High School

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Emery was too focused on the small spec of blood on his hand, he barely heard her say leech, and even then he didn't know who it came from, who it was aimed at. It couldn't be him? He looked down at his hands again and wiped the blood on his trousers so he didn't look like a freak. It didn't show up on them, they were too dark. A girl next to Leela turns and looks at her, raising an eyebrow questioningly, before turning back to the front and writing down notes.

 

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Leela sticks her tongue out at the girl after she turned back around, then continues to take her notes, trying to ignore the smell. It was so... Overpowering, so she stuck her hand back to her face. She finally gets the lesson and puts down her pencil, then lays her head down on the desk. She couldn't help but imagine Emery with blood leaking down his chin as he sucked the blood from a human, that's what her dad always told her anyway. Not to trust Vampires, because all they care about is blood. She didn't want to be this biased about vampires because she wasn't this way with others, but there was something about vampires that her family always warned her about.

 

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Soon enough, the lesson was over, Emery started to pack up his things, then slung his bag on his shoulder before walking out of the classroom. It was a short break now before the next lesson, and he had told Moira to bring the blood to the back of the school building behind the bins in exactly two minutes. He began walking there, something about being around so many people after so long of just vampires was really getting to him. He got to the school bins with a minute to spare, Moira wouldn't be late, but she wouldn't be early either.

 

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"Hey Har." She says as Harley runs up to her. "Did you see the new guy? He's so cute." She says, and Leela rolls her eyes. "Yeah, sure." She says, it was true he was okay looking, but he was a leech. "Do you think he's single?" She asks and Leela stops in her tracks. "You don't need to be around him." She says loudly, and Harley looks at her a bit taken aback. "He's.. Uh. A jerk." Leela says and goes to her locker.

 

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At precisely the time, Moira rounds the corner, dressed like a normal woman instead of her usual traditional maid outfit. She hands Emery two bottles of the thick red liquid, tells him to be safe, lingers for a second and then walks away as if nothing happened. Emery sticks the bottles in the bag, walking back inside to his locker. Moira had been with Emery ever since he was born, assigned to him as a nanny, she did everything he said and treat him better than his own mother did, and he felt something for Moira, if he lost her he would be broken, the closest thing that he considered as a parent figure. He eventually got to the locker, and the smell overcame him again, he almost retched. He looked around and next to him was Leela. What? No... He pretended to sniff because of his cold, pulling out one of the books from his locker, and, he realised. She was the werewolf.

 

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Leela slams her locker closed and walks swiftly away from him, cursing under her breath. Even though they still had a few minutes left of the break she walked to the class she had next. Choir. I swear if he's in this class I might lose it. She thinks to herself and tries to open the door to the room, but it was locked. She heaves a sigh and sits down on the floor, waiting for the teacher to get there and unlock the door, which wouldn't happen for a few minutes, Mrs. Nelson was always late to class.

 

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Emery looks down at his timetable, next it would appear that he had psychology. He sighed and shoved his timetable back in his pocket before slinging his back over his shoulder, and shutting his locker door. He glanced for a moment at the girl who was always seen with Leela, then walked to his abandoned classroom, and got out his bottle. Sat on one of the tables, he drank until the bottle was half empty.

 

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Finally the bell rings and the teacher shows up and unlocks the door, allowing the students into the classroom. She smiles at her surroundings and takes a seat on one of the chairs. Mrs Nelson hands out lyric sheets to her and her classmates and they begin singing a song. It was one of Leela's favorites, Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.

 

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When the bell rings, Emery quickly hurries through his usual routine, tissue, water, mint, and then quickly walks to psychology. He sits down on his own at the back, taking notes on the human brain, what causes what, studies on memory. He had picked psychology because it was one of the things he didn't know, didn't understand. What enabled us to have memories? What drove us to do such horrible things? Interesting questions that he could answer over time.

