Tomorrow Never Dies (Moonlight 3)

Chapter 13-Haunted

I was a little nervous as I stood in the school office waiting for Lauchie as the schools' office staff looked over the files. I'd been tasked with the job as Michael had gone to the library to do some more research.

After much discussion, the four of us had decided to at least tell the hunters about the situation. We left out the part about the stones and taking Kyle's memories but told them we'd handled the situation but still had concerns that more students could try the same thing.

So here we were standing in the middle of the school office with Lauchie who from today would be attending our school. He'd been put in place to keep an eye on things here and help us out if we needed it. Scarlet was helping as well, but the hunters had agreed that her being a werewolf put her in danger as well and anything that hurt us was likely to do damage to her as well.

I was worried that having Lauchie around might cause us some added problems but considering how much he'd helped us lately I was hopeful that it wouldn't cause us any. I honestly didn't think out of all the hunters he was the worst person to be keeping an eye on us. From what he'd told me, I think he'd even volunteered himself. I knew Lauchie didn't mind working with us, but I was more than a little surprised that he'd want to spend so much time with us.

"Well uh...welcome to our school I guess?" I spoke as we waited together. It seemed strange having Lauchie next to me dressed in our school's uniform as I'd only ever seen him dressed in hunters' clothes.

"I get to skip two grades." He grins at me with a whisper. "This is great."

"You sure you won't have too much trouble with the work?" I ask him back in a whisper.

Lauchie smiled smugly. "Of course not, I could've skipped a grade or two years ago."

I stared at him in confusion. I was having enough trouble with the work I was doing now. Let alone skipping a grade. I concluded from his words that Lauchie must be some sort of genius to say something like that with so much certainty. I simply nodded.

The office lady called him over, handing him over his schedule. I noticed straight away that he had been put into the same Maths and Biology classes as me. I recognised a few of the other classes that the other guys were in, I wondered if they'd done it that way on purpose. It seemed we would all be seeing a lot of him.

If Lauchie knew, he didn't seem to say anything as he asked me where his first class was. As we walked, I pointed out a few buildings to him, he nodded eagerly. If I didn't know any better, I'd think he was excited to be here.

Biology was our first class of the morning and we met up with Calum and Kaylee who were already sitting there waiting. Lauchie went and saw the teacher before pulling up a chair beside us. I guessed that he'd been put in our group as we didn't already have four people in ours.

I could see a few people staring at him and exchanging glances. I guess it was still quite early in the year for a new transfer student. In any case it didn't seem to be bothering him as he pulled out his notebook and pencil case and waited patiently for class to start.

It didn't take me all that long to realise why he said he could've skipped a grade or two years ago. After watching a video, we had a set of questions to complete, and he had them finished in the time that it took me to do one. I looked at Calum and Kaylee's paper realising they hadn't made it much further than I had.

"Whoa, how are you so fast?" Calum questioned, glancing over at Lauchie's work.

Lauchie shrugged, "This is basic for me, I learnt mitosis and meiosis years ago."