Fighting Forever (A Twilight Fan Fiction)

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Fighting Forever (A Twilight Fan Fiction) *Updated 10-10*

(( A Twilight Fanfiction but has new different characters. The story takes place during the years of Twilight.))


Oh and the meaning behind the the title isn't that Alexandra (the main character) is fighting forever, like kicking butt etc. It means that she is fighting the idea of living forever. If that makes sense.


Fighting Forever

Chapters
1. Remembrance
2. Eight Years
3. Relationships
4. Eyes
5. Bad Day
6. Halloween
7. Slayer
8. Q & A​



Chapter 1 Remembrance

I don’t remember much. It all happened so fast; I didn’t have time to react until the deed was done. But what I do remember still feels like it happened yesterday, even though more than three decades has passed me by. Three decades, 30 birthdays have come and gone but I remain unchanged since my 19th birthday. I never asked for this life, it was unwelcome event. I can’t exactly say it was an accident, or maybe I can. Originally I meant to be dinner, but I vaguely recall a group of people some cops included intervening. I blacked out and had no images in my mind of the events that followed. I do, however, remember the pain. It was unlike anything I had ever felt, or probably would ever feel, in my life. It was like my flesh, blood everything was on fire. A fire I couldn’t put out. I was told I suffered three days of that agony, even though it felt like a lifetime. After those days I woke up to see the most attractive man I had ever seen, starring down at me. His shaggy dark brown hair matched perfect with his brilliant honey golden eyes. They were the most beautiful eyes; I’ll never forget those eyes.

“So you survived.” he said in a low chuckle. He even had a gorgeous voice. It was mellow but had a sweet note to it that made me melt a little. I figured I had to be dreaming; there was no way this man could actually exist, so I shut my eyes tight. Yet he was still there seconds later when I re opened them. His eyes flashed when he let out a tiny laugh. I suddenly became aware that he actually had me draped across his lap. We were sitting on something hard, ground obviously, but harder probably linoleum or something to that effect. I quickly tried to escape but moved to fast, my head began to spin and slide back down into his arms. He merely smiled,
“Careful, you should try and stand so fast on a full stomach.”
I wondered what he meant at first but then I realized that yes, I was full. It was like I had eaten a huge Thanksgiving dinner all by myself. But it didn’t fill the same, if that made sense.
“I hope you don’t mind.” he spoke again, “I helped you feed. You were resisting so much I didn’t think you would last or even go out and hunt.”
Feed. Hunt. I didn’t understand and my head was still foggy, I had to be dreaming. “Where am I?” I finally got out, my voice dry.
“Somewhere safe.” he grinned again showing the brightest and most white teeth, it was like looking at a movie star except better in many ways. I looked around and notice the water dripping from above and the shape of a large dark tunnel. A sewer, we were in a sewer beneath the ground.

“I don’t understand.” I muttered again my head becoming clearer the longer he held me. Why was he holding me? This strange, Greek god like figure was holding me. It made no sense. I suddenly sniffed the air, a delicious scent reached my nostrils and made my mouth water. Something came over me and I could no longer hold in this urge to follow, track, or hunt down this scent. I forcefully pushed the man aside, taken by surprise he flew back but landed gracefully as if he were a marionette puppet being controlled from above. I ignored this and charged forward, I ran with an unimaginable pace. I searched the place but couldn’t find the scent. I was like an animal, no a monster. This entire time I could hear the man laughing.
“Still thirsty I see. I forgot what the first thirst is like. It’s been so long. It’ll pass though, I’m not sure your body can handle more at the moment. It’s just the scent stuck in your nostrils, it’ll pass.” he sighed. “There is nothing down here but rats, and believe me that’s not going to sustain you.”

I stopped and leapt at him landed firmly but gracefully in front of him. I stood there and calmed myself down, what was I just doing? I was running, faster then even a cheetah, and I hungered for that scent and deep in my mind I knew what that was. Blood. Fear quickly over took me, “What am I?” I said in a whisper.
“Well, we’re special I guess.” he said, “Our kind has come to be known as vampires.” he half rolled his eyes as he said the word. As did I, it was a ridiculous notion. I scoffed and let out an uneasy laugh hoping he’d crack a smile and nudge my arm, what a great joke he almost had me going. But when a smile didn’t form and the man remained serious I felt my stomach do a small flip. On an impulse I covered my heart with my right hand praying I would feel it beat. But everything was still. I could just imagine my heart hanging uselessly in my body. I glanced back over to the man. He could see the fear in my eyes, which he returned with understanding.
“Don’t worry, we’re not like those fictisous vampires. I mean no stake through the heart, or garlic, sunlight. That’s a big one. We won’t burst inflames when sun hits us, I mean please like that could ever happen.” he scoffed.
“What will happen?” I asked fingering my now noticeably pale skin.
“We sparkle.” I raised an eyebrow at him. “Never mind, its just best not to go out into direct sunlight. At least when humans are around.”

I starred at him; I don’t remember what I was thinking at that moment. I had a million questions, but there was still a part of me that thought this was an elaborate dream. He returned my stare; his ghostly pale skin was still made apparently clear in this dark sewer. I didn’t know what else to say, it was such an amount of information. Looking back, I think I handled it all too well, he probably thought so too.
“What’s your name?” I suddenly asked breaking the silence and this starring contest. He blinked and took a few steps closer to me.
“I’m Gregory, well Gavin most people call me Gavin.” he paused, “What about you?”
“I’m Alexandra.” I said quietly.
“Wow that’s a mouthful, mind if I call you Alex, or Ally.” Gavin asked with a hint of eagerness to his voice. It surprised me, I couldn’t speak I just nodded in reply. A thought crossed my mind that, oddly enough, hadn’t made its way to the front of my mind until now.
“How did I become this? Did you—“ I trailed off, I had seen the movies read the books, about vampires but I wasn’t sure if the rules applied like Gavin had mentioned earlier.
“Of course not.” he said in disgust, “I would never do that. Try to feed on a human let alone turn one. No I simply found you. You were in the alley as the cops tried to call for an ambulance. I could sense another vampire was near so I went to check it out and I came across you, and a dozen others.” he added. “I heard you screaming, they were with agony. Then I heard someone shout ‘He bit her.’ that’s when I knew.”
I listened to his story in silence, I wasn’t sure if he was lying or not. But something told me to believe him; I couldn’t remember my attackers face or even what I had been doing in that alley. I brought myself away from my personal thoughts and back to Gavin. “How did you get me away?”

A smirked popped up across Gavin’s face, “We’re fast.” he said implying both of us, or the race of vampires in general. “I took you before they even had a chance to blink. It was for the best, there was nothing they could do for you. If I had left you there you would have turned and probably feasted on the entire staff in the emergency ward at they attempted to figure the cause of your claimed burning.”
It was the truth. It was written all over his face. For some reason I felt slightly better, knowing that I wasn’t meant to be Gavin’s dinner or lunch, snack whatever. I finally let a smile grow across my face but it dropped.
“I didn’t eat anyone did I?” I asked scared to know the answer. At this Gavin let out a loud but enduring laugh that made me crack a tiny smile.
“No. No.” he said, “I don’t feed on humans. Never have. See I was raised on hunting animals. The scent of humans hardly bothers me anymore. You’re not exactly a natural when it comes to hunting.” he chuckled again. I melted. “I had to practically hunt the deer myself.”
I gasped. “I ate a deer!” I said in horror, a poor little deer.
“Several actually.” he said with a bit of amazement. “Would you have rather killed a human?” he asked raising his brow. I opened my mouth to say something but closed it again.
“I guess not.” I said in a troubled way.
“Come on Ally, it should be dark we can head up now.” When Gavin spoke my name, well nickname, it made me smile. If my heart could beat I think it would have been going crazy. He turned and began to walk toward the dark sewage tunnel.
“Are we still in Cleveland?” I asked.
“Yeah. I thought I’d like this place, right on the edge of a lake. But it’s too sunny. I haven’t been able to come out during the day.” Gavin muttered absently. I quickly followed after him, worried about resurfacing back to my home city as a vampire.
“We’ll head north, less sun. That’s where many of our kind stay.”
“Are there many?” I asked.
“Only a handful, not over a thousand. At least I don’t think so. I could be wrong.” he paused, “Come on, let’s get going.” and with that he was gone in flash up the ladder that lead to the streets of Cleveland, my mind raced worrying we would be spotted but I trusted Gavin, even in this short time Gavin had grown my full trust. I followed after him. I would follow him anywhere.
 
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Q-of-N, you have the distinction of being the first fanfic writer to induce me to comment on a Twilight fanfic (except for the vampire story by Gentle Voice, but I'm not sure she intends hers to be specifically "Twilightian"). I both understand, and am intrigued by, the meaning of your title. J.R.R. Tolkien suggested in his writings that the Elves, who could never die except by violence, accident (this category probably taking in starving to death), or a broken heart, ENVIED humans for NOT being stuck in the material universe indefinitely.
 
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Oh i love it, i read it erlier and was so taken by it i compleatly forgt to comment

Im a huge Twilight fan so if you have any questions about facts your unsure about feel free to ask ill answer :D:D

Byw im Charlotte

But again i love it i want more plz ???:D:D
 
(thanks everyone! Here is the next chapter)

2. Eight Years (part 1)

“Grande Carmel Mocha.” a voice called out, it seemed so far and distant. “Grande Carmel Mocha!” the voice grew louder and clearly. I suddenly snapped out of my trip down memory lane, I was standing in line at Starbucks at the Student Union on campus. Everyone around was starring in my direction as the woman at the counter was calling off my order. I lurched forward slightly embarrassed and grabbed the drink and stalked away without even putting my usual three packs off sugar inside. The drink was hot against my cold skin, my cold pale skin. True I didn’t need this drink, but I had to keep up the college student norm. I was still getting used to this, all of this. It was my supposed second year of college and I had to act like I knew what I was doing. Still I didn’t mind downing the foul tasting coffee, it warmed me something that I really wasn’t used to. But I had to admit it was annoying having to bring everything I ate or drank back up later. I took a sip of the coffee as I gracefully dodged a preoccupied student possibly trying to find a different song on their ipod. After a few empty tables I finally decided to sit off toward the middle, the sun was unusually bright today and I wanted to avoid it at all costs.

I reflected back on the memory I allowed to reply in my head. It was my first meeting with Gavin, something I knew I could never forget. I hated it though. Every time I thought of him, even his name made me angry, made me want to lash out at him maybe even kill him. No. I couldn’t do that. My mind wanted me to, but I knew my heart couldn’t. I sighed and took another sip pulling my notebook out from my messenger bag flipping to a blank page. Eight years; I thought. I’ve been running for eight years now. It didn’t seem that long. I didn’t know whether I should be happy that I eluded my tracker for so long, or be depressed by who my tracker was.

I didn’t take another drink of the coffee; I wasn’t in the mood for routine. I just sat there thoughtlessly sketching in my lined notebook.

“Tori!” a familiar perky voice cried out. I looked up from my drawing to see my friend, and roommate Nicole making her way through the tables to get to me. During these eight years, I had a variety of different names, Heather, Rina, Margaret, Susan, and Tracy to name a few. Tori was my most recent name that took on at the start of this school semester. And by the end of this year, or maybe next I would have to change it again.

