I heard footsteps coming down the stairs and tried to wipe away my tears, but it was no use. I looked up to see Professor Rhodes, Professor Kinoshita, and the headmistress. Behind them was the preppy blonde girl. Professor Rhodes came to me first and knelt down beside me. "Samantha, are you ok?" she asked me. I roughly tried to wipe away my tears again and gave her a small nod. "You're not injured?" I nodded again. She smiled at me. "Good. Don't worry, now," she helped me back to my feet and looked over the damage.

"It wasn't me!" the preppy blonde girl shrieked, stamping her foot.

The headmistress stepped towards me, ignoring the shrieking girl. "Apprentice Lykos, I sincerely apologize that this was allowed to happen to you. The vampires and vampires-in-training are held to very high expectations of their conduct. That is why there are no locks in the locker rooms, or on the hallway lockers in the school. It is understood that students will leave the belongings of the other students alone. Apprentice Chase has disregarded the expectations of her conduct. I have Sight over all things in this school, and know this to be true, Apprentice Chase. In a typical school, you would be expelled for what you have done. Harassment against any student is strictly forbidden and will not be tolerated in my school. Since this is a vampire Academy, and you would die outside of our walls, I cannot expel you," the preppy blonde girl had finally been looking scared and not like she was trying to fight the charge. "Instead, I will give you detention for the entire school year, the hours of which are at my discretion. Some of those hours will be performing community service for the shifter community. Vampire and shifters are just now beginning to have a peaceful relationship, and I will allow no vampires to threaten that relationship. Your fathers will both be notified of this incident. Apprentice Chase, your family will be in charge of paying the cost of a replacement phone, of equal model, for Apprentice Lykos. I am extremely disappointed in you. Never have we ever had any bullying or hazing problems here. I do not wish to start now." She glared at the preppy blonde girl, who still looked scared, but seemed relieved that it was only detention. I had a feeling her detention was going to be a lot worse than writing lines or cleaning chalkboards. The headmistress turned to me. "Apprentice Lykos, a replacement uniform will be sent to your dorm room later. I suggest you return to your room and change. I am sure your father will wish to take you to get a new phone today. Professor Rhodes, please escort Apprentice Chase to my office to continue this conversation further," Professor Rhodes left with the still seething preppy blonde girl. "Apprentice Lykos, I apologize again that this has happened. I ask that you come to my office once you have changed," I nodded, still shocked and hurt by what had happened. I was glad the culprit was caught. It all seemed a bit too easy, though. How had the headmistress caught the preppy girl so quickly? She said she had the Sight. I didn't doubt that. Vampires did have mental abilities, often called magic, ranging from seeing the future, communicating by thoughts with other vampires, and controlling the thoughts of humans among other things. Was the headmistress keeping an eye on me because of my father? Or had it been just some vampire sense which led her to See the preppy blonde girl in the act. I realized again that I really needed to bother learning their names. Even if they weren't going to be nice to me. They would know who I was. I should learn who they were too.

"I will walk you back to your dorm," Professor Kinoshita told me. I tried to refuse her offer, but she would have none of it. "I will not have the alpha saying that we did not protect his daughter. We promised you would be safe here," she added. I nodded and allowed her to walk with me back to my dorm room. It was a short walk. No one approached us, since I had a full vampire walking with me. I didn't realize how much I would miss my brothers and over protective family until they weren't around. Professor Kinoshita walked me all the way back to my dorm room and looked inside to make sure there was no vandalism here too. "Everything will be ok, dear, and I know you are able to protect yourself," she indicated my black belt.

"Thank you, Professor," she left me and I ducked inside my room to change into a clean uniform. I knew it wouldn't take long for my father to get here. I was sure he would be angry, too. I took my destroyed phone with me. He would want to see it too. I made my way down to the headmistress' office, dreading running into the preppy blonde girl. Luckily, Professor Rhodes was waiting outside the headmistress' office, and Professor Kinoshita was escorting my parents and Eric into the school. I rushed over to them and my mom pulled me into a hug.

"Are you ok?" she asked, concerned. I nodded, but still let her hug me, breathing in the scent of pack. "Good. We were so worried when we heard. Eric and I will be taking you to the phone store. Your father would like to have words with the headmistress and the girl responsible. I nodded and kissed my father on the cheek before leaving with my mom and eldest brother. I didn't know what to talk to them about. I wasn't getting along with anyone here. I told my mom I got into the honors classes, which I knew she would be proud of.

It wasn't far to the phone store at least, so I didn't have to talk about the other students. I saw a familiar car in the lot when we pulled up and tried not to groan. I didn't want to deal with him here. I saw them through the store's window: Caleb and his father.