Alone. Zayn Malik. [Vampire]

Intro/Chapter 1 [x]

"I'm Melody" I look over to the girl sitting on my left, questioningly.

"Kenzie" I say. Melody sticks her hand out, and when I stare back she slowly pulls it back into her seat, resting her hands on her lap.

"Are you not much of a talker?."

"No, not really."

"Why?"

"Never saw the point, didn't have friends growing up, so didn't have to talk much."

"School? How did you survive without friends? That's what got me through that misery, not to mention just getting to the buildings, it was terrifying walking alone, how did you manage?"

"Home schooling."

"How is that? I always wanted to have that but my parents died when my sister and I were young. So we had to do the public route, which of course has its ups and downs-"

"I'm sorry about your parents."

"It's okay, i was really small. I didn't know them well. My sister, she's a few years older than me. It hurt her more, she got to know mom and dad better than i did."

"I-"

"Sorry I'm talking so much, when i get nervous I babble, its a bad habit. My sister used to say it would get me in trouble one day, not that it really matters after all we all know this is our fate when we turn 18."

I look over at Melody, a small smile on my lips. I would normally be annoyed at the girl, who wouldn't just let me be to my own thoughts, but her rambling was somewhat comforting. Maybe having a distraction from my own mind is the best thing i could ask for.

"When I'm uneasy I mess with this bracelet" I move my arm to show her the gift from my mother "We all have our thing."

"Wow that is beautiful" Melody's eyes widen at the jewelry on my wrist.

"Thanks, my mom gave it to me on my sixteenth birthday."

"She must really love you, i can't imagine what a piece like that must've cost from the market."

"She does, but she also worked hard, and all the time. She was a doctor at the clinic in what used to be Whitechapel. It was long hours and tiring work, but the pay was good. It kept us stable and afloat."

"Doctors are rare to find in my old town. No one had the money. If you got sick you hoped it wasn't life threatening. I didn't ever feel like I was missing anything though, for us money was just what paid our monthly residence bill and other fees."

Melody's story was one I heard often back home. Many children grew up without their moms or dad's, often times having to survive on their own from young ages. I was fortunate enough to have at-least one parent. My mom had the best job you could in the human villages, a doctor was a rarity, like Melody had said.

"I'm glad some of us have stories like you though, it gives us hope that there is some good left for our kind to pursue."

"There was still bad."

"Of course, please don't mistake my words for implying you had an easy life. None of us do, we just simply wake up and go to sleep until one day we won't anymore."

"I've felt the same way for as long as I can remember."

"Oh I haven't always felt this way. Until my sister was taken away, I didn't have any cares in the world. I was truly a child, naive to the real horrors of our world. I had a wild imagination and plenty of hope for a day that we would all somehow be saved."