Chapter 6 The only vampire?

LOUISA

My heart dropped and I suddenly felt horror rise in me.

If this were true, then his grandfather must have lived to witness the apocalypse.

No! He must have been the one who instigated the apocalypse. Sebastian wasn't just a vampire. He was from a family of vampires.

Does that even exist?

“His family is not just respected because they're the highest donors but because they're the secret owners of the school,” Claire added and my belly tightened.

I hoped what I had made up in my head wasn't true. I hoped he was turned and his family was normal. There was no way an entire family was a vampire. It wasn't possible at all.

“Why do you think they hid it then?” Ken suddenly asked and my curiosity spiked up again, drowning the horror building up in me.

Claire sighed, her eyes dimming.

“I don't know that myself, but I think…”

“Louisa Williams!” Someone suddenly spat out my name in the most disdainful way possible and my head jerked up.

I narrowed my eyes in question when my eyes fell on a crimson-covered, pretty face glaring down at me from behind.

“Yes?” I shrugged, popping my brows up.

The anger on her face slowly dissolved and her tan color returned to her once reddened face.

She scoffed loudly and folded her hands under her breasts, her head tilting.

“How much did your family pay?” She asked.

My chest tightened as confusion swelled up in me.

I turned to look at Claire, silently seeking an explanation.

She sucked her lower lip in and motioned that I stay calm. But I knew I wouldn't, not with the girl in front of me.

“I don't understand what you mean,” I said, making sure the mockery was well heard in my voice.

She scoffed loudly, trembling in rage at my calm mood.

She leaned close and gripped my shoulder sharply. Pain snapped through my shoulder blades as her fingers sank deep into my flesh.

“Stay away from Sebastian! Or you won't love what would become of you,” she muttered and pulled back, her lips slanting in a sinister smile.

My eyes rolled and I huffed out in disbelief.

Was she warning me to stay away because he was a vampire or because…

“She likes him,” Claire piped after she had flounced away.

I sighed and shook my head then turned to face Claire again.

“Who is she though?” I huffed.

“Emilia Whitemore,” Claire sighed. “She's a nightmare,” she added with another sigh.

I turned in the direction she had walked to and her glare hit me.

“Is she close to Sebastian?” I asked.

Claire bit her lips, her eyes narrowing in silence. Her lips parted and slammed shut as they trembled. It felt like she was trying hard to keep shut.

“Uhm… I mean… they'd had sex a couple of times, but Sebastian never acknowledges her in public,” she said, and my throat burned.

“That's why she's so bitter,” Ken added and Claire grinned.

I darted my eyes towards Sebastian and gulped hard.

Why didn't he feed on her?

“So, they're just sex partners?” I asked, shifting my gaze back to Claire's round face.

Claire shrugged, biting into her burger.

“Yeah, I think so. But Emilia is quite close to Sebastian's friends so she must know a lot about him from them. But as for Sebastian, she's only close to him… in bed,” she muttered. She and Ken burst into laughter at her mocking words and I smirked.

I darted my eyes towards her again and watched her.

The bell suddenly rang and everyone began to leave. I watched Sebastian as he got up from the chair and began to walk off with his two friends trailing behind him.

He had his hands in his pants pockets and his nose raised in the air.

He must feel euphoric and powerful to walk among the same people he kills for food. The same people who bow to him like he is some god.

I gripped my fist tightly, rage swelling in me.

“I'm not sure we'll see each other again today,” Claire spoke and I turned to look at her. She was walking by my side alongside Ken and that wide innocent smirk hadn't left her face either.

“I wish there was a way we could talk tonight,” she said. My head jerked to the side as curiosity sprang up.

I could make her talk more.

“I can give you my number.”

“I don't have a paper to write it down,” she chuckled. I swallowed hard in disappointment, shrugging. Next time I would learn to come with a pen and paper.

“Give me your socials, I'll chat you up after school,” Claire said as she gripped my arm.

I paused walking, my brows raising in surprise.

“I'm active on Tumblr,” I blurted out quickly.

“Me too!” She squirmed, gripping onto me tighter.

Students grumbled and sneered as they pushed past us in the corridor.

I gave her my Tumblr handle and with an assurance to chat me up, we parted ways.

I sighed as I watched her disappear into another corridor. I was quite satisfied with my findings but that wasn't enough. I needed to watch him even more.

“She isn't so bad,” Ken said as we walked down the hallway.

I chuckled, nodding my head.

“But it's quite weird though,” he muttered and I raised my brows.

“Of all people to assign Vlad Sebastian to, why did it have to be you?” He asked.

My throat knotted and I felt my belly tighten in horror and confusion.

“I have no idea either,” I muttered.

His head tilted to the side in question but he said nothing.

I sighed and turned towards the class, but paused when I saw him, my other suspect, leaning on a locker with his hand wound up around the waist of a blonde student.

My heart stopped and so did my feet as I stared at him.

“Damion Lucius,” Ken muttered behind me. “He's the only one who stands against the president. They've competed in multiple events of the Academy but as we expect, the president always wins.”

The only one who could put up with a vampire without fear. He definitely wasn't a human either.

Ken leaned closer, placing his hand on my shoulder.

“Don't get deceived by that smile. He is more evil than the school president,” he whispered and my heart jumped.

“Sebastian is evil?” I almost huffed at my own question.

“If you get on his wrong side.”

I took a deep breath, secretly pulling the bracelet off my wrist.

“Let's go,” I muttered and continued my walk, getting closer to him.

My heart raced as I neared him while the bracelet dangled from my hand.

I didn't know how I would react if he turned out to be what I feared but I needed to do this. I needed to fish all of them out.

With my breath caught in my throat and my body a few inches away from his, I dropped the necklace at his feet and walked off briskly.