~bound~

~Chapter 3~

                                                                                      

~Emily~

~Wednesday morning~

I woke up to make me and Owen some breakfast, then I got both of us dressed for the day, "how's your waffle baby"? he nodded sweetly. "mhm"! I laughed. "How about I get you ready for school I don't want you to be late." "But I don't want to go to school"! he said pouting at me. "Hey, don't give me that face. I'll see you tonight after school ok." He sighed, "you promise"? he said hugging me. "Of course, I promise." I said as he buried his head in my neck. "I don't wanna lose you, I love you." he said sweetly. "Aww I love you too, here, how about you go pick out some clothes for school." "ok"! he said excitedly. He came back dressed in cute black pants and a cute dinosaur t-shirt. "Aww, you look cute, did you pick that out yourself"? he nodded and giggled. After I got dressed and got Owen to school, I drove myself to school. I parked in the parking lot and gripped my steering wheel as I leaned my head back into the headrest. Hope today is better than Monday.

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When I got to English, to my surprise, Colby was already there which almost gave me a heart attack. He looked me up and down annoyed. "Hi." He mumbles so low that only my sensitive hearing can pick up the sound. I looked his way lazily and raised an eyebrow. I rolled my eyes. "Um, hi, why are you still sitting next to me"? I whispered as I rolled my eyes. "I have sat here since the start of the year...so YOU'RE technically sitting next to ME! Plus," He said flipping a page in the book "Elvis and Me." "I can keep my eye on you, if needed." He said snarkily. "Oh, I've got something that you can keep your eye on right here you son of a- "! The teacher intercepted me before I could finish that sentence. He cleared his throat. "Mr. Brock, and Ms. Young since the two of you enjoy interrupting my class with your socializing, I'm pairing you two together for the project...due next Friday, I expect as from both of considering you find each other more interesting than my lecture." He said strictly. We both looked at him shocked. "Wait...but"! I said frustrated. He interrupted, "No buts, get it done." I sighed in frustration. Great...just fucking great. For the rest of the class, we waited for the bell to ring. The rest of the students left to go to the next class while I stayed behind to talk to Colby about the project. "So...what now"? I asked in the politest voice I could muster. "Well, I don't know about you, but I plan on talking to Mr. Reynolds about this." I chuckled unamused. "Oh yeah...go ahead, blab to the teacher about how much you hate my entire race... that should fix EVERYTHING"! I shouted annoyed. "Well, what would you suggest fangs"? "Oh, I don't know captain obvious, maybe grow a fucking pair and deal with it, I want to do this just as much as you do"! I shouted at him. "Nothing I can do about this, just suck it up, work on the damn project and get it done." I said showing him my favorite finger on the way out. "Meet me in the library after school Friday to work on it." I said walking to my next class. He rolled his eyes and slammed his hands on the table. In the last thirty minutes of the day, I started getting cramps in my abdomen area. "Shit." I raised my hand. "May I be excused please"? the teacher sighed. "There are only thirty minutes left of the day." The teacher started. "I'm having really bad cramps and-." "Ok fine you can go." I got up and walked out of the school. I got a stabbing pain in my stomach. I grabbed my waist in pain. Later that night, I put Owen to bed early when I got home earlier so I could feed without him worrying. I then quickly changed into my hunting clothes and went to the woods. When I got there, it was dark and eerie, there was a thick layer of grey fog that dangled over the top of the trees. It was dark out and the sky was a grey hue due to the lack of light. I quickly waded into the tree line then fed on an animal. I sat down on a rock and sighed with my head in my hands once I was finished drinking the blood from a deer. Then I heard a twig snap behind the trees in front of me. I stood up panicked and looked around. "What the hell was that"?! That's when eyes met mine. They glowed amber and stared straight into my soul. I inhaled deeply. That scent. Woods, campfire...and wolf. I instantly knew whose scent that was a minute it hit my nostrils...I inhaled harshly. Colby. I slowly started to back up nervously... "Colby..." I said holding my hands in front of me nervously. My hands were maybe two feet from his snout. "Colby back up...." I said nervously. He started to ante toward me a little faster. "Oh, fuck this." I said as I hauled my ass out of there. I ran into my apartment and slammed the door. I barricaded my body against the door. I heard him aggressively growling and slightly scratching at my door. "Go away"! I shouted. I just prayed that he would stop. About five minutes went by and I got up to see if he was still there. He was gone...I looked at my door seeing that it had many scratch marks on it. I rolled my eyes. "Oh, bloody hell." I said rubbing my face with my hands. I rolled my eyes and sighed as I shut the door. I left my hand on it as I leaned my forehead onto it. Owen came out of the room worried. "Mommy what was that"? he asked scared. I looked at him and gave him a reassuring smile. I knelt to him and caressed his cheek. "Nothing love, I was just out for a walk and a coyote chased me back here." I said ruffling his hair. "let's go to bed yeah"? he nodded as we headed to the bedroom.

