Chapter Fifty - Five : She's A monster

"Ugh ! " Lia groaned, palming her ears when the bell signalling lesson over rang.Her eardrums almost exploded! Why was her ears extra sensitive today?

"Hi " a high pitched voice came from beside Lia causing her to groan again, she could feel a heavy migraine coming.

She turned to see who wanted to destroy her eardrums .

" Hi Lia, I'm Cheryl " The girl introduced herself enthusiastically.

Lia wasn't surprised the girl Cheryl knew her name, cause after yesterday's beef with Caroline, she gained a bit of fame. Now she was what highschoolers would call 'popular '.

Yeah, she was now among the popular kids in school falling just below Caroline when it comes to the popularity rank.

Not that she cared anyway

"Lia, as you know " She replied blandly, her hands pressed on her temple. Right now, she wasn't feeling too good to accept pleasantries.

"I love your eyes, it's so cool! " Cheryl squealed excitedly

Lia winced, was this girl's voice a mic? why was it so loud?

"Thanks but if you don't mind - " Lia tried to dismiss her but the girl apparently wasn't done.

"I've never seen this shade of magenta before, can you please refer me to where you purchased it? "

Lia drew her brows " Purchase what? "

Cheryl gestured with her hands "Your eye contacts?"

Oh, Lia realized numbly , the girl thought it was contacts.

"It's not contacts but my eye colour actually" Lia tried to explain, it was up to the girl to believe it or not

"Actually my eyes does this thing as I've researched, my blue eyes turn magenta whenever I feed on blood "

Cheryl blinked repeatedly, what's she talking about? "You mean -"

"Hey " Someone called interrupting Cheryl while Lia pressed both hands onto her temple this time.

The loudmouth was back.

"What do you think you're doing? Trying to snatch my position in my goddess heart? " Ben accused, literally shooting lasers from his eyes as he sandwiched himself in-between Lia and Cheryl.

If there was a creature Lia couldn't understand the reason for its existence, it was probably this specimen called 'Ben'.

The guy was so unreasonably possessive of her even though they just met yesterday. Ben was the one who showed her around the school, ever since then, he latched himself to her side claiming BFF.

"Excuse me? who are you? " Cheryl asked confused and stunned at the guy's absurd character.

"Her one and only best friend " Ben tossed his head back challengingly.

And the argument began.

Lia quietly left the two bickering idiots whom were unaware that the subject of their argument had left already.

She approached her locker and lay against it, she felt sick which was quite strange. Wasn't she a vampire? Do vampires get sick?

"What have we here? " Someone taunted from behind and Lia almost went bananas. What's with everyone today? Why couldn't they just leave her alone?!

"Caroline " Lia breathed without turning around, her nose was hyperactive today on picking up scents.

"Oww, what's wrong with you today? " Caroline mocked, in sing-song. Surprisingly , she didn't come with her two minions.

Lia ignored her, she was having this burning frenzy inside her to rip that pretty face of hers apart.

"Get lost! " She growled at her hoping that dumb barbie will take that as a cue to leave, Lia couldn't understand what was happening to her but she had a feeling it was going to get ugly soon.

Unfortunately, Caroline was called dumb for a reason.

"Why?" Caroline laughed " Cat got your tongue? "

Lia could feel her control slipping, her breathing was laboured while her fingernails began to thicken and to her shock , it became hook and pointed.

Her claws made a grinding sound as it scratched down her locker, the voices around her were amplified driving her crazy, most especially Caroline's.

Caroline's voice was loud and taunting, it was audaciously challenging her. The little thing was challenging her? She would snap her into two.

Caroline shivered when she heard a feral growl come from the girl but she waved it off, what could she do? She was just a small human moreover she had Asher as back up.

But the words got stucked in her throat when Lia turned around.

It was just for a split second but Caroline couldn't mistake those eyes, glowing magenta eyes and claws. Oh my God! She realized at once, the girl was a supernatural.

Like Asher.

Lia had turned with one purpose : claw the girl's eyes out but instead, someone intercepted her plan.

Dan cane out of nowhere and hugged the girl , hiding her hideous appearance from the eyes of the curious onlookers.

He couldn't help but feel something was wrong with the girl. Her incredulous sharp claws dug into his arms drawing blood but he didn't give it much thought and slowly moved her away from prying eyes.

When Lia could comprehend what was going on, they were already inside Asher's office. She looked around realizing Dan was the one she had clawed instead.

She stared down hard at her black, talon like nails and began to panick .Though she didn't spend much time with Dan but she was sure his pointed yet sharp vampiric nails weren't monstrously looking as her's.

[A/N: Just give the poor girl a break already, she's being doing a lot of panic these days ]

"Help me" Lia cried out, she was afraid of what she was becoming. She didn't nor could she understand what was going on with her, she just wants to be normal.

"I ...." Lia's voice trailed off when Dan suddenly dropped to the ground with a heavy thud.

There was a shocked expression on Asher's face, next , he left whatever he was doing, shoved her aside and ran to his aid.

Lia knew whatever was happening to Dan was probably because of her. A tear slipped down her face, she's a monster.