rylan. She ran up to him and I rolled my eyes. He was putting on a pair of loose shorts that stopped midway between his thighs and a muscle shirt. He was wearing sneakers with one hand sleeve which made me believe he probably was among the basketball players of the school though I haven't seen him play the sport before.I stared at his abs which were partly transparent and shook my head, stopping myself from checking him out. He flicked a stare at me and I looked away. I returned my
Rylan POV I really didn't tell Trixie to hurt Kathrina while they were on the field. I only whispered to her to take care of herself the minute I caught Kathrina staring. I headed to the field to talk to Trixie after changing into my outfit. "What are you doing here, Rylan?" Coach Dylan asked me and I simply walked up to Trixie and grabbed her arm. "Follow me." I dragged her along, walking out of the field. "What's wrong, Rylan?" Trixie asked as I pulled her into the building and we walked through the quiet hallway. I stopped when we got halfway down the hall and spun Trixie to face me. "Gosh, you almost broke my arm," she squealed, staring at the mark that had now formed round her white arm. "Why did you throw a ball at Kathrina?" "I gave the bitch what she deserved. Is this your way of showing gratitude to me for almost breaking her imperfect nose?" She attempted to touch my face but I grabbed her shoulders. "How dare you hurt her?" "Are you upset about it? I thought
Kathrina POV"Oh my, I forgot my hoodie in my locker after I changed back to my outfit when we were done practicing!" I had abruptly stopped when I and Lita were just five minutes away from her house."I need to go grab it…""C'mon, it's not going to grow legs and run away from your locker, Kathrina," Lita said and I sighed. "Let's go."I shook my head. It was the green juicy floppy cute rabbit-ears hoodie Hayden gifted me some weeks ago. I really love wearing it on a snowy or cold night because it always keeps me warm and makes me feel Hayden was with me, thus, having a wonderful night's sleep.It seems like it's going to snow way too much tonight and I can't leave it behind school since it's Friday today and that means if I don't rush back to grab it then I will have to wait till Monday. Never."Kathrina, you can get it on Monday…""No, Lita," I countered with a frown, making her groan."You know you can't enter the school premises after school hours.""Huh?""It's verboten and it i
Kathrina POVTwo weeks later:"Hey, your food is getting cold," Lita said, almost yelling, jolting me out of my thoughts.I glanced at Hayden seated next to me who was staring at me and I faked a smile, taking my spoon."Geez, you were just staring at your plate of macaroni and cheese like it wasn't what you wanted to have today for lunch," Lita said."If you don't want to have this, I can go get you something else from the counter," Hayden proposed."Nah. I went for this. I love it," I said and glanced at Lita as I took my first spoon."Gurrrl,you seem lost for about five minutes. What are you thinking about?" Lita asked. Looking at her, I could see the curiosity oozing from her."It's nothing," I lied. I was actually thinking about what has been going on with me for some time now."You don't seem good. Are you sick?" Hayden asked, placing his hand on my bare lap.I chuckled. "Do I look sick?""Way sick and more like a person who had been suffering from insomnia," Lita said." I don'
Writer's POV Some days later, the Salvador family was having lunch at the dining room with Rylan seated next to his girlfriend, Kathrina and Caroline and Zita. Madlyn had invited them to come over to have lunch with them. They made jokes and chatted while having lunch round the table and Kathrina felt really happy. After dinner, Kathrina walked out with Rylan, his hand locked with hers, both walking behind Caroline and Zita."Guys, I'm leaving tonight," Zita said when they stepped on the lawn and they gave her a shocking expression."Why?" Kathrina asked."Hey, we never spoke about that," Caroline said, feigning annoyance. "Well, it's because…I've got no reason to stay back anymore. I could return to where I came from and carry on living my normal life.""You want to leave, for real?" Rylan asked in disbelief. "I remember you changing your mind a couple of times before.""I'm serious this time, Rylan. I'm leaving…""You're not leaving," a familiar voice said and they turned to see
Kathrina POVEverything has been peaceful since Zoey's death. My life had changed. I live a good life with my family. I've got my best friend, Lita, back and I have gotten new friends I'll keep forever, they are Caroline and Zita. I just wish Zita gets to spend more time with us.On a sunny morning, Rylan and I followed Mrs Fox's car behind then stopped at the town's entrance gate. She was leaving Laketown for good. I had no idea that she stayed back for two months after she got to know who I really was and about the demise of her daughter Lexie. I had got a call from her yesterday which made me so happy and I had told Rylan to follow me so we helped her pack her things and see her off at the entrance gate.When Rylan pulled over by the road behind her car, we got out and walked up to her leaning on her car."You know, I am happy I stayed for sometime. I was able to experience inner peace and happiness more than I had expected. Kathrina, I'm happy I got to know you and you made me be
Zita POVAfter Kathrina left that morning, I saw a big disappointment on Hayden's face. I don't know why but I felt pity for him. I couldn't help it but followed him to his place a few days later when I went to see Kathrina in their college.He happened to catch me and invited me into his house for a cup of tea."I wasn't expecting you'd follow me to my place. You're Zita, right?" He asked, u nodded as I took the cup of tea from him."Are you okay?""If you think I'm not, then you're right. I'm not going to act tough after I was rejected by my mate. It hurts. It's all my fault though.""I thought you wouldn't give up on her?""I was thinking about that too. Actually I had no intention of giving up on her before even when I knew she had hated me. But that day, when she rejected me, I saw the firmness in her gaze and knew she really had no feelings for me again. And when she took Rylan's hand and left with him, I knew I've lost her, forever.""So, what's your plans now?""Giving up. Sto
