Vampire Sister

Chapter 11

But before I can object, Mrs.Hoops went on, "Okay, others? Make this quick."

Another male voice said, "I'm with Carla." I saw the guy and immediately recognised him as Jacob Collins. As the others teamed up, I was getting lost in my own thoughts. Another animal breakout? Right in the centre of the city? If you say there were less people in the streets so the animal wandered in for some other city, I'd totally accept. But New Orleans is never free of people , especially at night! You should be mad to say something like that. 'New Orleans is empty in the nights' I can't imagine anyone saying that. On the other hand, Tristan Mendoza just teamed up with me without bothering to ask me first! I didn't even see him enter the class. I guess I was too preoccupied with my sleepiness. The rest of the classes till lunch were normal. Lessons, lessons, loads and loads of lessons. My mind was filled to the brim with today's lessons. I made my way to the cafeteria and started munching on the sandwich given. Someone tapped my shoulder gently. I looked up to see the handsome face of mr.cool dude.

"What do you want?" I said fiercely.

"Whoa easy there! Just wanted to ask if you're cool with the sociology team up." he said, posing that anybody-will-love smile.

"But you didn't care about that when you went , 'I'm with Kyra!' " I said in a high pitched tone.

"Right. I can tell you're not okay with it. May I know why?"

"Because I don't know you and You.Are.Irritating."

"Maybe we should use this as a chance to get to know each other. However, I'm walking home with you, right?" Shit!!! I totally forgot about that. I hid my face with my palms and said, "Unfortunately, yes." My mind straightaway went to one question 'Where the hell is Carla?'. And there she was, an angel in the midst of a war. "Hey Tristan! What's up? We didn't actually meet. I'm Carla Thompson." she said, extending her right hand. They shook hands and he said, "Nice to meet you, Carla Thompson, I'm Tristan Mendoza. And I need your help."

"Oh and what's that?" she replied. It was obvious she was excited but she tried her best not to show it in her tone.

"This girl over here...." he said pointing to me, "....thinks I'm irritating and doesn't want to do the case study with me."

"Ugh, Kyra!! Why are you doing this?"

"What?" I exclaimed.

"Why do you think he's irritating? I could name him Prince Charming!!" she said and both of them giggled and made me giggle too.

"Okay, one project with you. And I'll finalize how I feel about you. Deal?" I said.

"Deal. Now get up and give me a fist bump." Tristan said, and I did.

Like I said, all the classes loaded and jammed my little brain with information. At the end of the day, I paced down the corridor to catch up with Carla.

"Where's Tristan?" she asked.

"I don't know?" I replied.

"You don't know? Of course you don't. You'd be mental to carry my timetable around with ya." said Tristan. He must have followed us.

"Hey Tristan!! I'm super duper excited to see you!!" I said as if I was really excited.

"Oh god! Don't be sarcastic Kyra. I know you're truly pumped to see me! Anyways, I.Hate.Sarcasm."

"Ooohhh, that's a first! Prince Charming's weak spot, sarcasm." I said.

"Come on...." he mumbled. I could tell I was getting on his nerves. Yes. Mission Accomplished.

"Fine, let's get ourselves home, shall we?" I said and without further ado, we stepped out of the school campus and started walking.

"Sooo.... what do your parents do?" I asked Tristan.

"Umm my dad was doing research on something.. He never told me what it was about.." he said as he rubbed the back of his neck with his right palm.

"Like.. ever?" asked Carla.

"Yeahh ever. He just told me it was some top secret research. Anyways. Mum's a vet. She works at Pets and Co near that Karaoke shop."

"Cool" Carla said.

"Um, my parents told me your dad joined TANO yesterday?" I said.

"What? Really? He never said anything about that to me!!" exclaimed Tristan.

"He didn't tell you he was joining a new job?" exclaimed Carla. He didn't reply.

"So your relationship with your dad is kinda.... strained dare I say?" I said in a serious tone.

"Yeah exactly." he said and focused his gaze on the road.

Carla cleared her throat and said, "Let's talk about something else, shall we?" And we did.

We talked about sibling troubles. Carla has a younger brother and Tristan, well you know. Younger sister. As we reached the main junction, we parted. Tristan headed into the side alley, as Carla and I ventured down the main alley.

"I hate strained relationships." Carla said as we dumped our bags into the sofa.

"Yeah me too." I replied. I can't imagine what it would be like to not properly converse with my own dad. For the first time, I felt sorry for him.