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Revengeful Night
By:
Sabrina Hobbs
For my friends and family who encouraged me and helped me

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Story~~~~~~~~
Chapter One
Me
Hello and welcome to my life. My name is Rose Hamilton. I am sixteen. I live at home with my alcoholic, washed-up, son of a b***h mother, who beats me and treats me like s**t. We live in Akron, Ohio. I go to school at Garfield High. I have one friend who I could never live without; if he weren't here I would probably have died without his help. His name is John Diama. He lives at home with his dad, who happens to be gay. John doesn't know about his mother. He says she left his dad after he was born, but he's happy so I guess that's all that counts. John is seventeen. He has black hair that is long enough to cover up his emerald eyes, muscular body, tall around five foot and eleven inches, and he has pale skin. He mostly wears black pants, shirt, and hoodie. Just like me. He probably would be popular if he was rich and his dad wasn't gay. Kind of like me, if I trimmed my jet black hair that runs down my back and envelops my deep violet eyes, all I would have to do then would be to dye my hair blonde and wear pink all the time. Then I would be in. Yippee...not. Other than that I want to tell you about school, always a joy right? Garfield High is a nice school, crowded, but nice. There are these girls though that sometimes I wish would just drop dead. Well okay I wish it all the time, but you know what I mean. Their names are Janice, Samantha, André and their evil leader Katherine. They're the 'rulers' of the school. I hate all of them except André. She isn't so bad. I think she was forced to join, mainly because she looks so miserable and sad. Oh well, I guess there isn’t much help for her. It’s kind of a shame. Anyway the reason I hate the group of girls mentioned above is because first off, Katherine has teased me and taunted me since kindergarten, Janice is the one who made my life hell with Katherine from the start of sixth grade. They put worms from a science class in my locker. How immature. Samantha joined them at the start of eighth grade, she also helped terrorize me and make my life miserable, as if it wasn’t enough already. André of course doesn’t try to take part in all of this, but she is still with them. So, now you know.
"BEEP! BEEP!"
"Ugh! STUPID ALARM!" I yell and pull a pillow over my head while I roll over.
"BEEP! BEEP!"
"FINE I’M UP!" I yell getting out of bed.
I walk over to my clock, unplug it and throw it agents the wall.
"Retarded thing." I grumble while getting dressed.
I walk to the bathroom yawning. I rummage through the drawer for a hairbrush. I yank the brush through my knotted black hair. After that I run down stairs to eat. 'Maybe she won't wake up' I think spinning my cereal. Then my mom comes in. 'Perfect.' She looks stoned. Her blonde hair is sticking up all over her head; her clothes are ripped, soiled and worn. 'Yup definitely stoned. Wonderful.' I think still playing with my food. She walks over to the sink and fumbles for a cup of water. I go over and try to help her, but she slaps my hand away.
"I can do it myself! I'm not a baby!" She shouts.
"I'm just trying to help! I don't even see why I bother anymore! You, drunken old HAG!" I yell back.
She slaps my face hard and knees me in the gut. I just take the pain and walk away. I grab my bag for school and I am out the door. I pull my hood over my head and pull out my mp3. I walk as fast as possible away from my house, considering I don't have a car. I get about half way to school when John pulls up. He rolls down the window showing a blinding smile.
"Hey cutie." John says.
"Hey hot stuff." I say laughing.
I stop instantly when it hurts. John is the only one who can get a laugh out of me since my dad left.
"Need a ride?" John asks still smiling, but pretending not to notice my flinching.
"Sure." I say climbing in.
We talk and laugh all the way to school. John asks me about my morning suspiciously, and I tell him. Once again he offers to take me in. He always does this when my mom beats me. I told him the same answer I always have since, the start of it all. When we arrive at school my mood has eased. As it always does, when I know someone cares. That is until I walk into the 'evil sisters'.
"Watch where you’re going LOSER!" yells Katherine.
"Yeah move!" says her posies, except for André.
"Gladly." I say and bow just to annoy them and so they won’t see my pain from running into them.
