Chapter 3
The sound of Hitomi’s alarm filled the room, “Shit! We are late for Afternoon Check-In!” the small witch panicked and rushed out the door dragging a confused Yuri behind her.
“What is Afternoon Check-In,” Yuri asked in between gasps of air, for someone with such short legs Hitomi sure could move “Afternoon Check-Ins happen every day at around 2 o’clock” Hitomi came to a sudden stop as the two finally arrived at their destination.
Before Yuri stood what she could only assume to be every student at Enozi academy gathered into the school’s central common room, Hitomi continued “Basically we all have to Check-In with our head representatives so they can make sure we are all accounted for.”
Yuri scanned the room looking for familiar faces that Hitomi had pointed out earlier from her yearbook, she was definitely not looking for Yena and Chaewon, or at least that's what she tells herself.
Suddenly to Yuri’s surprise, a girl even shorter than Hitomi appeared in front of her, Yuri racked her brain trying to figure out who this girl was, was it Nicki, no that wasn't right, maybe Naomi? Whatever the case was Yuri didn’t have much time to wait around and think as the girl in front of her cut off her thoughts, “It’s Nako” the new girl said with a hint of irritation “But A plus for trying.”
Yuri was stunned, could this girl read minds or something? she thought to herself, once again her inner voice was cut off “Yup! One of the best parts of being a vampire.” the girl, Nako, bragged.
“Nako, get out of the new girl’s head, it’s rude!” Hitomi hissed out, “Fine, you witches are no fun anyways-” the small vampire suddenly stopped mid-sentence, sensing a presence behind her, and turned around to face Eunbi, alongside her was one of the vampires Yuri had seen earlier today when she was given her tour.
“Oh, haha, hey Eunbi and Hyewon” Nako’s seemingly snarky and playful attitude had done a complete one-eighty at the arrival of the head witch and her accomplice, “Nako, that is no way to treat a new student” Hyewon lightly scolded “Now apologize and try not to cause any more trouble today. I already have a headache from dealing with Minju.”
Nako turned to Yuri and muttered a quick apology before speeding away to no doubt cause some other sort of mischief. Now it was just Yuri, Hitomi, Eunbi, and Hyewon “I’m sorry about Nako, she just recently learned how to control her telepathic powers.” Hyewon reached a hand out towards Yuri introducing herself “I’m Hyewon, head vampire representative. Please feel free to come to me if Nako ever gets out of hand again, ever since Minju taught her how to compel people she’s been trying to get into everybody's minds. It’s also no help that she gets lots of practice on poor Yujin.”
Suddenly there was a crashing sound and what sounded suspiciously like Nako’s laughter from down the hall “Ten minutes, I can’t even have ten minutes without Nako and Minju pulling some sort of prank.” Hyewon sighed as she turned to clean up the mess the two other vampires had made. “It was lovely meeting you!” Yuri yelled out as the head vampire walked away.
Yuri felt a hand rest on her shoulder and quickly went on high alert but calmed down as she realized it belonged to Eunbi, “Come on” the older motioned “I want to introduce you to a few others.”
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Yuri was exhausted, her day had both physically and emotionally drained her, yet here she was wide awake in a new bed, in a new school, in a new life. Yuri looked at the clock on her nightstand, it was 3 am, there was no way she would be getting any sleep tonight.
She closed her eyes and tried to count sheep in her mind, one sheep two sheep three sheep- “Shhhh you’ve got to be quiet Chae!” Yuri’s eyes snapped open at the sound of a voice outside her room.
“I thought you liked it when I was loud” a second flirtatious voice made itself heard, “Kimberly Chaewon. We are in public.” the first voice replied sounding appalled and Yuri heard what she can only assume to be the sound of the owner of voice one hitting the owner of voice two.
Wait, Kim Chaewon? That must mean the first voice is Yena, wow she sounds a lot different from earlier at Check-In, Yuri’s mind wandered back to her interaction with the two at today’s Check-In.
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“Come on, I want to introduce you to a few others” Eunbi led Yuri to a small circle of people and continued, “These are some of my friends and your fellow classmates” Eunbi turned from Yuri and addressed the group as a whole “Guys, this is Yuri, she’s a newly realized witch. Please introduce yourselves in a calm manner.”
“Hi I’m Wonyoung! I’m a witch too! I can't wait to get to know you better, I’ll finally have someone besides Hitomi to have girls night with!” A tall bubbly teenager greeted Yuri excitedly, quickly following the girl’s introduction an equally tall teenager whined out at Wonyoung “You never invite me to girls night!”
“Well Yujin, that’s because girls night is on a full moon and you, my dear friend, turn into a shedding, drooling, smelly monster.” Wonyoung stated matter-of-factly, Yujin’s body slumped in sadness, “But, if you want just you and me can have a girls night together” with that addition the young wolf perked up.