I wasn’t sure if I could handle her at this moment, but I forced a smile to my face. “Hey Nikki.” I said trying to sound cheery as I possibly could.

Nikki had long curly brown hair with huge chunks of blonde highlights through it, she was average build not like one of those super model bodies and she wouldn’t be considered over weight, she was just average. I liked that about her, her eyes were fascinating, one day they would be blue and the next they would be green all without the help of contacts. Some days one eye would be blue and other green. I couldn’t explain it but I felt more connected to her because of this. She also had glasses, of the emo variety, as she described them. Her nose was almost too small to keep these on her face properly causing her to have to shove them back up the bridge of her nose quite often.

She practically slammed her bag onto the table and flopped dramatically into the chair across from me her long brown hair bouncing as she did. I knew by this act that Nikki had something to tell me, or rather complain about. I waited for her to begin ranting.

“I’m so tired! I just got out of Bio, and the professor just went on and on about photo—something.” she said waving her hand in air. “I’m so glad this semester is about half done with. I don’t think I can handle another minute in that lecture hall. The guy next to me smelled and he fell asleep and guess whose shoulder he decided to fall asleep on?” she stopped; I glanced around for a second realizing that she actually wanted me to reply.

“Yours?” I questioned dully. She made a sour face and nodded.

“It was so disgusting, I shoved him off and moved a seat down. But now I have this big project to start working on.” she drew in a breath and let out. I guessed that she was finished and it was safe to talk, unfortunately I had nothing to say so I nodded and went back to my work.

Nikki tilted her head and starred at my notebook.
“Who are you drawing?” she asked. I looked at her confused and for the first time I actually noticed what, or who I was drawing. I gaped in horror at the face that starred up at me; the shaggy yet tidy hair, and those eyes.
“He’s extremely cute!” Nikki exclaimed. She reached for the notebook but I was too fast for her, I slammed it shut and shoved it back into my bag.
“It’s no one I was just doodling.” I lied. I was good at lying I had been doing it for years now. “So are you done with classes for the day then?” I asked hoping to change the subject.
“No, I have Sociology at 2:30.” she moaned, “What about you?”

I shook my head, “I have my Adventures in Acting class next at 1:45.” I made sure to say the title with some kind of dramatic voice for effect. I didn’t have a defiant major; I didn’t need one seeing as how I wouldn’t graduate. We talked for a few more minutes before I said my good-bye to Nikki and headed out of the Union for the other side of campus, where my class happened to be. The sun was still shining brightly, not a cloud in the sky. It was on days like these that I used my vampire abilities to the fullest. I got to class a few seconds after leaving my dorm, and I would have to give a little extra on my changing ability.

Yeah. I can change. Transform myself. A little perk I picked up special after being turned, Gavin couldn’t fully explain why I and no other vampire had the ability. He guessed that some of us were given such things when we were reborn. Anyway, I had the added ability to change my appearance, to a certain extent. It was hard at first but over the years, most of all the last eight years, it had become completely second nature. I could only changes things like my hair color, height, my skin tone but there was only a slight improvement there, the one thing I wished I could change was my eye color. But I was unable to so I was stuck with gold eyes, and the occasional black when I became thirsty.

But newest guise was something I actual enjoyed, short red hair cut short, which I usually styled it to flip out or spike out. So I wasn’t so recognizable I made sure to make myself shorter then normal and a bit wider. 5’6” and about 140lbs, it felt so good to be normal. In a sense. However, there was little I could do about my skin tone. I was able to darken it slightly enough to the point that if I were to go out into sunlight and end up looking just like any other pasty white person, which is why I chose the color red for my hair. Naturally they’re fair skinned anyway, so now at least I would have some sort of alibi. But on days like today where it was nothing but brilliant sunlight, my ability meant almost nothing. I had to put forth more effort as to not “sparkle” as Gavin had once simply referred to it. Usually I just made sure to remain inside away from direct contact with the light, and made sure to run everywhere. It helped to wear hoodies and hats to cover as much of my skin as I could. It got hard to cover for myself.

There I did it again, I thought of Gavin.
 
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2. Eight Year (part 2)

I walked into the vast open room, this building had once been a church but was bought by the school after it closed and was now used to hold Professor David Lexion’s acting classes—but we all called him Dave. It also served as a place for help groups on campus to meet, or other organizations. I starred around at the stained glass windows and the raised ceiling above me. I always did this whenever I came to class; it was beautiful today of all days because the sun was so bright. Per usual I was the first one to class, but not for long. I heard the door open and I turned to see who had come. We were a small class of 15, only about six girls, me included. It was Caleb. I smiled at him. He was hansom enough, his short brown hair spiked in it’s normal fashion making his forehead look bigger then what it truly was, his eyes were a forest green color a little too small for his face though. He wasn’t exactly buff and was pretty thin for his height of about 5’7”, in heels I would probably tower over him, so again not the tallest guy or the buffest, but still nice. I could tell he liked me, even though I tried to use my ability to hide my cursed beauty some of it still showed through no matter what.

“Hey Tori.” he said taking off his backpack. “When did you get here? I didn’t see you walking. You must have been here for a while.”
Shoot. Caleb lived in the same dorm as me, only a floor below Nikki and me. I smiled casually, “Yeah I was already out this way so I just decided to stay over here.”
“That’s cool.” he said. He walked over to me.

I could tell he felt a little nervous, and I felt concerned. We were alone, the first time all semester; usually there were one of two other students by the time we each got there. He had been too scared to approach me outside of class. I knew this to be true; I had that effect on people, guys mainly. I hated it sometimes, but it did amuse me.

“So do you want to work on the scene with me?” he said in one breath, “Before class, as practice?”
No.
I hesitantly smiled, “Sure.”

His face lit up as he hurried to bag to grab the piece of paper. I sighed and rolled my eyes when his back was turned. It was kind of sad how he fawned over me. It was obvious during class; every time we had to pair up he always drifted my way. It soon became a mutual understanding that we were to be partners, or part of the same group in every activity we did. Not that I disliked the guy, but I mean I knew a relationship wasn’t going to go anywhere. Besides, how would he feel or react when he finds his girlfriend is able to crush him like a twig, or able to snap and go completely Dracula on his ass. Okay so the last bit was a bit of a stretch. Over the years I had become used to the scent of humans, and their blood. I never touched a single drop, and I swore to myself I never would.

“Tori? Are you ready?” Caleb asked already back at my side. I was lost in thought again.
“Yeah, I’m ready.”
“Don’t you need the script?” he asked.
“No I got it memorized.” I said dully, he looked at me in amazement.

We had only received the assignment last class. But when you have nothing else to do at night while your roommate and everybody else sleeps, a luxury that I forgot, what better then to study. I merely shrugged; still slightly peeved that no one else had shown up so I could quickly direct my attention to them. Just as my first line was about to come up I heard the footsteps coming closer and then the door flung open. I knew who it was before I turned around. It was Stan. I knew his fast paced and eager walk, plus I knew his scent. It was sweet. I ignored it though. I slowly opened my mouth to say my line when Stan spoke, I planned that well.

“Hey guys!” he said walking over. I saw the sour look on Caleb’s face, and the smug look on Stan’s. He had successfully broken up our little alone time; it had to make him proud. It made me roll my eyes. Usually girls wouldn’t mind if guys fought over each other to get to them, but when you have no choice, and you know that you can’t be with anyone anyway then it’s annoying. Extremely annoying. But I always tried not to let it show. Like I said I didn’t dislike any of them, I just couldn’t like any of them.
“Hi Stan.” I said, thankful he had come to join us. “We were just going over the scene that Dave gave us.”
“Great, I need to practice.” he said with the same smug look.

Luckily I could hear more footsteps approaching, Gale, Sam, and Justin. I sighed relieved glad that Gale and Sam would be here, now I wasn’t the only girl. When arrived in the room I walked over and began to talk to them. Our conversation simple and basic, lacking any true feelings. They didn’t take to me too much, they, as well as the other three girls in the class whose names I failed to remember, were jealous that the guys gave me the attention. All of the guys, except one. While Sam began to tell Gale about how she made it into our campus’s performance of Midsummer Nights Dream, I heard him getting closer. The door opened and I turned my head toward the door.

“Hey Jeremy!” Gale cried out with a wave suddenly breaking her concentration on Sam’s story. Sam shot an ungrateful look at Gale for a second.

“Hey Gale.” Jeremy waved back.

He was tall, about 6’3” with light brown hair that was normally swept off to the side in a punk sort of way, he had a nice muscle build to him, he probably played football back in high school, his features were evenly spaced and he looked like he could have been a movie star, but out of everything else his eyes were what made my head whirl the most. They were a light hazel with a hint of yellow in them. I pursed my lips for a second; I knew why I liked him. He looked like Gavin, well it was what I figured Gavin would look like if he was human and didn’t have his gorgeous vampire looks. It wasn’t exactly a horrible trade off. The thing was, Jeremy disliked me, I could tell. He shot me dirty looks now and then, and never once spoke to me this semester. I had to admit, I was kind of offended at first, I wasn’t used to getting that kind of attention from a guy before. I wondered about his dislike, but I never asked him or tried to pursue a friendship with him. He brushed past me, I saw him shiver a little. Another affect I had on people, even though I could change my appearance I couldn’t change what I really was underneath. And I hated it.

Class went by pretty fast, I hung back until everyone left including Dave so I could make my quick escape without anyone noticing my sudden absence. Besides, I liked that old church. It was a very peaceful place. Nikki still wasn’t back from class when I got to the dorm. So I took it upon myself to watch some TV. Nikki didn’t like the shows I did, or rather I didn’t like the shows she did. Most of all Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I scoffed at that show and couldn’t help but criticize out loud which was a little more then off for humans. So I made sure to leave whenever her favorite show came on. I flipped through the channels idly, there was nothing on. Eventually I gave and left it on a news station. I went on to starting some of my homework, but made sure not to do too much so I had something for tonight when Nikki slept. I started to read for my Econ class, when one of the stories on TV caught my ear.

A man and women were found dead today in a ravine five miles from Fort Wayne Indiana. The couple’s car was found nearby with several large dents in the roof and the windows shattered. The couple was found with limbs torn from their bodies, and drained of their blood. Police and officials have not released a statement about who or what they believed attacked this poor couple, as well as the their identities.

My head jerked up as I watched the TV, a bleach blonde news anchor reported the story, a single shot of the crumpled car flashed across the screen for several seconds before returning to the blonde women. I tensed up, and hardly noticed that I had broken the highlighter that I held in my hand. I knew that I alone understood what really took place. I shuddered to think of it being true though. I prayed as I sat there still tensely watching the TV as the next story about rising gas prices began, that my assumption was wrong. I had a bad feeling about this. “Gavin.” I said in a low growl. I cursed myself again, in eight years I hadn’t thought of Gavin so much in one single day. And now, was it possible that after eight years he finally found me? Fort Wayne wasn’t extremely far from Bowling Green, only a state over. Maybe it was a coincidence, one side of my brain told me. The other part laughed and knew better, it was him. I just had to be able fully admit it to myself.
 