I roll my eyes and head for class when I hear my name being called. I turn around to see André running after me. I just turn and keep walking. She grabs my arm and turns to face me. She shoves a note into my hands and runs off. 'What the?' I think as I continue to walk to class. I sit down next to John. He's in all my classes except gym and English. I take the note out and snort at what it says. 'Why would a 'sister' want to say sorry even if it is André? Why would she?' I ask myself. Then John passes me a note.
What's so funny?
Oh nothing. Lol.
Oh come on!
Here.
I pass him both the notes and silently laugh. He passes them back.
What's funny about it? It's André. She isn't mean.
Oh I know. It's hilarious because it's a joke.
When he reads the note he just shakes his head. I laugh again. After class John and I leave for our next class, and then we see André in the hall. I just keep walking, but John stays. I hide behind a corner to wait and I over hear them.
"I tried, I really did!" André says to John.
"I know, I know." John says.
There voices are so similar it's hard to know who is who, but I’ve hung around John for a while so I can make out the difference. Well at least I know John put her up to it. Figures. I hurry off to class because I hear John say bye. I make it about half way there when John catches up.
's**t.' I think.
"Hey I thought you would be at class already." John says.
"I-I was waiting for you." I stutter.
"Oh umm thanks." He says nervous.
"Yea." I say and nod.
We walk down the hall to our next class, silently. I was thinking about what John and André had said earlier. The class seemed long and agonizing; I had stopped paying attention after the first two minutes. Stuck in my stupor I hadn’t noticed when the class ended.
"Rose? Rose!" John says.
"What?" I say breaking out of my stupor, confused.
"It's time to go Rose."
"Oh, oh okay."
I get up and we leave. This goes on for the rest of the day. He warms up a bit and offers me a ride, I agree of course. He starts to take me home when I notice we're on the wrong road. That's when I decide to ask the questions.
"John wh-"
That's all I am able to get out before John kisses me so passionately it almost hurts. I’m so stunned; it takes me a few seconds to realize what he's doing. Then I try to pull back. I’ve always had a crush on him because he’s nice and such, but this is just wow. He doesn’t let me and keeps kissing me, so I kiss back. The passion between our kiss is like a fire that is raging out of control. This is the happiest and most confused I have ever been. He starts to pull away when I realize I knocked him over and that my hands are intertwined with his black hair. I blush embarrassed; and get back up into my seat he smiles triumphantly. Then I remember my questions, although I have a few to add.
"John where are we? And why did you talk to André? Also why did you kiss me?" I ask.
"Hey you kissed me back. Well Rose we are going to my house." John says only answering two of my questions.
"So? You wouldn’t have let me go. Okay and?"
"I kissed you because I wanted to." He states.
"Why did you want to? And are we going out now? And why are we going to your house? You confuse me so much." I say starting to get a headache.
"Umm sure if you want." He smiles glad he distracted me.
I smile back and ask the questions again.
"Why did you want to? Why are we going to your house? Also why did you talk to André?"
"Because I felt like it. And for the other answers you will just have to wait and find out. Trust me." He says looking into my deep violet yes with his emerald green ones.
I swear I almost faint. We drive to what I suppose is his house and turn in the driveway. We both get out of the car and walk inside the house.
The house is small most likely only a three bedroom house. From the door way I see stairs to the right, a hall way with one door on the left and a living room at the end of the hall way. From the living room I see a kitchen and dining room to the left. John pulls me by the hand and makes me sit down on a soft brown leather couch.
"André, Lrina, and Colby." He says softly.
I'm confused at first then three beautiful people walk in.
"Yes, John dear?" asks a person I suppose to be Lrina.
Her voice is like glasses clicking together to form a high pitched song. Her voice goes with her appearance; blonde hair down to her shoulders, emerald eyes, and a small, pale, feminine body. I just gawked at her.
"Everyone this is Rose; Rose everyone." John answers.
I stare at him; all their eyes are exactly the same.
"Who are they?" I ask barely audible.
"They are my family. This is Lrina my mother, so to speak. You know André." He says pointing to André, a beautiful, tall pale, long curly brown haired, emerald eyed girl.
"She's my sister, and this is-"
"Who! What?! She's your sister!?"
"Yes, and this is Colby my father, as you know." He says pointing to a handsome, tall pale man with spiked almost white hair, with emerald eyes.
