Chapter 3 Welcome

• I shook my head in disbelief and watched him walk to the opposite side of where we were all supposed to go.
• “Hey! Hailey!”
• I hear Eve calling out to me and trying to get to me through the crowd.
• “I lost you for a second. Wait, what’s wrong?” She asks, and I look back at the weirdo who bumped into me and almost bullied me. But he was gone.
• “Hey, are you okay?” Eve asks again. I looked at her once again, smiled, and acted as if nothing was wrong.
• “I’m fine. The interior is so amazing, I feel like I’m
• in a palace.”
• “I know right, the auditorium is much more huge. Come on, I wanna sit at the front.”
• Eve takes my hand and guides me inside.
• Our welcome ceremony was amazing. Our Principal was a fairy, and she sure looked like she deserved to be a fairy. Her name was Laura Atkinson, and she has been running this school for 8 years after her mother, Myra Atkinson, had passed away.
• She obviously didn’t fill us in with her personal life, but she sure made us feel safe. Her aura was amazing, exciting, not to mention, loving. She was all we needed, a principal and a guardian.
• While the small gathering went on, I automatically started searching for the guy across the hall. I could see a lot of attractive people and possibly mean girls who were simply bullies, but not him.
• Why was I even looking for him? He’s no one.
• “Ouch!” I murmured to myself as I held my arm close. The marks, injury marks were again burning like hell. Is there something in the air of this school? Why is it that I stepped one foot here and all my old injuries are burning like hell?
• “Hey, are you okay?” Eve asks me.
• “Y-yeah. I think..uh..I’m just tired. That’s all.”
• “Well, don’t be. There’s a party at 11 tonight. Everyone’s going to be there. We have to go too!”
• “I..Uh..I’m not sure, Eve. I’ve never been to a party before.”
• “Oh, come on. It’s fun!”
• I smile at her childishness. I’ve never met someone like her before. She’s always so enthusiastic and excited about stuff. No matter how valuable or small.
• “We’ll talk about this later, okay?” I turned her down for now, as we both focused on the ceremony.
• The evening went by fast. The meeting in the auditorium ended after half an hour, and now, I was walking around the grounds of our school and had already gotten 20 messages from my mother. While I was replying to them, I saw some figures behind a huge tree.
• Filled with curiosity, and out of etiquette, I decided to check what was going on, and I found him. That vampire Dracula guy, and turns out, he wasn’t alone. He was with a woman. She didn’t look like a student here. She looked our age.
• “What’s happening here?” I whispered to myself as I saw them fighting. They were arguing about something. Because the woman alone was doing all those actions one does when they want to kill the other.
• I guess it’s valid for me to say that the Dracula guy deserves the burst out, but I don’t know why, I felt this urge to maybe find out more. Not because I was at his pity. But..
• It felt as if the vampire guy was terrified of the woman. Was she his girlfriend? What the hell is she doing here?
• I quickly realized what I was doing. I have no business staying here and finding out what relationship they had with each other.
• “Ouucchhh, Oh, screw you, scar!” I cursed my arm under my breath and before I could ignore and go back to minding my own business, another girl emerged from the other side of the view.
• She was blonde and fair but short in height, and almost looked like a 15-year-old. Her eyes were different, though. They were big and green. And there was something about her that made me feel I was way closer to her than I thought.
• But again, there was no point in staying here and watching them argue. So I took a few steps back without breaking my eye contact with them, which eventually caused me trouble.
• I stepped on some branches and closed my eyes in embarrassment. As soon as I turned and decided to make a run for it, I bumped into him..again.
• Ughh. Damn Vampires and their speed.
• “Ugh, watch it!” I massage my bumped head as I look up at him. The short girl who came afterward was standing beside him, almost as if she was supporting him by reading me.
• “What are you doing here?” They growled. “Were you eavesdropping on us?” He takes a step forward and I, back.
• “Do you have any idea what trouble you can get in if-”
• “Jace, stop it. She wasn’t eavesdropping.” The girl scolded him off to my surprise, asking him to back off before this gets somehow..not ugly but awkward. This ‘Jace’ guy scoffed and walked away instantly, leaving just the two of us.
• “I’m sorry, he can be a little irritating to get by sometimes. We mean no harm.”
• The girl changed her whole personality. She was a bit shy, I could see that because she struggled to maintain eye contact. I shook my head and smiled briefly.
• “I’m sorry. I really wasn’t eavesdropping. I was just passing by and lost my way back to my dorm room.”
• “Oh, it’s okay. It’s our first day, after all.” She takes a short pause and finally speaks again to make our conversation less awkward.
• “I’m June. June Liester.” She extends her hand for a brief shake.
• “I’m Hailey Lockwood.”
• “Lockwood?” She pauses and widens her eyes a bit. It was a little uneasy to watch everyone going on like this. I didn’t know the reason behind their shocking views on my name. And honestly, I don’t know if I wanted to hear the stories myself.
• “Yeah,” I say.
• Instead of acting all aloof, her face brightens up with a big smile. “No wonder why my brother’s going all foolishly optimistic of you,” she says.
• “Wait, he’s your brother?”
• “You find it hard to believe?”
• “Well, yeah. You’re all shy and funny. And he’s all bold and...”
• ‘‘Grumpy?”
• We both say it at the same time and as soon as we do, we burst out laughing together. Well, I guess my first day here wasn’t so bad after all.
• Me and June went back to my dorm and I introduced her to Eve. We girls talked a lot about stuff from back home and stuff from here. But our concentration got stuck fully in June because she just told us she was a hybrid.
• She was half a vampire and half werewolf. And her brother..Jace?
• He was the soon-to-be vampire king.