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Still nonplussed by vampire anatomy:

>> But I had to admit it was annoying having to bring
>> everything I ate or drank back up later.

I could see this for the majority of vampire versions in fiction. The title character in "Angel," and his counterpart in the older good-vampire series "Forever Knight," both _wished_ they could eat food normally. But I had the impression from Gentle Voice that the vampires of the Twilight reality _were_ able to consume foods and beverages normally. I guess it's for the best that vampires _don't_ really exist, or I'd be baffled over what to serve when I invited them over for dinner.
 
i haven't yet finished reading the series and am only a third way through New Moon and they haven't mentioned this yet in the books yet but i read on a wiki site, not too much just the general information about being a vampire in the series, and they say "Vampires are also capable of eating human food, though their bodies are unable to digest it and they must cough it up later."

i haven't gotten to this part in the books yet if it is in the books or whatever. So i'm not a hundred percent on that fact, but for now I'm gonna stick with it. ^_^ lol
 
nice job QSon keep it up i am enjoing this story your a great writer.

Most of all Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I scoffed at that show and couldn’t help but criticize out loud which was a little more then off for humans.

Love that Line i don't think much of buffy either it was cool watching a girl kick butt but some of the stuff in it i could do without.

Not that I disliked the guy, but I mean I knew a relationship wasn’t going to go anywhere. Besides, how would he feel or react when he finds his girlfriend is able to crush him like a twig, or able to snap and go completely Dracula on his ass.

That part cracked me up i laughed out loud at that part.
 
(hope you enjoy the next chapter!)

3. Relationships -Pt1-

I spent most of that night pacing back and forth thinking things over in my mind. Contemplating the possibility that the attack was caused by another vampire. But I realized how unlikely that was, but a part of me hoped it was the truth. I just settled down in Bowling Green. Ohio wasn’t so bad. It was sunny a good half of the year, but with my ability and my new style of wearing hoodies and hats I avoided drawing too much attention to myself. I moved here thinking it would be one of the last places Gavin would search, but it seems I may have underestimated him. I really didn’t want to leave Bowling Green; it was my first time being at school in over 30 years. It sounds odd, but I felt like I had a purpose again. I glanced up at Nikki sleeping in her lofted bed, she rolled over and let out a loud snore, I half smirked.
Around 4 o’clock I realized that I shouldn’t be worrying about anything at all. It was probably a coincidence, there is no way that Gavin could have found me I made certain to hide my trail extremely well this time. I convinced myself I was just over reacting and climbed back up to my lofted bed. Nikki had a 8 a.m class and I would have to be in bed by the time she got up at 6:15. I still had over two hours but there was nothing else to do.

It rained the next day, for which I was very grateful. I didn’t have to wear a hoodie and look like I was incognito the whole time. Instead I wore a nice top and a pair of form fitting jeans. It almost wasn’t fair to the other girls on campus; even with my ability I could only hide my natural vampire beauty so much. I walked across campus in my purple and blue poke-dot rain boots holding my matching umbrella lost in my own thoughts. I still couldn’t shake the story of the couple on the news. I thought I faintly heard someone calling my name, but I ignored it. It wasn’t until Caleb was standing in front of me flagging me down that I snapped back to reality. How long he had been trying to get my attention I didn’t know, nor did I particularly care.
“Oh Hi Caleb. I’m sorry I spaced out.” I murmured still half distracted. He looked at me with a worried look on his face; he was drenched head to toe with only a light wind breaker attempting to keep the rain away from him. It actually made me laugh, he looked ridiculous. He blinked and a smile crawled across his face when he realized that he was the source of my laughter.

“Yeah, yeah.” he said, “My umbrella broke last week and I haven’t been able to go out and get one.” he snuck under my umbrella, but I didn’t object. “Hope you don’t mind.”
“No it’s fine.” I said composing myself. We began to walk slowly making our way to class. “Oh, was there something you wanted?”
“Not really.” Caleb said sticking close to my side, I flinched and tried to back away but there was no place for me to go. “Well, actually that’s a lie. I wanted to ask you something.”

I tensed up but tried to not let it show. “What’s up Caleb?” I said sounding casual.
“Well, you know that Halloween dance Alpha Phi Omega is having at the Union? I wanted to know….are you going?”

I drew in a breath and sighed, “I don’t think so. You have to pay what, 20 bucks to get in just to watch people prance around in silly costumes and make complete fools of themselves, while being judged by the others for wearing an equally absurd costume. Plus it’s going to be run by a bunch of half drunken frat guys, who, after they collect the money for their fraternity, will go off back to their house to finish getting trashed and proceed to run around campus making a lot of noise followed by the other fraternities. No thank you. Besides, I mean I might be new at this but isn’t that kind of High School-ish anyway?”

Caleb starred at me unable to answer after my rant, I looked over to him, his eyes suffered defeat. I had succeeded in tearing his kind offer to shreds. Those stupid soft vulnerable human eyes made me cringe and feel guilt. I half rolled my eyes. “Well, maybe I’ll think about it.”
His eyes lit up with delight, “Awesome, perhaps I’ll see you there.” he waited a beat, but I already knew what he was going to say. “Or, maybe we could, you know, go together?”
There was a note of hopefulness in his voice with the expression to match. I didn’t want to come off as a jerk like before so I replied slowly and tried to sound as flattered as possible.

“I’m not sure if I’m going to go yet. I’ll probably have a midterm to study for, and I think I have a project for sociology to work on.” I saw the hurt look in his eyes again. For some reason I was a sap for eyes, excuses and reasoning meant nothing to me. I could never stand the way someone looked when they were crushed and I caved. A monster like me caved to a mere human.

“Sure. If I go we’ll go together. If I go.” I made sure to emphasize the “If”. I could tell he wanted to hug me but my semi cold look told him that wouldn’t be a good idea. We walked to the old church in silence for class. Caleb seemed as if he wanted to say more, I kept my gaze forward ignoring him. I could feel that he was nervous; I was actually surprised he even had the gull to approach me at all. Not a lot of guys who came up to me actually spoke in full complete sentences, if they spoke at all. In many ways I guess I was intimidating, a scowl was usually planted on my face whenever I walked around—not that I was angry all the time it was just my normal expression even when I was in a good mood, I was quiet and kept to myself the best I could, and of course there was the fact that I had this unmentionable grace and beauty as a side effect of my curse. I could tell many people thought I was arrogant, a reason I was sure Gale and Sam didn’t like me.

Leaving class it was raining just as bad as before, and I figured I’d have to walk back with Caleb to the dorms again. Unfortunately, and to my surprise, Gale came running up next to me with her simple pink umbrella. She flashed a great smile at me, and I reluctantly returned it. “Hey Tori!” she said in her usual cheery tone.
“Hey Gale.” I attempted to return the same tone but failed.
“Mind if I walk with you?” she asked. I glanced back and saw Caleb was busy talking with Stan and one of the other boys in class, so I took this opportunity.
“Sure let’s go.” I said quickly walking out of the building, Gale had to practically run to keep up with me at first.

I slowed when I figured Caleb wouldn’t be able to catch us. Gale walked silently by my side, and I began to wonder why she wanted to walk with me in the first place.

“Is it true you and Caleb are a couple?” she asked with innocent curiosity. I stopped dead in my tracks; I replayed the question over again in my mind and fury began to build up inside of me.
“What!” I burst out in a snarl.
“He was bragging to people in class today. I heard him mention it to Stan and Matt before we left.”
So that was the reason for suddenly wanting to talk to me. I was mad at myself for not hearing Caleb mention it, I should have heard it but again my mind was a million miles away. My ears were perfectly suited for hearing things miles away yet because of Gavin I had been too preoccupied to notice. Gale looked at me as if I was crazy, but she seemed to be enjoying it.

“No!” I finally managed to get out, “I said I might go to that stupid Halloween dance with him if I decided to go. But I haven’t decided anything yet!” I fumed. I noticed Gale had taken a step away from me while I let off steam. A twisted smile came onto her face,
“That’s too bad. I was looking forward to seeing you two there. I’m going with Jeremy.” her eyelashes fluttered when she said his name, “I have yet to ask him but I know he’ll say yes.”

I didn’t care what she was saying so I tuned out, right now I focused on Caleb and began to imagine the things I could do to him to exact my revenge. I had half a mind to march back there and show Caleb a thing or two.

I heard a small crack.
“Uhh, Tori?”
I looked down and realized that the plastic grip on my umbrella had cracked, after I had tightened my hand around it in anger. I released and a few pieces fell to the wet ground.
“Stupid cheap umbrella.” I said off handedly. “If you don’t mind Gale I’m going to hang back and see if I can talk to Caleb.” I tried to keep my voice sweet as possible, it wasn’t easy.

Gale smiled again and walked off with a shrug, she had completed her deed in making me angry. I glared after her, she was nosy, I was sure I liked her better then Sam but after this little performance I had second thoughts. From that moment on Gale had replaced Sam on my list of people to dislike.
 
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3. Relationships -Pt2-

I waited on the sidewalk; people passing me by and every now and then they would give me an odd look. But I finally saw Caleb coming; I tried to calm myself before I broke the rest of my umbrella. He was soaked again, if he even dried off in class, smiling at me as he approached.
“Why did you tell Stan and Matt we were dating?” I asked through gritted teeth when he came within earshot. The smile faded slightly from his face.
“I never said that. I told them I was going to the Halloween dance with you, that’s all.” his voice was high, I knew he was lying, anyone could tell that Caleb was lying. Poorly, lying.

“Gale said that you told them that we were a couple!” I nearly shouted.
“She heard me?” he muttered quietly, with guilt in his voice.
“Oh yeah she heard you and she’s probably going to spread it to everyone she knows. You know I have two classes with her? And she happens to live in our dorm.” I said still trying not to let anger take complete control.

“Look I’m sorry!” Caleb said, “Really I am. I was just so stoked that you said you’d go with me I guess I got a little carried away. I hope this doesn’t ruin things between us, next class I swear I’ll set the record straight.”

His begging began to make me sick, it was almost pathetic, I lowered my umbrella so he couldn’t see me roll my eyes several times during his pleas for forgiveness.
“Alright.” I muttered quickly, “I’m not mad, just don’t do it again promise?” I would have said anything if it got him to stop begging.
“Of course, look I really am sorry Tori. I just really like you.” I watched as he flushed a light shade of pink.
“I said I wasn’t mad, but I still don’t know if I’m going to that stupid dance.” I said, my anger subsiding.

He smiled and got back under my umbrella, again I didn’t protest. The rain began to let up as we headed back across campus to our dorms; it even came to a point where an umbrella wasn’t necessary anymore.

When I got up to my room and opened the door Nikki came out of nowhere and lunged at me, if my heart was beating it would have stopped.
“Why didn’t you tell me you and Caleb were going out!” she shrieked grabbing my shoulders. I scowled; remembering how it turned out that Gale was roommates with Nikki’s boyfriend Daniel’s sister Beth. I hated how everything and everyone seemed to be connected somehow. I just wished this whole day was over. As I flopped down into my purple fluffy chair there was a couple raps on the dorm door. I ignored the visitor; Nikki on the other hand eagerly got up and opened the door.

