School of Blood

chapter 7 : harmony

The silence was deafening as I thumbed through the newspaper archives from the past ten years. Looking up, I glanced around again at the huge town library. The reference room itself was enormous. Of course it was. These humans and their need to expand. But I still couldn't find what I was looking for.

Vampire sightings, vampire sightings, wherever you are...

Or wherever you aren't. If there weren't any, all the better.

Flip, flip, flip...

Nope.

Feeling slightly more relieved, I grabbed the next paper. Maybe I'd be safe.

Just then, I heard voices outside.

"You check in the historical artifacts area. I'll see if I can find anything in the reference room," a voice said.

I tried to rearrange myself so I was in a corner. A girl walked in, looking slightly flustered.

"Oh, hi." She said, sounding surprised as she saw me.

"Hi," I said shortly. Now about those sightings...hmm did I check the old Times articles? I forget.

"I just need to look through some stuff here." she chirped. Was she still talking to me? "You wouldn't happen to know where the old mythology references are, would you?"

The what now? "No."

"Oh, okay then. Thanks anyway." She started searching through the boxes near me.

I tried concentrating on my task again. Suddenly, the girl said, "Hey! You're in Mrs. Hutchinson's homeroom?"

I looked up. She was holding my schedule. "Hey, give me that!" I snatched the paper from her.

"Sorry, it was on the floor," she said, turning red. Red with all that blood...

I shook myself. "It's ok, whatever," I mumbled. Now can you leave me alone before I'm tempted to suck all your blood out?

I guess she didn't understand my attempt at telepathy, because she continued, "It's just, I have a friend who's in that class. What a coincidence, huh?" she laughed, sitting in a chair near me. "I'm Celina. You?"

"Harmony." I said, biting back a sigh. Here we go again.

Celina's smile turned into a straight line. She said thinly, "Harmony. Harmony...Redd?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" I asked confused and a little worried now. Just what exactly did this human know?