Hey guys! this is my first story so please, be kind. the characters are from the twilight saga but its a different country and my own idea. this is nothing compared to stephenie meyers stories so here it goes...
enjoy!
CHAPTER1: rehearsals.
''Ruby! Wheres Ruby? Oh there you are. We need to rehearse your solo. c'mon.'' Mrs Sinclair practically screeched. I'm Ruby Logan. I'm 15 and stuck like this for ever, great eh. The reason why I'm like this is because I have a secret that I have to protect about myself and the rest of my kind. All my friends and everyone around me just think I'm just lucky and have all the good looks and talented but their wrong. Im a vampire and i have been for the last 72 years. i was abandoned when i was seven when my mother killed herself by jumping off a cliff. Her name was Esme and she was an amazing mum so its always bothered me why she killed herself and left me here alone. I have never gotten over her death. Years later in 1938 it was my 15th birthday, i was staying in a care home when this white creature climbed through the window. From that all i remembered were the bright red crimson eyes. Right now I'm at high school in Scotland- Prestonpans, its alright and i love the music department. Music is my favourite subject only because i am very talented if i do say so myself. Its the 8th of December and at my school its the time of the year for our Christmas concert. And today is the rehearsal, '' okay miss, do you want me on stage?'' i replied from the back of the hall. '' Yes please, right by the mike. ''
I made my way up to the stage and placed myself right in front of the mike, '' okay- one, two, three, four'' and Mrs Sinclair started to play 'Fix You' by Coldplay for my solo. This was one of my favourite pieces in the concert, and so i started singing and mouths dropped. I forgot that no one had heard my singing apart from my teacher. I smiled to myself, seeing all their part-astonished and part-jealous faces, oh i love people feeling jealous around me, making them feel so insecure reminds me of my mother and how i so wanted to be as beautiful as her. ''That was beautiful Ruby, i hope our parents and visitors enjoy it as much as our students do.'' Mrs Sinclair complimented me as i skipped down the stairs to my seat next to my best friend- Eilidh. She's in my choir and she is a very good singer, for a human. To me she is the only one who is never showing a sign of jealousy around me, she is happy for my success and usually just teases me about my beauty. We are always fooling around and hardly ever being serious with each other, this I'm glad off because its when i can really let my guard down and have a laugh. 'beeeeeep!' School bell. ''See you later Rubs and don't be late! I know what your like.'' Eilidh said to while walking off into her mothers car. '' I'll try'' I said and winked at her. Since i have no family i don't go home to one, i have my own place. Just a small apartment in Edinburgh. I'm fifteen but since I've been around for 72 years as a vampire i do have quite alot of money and I'm always in the best clothes and my apartment is quite flashy. Eilidh has never been here though, i think it would freak her out- and her mother- if she knew i was staying by myself. Eilidh's mum is really nice and she always lets me stay there whenever i like, even tho i don't sleep i just kind of hop out the window and go for a run, i like running. It makes me feel free, plus they never know I'm gone cos their asleep but once Eilidh freaked cos she woke up one night and i wasn't there and i had to make up a massive lie and say i sleepwalk and that i woke up in her garden. She believed it. okay so its 6:45pm and i have to be there for 7:00pm so i shouldn't be late if i leave now, but where is my phone! I searched all over my room, ''Aha! found ya'' wow now talking to myself, i have immortal problems. I quickly raked a brush through my long, wavy, hip-length golden-brown hair and ran out the door cos i was late just like Eilidh predicted. The Heading on the banner above the door of my school said' Welcome to Preston Lodge high schools 2009 annual Christmas concert!' '' Didnt i warn you not to be late!'' Eilidh shouted, ''I know but when do i ever listen to little Eilidh.'' i pointed out rather than question her. She just laughed. ''Lets go to the bathroom, i want you to do my make up'' Eilidh said, i just followed her without complaint. I liked doing doing Eilidh's make up and she never complained because i made her look gorgeous anyway. '' check yourself in the mirror bubs cos I'm done.'' i told Eilidh as she jumped off the counter. ''Aw ta love, you've made me look half decent''. '' Excuse me? no one with their make up done by moi is left looking half decent. I'm offended!'' i said with a pout and sticking my nose in the air, Eilidh laughed and said'' you know what i mean ruby! i love it.'' We walking out the bathroom smiling and linked arms, ''Girls! come here.'' Eilidh's mum Arlene motioned her hand for us to come over. we stood for about 5 minutes talking to Arlene and Stevie- her boyfriend- about how excited they were to seeing us perform. ''Okay all members of the choir, could you please head to the maths department and you will see a timetable of the times you are on and each time a solo is please!'' A helping hand shouted, the woman seemed stressed as she tried to separate herself from the crowd and towards the maths corridor. We said our goodbyes to Arlene and Stevie and told them to keep an eye out for us and to take pictures. After that we trotted off round the corner to the maths department '' You know, i like school more when were at concerts because its a lot more fun with no classes and fewer folk haha'' Eilidh said. ''Here.'' Another helper said as she shoved a paper in my hand and walked away without even looking at me or anyone else just focusing on where she was headed. It was a timetable of tonight's show, oh i was ending the first half with three of my pieces- a Scottish song- The deils awa' -Fix you by Coldplay and I miss you by Miley Cyrus, I don't like her but this song kind of sums it up about what i feel for my mum, because of my missing her. I would end it with that one, and hope she is watching down on me. That's when i realised that if i could cry that i