“Hey, oh sorry I have the wrong dorm.” I heard a soft voice say. I stiffened at the voice suddenly recognizing the scent. It was Jeremy from acting class. I don’t know why I tensed up when I recognized who it was. The guy didn’t like me, so maybe that was the reason, or was it because he bared a resemblance to Gavin? I glanced at Nikki who merely shrugged with a smile.
“That’s cool. Who are you looking for?”
“Gale?”
Of course he was, I rolled my eyes and pretended not to be listening to the conversation. Nikki nodded, “She’s on the seventh floor, room 728 I believe.”
“Oh and this is 278.” Jeremy said. “Sorry to bother you then.”

Nikki closed the door and headed back over to her desk. I picked up the remote and began to surf through the channels on TV.
“What was that about?” I asked innocently.
“Oh some guy looking for Gale,” she laughed, “Of all people right?”
I nodded, “Yeah. Go figure.”
We were quiet for a few minutes, it seemed that Nikki had forgotten about the gossip of Caleb and me. Then, as if she could read my mind, Nikki spun around in her chair giving me a sly smile.

“So, tell me everything!” she said. It was like I was about to talk to a reporter from a gossip magazine. Nikki seemed ready to hang on my every word, I could have told her that a meteor was going to fall from the sky and me and Caleb were chosen as the last two people to repopulate the Earth, and she’d probably believe me.

“There isn’t anything to tell.” I muttered, “Just some confusion. I just told Caleb if I were to go to that Alpha Phi Omega Halloween dance, I said he could accompany me.”
“Oh Tori! That’s so wonderful, you and Caleb can double date with me and Daniel now!” Nikki cried. I cringed at the thought of sitting at a table next to Nikki and across from Caleb and Daniel. I imagined Caleb reaching over to take my hand. I quickly shook the vision from my mind and turned my attention back to Nikki.
“We could if Caleb and I were even dating.” I snapped turning the TV off. Nikki made a sour face and went back to laptop; I figured she would be mad at me for at least rest of the night.

The day started off well but was down spiraling toward disaster. If I had to hear Caleb’s name one more time I was going to lose it. It also didn’t help that I was growing thirsty; it had been quite some time since I last hunted. I would have to go out tonight, I just hoped Nikki would pass out early from studying. I wasn’t sure I would be able to explain why my eyes had suddenly turned black the next day, they were already darker then my normal gold. Having to hear all of this Caleb nonsense just made it more tempting to just take him out. Of course I would never result to that, but I had to admit it did sound like one way to put an end to this situation.
 
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Chapter 4 Eyes

(( Be sure to re read the first couple chapters. They have been updated and information has been added or changed!!!))

4. Eyes (part 1)

I began to dig my nails into the soil of the forest floor. I tore up roots from all plant life in my surrounding area, leaving distant sized holes in the ground. The sun was directly overhead and the beams that came through the trees reflected off our great white bodies causing them to glisten like diamonds. But I ignored this it was normal for us. The first time I saw what direct sunlight did to us I was honestly amazed and speechless. Now it was so common that the light looked dull to my eyes, nothing special about it. My attention was directed elsewhere, three weeks had passed and I hadn’t hunted. Actually I refused to hunt which made Gavin and the others very frustrated with me.
“Ally, you have to hunt sometime.” Gavin said lazily watching me from the branch of another tree. It was safe to stay out of my way when I got like this. I didn’t reply in words I just merely snarled and dug my hands deeper into the ground. I heard him sigh.
“Gavin.” Damien had returned and greeted him. Damien was the oldest off us all, in fact he created Gavin and the two had been wandering together since around the 1800’s. I never asked for the full and detailed story, I knew it was a sensitive subject with Gavin. Even if I didn’t know why. Somehow through all of this, Gavin had become our leader; maybe it was because Damien thought he was too old. He was frozen at around the age of 25, very attractive with long dark brown hair that was tied back into a ponytail. He wasn’t very beefy at all but instead rather gangly, more so then even Gavin who looked like he could have been a fashion model.
“She still hasn’t hunted?” Damien asked. I could feel his eyes starring down at me from Gavin’s tree.
“No.” Gavin sighed. “She refuses to.”
Damien was silent. I knew he was thinking. Being the oldest he was naturally the wisest of us as well, although he wasn’t the strongest or even the fastest.
“Well I don’t know about you two but I’m completely full!” I knew that the satisfied growl above belonged to Ash who just returned from his victorious hunt. Ash was a tank, short and simple. He was the strongest and not to be messed with. His temper was something I dabbled in once and learned my lesson quiet fast. I never dared challenged him again. He became my big brother and liked to pick on me, and was always the first to stick up for me. Even before Gavin would Ash would be there to protect me from Damien or Gavin himself if I did something wrong. I loved Ash, he was such a lovable beefy dork. He had big eyes; gold of course, I always imagined them being a bright shade of baby blue when he was human. I couldn’t think of another color they might have been. His short dirty blonde hair matched perfectly with his twin sister’s.

“Hey Damien, Gavin. Aww Alex!” The sweet sympathetic voice came from Faw, she along with the other three liked to call me Alex rather than Ally. Making it a more personal gesture between Gavin and myself. She was only a year older than me physically, a good 40 years older immortally speaking. Faw assumed the role as my older sister she always said she wanted a baby sister. She and Ash were twins, Gavin once told me it was rare to find a true brother and sister pair of vampires, Faw liked to remind us of how rare she and Ash were. She had long dirty blonde hair that reached her lower back, that danced whenever she ran. I loved to watch Faw run, it was like watching the wind blow through the trees. She was the fastest, and most graceful. At first I jealous of her and even got into combat with her a few times, that was when I was just a newborn though.
It had only been a few months and I was still a newborn, and still thirsted for human blood. That’s why I was here on the forest floor thrashing about and throwing whatever I could get my hands on. My eyes were pitch black and had been this way for a few days now. I wanted to drink so badly, I wanted to go and hunt but not bears or lions. I wanted humans. Of course Gavin and the others would never allow that. They would just put up with my adolescent behavior and keep me in check here up in the Rocky Mountains. We had traveled far since I was first created; Gavin said it wasn’t safe in the city, not while I was a newborn.

So there were five of us a rather large number according to Gavin. He only knew of two other families that were just as large, and thankfully they were golden-eyed vampires too. We never made contact with them; Gavin thought it’d be too much of a hassle. Too many vampires in one area, especially around a human settlement would be bound to stir up some talk, and he didn’t think the Volturi would appreciate that very much.
I was warned about them early on. Again it was another subject Gavin did not like to discuss, so I never brought it up. I did my best to try and make Gavin happy. Not that it was a hard task, but I made sure that I wasn’t doing something that bothered him. Except this.

I let out a loud growl and this time threw a rotting log up at Gavin and the others.
“Look out!” Ash caught the log as everyone else scattered to another tree and tossed it in another direction landing in a crash of broken branches.
“This is getting ridiculous Gavin.” Damien muttered, “She’ll tear this forest apart if she gets the chance. Not to mention she’s slowing us down, we’re three days behind now.”
“I know.” Gavin said, “Stay here let me go and fix this.”
He jumped down from the tree and cautiously walked over to me, I threw branches and rocks in his direction but he easily dodged them.
“Ally, come on. I know your thirsty and there are plenty of animals around here to hunt.” he tried to reason with me, but I wouldn’t have it.
“I don’t want to eat another animal! I can’t do it!” I growled.
“I know it’s hard the first year but we can control this. You can control this.” his voice was soft only above a whisper. “Please, the others are getting impatient having to wait for you to cave, or for me to hunt for you and force you to drink. I don’t want to do that anymore.” he extended his hand out toward me. “Ally,” every time he said my name it seemed to calm my anger. “Ally could you at least try for me?”
That did it. That last sentence made me stop having my tantrum. I starred at him.
“How do you do it?” I asked harshly, “I don’t see how it’s possible. It doesn’t seem like I’ll ever get over this urge, this thirst.”
He smiled glad to see that my fit was done with. “It is true that the first couple years are difficult. I thought the same thing at first you know. I gave this whole animal blood thing a chance, and within a few years I began to not want human blood so much. It gets easier, but it’ll take time. You’ve only been around for about 7 months, you can’t expect to hunt once and be fully cured of your thirst for humans.”
I snorted, it seemed like we had had this conversation many times before but this was the first time I actually listened. I turned from him slowly and glanced over my shoulder at him, he was still smiling. Something moved off in the distance out of the corner of my eye, and I took off for it. Gavin and the others must have seen it too because they didn’t come after me like they did when I tried to get away. I ran through the forest and came up close to my prey, a full-grown grizzly bear.


Gavin, Damien, Ash and Faw were still in the same spot when I returned, Ash jumped down from the tree and landed with a great thud. He wasn’t the most agile of us; he was good for defense mostly.
“Good!” is all he said with a satisfied grin. They had seen the entire hunt from this place.
“I’m proud of you!” Faw was suddenly behind my right shoulder patting me on the back. “I remember how hard it was for me.”
Damien didn’t say anything at all, I got an odd feeling he didn’t like me so much. He hardly ever spoke to me and when he did it was usually in short, and not so sweet, sentences. He just starred off into space leaning back against a tree. Gavin on the other hand came forward with the same smile I left him with.
“Told you you could control it.” he said smugly, I knew this tone was made in a joking manner but I still scowled at him for a moment. Faw was standing next to her brother within seconds,
“Well, let’s get going then! I hear there is better game up in Canada.” she said rubbing her hands together. Ash chuckled and nodded. Damien again said nothing but took off through the forest with the twins to follow. Gavin and me were left standing alone. We were locked in each other’s gaze. His eyes were such a perfect shade of honey gold; his eyes always drew me in. They were somehow different then Damien’s, Ash’s or even Faw’s. My eyes on the other hand were a scary tinge of red; I truly looked like a monster while he resembled a Greek god. They all looked like Greek gods being accompanied by some evil creature. Gavin looked back over his shoulder.
“I think we should go and catch up before they reach Canada without us.”

He extended his hand to me; before I didn’t take it but this time I eagerly took hold and smiled. His eyes flashed with sudden joy and then we were running through the trees. I loved his eyes more than anything else on the planet. I wanted my own to be just like his and the others. I hated my blood-red eyes, and couldn’t wait for my first year to be over. I wanted to be seen as an equal amongst our coven, not as the newbie. I knew that if Gavin wasn’t there I probably wouldn’t have hunted, or I would have been hunting the wrong kind of game. I knew I wouldn’t have done a lot of things if Gavin was not there. I depended on him a lot, and in reality he didn’t seem to mind one tiny bit.
 
