Predetermined

Chapter 1 - Libary

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The corridors were busy as people milled around preparing for their next lesson. The foyer was always the busiest place as people tried to push past each other trying to get through.

For five minutes before each lesson the school was complete chaos, usually if peope left a lesson early the first thing on their mind was to get out to the next lesson as quickly as possible to avoid the stampede.

Erin leaned against the table in the foyer; she pushed her bag higher onto her shoulder as she waited patiently.

She was jostled a few times as people tried to get past her but she didn't move. No one was going to get her to move.

Becky muttered and cursed as she was knocked, smoothing out her pristinely styled hair. It wouldn't do to look anything but her best around boys of course and especially not around Vladimir Dracula.

"Why do you always have to wait for him?" Becky asked her, she never understood why Erin had to wait for him. It was as if Erin didn't want him sitting by anyone else, little did she know that Vlad didn't want to sit next to anyone else.

"Because I said I would" Erin answered automaticall; they'd been over this a hundred times before. They had some lessons together but at the moment she had English Literature and he had a free period. Usually he'd be the one waiting for her but her class had finished early so she decided to beat him to it.

"Seems like a waste of time, you'll see him in the next lesson." Erin rolled her eyes at Becky's typical reaction; the least time they'd arrived separately Vlad had been offered shoulders to cry on thinking that they'd broken up.

"Has Vlad sorted himself out?" Becky inquired.

"What?" Erin didn't understand what Becky meant at all.

"He wouldn't speak to anyone while you were away." Becky semmed miffed as she spoke, she couldn't believe how Vlad had acted when Erin wasn't around. He would't even look at anyone else, other boys would.

Erin didn't know exactly what had gone on during her absence but it hadn't made things any easier concerning their crushes on Vlad. She knew Vlad hadn't really attended school either during that time.

"Why don't you ask him?" Erin asked a smile spreading across her face making her whole face light up.

She glanced upwards towards the first level of the staircase. Vlad saw her and grinned widely, he hurried his pace slightly.

"Has he done something to his hair?" Becky asked her again, he really did look different. "He looks as if he's been reflected."

Erin opened her mouth to speak, unsure of what to say to that. Vlad's hair parting had switched sides after absorbing his reflection but she didn't think anyone would really notice. She should have known Becky spent at least twenty minutes of each lesson starng at Vlad.

"Not really." Erin managed to eventually squeak out.

Vlad reached them, dodging left and right out of the way. If they knocked him he wouldn't move but they would hurt themselves, he didn't want to risk anyone else prying into his life.

"Hey," he spoke. His smile reaching his eyes. He noticed Becky with her again. "Becky." He greeted.

Becky giggled slightly and smiled at him, "Vlad." He had hoped his lunch 'date' with her had warned her off, it would have worked if he hadn't disappeared for a week to let her get over it.