Chapter 4

During the meeting it was very obvious to Iris that Sarah and Matilda hated when Iris brought up James, even though he wasn't there their hate was as if he were. Elektra was the only one who is at least tolerant of her relationship with James. Iris guess that's because she has her own boyfriend who she loves, Luke. Matilda said she had a boyfriend, Jacob though none of the werecats had met him Iris guessed that this boyfriend was just her imagination.

As James and Iris were eating she could sense Sarah glaring venomously at James and could tell that was making him feel really uncomfortable. She feared that one of the few conditions of staying in the Hotel, no killing the other myths within, was the only thing keeping Sarah from killing James. She was more than capable of it as Iris had seen countless times. Still Iris felt the need to protect him, just in case Sarah tries anything. Though Iris was strong being the weretiger she had only become one last year. While Sarah had years of experience and training by both the wereleopard before her and the gods. Still Iris had to try it was James' only hope. Though Iris wished that one day Sarah would fall in love and then understand how irrational it can be. But her ignorance prevails and the werecats would remain at each other's throats.

***

So beautiful, just so beautiful. Maxina looked in the mirror. Her blue hair looked fabulous and matched the shoes she had bought. She winked at herself. If she was a guy it would be love at first sight. She knew so many guys had that experience daily. How could they not, she was so adorable. She giggled.

"Are you ok?" John said behind her.

"Hey," She greeted him in the cutest voice possible. He raised an eyebrow at her.

"I heard you giggling randomly and I got worried but it seems you're fine so I'll go," he explained about to walk off.

"You don't have to go you can stay here with me," She squealed but he seemed to walk a little faster. Silly boy She was over here. Some guys just lose their minds when they see her. It was almost a curse to be so beautiful.

***

She was so beautiful. Mik was looking at Sarah as she was talking to Natasha organising the activities for today. He couldn't stop looking at her. A cute little smile crept onto her face as Natasha said something funny and he could feel himself starting to drool. It is so cruel that she will never share the feelings he had for her. If she was his girlfriend he would treat her like a princess. However she didn't care about how many times she broke his heart. It seemed his heart was just a toy to her but he couldn't help but to want to be with her every second of the day. He knew that one day she will love him so he just had to wait until that day.

"Mik.... you're drooling again," Natasha whispered leaning his way.

"So gross," Sarah muttered.

Mik wiped the drool away with the back of his hand. Sarah looked over at him and he could feel his heart beating quickly. She was looking at him in disgust but he know that one day she will be looking at him in love.

***

Curse these bonding activities. They were so freaking boring. What the hell were she, Cleo and Nick meant to have in common? Nothing if you asked Devil. Those two were completely lame to her. Nick and Cleo both looked over a book they were supposed to be deciphering, muttering to each other while Devil sat back. Books weren't her strong point.

Cleo had left a tube of that pink shit she puts on her lips on the table. Devil picked it up and opened the lid. There was a whole lot of bright pink goo inside. Why the hell would someone put this on their lips? It smelt like a dead animal. Devil squeezed the tube and some of the goo came out. Interesting.... Now how was she meant to get it back in before Cleo noticed.

Fortunately for Devil Cleo was too busy reading and scribing some notes down. Maybe if Devil just got rid of the goo Cleo wouldn't notice. Devil could burn the goo but that would smell and she didn't think the two wouldn't notice a quick burst of flames.. So burning it is probably not the best option. Nick's hand was resting next to Devil on the table. She wiped the goo onto his hand and for some reason he didn't notice. Devil held back her laughter and squeezed the whole tube onto his hand. That got his attention and he looked down at his hand "What the-" he muttered and touched it.

Devil covered her mouth with her hand to stop herself laughing.

"Am I bleeding?" he asked himself while poking the goo. Devil quickly threw the tube behind her.

"Where is my lipgloss?" Cleo asked and Devil bit her lip. Cleo looked over at Nick.

"You asshole!" she shouted getting the attention of everyone else around us.

"Wha- I didn't do anything..." he told her.

She looked at Devil "Devil I know it was you," she growled.

Devil smiled back at Cleo and she opened her mouth to say something but Leah walked over and gave them both a death stare.

"Less arguing more deciphering, you three would be dead if this were a real life situation," Leah's green eyes glowed angrily.

