Hating You
Mina's eyes blinked open and she saw a room she didn't recognize. She sat up in a fright and looked around with panic flowing through her. It wasn't until she saw a picture frame sitting on the side table beside the bed that she relaxed.
In the simple frame were two boys squishing a girl. One boy had his arm around her shoulders with a grin that covered most of his face. The boy on the other side sat back casually with a smile not as charismatic but just as true. The girl had just finished giving the grinning boy an odd look and just barely made a smile for the camera.
She remembered that picture. Nelly took it at that stupid Junior High graduation years ago. Mina figured that Nelly probably gave Otis the picture because Otis was still just a friend/teacher back then.
Now relaxed she got out of the bed-Otis's bed she reasoned-and left the room and followed the hallway to the stairs. She crept slowly and tried to make no noise as she passed the living room to see Otis snoozing away on the couch. She smiled and went through the kitchen towards the back door. Something on the counter caught her eye and she took the bottle and drank deeply. She would need it.
Just as she replaced the bloodwine another thing on the table interested her. Vlad's handwriting.
'See you at school Otis." Was scratched over the slip of paper hurriedly and she noted his mark neatly printed underneath.
So Vlad left already too, she thought as she left his old home. As she wandered home she couldn't stop thinking about what the day will hold.
School...Vlad...Jon...Henry...Otis...Joss...Meredith...Eddie...Snelgrove.
Joss...she remembered as she slowed her steps to stare up at her large house. The curtains were closed and she looked higher up to see the sky was a faint purple-gray. The sun was just barely beginning to rise.
Was Joss on alert? Was he sitting in her room...just waiting for her to return? Would he attack her when he sees her? She checked around to make sure no one was up early before floating up to her window. It was left unlocked and slightly open, like she always left it. She looked around the room before entering; being sure Joss wasn't hiding in the shadows. She closed the window and left her room to take a shower.
After her shower she did her hair in straight layers with the red curled to perfection around the black strands. She changed and did her make up all the while glancing over her shoulder and around corners for her slayer cousin.
She hurried to rub sunscreen over her open skin to keep the sun at bay. She drank her fill of blood, slipping a small vile of blood into her bag that were shaped to look like chapstick. Something William came up with over the summer for her cravings at school. She took her bag and went down stairs. Henry and Joss were probably getting ready because she could hear people moving about in the rooms as she walked down the hall. All the while she jumped at every noise.
Living with a slayer was more nerve wracking than she thought. But she took an apple and placed it in front of her so that when aunts or uncles or cousins walked in she could put on her human act. Until then she wasn't going to eat an apple if it had no nutritional value to her or won't do her hunger any good.
Joss's mom came in first followed by Aunt Matilda. They started breakfasts for themselves and soon her cousins came rushing down the stairs.
"Mina, I've missed you so much!" Her aunt came around and hugged her. Mina awkwardly hugged the woman back. She realized that this woman practically raised her...and now she hardly had much feeling for her at all. It wasn't like she would answer my dying screams if Joss was trying to kill me, she thought sadly.
