48ADRIA’S POVWhy were they all boys? I couldn’t see a single female there. Were the only females there? Monica strutted confidently across the cubicles searching for the seat we had been given and I watched as the boys all stared at her.“Here.” She said, turning to me with a smile as she pointed out our cubicle with a smile.“Oh.” I let out softly and received my share of stares from the boys seated in the cubicles.We walked in and sat, and I dropped my books on the table.Monica brought out pens, highlighters and lots of snacks.“You can’t eat in a library.” I told her immediately, bringing my voice to a whisper.“Come on. I’m not a kid. I won’t drop crumbs.” She said with a charming smile.“Why are there only boys? Is it a male library or what?” I asked, still in that low tone and she smiled.“I also don’t know. I think this room was just given out. The rooms are locked until they are needed.” She explained, flipping open her textbook but I didn’t understand what she said nor di
49MONICA’S POVI immediately left her contacts and erased all traces of me being there, then I took a few pictures and handed her the phone.“Send them to me.” I said with a smile and she checked the photos.“You like them or you want to take more?” She asked, still staring at the photos.“No, I’m fine with them.” I objected, and she started to make the transfer.“There’s this new genre of novels that I started to read. They’re really fun…” I started, making sure I watched each and every of her facial expressions.“Really? What genre is that?” She asked, still busy with transferring the photos.“Werewolf.” I answered, and she handed me my phone.“Done.” She said with a smile. “Werewolf?” She added, and I nodded.“What do you think of them? Think they’re real?” I asked, tucking my phone into my back pocket.“Well…” She said, scratching her hair and then a lovesick smile crossed her face. “I think they’re real. I think some of them probably walk among us.” She replied, and my smile fad
50ADRIA’S POVShe had also said she had seen girls going to and coming out of his house on several occasions. I seriously didn’t think it was Lucien but this post was just too speculative.Could Lucien really call a girl to his house? In all my times in his house, I had never seen any girl in his house. Could Monica be exaggerating? Probably he only had a few girls come over for tutoring sessions. They could have asked the way I had asked and if he refused them, they’d be suspicious of our relationship, but then the girl who posted this probably had something against Lucien. If she was really implying it was Lucien, then she definitely had something against him.She had posted anonymously. Why didn’t she post and let everyone know who she was? Of course it was so they wouldn’t ask her who the professor was. If they asked her and she said it was Professor Lucien, the news would go round and Professor Lucien could confront her, but if she was anonymous, she could easily ignore the comm
51ADRIA’S POVI felt Monica was wrong because I had never seen Lucien drinking blood and he had never told me anything about having to drink blood. Even in the novels and movies, werewolves were never known to drink blood, only vampires drank blood.“Wolves are such scary creatures. They shouldn’t be trusted. They lure those little girls at the perfect time, collect their blood and send those girls home and those girls don’t know their lives are getting destroyed.” She continued, but I shook my head firmly.“I think you’re confusing the two creatures together. Vampires and wolves may share certain similarities but they are very different. Wolves do not drink blood.” I insisted and she gave a frustrated sigh.“Do you mean to tell me my granny lies? She doesn’t lie. She always says the truth and she met one in her days. That’s why she knows so much about them.” She said aggressively and I stopped in my tracks.“Why are you getting annoyed. I think it’s my choice to believe whatever I w
52ADRIA’S POVI stared at the message for a while, unable to take my eyes off it. It was simply shocking. Whoever sent the text message knew who Lucien was and the person was likely threatening her, but then who could have sent such a message? Who could it be that knew Lucien? Or could it be one of the vampires that Lucien had told me he was chasing after? Were they aware of our relationship? Why did they send the text to me?I knew I had to get across to Lucien somehow and warn him about the risk of his identity being exposed because everything about the message just seemed threatening.“Who are you texting while we’re enjoying our movie?” Stacy asked, hitting my phone and I turned it off.“Nobody.” I replied, but she snatched my phone and threw it into her bag.“No phones, no messages. You’re to ficus on the movie as you will give me a feedback on it.”“Yes ma’am.” I replied robotically and we continued to watch the movie. It reminded me a lot of the day I had watched a movie with
53MONICA’S POVI paced around in front of the restaurant where Adria and her friends ate. I was frustrated beyond words. No matter how I tried to tear her apart from Lucien, she stuck to him like glue. Twice I had posted on the school’s site thinking she would fall into my bait and believe it was Lucien I was talking about but she seemed to turn a blind eye to it and I couldn’t afford to write his name out directly.First, she’d confront him if she saw his name on the school site and then they would talk things out which would make getting Lucien harder for me, and second, Lucien was definitely going to find out who had uploaded the post and when he found out I was behind it, it would be over for me.He would hate me and never attempt looking my way.It was something I had to think through thoroughly. Adria was quite the determined type. Despite the fact that she knew who Lucien truly was, she still stuck with him. She wasn’t scared, nor was she losing her mind. In fact, she still bl
54ADRIA’S POV“Why would you think it’s her? When you can’t read yourselves?” I suddenly heard Monica say and she walked into the house casually, staring daggers at the girl who had accused me.“The teachers feel it’s not the first time such is happening. Something probably happened and the student dropped the text questions and wasn’t able to return it. That was how the teachers knew someone had been stealing it and here we have a straight A student who is always having perfect scores like she had knew the questions that would come out.” The girl explained, still staring at me accusatorily. I opened my mouth to talk, but Monica interrupted.“Tell me, big idiot. Is she the first straight A student you’ve ever seen? If she is, then you must be a huge idiot in the circle of stupid friends. If you had the right friends then surely one of them would have had straight As at least once. Why don’t you try reading and burning midnight candles, maybe then you’ll discover it’s not so hard to g
55ADRIA’S POVMy lids opened slowly as I heard Stacy’s words. They sounded really honest and I didn’t look the guilt I felt in me. Was she about to ask me to choose? I couldn’t leave Monica because she had no one and had stood up for me twice already just in the few days which we had started talking to each other, and I couldn’t leave Stacy because we were friends who were meant to be since the beginning of the earth.She looked down at me with such sincerity in her eyes and also with a troubled expression in those beautiful eyes of hers. I always hated it when Stacy was worried because she was seldom worrried. She was always like a ray of sunshine for everyone and seeing that sunshine suddenly hidden behind dark clouds was troubling for anyone who knew her.“Maybe if you got to know her—” I started, but she shook her head.“It’s just something about my intuition. I just don’t like her—everything about her, and it’s not jealousy too. I just don’t feel good about her.” She said lookin