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Friday morning rolled around; I woke up and got dressed. I put on a pair of white skinny jeans, and a pink and white striped, sleeveless tunnel shirt and paired it with some white and pink high tops, as for my dirty blonde hair, I just put it in a half up half down updo with a big pink bow...once I was done, I went to my kitchen and ate breakfast and got Owen ready. I drove myself to school in black Audi I got for my last birthday. When I got into the hallway where my locker was, this girl named Shae and her possie came up to me and started to prance dramatically toward me. "Perfect timing, as usual." I said sarcastically as I slammed my locker grabbing my binder. Nevertheless, she was again wearing expensive clothes and jewelry that was smothered with diamonds. I sniffed the air and smelled a strong perfume that smelled like a science experiment gone wrong, boys' cologne, and pure blood vampire. "Fuck." I said, I could tell Shae came from a long line of pure-blood vampires. She could probably smell that I was only a halfling. I may have to be careful with this one. I still had a long history of vampires in my family. My dad for example was one of the more ruthless vampires to walk the face of the earth. They called him, "Jack the Ripper." I was only half vampire because my mom got pregnant with me while she was still human. She was turned after I was born. She married my dad, then did the blood rate ritual on their wedding night to claim each other as mates for life. Shae got closer and smirked at me.... "Aw look at this girls, it's a wannabe punk barbie." She said being a bully. I smirked. "Se pare că ai ști ceva despre. A fi o curvă din felul în care te îmbraci, nenorocite ești o cățea." I said getting a little pissed. "Classy." She said with a devilish chuckle. "Is that the best you've got...lame..." I said as I smirked as I flashed her my favorite finger. She looked at me offended. "You heard me...fuck off." She said to me as she looked at me disgusted. She rolled her eyes as she walked off. I sighed madly then punched my locker extremely hard. Yep, that's gonna leave a bruise. No matter where I went, she was there. In my classes, she giggled as she kissed Colby on the cheek, he rolled his eyes not enjoying it in the slightest. Katrina had told me about Shae and Colby's break up. We all knew at this point that Shae was just doing all of this to get attention. Typical. "Miss Young, pay attention"! Mr. Dawson shouted strictly. I turned back around. "Oh, sorry." In the hallway. She walked past me as a random guy complimented her. "Hey Shae, lookin' good." She chuckled. "I know...." She said as she pranced off. I learned later that day that her name was Shae Elise. She was the "It" girl at the school." The way she dressed alone was like a total prostitute, she looked so sleazy and trashy all time. She had dark brown hair with light green doe eyes. a couple beauty marks on her face, and light skin. Her demeaner was just rude and bratty in general.

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That day I came home from school with sorrow. I walked to my room and face-planted into my pillow, thinking about awful things about the day I just endured. Owen got home later and luckily helped me through it. Before I knew it, it was finally the weekend, and I was so excited that this week was over. I met up with Katrina, Devyn, and Tara at a local coffee shop that kat worked at to talk about our week we had. we all sighed when we sat down at the table. "Oh, thank god it's Saturday." Devyn said relieved as she sipped out of her iced hazelnut latte, leaning into her chair. "I know, I'm so glad this week is over." They all looked at me. "You know Emily, we should take you shopping." Tara said as she drank her matcha latte. I looked at them confused. "Shopping"? Well, I could use a better wardrobe, that's for sure..." I said stating the facts about my not-so-great clothes. "Yea... no offense sweetie, but we've noticed." Devyn said. "Yea but guys I really can't afford any good clothes, it's hopeless." I said as I drank my pumpkin latte. "No problem, we'll pay." Katrina said as I looked at them stunned. "What no way, I can't let you do that." They pleaded. "Oh, come on Emily please, I know your tired of people teasing about you and quite frankly we are too, we would love to see you happy." Devyn said pouting. "Well, the only way that I would be happy is if I suddenly became pretty overnight, and by god that is not gonna happen." I said sarcastically. "what"! Devyn said in disbelief that I said that about myself. "Emily, you're beautiful." Kat said. "Umm, have you seen my hair"?! I said insulting my dirty blonde hair. They both smirked. "Hmm...we could always take you to the salon while we're at it, I could do your hair." kat's eyes lit up. "Oh, you should get highlights." She said as she almost spilled her chai latte, "Oh, yea and we could take you to Sephora to get makeup, what about we go browse the mall after we're done here"? Tara said excitedly as I smirked devilishly. "You know, I'm starting to like this idea."