Page 134 of The Blairville Legacies

I was about to let it go and turn back when I heard angry voices in the distance and finally spotted a man-sized arched entrance in the wall, partly overgrown with ivy and white lilies, partly collapsed.

“I know for sure it was you, youfilthy mutt!”

Relief spread through me as I slowly turned through the opening and found myself in a sort of circular walkway massively overgrown with ivy. The walkway surrounded a courtyard with an active fountain, around which a few faces I knew had gathered.

I decided to wait behind the column, from where I could follow the action, because it seemed that Vivienna and Emely were already at each other’s throats again, and I had enough of all the conflict.

“I don’t know what yourfuckingproblem is!” Emely snapped, upset.

I had the English seminar and then a lecture to attend, but that could wait, if the others had nothing better to do than to kick each other’s asses again.

Cautiously, I peeked around the corner.

“Youreallythink you can talk to us like that,” Vivienna laughed angrily.

I spotted her friends behind her and next to Emely...Julian.

I hadn’t quite figured out what they had to do with each other yet.

“Just shut your big mouth and take your breed of Satan back to your part of town! You don’t belong here!” Emely hissed back.

“Did you hear that, guys?” Vivienna laughed with a condescending smile, and I would have liked to see Emely’s face right now, but she turned her back to me so that she was now right across from the three girls.

“What are you doing, Vivienna?” Grace exclaimed, frantically entering the courtyard with Julie, coming to a stop behind Vivienna.

Apparently, more people were skipping their mandatory course.

“Your little friend thinks she can get away with everything!” Emely complained more angrily than ever.

“You disgusting dogs should stay away from us!” Vivienna barked back, much more serious than she had been a moment ago. She ignored Grace’s question. And her ice-blue eyes lay hostile on Emely, almost filled with coldness. “Don’t forget who is in control of whom here.”

With these words, she was about to turn to leave when, to everyone’s surprise, Emely grabbed her arm with such force that Vivienna was smashed against the nearby column and slid down it with a dull thud.

I pressed my hand in front of my mouth.

What the...

“Vi!” Amber shrieked, and the two girls rushed to help their friend, as did Julie, who crouched down on the floor next to her.

“Emely! Have you gone crazy?” Now Julian interfered, still glued to her side.

He pulled her back by the arm, and as she turned to him in anger, I could see her face for a fraction.

My breath caught as I saw herglowing yellow eyes. The same ones from my dream. Yellow, glowing, dangerous.

Was I still dreaming?

“Stay out of this, Julian!” Emely growled at him. “Or at least stand by your pack for once!”

Pack?

Julian looked at her as if he understood her strange words but said nothing more. There was contempt in his gaze.

“It’s pathetic that you can’t even keep yourpacktogether, isn’t it?” Vivienna had picked herself up again and was now walking very slowly toward Emely, as if she hadn’t almost broken her neck just now. “There you go again, seeing how much your authority is good for.” A mischievous grin spread across her face. “Nothing, Emely... Absolutelynothing.”

Unexpectedly quickly, she raised her hands. And then so much happened that my eyes could barely keep up. Julian was suddenly standing in front of Emely, and Grace dashed to Vivienna to yank her arm down. The other girls stayed in the background.

“What are you doing!!!” Vivienna hissed at Grace.