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CHAPTER ONE

As my friend Yasuo the vampire Trainee would say…Headlines As in, here they are:

1 Girl Genius Flees Crappy Home Life; Discovers Vampires over the Rainbow

2 Army of Females Vows to Beat Mold Girl into Vampire Operative

3 Girl Finds Success and Friendship and blah blah blah

4 Girl Pledges to Escape at All Costs

5 Girl Accidentally Kills Classmates to Survive

6 Girl Wins Massive Competition; Will Participate in Mission Off-Island (repeat 4)

I sat with E my situation, but my uncharacteristically opti wet I shifted, peeling the cotton shorts away from my skin “Dammit Are you sure he said the beach?”

Today’s gym class was to be held outside, and my friend and I had shown up early—partly because we took every chance we could to hang out, and partly because the new gym teacher totally freaked us out

Ronan had been our instructor last terh…Ronan Talk about hot for teacher But file that under Never Gonna Happen He was a Tracer— and retrieving girls like us to this sorry island—and that chilling detail kept irl crush at bay Okay, that and the fact that he has some crazy hypno-voodoo-relationship

But Ronan was currently away to God knehere—just as well for uy named Otto was his replacement for the summer seuy didn’t strike us as someone to mess around with Definitely not crush material

“He said beach ” Enature flat stares, and I rolledwent Still waters run deep, but did she have to be so damned still all the time? Sometimes a little expression was called for

Sadly, I often had expression enough for the both of us Like, just the thought of which bizarre oceanfront punish surlier by the minute Not to mention I was hyperaware of the damp sand now—it stank like dead sea creatures and it was lu into my skin

“I hate beach days,” I grumbled, not ashamed that I probably sounded like a four-year-old But Tracer Otto had a thing for doing sit-ups while thrashing in the freezing surf, and I wasn’t the biggest fan of swiet used to the sensation of water whooshing into my nose and ears