Charlette Hoff stood upright in her chair, her back straight and her delicate lips tense. She always sat like this in school, in a perpetually terrified state, as if she were in the dark and at any moment a monster was about to take her. She was in broad daylight though, the monsters could see her, they could wave at her in a flirtatious manner, they could giggle at her.

She kept her mind on her work, she was a girl out of her depth. 11, a genius at any subject she applied herself too, but all her genius only made her as smart as her class mates. A smart 11 year old is still average compared to an 18 year old. She thought this is why she was skipped a few grades. It certainly wasn’t for her welfare, after all she was food, she had been told repeatedly she had no future, she remembered her principal, telling her with a giggle that she was being sent to school with the bigger kids, all because of her ‘big little brain’.

Among the younger kids, she always managed to stay one step ahead of the game, the girls were small and not really able to gulp each other up easily, so a few tricks an feints and misdirections to other, weaker prey and she was home free. These girls though, they were stronger, each one able to devour without any effort. She had thought she could play on her rarity, being the only cute little girl in school, hopefully the preds would fight each other to eat her. But that wasn’t going to work, in the school she was rare, but they could easily just go to a primary school after high school finished, shouldn’t be that hard to find an unlicensed girl to eat.

She had only been here a few days, finding herself completely unable to hide in the background. Despite her age she was very noticeable, chestnut shoulder length hair, pale creamy skin and wide, glistening, hazel eyes.

She felt a finger brush up against her neck causing her to squeak. She blushed and scrunched her head down as all the girls giggled. They were teasing her, she was going to be eaten, very soon, she thought to herself. She didn't even notice the one girl who wasn't giggling at the defenseless young girls predicament.