Chapter 4
"Are you sure I look okay?" Nic asked for the tenth time as she looked at herself in the mirror.
"Yes, you look lovely, the red of the dress looks great against your tanned skin and brown hair" Chloe
smiled, for all this was not her type of outfit, it suited Nic perfectly.
"Chloe, you look stunning, and fierce, I am really jealous of your hair, my parents would never agree to
me dying my hair vibrant colours"
Nic smiled "Thank you, I can tell you, mine where not over happy with me when I did it, but it is my
hair, and so if I want it with purple and lc streaks, I will have it like that"
Chloe shrugged and smiled "You are so bad ass"
Nicughed "Not really, just know my own mind...nowe on, else we will miss our lift and I am
sure Josh will love your dress"
Chloe grinned and winked as Nic’s cheeks went as red as her dress at the mention of his name.
The two girls headed out of the Eclipse house block and made their way down the corridor towards the
entrance to the Full Moon house block, where Josh stood in a pair of ck tracksuit bottoms, and a
ck Henley t-shirt that strained against hisrge muscles, as he saw Nic approach his eyes
dted, making the "You look stunning Nicki"
Josh breathed out, clearly happy with what he saw.
"Thank you"
Nic blushed "Come on, let’s go"
Josh grinned, never taking his eyes off Nic.
Chloe grinned to herself, feeling that she had aplished something, as Josh ced his hand on the
small of Nic’s back and led her down the staircase.
They walked to the ck range rover parked at the front of the school.
Chloe widened her eyes.
"Nice wheels" sheplimented "Thanks, it is practical to have a four wheel drive around these parts,
especially in the winter"
Josh smiled at her.
Chloe went to get in the rear seats, and as she attempted to close the door, Nic quickly jumped in
beside her.
Chloe rolled her eyes at her friend, she was clueless, she should have rode shotgun, and Chloe
whispered into her ear.
"You should have sat beside him" her voice low so Josh could not hear, however, as she said it, she
was sure she heard a small chuckle from him.
Brushing the thought that he had some sort of super hearing out of her mind, Chloe looked out of the
window as they made their way down little more than a small country road, for a few miles, before
turning left between the trees, the road little more than a dirt path, and unless you knew exactly where
it was you trees there was one with some sort of scratches on it, clearly some animals lived in the
woods, and she shuddered slightly.
Being a town girl, wild animals roaming around wooded areas was an alien concept to her, and she
was not sure she liked the idea.
As they pulled up in front of a huge white house, which looked to have four or five floors, and hadrge
long windows, along one side, the building square, Sr panels covered the roof, and the double doors
at the front were ck.
"Here we are"
Josh smiled "So do you live here?"
Nic asked her eyes wide "Yeah, it is my bothers house, he upies the top two floors, I have the
third floor, however, we also have arge area on the ground floor dedicated to members of the vige,
so they have somewhere to go, some of the guys who are not staying at the school stay here on the
first and second floor.My brother likes to protect the vigers"
Josh exined as best he could.
Chloe looked at the house and thought about the logistics of housing people from the vige, and again
her first thought was it was part of some crazy cult, and the headmaster was probably the cult leader.
She shuddered slightly at the thought, but as soon as Josh opened the door, the faint smell of musk
and sandalwood hit her nostril’s, and a peace descended over her, recing her initial fear.
As they walked in the house was huge, to the left were a series of wooden doors, Josh opened the
single door to the "This is the kitchen, snacks are in the cupboards on the far side of the wall you can
help yourself, Drinks are in the first fridge"
Josh smiled Chloe stood open mouthed gaping at the huge kitchen with stainless steel cupboards and
work tops, it had two American style fridge freezers stood side by side, the four floor to ceilingrder
cupboards stood, then a two full sized sinks sat under the long window that looked out to the front
aspect of the house, underneath were tworge dishwashers, to the opposite side was a long wall filled
with overhead cupboards, and under counter ones, before the wall was finished off with tworge built
in ovens, then to the right were tworge stainless steal hobs, then leading back to the door were more
under counter cupboards the wall having a double door hatch that was currently closed.
"Bloody hell a family of four could live just in this kitchen" Chloe said to Nic who just nodded her
head as she looked around.
"Yeah, it is big, but as it is a safe ce for the vigers, a lot of peoplee to hang out or eat" Josh
shrugged.
Leading the girls out of the kitchen, Josh pointed to a door on the left hand side.
"That is the downstairs bathroom" he smiled then walked to therge double doors on the right hand
side and opened them.
