Lucy opened her locker and brought out her books and shut it back. She often wondered why school would be so boring on a Friday. "At least school would end quickly. I might as well miss sports", she murmured walking into the class. She sat non challantly on her seat waiting for that ever boring teacher that repeated the same thing each time they had class.
Mrs O'Brien came into class. It was non other than their literature teacher. She spoke of how Heathcliff was a gipsy, how he came back home with Mr Earnshaw . How he was selfish and fell in love with Catherine and how his selfishness and quest for revenge lead to his death where he slept in perfect peace with his lover, Catherine.
What a story
Someone suddenly came in. "You're late" Mrs O'Brien said not looking at her. "I'm sorry", the girl said and went to her seat behind Lucy. It was Iris.
"That loner", Lucy muttered.
Iris was the kind to mind her business and didn't want trouble . She wasn't much of a talker and her grades were above excellent.
Suddenly, the bell rang.
Sports. Maybe I should go.
***
Sports wasn't as she expected. Some people played baseball while the others dud other games. She was seated with some other people training in javelin. Each taking turn in throwing the javelin.
"Hey handle the javelin with care", their sports master, Maxwell said to one of the boys . But the boy wasn't focused and threw the weapon carelessly. It landed sharply on one boy's leg piercing his skin and he started screaming. Blood.
Iris looked up at the injured blood and that feeling... That feeling to kill surfaced. She quickly stood to leave the area ."Where are you going? You're up next", Maxwell said but it didn't matter. She heard nothing and ran into the bathroom not shutting the door.
"It's been ten years since I last had this feeling. Why now", she muttered trying to hold herself. Her skin was getting furry and white. This couldn't be happening in school if all places. She could hold herself. Iris held her breath trying to force that feeling... To suppress that lust for human blood.
No
She wasn't a vampire... Vampires were their closest enemies. She wasn't like her wolf cousins. She was a fox, a Cunning fox that has been placed under a curse and being hunted down by both her shadows and her enemies.
"I can't let this happen in school", she said gritting her teeth and holding her stomach.
"Hey, Maxwell said you should... What's wrong with you?" Someone asked. It was Lucy. She came forward slowly and when she was about touching her , Iris looked up at her , her eyes blank like those eyes she saw ten years ago.
" Leave me alone!"
Lucy didn't move. "Those eyes..."
"Get out !" She didn't move.
"You... You were that creature from ten years ago. You bit me" she said holding herself and trying to be strong.
Iris looked at her her eyes dangerous but still trying to refrain herself from eating this human. "Don't you understand?"
"If you kill me, everyone would know... And you would be easily caught, they're cameras here"
Iris closed her eyes and it came back to normal, that pale blue eyes that looked like every happiness had been taken from it. Her resistance strategy worked.
"What do you want?" Iris said looking sternly at Lucy. Lucy somewhat wondered where she got that courage from. It was shocking.
"I want to talk to you", she said.
"Why?"
"Ten years ago,a similar creature bit me and it disappeared. I want to know why that injury disappeared" Lucy said still surprised at her own guts.
"If I don't do it"
"Well, the school might as well find out about your ... They might think it's some kinda illness and you'll be sent to a hospital from there to a lab"
"If I do it?" Iris asked eyeing the girl before her. "I'd erase the security footage of this particular event", Lucy said smiling.
Iris bit her lower lip and sighed. " It's fine. I'd meet you at nestle - lake" , she said quacking Lucy while leaving.
"You mean the lake?
"Yes , the lake", she said and left opening the door.
A girl came in . "I've been standing here for hours, what the fuck was happening in here?
You gay?"
"Eww I mean no, I mean sorry ", Lucy said leaving the bathroom to change. How could she be gay for Iris?
Weird.
***
"She has left Paris, lady Cordelia. What are we still doing here?" Someone asked.
Cordelia smiled not looking at the person but at herself in the mirror.
"Let's catch the slaves first ", she said.
"You mean her - "
"Yes. Let's make her feel at peace", she said finally turning to the person who was standing behind her.
"Let's deceive her"
***
It was dark but the clouds were clear. The stars dotted the sky and the moon was shinning bright, even though it wasn't a full moon. Lucy stood by the lake waiting for Iris.
"Where could she be?"
Just then, Iris came . "You must have waited", she said as if she cared.
"Yes"
"Okay"
Just okay? Is she normally this cold or is it just me.
"Tell me everything", Lucy said. Iris suddenly laughed. "Tell you what? That I'm not human"
"Tell me why those wounds healed " Lucy said not smiling
Have I ever been this bold?
"You want to know why those wounds healed?" She said coming close to her. Lucy moved back but she kept coming. She reached the end of the land and was about to fall into the lake, but Iris held her hand.
"Because, you see, you're my slave. That's why you were so bold talking to me and I didn't eat you", Iris said.
"What?!"
Lucy had wondered why she was bold Infront of that creature and even asked to see her. She still wondered why she didn't eat her, but restrained herself till she was under control. And the whole reason was because_
"I am your slave?"
"Yes, Lucy. I made you by mistake"
"Mistake?"
Lucy was too dumbfounded, she couldn't process this.
"What does it mean to be your slave?"
"It means you are under my control and if they're after me... They'd come to you first", she said suddenly turning her back away from Lucy.
"What do you mean they would come for me?"
"They would try to kill you first and I'll run away and make a new slave" . But Lucy wasn't listening. "Try to kill an innocent eighteen years old?"
"You're not so innocent anymore", Iris said clicking her tongue. "What do you mean?"
Suddenly, Iris began walking away. "But I do not wish to involve you in any of my business and - " she looked at her. " - delete that footage, if not I'll not hesitate to eliminate you. After all I can make new ones"
Gulp.
"I would do it now"
"Better"
And she left without a trace. Lucy suddenly felt scared... Scared and angry.
I won't give up
But for now, she ran all the way home, to her bed and to her dreams.