Free Vampires Rule by K.C. Blake

eyes a lot. It makes him look ultra-mysterious, and
his eyes are like the prettiest green I’ve ever seen. I don’t need
a jury for this one. He’s guilty of being totally hot.”
    Trina squealed again.
    Silver got up and went to the window. She
looked down on the backyard, watched Trina’s brother playing with
an invisible sword. Things were so simple when you were a kid.
    “I wanted to kiss him,” she admitted.
    “In-tense!” Trina jumped off her bed. “Why
didn’t you do it?”
    “Because it wouldn’t be fair.” She turned to
look at her friend. “I’m keeping a huge secret from him. You know
that. He has no idea who I am or what we’re supposed to do. If I
kissed him, it would make things even more complicated.”
    “I know I’m not a hunter and I don’t get it,
but why don’t you just tell him everything? Purge your soul. Then
kiss him like there’s no tomorrow.”
    Silver was afraid to tell Jack what she knew
because his reaction couldn’t be predicted. He could refuse to talk
to her again. He could refuse to co-operate. Or he could suck it up
and deal with it like she had. She wished there was some way of
knowing before she opened her mouth.
    “You have to tell him,” Trina said. “I mean,
there’s no way around it, right? It’s destiny.”
    “You’re right. I have to tell him.”
    But first she was going to figure out how to
tell him in the best way possible. If she could put a positive spin
on it, he might accept the information better. Maybe she should
enlist his brother’s help.
    Silver nodded, determined. “I’ll do it. The
second I get the chance, I will tell him he’s in terrible danger.
I’ll tell him now that his powers are gone he’s going to have every
crazy werewolf and vampire in the area after him. Not to mention
hunters, of course.”
    “Totally intense.”
     
    ****
     
    It was his first time in detention. Although
he had pulled a few pranks in the past, he hadn’t gotten caught. He
didn’t think detention was as bad as the name implied. Four other
students joined him in a classroom with about thirty desks. He
chose to sit near the back. Jersey Clifford had them spread out so
they wouldn’t be tempted to talk, which wasn’t a problem for Jack
since he didn’t know anyone except for the teacher. Besides, he
needed time alone with his thoughts. Jersey told them to study or
start on their homework. Jack dropped his gaze to the book in front
of him and pretended to do exactly that.
    For the entire hour Jersey’s penetrating eyes
were on one student: Jack. The teacher’s fascination with him
boggled the mind.
    Jack kept his head down, refusing to
acknowledge the teacher. He stared at words on a stark-white page
until they blurred together. He moved his lips, pretending to read,
but he was thinking about Silver and what had happened in the
hallway. Touching her hand had somehow given him a ticket to spy on
her memories. Only it was more complicated than that. He’d been
inside of her head, living the scene as Silver.
    He had no idea how long he’d stood there
staring at her like a brain-dead moron. By the time he snapped back
to reality, she was waving a hand in front of his face and calling
his name, clearly exasperated.
    Jack kept his new power a secret. She already
wanted him to drop out of school. If she knew the vampire-reverse
might be temporary, she’d tell Billy. Then the two of them would
confine him to his bedroom. Maybe Billy would even get the stake
out.
    The thought of turning back into a vampire
made him sick to his stomach. He had a second chance to live. He
wasn’t going to waste it. No one was going to stop him from
attending school for as long as he reasonably could.
    Being a vampire hadn’t been a hundred percent
awful. He missed the heightened sense of smell the most. Cowboy
would die laughing if he ever found that out, because Jack had
complained about the smells before. The nastiest smells clung to
the inside of his nostrils, refusing to