Chapter 1
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walking through the empty halls, i see his face again, the one that haunts me. though i could tell you the exact detail of his face right from the heavily creased forehead to his sharp angular jawline the moment i woke up i would forget all those things and just left with ..... emptiness.
A hard smack hit me mid chest and my eyes snapped open.
"wake up douche!" a shrill voice said, "we're here." I looked out the window of the auudi to see a small, old looking house that seemed like it was about to collapse at any moment. Stepping out the car i noticed a gate around the side and followed it while everyone els stood around talking. What a boring bunch of oldies they are. at the side of the house i could now clearly see a garden, and quite a big one too, bigger than the last place, I thought, pushing open the gate and walking onto the soft grass of the garden. It was rather beautifull in a twisted kind of way, there were a few trees at the back all black with nothing but moss and ivy growing on them. The wind whistled through the remaining leaves they had left and an eary feeling creeped over me. Then something silver caught my eye and to the left of me hidden by a gathering of shrubs was a small pond, which was reflecting the moon brightly. It was stunning. I walked over until I saw the familer emptiness where my figur should be, instead the water swirld and misted over as if it was trying to cover something that was long gone.
"Kurt!" I heard someone yell. I inwardly sighed and made my way back to the front of the house.
"what!" i snapped at Tomeka, who was purposely trying to annoy me today. Hmph!
"is that a way to speek to your soon to be mother?!" she asked, feighning hurt.
"we'd have to be family for you to be my mother!" I glared brushing past her.
"But Kurt, this is your family now, my dear boy." LeRoy annouced stepping out of the car with an armfull of bags. (mainly Tomeka's, my guess) I snorted stepping past them both to pick up my own bag and heading for the house. "one messed up family this is then." I mutter to myself as I enter the building. Inside it was beautifull! a perfect contrast between light and dark. the halls were covered in lush carpet and hung above the fireplace was the oil painting I had only seen once before in LeRoys old study, it was an old victorian painting of his parents both showing off their perfectly sharped teeth, much like the ones in my mouth now.
I starred at it for a while before I was almost knocked off my feet by something flying past my legs. I looked up to see wagging little tail hidding behind the sofa.
"Rags! you've got to stop doing that you damn dog!"
He spun around to poke his head out and just gave me a doggy grin, before rolling onto his belly and pining for a tickle. Much of a guard dog you are!
"Hey Kurt! get your arse in gear and help with the bags." Terence grumpily ordered while striding past me and down the stairs.
"why they're not even mine? More than half are Tomeka's, how come she cant take them in herself?!" I yelled back frustrated.
"Just do it and stop ya moaning!" Bloody typical! Of course being the newborn I had to do as I was told so I moodily stomped back towards the cars to collect her 'hienesses' luggadge!
And there she was leaned against the car's hood without a care in the world, it set my teeth on edge.
"awww is someone having a tantrum?" she mocked with a smirk. I strode past her and began hauling bags onto my back. after the fith one i felt like i had an elephant on my back it as so heavy.
"Jesus Meka, what have you packed in these?" I ask, struggling under the pressure of them all.
"valuables." she shrugged, "so dont drop any or i'll kill you!"
Hmph! lazy cow. could of taken some herself. I thought to myself.
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once all bags were brought in we, LeRoy and the rest decided what rooms were who's leaving me with a small dusty little room with just enough space for a single bed.
"Uh Uh! I am not having that room! its miniscule." I raged towards LeRoy.
"Perfect for you then." Terence teased, ruffling my hair. everyone laughed but I just stood there stony faced staring at LeRoy.
"fine!" he gave in, "you can have the games room, downstairs as yours if you move everything out!" and with that he left hand in hand with Tomeka to his new bedroom on the third floor.
Lucky me stuck with more lifting.
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Noemi's POV
"Noemi!" She starred at me open mouthed. "what do you mean 'you turned him down'?!" I giggled, hidding my face in my pillow as I flopped back onto my mattress. Vivian was opposite me on her own bed with a big bag of marshmellows in her lap.
"I just dont really like him, that's all." I mumbled, keeping my eyes on my hands. Boy this was awkward.
"if a guy like Tony Kaine asks you to the rugby teams after party, you. don't. say. no. " She sounded so shocked and I didn't know whether to take it as an insult, implying her being shocked that he even asked me in the first place. But as usual I just let it slide and decided to change the topic instead.
"so who are you going with?" I asked trying to sound as casual as I could.
She clearly got the hint, although the look on her face told me she wasn't about to drop it as soon as i'd like.
"well the hottest guy in the school is taken, so ... I went for second best." I gasped did she mean Bradley?
In fact she did mean Bradley. Just go with it Noemi, keep calm.
