The Heart of Alina

New Girl

As I said, today is my first day at this new school and not only am I the new girl, but I am the new girl who is starting school 4 months after everyone else has already started. I said that we have to change our names everywhere we move and start fresh, but here I don't want to have a complete new name change, so I settled with Lena Vaign. Not original, I know ... but we are in America now and I don't think the hunters have that much reach to where they can search every database in America and come across my name. 

My natural looks without me changing them for the sake of hiding... I have long red-brown hair and fair skin, my eyes I have already described to you so there is no changing them. But for the sake of being at this new school and town, I will go for black medium length hair and go for a tanish look as far as skin tone goes. Everything else I have to keep in mind needs to at least resemble other 18 year old girls. I'm aiming for a 5'5 stature, thin but not anorexic thin, at least have some muscle tone, but look manly if that makes sense. I'm still staring at myself and making subtle changes here and there when I hear mom and dad make their way to the kitchen. They both try to be quiet so that I can't hear them, but they never actually succeed since my hearing is improving every day. For instance I can hear teachers arriving at the school and the school is 2 miles away from home.  I finish with myself and throw on the uniform, black pants and a blue polo shirt. I pair that with my black combat boots and head downstairs to greet mom and dad.

Immediately I can smell how tense mom is, she has never liked me attending public school, but dad made her see reason when she failed at homeschooling me. I shoot mom a smile and try to reassure her that everything is going to be alright. Dad side hugs me and looks at mom. They both finish with their food and I sit down and eat. Mom found a job at a nice little antique store and Dad found a job at a local bank. They wait for me to finish my food before we all head out of the house to the car. I could walk, but they don't want me to until we talk to the Alpha of this territory. We are supposed to meet with the Alpha family today after I finish at school, apparently we have to ask and give reason as to why we have settled in his territoy and as permission to stay. 

Dad drives in the direction of my school and before he can say anything I cut him off and say yes I have everything I need and no I don't need money or anything for food. My dad hates when I do that. Mom just looks at me and smiles widely, she loves that I embrace my powers and she even lets me "practice" on her. We pull into the school parking lot and I have to block a lot of things out, there are a lot of people here. Girls that have too much perfume on which makes my nose tingle and burn, boys that smell like sweat which doesnt settle well with the perfume, there are loud noises like shrieks coming from the girls as if they were banshees and the boys that are loud are messing around with loud laughter. The colors are vibrant as the school is settled around the greenery from the forest behind and beside it.  Washington does have its perks. It is beautiful here. I slide out of the car and give my parents one last meaningful look before I walk away from them. I never watch as they drive away, I don't want it to be the last thing I think of regarding my parents... them driving away and the possibility of me not seeing them again. 

I am engulfed in a sea of other students. I try not to get in the way of anyone and keep at a normal pace while avoiding touching anyone. As I am weaving through the many people, I am bumped by someone. As a vampire I am usually strong and can withstand a simple bump from a normal human, but this actually shook me a bit, which could only mean that it didnt come from a human, but instead from another supernatural like me. I look up to see, and my eyes lock with that of a large boy. He smiles at first and sniffs the air, smelling to see what I am. His eyes go a little black as he smells my vampire smell, but than he gets confused when he smells it mixed with that of my witch side. He looks down at me and before he can say anything I cut him off and say that I am Lena Vaign and that my family and I are meeting with the Alpha family after i return from school. Again the boy looks at me shocked and confused, but nods his head and walks away.

I watch as he walks towards a group of both boys and girls who are settled on a picnic table looking around. Once he makes his way there, I move towards the school steps and sit there, I hone in on the group and listen to their conversation. 

" Christian, why do you smell so weird?" someone from the group asked him.

"I bumped into that weird girl that is over there on the stairs, dude she's a hybrid... she's vampire and a witch." Christian replied. 

I look in the direction of the group and my eyes settle on the guy who is settled in the middle of the table and seems to be the main focus of the group, as if he is someone of importance to them all. 

Bright blue eyes stare into my blue/purple eyes. My fangs suddenly spring to form and I take a deep inhale and smell the most wonderful scent ever. I know what this means, but I quickly control myself. I force my fangs back to hiding and stare at the blue eyes boy. He hasn't captured my scent enough to realise who I am to him. That is good. 

"Jax, come on... let's go have fun in your jeep before the bell rings", a girl with bleach blond hair whines in blue eyed boys direction. Jax... I like that name... it seems to suit him.

"The hybrid I bumped, she's weird and all, but she is sexy... I wouldn't mind hitting that if it wasn't the fact that she was part bloodsucker." Christian says to the group. His response has a few of the guys laughing, some girls responding with how disgusting he is, but my main focus was on Jax. He was still looking my way and his stare was deep. 

"I wouldn't ever touch a bloodsucker, sexy or not. " Jax responded as he broke his eye contact with me.

That hurt, his words hurt me. I knew what he is to me, but he doesn't yet. His hate for part of who I am means that there would never be any real chance of us being together to begin with. I hide the hurt and pain that I am feeling. I stand up, look once more towards the group and turn around and without meaning I use too much of my speed and I am far away from the sounds of people and the overwhelming need to feed strikes me.