A Slave to Broken Hearts (A Slave to Love Sequel)

Chapter 1: Slumber Party

 It was a mad house. A complete and utter mad house. Home had never been so full of people since I moved in and it was so loud compared to how it usually was.   

My mom had come to stay last week and she had brought along Mazey, and Andrew as well since Peter had to fly down to Florida to visit his parents. Lexi was also staying with us for now since she had wanted to help me find a dress and experiment with hair styles and make up. Not to mention, she wanted to do my make up and hair on grad day. Then we somehow managed to get permission for Katie, Leah and Jill to stay over the night before grad. Blade could be very persuasive when he wanted to be. I guess the fact that he was good looking and a vamp might have helped sway the headmistress' decision.

It was a bit weird seeing everyone interact with each other; Lexi, my school friends and my mom all together. It wasn't a scene I had pictured before and even though it was happening it was still strange to look at.

"So who's excited for graduation?" Leah asked, lying on her stomach across her sleeping bag. The girls were all bunking in my room, and surprisingly even Lexi had wanted to join in on the slumber party. So we were all stretched out on sleeping bags, scattered across the floor, since it wouldn't be fair if someone got the bed.

"Excited? I'm terrified," Katie exclaimed, her green eyes getting even bigger than they normally were.

"Why would you be terrified of graduating?" Lexi asked, peering at Katie curiously. Not surprising. Vamp life was no picnic, so graduation wouldn't even crack the top 100 things to be scared of to Lexi.

Katie sat up and hugged her pillow to her chest tightly. "We're all going to be separated and far away from each other. It's going to suck not to be able to see everyone every day like I was used to for the past year."

"Well I'm not going anywhere," Jill said with a shrug. "I'm staying right here."

"I hope you don't mean living with me," I teased.

She threw her pillow at me but missed. "Shut up. I mean I'm staying in Colorado. I can finally get away from home permanently and I'm taking the opportunity."

Jill's family wasn't the best. She had a spoiled little sister and her parents either treated her badly or they ignored her completely. That was her reason for going to boarding school; she had wanted to get away from her family and start living around people who actually liked her. Sort of a fresh start.

"It's going to be so much fun," Leah piped up, grinning hugely. They had been going out for several months now, and when Leah's cousin had decided to move back home he had offered his apartment to Leah. It wasn't too far from where I lived with Blade, about a half hour drive into town and you were there so Jill and Leah were going to live and go to college here together.

"What are you doing Katie? Are you staying or going home?" Lexi asked her.

Katie grimaced. "I haven't decided yet. I applied to colleges back home and here, but I don't really have anywhere to live around here. There's on campus dorms so I could always do that, but I don't really know how my parents are going to feel about that."

"You haven't talked to your parents about it yet?" I exclaimed, surprised. Katie's parents had come down a week ago; they were staying at a hotel at the moment until graduation rolled around.

"No. I've been afraid too. I really want to stay here, but I'm kind of scared of going to live with new people and having a whole new change of scenery."

"Katie it's going to be fine. No matter where you go to school there will still be a bunch of new people. It's just how life is," I said gently. Katie was usually quite shy around strangers, and I could just imagine how she'd be in a new school and new dorm. She was a sweetheart though, so no doubt she'd make friends easily.