Another girl, seemingly older than the two she had just met, pulled Yuri aside “Don’t mind Yujin, she’s still a pup. I’m Sakura, the second representative wolf and beta of our school’s pack. I hope we can get along well, never be afraid to come to us wolves if anyone messes with you, we’re kind of protective haha.” Yuri smiled, Sakura seemed like a genuine kind soul.
Yuri was finally starting to get a feel for the school when everything went to shit, there was a growl that shook the room, Sakura and Yujin went on high alert and stood protectively in front of Yuri and Wonyoung while searching for the potential threat.
Luckily they didn’t have to search long as the owner of the growl spoke up “Don’t. You. Dare. Look. At. Her.”, there by the back door was Yena, eyes flashing gold holding some poor boy by the collar of his shirt. Sakura sprung into action and tried to defuse the situation, she didn’t want her alpha to be given another detention.
“Yena, hey calm down, what’s going on,” she asked in a calm manner. Despite being older than Yena, Sakura and her wolf still knew that Yena ranked higher and therefore did not want to come off challenging.
“Fucking perv thought he could look at Chaewon’s ass when she was leaving. My Chaewon.” Yena growled out, canines enlarged and bared ready to annihilate anyone who dared to look at what was hers.
Yuri was in shock, the poor boy looked like he was about to wet himself, Sakura lightly rubbed circles on Yena’s back trying to calm her down, “I’m sure he didn’t mean anything by it” her words were cut off by another one of Yena’s growls “Chaewon is mine!”
Sakura was struggling, she knew Yena was close to snapping but there was only so much she could do without Chaewon being there to calm down Yena.
Then, right on time, as if she had sensed the commotion, Chaewon appeared using her vampire speed to get to Yena as soon as possible, wrapping her arms around the angered wolf. Yuri watched in awe, it was as if someone had flipped a switch, Yena placed the boy down, her breathing steadied, and her eyes returned to their normal color.
Yena let out a deep breath and sighed, everything would be fine, Chaewon was there now, everything would be fine.
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So here Yuri sat, wondering how this seemingly rage-filled girl was joking around and laughing as if she didn’t almost murder someone today. She’ll admit it, Yuri is intrigued by the couple and their dynamic, call it innocent curiosity, and it was this curiosity that made Yuri slip from her bed and follow the couple.
Yuri didn’t know what to expect when she opened the back door the two girls had left from a few seconds earlier, but what she didn't expect was to walk right into Yena and Chaewon who seemed to be waiting for her.
Yuri stood there with her mouth opening and closing, she meant to be saying words but nothing came out, only ridiculous stutters and gasps of air. “So, are you going to stand there doing fish impersonations all night or are you going to finish following us. You were following us, right?” Yena said in a tone Yuri couldn’t decipher.
“Be nice love, can’t you hear the poor girl’s heartbeat? After your little show earlier today I’m surprised she's still conscious.” Yena winced at Chaewon’s mention of her outburst, “Ah yes, well to be fair he deserved it, dumb prick thought he could take what’s mine.”
Chaewon rolled her eyes and pulled Yena in by her hips “Fuck, I love it when you get so possessive.” she grabbed Yena roughly by her hair and exposed the wolf’s neck, eyes flashing red as she licked up her girlfriend’s jugular.
“Ehem” Yuri fake coughed, reminding the two girls of her presence, quickly straightening the couple out.
Yena was the first to speak up out of the two “Hey Yul” Yuri quirked an eyebrow at the new nickname bestowed upon her, she wasn’t even aware the two knew her name in the first place, “Since you’re already up, want to see something cool?”. At that moment Yuri saw a different Yena, she had a goofy smile plastered on her face and eyes full of excitement. Yuri wanted to see more, “Lead the way”.
Yuri followed the couple deep into the woods, “You two aren’t going to like murder me right?” she was totally joking, sort of. Chaewon chuckled “Although you do smell” she leaned over towards Yuri and inhaled dramatically “Ravishing, I’m disappointed to inform you that vampires here aren’t allowed to feed off other students”. Yuri was speechless for what seemed like the thousandth time tonight, Yena snorted “And you had the nerve to tell me I scared her” Yena turned around and started walking backwards to face the other two girls.
“Don’t worry Yul, Chae follows the rules...most of the time.” the wolf sent a flirtatious wink to her girlfriend and that same goofy smirk towards Yuri.
The trio continued walking a little farther when they came to a clearing with a small pond, Yuri was in awe; the star's reflections bounced off the water in the most breathtaking way.
“Come on, there is a dock over here!” Yena excitedly shouted, jumping up and down. She took off running leaving Yuri with Chaewon who just sighed, Yuri looked towards the vampire and saw nothing but admiration and love in her eyes as she watched Yena bound up and down the dock like a small child.