Nightfall Academy

One: College is for losers, and I'm one of them

"At least let me buy you a drink. Do you like beer, wine or the heavy stuff?" He does a little wink at me.

"You have had enough, clearly! Plus, I have classes in the morning, Amir," I roll my eyes because he is drunk. He is my 25-year-old best friend. I am not old enough to drink but he is, I'm still 20.

"Come on, let me walk you to your dorm!" I try to walk away fast, but he grabs my wrist and squeezes tight. "I want to walk with you." He speaks. I try to squirm out of the tight grip. He doesn't let go. I pull on my arm harder and harder.

It's nowhere close to working. He puts his free hand around my waist and brings me close to his face pushing me against the wall in the alley outside Dakota's Luscious Bar. I try to make a sound come out of my mouth, but nothing happens.

He leans in closer and closer until I can feel his breath on my lip, and then he does something so vivid I want to throw up. He plants his lips on mine and kisses me hungrily, our tongues are dancing on one another. Before I know it for some reason I'm doing it back. Not enjoying it just to make him satisfied and for it to stop. Our noises squish against each other and he rubs his hands against my head, on my cheek, rubbing down my glorious long locks. I don't know what came over him.

Then he does something unthinkable, something we are never supposed to do. His 6-inch fangs come out and he plants them in my neck, it's something that feels good but shouldn't. His eye color changes into what I would call Red-Orangeish. I start to get a little light-headed, I can tell I'm losing a lot of blood. I started to think of the barrier spell we learned in class. That should be powerful enough to get him off me.

"Isoarmus Consiio!" I manage to say. A powerful wind blows him back off me, my eyes turn a light blue. A little blood still dripping from his mouth as his fangs still hang out.

"That shut you up quickly." He says after wiping his face. "Now will you let me walk you back?" I start spitting on the ground in disgust, he tastes like beer, or what it smelt like at least.

"Prove you can walk," I snapped back. The moment he moves he tumbles straight to the ground; I rush over to help him up. I slowly walk with him to his dorm; on the way, I touch my neck and feel two holes. Dang it! How am I going to hide it from the headmaster? I knew this was a bad idea coming out here tonight.

Once me and Amir arrive, I ask him "Do you have your keys?" He shakes his head no; I think back to class about the spell to open locks. "Rediatis Annoenus!" The door swings open and we enter, I lay him on his bed and exit the room while closing the door. I start the 10-minute walk to my dorm, once I get there, I put on my pajamas, lay in my bed then close my eyes.

...

In the morning, I wake up get in the shower, put my clothes on and head down for breakfast. There I see Amir who seems to be doing a lot better compared to last night. "Hey!" He greets me "Sorry about you know..." He motions to his neck area "I really don't know what got into me. Plus, thanks for not telling anyone. I feel very guilty." He motions me to sit next to him. " I got you your favorite thing for breakfast!" He hands me a Great Value muffin from Walmart. "Ran to Walmart to get this!"

"You mean the Walmart downstairs!" I chuckle and punch his arm playfully. "Hey, don't sweat it, I'm not mad about last night you were..."

"Drunk, yeah." He smiles and his fangs show. For breakfast, he has a blood pouch I'm guessing from the blood bank. He sinks his fangs into it then starts sucking. "I don't know why I was drinking so much. Maybe because of the stress from the start of the year?" That reminds me today is the first day of school or that classes start. They let us stay here for the summer if we wanted. The P.A. system interrupts my thoughts.

"Attention students, everyone is to meet in the auditorium in 5 minutes!" Me and Amir start to head down early. We get there before anyone else and take seats in the front row. We sit and wait for two minutes, and it starts filling up. "Good morning students!" Headmaster Evangeline speaks. "As you all know, today's classes officially start! I have a big announcement, everyone." The headmaster gets a huge smile on her face. "Bring your hands together and welcome our newest student! Hunter Grey! He will be joining the werewolf class!"

Loud thunderous applause comes from all around me as Hunter steps up on stage. The new kid is so handsome from what I can see. He looks like a Greek god, times One Hundred. He has gorgeous chocolatey skin that has been motorized very well. "And Nevaeh, would you do the honors of showing him around school?" I said yes in shock that she asked me to do it.

Once everyone is dismissed, I walk up to Hunter. " I'm Nevaeh! Nice to meet you!" I say, "I'm Hunter!" The way he talks makes me melt into a puddle. We reach out to shake each other's hand. I take him on a tour around the whole school. We go to the dorms, and I help him find his room. I let him look at his schedule and then we made our way to his first class. Luckily mine is right next door so I won't be too late. "Thank you for showing me around!" He says as we look at each other. "Mind I say you have very beautiful eyes." I blush at his comment. "Thanks!" I say. We split our ways and went to class.