Midnight Blood (Born Immortal) Read Free

when she came outside? She couldn’t remember, and she was too busy thinking about him, to even think to see if he had left.
    “Sorry I’m late,” Melina apologized and unlocked the door, “The girls and I had to exchange notes.”
    “What did you find out?” Shayna asked to fulfill her own curiosity, and climbed into the car.
    “Nothing really,” Melina plopped into the driver seat and threw her bag in the back seat. “He really didn’t talk to anyone but Noah, I heard he lives with his aunt though.”
    Melina had caught Shayna’s attention, “Noah? Why was he talking to Noah?” she asked her.
    Noah was the one person that didn’t totally repulse Shayna, at the Art Academy. He was the only person that she was close to, and trusted .
    “I don’t know,” Melina responded. “Delany saw them talking in Gym. She couldn’t hear them.”
    Shayna looked out the window, “Oh,” she said .
    “Why do you care?” Melina asked.
    “I don’t,” Shayna said, turning her head quickly back to face Melina. “I was just wondering why he was talking to Noah is all.”
    “Why not Noah, everyone talks to Noah. Shay are you okay?” Melina looked at Shayna quizzically.
    “I’m fine,” she laughed, “I was just curious.”
    “Well anyways,” Melina went on. “I’m not sure what to do. I don’t know anything about him, so I don’t know where to start, and Maria said I can have him, she said it would be pointless, and wished me luck.” Melina laughed, and ran her fingers through her golden locks. “Like I need it.”
    “Oh brother,” Shayna rolled her eyes. “Just give him time and space, it’s his first day of school, maybe he’s shy.”
    “Did you see him?” Shayna nodded in response to Melina’s question, and Melina continued. “Did you see those eyes?” Melina didn’t wait for the answer, “He is definitely not shy!”
    Shayna thought about those eyes. She couldn’t stop thinking about them. So green and captivating. She’d only seen eyes that beautiful, in her dreams. Did theyhave the same eyes? No, his were blue. She shook the thought out of her head. 
    When they pulled onto Melody Lane, Shayna saw their mothers Jeep in their driveway before Melina did, and smiled.
    “Oh crap,” Melina blurted out, and turned around in her seat while driving, and looked in the backseat for something to change into fast, but for the first time, the Honda had nothing, Shayna had cleaned it out the weekend before. She looked at Shayna pleadingly, “Tell mom I’m going back, to hang out with Delany’s, and I’ll be back for dinner.”
    “Going to change your clothes?” Shayna asked grinning.
    “She wasn’t supposed to be here tonight,” Melina told her, “I checked the chart.”
    “Tell Delany ‘Hi’ for me,” Shayna said sarcastically and got out of the car.
    “Thanks Shay.”
    Shayna winked at her, “You owe me.” She closed the car door, and bound up the walkway to the house and opened front door.
    “Mom,” she shouted. She was concerned, she hoped she wasn’t ill. “Where are you?”
    “In the kitchen Shay”, she heard her mother answer. Shayna walked into the kitchen.
    “I thought you were working today,” she said to her mother.
    “I’m on call, I just put it on the fridge chart so you girls weren’t expecting me home,” Sarah Verona works nights at Munson Medical Center as a phlebotomist. She had been there since she graduated twenty years ago. Their father Marcus had supported their mother, and had taken care of the girls so that she could go back to work. “So far no call,” she smiled at her daughter, “So how was the new boy? Was he worth all the fuss?”
    Shayna smiled and said, “Probably. He seems to be keeping to himself, and I think that’s causing a bigger fuss.”
    “What do you mean?” Sarah asked.
    “I don’t know, he hasn’t really talked to anyone, and I think it’s driving some of the girls crazy. Most of them aren’t used to being ignored.”