would be but instead my eyes just started to sting ,so i quickly ran around the corner to just calm myself so i would be okay for singing later on. I have been thinking of my mother alot today, i hope she is proud of my and knows i love her and still think about her everyday. Since i had no other way to know that she would know this stuff i did believe that she was in heaven or some other place where she is happy and watching over me to know all my feelings for her. Okay after about 10 minutes of sitting here on my own, I decided someone would come looking sooner or later so i got up, fixed my skirt and walked back round the corner to where Eilidh was standing with Mrs Sinclair both discussing that they hadn't seen 'her' and where could 'she' be, she meaning be. By then they noticed my sudden presence and sighed with relief, '' Can you try and stay close please Ruby because you are on soon. thank you'' Mrs Sinclair said then walked away, ''alrighty then.'' i said but she was gone, '' c'mon you. we can go over our solo's.'' And with that we went to an empty room and laid out our singing sheets, Eilidh went first with 'When you say nothing at all' By Ronan keating, i sang the Harmony's just for something do. ''Oh its time for my first solo'' Eilidh announced suddenly looking nervous. ''Lets get moving then and remember, i will be screaming your name at the start .'' i said. I left Eilidh at the back of the curtain, told her good luck and then sneaked through the curtain to the side of the stage where no one could see me and made my way to the back, i stood with one of my friends Megan, who was also in the choir. ''Now ladies and gentleman we have one of our second year students singing a solo for you people tonight, we have worked hard thought the weeks and hope you enjoy this, ladies and gentlemen. Eilidh Alexander'' Mrs Sinclair announced and then headed for her keyboard to introduce the song and by then we had roared Eilidh's name and cheered before the curtains had fully opened and exposed her to the clapping audience and the bunch of cheering students standing to the far left of the hall- our lot by the way. ''Its amazing how you can see right to my heart, without saying a word you light up the dark...'' Eilidh started her solo and we were respect full and stop cheering to give her, her glory of the solo she sang. That's when i heard a whisper from a voice i would recognise anywhere, a voice that i have held so close to me all my life. My mothers voice. I searched the whole hall when i seen a family sitting in the last row or the right side of the hall. I knew they weren't humans, they had white skin, a stone like posture and a scent that was only a vampires scent, there were ten of them but two of them stood out, the first because he wasn't a vampire. He was extremely tall with tanned skin and a stinky wet dog scent- yuk. And the other because i knew her, and i knew who she was right there and then. I was staring at them and they where all staring at me, it wasn't till Megan started jumping up and down screaming on Eilidh- whom i forgot was singing and was now walking off- that i jumped and turned my head from the last row and cheered for my best friend who i never even listened to, Megan had to drag me out the hall to greet Eilidh and i felt so rude when i never acted as excited as Megan but i was too dazed. I wanted to go back in and see the family with the woman who i haven't seen for over 77 years. Instead of doing what i wanted i was getting called on by Mrs Sinclair For my solo to close the first half. i was placed in-front of the mike behind the closed curtains and waited- still shocked. '' Well wasn't Eilidh brilliant? And now we have a third year with an exceptionally amazing voice to end our first half. i hope you enjoy the pieces we put together for you, ladies and gentlemen. Ruby Logan.'' And Mrs Sinclair sat in her seat and waited for the curtains to open while students filed in and started cheering my name but they were not the people i were listening to, the curtain then started to pull back and expose me to the audience and then i put a smile on my face, while still listening to the conversation from the far right corner, '' Edward you can see in her features that she is my daughter, that's my daughter. shes here'' it must have been my mother but i didnt have time, the opening line to my first song was approaching. ''The deils came fiddlin' throo the toon and danced awa' wae the excise man? and ilka-wife cries old mahoon and danced awa' wae the excise man...'' by now all conversations where silenced as my voice filled the hall and once again mouths dropped. I was nearing toward the end of my set of songs, i had my mothers song to sing. Quite ironic actually- i was thinking earlier about my mother watching over me singing her song i gave her and now she sat infront of me- immortal- and would listen and watch me sing this song to her. Mrs Sinclair got up and introduced this song because she knew it was for my mother, to her knowledge iam adopted because my mother died when i was 7 and his was to show i missed her. '' Now ladies and gentlemen, the song Ruby is about to sing is very important to her because it is dedicated to her mother whom died when she was only seven years of age, this is 'I miss you' '' and i seen the mysterious vampires stare at the person whom i think to be is my mother. She was staring at me with pleading eyes, then the others just sat back and waited for me to start. ''You used to call me your angel, said i was sent straight down from heaven. you'd hold me close in your arms i loved the way you felt soo strong. I never wanted you to leave, i want you to stay her holding me. I miss you, i miss your smile and i still shed a tear every once in a while...'' its a good thing i cant cry because the tears would streaming down my face by now and i could tell the woman, who stared intently into my eyes, would have been crying too. I never realised it was the end of my song and the first half until the music stopped and cheering and clapping erupted from the hall. I was truly grateful that everyone liked my singing but now it was time for answers so i took my bow and headed for the door to the corridor, and walking down the empty hallway towards the gym hall in the basement.