"Wait your father is gay and you DON'T HAVE A SISTER!" I yell.
John puts his hands on my face to try and calm me down. After a few minutes of freaking out and hysterics I calm down. Slowly, ever so slowly I begin to take in what was just said.
“Explain to me.” I say.

Chapter Two
Secret
He tells me everything. He explains about his sister, mom and dad.
"You see my father is not gay, but André wanted to be popular in school and I’m not the best way to make her popular. So I say my dad is gay and my mom is gone."
"But your sister" I spit the word. "Has a different last name than you!"
"Well yes because we made her one."
"But why would you do that all just to make her happy? Why? Is she special?" I demand.
They look at each other with a look of debate. Then they look at me wonderingly. 'What are they thinking?’ I ask myself.
"If we tell you something..." Starts Colby in a voice like a harp.
"Can you keep it a secret?!" demands André in a voice similar to John's silk voice.
I stare at them dumbfounded. 'What is this some kind of joke?! Of course I can!'
"Of course!" I yell offended.
"We're vampires." They say together.
I start laughing hysterically like it's a joke. Then I look at their serious faces.
“Oh come on you guys, really? Really? That is so funny. You made my day thanks.” I say sarcastically.
The serious look on their faces doesn’t change or waver. 'Oh s**t! They weren’t kidding! That explains a lot. Their pale skin, the same color eyes, their beauty.... Oh s**t! I just walked into a house full of vampires! Crap! I might be dinner.' I start to inch toward the door when John is suddenly behind me, holding me. I try to get away, but he holds me tighter. 'NO!' I scream in my head. Then he's whispering in my ear.
"Stop! We won't hurt you! Please! Trust me!" He whispers.
I do trust him, but this is just a major, major thing I can’t take. I trust him enough to stop struggling, but I turn around and hold him tighter, trying to hide in his skin.
He leads me back to the couch and I instantly stiffen. 'What if it's a trick? No it wouldn't be trust him.' I straighten up and say one word.
"Explain."
"It's hard to explain." Lrina says.
"Explain." I say fiercely.
"Okay, okay. John please explain." Colby says.
"Well Colby became a vampire by Lrina because she loved him and he loved her enough to give up being human for her and Lrina became a vampire by another vampire she doesn’t talk about. André became a vampire by Lrina because she wanted to be immortal and Lrina wanted a child. I became a vampire by Colby. I was an orphan who was cold, hungry and close to death. Colby asked me if I wanted to be immortal and live and well I said yes." John says.
It takes me a few minutes before I can speak.
All I say is, "It's time for me to go."
They all look at the clock. The clock reads 6:00pm.
"I'll take you home." John says.
'Good I need to talk to him.' I think.
"Ok so tell me about you." I say when we're in the car.
"About what? Being a vampire?” He asks.
"Yes."
"Well first off just to reassure you, we only drink animal blood."
I sigh in relief, but am still not completely convinced.
"Second when our eyes turn gray it means we're thirsty, but don't worry we won't harm you."
"Ok, anything else?"
"Nope."
"Ok."
We drive to my home in silence. Until....
"Well there is more...."
I raise my eyebrows, he laughs.
"I haven't told you about our powers."
"Powers? You mean like flying?" I ask.
He laughs again.
"No. Not like that."
"Then like what?"
"Well super strength, speed, sight, hearing, and smell. Apart from that André can manipulate peoples mind, but not yours. Lrina can send shockwaves with her hands if she wants. Colby can see the future sometimes. I well I can feel people’s minds, but not yours."
"Wait you said you and André can't use your powers on me? And Colby can see the future sometimes?"
He sighs and stops the car.
"Your mind is different, you have a hidden trigger that allows me to feel your mind, not read it, but get a general idea of what you’re thinking. So can André if I ever told her the trigger." He says and smiles.
"What's the trigger?"
"Are you that dumb? The trigger is touch, but it's kind of selective.... You have to let the person touching you feel or manipulate your mind.”
"Oh...and Colby?”
"Colby can't see the future all the time. Usually a vision just comes at random, but his visions are mostly about him. He's working on controlling it and expanding it. It's taken him five hundred years just to be able to see Lrina. And that was once."
"Oh, okay."
