The Time of Your Life (ON HOLD)

Chapter 3

When I arrived home Grace was packing things into her car.

“Grace...?”

“May what's happening?” She huffed.

She was carrying a heavy box. I felt like I should help her but I may not agree entirely with what she was doing.

“Nothing, you leaving?”

“Yes I think it's about time that I moved out”

So I was right, I didn't agree with what she was doing. What was I going to do, if she left there would be no sanity left in me.

“Please don't go Grace...”

I felt like I was going to cry. Grace had practically raised me. I held back tears, my throat was aching. She walked up to me and pulled me into a hug.

“Let me come with you! I can enroll in the school where you're going and I can't go back to school here Grace! Today some random kids wanted me to die, they were going to kill me! I could hear their thoughts. They thought I was a vampire.” I sobbed.

Grace stopped in her tracks.

“Wait, you were threatened at school today?”

“Yes”

I wiped my tears away.

"Hold on, let me go talk to Mom."

I sat outside for a very long time. Jake had come home from school.

“Why are you sitting out here?” He asked.

“Hello to you too... Just waiting for Grace.” I said.

“Oh okay”

“Wait.. Jake!”

He stopped and turned around.

“Did anything weird happen today at school... to you?” I asked him.

I tried to sound casual about it but I don't think I did very well. He stared at me.

“It's cheating if you read my mind!” I shouted.

He snapped to his senses.

“You need to grow up May, what happened to you wasn't as scary as you thought. Don't be an idiot... you probably imagined half of it.”

He stomped off back into the house. I was shocked, Jake was never one to break the rules and he had always treated me like a pain but he had never yelled at me like that before. He never used his psychic powers on me either, I didn't think he'd ever used them before. Grace came out of the house.

“Okay it's settled you're coming with me. Grab what you need and I’ll explain everything when we get there.”

I ran upstairs and packed my biggest suitcase full of all my things. I wheeled it down the stairs and my Mom stopped me at the bottom. She gave me a look of pity.

“Listen, I'm sorry I haven't exactly been there for you these past few years, it's just the triplets have been...”

“Save it Mom, it's been almost sixteen years and I barely know you. All you ever did for me was enforce rules, without reason.”

I rolled up my sleeve, forgetting about the phone number that was written there. My Mom suddenly gasped and gave me a look of mute horror.

“What is that?”

I looked down, she had seen Beau's phone number... shit. I walked past her on the stairs rolling down my sleeve as I went. I didn't have to read my mother's mind to know what she was thinking. My thoughts were open to her ears though.

“May! What were you thinking?!” She shouted after me.

I ignored her as I stomped off to the car.

“If you knew how important this is to stay away from them...” She continued.

I turned around, I was beyond furious at this point.

“Hmm... let's see Mom how about I wouldn't know because you never told me!”

How stupid was this argument? I never got to finish it I got in the car and Grace started backing down the driveway. When we got on the highway I had calmed down enough to speak.

“Where are we going exactly?” I asked.

“Well, it's not exactly safe in River View anymore so we have to put as much distance as possible between us and it, we also have to blend in more with humans.”

I shouldn't have interrupted her but I did.

“Wait... we aren't human?” I asked.

I had wanted to confirm what I already suspected.

“Look May, I know you're not stupid but we're vampires. When you turn sixteen you'll go through a major change and it's a little bit painful but it'll be worth it.”

“We?”

“Yes, everyone: Mom, Dad, Me, Jake, You, Jane, Ariel and Tabatha.”

She explained to me that there were a group of people who's goal was to rid the world of vampires. We called them Vampire Hunters. They thought of us as a threat to society, even though it was rare for us to ever kill a human being there were a couple of greedy idiots among us who enjoyed draining a human or two every so often. The vampire hunters, like vampires themselves are told at the age of sixteen everything they need to know and then spend the rest of their lives tracking, hunting and killing every vampire they come into contact with. I cringed at that part thinking about Beau but let the thought slip from my mind as soon as I thought it. Grace also explained that there were multiple different ways to kill us, as in vampires. Fire and a stake through the heart. Typical. She told me that eventually I would crave blood and that I would enjoy it even if thought's of it now make me sick. Humans don't remember being bitten and apparently sinking your teeth into them emits waves of pleasure to their brains.

“Well I guess what you've said makes sense but you still haven't told me where we're going.” I said.

“You are going to be attending a school where you address your peers as miss and mister, you have to wear a uniform and if you don't get good grades they'll kick you out.”

“You're kidding me right?” I asked.

“Nope.” She smiled at me.

I assumed we'd be staying within the same country. The trip took all day and by two a.m that night we were finally there. Wherever there was. I had passed out on the way and hadn't paid attention to any road signs.

I helped Grace unpack the car. The house she had somehow managed to afford was beautiful. Two bedroom and two bathrooms, an old Victorian style house. I took the smaller bedroom and unpacked the small amount of items that now belonged to me. Grace had informed me that I would be starting school after a good full night of sleep.

I assumed there was a major time change but sleep came easy to me that night. There were no crying toddlers, no blasting of Jake's terrible music and no nervous pacing from my parents. I would be attending Crystal Springs Preparatory School and I was too tired to be nervous. The only bad thing so far about moving here was that I would never see Beau again. Maybe that was a good thing, he was probably part of the Vampire Hunters.