11 Flying Solo - My Sister the Vampire by Sienna Mercer

Author:Sienna Mercer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781780312248
Publisher: Egmont UK
Published: 2012-05-06T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Ivy woke with a start. She’d heard something – and there it was again – the creak of a coffin lid opening. She squeezed the side of her digital watch and the screen lit up. Midnight. Ivy peered out of her coffin to see Petra slipping out of hers, quietly closing the lid so as not to wake the other girls. She watched as Petra shoved her feet into a pair of trainers sitting near the door and crept out of the room.

Ivy lay back down on the cool, velvet lining of her coffin, staring into the darkness. Petra’s going to see Etan. I just know it. Love made people do crazy things. Ivy’s eyelids were heavy. She’d had only a few hours of sleep and she wanted to let Petra go. She’d already been in a whole heap of trouble after Miss Avisrova had seen the article about ‘Ivy’ being at The Pall Bearers concert. She’d been made to clean out the cages for every bat in the school! I’m not getting myself into any more scrapes for anyone, Ivy thought now. No way.

But could she stay in this warm coffin and leave Petra to get herself into a whole heap of trouble out there? What would Olivia do in a situation like this? Ivy opened her eyes and gave a loud sigh. Of course, it was obvious what Olivia would do – she’d go and help Petra.

Why me? Why do I have to feel guilty about leaving a schoolgirl to go out into the dark on her own? Ivy rubbed her eyes. She couldn’t let Petra get into trouble, and trouble was exactly what Petra was going to find if she tried to cross the Gauntlet to see her crush.

Ivy opened her coffin, crawled out and shut the lid, pushing the middle of the Wallachia crest emblazoned on the top to lock it. She slid into her black tennis shoes and threw her coat on over her T-shirt and sweatpants. Soft snoring could be heard coming from the other coffins in Ivy’s dorm room. Her room-mates were fast asleep. Petra had better appreciate this, she thought, as she crept out of the door after her.

In the chilly corridor, Ivy thought she heard a rustling noise behind her, but when she whipped round, no one was there. That was strange. Her vampire hearing never usually failed her.

She carried on down the hallway, slipped the bolt back on a large ornate door and gently closed it behind her.

Outside, Ivy hugged herself, rubbing her arms. At night, the grounds of Wallachia Academy were the most eerie thing she had ever seen. The whole place looked like a graveyard on Halloween. The stone façade of the school building glowed ghostly pale in the moonlight. The trimmed hedges looked alive in the night breeze. Every creak of a branch and crunch of leaves sounded threatening.

Ivy tried to tune her hearing to focus on Petra. She could hear Petra’s trainers sinking into the soft grass and soil.

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