The Last Human (Vampires Rule # 1) by Rocky Grede Read Free Book Online Page B

before
continuing, “Secondly”- he raises his middle finger this time,
attracting a few scandalized looks from Vampires who mistake his
gesture - “he’s been given Artico Destroyers as body guards, which
can only mean he’s a danger to us or he is under protection from
something and he can’t defend himself on his own.” Nathans eyes
flicker to me as if those last words might have offended me. I
pretend I didn’t hear and make a point of noticing the new TV
installed on the far wall.
    “ Thirdly” -
he jerks his thumb up with a crack - “No one has mentioned his
arrival. Plus there has been no official announcement. But all the
teachers seemed to know he was coming though.” He sits back waiting
for us to respond, proud of his little theorizing. Fruz, who had
been chipping in with phrases such as, “Yes”, “His bang on”, “What
else could he be”, every time Nathan made a point,
frowns.
    “ We could ask our parents, they should know
something,” he says. Nathan and Albert both nod liking the idea. They pause, and all three of
them glance in my direction.
    I look between them and swallow the slice of fish in
my mouth, which slithers down my throat like a worm. “What?”
    Albert rubs h is
chin. “You could ask Lexus.”
    I stare at my plate, “No point,” I mumble under my
breath, though I had been planning on asking him
al l along.
    “ Why no t?”
Nathan asks with confusion.
    I shrug my shoulders. “He do esn’t tell me stuff like this.”
    Fruz sighs and sits up straight in his chair. He
places both his arms on the table and intertwines the fingers on
his hands. “Jake,” he says in a tone he normally uses when he is
after some information. It is usually followed by a lot of
persuasive tact where he throws the Pro’s against the cons, with
the Pro’s alw ays seeming to
come out on top.
    “ I’ll ask him,” I say, sparing Fruz the trouble
of his forthcoming rant. “But I still think he won’t tell me.”
    Which is true to some extent , because Lexus refuses to tell me various things,
for example; he refuses to tell me what exactly exists in the
Shadow zone. The Shadow Zone has always been a hot topic of gossip
amongst the students. It seemed no one got tired of talking about
it, and the more they talked about it the more questions they had.
Of course, no one answered them. Even the teachers claim that they
are not sure what exactly exists there. The only thing that we know
is that some sort of mutated creatures reside there.
    Albert gives me a
gentle slap on my back. “You’re the man!”
    ***
    After lunch we had the excruciating double period of
geology to look forward to. As soon as I enter the class, my eyes dart around for Alex. His
chair is empty. So I sit down and wait for him to turn up. Other
students spill into the room. Mr. Norman barges in with his
overstuffed briefcase and kick starts the lesson. Alex still
doesn’t turn up. I grow uneasy. Did Lexus do something to him?
Elis, who seems to notice my anxiety, glides next to my desk and
leans down. “He’s fine. He is taking a few days off to calm
down.”
    I nod with relief just as Mr. Norman spins around to shout at us for talking,
but when he sees Elis, he seems to bite back what he initially
intended to say and instead says, “You got some good results in
your test Jake.” He smiles, tight and hard, and turns back to the
board and carries on writing. I sigh, flip open my exercise book
and begin copying.

Chapter
Seven
    After scho ol,
Elis drives us back to the Manor. Maxwell sits beside me in the
back, staring ahead without a word, his jaw set hard.
    This time no Vampire blocks the road as we
d rive through the busy
streets.
     
    My thoughts keep drifting to the new Vampire. Who
could he be? Nathan’s theory seems to have some life to it. Being
assigned two Artico Destroyers
must mean he is someone important, someone valuable. Even I wasn’t
assigned Artico Destroyers until now.
    I sit up straight, remembering