Chapter 11: The mysterious book

Vanessa went to Lynda's seat before she got to class. She saw Vanessa sitting on her seat and approached with a smile.

"good morning", Vanessa greeted,

"good morning, it's such a relief to see your face brightening up",

Vanessa smiled while Lyndia took her seat beside her and adjusted her eyeglasses.

"am I attractive Lyndia?",

"Very", Lyndia replied making her blush, "why did you ask?",

"nothing", she said and then narrated what happened earlier, how she also followed Catherine but excluded her encounter with Collins. Lyndia was alarmed,

"could it be the reason why there's a commotion among the staff outside?",

"a commotion between the staff?",

"I overheard them saying the promotion files were exchanged, Mr. Godwin ought to come first but he came fourth while Mr. Andrew came first so he was being accused of the illegal act",

"I have to tell them the truth then", Vanessa stood up at once but Lyndia pulled her back,

"What are you doing? don't you know you'll be in trouble? or when they ask you about what you are doing while others are in the hall, how in the hell did you want to explain that?",

Vanessa looked worried and concerned," then what should we do?",

"just mind your business, I believe they'll sort it out. I don't even think anyone is going to teach today",

"probably", she responded not satisfied with her minding her business. ' if I could just learn to control this power, I'm sure I would be able to help in some ways ', she thought to herself. The image of her drinking blood suddenly made her thirsty and the curiosity of how it would taste made her mouth water. ' no what are you thinking Vanessa' she shook her head.

"What's wrong?", Lyndia asked,

"Nothing, I'm coming", she said and hurried out of the class. She went to the school rooftop.

"even if I am a vampire, I can't drink anyone's blood or kill anyone, I can't be classified as a monster", she said to herself and stood on the rooftop edge. She thought of trying to control her abilities by jumping down the rooftop but it was so high that she got scared. This is a suicide, it is either direct death, or she broke her skull or her rib. She backed off immediately. Frustrated, she went to the big wide school field.

"let's try controlling the speed, I should be able to run around this field within five minutes", she said to herself but she couldn't run in the tight skirt so she went to change into her sportswear, long trousers, and a long-sleeved T-shirt. She sighed and looked round the field again before stretching out. She turned around when she heard some noise and saw her friends also changed into their sportswear.

"It doesn't seem like the teachers are going to teach us and the first and second period is free, so we decided to also do some exercise", Vero said as she walked closer to her. Vanessa nodded. Max went to stand beside her,

"Planning to run?",

"hm",

"let's run together",

"then we'll be running round the field",

"hmm... we'll see about that",

"I'll call it", John said getting everyone's attention," on your track..... ready?... Go".

They started running, Vanessa managed to keep checking the time, she hadn't even finished one round and it was already two minutes. She put more effort,

"let's just stop!", Max cried out feeling exhausted already,

"If I stop now, then I won't be able to make it again", Max was confused by what she said causing his distraction and that made Vanessa take first but she didn't stop running, she took the second round panting heavily.

"what's she doing?",

She had run only half a round and it was already past five minutes when she checked the time. She stopped running and collapsed on the floor angrily,

"damn it", she cursed,

' if I can't control this, and it eventually takes over me, I'm going to be a bad vampire', she thought to herself and walked away without anyone noticing. She was sad and frustrated, she didn't even want to imagine herself drinking people's blood. But all her efforts are not paying off and it's very disappointing.

"If I can't control myself, I'll rather die then", she said to herself.