Chapter 4 Eyes

4. Eyes (part 2)

Vampires don’t dream, mainly because we can’t sleep. Leave it to me to find a way to revisit memories without sleeping. I sat in the corner of the union far from the large windows drawing in mindlessly in my sketchbook again. I had one more class before my day would be over so I decided to come right to the union instead of my dorm; I was taking every chance I got to avoid Nikki. She still wouldn’t drop the whole Caleb issue. It had been two days of non-stop questions and speculation about how I really felt about Caleb. As much as I tried to ignore her or even humor her by pretending to care or listen, I wasn’t sure I could stand one more question about him before I snapped and did something I knew I would regret.
I spaced out after I sat down and took my sketchbook out, I no longer saw the blank page in front of me nor heard other students talking around me. Instead I saw vivid images dealing with my past, like I had backward premonitions. It was either that or I had a great photographic memory and chose to relive chosen moments for some reason. I was too nostalgic for my own good. While the day dreams, as I decided to categorize them, seemed to last the real time for myself it only lasted a minute or two back on planet Earth, a place where I was obviously alien. I sighed, slightly disturbed at my most recent memory, I wasn’t sure why I chose to remember that event out of everything in the past 30 years. I glanced down at my sketchbook; within that minute I had drawn a full figured piece. It was I, well what I used to look like. But I had a wild look in my eye and I was posed in a crouched ready to leap position.

“You’re a good artist.” Caleb said over my right shoulder.
I was still in my semi daydream state and failed to hear him approach. I was getting really good at doing things like that these days.
Slamming the sketchbook closed I turned slowly to him.
“Thanks.” I said forcing a smile to my face. Without an invitation Caleb walked around the table and took a seat directly across from me.
“It’s true though.” he said setting his book bag on the chair next to him. I was silent, hoping maybe he’d get bored and go away. But my luck wasn’t as such.
“I just wanted to say I’m sorry, again.” he said breaking the thick air. “It was stupid of me to do that. I was wondering if I could make it up to you Tori, like buying you lunch.”
“I said I wasn’t mad anymore Caleb.” my voice was even and calm, “You don’t have to buy me anything.”
I expected more groveling and offerings off food, but to my surprise Caleb dropped the subject.
“Alright.” he said, “If that’s the way you feel about it. I mean I guess once you’ve set your mind to something there is no point in trying to change it eh?”
I smiled a little and gave a nod, “I guess you’re right. I can be stubborn.”
“I can see this.” Caleb smiled back at me, “So have you given any thought to the dance yet? I mean no rush in your decision I was just wondering seeing as how it’s coming up next Friday.”

He added the last part in a hurry seeing that I was about ready to protest. I closed my mouth and sat there starring at him. His eyes were powerful, but not enough to burn through me. I couldn’t help but grin at him, what the grin really meant I didn’t know.

“I’m still thinking it over.” I finally said. “I’ve never been too big on Halloween anyway. It’s just not my kind of holiday.”
“Are you joking? It’s the one night a year you get to go around dressed as something else and no one can make fun of you for it. Plus you get candy. It used to be my favorite time of year when I was a kid.” Caleb said, his eyes were glazed over as he sat back to remember his days as a child.
“Still, I’ve never cared for it. It’s too cliché, and stereotypical.” I muttered scratching my head, “It’s not even a true holiday.”
“Alright then,” Caleb said coming back from his nostalgic adventure “What was, or is, your favorite holiday. I dare you to name one thing better than goblins, ghosts, and ghouls.”

“When I was, younger,” I couldn’t say when I was child because that was so long ago; I hardly remembered my life as a real human anymore. Instead I referred to my younger days as a vampire, out of context though it just seemed like any other conversation of childhood. “I favored my birthday.”
Caleb chuckled, “Oh yeah getting presents is the best. I suppose that’s up there too, but you always get another year older which kind of blows.”
I couldn’t believe we were having a normal conversation. I was amazed at how comfortable Caleb felt around me, it almost made me feel human. It was moments like these that made me forget about Gavin and the others, I become absorbed into the moment didn’t feel I needed to worry about trivial things like hunting or having to hide from the direct sunlight. The feeling only lasted for seconds at a time, but they were good seconds.

“I never gave getting old a second thought.” the truth, and I was right back into my problems as a vampire. “And it was never the gifts, it was just the feeling of being with the people I loved.” the bitter truth and it was hard to get out. Caleb nodded thoughtfully.
“You’re so smart Tori. Very mature, I bet you were like that when you were a kid.” he winked at me, “My younger cousin was like that too. Always mature for her age.” he paused seeing the troubled expression on my face, it stemmed from the fact that I couldn’t recall what I was actually like when I was eight or nine. Caleb had no way of knowing the truth and apologized, “I hope that didn’t come out as an insult. I meant it as a compliment, really I hope I didn’t insult you.”
“No.” I said, “It’s not that, I swear it came off as a nice compliment. Thank you.”
He seemed pleased that I wasn’t cross with what he said, seeing as how my recent trend had been jumping down his throat for saying the slightest thing wrong. Caleb leaned back in the chair and reached for his book bag.

“Well, I should be going. I have Chemistry in 10 minutes, and it takes me like 15 to get there.” He made a face and placed his hand behind his hand and chuckled, “Guess I’ll be making a run for it. I’ll see you later Tor.”

I waved at him and watched as he darted past people in the union making his way toward one of the exits. The clock across from me hanging on the wall told me that I had 20 minutes until my next class, and with my speed I didn’t have to leave in order to make it on time. So I sat there and reopened my sketchbook and began to retrace the pencil marks on the self-portrait I had just finished. It was an old self-portrait of what I used to look like; I almost forgot that this body wasn’t really me. It wasn’t Alexandra. It was Tori.
I sighed as I traced the eyes, so fierce and crazed. They weren’t like that anymore; I had finally gained the eyes I wanted. But I still wanted to see the eyes I longed for, even after telling myself they wouldn’t be the ones I fell in love with and used to know. They would be different, the next time I’d see Gavin I knew that it would be the monster gazing at the god again. Except this time the roles would be switched.
 
Chapter 5 Bad Day

5. Bad Day (part 1)


The next couple days passed without Nikki mentioning Caleb’s name once. I suppose she was afraid to say his name without receiving a cold look from me in return. And luckily Caleb made good on his promise that he would set the record straight with the guys, the look on Gale’s face was almost priceless. My indifference toward her was steadily growing into pure hatred. She didn’t even have to do much and I would glare at her or think badly of her. I was still sour for the way she pranced up to me that one class and blurted out the secret Caleb was obviously going to try and keep from me, she had this I’m so much better than you are attitude that it truly annoyed me. I never noticed it before but Gale’s real personality made Sam seem nice. Then again they both could be nice people, but it was clear that the two of them did not like me in the least and I made sure to make it clear that I didn’t favor them either.

Class became a time where we tried to show each other up. Each time we had the chance to act out a scene Gale and Sam’s hands would be the first raised. Then they would dance up there and perform, and each time I would gag. When it came to group or partner work, Sam either chose Matt or Stan, I was naturally pared with Caleb who seemed to be attached to my hip these days, and Gale was certain to always pick Jeremy. Which was good because he still hadn’t made any attempt to acknowledge my presence in any form. Everyone else in class had looked at me at least, made a small attempt to say hello to me. Except Jeremy, it was like I was invisible to him or it was like I simply didn’t exist at all. I disliked him for the simple fact that he was just utterly rude. There was nothing that crossed my mind that I may have done to offend him in anyway. The more I thought about it I realized that I hadn’t actually even said hello to the guy. My curiosity wanted me to march over each class to find out why I deserved the silent treatment.

It was Friday exactly one week until Halloween and that stupid dance that seemed important to all of my friends except me. Today in acting we were assigned partners by Dave, and I swear he had to have something in for me cause I didn’t see this next one coming. Or maybe I did but I refused to admit it to myself. Gale was paired with Sam, Caleb with Kathleen—another girl in class—and I was paired with Jeremy. Just my luck. As soon as he called us off at a pair I tensed up in my seat and glanced quickly over to Jeremy expecting him to scowl or make some kind of face but he seemed unbothered by this event. It was as if he didn’t even hear Dave call out names together. I was furious by the end of class, I immediately took out my ipod and headed for the bus stop as soon as class let out. At least the weather was in my favor today, of all days to have such a bad day.

“Hey Tori!” Caleb shouted after class was over, I had my ear buds in so he assumed I was unable to hear him. Wrong.
I stopped and turned to him, “Hey Caleb.” I said without taking the ear buds out.
“Sucks that we didn’t get to be partners this time.” he said with obvious sadness.
“Yeah I know. Wish we could have been placed together.” my words were sincere and true. It made him smile.
“You going to take the bus?” he asked.
“Yeah, kind of not in the mood for walking.” I muttered. I wanted to have a chance to calm down so I figured once around campus via bus would be a good start. I wouldn’t have to move and I could concentrate, unless Caleb wanted to ride with me. I cringed a little waiting for him to respond.
“I hear you. I’d ride with you but Kathleen wants to start working right away.” he rolled his eyes dramatically and flashed me another smile. “Oh by the way, Happy Birthday Tori! Nikki told me it was today, October 24 right?” he added seeing the look of confusion, with a bit of hidden panic, stretch across my face. I sighed and played it off well and gave a nod.
“Yeah. Another year older.” I said with false enthusiasm, “Yay me. Thanks.”

The bus pulled up to the stop and thankfully I had no choice but to leave, Caleb waved as I turned my back on him. I jogged to the stop waiting for others to empty the bus; I pushed through the crowd of people at the stop gently so I could get on. Taking a seat toward the back I starred absently out the window as the bus started to move forward.
My Birthday. I was now exactly 30, referring to my time as an immortal. I forgotten what day I was born as a human, I think it was in March or maybe May. I wasn’t positive. I sighed and sat back in the crappy and uneven bus seat, I let my mind wander as I usually did; Caleb’s word of “Happy Birthday Tori!” ringing in my ears.


“Come on Ally hurry up!”
I could hear Gavin calling after me; I could also hear the smile in his voice. I was normally the slowest of the bunch. I was the last to join; Ash and Faw came in about five years before I showed up. I was still new at this whole vampire thing; I was only turning 10 a decade old but seemed like so much longer.
“Alex, are you going to let him taunt you like that?” Faw came up right next to me now, running. I could tell she was slowing her pace in order to keep with my short strides. Silently I cursed myself for being slow, but I smiled back at her. Her long dirty blonde hair danced behind her as she changed over to my left side and gave me a wink. I picked up my pace as best as I could, continuing to follow Gavin, Damien, and Ash through the forest. I heard Faw let out a small laugh and suddenly burst out ahead of me.
A few seconds later I caught up with the rest, Gavin was sitting leaning back lazily in a tree. He raised an eyebrow at me, “Nice of you to join us Ally.” he jibed.
“I didn’t think I was that important.” I muttered rolling my eyes. “Where are you leading us anyway?” I didn’t recognize this part of the forest, we had been settled in this part of the Rockys for two years now and I thought I knew every inch and every twig.
Faw skipped over and placed her hands on my shoulders and shoved me forward with little to no effort.

“Actually where are we leading you?” she corrected. I glanced around at the others, Ash had a smirk on his face but Damien kept a serious almost grim expression, he was good at that.
“What?” I finally got out. Gavin leapt gracefully down from the tree and walked over to me. He gave a nod to Faw; she let go of my shoulders. Gavin took my hand and began to lead me forward. Damien, Ash and Faw walked casually behind us.
“Close your eyes.” Gavin instructed, I did what he said without question. I covered my eyes with my free hand and let him guide me.
“This is foolish, what are you doing?” I asked after a minute of silence.
“Just hold on.” Gavin purred, his hand tightened around mine.

