KATERINA
The next day I found myself looking forward to the day ahead as I began my journey to school on foot. One of the main reasons I was happy was because I was going to school and would be away from my still very enraged , crazy mother. Let’s just say she was not prepared to forgive me anytime soon and I could say goodbye to staying out late, which I feared would soon become a major problem.
The walk to school had seemed weirdly long though, as if I were walking for miles without end. As if each step were futile. Not only that, but I had developed a strange feeling. It was a feeling resembling anticipation, as though I were expecting something great and wonderful to happen. I usually only felt this way when test results were expected at school, but we hadn’t written any tests recently. Eventually, I decided to ignore the tugging feeling. In a few short long minutes, I began to see the tall, brick building covered in thick vines of ivy, appearing gradually in the distance. To say the school was old would be an understatement, it had been here since the Original Huntership.
The Huntership was just another fancy name for the vampire hunter council. The main aim of the new huntership was to promote extremely controlled coexistence between vampires and hunters and to ensure that the pretence of peace between us was always kept. The new Huntership, however differed from the original huntership. Initially, it was an organisation promoting defence and hatred against vampires. This was way back when vampire hunters actually did what their names suggested- hunted and killed vampires. Time certainly did change things. Now, instead of hating the Vampire council we worked with them- a pity and waste of our talents in my opinion. Though I seemed to be one of the few who actually thought so.
I passed the buzzing crowds of teenagers who bunched up around lockers, sticking closely together as waves of whispers whisked between them. My highschool was really no different than any other. We had our different social groups- jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, basket cases, and the list went on. We also had our share of awful cafeteria food, moping teachers, highschool scandals and gossip. In a way, it was comforting- it being so normal. I figured that was why I enjoyed school so much, aside from the fact that I was relatively well liked and smart enough to become the top student of the school. The only thing I did struggle with, was keeping myself modest.
I soon saw my locker in the distance and mentally prepared myself for the sight ahead. My brother, who had left home a few minutes earlier to fetch Jasmine stood with her, and the rest of our friends- Lucy and Nathan- stood a few metres behind them, totally lost in each other. Dylan-my brother- was a dark brunette with piercing blue eyes and the palest skin you could have ever seen. In fact, if you stared long enough, you could watch the blood pumping through his blue veins. He also had a birthmark right below his left eye and one right below his lip. If you looked too quickly, you could mistake it for piercings- as if my mother would allow that. Admittedly, he was handsome- well that was according to what everyone else in my school said. Dylan was a year younger than me, but honestly neither acted, nor looked it. In fact, he and I had startlingly different features and looked unrelated, often bringing up the popular question: “Are you two dating?”. He and Jasmine were actually dating though. They had been for a while and at one pointing time they had become the victims of the hottest scandal in school- a younger guy dating an older girl. Even though there was really nothing wrong with it, nor was it unusual, the people in my school sometimes had really small minds.
" Hey Kat, I tried to wake you, but you were sleeping like you were in a coma," he said, his arm around Jasmine's shoulder which reached his chest. He had this really annoying smirk only a younger sibling could muster up when trying to be smug.
I glared at him for a full five minutes before deciding to speak.
" Is it my fault that you were up all night on the phone chatting to Jasmine. Honestly you two," I said packing my locker which was right next to Lucy's. Jasmine and Dylan were exceptionally loud when speaking on the phone and it was not as though I wasn’t already tired after beating up Jeremy.
Soon Lucy and Nathan joined our little discussion. They were also dating, as if I wasn’t already bombarded by the sickening sight of lovesick puppies. It’s not that I hated love or anything like that, it was just awkward being the only single person in my friendship group. It always felt as though I were the odd one out.
" Hey Katerina. You ready for today?” Lucy asked as she intertwined her fingers with Nathan’s and then gave him a sweet kiss on the cheek.
I smiled, remembering that we had a math test later on.
" Aren’t I always ready?" I said with a raised brow.
She simply laughed and shrugged, causing her ginger her to glimmer with the movement.
“Mind sitting near me, I want to copy from you,” Nathan said with a smirk.
I looked at him sideways and folded my arms and sighed, hopeless. Not only was I the only single person in the group, but I was also the smartest. Really, it was tough being me sometimes.
I packed in the last of my textbooks and headed down the hallway, needing to check that my hair was in place since I had styled it in a strange, complicated style and the clips were already beginning to fall from the silky stands of hair. As I walked, I couldn’t help but begin to feel more and more uneasy as the strange feeling of anticipation slowly crept in again. If only I had known that my anticipation would be met with something unthinkable and unexpected.
