When the bell rang signaling lunch I packed up my books but stayed seated because I knew I couldn't go anywhere. I looked to my right and saw Jake talking to some friends of his before shooing them out the door and shutting it behind them.
"Okay, you two are going to sit in your seats while I go to the teachers lounge for lunch. Don't move." And with that the teacher left us.
"What a great teacher" I mumbled sarcastically to myself.
"Well, he may have been compulsed to do that" Jake snickered next to me.
"Compulsed?"
"Yeah, vampires can control the human brain, that's why we are supposedly dangerous"
"Oh, should I be scared?"
"No, I would never use it on you" He seemed so genuine when he said that, I couldn't help but believe him.
We fell into a comfortable silence after that, occasionally I would look over at him and see him staring at me, and whenever our eyes met he would smile.
"Is there a reason you're staring at me?" I asked him when I caught him, again.
"You're different" was all he said.
"Elaborate please"
"See, like that" he started, "all other humans are afraid of us, but you're not, you, you smile at me and you talk back and ask questions instead of just letting it be"
"Oh" I said not knowing what else to say.
After a few moment of silence I spoke again, "is that a good thing...?"
"Is what a good thing?"
"That I'm different?"
He looked at me again and lifted his hand as though he was going to tuck a strand of hair behind my ear, but then remembering the wall he dropped his hand and just smiled.
"It's a great thing"
YOU ARE READING
The Other Side
VampireLexi grew up in a world that knows of vampires. She grew up hearing how bad they were, how frightening but could never feel the same, she was always just curious. On her first day in a new highschool she looks on the other side of the dividing wall...