“Okay, open them.” we had stopped, but Gavin didn’t let go of my hand. I dropped my hand and opened my eyes; I blinked and let my mouth drop open.
I found myself standing on the edge of a cliff starring out to the setting sun. I could see the Rocky Mountains stretch out before me, the sun danced across the snow caps, and the sky opened up to a sea of red and orange. It shouldn’t have come as such a shock to me; I had seen the mountain range before, but not like this. And for some reason standing there with Gavin holding my hand made it all the more beautiful.
I starred in awe at the scenery, it looked like something I had seen in an art museum before. It was in a word, perfect, the details were so precise that the whole setting looked like we had stepped into a piece of art. I could feel Gavin’s eyes on me; I turned to face him at a loss for words.

“You like it?” he asked. I couldn’t answer I just nodded. Ash and Faw chuckled behind me lightly. I had forgotten that they were even there; Gavin looked over his shoulder and gave a nod.
“I’m glad you like it.” Gavin said in a soft voice turning back to me.
I was still awed by the twilight, I almost didn’t notice that Faw, Ash and Damien had left and we were alone. I nodded, this time I squeezed his hand back. He smiled, and moved closer to me.
“Happy Birthday, Ally.” he whispered in my ear. Not my human birthday of course, but it had been 10 years to the day, and even time, when Gavin found me lying on the streets back in Cleveland. I turned to face him, awe still in my expression. It made him laugh; he was only inches away from me now.

“Thank you.” I uttered, “Thank you so much Gavin. It’s beautiful, I know I’ve seen the sunset before but this is just something else.” I must have sounded so stupid, “I mean—“
“It’s okay you don’t have to say anything.” Gavin grinned. “I’m really glad I found you Ally.”
These words took me by surprise, normally we never talked about that day, I didn’t like to discuss it, usually these ‘Birthdays’ made me uncomfortable and uneasy. But this was the best gift I had gotten, probably for any birthday, even my human ones. “I’m glad you were the one to find me.” I said back, it was the only thing I could think of.
He smiled back at me and went silent; I returned my attention to the sun as is slowly began to fall beneath the horizon.
The sunlight hit us both, causing the area around use to be filled with different colors of light. I glanced back at him, I had never seen such a perfect person before, vampire or otherwise. He sparkled, as Gavin always referred to it, and suddenly I couldn’t focus on the sunset anymore, but instead him. Gavin glanced down at me and flashed a smile.
 
5. Bad Day (part 2)

“Fate has a funny way of working out doesn’t it?” he chuckled and moved behind me not letting go of my hand for a single second. I didn’t know what he meant, I wanted to ask him but he continued before I could open my mouth.
“I’ve wandered this planet for about a century, I thought I was cursed to be alone forever. I thought that my life was in a sense over when I became this.” he hesitated for a second, “But that night, when I saw you there police cars flooding to the scene. I just couldn’t let you go. I don’t know what it was that made me save you, I’m sure glad I did. And holding you while you were changing, I didn’t want to let you go.”

He held my hand tighter, if possible, I stood completely still listening to him speak. I loved his voice, but I loved the words he was speaking even more at the moment. I had no idea Gavin felt like this; I thought I was just another vampire in training to him. Just a part of the coven. I was nervous to hear the rest but eager all at the same time. I couldn’t figure out why he suddenly decided to open up like this, all I knew is I wanted to tell him everything as well.
“I felt like I had been reborn, that my purpose had been revitalized. I no longer hated my existence, cause I knew you were there to share it with me,” Gavin leaned in closer to me, I tilted my head back to look up at him,
“I realized that I was meant to live like this, I was just waiting for you to come along I know it sounds kind of foolish, but you’re the reason I’m here Ally.” he smirked. “Listen to me ramble on.”
“No.” I said softly, “I like the sound of it, keep going.”
“Ally, I’ve never been happier than when I’m with you. I don’t think I ever will be happier,” he leaned closer to my face. I stopped breathing for a second waiting for him to finish his thought.
“I love you Ally.”

I couldn’t describe exactly how I felt at that moment, for I had never felt that way before even when I was human. I may not have remembered much, but I knew I would have remembered this emotion because it was something I figured no one could ever forget.
I looked up at him and with a straight face stood on my tiptoes, “I love you too Gavin.” our lips touched.

It was a calm sweet kiss at first but Gavin suddenly pulled away for a second and spun me around, and our lips were met in contact again. I lost track of time but we remained that way in each other’s embrace until after the sun finished setting and the moon was rising high in the night’s sky. Finally Gavin gently pushed away, and starred at me with his golden eyes. I had never seen him in such a glorious mood, as he probably never saw me in such a fine mood either. We broke out into laughter for a few long moments until he wrapped his arms around me and rested his chin on top of my head. I held him tight and let my head lay on his chest.
“Don’t ever leave me.” I whispered, it was more of a demand than anything.
“I would never do such a thing.” Gavin said. “Just as long as you don’t leave me of course.”
“I could never do that Gavin, never in a millennia.” I said, he reached up and began to run his fingers through my light brown hair, almost the same shade as his, and kissed the top of my head. I dreamed that single moment would last forever, that Gavin and I would remain standing there locked in each other’s arms until the sun imploded. There was nothing I wouldn’t give to have stayed there for eternity.



I took a deep breath trying to clear my mind, to no avail however. That latest memory brought back so much pain for me. I thought I had shoved that to the back of my mind to never bring it up again. I was dead wrong. The bus was taking longer to get back to the dorm then I would have liked. I couldn’t stand to be on it for another moment and got off at the next stop. I still had some walking to do before I would get back. In an attempt to take my mind away from Gavin, I turned my ipod back on and hit shuffle on. I flinched at the first song that came up, “My Heart Will Go On”. Cruel irony. I scoffed and clicked next, “Always Be My Baby.” Next. “All You Need is Love.”

I ripped the ear buds from my ears and preceded to throw my ipod to the ground, it bounced off the sidewalk in several piece and landed in the grass. I was sure it wouldn’t work again, thank god. Someone cleared their throat behind me; I turned around ready to tell the person to mind their own business.
“What did that ipod ever do to you?” Jeremy asked with a mocking smiling. I almost screamed, seeing him standing there in front of me was the last thing I needed at the moment. But I was more shocked at hearing him speak, starring, and focusing on me for the first time. I didn’t know how to feel exactly.
“What do you want? Just because we’re partners doesn’t mean you gave to follow me.” I said through gritted teeth ignoring the crazed stares I was receiving from those around me.
“Don’t flatter yourself. You left your notebook on the bus.” he was holding out my familiar three subject black covered notebook.
Was he on the bus?

I suppose I was too busy thinking about Gavin to notice. I reached out to grab it, he attempted to snatch it back but I was naturally too fast for him.
“Thanks.” I said shoving it into my messenger bag. He stood there just starring at me, no real readable expression. I raised an eyebrow and started to feel self-conscious.

“Anything else?” I said with more acid then necessary, he didn’t seem affected by my tone though.
“No, just thought it’d be a good idea to have it.” Jeremy put his hands in his coat pocket. The temperature had gone down that week, it was clear that fall was at full force. The skies were cloudier which made me happier.
He didn’t walk away though, it still seemed that he wanted to tell me something, even though I didn’t want to hear it.
“Thanks.” I turned back and started walking again ignoring the bits of my ipod on the ground. But Jeremy came jogging up beside me a few seconds later.
“So you, and Caleb from Acting huh?” there he said it, I rolled my eyes. Last week Caleb decided to spread to all his friends, and non-friends that we were a couple. I really regretted saying I’d think about going to the Halloween dance with him. It was all anyone in class could talk about, they kept watching us both trying to see if he was going to kiss me or do something all boyfriend like.

“Not like it’s any of your business.” I spat taking the corner very sharply; Jeremy did a double take but followed right after me.
“So it’s true then.” I couldn’t read the meaning behind this, so I gave up after half a minute of silence.
“No. It’s not true, Caleb just has a big mouth.” I growled, “What’s it to you anyway?”
“Just curious. Because I think Caleb could do much better, I mean if it were true.”

I thought about snapping his neck and tearing his head off right then and there. I stopped instantly on a dime and spun on the balls of my feet to face him directly. He stopped and backed away about a foot. I was livid, and I could just see the joy in Jeremy’s eyes, his rich hazel eyes. I tried not to look him in the eyes the best I could.
“I don’t understand you. You spend almost a whole semester worth of classes not speaking to me, or looking at me, and practically avoiding me. Just so you could wait to find something to use against me in order to mock and insult me?” I was surprised that I hadn’t been shouting at him.

“Please, I didn’t need to wait to use something against you.” he said rolling his eyes. I swear it took all my willpower not to reach up and smack the smug look right off his gorgeous face.
“What is your problem?” I finally managed to say without exploding. His smug expression changed quickly to irritation. He drew in a breath and dared to walk closer to me.
“You really don’t see it do you?” he half whispered. I had no idea what he was talking about; I gaped at him in confusion. He scoffed, “You know what never mind. You’re welcome by the way.” he stalked past me, “Have fun with Caleb at the dance, hope to see you there Tori.”

His voice became light and cheery again, and I couldn’t be sure but the way he said my name made me think there was some hidden meaning behind it. I couldn’t place it, but the tone didn’t quite fit with the rest of the sentence. It had a hint of sarcasm but with a dark overtone. It baffled me, but mostly angered me. It would be my luck that today of all days I would have the single worst day of the semester.
“Happy Birthday to me.” I murmured grumpily and sulked back to the dorm, praying that Nikki would be out with Daniel. I couldn’t handle her bright disposition at the moment, in fact it was the last thing I needed.
 
Chapter 6 Halloween

6. Halloween (part 1 of 3)

I had a lot of time to think things over during the weekend. Nikki had gone on a camping trip with her boyfriend, leaving Friday and coming back sometime early Monday morning. I was very grateful for the peace and quiet, and yet I was kind of upset that Nikki was gone. I didn’t know if it was because I knew Gavin was out there, or if I had really grown accustomed to having humans around me practically 24/7. Maybe it was a little of both. During those days or solitude I tried to make a plan of what I was going to do if Gavin, Damien, Ash, and Faw really did show up. I figured those three would be by his side anyway, they were always loyal followers. Not a single one could ever think for themselves, I cursed them all under my breath.

Every now and then though, for some reason, Jeremy would come into my mind. He was just there, like I could see him standing in front of me. Never said a word or made a gestured of any sort, he just stayed there in my mind. We hadn’t talked since that day after I got off the bus. I skipped class on Monday and Tuesday hoping to avoid him, it worked. He didn’t even come looking for me so we could start on our scene. I didn’t care to be his partner, I didn’t care about him. But I had to be lying to myself because every time I sat down to think he came into my mind replacing Gavin in a flash.

I must have looked troubled that Wednesday afternoon in the dorm, cause Nikki began a slew of questions, one thing she was extremely good at.

“Penny for you thoughts Tori?”
“Oh sorry, I’m just thinking.” I said still clearly distracted, she noticed too.
“Is something wrong?” concern heavy in her tone, she was like that very caring about how others were feeling. There were times where I wished I had a roommate who cared just a tad less.

