Staring angrily at me, I took a step back trying to avoid his gaze. "It's Adrian right? He's playing with you!" As I turned to him in surprise, my tongue rolled. "In everything going on in my life, I don't have the time to be discussing this. I have to go." Grabbing my bag from the table, he hesitantly held my hand to stop me.

"I see the way he looks at you. There are numerous girls after him. Why would he choose only you? He didn't tell you he's related to Catherine right?" Raising my head, I gritted my teeth and yanked his hand off in fury.

  "You know what? This discussion is going nowhere. I have a class to attend!" Tearing my furious gaze from him, I turned to my bag and attempted to grab it. But the moment my fingers fell over the handle, he grasped my hand so tightly making me stumble back.

Without giving me time to react to his abrupt action, he pulled me back from the door. "Ouch! Let me go. You're hurting me," I complained trying to get out of his grip, but he was far stronger than me. He only let go after closing the door from behind. I looked out breathing heavily while massaging my wrist.

"What's wrong with you?!" I  reprimanded but he didn't respond. From the murderous gaze in his eyes,vi couldn't help but start to move back. A spine chilling shiver run down my spine as I looked up into his eyes. There was no gentleness and calmness in them like it used to. His gaze was nothing like how he used to look at me with

This time, it was as if I was in front of a stranger, someone whom I couldn't recognize any longer. As I moved my eyes to his hands, I saw him clenching his fists.

  "Nathan, what are you doing?" He didn't respond this time too. Swallowing a gulp, I stepped back. But the moment he realized I was getting away from him, he started walking quickly to me. With one delicate step, he began walking towards me.

Moving my body back after several steps, I felt my back hit the wall behind me. As I turned to the different version of my best friend, my eyes turned wavery with each passing moment. But he kept coming closer to me.

As my hands trembled, I held on the the wall looking around in desperation. "Stay right there," I warned while looking forward. He didn't protest, neither did he stop moving closer to me. I couldn't move back anymore because I was already standing directly at the wall.

"You're my person. You belong to me and no one else. I'm the only one you should love. Why don't you understand?" he yelled hitting the wall with his fists. Shaking, I turned my head leftwards closing my eyes.

"You're crazy!"

  "Yes I'm crazy! You just have to accept me and I won't let no one hurt you-"

  "Just shut up! I don't love you. Don't you understand?!" When he lowered his head, I could see his eyes were raging too. Grabbing this chance, I pushed him by the shoulder and rushed for the door. But he caught me midway and pushed me against the wall.

Staring at me with lustful eyes, I felt a sudden chill run down my spine. Pinning me to the door, he unlocked my movements and started kissing me forcibly. Using both hands to imprison my hands to the door so that I couldn't resist him, he smashed his lips on mine.

  With full force, he left no space for me to escape and caged his body against mine. As he slammed his hands on my palms to the wall, he kissed me all over from my neck and lips as I struggled to get him off.

  Shaking my head, I stomped his foot hard. "Stop!" I screamed and pushed him with all my might as he trampled on the floor after. The room was silent to accept the situation while I breathed heavily in disgust. Rubbing my arm over my lips, I turned to him angrily.  He got up coming to his senses after hitting his head on the wall.

But as I looked at him scared to death and furious, he tried to walk closer to me. "I'm sorry, Clara. I'm so sorry,"he repeated intimidating me the more. As I shook my head, I grabbed my bag utterly shocked to stay back.

 I rushed for the door immediately  and opened the door, running to the hall.

"Clara! Wait, I can explain," Nathan shouted while following me. In order to keep away from him, I walked quickly to the washroom and locked the door since it was closer.

"Clara, please open the door. We need to talk," Nathan retorted banging on the door consistently. But I wasn't willing to listen to him, not now. Was my life ever getting better? After dropping my bag on the hanger, I cleansed my face with running water, while he kept knocking to get me out.

Remembering these words, I felt sick to the stomach. What is he thinking? You're my person, you belong to me, I'm the only one you should love?

As I looked in the mirror, I felt devastated. I stared at my face after the horrible experience after washing my face. Yelling in anger, I sighed about to throw something on the mirror when I realized it was a school property.

I wiped my face with another round of washing before cleaning it up with a tissue and dropped it into the basin. The knocking stopped then. I opened the door slowly checking to see if he was gone.

I sighed with the empty hallway. After closing the door behind me, I walked to class. Everyone was seated waiting for Algebra teacher. I took my seat closer to Jess and Tricia. But as I sat down, Nathan walked in after me pushing the chairs around him in anger.

"Where were you?" His friend, Patrick asked looking at him from top to bottom. He didn't answer and turned to my direction with desperation in his eyes. I quickly looked away and dumped my head in the table.