***

With Natasha on her side they had made short work of finding the code. With Leah's approval Rose, Sarah and Natasha were allowed to leave. The three of them had gone for icecreams, Rose the fairy making herself human sized, in the mortal world. They stood outside the shop licking their icecreams in the afternoon sun when Sarah's muscles tensed.

Immediately Natasha noticed "What's wrong?"

"That strong magic," Sarah whispered eyes darting around looking for brown hair.

Rose was very confused as Sarah hadn't told her about that encounter but also felt the presence of an enormous amount of magic. Then Sarah's eyes locked on hair shining brown in the sun.

"There, right there," Sarah whispered the other two looked over. The undiscovered witch was talking to a mortal.

"That's her?" Natasha whispered to Sarah.

"Yep there is no doubt about it, do you feel that Rose?"

Rose nodded "that amount of magic, Sarah if she got attacked by vampires ... she could cause some serious damage."

"Well ladies there is only one thing to do," Natasha started to walk toward the woman but Sarah grabbed her hand.

"Are you crazy?" Sarah hissed.

"Would you prefer the first myths she meet are us or blood suckers following the leader," Natasha cooley explained.

Sarah let her go "Point taken."

Though still extremely nervous about approaching her Sarah did along with Rose. Werecats may be one of the strongest myths in the world by physical strength but magic could still easily beat them naturally werecats and witches didn't get along. All except for Maxina of course. She was harmless. Even though this witch wasn't aware Sarah felt more and more terrified as they got closer and the hidden magic got more intense. This witch could kill them all in one click of a finger. Natasha was lucky she couldn't sense magic.

Natasha was instantly able to start up a conversation with this woman being the friendly myth that she is. While Rose and Sarah struggled to stay put and not run away. They soon learnt that the woman's name was Lily Green and she was a maths teacher. This made Sarah giggle. There were students out there that wouldn't be lying when they said their maths teacher is a witch.

***

Devil, Cleo and Nick never ended up getting the code. As Devil had cheated by looking at Noah's answers then handed them in to Leah. Only to find out that Noah's group had gotten the answers wrong too.

Devil could feel the gaze of Cleo burning into the back of her head and Devil knew Cleo wasn't checking out her hair. The blonde bitch wanted to appear perfect to Leah, the 'mum' of the Hotel and Devil had ruined that for her. Of course Devil didn't care in the slightest Cleo had encouraged the cheating. Nick that bloody pervert didn't care, he got the time to stare at Cleo and that's all that mattered to him. Despite looking so similar, as they were twins, Noah and Nick were really very different. Nick a perverted womaniser and Noah.... Well Noah was her love. He could be brutal and harsh but he was so kind and understanding of her. Devil couldn't help but to wonder if twins were always so different or was it that they tried so hard to be different to feel unique. Though Devil didn't know any other twins or at least.... None on earth......

.... A woman formed out of the foam in the sea, from the bubbles came a face so familiar except, opposite. For Devil that face was associated with flames and hate....

... Devil shook her head to clear her mind of those memories. Now was not the time to be remembering that... nor was there anytime. Devil wished those memories had stayed forgotten.

***

James smiled at Iris "it feels good to be away from everyone."

She nodded and felt herself blushing from his smile "it is... I feel they are growing worse by the day."

James hugged Iris "One day I'll take you away from here," he held her hands, linking his fingers between her's "we won't have everyone judging us anymore and we would be free of the disapproving eyes of others."

She hugged him back enjoying having him hold her like that. She started to purr "I will protect you. I promise, I will become a strong werecat and I will kill Sarah if she dares to hurt you."

He leaned down and kissed me. She kissed back savouring the icy coldness of his lips and the faint taste of blood.

Iris could smell someone behind them and she turned her head. Natasha.

"What do you want?"

Natasha stepped back a little scared "I.. I-I was only coming to check on you but you're fine so I'll just go."

She turned to walk off.

"No wait," James called out to her and let go of Iris. Natasha stopped and looked back at him. Her purple eyes were curious.

"Why did you come and check on us? You are one of the leopard's close friends, shouldn't you hate us?" he questioned her.

Natasha looked at him in a rather calculating kind of way "Just because I am friends with Sarah does not mean I believe everything she says and does is right. She makes mistakes too you know and besides I have my own free will, I am her friend she doesn't control me."

