The White Rose Association

Doll [I]

"How do you know my name Doll?" He asked in amusement and I felt my heartbeat pick up.

I looked at him, he was Ryder Silverstone.

"I-I heard about you." I said nervous, why did he make me feel so nervous?

"Who are you?" He asked me as he helped me get on my feet once again.

"I'm an exchange student I'm-." Then my phone rang again. "-going to answer that." I said as I pulled myself away from him and ran towards the courtyard.

"Hello?" I said through the phone.

"Is it you, little one?" A voice said through the phone it was really Antonio, it was great to hear his voice again.

"What's wrong?" I asked him suddenly fearing the worse.

"Something odd is happening back here." He said; there was something off about his voice.

"What are you talking about?" I asked confused.

"They have attacked the Academies, the vampires attacked the Academies that are in Italy and France and we suspect that Spain and London are next. In some cities, the truth is coming out, all around Europe people are finding out about the Falcon Academy and what are the hunters for." Antonio said ending with a small sight.

"What is that Association doing about this?" I asked him worried.

"They say everything is in order. But I know that it's a matter of time before the war explodes." Antonio said, his voice slightly shook in fear or was it rage?

"Are they going to make me withdraw from the mission?" I asked him, I didn't want that since this was my only chance.

"No, you are still going to be in the mission. I don't want you to be under pressure little one but you are the only hope for the Falcon Academy." Antonio said making me relax for a second.

"What about the other hunters, are they doing something about it?" I asked him as I thought about my friends back in the Academy.

"They are out of activity, most of the recent graduates were forbidden to leave the Academy grounds meanwhile the rest of us are being send to the Academies that were attacked, and we have to fight against the vampires that are in the Academies territories and to get the survivors of the attack." Antonio said informing me.

I gave a sight.

"Please be careful." I said as I closed my eyes praying.

"Of course, I will little one, don't worry about me I will be fine. Just focus on your mission." He said back.

"Of course, take care." I said in a soft voice.

"You take care as well, little one." Antonio replied before he hung up.

I walked around the courtyard and saw how some students were coming out to the courtyard to hang out. I sat in a bench that was in the shade thinking of what was getting near, as well as Antonio I knew that if that attacks got out of hand war would soon explode but not just a small war but a global war that would be concentrated in the principal cites and countries that are home of the Falcon Academies, London, Spain, Italy, Rome, Russia, Tokyo, and all of this would be the end of the hunters and humanity, I was thinking of all the possible futures that would be leaded by the war when somebody stood in front of me. I looked up and saw that it was Ryder. He looked at me and said something that I didn't hear him since I hadn't snap out completely from my thoughts.

"I'm so sorry I didn't quite hear you." I said as I looked at him.

"I said: Doll, you are in my bench." He said meeting my gaze.

"Your bench, this is your bench?" I said confused.

Why were people around here so territory about the things they sat on?

"Yes, the one you are sitting on." Ryder said slowly as if I was dumb.

"I'm sorry but I got here first." I said challenging him, if he was the Vampire Prince he wouldn't give up that easily; he would get what he wanted at the end.

Ryder looked at me and gave me a smile. I knew who Ryder was, he was into sports, especially into boxing and he was known for being the school's very own bad boy.

"So, you will not get off my bench?" Ryder asked as he slightly crooked his head to the side.

"No, why should I?" I said challenging him again.

"Fine, however you like, Doll." Ryder said as he walked away leaving me there confused.

Had he just given up his bench to the new student? I sat there watching him leave, as soon as he was out of a 12 feet radar Danny and Toby came up to me.

"Did you just say no to him?" Danny asked shocked as she looked at him and then at me.

"He's not that bad." Toby said defending him.

"Easy for you to say, you're one of his friends." Jonas said as he appeared out of nowhere, he was always so quiet that you never heard him coming.

"Not really, he is strange. He is not very social and let's be honest everyone is too afraid of him to go up to him and talk." Toby admitted in a low voice, he was probably afraid of getting caught.

"You said he is strange, what sort of strange are we talking about?" I asked Toby curiously.

"Why the sudden interest Alice?" Toby asked me as he met my gaze.

"I'm the new student, shouldn't I know about people like him?" I said proving a point.

"He is just very reserved to himself, some say that he is dangerous but he normally spends his time alone or with Naomi." Toby said as he rolled his eyes.

"Are they an item?" I asked as I remembered how rude Naomi had been before.

"Nobody knows but she is always with him when she can." Toby said as she shrugged.

I saw that Toby was right, I saw Ryder walk up to a bench were two small students probably first graders were sitting down, they immediately got up and left. Ryder sat down there alone and a few seconds later Naomi went to sit next to him. They started to talk and by the gestures Naomi was doing I could tell that she was telling him about me and in several moments Ryder met my eyes. I don't know what it was, if it was his intense bad boy look or his brown eyes that in occasions reflected the innocence of a child but there was something about the way he looked or the way he was, he somehow looked familiar but from where, I don't know. There was something about Ryder Silverstone that drew me towards him.