"Bradley, awww that will be nice, good thing I am SO over him 'cause that would be awkward hahaha," I laughed, un-convicingly.
"ooh someone jealous? i'll let you have him if you want?" she smiled sympathetically knowing I still had feelings for him, how could she not she's been my best friend since high school and now we share a dorm at college. She should know pretty much everything there is to me.
I hugged her tightly, "thankyou. But to be honest I think that ship has sailed with us, well for him it has anyway." nothing like a heart break in your teens eh?
Vivians phone buzzed and she reached for it on the bed stand. Her eyes lit up as she read the text out loud to me,
Viv get your ass down to Rickey's now, there is like a massive party going on! get down here girl! xox -Lil
Vivian looked towards me with a devilish smile, "how about it? wanna go?" she asked wiggling her eyebrows like a mad man.
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Kurt's POV
bored, bored, bored, oh wait ... still bored. I was sprawled across the sofa in the lounge watching pointless human TV. I mean really who cares if Sarah is leaving big brother house, she was just another dumb blonde anyway. What they need is some fresh new entitainment, now if I was in the big brother house then there would deffinatly be something interesting to watch! I began smilling evily to myself as I day dreamed about it.
" are you alright Kurt? your looking slightly deranged." A tall figure asked standing in front of me and the TV. After blinking a few times I realised it was Rory. Rory doesn't talk very much. he's probably the oldest in our group, he was turned in the 1820's so he's probably around 200 we don't really ask each others ages.
"oh hi, Rory. Just bored, when can we eat?" I asked sounding weaker than I actually am. we havn't eaten/drank in 4 days and it was taking it's toll on me the most.
"Not sure, When LeRoy gives us the ok I guess." he shrugged a he gently sat down in the armchair opposit me.
"I know LeRoy's the 'leader' and everything, but arnt you older, so shouldn't that make you in charge?" He closed his eyes like he was brooding about some deep thought.
"me and LenaRoy have been great friends for many years, and yes I am older than he is but he took me in when my clan was destroyed by... well, you know who. so for that I owe him enough respect to take leader ship. Besides im quite content with taking a back seat, leaves me with less work." he chuckled deeply to himself before rising from his seat, " I suspect he'll be back soon, you can ask to hunt then." with that he took off towards his study. Ugh. why cant I stop thinking about it. I need to hunt or i'll, i'll end up eating the dog. I looked towards Rags, who quickly left the room. probably feeling the hungry tension in the air.
Just then the front door swung open letting in a refreshing waft of air .
"I brought dinner!" LeRoy's voice called out from the hallway, in less than a second the room was filled with everyone eagaly waiting for something to suck into. LeRoy came into the room with a rucksack full of blood bags. Everyones eyes turning black with hunger as he dished them out to us.
"O positive?" he held out. The red flowing down the sides making my mouth water.
"MINE!" Terence grabbed for it and quickly extending his fangs to sink into the plastic bag.
"AB positive, for you darling." he said as he gently handed Tomeka the bag while giving her a quick peck on the cheek.
"and the rest is in there just tuck in." He said throwing the bag down onto the table. I made a dive for it and quickly grabbed a handful.
"HEY! one at a time, these were'nt easy to get to you know! they've made it hader to get them now, to many damn security guards!" He hissed as he leant against the back wall.
I looked up and noticed something I didn't before, there was blood smered on his face and dribbling down his chin."Did you bite someone?"
He shrugged his shoulder and looked smuggly towards me, "like I said, there were alot of security guards."
"WHAT!" I yelled, call me hot-headed I dont care! I havn't drank in 4 days and I felt like draining a whole town! "how come we're not allowed out to hunt , but you, you go out and drink from the vien and all you bring back is this, refridgerated crap!" I threw down my half empty bag in disgust, suddenly put off by the plastic bags of red liquid that my body was screaming for.
"well if thats how you feel then I can just take them back, if thats what you want that is." He said through gritted teeth, I could tell he was going to snap, he always did when someone objected against him. But my stupid mouth wouldn't shut the hell up!
"No! what I want is to hunt but apparently thats too dangerous for anyone but you!' I was full on shouting at him now not caring if he was going to snap my neck any minuet.
"ehem," Rory coughed politly defusing the tension slightly. "I over heard some girls the other day at the library talking about some party at a local club, If we come uninvited the children would be too drunk to notice us feeding anyway." He caught a drip of blood running down his chin and licked it.
"you mean the Rickey's bar down the road, I know where it is." Terence inputed from the other corner. I looked up with a smile to see LeRoy still glaring at me. "so how's about it then boss? can we have some fun?" He grumpily stood straighter and pulled a pair of shades out from his pocket and put them on,
"just don't get caught."
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