Free Midnight Blood (Born Immortal) by Nicole Yanski

phone back down on her dresser. She decided she would talk to him at school. She sat down on the bed and thought of her father. She wondered how he had hid their secret from her mother. Didn’t she ever askwhy? She wondered.
    When her stomach growled, she realized she had not eaten all day, and she went down stairs. Smiling to herself along the way. The hairs on the back of her neck stood up, when she thought of Cain’s face. She had enjoyed the time they were able to spend together, and couldn’t wait to see him again.
     

 
     
     
     
    Chapter 5
     
       
     
     
           The snow had stopped, and was mostly gone by Friday morning, but school remained cancelled, since they had missed most the week already. Shayna had spent most of Thursday shopping with Melina and Sarah in Traverse City. Melina needed a dress for the Winter Formal, and Shayna needed new boots. It drove her crazy that she hadn’t been able to see Cain. She had gone to bed early, in hopes that he would visit her in her dreams, but she had been disappointed. She laid in bed all morning listening to The Rock Station, and reading Utopia, and finally decided to go to ‘Between the Lines.’
    She hoped Cain would be there, but was going to see about finding another book, or two. Melina had taken their car and she was forced to walk. She scanned the trees for the hawk she had seen, wondering if it had any connection to the one in her dream, but it was nowhere in sight.
         She walked into the book store, and was immediately greeted with the smell of inscence, and a calming feeling. Aunt Mill was putting books on a shelf that was labled ‘Philosophy’, and when she saw Shayna, her face lit up with excitement.
         “Shayna dear,” she said with an inviting smile. She put the last book on the shelf, and she turned to Shayna, “I’m so glad to see you again.”
         “I like your store,” Shayna told her looking around, “It’s very, inviting.”
         “Is there anything I can help you with today?” Aunt Mill asked.
         Shayna could see stacks of books on the counter, and didn’t want to keep her too long.
         “Well,” Shayna hesitated.Should I? She asked herself. She lowered her voice, she didn’t know if Cain was in the store or not, “In one of the books I bought, it said something about Changeling vampires. Do you have anything on them?”
         “Well,” the old woman said, and blinked. Shayna saw something change in her eyes, just a twinge of something. She wasn’t sure what it was. “There isn’t a whole lot of written material on Changelings dear, like you, they are rare creatures.”
         “Do you, know anything about them?” Shayna asked, hopeful that she would.
         Aunt Mill stared at Shayna for a moment, then sighed and said, “I do know a little. What can I tell you?”
         Shayna laughed a little, “I’m not sure. Anything you can, I guess.”
         “Do you know what a Changeling is?” she asked Shayna.
          “No,” Shayna answered, looking towards the back of the store where Cain might be.
          Aunt Mill noticed, “He’s not here today, dear,” she told her.
         Shayna was disappointed. She twisted her hair nervously, she wondered what she was doing. “Up until two years ago, I didn’t even know what I was.” She assumed Aunt Mill knew too.
         “Changelings are vampires, that are ususally created carelessly, or by mistake. Very rarely does it start off intentionally,” she looked at Shayna with eyes filled with care, and knowledge.
         This was all becoming more confusing to Shayna, “By mistake?” she asked.
         “Yes dear. If a vampire is changing a human, and it doesn’t take enough of the humans blood, before the human takes the vampires in return, the human will either not change, or, it will become a changeling, and will not have the powers and abilities, that a full vampire would have,” Aunt