That's all I can say. I am still confused, surprised, and honestly a little scared. I mean who wouldn't be? Seriously!? He starts the car again and soon after we pull into my house. 'Time to face mom.' I think. "Don't worry I’ll be waiting upstairs."
'Was my face that obvious? Probably. Oh well.' I get out and walk to the door when he drives away. I go inside.
"YOUNG b***h! YOU WERE SUPOSED TO BE BACK HOURS AGO!" She screeches. "ROSE HAMILTON HOW DARE YOU! ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?!" she yells and slaps me.
My head tilts to the side.
"ANSWER!"
She slaps me again.
"NO!" I scream back.
Although I’m going to get beaten for saying that it was worth it.
"YOU! YOU b*****d OF A DAUGHTER!" She yells and knees me in the gut.
I fall down winded. She yanks me up by the roots of my hair. She throws me agents the counter. I hit my head so hard it starts to bleed. She comes over to me and slaps me again. Then she punches me in the face. 'Great a black eye.' I think, but she is far from done. She knees me in the gut again and I fall over sideways. She grabs a steak knife and cuts my arm. The cut is from my forearm to my wrist. I scream in agony. I start to cry. She lifts me up by my hair again and throws me into a counter where I hit my chest. She leaves and puts the knife in the sink. I get up although it hurts and I try to make it to my room. When I get to my room I open the door and collapse. John catches me and puts me on my bed. He walks to my bathroom and comes back with a needle and thread. I had that hiding there in case I needed to sew something, considering my mom wouldn’t care enough to do anything. He starts stitching up my arm. When he finishes I look up to his eyes, they're a dark gray.
"Are you okay?" I ask slowly while I wince from the pain.
"I'm fine. Are you?" John asks.
"I've been better. When did you become a doctor?"
"We all have taken biology. I mean seriously being around forever gives you time to memorize."
"Right, forgot. Do you know if my rib is broken?"
"It's fine, you’re just bruised. Except that cut on your head and arm."
"Oh I split my head? Oh..."
"Yea, not that bad though. So all you need to do is wash it and put gauze on."
I realized that he has an overly calm voice and I look back at his eyes. 'Oh right blood! Not good.' I get up and move as fast as I can to the bathroom to wash up. When I am perfectly blood free I walk back out and he's still here. I walk back over to him. He has his arms out and I sit on his lap. I hug him closer to me and he lifts my head up. He starts kissing me. I wonder how long this can go on. I start to think about all the fiery passion I feel now. 'It could last forever.' He laughs and pulls away.
"What's so funny?"
"They way your thoughts are heading."
"Oh.... wait you semi-read my mind? I thought I had to let you."
"You did. When I kiss you; you let your guard down so anyone can do anything to your mind."
"Why didn’t you tell me this before?"
He laughs. That's all we talk about because I yawn and fall asleep in his lap. When I wake up he is leaning agents the wall awake. I look up at him. 'He didn't sleep.'
"Good morning sleepy." John says and kisses my head.
"Did you get any sleep?" I ask trying not to wince from the pain.
"Sleep? I haven't slept since I was turned."
"Oh. That must suck. Okay well I’ll see you at school?"
"Well I was going to run home and grab my car to pick you up."
I look at him with a surprised expression on my face into his emerald eyes covered with black hair.
"I'd like that."
He smiles and jumps from my window. I look at my never changing room. The same yellow wall paper, same desk and computer by my closet. Same bed I’ve had for three years, yup same as ever. I walk to my closet and start looking for clothes. I find midnight blue tank top, black skinny jeans, and of course my big black hoodie.
I brush my hair and teeth then I go down stairs to wait for John. Ten minutes later he arrives right before my mother gets up. He is wearing black pants, a gray tee shirt and hoodie. His hair is out of his piercing emerald eyes.
Unlike my jet-black hair that covers my profound violet eyes. I walk out to his car and climb in. He gets in and puts his arm around me.
“I’m happy you came early my mom would’ve killed me.” I say.
“Yeah, you think so?” John says.
“I know.” I sigh. “If only I didn’t have to go back.”
“Well I’m sorry…. I wouldn’t let you, but I don’t think a house full of vampires would be a good idea.” He says turning to look into my bottomless violet eyes.
