Spirit Users

Chapter 5

Lola POV

I hung the old style phone up, my ten minutes of talk time a day that I get at the stupid place, over.

“Hurry up. There are other people waiting for their turn with the phone and they don’t need to be out of their cells longer then they have to be because you were yapping away with your boyfriend!” The guard yelled at me, as he took my arm and led me back to my own cell while a big, burly, scary looking dhampir guy stepped up to use the phone.

The guard pushed me into my cell, and he slammed the door closed.

“What did you do to piss off the guard so much that he had to escort you back to our cell?” Vanessa asked me, as she looked up from the book she was reading on her bed. Obviously wondering why he slammed the door to our cell.

“Well....apparently I was taking too long talking to my ‘boyfriend’.” I said sarcastically as I walked over to my bed on the other side of our small cell, and slumped down on it feeling tired and confused from the phone call that I had just had.

“Wait! I thought you went out to use the phone for your daily talks with your sister.” Vanessa said, confused. “What is this about you having a boyfriend?” She asked again, even more confused.

As you can imagine being locked up does not leave a lot of chances to have a relationship. And there are never any cute guys my age locked up in here that aren’t totally bonkers.

Hah, I just said bonkers.

“Well, I called my sister’s cell phone and the first time no one picks up and so I called again and some guy answers. So, I was curious and I talked to him and he ended up giving me his number.” I told her, blushing as I hold up a tiny piece of paper that had a phone number on it.

Wait a minute, I’m blushing? I thought as I put a hand on my cheek.

I, Lola Lazar never blush. Not over some guy I just talked to and have not even met!

“Ooooo.....You’re blushing! So I’m guessing that he was hot.” Vanessa says, sitting on the edge of her bed, leaning closer to me with her hands on her knees.

Of course, Vanessa would notice when I do something that is not me.

“Well, his voice sounded hot.” I say to her. “But, I think that my sister is after him because the whole reason that he had her phone was that she 'bumped' into him. And I think that was one of her ways of flirting with him.” I tell Vanessa, as I lie down on my bed and look up at the pale white ceiling in our cell.

“Oh, please. Once this guy meets you he will be putty in your hands and forget all about Jenny!” Vanessa says with confidence.

“Yeah, sure. But you are forgetting one important thing about your plan.” I inform her, with a sad smile on my face. Huh, I wonder why I am sad about the idea of Jenny getting this guy to fall for her? She has done this many times even when we were kids and we lived together.

“And what’s that?” Vanessa said as she leans back to lie on her bed, with a smile on her face. I guess she is too r***d up in her daydream of one of us having a boyfriend that she forgot that we are stuck in this hell hole.

“Vanessa, we are stuck in here, so how could I possibly steal him away from Jenny if he never meets me?” I asked her.

“Oh.” Vanessa replied softly as her smile turns into a frown. Then she smiles really big and sits up on her bed and turns around to face me. “Then we will just have to sneak out of here, find a way to get to the school that your sister goes to, enroll as new students, find him and steal him from Jenny! There, problem solved.” Vanessa says, smirking as she lies back down on her bed, obviously satisfied with her plan.

Vanessa frowns again and turns her head to look at me and asks “Do you know what school your sister goes to?”

“St. Vladimir's Academy.” I replied.

“Good.” She said and turned her head back to look up at the ceiling. Then she wiped her head around again thinking of another question.

“And you do know his name, right? So that we will be able to ask around at the school for him.” She asked.

“Yes, his name is Jack Dragomir.” I said as I looked up at the ceiling, with a smile on my face.

Even though I don’t know this boy the mere mention of his name and the feel of it on my tongue sends shivers down my spine.

Wow, this never happens to me.

It happens to my sister all the time and I had to listen to her go on and on about how this guy is the one when we all know that she is going to dump him in a month if that.

But, me? I never have crushes on guys. Sure some show interest in me but they are all assholes, Moroi royals. And I would never like a guy who is stuck up and full of himself, even though I am technically a royal too.

Maybe Vanessa’s plan could work and I will finally have a great guy who likes me. And maybe we can see if he has a friend for Vanessa, she will like that. She is all about romance and true love.

“Okay, Vanessa. We’ll do it, but not tonight. Tomorrow night will be a better time to sneak out because the guards will be changing up.” I whispered to her without looking at her.

“Yes. I knew you would come around. And don’t worry everything will work out fine, you two are meant to be together. I can feel it.” Vanessa said in her best lovey-dovey voice while giggling quietly to herself.

Yeah, it might work, but what if he finds out that we broke out of a crazy house? Will he reject me?

Well, I can’t think about that now I need a good night’s rest because we won’t be getting any sleep at all tomorrow.

Then I drifted off to sleep thinking about the mysterious boy named Jack Dragomir, with a small smile on my face.