Death In Her Eyes - Erin Bedford Page 0,52

to sit there.

"Anyway, the teachers like Dex tend to stay away from town. He has too much angel blood in his system, so he ages even slower than the rest of us." She stopped at an ice cream stand and got a cone from the starry-eyed boy who wouldn't stop staring at us. "You want any?"

I shook my head no. "Really?" I asked, when we were far enough away from the boy. "He told me he was a hundred and twenty-five."

"And he barely looks over twenty, right?" She giggled, licking her ice cream cone.

It was then that I noticed we were getting a lot of looks from the town's people. "Uh, Ayden is it just me or are they staring an awful lot?"

Ayden shrugged. "Humans always do that. They're drawn to us cause of our -"

"Angel blood. Yeah. I get it."

Except I didn't. No one had ever been drawn to me. If anything, they ran in the opposite direction any time I came around. Out of habit, I ran my finger over the mark on my hand which was now completely gone. Had the mark my dad put on me also kept humans from seeing the angelic part of me as well? It was another thing I'd have to ask him when I saw him next.

Ayden stopped before an anti-aging cream advertisement. "Isn't it great that we'll never need that kind of crap?"

“Not really.” I shrugged and turned away from it to keep walking.

Speed walking to catch up with me, Ayden asked, "Why not?"

“Too much time.” I'd had enough of this life as it was, I had no desire to extend it even further by living practically forever.

Giving an exasperated sigh, Ayden poked me on the shoulder, “You’re so bloody depressing all the time. Lighten up.”

I smirked at her. “Maybe you just need to grow up.”

She licked her ice cream in an obscene manner. “Nah, plenty of time for that later.”

Shaking my head at her action, I grabbed her arm, “Come on, show me where this dinner is. I’m hungry.”

The diner Ayden wanted us to go to was a cute little mom and pop's place. Fully made to look like a wood cabin it was decorated from top to bottom in antlers. I tried to repress my grimace as a sweet old man seated us.

My eyes trailed over a blonde guy who was far too attractive for this little town. He saw me looking and smiled. I found myself blushing as I smiled back.

I pushed the guy out of my mind which was hard since he was right in my line of sight as we sat at our table. Once more I was assaulted by deer everywhere. Even the table was decorated with them.

"What?" Ayden asked, grabbing her menu from the table.

Wrinkling my nose, I leaned forward a bit. "I'm from the Midwest and even I think this is a lot of antlers."

Ayden laughed. "Don't worry their food is way better than their decorating skills."

I hoped so.

Pulling my menu from the table, I scanned the contents. It was your basic variety diner. Cheeseburgers, fries, milk shakes, even a few breakfast items you could order any time of the day.

"I know what I'm getting how about you?"

Before I could answer Ayden's question Dharma appeared at our table. I was relieved to see that she was alright but apparently, she wasn't that happy to see me.

"What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" She practically spat in my face. She hadn't even come over with her friends, choosing to face me alone. Ballsy but stupid.

"I'm getting lunch, duh?" I held my menu up to show her causing Ayden to giggle.

Dharma was not so amused. "Why haven't they kicked you out already?"

I sighed. "That's what I keep asking myself and yet here I am. It's fabulous isn't it?"

"No. It's not." Dharma slapped her hand on my menu forcing it down to the table. "You are an abomination. You're not wanted here or at our school."

"That's not true." Ayden tried to stand up for me. "I want her here and so do a bunch of others."

Dharma scoffed, not noticing that we had drawn the attention of some of the diners. "Like it matters what you and your little element-"

"Club." I finished for her with a glare. "Elemental club. Right, Ayden?"

Ayden didn't catch what I meant at first and the noticed the blonde guy from earlier. "Oh, yeah, right. Element club. We are all about studying those elements." She did a fake air punch that I would have