Vamp match (Jasie)

5. Plan A

When I close the gym door behind me and turn around I find Jade standing further down the corridor. Probably to keep from hearing what Emma and I were saying. I am really grateful that she was not listening in, but it would have been amazing if she wouldn't have been waiting at all. 

I still have a small amount of hope that she is just waiting to talk with Emma herself, so I avoid her gaze while walking away from the gym. I would have taken another corridor to avoid Jade if this wasn't the only way out of the gym on this side. When I get close to Jade, while still not looking at her, all my hopes of avoiding her evaporates when I hear Jade say. ''Hey, Josie, could we talk?''

I do not want to be rude, but it is really for the best if we do not talk, so I nod no without looking at Jade, feeling guilty while doing so, while I keep walking. When I walk past Jade I start walking faster, no idea why, since there is absolutely no way that I can be faster than a vampire. This is proven when Jade carefully grabs my wrist to make sure I stop walking. When I still do not lookup Jade says ''Josie, please''. I do not want to be necessarily rude to Jade, but I cannot do this. Not now. Despite everything, I know Jade will respect that, so I say ''Sorry, I cannot, please, Jade.'' She lets go of my wrist and I can see her moving out of my way. Still, without looking up, I start walking again. When I am nearing the end of the corridor I say ''sorry Jade,'' knowing she can still hear me with her vampire hearing.

After that, I head back to my room. Normally Lizzie would ask me what is wrong, but this time she does not. Maybe It is the look on my face, or knowing what happened in the prison world. Maybe it is both. She pulls the blanket in her bed up for me and without saying anything I get into the bed beside her. Everything must have been more draining than I thought, cause within a few minutes I fall asleep. 

The next morning before classes Lizzie and I find ourselves once again in our father's office. Caroline called early this morning about news on the merge. The bad news is that she has not found another way out of the merge, although nobody really thought there would be another way if we are being honest. The good news is that she has found out how to 'test' which vampire is a match and how to perform the matching ritual. 

There are several things that connect us to our vampire match. The first is that the vampire will not lose control when drinking from their match. Which is a bit tricky to test with young vampires that do not have a lot of control. And it is impossible to test with rippers who are not able to control themselves and they would kill us if we are not a match. 

Another way that you can find out who is a match is by doing a ritual during the full moon. Kind of ironic. A ritual between witches and vampires, bound to the full moon. Not a werewolf in sight.

We will perform the ritual, because letting all vampires drink from us to find out if they can kill us or not is not really an option since you can only try it once. Lizzie has the most possible matches, so we will start with finding her match. You cannot let so many vampires into the ritual, so we will need more than one full moon, whereas with finding my match we will only need one night with a full moon. More importantly, until she finds her match, Lizzie will not be able to stop with the ritual. When we start with Lizzie, she will be able to find her match within the three days of the full moon and hopefully won't be stuck in the ritual for a whole month.

When dad is explaining why Lizzie should go first, Lizzie interrupts him. She tells us that when they got attacked by a monster a while ago they got into trouble. There was no one around to get her and MG out of it and Lizzie was not able to siphon magic from MG because he was dying. 

To keep MG from dying and to get at least one of them out of there instead of both of them dying, Lizzie made MG drink her blood. In his weakened state and as a ripper he was not able to withhold from drinking Lizzie's blood. But to their big surprise, MG was easily able to stop himself.

He drank enough to keep both of them alive and get them out of there. Dad does not look happy about it, but as Lizzie said, they did not have a better choice. Besides, it ended with both of them safe and alive. This does however mean that Lizzie already found her vampire match, MG.

Since Lizzie already found her match, we will only have to find my match with the ritual. This means that on the first full moon we will start looking for my vampire match.

There have been four new vampires on the Salvatore school between finding my match on the map and the previous time, so I tell my dad that one of them has to be my match. This feels a bit weird to me, because I have never even talked to these vampires, and one of them is supposed to be my match. I really hope they are nice, at least the one who will be my match. And hope that they want to bond with me.

While I am worried about this my dad speaks up and says ''five'' when both Lizzie and I look at him with a confused expression on our faces he says ''there are four newly turned vampires that came to the school this year, but there is also a vampire that returned to the school this year, or at least this version of the school.'' ''Who?'' Both Lizzie and I ask. ''Jade'', dad says, like he cannot believe that we already forgot after what happened only a little while ago.

No, it can't be, not Jade. If the therapy session proved anything, it is that Jade and me being together is a very bad idea. I ask my dad if I can prepare myself in the next few days. He looks at me for a moment en probably sees the panic on my face, cause he agrees. At least I can hide the next three days from Jade, and prepare for the possibility that she is my vampire match.