The room was huge with tworge dark blue corner sofas, thethem, red being the primary colour to
each piece.
There was arge TV hung on the wall opposite the sofas, a ss coffee table sat in the centre.
"We will hang out here tonight, but there is a games room just down the hall" Josh smiled
"Make yourself at home" He smiled.
Chloe and Nic sat together on one of therge sofa’s that could easily fit 10 people on it and looked
around wide eyed.
The far wall had floor to ceiling windows which looked out over arge garden area, that was
surrounded by trees.
To the right was arge swimming pool, along with slide.
Then just beyond that was a massive wooden ypark.
"This ce is huge" Nic stated
"I know!"
Was all Chloe could answer before the doors to the room opened, and members of the Full Moon
house descended, most of them stopping in their tracks as they looked at Chloe and Nicol with
confused looks on their faces.
Urs wasughing with one of her minions Chloe had yet to learn the name of, when suddenly she
stopped and red at Nic and Chloe.
"You have got to be f*****g kidding me" Urs growled out
"What the f**k are you doing here? you are not wanted" the minion stated hands on her hips.
Chloe shook her head at the pair of bitches, choosing to intimidated.
"They are my guests Urs, and you should remember your ce" Josh stated, then quickly went to
sit next to Nic.
"Guess we are wanted after all" Chloeughed at them as both girls instantly bowed their heads in
response to Josh.
"PIZZA" one of the guys who was from the full moon house shouted as he walked into the room with
his arms stacked high with Pizza boxes.
"Put them on the coffee table Gav" Josh told him as he went to help his friend with the boxes.
cing them all on table and opening them up, Josh smiled at both Chloe and Nic.
"Help yourselves, don’t be shy" he smiled, then handed Nic a huge piece of peperoni pizza and a
small paper te.
"Hey new girl, I am Gavin Gray, Joshua’s bet… best friend" Gav introduced himself
"Hi, Chloe Handcock, new inmate at the school" Chloe grinned.
"And already thinks she owns the ce" Urs hissed.
"will not tell you again" Josh said his eyes boring into Urs’s Chloe noticed how every person in the
room, apart from Nic and her, instantly bowed their heads and went silent, and she wondered what
the heck that was all about.
The members of the school obviously took his head boy status very seriously choose"
Josh stated then sat next to Nic, his hand gently resting on the top of her thigh.
"Oh, s**t not a f****"g chic flick, please" Gav sighed out, and the three other guys with him agreed
"Do I look like a chic flick type of girl?" Chloeughed at them
"She has got you there Gav" one of the guysughed
"So, what is it going to be?" Josh asked
"How about SAW" Chloe grinned, as Urs’s face paled, and Nic looked at her as if she had grown
another head.
"f*****e brilliant, now we are talking"
Gav grinned, and ran to therge ck cab at the side of the room, and took out the DVD.
"SAW, really Chloe?"
Nic whispered, her voice nervous, clearly she was not a fan of horror films, but Chloe had a n,
and a horror film was just what she needed to execute it.
"Yeah, if you get scared you can hide on Josh" Chloe whispered and winked at Nic.
Suddenly Urs stood up, ring at Chloe and Nic then with her arms folded across her chest she
announced to the room.
"We are not staying here"
Urs looked around at the others who were all sat with their pizzas, as if waiting for everyone to
follow.
When nobody other than her minion moved Urs stormed "BYE THEN".
Around half an hourter, Nic was nicely hiding in Josh’s chest, making Chloe grin in triumph, as he
held her close whispering words of reassurance to her.
The guys were allughing and joking about the film, when Josh’s eyes zed over and he paled
slightly, the room fell eerily silent, as he excused himself leaving the room, looking around the room she
saw the others all had a concerned look on their faces, and she wondered if they were all scared by the
film.
A few momentster Josh walked back into the room.
"Sorry girls, I am going to have to take you back to the school, there is a problem with some less than
nice people who like to try and attack the house.They can get quite nasty, I need you both safe whilst
we sort this out"
Josh stated, then quickly taking hold of Nic’s hand he motioned for Chloe to follow him back to the
car, as the other members of Full Moon house all quickly began to mutter and seemed to be itching to
get out of the house.
"I will drop them off at school ande straight back, Robin will be here soon, follow hismands"
Josh announced, rushing out of the house and into the car then bundled the girls into the back and
sped off towards the school with a very confused Chloe and Nic sat in the back.
Suddenly in the distance, Chloe heard what sounded like howling, and she looked at Nic, and
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