  "How did it go?" Tricia said raising a part of my hair which covered my face. I pushed her hand away and closed my eyes.

  "Did you say yes?" Jess accentuated after resting her chin in her palm. Jess turned facing me. "Your partner is absent today too. So who are you going to choose now?"

I rolled my eyes in frustration before closing my ears with my palm. Talking in my nose, I retorted,  "Nothing happened! Leave me alone."

Her eyes began to blink with my reply. "What happened? Did you fight? Tricia I told you this was a bad idea," Jess commented holding my shoulder to support me. I folded my lips, shaking my head.

  "Clara Dickson!" The algebra teacher yelled hitting the table with a book. My head jerked up immediately hearing my name. Everyone started to glare at me curiously. "Sorry, Sir!" With a heavy sigh, he opened his laptop and proceeded with his lecture.

Projecting the lecture on the board, he started delivering his detailed lecture. He added a pile of assignments for us to do throughout the weekend. After teaching for two hours, he packed up and walked through the door. 

When the bell tolled, I packed my books quickly to avoid having to sit in this class. "Catherine missed this class," Tricia accoladed staring at me with enthusiasm.

Wondering why Adrian's been absent lately, I felt lonely and left out, especially after what Nathan did today. Jess tried to talk to me but I lied to escape from the yearly get together meeting we had planned with Nathan.

When I got to the locker room, I saw Catherine standing by her locker. A girl exited from the library and marched towards her with two other girls.

Grabbing her by her hair, Catherine let out a spine chilling scream. "Where do you think you're going?!" The girl asked dragging her from her locker. The other two girls started laughing while she pushed her to the wall.

"What's your name again? Oh yeah. Catherine Morrison. Are you dating Adrian. Tell me?!" Rubbing her hands to get rid of the dirt, the other two girls started kicking her in the stomach.

  "Answer me! You're just an outcast here. Moreover, you're a useless orphan. Why do you get his attention too?" As she sobbed in pain, the others laughed, kicking her on the floor.

  "Stop it!" I screamed running towards them. When Brianna turned to me, her eyebrows curved in surprise. "You're also here. The murder suspect and girlfriend is here. You tell me, who is he dating between you two?"

  I grabbed her by her hair and slammed her head over the locker. Seeing her scream, the other two stepped back closing their mouths in surprise.

  "This is what bullies like you deserve. I'll smack your head if you stay a minute here!" They scurried off leaving the trembling Catherine on the floor. "Are you okay?" She quickly took her bag from the floor and rushed off, brushing past Nathan at the hallway.

Was Nathan right about their relationship?

When I spotted him from the entrance, I turned around without wasting time. I started walking in a haste towards the main exit. "Wait! We need to talk," he pleaded grabbing my hand.

"Let go off of me! We have nothing to talk about," I yelled before jerking his hand off mine.

"I shouldn't have done that. But please listen," he requested. With a frowned face, I folded my hands in front of him. "Please, I know I might have misled you, but to stoop to that level, if you have a little bit of respect left in you, please keep your distance from me!"

Lowering my head with a sigh, I walked away descending the stairs hastily. I walked home and dropped my bag in front of the house before running into the woods.

When my phone beeped, I unlocked the screen and glared at a message from Janessa. "Meet me tomorrow. I have an important news to tell you." After dropping my hands, I pushed the vines in my way to the side and moved deeper into the forest.

I knocked his door but got no answer. The atmosphere was just like the one in my dreams. The windows were closed firmly. That's weird. He said he'll be back today. When u stepped back, my feet trampled on something. After getting down, I found a fork. "Great!" I exclaimed while screwing the lock with it. I jumped down the window after managing to open it.

  As I stepped down, I found the room very dark. Everywhere was completely deprived of light and quiet. I tiptoed whispering at each step, "Max? Are you here?" He said he'd come today. Why's there no trace of him? I checked all the rooms in the house but to no avail.

"Max!" I yelled looking around desperately. Did Ian kidnap him again? Is he in danger? Shaking my head, I turned around anxiously. There was a separate room which wasn't locked. I walked in slowly  using my torch from my pocket to guide me.

Everything was intact in the room and darker than the main hall. But after throwing the torchlight around,  I saw Max sitting on a chair surrounded by tables and very far away from light.

"You're here! I've been looking for you," I exclaimed moving forward to  touch his shoulder.

  But when he turned to me, my eyes widened in shock. Moving back, I let out a scream.  Looking at him, he looked completely different. His eyes were dilated, red as burning fire and his teeth clenched out about to attack me.

"Aaaaah!" I yelled moving back instinctively falling back after stumbling on a table.

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So he was also a vampire after all. What do you think will happen now Clara has found out?

Will she take it lightly or not.

What if Nathan, do you think he's right?

Thanks for reading.