BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 188: Grayson Yeager

Chapter 188: Grayson Yeager

GRAYSON

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Coming to Juneau was something I did not expect, it was like getting an iron thrown at you... but this is the place, where it is strongest. It is like my parents said, this is the land that connects all, the beam, the very land we have sought. New town, new home, another drill for me but this time it might be different, very different. I came here to this town with a purpose, that is what drives me and nothing else, attend high school like any normal teen, I don’t need friends, it is no use, I don’t need talks, talks were annoying to me and talk welcome friend which is something I don’t need because when that happens they get to stick by your life like leeches, riding on my own solitude life is peace for me. It’s what’s best and it’s what I can afford, my goal is to be invisible... that is the only way it will work.

But her eyes kept following me everywhere, every single damn time, tailing me and seeking me out and I didn’t like it. Even now her eyes captured mine, the same forest green as mine, that shone on some unique color. Is she one of them? Maybe, because according to our research there are a hell of a lot of them here, like I said before this is the land that connects all, the people who live here have no idea.

This should go as quiet as possible not to draw attention, I hate it when someone paid me attention and I was already hating this girl that stood before me like she was trying to figure me out, she can’t if she thinks so, no one can and I prefer for it to stay that way, her mere presence was unnerving me, I have other things to worry about and not her poking eyes on my back like a hawk.

A man just died which could only mean this is the right place, I was among the first people who saw the body, I came early and found the body along with the other screaming students if there was enough time on my hand I would have investigated but the police were called quickly so I only got a glimpse of the man’s wrist bleeding with twin holes, only one smart enough would know what creature did that, but that was too odd because I only know that particular creature to drain blood entirely, vampires.

Just thinking about that name makes my insides sick to the bones, nasty things and vicious with nothing but blood on their head, they were leeches killing away everything in this world but that was not their doing... it was something else. The man’s body was pale too and he had black veins covered on his entire body, his eyes were open and bloody red, what is then? I have to figure it out, because I could feel it, something dark was covering Juneau and it has been much stronger since I came here. It senses me, good it should be afraid because when I find it I will...

"I’m Emma Adams"

Her melodious voice broke through my head making me stop the drawing I was working on, she’s still here? Why? Can’t she just leave? It was annoying as that voice of hers kept sinking deep into my head, it irritates me.

"We’re in the same class"

Was she trying to hold a talk with me? Seems like it is fine then I will play the card but I can’t guarantee I will be nice.

"I know," I said, resuming my shading, drawing helps me with my thoughts it works better this way and if I need to get to the bottom of this murder I need to. "The same girl who can’t take her eyes off me" I didn’t know why I said that... maybe I was lingering to see how she reacts and I decided to divert my eyes to her.

She was bleached by my words and frozen in place, does she really think I wouldn’t know? She was that obvious, even when her boyfriend tried to pull something off, I didn’t know what exactly but I knew he was trying to figure me out. Yeah... I knew that guy was her boyfriend, and I didn’t need to look twice, I was very observant so I noticed things others wouldn’t, too observant.

"Where’s the boyfriend?"

"I-I’m sorry what?"

Good, she found her voice, I was beginning to think she would go dumb with shock. "The tall guy... always glued to your side, boyfriend, isn’t he?"

She took a minute almost like she was trying to think or find the words, her cheeks getting tainted, is she embarrassed or something, or am I too blunt, maybe it was the latter.

She whispered something, I didn’t hear what but I could tell because I read her lips, like I said too observant. She seemed lost now in her head, with a leveled gaze.

"I’m right then," I said, taking off my headset and her bright green eyes fell on me. I wanna push more buttons... "Did you tell him to spy on me?" this is why I don’t talk to people, I get irritated as I do.

"W-What?" her eyes widened. "Why would you say that? I didn’t" She shook her head, a good lie.

"I don’t appreciate you ogling me all the time, it annoys me," I said bluntly and she was still again. I may be good looking but I am certain that’s not the reason for her stares, it was something else and it bugged me because out of everyone in this school she was the only one who set her eyes on me, she was observant just like me and it kept me on guard, I should be invisible but she saw me.

"S-Sorry for the stares. I-It’s not intentional it’s just..." she shut her lips before she could go further and it got me curious, just what? Can she tell? No, I don’t think so, I have had years in training, even a fool can’t get a glimpse of me but why do I feel like she already did? This was not good at all.

We locked gaze at the same time, and I stilled, her eyes called to me in a way I didn’t like, like an alluring exuberance you can’t get away from, they searched and almost like she could see my soul and it made unease, so I shut my sketchbook and rose to my feet, she followed tilting her head backward, I want her to look away but she didn’t, another thing to make me hate her, I already did.

"And you’re still staring"

She quickly leveled it. "S-Sorry"

What’s with her? Leave please... but she just stood there and me too, I should move but I kept watching her. Standing before me like those mini chibi characters, petite and innocent, I should keep my guard up because she might not be, she could be one of them...

"Emma!"

That’s my cue, I was already walking to the door when two guys rushed in. I have a photographic memory so I knew them, they were from my class too. I just walked past them but I stopped watching as they rushed to her side like bodyguards, were they? Judging from the way they acted they definitely are, she’s someone important then, to the boyfriend? Maybe or to someone else. Either way, she can’t be ordinary, I will find out what she is... if she’s one of them and then she dies. It’s simple, they are all monsters, beasts to prey on weak humans, beasts who shouldn’t be part of this world, but the gods be damn...

I sauntered away, school was a sorry excuse, and no one was motivated, so I walked back to where the body was found, there was still yellow tape around the place and a chalk drawn of the body once there. I took a brief look around, good, no one here, none should because this was a scene no one wanna see, at least the school hours said no one should be around right now... so perfect timing to get a good lookout.

I went under the tape, circling around the drawn body, I squat tilting my head to the side studying where the blood once was, that particular area, dark.

His body was found here but... I leaned further, there were shoe prints, most likely his, and from the pressure, he didn’t walk to this area... he was running, running from something.

"Running from what?" I asked myself, he was running before he was attacked here... I walked away from the yellow lines following the trail to a hall. He was running in this particular hall until he met his death, something was chasing him, my possible prey.

Studying the rest of his faded shoe prints was a hard feat because there were others, so it didn’t lead anywhere, just the closest one to where his body was found. He’s a janitor, his shoe prints are dirty so it was easy. Only his shoe print but not the killer.

The killer didn’t use the floor then, I raised my head and narrowed my eyes when I saw a scratch on the wall. This killer used the wall.