Kathrina POVThe next day, I went to Caroline's house and she said Zita was in the backyard at the river bank. I went there and saw her holding a small steel silver pot.I walked up to her and faked a cough, causing her to glance at me. "Hey, are you okay?" I asked her.She nodded and smiled. "It's still warm in here." I stared at the pot then it dawned to me what was in there. I looked up at her and she shook her head."That's Zoey's ashes?""Yeah. I was reluctant to throw it into the water. I'm happy you're here. I've gotten the strength to do what I want now."I chuckled. She opened the pot,dipped her hand into it and took a handful of ashes then threw them into the water. She did so till the pot was empty and dropped the pot in the water. We both watched the pot as it flowed on the water surface. "You know, Zoey was the only family member I had in the entire world," she said after a while. "Our parents are dead. We both left the vampire world because we didn't want to be bound t
Kathrina POV "Let's meet up tonight. Come alone and I'll spare your mother. You can send a message when you're done thinking about it. Your life in exchange for your mom's, sweetheart," Zoey said and hung up before I could say a word and I stared at them. "I'm going to meet her," I said to Caroline and quickly sent a message to Zoey, stating my agreement to her request. "Kathrina, going alone ti see Zoey is freaking risky," Caroline said. I shrugged. "I don't care…" "I'm coming with you," I heard Rylan said, almost yelling as he barged into the house. "No, Rylan. My mom's life is risk here. Zoey wants only me to come." "I knew this would happen someday. I won't let anything bad happen to either you or your mother, Kathrina." "Wait, how did you know that Kathrina had a problem?" Zita asked. "They are mates and their bond have grew stronger since something happened one certain night," I heard Caroline said to Zita in a whisper. "I felt you were in trouble, Kathrina," Rylan said
Kathrina POVSome days later, I returned home from school and while trying to make something to have for lunch, my mom got a call and I watched her go far away and answered the call. Since then, she started acting strange. Morley talked to me one day about it and he had observed that she's been getting a couple of strange calls from an unknown number. When I tried to talk to her about it, she said it's nothing.A week later, we were chatting and telling jokes in her Cafe when her mood changed to a gloom after her phone beeped and she glanced at the phone screen."Mom, are you okay?" I asked."Um, yeah. Why ask that?""You've been acting a little bit weird these days. Is there a problem?""Nah. It's just the little stress I face sometimes. You know handling the Cafe alone on some days when it's filled is not really easy peasy. But I do appreciate it when you guys do help out on the weekends, especially you, sweetheart.""Hm. But I've told you to get a sales girl. It would relieve you
Hayden POV I watched as my mate left, not wanting to accept me. I didn't know why she was so much acquainted with Rylan recently, but then, I knew that it wasn't going to be for long. It wasn't going to be for a long time before she came back to me. I knew that she wasn't going to be for long, and she was going to be mine once again. I was definitely sure of it. Kathrina's words, however, bore deep into my soul. While the fear gyrating around my core had me in place thinking for a moment that I would lose Kathy forever, I tried to shrug it off. It was like a hot dagger slicing through my skin, killing the morale and courage about the future of me and my mate, and it wouldn't stop tormenting me. He was having fun with her. My enemy. "I've told you Hayden , Kathy doesn't belong to you. She's mine, and mine alone," he said, with some vile smirk on his face. Oh how I wish Kathy could see this, then she'd know what kind of person she was looking forward to. "And what claims do you
Kathrina POVI opened my eyes a while ago, not knowing that some hours had passed. Caroline was in front of me. I looked beside me and saw Zoey. She was no longer in my body but looked just like Zita. I touched my face and Caroline walked up to me with a mirror."Congratulations," she said as I stared in awe at my face in the mirror. At last, I've gotten my face back. I'm now the real me. Kathrina. I turned to Zita after I stood up. She smiled at me. I glanced at Zoey. "What's going on with her?""She's unconscious. And she'll remain so till some time in the morning," Zita said."Thanks so much, Zita. I do appreciate what you've done for me," I said and pulled her into a hug. Then it dawned on me. I slowly turned to see Mrs Fox in front of the car. She walked up to me. "I saw it all…Kathrina," she said. She darted her eyes elsewhere and stared at her daughter's body. She walks to the body and wraps her arm around the body as she bursts into tears. I went to console her. I told her
Kathrina POVI stared blankly at him as he leaned forward to me. I was about to utter a word, to retaliate to his sudden action but I felt him pressed a button and my seat slightly went back. He did it again and chuckled when I gasped. I pulled up an irritated expression and he grabbed a bag from the back seat and placed it on my lap."What's this?""Check it out and change into it. I got some clothes ready which you could easily change into. I'm sure you've not added weight for over a year. You seemed to be on a diet when I saw you then.""Why should I change my clothes?""I'm taking you to your home. Your fake Mom might probably want to question you when she sees you in black clothes. I'm sure she has no idea that you attended your actual Dad's funeral.""She doesn't even know I've been lying and fooling her all this while." I sighed."You can simply tell her today. I know you're tired of lying to her," he said, peering into my eyes. I wondered how he could tell what I was feeling.