KATERINAJust as I reached the next set of lockers, I froze, almost as though on instinct. My spine tingled the way it always did around unfamiliar vampires, and the scent of vampire invaded my nose, but this time ... there was something strange about it. Mixed with the sharp, pungent vampire scent was something unmistakably pleasant, almost resembling honey as well as spicy perfume. Slowly, I turned toward the lockers, totally unprepared for what stood in front me- or should I say who stood in front of me. The strangely pleasant-smelling vampire seemed to be observing me carefully as he peeked through his long, dark lashes and leaned against one of the lockers. He had a perfectly placed smug smile upon his face, and for a moment, I found myself carefully analysing him. He had a head of voluptuous and silky blond hair which was long enough to peak from the bottom of his left ear as he had tucked a few strands behind it. The rest of his hair hung in
HAYDONKaterina stood in front of me, her face still one of confusion. Being told that I was Haydon must have really confused and upset her because within a few seconds, she turned around and wordlessly began to walk away. But I couldn’t let her leave, at least, not so soon.“Katerina!” I yelled out by accident.She froze but did not turn back. Panic began to rise in me as I realised that I had no clue what to say. Soon, however, I realised that it would have been better to just keep quiet because the next words out of my mouth were:“I hope you had fun beating up my cousin.”It was not so much the words that were the problem, but rather they way I said them. They had unintentionally come out hostile and venomous.Katerina never turned back, not even an inch. She did, however clench and unclench her fists and began stomping out, mumbling a very colourful assortment of profanities.It was then that I realised that
KATERINAI sat on my bed finishing the last of my homework. Today had been extremely long, especially since I met Haydon Veneziano. Now don’t get me wrong, I did not like the poor soul, on the contrary, there was a high chance that I absolutely hated his guts. However, there was a large part of me that actually thought: maybe this guy isn’t what all the rumours paint him out to be.He was well behaved- most of the time, and most importantly, he did not try to assault anyone thus far. Now, I wouldn’t say that meant he was in my good books, but it did make my hate for him recede slightly. Only slightly though.Then, there was the matter of his appearance. As much as I wanted to deny that Haydon was absolutely attractive, I had to admit that he was nothing short of a walking male model, oozing absolute beauty from head to toe. Again, it did not make me like him, but made me hate him just a little less.Suddenl
HAYDONI stopped and looked at her. Her hair shone a lighter brown in the sunlight and her eyes became orbs of shimmering gold. She carefully placed her hand on her hip and pursed her lips. She looked as though she were analysing me and for a while, and her eyes proceeded to gaze at my skin." Seems like vampires are getting more immune to the sunlight?" it came out more like a question as she then stopped her analysis and returned her eyes to mine where they stayed fixed into a deep glare.I smiled at her, it seemed as though her mother was really sheltering her from the supernatural world. Almost all vampire hunters knew of our newfound vampire tricks." Tablets, injections, potions and even witch's spells can fix that problem.” I then stopped and proceeded to tease her. “Looks like mommy and daddy are keeping their little girl all innocent and away from the world of drugs”She seemed offended and
KATERINAI sat in the bathtub, which was filled to the brim with warm, aromatic, water which emitted puffs of steam and fogged up the room. I was still unable to fully comprehend Haydon Veneziano and his outrageous threat. Who did he think he was? Who did he think I was? Clearly Haydon had been born into this world a privileged twit, believing he was the end all and be all. As if I actually wanted to hang around him like a little puppy. Of course I was not going to get involved with him.This, however was not what bothered me. I had picked up on the words “I don’t want you getting close to me” almost immediately, but had chosen to ignore them, because acknowledging them would have been too awkward for us both.Was Haydon afraid that I would develop feelings if I hung around him too often? Maybe such a thing had happened with other hunters or girls he had met in the past, but I knew I was certainly not one for developing a feelings for so
HAYDONThe slight feeling of wooziness was slowly creeping over me as I downed my forty eighth beer- no that was no understatement. I was sitting in an abandoned warehouse with three other teenagers I had met at the liquor store. I recognised them from school, and they invited me to hang out with them. Admittedly, I did use compulsion and hypnotism to get them to invite me with them since I needed some...distraction and saw this as a perfect opportunity for some small-scale mischief. Also, I had been the one who had been able to purchase the liquor because of said compulsion so it was a given that they would invite me along.The three teenagers fell into the stereotypical “bad boy” category which suited me quite perfectly. The leader was a tall, lank boy named Dean who had messy black hair and the brightest blue eyes I had ever seen. He offere
KATERINAI was walking peacefully down the street, just minding my own business when his scent caught me off guard. Why did the universe hate me?"Katerina," Haydon sang as he walked closer and closer toward me. I tightened my fingers into a fist and kept on walking, pretending not to be fazed by him, but inside I was a whirlwind of fear, irritation, and hot rage. "Oh, Kitty Cat, don't be like that, come on talk to me!" he whined. He was now standing right next to me. His scent was lingering in the air. I sniffed it and sighed softly. Then I focused back on being angry with him.
KATERINAAfter about an hour or so, the school bell rang, signalling the end of gym period. So, I quickly got into the shower and got dressed. Honestly, I did not know what the point was of having PE so early in the morning. Now we were going to be sweaty and smelly the rest of the day. Once I had finished tying my shoelaces, I grabbed my things, packed them away and ran to my next class-mathematics- which I was running late for, again. After mathematics I went to science and the English and then lunch. I walked toward the table where my friends were seated with a tray of macaroni, Greek salad and a box of lukewarm apple juice in my hands. I sat down and looked around for Haydon, almost instinctively and found him further away, at a table crowded wit