Pulse

Pulse

It's mine don't you dare try to steal it!

Chapter 1

William McCally was bored. Bored with the overwhelming dullness that was his English lecture. Three people had already fallen asleep on their desks and he felt close to joining them. Resting his chin on his fist he wondered why he had ever decided to choose this course in the first place.
Oh wait, now he remembered.
The course outline had said they would be studying Dracula. He had seen that one word on the outline and signed up. Then they had pulled it from the course, claiming it had no merit and instead put in a bunch of plays by some long dead guy who seemed to be obsessed with lovers killing either themselves or each other. Depressing, and surprisingly dull, stuff.
Will looked down at his notepad, which was supposed to be filled with notes about why the heroine of the play the professor was currently reading, felt that it was necessary to kill her lover and then commit suicide, instead it was filled with doodles of stakes and fangs, some of which were tipped with blood.
Will the vampire freak.
The nickname he had picked up during college seemed destined to follow him throughout university too.
Will was seriously debating in his mind whether or not to drop out this year, get a job and re-apply next year. As the professor droned on and on this option was looking more and more attractive.

Will collapsed backwards onto his bed and dragged his hand through his hair. So, these were the best years of his life? He felt cheated. His uncle had been going on about non-stop booze, girls and parties.
Well, so far if there had been any parties he hadn’t been invited and no doubt that the girls were at those parties. And he had heard things about people who drank alone.
Lying on his bed he could hear his dorm mates getting ready for another night of getting smashed off their faces. Apparently they were getting Will’s share of fun times and weren’t willing to hand it back.
Will had been turned, unwillingly, into the resident loner. Anything he said would be quickly meet with an awkward silence.
Will snorted. And it had all started from the very day he moved in, they had taken good hard looks at all his vampire stuff, declared him a freak and had left him alone since then. Probably think he tries to drink their blood at night.
Will tilted his head to listen to the sounds round him. There was none, not a sound went through the dorm room, everyone had left.
It was as if a signal had gone off, declaring that all was safe. Will rolled from his bed and walked through into the main area of the rooms.
Quickly he moved into the kitchen, kicked the fridge door open and started pulling out food. Grabbing a pop can he turned round and placed it all on the counter.
Even though Will claimed he knew that vampires didn’t really exist, it was his dearest wish to meet one. If you were to tell him that where he put his can would decide whether or not that wish came true he probably would have laughed in your face.
Putting said can down he started putting all the various food substances together into a sandwich, nothing to heavy, he wanted to finish off an essay for his bloody boring English class and anything more than a sandwich would’ve had him snoring before to long.
Picking up the pop can to take a drink he noticed the card stuck to the bottom. Pulling it off the can, he looked at the watery writing which declared it to be an invite to a free rave at a nearby club, and it had an open bar!
A party. With booze and girls. To hell with the essay!
Will grinned and shoved all the food back into the fridge.
How could he say no?


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A/N: okay, okay I know it’s a weak start but it will get better I swear!
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