“No, nothings wrong.” I lied, ”Just lost in thought.” I forced a smile to my face, hoping to play off the blank stare I had just broken from.

Nikki eyed me suspiciously, she didn’t believe me, she didn’t say it but then again she didn’t have to. I reached down and picked up a book and flipped it to a random page and pretended to start reading. My plan worked, Nikki slowly turned back to the essay she was working on and began to furiously type away. I starred at the page and drifted back into my original thoughts about Gavin and what I might do if I it came down to a battle. Again Jeremy appeared he just existed in my mind not saying a single word.

“Is it about Caleb?” she asked a few minutes later.

The grimace on my face didn’t help my case in the slightest. I had hope she was over this nonsense about Caleb, I hoped everybody was but I guess gossip is difficult to maintain when the boy in question follows you everywhere. Caleb was the farthest thing from my mind before Nikki brought him up. She asked so casually, it still bothered me. I drew in a breath calming myself.

“No, it has nothing to do with Caleb in the slightest.” I said drawing out each word hoping she would get the message. Nikki rolled her eyes in a ‘Yeah right’ sort of fashion.
“He really likes you Tori, you should give him a chance. He’s really cute!” she said fully turned around in her chair now, I shoved the book in front of my face trying to block her out but she was persistent. “Just go with him to the Halloween dance with him this weekend!”

That was the last thing I wanted to do.
“No!” I slammed the book shut and tossed it to the floor. “Caleb is like some infectious disease I can’t get rid of. He’s on my tail everywhere I go, I half expect him to be camped outside the dorm one night.”
What I said came out harsher then intended, and as true as it might have been in the back of my subconscious I felt bad for saying it. Although it was guilt because I felt sorry for Caleb and how pathetic his crush was towards me. Nothing would come of it that I was sure of. I was a monster and there was nothing I could do to change that.

“Don’t exaggerate.” Nikki said not amused. She sighed and took a deep breath, “Tori this could be good for you. I mean, you’re always so sad and down all the time.”
“I am not.” it came out so quick I was surprised that Nikki even understood what I had said. She gave me a reproachful look and leaned forward don her chair a little. Her voice softened, trying not to hurt my feelings.
“I see the way you look at other couples in the union, the way you look at Daniel and me. Every time we hold hands you flinch, you may not realize it but you do.”
I crossed my arms like a two year old who was denied that certain piece of chocolate cake. I scoffed loudly, Nikki acted as if I hadn’t.
“When a couple kisses you make this face of disgust and even a bit of longing.”

I wanted to tell her to shut up, I’m even certain a quick scenario of me leaping across the room and ripping her to shreds crossed my mind. Nikki was stepping into dangerous territory with me. I made ever attempt to avoid this topic with her, which was hard to do mind you, and up until now I was successful. I hated to admit it but she was right, every detail she described about my habits around couples. I wasn’t aware that they were so noticeable and I cursed myself for being so vulnerable for once.

“Tori you’re a mess, I don’t know what kind of arrogant and stupid jerk of a guy came along and ruined you like this, but you have to get over him and move on!”
“Don’t call him that.” I said slowly with high amounts of acidity to my words.

It was a threat, a down right threat. Nikki blinked and leaned far back in her chair. She was frightened; the first time I had ever received that terrified look from her. Even the day we first met she greeted me with a smile, a cautious smile, but a smile nonetheless. I came to know her as a friend, the closest thing I had to a friend in a long time actually. The expression on her face in reaction to my words scared me. I didn’t like seeing her react this way, after all I was trying so hard not to be a monster and that was the exact way she must have saw me at that moment.
There was some justice to my tone though, even if she didn’t know the exact reasoning. She was talking about things she didn’t know or could even understand but acted like she was the expert on my life. Like she had written the book, the Tori Jacobs Story. All the facts in that book were lies. The Alexandra Hawkins Story, now that would be a story for the ages, a horror story.

“Look, I’m not trying to be mean.” she continued after two minutes, her voice was hardly above a whisper. “Really. But as a friend it hurts me to see you have this outlook on guys and couples. I’ve seen the guys around campus and how they react around you.” she chuckled, feeling a little more at ease now.
“Tori you realize you could have half of these guys eating out of your hand? Not saying that is what you should do.” she added quickly, “I just want you to be happy, will you please give Caleb a chance. You don’t have to speak to him ever again after Halloween, just please say you’ll try.”
Nikki’s voice softened at the end, she didn’t exactly start pleading, it was more of an earnest request. I sat their silently trying to calm down; I couldn’t find the words to speak. I was still upset the way she referred to Gavin, I choked back the urge to scream just by thinking of him and what he did. She continued to stare at me waiting for my reply. I didn’t meet her gaze, I just couldn’t.
“You…just….don’t understand.” it came out in a pleading whisper. Nikki got up and walked over to me taking a seat on the floor next to my chair.
“Tori, I don’t know who he was. But he was crazy for letting you go, it was his mistake not yours. Don’t dwell on this, he clearly isn’t worth it.”
I knew Nikki was right. She had spoken the very thing I had been trying to convince myself for years, and here was this human girl with seemingly more knowledge then I. As much as I wanted to sit there and argue with her, I couldn’t. There was just nit point in trying to defend this. Besides I wanted to drop the topic as fast as I could. I sighed in defeat.

“Does it have to be Caleb?” I finally said with a half smile.
Nikki’s face lit up, she got up and threw her arms around me in a hug. I kept still, I felt her shiver a little and I couldn’t help but smile. I apologized to her in my head. She let go and danced over to her dresser.
“I wasn’t trying to be funny earlier, Caleb does follow me everywhere.” I found myself smiling slightly at her spontaneous happy dance.
“He’s loyal!” she said, “And yes, it has to be Caleb. You already said you’d go with him didn’t you?”
“Regrettably,” I muttered lowly so Nikki couldn’t hear me and scold me. “But the tickets stopped going on sale yesterday.” I said this louder and with hope in my voice.
“No problem!” Nikki opened the top dresser draw and grabbed something from inside; she spun around quickly holding up two small beige tickets with a orange pumpkin on them, creepy font read “Halloween Ball”.
I groaned.
“You bought us tickets?”
“I bought mine, and I knew you didn’t buy one yet so I got one for you!” Nikki smiled wide and extended one of the tickets for me to take. I rolled my eyes and snatched the ticket from her hand.
“How did you know I was going to go?” I asked raising an eyebrow.
“Because you’re a good person, and wouldn’t let your friends down.” she said.
I shook my head in disbelief and looked the ticket over a couple times. “You are truly evil Nicole Palmer.”
“As are you Tori Jacobs!” she said with a mock evil laugh. I forced out a laugh, feeling uneasy. If only she knew. I thought to myself bitterly.
 
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6. Halloween (part2)

Caleb nearly had a heart attack when I confirmed my attendance to the dance. His heart raced in his chest, it wasn’t so noticeable to human ears but I thought that it would pop out at one point. He went on for five minutes about how I wouldn’t regret it and how thankful he was, and how glad he was. I played a good human and smiled and nodded and muttered you’re welcome. Inside I was dying at the very idea of appearing at the dance in costume.
Crap.
I forgot about the whole dressing up deal to Halloween. I hadn’t celebrated it in so long, not since I was human. The holiday was normally a time when Gavin and the others would go around and laugh at the wretched human adaptations of us. They were always good for a laugh.

I wasn’t laughing though when Nikki forced me into the costume she had taken the privilege to go out and purchase.

“I look stupid Nikki.” I moaned starring at myself in the mirror.

Leave it to Nicole to go out and buy a vampire costume for an actual vampire. There I stood dressed in this short black and deep purple gothic dress in black pumps, complete with fake fangs and blood in the corners of my mouth. She wanted to put this white face make up on me but I convinced her I was already pale enough without her help. I sighed starring at my reflection, I hated that my existence had come to this.

“No you look perfect, real sexy.” she said fixing her hair.

Daniel was going to go as some guy from this one zombie movie, and Nikki agreed to go as a zombie. She pulled it off quite well, not looking scary at all but, as she described my ensemble, sexy. It was weird that I should be able to describe a zombie as such, then again it was weird she described me as such.

“Why would you pick this, I mean couldn’t you have found like some kind of fairy costume, I would have gone for that. I would have taken a white sheet with holes.” I said tugging on the hem of the dress and messing with my hair, which Nikki saw fit to spray some black streaks in along with straightening and hair spraying the hell out of it.

“Because Caleb is going as Dracula and you should be his bride. It makes sense for couples to dress alike. Not that you are an official couple.” she added, with an eye roll. “You know what I mean.”
“Cause this isn’t the least bit condescending.” That came out louder than I thought it did. Nikki laughed and looked at me with confusion. “I mean the vampires in Buffy don’t dress like this do they?” quickly I covered, and it worked.

“Yeah but they just look like regular humans, for the most part, and that wouldn’t be much of a costume or much fun.” Nikki said absently adding the finishing touches to her make up.
I had to work hard to stifle my mocking laugh, a cough worked well enough.
Yeah not much fun at all.

I took the fangs out, and was very careful to set them in my draw so Nikki couldn’t touch them. A bit of venom hung on them and I didn’t want to take chances. It was bad enough I was forced to wear this costume; I didn’t need to further my embarrassment by wearing those god-awful cliché fangs.
I tensed a bit; Caleb and Daniel were coming down the hall. I took a step back from the door and opened it up just as they reached our dorm, a look of surprise on both of their faces probably shocked to see me in something other then jeans and a jacket.

“Hey Tori.” Daniel said with a grin.
He checked me out and I was glad Nikki hadn’t seen. I quickly stepped out into the hall, my ticket in hand with Nikki running out behind me. She got up on her toes and pecked Daniel on the lips. I went stiff for a second; Nikki caught my gaze and looked at me apologetically. I never realized that I did tense up around other couples until she pointed it out to me a couple days ago.

“Wow, you look fantastic Tori.” Caleb breathed out.
“You too.” I said trying to hide the falseness in my voice.

It was a lie; he looked like every other Bram Stokers Dracula copycat. To everyone human I bet his costume was pretty awesome, but from a fake vampire to a real one it was just annoying. I left my fake fangs in the room, not wanting to put those painful and embarrassing things back in my mouth. They made me feel like I was giving into the stereotype, as if the costume wasn’t bad enough already.


To be honest the dance wasn’t exactly as lame as I had initially thought. I enjoyed seeing people’s costumes, that weren’t modeled after some monster movie character. A couple funny ones, and some of characters from movies, I saw one guy dressed up as Ace Ventura, and another like a character from Lord of the Rings.

I didn’t eat naturally so I couldn’t say how the food was, the music was iffy, but just being there with Nikki made me happy. I had really grown to like her most of all over the past week. Without even knowing how much, she helped me. I didn’t think of Gavin once that week, perhaps because I was dreading this dance. I felt that if she did know my secret she would still be there for me. Not like I was ready to spill that anytime soon. If at all.