 

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After they finished the song everyone started talking about what the song was about. "It's of course about chasing cars." A boy says beside her and she sighs. "Well, sort of," She starts, "The song was written because of the lead singer's father, and how he would always tell the lead singer that him chasing ladies was the same as a dog chasing cars. That you wouldn't know what to do with them when you caught them." She says and the teacher smiles and nods, making Leela smile and her face turn slightly red.

 

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By the time the lesson had ended, and the bell for lunch was called, Emery had lost all hope for ever enjoying a psychology lesson, and he walked boredly to his locker, putting away his books. The bottles were already in his bag, so he didn't need to retrieve those. He closed his locked, and made his way to the cafeteria, where would he sit? Alone? With someone? He'd already denied the popular kids a chance.

 

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Leela walks towards her locker, forgetting all about Emery. She was happily chatting with one of her choir partners about a concert they had coming up, that is, until she ran into somebody. She fell to the ground, her sheet music going everywhere and she sighs. "Damn." She curses, then looks up, her eyes automatically closing at who was standing above her.

 

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Emery looked down at Leela, his expression still bored, but then it was always like that, as if he didn't know how to smile, which he did. He didn't know what to do now though, should he help her? He supposed he had to, or he'd look like even more of a dick. He crouched and started gathering up her sheet music, then stood up with them still in his hands. Should he offer his hand to a werewolf? What would his mother think if she knew that he had helped someone like her? The thought of that brought a slight smile to his lips, as he held out a hand for Leela to take so that he could pull her up. "I'm sorry about that, I must have not seen you." He lied, he had seen her, but she hadn't seen him. People were watching them, mainly Leelas friends who she was talking to before she walked into him.

 

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Leela gives him a cold glare and refuses his hand. She stands up on her own and pulls her sheet music out of his hands. "Thanks." She says, her voice rough. She puts the sheet music into her bag and carries on walking, leaving her friend behind. She didn't want to be in his presence. His odor was just to much for her.

 

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Stupid dog, he thinks to himself, as he walks to the cafeteria and finds an empty table. He gets out his earphones and plugs them into his phone, a playlist he had created playing loudly into his ears. He got out his journal and began to write something on the page, about one of his dreams he had had. They were becoming more frequent, darker, they sent a chill up his spine every time that he woke up with sweat drenching him. As he was writing, he slowly found himself thinking more about Leela, did she know about him? She had to, why else would she have rejected his offer for help?

 

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Leela meets with Harley in the hallway and they walk to the cafeteria. "We should sit with him." She whispers in Leela's ear and Leela shakes her head. "You go ahead, I'll sit with Ricky." She says, patting her shoulder and walking away. Harley sighs, and looks from Emery to Leela. "Fine." She says and follows Leela. "What's your problem with Emery anyway, he seems perfectly nice." Harley says and her and Leela sit down next to Ricky. "He just seems like... A tool." She says, not hiding the rudeness when the word 'tool' comes from her mouth. "He'll eat you alive." She says, as if it was a joke which makes her friends laugh, but her face stays neutral as she looks down at the table, she didn't want to eat today.

 

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Emery got out his bottle of water, wanting to appear normal and human, he took a sip from it and continued to write in his journal but... His eyes lingered on her, watching her take a seat with her friends. He looked away and scanned the room for somebody, anybody, that he might know. No one, he was in this alone. He changed the song on his playlist, Pays to Know by MyPet playing in his ear loudly. He was so bored, of school and in general. Every day was the same, at least now with this new school he had the entertainment of an attractive werewolf. Wait, hold up, did he just think that she was attractive? His eyes had lingered on her for too long, and he tore them away and back to his writing.

 

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Leela's friend nudged her and smiled before she started singing. Soon Leela picked up on the song and started patting her hands on the table to the beat and singing as well. Her other friends were hesitant, but they joined in. The song was Young Volcanoes by Fall Out Boy. Leela always said that the song applied to them perfectly, and it was true they were crazy. After the song her table bursts into laughter and looks around to see a lot of people looking at them. Harley stands up and bows as if she had just performed and Leela had to wipe the tears from her eyes. She hadn't laughed that much since the year before. As everyone settled down her eyes scanned the room, then stopped at Emery. He was just writing in his journal, she could hear the sound of his pencil scraping against the power, and she could hear the music he was listening to.

