Haunted by the Immortals

Chapter 2

Cami

Reality was an amazing thing. To be honest, I think it was the best part of life, knowing that the best moments of your life were real. So, yes, it was the truth, that the boy standing in front of me was Will Parker, my life-long friend and almost like a brother. I couldn't believe it; the boy who I hadn't seen in nearly six months, had randomly appeared out of nowhere and that too in Clara's office.

I glanced down to see Clara's dress ripped from the side. If she wasn't a vampire and she lived in Dallas, she'd been on the models runway in a swift day or so. She was that pretty and for a regular person, she only looked Mitch's age.

Her beach blond curls were let down loose and resting on the crown of her head, was of course a gold tiara. She seemed to be smiling at me, but there was something not right. Last time I'd met her, she was helping me get over that I was only going to have these powers for another year, and now... She was someone totally different. Badass Clara was a Jessica only with fangs where everyone, vampire and human, served her. Basically a goddess.

I swallowed a hard lump in my throat and looked across at Will who was standing in between Clara and me, giving me one of his sideway glances. He gave Clara a hard glare before lunging for my wrists and tightening them so hard that I was scared my blood circuit was going to stop. This strength for a human was impossible...unless Clara was using him.

And before I knew it, she was at my side, one of her hands firmly holding mine. But I couldn't stop looking at her. She was just too... nice, too beautiful, and too protective.

I was gazing right through her eyes and I began to see a boy standing in front of me. It took me a while to notice who he was. Mitch. He was smiling at me and then he reached out his arms as if he wanted me to collapse into them. That was exactly what I wanted. Mitch looked no different to when I last saw him: six months ago. His hair was just as brown; his eyes just as bright and warm. He was the same Mitch; the same boy I'd grown to love and love even more for it to become something terrifying and dangerous. Yet it made my heart sink every time I thought that Mitch wasn't interested in me, but loved his girlfriend, Jessica.

Jessica Carter was the Human Queen of Blakesville. She wasn't that bad, but it was like the more the time went on, the worse she was getting. She was sixteen, just hit the legal age boundary for drinking, and she'd already been drunk about six times. Not that I gave a freaking damn about her personal life, it's just I was a part of her gang of social friends since she was Mitch's girlfriend and Mitch was almost like my father. So that was how I found out. I was one of her sidekick girls. Yet I was bitching about her.

Naturally, she had very pale skin, which sometimes gave her an advantage because some of the dumbass vampires thought she was part of their club. Not that she'd ever be or want to be. Jessica had very, very dark hair, almost black, and it really suited her, but the amount one girl wore makeup was shocking. It wasn't that bad – I repeat again – but she put way too much on for a teenage girl who was naturally so, so pretty. I'd seen her without makeup, when I was the one who decided to tell her that her brother had gone missing.

Her brother was Mitch's age, about eighteen currently, but unlike his sister, he was a really, really bad boy. He'd gotten away with rape, killings and even been seen (apparently) holding some of the Sorority Vampire girls' hands from TPU.

TPU (standing for Texas Prairie University) was the crappiest college in the whole of Texas and was mostly the main attraction for not Blakesville natives to come to the bloody, night-club town. It was weird, because the college wasn't central of the town; in fact it was located in another town – Morganville. Clara had mentioned it a couple of times, but it was mainly to warn us.