Chapter 15: Decided

Once they were safe in their room, Veronika turned on Lucy with suspicious eyes.

“Are you going to tell me what’s going on now?” Veronika put her hands on her hips in her best ‘I-mean-business’ type of look. Lucy did her best to hold back a smile. Despite being a vampire with deadly teeth, strength, and reflexes, there was nothing about Veronika’s small appearance that made her seem threatening.

Lucy shuffled past her and threw herself down on the bed.

“Honestly, I don’t really know. I don’t understand,” Lucy admitted, muffling into her pillow. Veronika went to sit on the edge of her own bed, clinging to the sides like she was hanging on every word.

“Well, yesterday you were basically walking on cloud nine, dreaming about Celeste, and now you seem as if all the walls of your dream world have come crashing down. I watched Celeste walk past in class tonight. She looked… upset.”