 

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While the song flowed into the next, Here We Go by Lower Than Atlantis, he smiled slightly. It was one of his favourite songs. When he looked up at the sound of noise from one of the tables, singing, clapping, he saw Leela laughing, he looked down just as she scanned the room, not wanting to see her looking. 'Now, we're raging on like a locomotive. Shout, we're coming through' played in his ears, and his writing suddenly changed, it wasn't writing anymore, it was sketching. He didn't know what at first, sometimes he just let his hands guide the pencil.

 

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Leela turns back to her friends and pulls out a marker. She grabs Harley's arm and starts drawing on it. She draws a flower, putting more detail into it then she had planned. "Wow." Harley says as she looks down at it. "Like it?" Leela asks and Harley nods. "I'm definitely getting this tattoo when I'm eighteen." She jokes and Leela laughs. "Whatever." Leela says, as her eyes are pulled towards the vampire once more. Why? She didn't know, she blinked a few times before turning to Ricky and drawing a skull on his wrist.

 

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He didn't look down at the paper at first, he was still watching Leela out of the corner of his eye, but he kept looking away to make sure he didn't look creepy. But eventually he dropped his gaze to his journal and, a wolf? He's drawn a wolf, howling at the moon. He shut his journal quickly, and was about to put it in his bag when some large guy, someone who looked like they'd steal candy off a five year old, walked over and grabbed it off him, dangling it in front of his face, the guys friends laughed. "What you drawing in here, prince?"

 

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Leela stops drawing on her friends long enough to see a big guy holding Emery's journal. Her head tilts to the side. "I never thought anybody would fuck with him." Ricky says, then Leela recognizes the mean guy. "That's Chance Parr, isn't it?" She asks, looking quizzically at the large man, seeing int he corner of her eyes Ricky nodding. "He's a dick." She says, then looks at Emery, she bit her lip and watched on, wondering what was going to happen.

 

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Chance grinned and laughed with his friends, still dangling the book in front of Emery, who glared up at him. "Its none of your business." He stated, he was aware people were looking, should he make an example that he shouldn't be fucked with, or play it weak? He couldn't play it weak, he wasn't going to let himself look useless. For a slight second, Chance looked in his eyes, and suddenly his body went tense. Emery glaring at him, still sat down. "I highly suggest that you put that book down, and walk the fuck away," Emery stated, his voice deep, his eyes still fixed on Chance's. Chance didn't know why, but he put the book down and walked away quickly, and only when away did his body relax, and he suddenly got confused, before mumbling something to his friends and they all left.


Emery watched him go, and when he had, he felt the slight trickle of blood coming from his nose, he put a hand up to it, examined the blood with his fingers, stood up, grabbed his bag and journal, and walked away to a restroom.

 

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Leela's nostrils flared, not at Chance, but at Emery. He should know damn well that he wasn't to use his power at school! She screamed in her head. She didn't think vampires were that stupid. She got up, and threw her bag over her shoulder. "I'll see you guys later." She says, then walks out of the cafeteria and to her locker. She opens it and pulls out her Science textbook before slamming the door shut. She slammed her back against the locker and slid down it putting her hand to her face. She shouldn't be so angry, but she was, she'd ask her father about it later after she got her ice cream of course.

 

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The emo kids from before weren't in the restroom, it was empty, so Emery walked over to the sink and used the water to wash his face. That was stupid of him, really stupid, but he didn't care. It gave him a sense of freedom, adrenaline rushing through him at the time that it happened. After he finished cleaning himself up, he glared in the mirror at himself, straightened out his shirt, and quickly took a sip of the blood before anyone came in. Water, mint, and now he could go. But where?