Sometimes I just get lost in his eyes and silky voice.
“Hmmm I wouldn’t mind.” I say.
“Yes I think you would mind if we or me accidentally killed you.”
“Hmmm being killed by you or my mother…. Hmmm I go with you.”
We laugh, but then he gets serious.
“No, Rose I’m not going to put you through that. I’m not going to put you in harm’s way like that.”
“André wouldn’t mind. She tries to be nice to me. So why won’t she let me go to live with you away from my drunk, washed-up son of a b***h mother?” I challenged.
His eyes turn hard and dark like granite. Then he composes his face when he sees my scared expression.
“End of discussion. No, you will not live with us. I will take care of anything she does.”
“But I…”
“NO!”
“Okay.” I say disappointed.

Chapter Three
Life
I go through the school day bored out of my mind. Until gym. ‘The evil sisters’ hit me with volleyballs, pushed me down and laughed every time I fell. I wanted to kill them so bad, but André gave me a look that basically said ‘don’t you’ll hurt yourself more than them.’ From that one look I noticed her eyes were darker. I nodded slightly. Other than that my day my day was great, perfect actually. I have a vampire boyfriend who loves me and I love him. It’s perfect. By the time I was driven home I was excited. John would be waiting in my room! I can’t believe I am happy. When I walk in my mother is yelling.
“Rose! Rose! Rose Hamilton! Stop Right There! Stop! Rose!”
I was walking right past her. Not paying attention to her. I walked straight to my room, and jumped into John’s lap. My mother is banging on my door and yelling.
“Rose Open This Door! Now!”
“See what I mean? In the morning I’ll be dead because I can’t put this fury off forever. She’ll find away. Trust me.” I tell him glumly.
“She’s giving up. Trust me. The way you walked past her showed her you’re not taking that crap.”
“Sure.”
“Oh wait, never mind.”
“See.”
“Sorry.”
“It’s ok.”
“No it’s cruel and wrong.”
“No I’m f-“He interrupts me with a long fiery passionate kiss. It makes my head spin and my thoughts scatter. I twin my hand in his hair and kiss him back. He twins his fingers in my jet-black hair while he holds my middle back with his other hand. This lasts for a while until I knock him over. He starts to laugh.
“I never knew anyone who could knock a vampire over.” He say’s and I laugh.
“Maybe I’m special.” I say jokingly.
“Oh you are.” He says playing with a strand of my hair. “You see, you smell better than anyone else.”
At that I freeze.
“Don’t worry I won’t hurt you.”
“I-I believe you.”
“I’m sorry I scared you.”
“It-it’s ok really.” I say shakily. He sighs.
“Look I was only kidding about it. You do smell better, but seriously if I haven’t killed you by now then what would make me?”
I thaw out. I was only scared cause that was still creepy to me.
“Oh nothing except this.” I say teasingly and I kiss him again.
He lies down and pushes me away a little.
“Oh I could just eat you up. Yum yum.” He says teasingly and kisses me again.
After a while of that we just start to talk.
“But I see you in the sun light all the time. Well when it’s sunny.”
“Yea, but what do I wear on those days? Explain exactly what I wear.”
“Hoodie, pants, shirt, gloves, and sunglasses that’s all.”
“Exactly. I have my hood and sunglasses covering my face and gloves for my hands.”
“But what would happen if you were in sun?”
“Well I tried it once. It was fun. You see in sun we are virtually normal humans. Our senses dull, we start to feel a little burning, so I can’t stay out long, I will show you sometime.”
“What do you mean by burning?”
“We can’t die from the sun, but it makes us thirsty when we are directly in the light and it slightly chars our skin.”
“But isn’t that dangerous if you get thirsty?”
“Yea, but it is you and besides that was once, when I was a newborn vampire. So I don’t think that would happen again.”
“But what-“He puts his finger to my lips.
“Sssshhh sleep.”
I frown and fall asleep or so he thinks.
“I know you’re awake. Now go to sleep.” John says.
‘Dam! Oh well.’ I snuggle closer to him. He seems so warm. I close my eyes, but I am still awake. He starts to sing. He is singing “Love Me Tender” by Elvis Presley. I quickly fall asleep.

