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I’ve
come down with serious amnesia, or the students have actually started cleaning up after themselves . . . and I don’t know what would be scarier!’
    Stifling a laugh, Olivia ducked her head so that he couldn’t read her expression. ‘Um . . . the teachers did ask us all to respect the school a bit more,’ she mumbled, and
moved away quickly, before he could say anything else.
    As she walked across the quad, she kept her eyes open for Ivy, looking left and right, past groups of goths and bunnies and . . .
    No. I can’t believe it!
Gasping, Olivia came to a sudden halt as she finally spotted her twin sister.
    I know Ivy’s been struggling to keep Reiko entertained . . . but I would never have expected this!

    Ivy spotted Olivia out of the corner of her eye, but she couldn’t wave, because her hands were full. She couldn’t even nod at her sister, because she had to keep
her eyes on the ball, of all ridiculous things.
    She was trapped playing
doubles tennis
!
    ‘Ivy and Reiko lead by four games to love,’ called the sophomore bunny who’d volunteered as their umpire. She sounded as excited as if she was watching a professional tennis
match.
    I can’t believe this is happening to me
, Ivy thought miserably.
    Reiko had insisted they play against Skylar Drew and Hayley Winston, two blonde bunny seniors who were tennis-obsessed. Both girls were super-athletic, and had promised to ‘go easy’
on the two freshmen girls but the truth was, they had very little hope of beating two vampires . . . even if one of those vampires didn’t even
like
tennis.
    Why couldn’t I just say no?
Ivy asked herself. But she already knew the answer.
    She couldn’t be mean to the exchange student. Unfortunately, tactful dodges didn’t seem to work with Reiko; and Reiko – whose hair was a vivid blue today – apparently
could
not
walk past the tennis court without challenging the girls already there to a ferocious game of doubles.
    Now, Reiko fired a fast forehand that had Skylar scrambling to return. Ivy swung a half-hearted backhand . . . but a
vampire’s
half-hearted backhand still sent the ball flying
across the court so fast it was almost invisible.
    Hayley lunged forwards just in time to return the ball with a clever drop shot. It fell just over the net, and Skylar hooted with triumph before it could even land.
    ‘Yes!’
    No normal player could possibly get to that ball in time . . . but Reiko was no normal player. She raced forwards in a green-yellow-and-blue blur to dive, racquet first and flick the ball back
up and over the heads of their opponents. Hayley and Skylar collided into each other as they both leaped for it, collapsing in a tangle of tanned arms and legs.
    ‘Fifteen-love,’ the umpire announced, staring at Reiko in amazement.
    Ouch.
Ivy felt a wave of sympathy as she watched the bunnies pick themselves up, groaning. ‘Let’s take a minute, OK?’ she called out. ‘I’m, um, out of
breath.’
    Hayley and Skylar only waved their assent, panting too hard to talk.
    Ivy pulled Reiko aside and lowered her voice to a whisper. ‘Hey, cut it out with the super-vamp moves. We’re supposed to be making this game competitive, remember?’
    ‘No way.’ Reiko grinned. ‘I’m here to
win.
’
    ‘We already
are
winning,’ Ivy hissed. ‘Plus, if you make any more plays like that last one, we’re going to get some serious questions. A normal human being
can’t
do
things like that!’
    Reiko shrugged. ‘I’ll take my game down to ninety-five per cent, but that’s the best I can do.’
    Ivy groaned as they took their places once more.
    The bunny girls both looked grimly determined to re-balance the score. Skylar fired in a serve that, by human standards, would have been considered “fierce”.
    Ivy faked a sneeze, dropping her racquet, and the ball whistled past her head.
    ‘Fifteen-all,’ the umpire declared.
    ‘No
way
!’ Reiko shouted. ‘Ivy, how could you miss that?’
    Even the bunnies