Snow On The Beach - Jasper Hale

Chapter Six

Koda was waiting for Roslyn when she pulled into the parking lot at Forks High School. She was running later than usual thanks to Sam and Dean firing a million and a half questions at her while she got ready. First bell had already rung and the parking lot was empty enough that she sped across it to Koda, a slight wind ruffling his blond curls.

"That's going to take some getting used to," he said as he pulled her in for a kiss. "But you'd better hurry if you're going to make it to trig."

Roslyn was instantly filled with dread. Raya. "How's she doing with everything," she asked as the couple walked.

Koda just gave her a look that was supposed to be comforting, not needing to ask to know who she was talking about. "She'll come around."

"Yeah, but until then she's going to make my life a living hell." Roslyn paused outside the door to trigonometry, dreading what awaited her inside.

Koda's resounding laughter met Roslyn's ears as he continued to english. "Oh, definitely."

Roslyn finally mustered up the courage to enter class, but it was without her usual, for lack of better words, life. Normally, she was bouncing off the walls or dancing to the walkman she insisted on using instead of her phone. She was almost always ready to joke with Raya Townes. But that day she was silent as she quickly made her way down the isles to her seat and it didn't go unnoticed.

Before she was even in her seat, the whispers started. Roslyn did her best to block them out, but when almost everyone was commenting on the same thing, that was easier said than done. And it didn't stop when Ms. Young began her lecture.

Raya was sitting straight up in her chair, every muscle in her back tensed as she forced her eyes at the front of the room. Roslyn was silently begging her to turn around. To look at her. To do something. But Raya didn't acknowledge her existence and the cold shoulder lasted through english as well.

Lorelei Jewell, the quiet, artistic Cullen, arched a perfect brow when she noticed that Roslyn and Raya weren't walking together. "Trouble in paradise, Winchester?"

Roslyn didn't even look at the other vampire as Lorelei fell into step beside her. "She's not happy with the truth. Though it's not like her patience with me wasn't wearing thin before."

"Considering she barely seemed to tolerate you before, I'm not surprised." Lorelei's words were as honest as she always was. "How much does she know?"

"What I am and what I do." Roslyn told her. She felt the need to clarify though. "They don't know about your family, but something came up and they needed to know about that much."

"Something that has to do with the two hunters currently digging through the town's archives?" She was accusing, now, and Roslyn didn't appreciate what she was insinuating.

Roslyn's violet eyes darkened a shade as she stopped in the middle of the hall to face Lorelei, meeting her smug, golden gaze with a glare. "Whatever you think you know, Jewell, you are sorely mistaken. Keep your nose out of my business or I will show you exactly what being a hunter has taught me."

Lorelei just hummed in response and disappeared into the crowd of students around them. Roslyn huffed a sigh and followed. If she had thought trig was a nightmare, english was about to be a whole lot worse.

Lorelei, the conniving vampire she is, decided to play devil's advocate with Raya, purposefully riling her up. Neither of them ever actually said the word, but the anticipation of what Lorelei would say next was enough to prevent Roslyn from paying attention to anything else, let alone a lecture on a novel she read when it was published.