"You sure she doesn't control people? You could be just spying on us. She has that Mik guy wrapped around her finger," he continued questioning her.

"Mik is an idiot," she said simply "he doesn't have a mind of his own. He is driven by this so called 'love' he feels for Sarah. She does not force him to feel that way in fact she is quite disgusted by it."

"I know that," Iris glared at Natasha "Sarah is an idiot. Mik would do anything for her and she is just pushing him away like he means nothing to her."

"You can't force people to fall in love Iris, Mik may love her but she has no feelings for him," Natasha replied.

"Sarah doesn't have feeling for anyone she is incapable for feeling anything for anyone," Iris spat.

"I believe she just isn't ready yet," Natasha replied "anyway I hope you to enjoy tonight, the moon is quite pretty."

Natasha smiled sweetly at the couple and walked off. Iris really couldn't tell what was going on with that girl. She is always trying to be nice to everyone. She must be planning something. No one is that nice.

***

Yawn, Sarah rolled over and fell out of bed to wake herself up.

Crack!

She quickly picked herself off the ground. There was a large crack in the ground where She had been laying. "Meow," She muttered and blushed. Being a werecat her weight was quite high despite how she appeared

Now she had to cover this huge crack up. Sarah looked around for something that was big enough to cover it. There was a mat. She pulled the mat over the crack.

Nobody sees nobody knows.

She looked up to see Mik standing at her door.

Damn it.

He won't tell anyone ... She hoped.

He was probably too busy staring at her 'beauty' to realise what she was doing anyway. She stood up and walked over to the door and looked at him standing there. He stared at her and started drooling on his own foot.

Gross. It didn't seem like he was going to let her past either. She pushed past him which he seemed to enjoy. Her body brushing up against him was enough to get him all excited.

She continued to walk down the corridor, when suddenly she was flat on her face. She lifted her head to see Vanessa snickering at her... Sarah hated her. It was so typical of her to do something like this. She went out of her way just to annoy Sarah. Sarah got up off the ground, gave her a death stare.

***

"How are you going to get Vanessa back?" asked Natasha after Sarah had told her what happened this morning.

"I don't think I will, one day I'll get her though," Sarah said thoughtfully.

"Sarah that scares me," said Rose "How exactly will you get her back?"

Sarah pretended to slit her throat with her finger. "You can't be serious!" yelled Natasha.

Sarah giggled to make it look like she was joking but deep down she knew she would someday kill her and will enjoy that day.

Sarah heard a flapping sound above her head. She looked up. Her little dragon Moon Light flying above her head. "How long has she been there?" She asked.

Natasha burst out laughing and Rose started giggling too. "I was waiting until you noticed," Natasha giggled. Moon Light flew down to land on Sarah's shoulder, resting her head on Sarah's face.

***

Most people in the hotel came to Natasha for advice or if they needed information. Devil even frequently called her 'the smartest person in the hotel'. Natasha was not quite sure about that. Darrel was pretty smart when it comes to books, too bad he is totally useless in real life though. Natasha's bones may be hollow but she can even still fight. He can't because he is too scared. Then there is Iris. Not a lot of people know this but she is actually really intelligent. They all just judge her for being in love with a vampire and don't even bother with talking to her. Natasha might be one of the only people who actually knew how smart Iris really was. James would too of course.

Natasha really wished there was something she could do for Iris. Even her own pride rejects her. All this hate towards her is not good for her. Natasha was afraid Iris was going to snap. She wandered into the library to see Rose sitting at a table.

"Hello."

"Hey," Rose looked up at her.

"Rose can I ask you something?"

"Sure go ahead."

"I need you to be honest with me," Natasha looked into Rose's eyes.

"I will be," she replied and smiled sweetly.

"Do you hate Iris?"

"Where did that come from? ... ummmm.... maybe just a little."

"I see," Natasha muttered and went to search for a book "Is that because she has a vampire boyfriend?"

"No it's because she always glares at me or pretends I just don't exist. I get that a lot of people hate her but she isn't exactly making it easy to like her," Rose explained.

"I guess you're right," Natasha sighed.

"Why do you ask anyway?"

"Don't worry," Natasha told her quickly seeing Sarah walking into the library.

"Meow guys!" She shouted. Natasha smiled at her.