Ann wakes up with a massive headache wondering what happened last night. She sees that she is in her own bed, but she cannot remember how she got to it. She looks around for her phone to check the time, 7:33. She stretch and a ray of aurora light flickering through the curtains catch her eye. She tries to think about what happened last night.
“Ann, you going to be late for school! I am leaving in 20 minutes,” her mother calls out from downstairs.
‘School? What day is it?’ she asks herself. She drags herself out of bed and looks at her messy self in the mirror. She checks the calendar on her phone and sees that it is Monday. She is very confused as the last memory she has is Friday afternoon. She had a sleepover at her best friend’s house, and she remembered that they sneaked out to go to an underground club.
She drank some medication for her headache and put on her school clothing. She goes to the bathroom and as she changes her panties, she notices some marks on her inner thigh. ‘What happened at the sleepover and why can’t I remember anything?’ she asked herself. She puts a plaster on what looks like bite marks. She brushes her teeth and ties her dark brown hair up.
She ran downstairs hearing her mom hooting outside already. She grabs her backpack and an apple.
The midnight sun is hanging on the horizon of Barrow Alaska.
“Morning mom,” she greets as she gets into the car.
“You cannot keep on doing this to me, I cannot afford to lose this job by getting late,” her mom says angrily.
Ann ignores her mother’s scolding and applies lip gloss on her lips.
They got to school, “love you,” Ann says plugging a kiss on her mother's cheek.
“Love you two,” her mother says back.
Ann started to make her way to class. She sees her best friend Jessica leaning against her locker. People nicked named them ‘twinsies’ because they looked so similar. The biggest difference between them is that Jessica had dark brown eyes, almost black and it reached her hips.
“Hello stranger,” Jessica embraces Ann. “Tell me everything! Did you hook up with that hot guy from the club!” she asked curiously.
“What guy?! I don’t remember anything,” Ann says worriedly.
“That guy!” Jessica exclaims shocked to see the guy from the club. He looks up at them, his mysterious yellow-grey eyes catching Ann’s. A smile creeps up his face and he gives her a wink. Ann blushes and looks away.
“I don’t remember anything!” she tells Jessica taking her coat off and hanging it into her locker. The school building is a comfortable warm temperature despite the cold weather outside.
Ann and Jessica are top students and seated in front of the class. They liked to have fun and sneak out on weekends but when it came to their classes all fun and games get set aside. Both with aspirations to leave for warmer horizons they knew that they must get good marks to get into good Universities. Both girls are on the honor roll, Jessica being top of her grade with Ann coming in 2nd. Ann strived to knock Jessica off her pedestal and Jessica welcomed the healthy competition. What Ann did not know is that Jessica has a romantic flirtation with one of the teachers that is their Math and Science teacher and therefore always grading Jessica a tat better than what she deserved. Ann is more reserved than Jessica when it came to romantic relationships.
They noticed that their Math and Science Teacher has turned into a young male instead of their usual teacher. He is yet to face the class as he is busy writing his name and surname on the whiteboard. “Good morning students, I am Mr. Dario Carden and I will be your Math and Science substitute teacher while Miss Erin Wangberg recover,” Dario introduce himself after turning around to face the class. He catches a hint of blood smell in the air and it leads him to Ann.
Ann felt obligated to say something feeling a bit uncomfortable with the sexy substitute teacher’s gaze on her. “What happened to Miss Wangberg?” Ann asks trying her best not to shy away from the teacher’s eyes on her.
“She was attacked by an animal, it is all over the news,” Jessica says, smiling at the new teacher. She is a bit bump that Miss Wangberg won’t be around for a bit fearing that Ann might kick her off her top spot but when she saw the substitute teacher she knew she has this year as the top student in the bag. Jessica deliberately changes her leg position and is satisfied that Mr. Carden’s eyes fell on her.
Dario masterfully ignored the hint of blood in the air coming of Ann as he has been a Vampire for over 2500 years. He is about to ask Jessica’s name even though he already knew it when the classroom door opened.
“Is this the grade 11 class?” a pretty teenage girl popped her head into the class, bright blue eyes, a pearly white smile, and a dashing mob of blond hair.
Dario rolled his eyes, “yes, Shysie, you guys are late,” he says annoyed. Dario hoped that the group of Vampires that are in hiding with him would have kept a low profile and behave themselves until the air is cleared with the Higher Council.
A group of 3 students stumbled into the classroom laughing. Ann’s eyes met one and she starts to get a glimpse of flashbacks. She shifts uncomfortably under his eyes, blushing a bit, not sure about the images in her head. She forces her eyes down onto her table. Parris smiled slightly as he knew that Ann is getting flashbacks of a heated session. Even though they did not go all the way he saw her life when he was drinking her blood from her inner thigh, that night is the wildest she has ever been with a guy. When he drove her home Saturday morning, he compelled her to forget everything and sleep the weekend off. He compelled her to only remember everything when she is near him.
“Shysie, Parris, and Wynn are new in town and I hope all of you will make them feel welcome and show them around,” Dario introduced them.