a Vampire Victim's Victory

chapter 1

I rushed for the school bus. Although I promised my mom and myself last year to be in school more on time, I was running late again. I was beginning my new school year, and my mom hoped with a new start, as the old school didn't work out too well. I had been replaced to another school for my 3rd year, because we moved away again. Now we were living in some really small town in the middle of nowhere, I don't like it here. In my old city I had lots of friends, and I was really upset when my parents told me we had to move away. My little brother of 12 years old doesn't like it either. I've lived my whole life in that city and now I'm living in a stupid town in the middle of nowhere. We came here yesterday and I am already feeling like the new girl in town. Not because I don't know anything or anyone here, no, because some guy actually whispered it to his friend when I walked by, I gave him the deadliest glare I could give him. If glares could kill, I'm sure he would be dead by now. Instead he just smirked at me, which I found very strange and confusing. Well as I was telling it is my first day of school today, and I'm totally excited-NOT!!! I really don't think I'm going to survive this day, and I have a bad feeling about what's going to happen. And trust me, my feeling or instinct, as I call it, are always right.

As I walked into the bus, I saw it was almost completely stuffed with kids. There was only one free sitting space left near the entrance. I strategized that I would need to get out as fast as possible, when we get to school, since I still have to get my schedule for the day and I have to find my classroom. A boy was sitting next to the spot, but he was too lost in his book to actually register me. I would just have to deal with him, no matter how long it would take. I needed that spot. I examined the guy further and saw that he had really blue eyes, as blue as the ocean. Which I thought made him look nice, but they were hidden behind a pair of glasses, which made the boy look kind of nerdy, add the book to it and you have a nerd. His plain blue shirt seemed comfortable and he looked nice. I think I might have found my first friend, well at least someone that seems nice.
"Are you going to sit down or what?" the bus driver practically yelled at me.
"ehm, sure", I said, regaining my awareness of everyone staring at me and gniffling, while I was regaining consciousness and trying to stop the red from creeping up to my cheeks. I sat down besides the boy and quietly checked my backpack. I looked up to see that the boy's eyes were trained on me.
"What", I mumbled and made a gesture with my hands.
"why are you sitting next to me?", he asked confused with a little bit of shock trembling in his voice.
"This seat was free. Besides, why do you care", I said with my bitchy look, "do you have a problem with me?"
"actually, yes", he retorted.
I gave him the 'I am serious look'.
"you must be the new girl", he said.
"yep", I said once again returning my attention to my backpack and giving him an "I don't care" shrug.

We finally arrived at school, and after the awkward " I don't want you sitting next to me" conversations, I couldn't be happier to finally get out of that crappy bus. I sort of ran out as the doors opened.
After searching for what seemed like half an hour I finally found the administration office and I got my timetable and a map of the school. Unlike other schools I've been to, this one is really big, which is weird considering this is such a small town. I was holding the map before me and holding my timetable in front of it, yep I must look really stupid right now. And as if that wasn't enough everyone was staring and glaring at me, it felt like they were going to laugh and at the same time bully me.
"hey", someone said in my ear. Oh no, it was the guy sitting next to me in the bus, what do I do???
"um, hey," I said trying to be nice as convincing as possible.
"I'm sorry, he said starting at his feet, "for being so rude in the buss."
"it's just not many people go and sit next to me", he looked somewhere behind me. I turned around and saw a girl putting her thumbs up for him.
"well, I don't really copy people or anything", I said rolling my eyes.
He chuckled, "sure you don't."
"So, where are you from??", he asked.
"I'm from Hastings", I say.
"well, welcome in New Castle", he says gesturing his arms around the school.
"Oh, my name is Kevin by the way."
"nice meeting you Kevin, I'm Joy."
"Joy?", he said thoughtfully.
As if reading his mind I say, "yeah my real name is Joyce, but everyone always calls me Joy, because I'm so joyful.
He chuckled, "it's nice meeting you too, Joy".

Thanks to Kevin I found the classroom my first lesson was in, but sadly we weren't in the same class. So there goes my one friend, however the girl that had put her thumbs up was in the same class. So after the teacher had said the usual about me being the new student and after I told everyone they should call me Joy instead of Joyce, I decided to go sit next to the thumbs up girl. She had blond hair and looked nice with her brown sparkling eyes.

She looked up rather surprised, but also a little confused as she saw me walking towards the empty table next to her. "This table isn't taken is it?,"I asked.

"No, but I don't think it is good idea to sit next to me on your first day," she said looking at me with worried eyes. She then looked around us at all the mumbling people around us. "You know what: you're already the second person that says that to me today, but I think I'm perfectly fine and I can decide who I'm gonna sit next to myself," said.

She smirked. "I'm Fiona by the way," she said.

"I'm Joyce," I said.

"I know, she laughed, "you just told us."

"Oh, yeah", I face palmed myself.

I was only halfway through the day and I was already getting sick of everybody calling me the new girl. The bell that announced the break rang, and as everybody ran towards the door, I took the time to slowly pack my bag in and walk in what felt like slow-motion towards the door. It was my first day of school, so I wasn't exactly in a hurry. When I almost reached the door, I heard a voice say my name. "Hey Joyce missing something?," it said. I slowly turned around, expecting it to be a hallucination of my mind or some person who was talking to someone else also called Joyce. But the only person apart from me in the room was Fiona, I didn't know she was still there. When I had grabbed all my stuff, I thought I saw no one else in the room. But she couldn't have sneaked into the room without passing me, so I assumed she had been there all along. As I walked toward her, I saw she was holding up my pencil. "Ehm, thanks," I said. Kind of creeped out and confused.

"Your welcome," she said grinning slightly.

"So what are you going to do in the break?" she asked.

"Probably buy some food and eat it at some lonely table," I said shrugging.

"You can sit with us if you want?" she asked hesitantly.

"Thanks," I said brightening up and showing a smile for the first time in the while day. It didn't really look like any of the other kids in my class felt like talking or even looking at me.

I walked behind my new friend as she walked to the table, where Kevin was already seated. He looked surprised when he saw me walking behind her and for a couple of seconds he made eye contact with me, then he turned his gaze to Fiona. I wondered what he was thinking.

"Do you mind our new friend sitting at our table," she asked him politely. He once again turned his gaze over to me, which made me slightly uncomfortable.

"No, not at all," he said a little to hesitant for my liking, was he really that nervous or did he just not like me. We had lovely smalltalk and I think that if Kevin didn't like me, he did like me now. It felt like Fiona and I had already been friends for years and I started to wonder if Kevin maybe was her brother, it turned out he isn't. They are so alike and I think we'll get to be pretty good friends.

The rest of the day went slowly, most of the classes were with my new best friends Fiona and Kevin as they had many classes together and some I was alone and some with one of them. But after the whole day of school I was totally tired out. And although I had made some new friends, I had no temptation to go back the next day. Also the people except for Fiona and Kevin didn't look that nice to me either, and Fiona and Kevin tried to tell me they are outsiders. If I'm going to be friends with them, than I won't have many other friends. I still need to figure out why the rest of the school doesn't like them, because to me they look like the nicest persons in the whole school. Was it just someone telling some stupid rumor about them or something else.