Part 17 : Blood bath

High school. What a joke. This place where you're supposed to gain knowledge. This place where you're supposed to understand life a little better. This place that's supposed to introduce you to hard work, determination and ambition. This place where you're supposed to figure out what to do with the rest of your life.

I don't know where it went wrong, or when I messed up ; but when I think of my future, I see a blank page with nothing written on it. All my friends are starting to see where they wanna be in five years, thinking of wich college they'd like to apply to. Stiles wants to be in law enforcement, Allison would like to become a professional hunter like her dad, Scott wants to be a vet. Isaac doesn't know quite yet but he knows he'll go to college with Allison. Malia would also like to work with Chris and Alli in the gun industry and Kira is interrested in the teaching position. Lydia, well Lydia's a genius. So no matter what she decides to do next, she will manage to do it.

Even Mason and Corey decided they were gonna apply to the same college ! Cora would like to travel, see the world, before she ends up working some "lame-ass job" as she likes to call it. The one that scares me the most is Liam : even if his grades aren't that great, he's counting on getting a Lacrosse scolarship.

And I'm on the side line. I don't know what I wanna do, I just see all my friends and family making plans and I honestly don't know where to fit in. I found those great people and, the thought of some of them leaving me at the end of the year is so damn terrifying. I just wish I could figure out what to do next, soon.

I was just hanging out with some friends - Liam, Mason, Corey and Cora - at lunch break, when I get a call from Stiles. He's requesting an emergency meeting. Hayden's not here, as you might notice. After the - painful - break up between her and Liam, her sister decided to accept a mutation to Chicago, so they both left town a week ago.

We all show up at the adress Stiles texted us in the group chat.

- Oh my god, what happend ? says Liam.

- My dad and Lydia called. Turns out the reason why the bus didn't arrive this morning isn't because of an accident. Those people were murdered.

- Then why did the chauffeur say they had an accident but everyone was fine ?

- Yep, he's dead. says Cora, pointing to the driver.

- I guess the one, or ones who did the did threatened the driver to say that and then killed him.

- That doesn't make sense ! The driver must've known they were gonna kill him anyway. He could've told the truth to the authorities looking for the bus, but he didn't.

- Maybe he was scared.

- Maybe the driver's not the one who called. Maybe one of the agressors did and lied.

- That's possible. My dad said they're running autopsy reports on the victims and will tell us what they find. But the theory remains it was an animal attack. informs us Stiles.

- Let me guess, they thought it was a mountain line ? asks Lydia.

- Or a bear, or a wolf.

- So we're pretty sure it's supernatural. says Scott.

I look over at Liam and then at Cora, panicked. I take my phone out of my pocket and call Theo.

- I'm sending you my location, get your ass over here, we have a situation.

I whisper :

- A vampire situation.

I told Theo that Liam knew about my "condition" and... Well he was not too happy about it. Before that, with the help of Cora and Theo, and using some of the supernatural books Chris was keeping at home ; we learned everything there was to know about vampires in books, movies, legends, mythology... I even cracked a bit of the Dread Doctors's computer but it was a dead end. Nothing interesting about what we were looking for. But we found out there is so much we still don't know and still haven't seen of the supernatural world.

Then, we shared all our knowledge with Liam. He was so amazed by everything we found, but also a bit sceptical about some aspects of vampires, in movies in particular, and very upset we hid this much from him, especially me. But back to today, after seeing the massacre and waiting on the autopsy report, all four of us - Liam, Theo, Cora and I - ditched the rest of the pack to get to "support class", a pretty good excuse because we all need it.

- So you guys think it's a vampire ? asks Theo.

- I do. It's just... All this blood, I mean we still have to wait for the autopsy report, but I think... It's possible, right ? says Cora.

- I agree. The thing that seems the most suspicious and makes me think a vampire is behind that massacre, is the driver. I read on the internet that in some mythologies, vampires can hypnotize humans. Some of them can even read people's mind. But... if it was the driver on the phone this morning, then he was hypnotized by a vampire to lie. I say.

- Okay... Well if the aggressor spoke on the phone instead of the driver, then there's only one way to find out. starts Liam.

- The authorities didn't know the driver's voice so they assumed it was him, but the people who took the bus, knew his voice and could recognize it.

- The only issue is that all the students who took the bus are now dead ! notices Theo, sarcastically.

- Actually... The driver's old, he's been here for a couple years at least.

- What's your point ? asks Theo to Liam.

- I took the bus during all my freshman year. And it was the same driver.

- Could you identify his voice ?

- Yeah, probably. But how can we get the phone call ? I guess he didn't record it.

- There's no need for that. I say. All phones record every conversations by themselves. We just need to access the phone from a computer and hack into it. That way we'll have access to all the previous phone calls.

- Can you do that ? asks me Cora.

- I'm not an amateur. Of course I can. I just need his number.

- Okay, well Cora and I are gonna find it and not get noticed. You two wait for the autopsy report from Stiles and look for more vampire stuff. suggests Liam.

- Okay. we all say.

Once my best friend and boyfriend left, Theo and I look at each other for a moment and then I say :

- A vampire probably did this.

- We're not sure about that.

- What if one day I'm the one behind the mass murder investigation ? What if someday I just lose control and kill everyone ? Because I've killed before.

He doesn't seem surprised. The truth is, I needed to get that secret out. I just can't take it anymore. And I've decided to tell it to the one person who will never judge me, because he's done far worse in the past. I wait for his reaction.

- So have I. he just says.

- But you don't understand, I wanted to !

- So did I.

- I hated her !

- I don't really need to hate people to kill them.

- She stole my boyfriend.

- If she stole my boyfriend, I probably would've killed her too.

- Yeah, but you're you ! And I'm me ! That sounds like something you would do ! Not something I would've done ! Because...

- I'm a monster, you're the princess and Dunbar's the knight in shining armor.

- What ?

- But what if this time the princess chose the dark side and became the queen of hell with the monster ?

- Theo...

- If you want my opinion, you didn't kill that girl.

- What do you mean ? I just told you...

- You told me she stole your boyfriend. So even if YOU didn't kill her, she would've stolen some other girl's boyfriend and that girl would've killed her too.

- You think so ?

- Yeah, totally. Now, come over here. It's hug time.

We hug for a couple minutes. Theo is the kind of dangerous and bad guy that is a big softie deep inside and will only let the people he truly cares about see that side of him. Life has hurt him too bad, that's why he's trying get back at it.

But, you know what ? Theo's probably right. Maybe no vampire is behind this ! Maybe it really was a wild animal attack ! Or, most likely, some other mythical creature we have no idea about, that Deaton the vet, and Stiles and Lydia are gonna identify at some point. We're not even sure vampires are real ! So I say, let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

My phone rings. Stiles just sent the autopsy report to the group. I can't breathe when I read the paper. My hands are shaking and I can't feel my legs.

- The students and the chauffeur were drained of their blood. That's the vampire's signature move.

- Also, not all bite marks are the same : the teeth don't have the same size or shape. states Theo.

- Wich tells us it wasn't just one of them.

- There's more than just one vampire in town.