“Look at Gale!” Nikki said shouting above the loud music.
I curled my lip when I spotted her. She was wearing one of those playboy bunny costumes, dancing with a few of her friends who were dressed to match.
“Well, the costume doesn’t surprise me.” I chuckled, Nikki smiled and nodded.
“Do you want to dance Tori?” Caleb asked, the question caught me off guard because Nikki and me were still semi focused on Gale and her friends.
“I’m actually not feeling too well right now. Mind if I sit this one out?” I frowned a little, playing it off well.

Caleb’s smile began to drop but he held his composure and gave a quick nod.
“It’s alright, the next one though. Want me to stay with you?”
“No.” I said almost a little too fast, “I mean, no I don’t want you to not have fun. Just go dance I’ll be right here. Don’t worry about me, I’m probably just hungry.”

He bought my lie and slowly wandered back off to the dance floor, Nikki and Daniel followed after him. Nikki shot me a look of annoyance she saw through my lie, but luckily she didn’t push the matter. I watched as they all began to dance to some emo punk song, I wasn’t paying attention to which one it was exactly, they sounded alike to me.
 
6. Halloween (part3)

I heard someone clear their throat behind me, per usually I knew who it was before I turned around. I knew the scent, but had grown to hate it since the last time we met.

“Hey.” Jeremy said in his sweet mellow voice.

I rolled my eyes and glanced behind me, I let out a heavy sigh and went onto ignoring him. He came around to my side; I could feel his eyes scanning me over. I wanted to reach over and hit him, but I may end up killing him.
Not entirely a bad thing.

“What are you supposed to be?” he asked with honestly curiosity.
“A vampire.” I murmured, still continuing to watch Nikki and the others out dancing.

There a bit of restrain in my voice, I didn’t want to say the word; I knew that the answer was true in two forms. I saw Caleb chuckle silently out of the corner of my eye.

“Go figure.” he said, I turned my attention away from the dance floor and to Jeremy.
I tried to find meaning in these words, the way he said them sounded like he knew something I didn’t. Or something I did know but didn’t know that he knew.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” I asked trying to hide the nervousness in my voice.
“Well, you’re cold hearted and so are they. It seems like the perfect costume for you.”
I felt relieved even by this direct insult, for some reason I thought he meant—

“Did you just come over here to mock and make fun of me?” I spat spinning back to watch Nikki and Daniel, Caleb wasn’t around I wasn’t sure where he’s had gone off to. Not that I was entirely worried about it.
“If that’s the case poke all the fun you want. I look ridiculous and I don’t need you to help me realize that!”

Jeremy was quiet I glanced over at him, he looked troubled and remained at my side in silence for a minute or two.
“What are you supposed to be?” I finally muttered angrily the silence bothered me much more then it should have.
“I didn’t feel like dressing up.” he said flatly, “I didn’t come here for the dance. Though I see that Gale is having fun.”

What was he getting at? Hadn’t he and Gale come together? She was planning on asking him, and she planned on him saying yes. My head turned to him for a second to read his expression, it was blank as he starred at Gale with her friends, I noticed that Sam was one of them. After a second I looked away back to the dance floor.

“Why did you come then?” attempting to keep my voice less interested as possible.
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” Jeremy cracked a small smile; he was starring at me now I could feel his eyes on my face. I let out a small laugh.
“Try me.”

Jeremy leaned in closer to me and spoke again this time at a half whisper, loud enough so I could hear him above the music but low enough so I was the only one who could hear him. Not that it really mattered I would have heard him with or without the music blaring.

“I know what you are.” a smile in his voice, accompanied by triumph.
I tensed and stood frozen as a statue. I knew what was to come next, and I prayed that he wouldn’t finish the sentence.

“And what’s that?” I gritted my teeth so the words came out in a hiss.

“Vampire.”

The word came out cold and with hate. Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw Jeremy’s brows furrowed as he said it, like he just convicted me of murder. The look on my face must have shown horror cause Nikki was looking over at me with concern and was now starting to talk to Daniel, probably trying to get him to come over with her. My head snapped to face Jeremy, he had this grin on his face but I couldn’t read the emotion to go with it. My bottom lip quivered and I grabbed his arm tightly.

“We’ll talk about this somewhere safe.” I was surprised that he didn’t object as I forcefully lead him from the crowded ballroom.

This wasn’t happening. It couldn’t be. My disguise was perfect, I was so careful in everything I did. What had I done to give myself away? As I ushered him from the room I already started making plans for leaving Bowling Green, regrettably. Another part of my brain started making plans for killing him; he couldn’t be allowed to know. But I wouldn’t let it come to that, I would have to figure this out somehow. I wasn’t able to act as if his idea was crazy, he said it with such conviction and sureness. Jeremy knew what I was, he was positive and I knew that by the sound of his voice nothing would change his mind. I hadn’t planned on this. No one ever caught on before, or never this soon anyway. I had only been in Bowling Green a few months. My grip tightened around his arm but I was still careful so I wouldn’t crush the bone, as much as I wanted to.
 
Chapter 7 Slayer

7 Slayer (pt 1 of 3)

I nearly broke the doors of the Union as I shoved them open still dragging Jeremy behind me. I walked over to a bench and forced him to sit in it, I remained standing towering over him. His expression was unchanged, just smiling with no set emotion behind it all.

“Explain.” I hissed trying to keep my voice as low as I could.
“I think you’re the one who should be explaining.” Jeremy said coolly.
“Why should I explain myself to you, I could silence you now forever. I don’t have to put up with this you know.” I tried to intimidate him and lowered myself moving closer to him. “You really shouldn’t have crossed a vampire.” I purred.

Jeremy’s face twitched and he let out a loud fit of laughter rocking back and forth on the bench. I stood back starring wide-eyed trying to assess his reaction. He was laughing, I was threatening to kill him, rip him to shreds. Any normal human would cringe and cower in fear, but this human boy laughed!

After a minute he composed himself.

“I’m sorry Tori.” he breathed, “That was just to hilarious. ‘You really shouldn’t have crossed a vampire.’ That’s priceless. I mean what movie did you steal that from.”
His mocking finally got on my nerves and I let out a low growl. This seemed to do the trick; he coughed and sat up a little.

“I know you won’t kill me.” he said confidently.
“Then you don’t know anything.”
“I know that when your eyes are gold, well when any vampire’s eyes are gold, it means they don’t drink human blood.”
Jeremy said as if he was reciting common knowledge. “Now if your eyes were red, then I’d really be in trouble.”

I gaped at him in complete shock, standing completely frozen. He talked about this as if he knew, like he knew everything about me and about what I was, as if he had read a book on it. I imagined him walking into the library on campus and checking out a book, ‘Everything You Need To Know About Vampires, But Were Afraid to Ask.’ In any other circumstance I would have smirked at the imaginary title I gave to the book. But I was hardly in the mood for jokes.

Jeremy let out a small chuckle at my expression; he knew what I was thinking.

“Yeah, I know about the eye color. I also know that your eyes turn black when you’re thirsty. I also know that you don’t have fangs, just a stupid myth. Sunlight doesn’t cause you to burst into flames; your skin just shines really bright. Unnaturally bright—“
“How do you know all of this?” I said in a harsh whisper, I didn’t want to hear anymore.
“Passed down through my family.” Jeremy said.

His voice remained emotionalist purely factual. Like a professor repeating a lecture, there was a professional manner to it and I couldn’t figure out why.

But it scared me. Jeremy knew his vampires.

“My father to me, his father to him and so on back through the generations. We’re the only one left now, me and my father.” he paused and smirked. “Maybe I should start back from the beginning. We should go somewhere a little more private, I think Nikki will come looking for you.”

I couldn’t respond, everything was happening so fast my head began to spin. Trying not to let panic and irrational ideas overtake me, I wanted to run just run away and not stop until I was far from Bowling Green. I knew that my life in here was now over, Jeremy seemed to know everything and I couldn’t risk him knowing about me. I would have change my appearance again, and my name. I followed after Jeremy not really paying attention to him; I didn’t understand how his family could know about us. It made no sense and it didn’t add up no matter how times I went over it in my head. A minute later I realized we were behind one of the buildings on campus, it was dark out and we were standing behind a couple trees. If we kept low voices no one would find us here. I wasn’t sure if that was necessarily a good thing.

Jeremy drew in a deep breath, “Where was I? The beginning right. How this all started.”
I stiffly nodded and he let out a sigh and launched into his story as I listened still standing as still as a statue. I didn’t want to argue at the moment, not wanting to delay his story and the answers to the questions swirling around in my head.

“Like I said, it’s been passed down through the family. It started back with my grandfather in the 17th century; I’m not sure how many greats that would equal to. My grandfather Samuel Warren was a magistrate in the small village of Summerton Massachusetts back in 1692. If you know your history Tori, that was the same time as the Witchcraft Trials in Salem. My great grandfather tried to assure the towns people that they all had nothing to worry about, but panic soon started to spread and naturally innocent people were being found guilty of witchcraft—“

“What does witchcraft have to do—“
“If you just let me finish.” he said softly, he looked annoyed that I had interrupted so quickly into his story.
I scowled at him letting out a soft growl. He shuddered a little but tried not to look bothered by simple nonverbal threat. When he was sure I was done Jeremy cleared his throat and continued.

“Innocent people were found guilty of witchcraft and being hung for it. My grandfather was a reasonable man but was unable to convince the rest of the town officials otherwise. As time went on accounts of missing people started to rain in, leading to more witch acquisitions, one family blaming another for casting a spell and causing their member to vanish. It sounded crazy but the officials bought into it and began hanging more people then ever before. Samuel was the only one with a decent head on his shoulders; he tried to convince the others that witchcraft did not have to be the cause. But no one would listen to Samuel and he had to watch as these innocent people hung. After a while the disappearance died down and so did the hangings.

“One night Samuels wife, Elizabeth began screaming out in agony late in the night. He ran up the stares and found his wife thrashing about in her bed, ‘Fire! Put out the fire out Samuel make it stop burning!’ she pleaded desperately sobbing. Samuel told their slave to call for the town officials but it wasn’t necessary. Elizabeth’s screams had woken the entire village and they were on their way. The officials of the town crowded into the tiny bedroom. They attempted to restrain Elizabeth in bed while she trashed her arms and screamed in agony. Samuel began to pray for his wife trying to get close enough to her, ‘Elizabeth what’s wrong?’ he asked in a panic. ‘Elizabeth what is hurting you?’ amongst her screams she cried out ‘The Fire! The burning fire in my veins!’ that was when Samuel noticed the two crescent shaped bite marks on his wife’s body. One on each forearm, they looked like fresh wounds. Elizabeth continued to scream for hours before she was finally silent, he heart gave out and she died in bed.

“Samuel was heartbroken, his loving wife taken from him by unknown means. But all signs pointed to demons, and as much as it pained him to think it, witchcraft. The entire village was in an uproar over the death of Elizabeth Warren who left behind a husband and their thirteen-year-old daughter Emily. The witch-hunt was back on, and this time Samuel put his effort into tracking down the person who killed his Elizabeth, a woman who had no enemies and was well liked by everyone in the village. A month went by with no luck, a few hangings but Samuel still wasn’t yet convinced he had found the guilty party.”

Jeremy paused for a second and sucked in another deep breath of air. He gave me a quick look, as if he was expecting me to cut in on his story again but I said nothing.
 
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