When I wake up he is lounging next to me. I sigh. ‘If only I don’t have to get beat up this morning.’
“Hey Rose.” He whispers.
“Hey.” I say grumpily.
“What’s wrong?”
“As soon as I walk out this door I get beat and I can’t do anything about it.”
“I can…”
“You can?” I ask surprised.
“Yea…I can show up early.”
I frown. That wasn’t what I was hoping for. I sigh.
“Ok.” I grumble.
We get up and he leaves. I got to my closet trying to take a long time. I find a pair of blue jeans, a white shirt that says ‘Go away and no one gets hurt’, black combat boots, and my black hoodie. I walk to my bathroom and try to put my jet back hair up. I finally find a hair-do that works. It’s a bun with chopsticks through it and my bangs in my cavernous violet eyes. I walk downstairs and find my mother and John sitting there. My eyes bulge. ‘WTF!’ I walk over and sit next to John.
“Hello.” I say a little chocked.
“Hello Rose, I was just telling your mother that you and I are going out.” John says.
I look at my mother’s frightened face. She looks like she has just seen a very dangerous snake. Then I figure out what John really means. Suddenly I am furious. I get up and leave, John is right behind me. We get to his car.
“What the hell did you do?!” I yell.
“Nothing.” He says.
“Oh really then why is she scared shitless?!” I demand.
“I just said that if she lays another hand on you I’ll kill her.” He says like it’s no big deal.
“You did what!?”
“Look I didn’t tell her I am a vampire. I just threatened her.”
“Oh yea that makes things better! Thank you! Thank you very much!” I yell.
After that I don’t talk to John at all. ‘I can’t believe he did that!’ my angry side screams in my head. ‘But isn’t what we wanted? Not to be beaten? Isn’t this a good thing?’ my calm side says back. ‘No it’s not! Or is it?’ I just give up arguing over the point and pretend to stay mad at him. During third period history the sun makes an appearance and I look over at John who already has gloves on sunglasses on and hood up. After class the sun is still shinning.
“John I believe you said you would show me.” I say.
“I did, didn’t I?” He smiles a blinding smile and leads me towards the parking lot.
“We’re skipping school?” I ask.
“Yes.”
“Sweet.”
We drive all the way to his house. When we get there he takes me in and to his backyard. He takes his hoodie off and his shirt off in the shade.
“Are you ready to be wowed?”
“Sure.” I say impatiently and laughing.
He walks out into the sun. He looks normal in the sun. He starts to glow a little bit and I can see his skin getting burned, after only a short time in the sun. He goes back and puts his clothes on.
“Wow…” I finally say after a few minutes. He laughs.
“Yea. See this is why I don’t go out into the sun. I would stand out a little.” He jokes.
“Um yea!” I say.
We both laugh. He comes over to me. Then we walk back to his house.
“So what did you seriously say to my mom?” I ask.
He sighs and puts his head in his hands.
“I said that I will call the cops next time she touches you or I’ll just give her a taste of her own medicine.” He said.
“Hmmm no wonder she was scared.”
He looks up curious. I just shake my head. I probably shouldn’t tell him my mom killed my dad on a drunken psycho rampage. ‘That would really get her arrested.’ He furrows his brow then touches my arm and I laugh. I’m not going to let him know, even if he can’t read my exact thoughts. Just then his sister comes home.

Chapter Seven
No!
Rose’s view
André comes in when Joanna is tying John up, she gets me out. I watch from a bush outside the cave. Joanna looks furious. She turns back to John’s smiling face.
“YOU! WHAT DID YOU DO!?” She yells.
She walks over to John and rips him from the wall throwing him agents another cave wall. Lrina, Colby, and André walk into the cave.
“Now look who’s being bad.” André says to get her attention.
Joanna turns around. She sees them in front of the bush I’m in and hisses. She turns back around to John on the floor. She grabs him by his hair and sinks her teeth into his neck. He screams in anguish and I see him trying to pull away, but Joanna is stronger. Lrina and Colby become furious. Lrina, Colby, and André pull her off and throw her agents the wall. Colby comes to the left of her. And André went to the right. Lrina was standing in front of her.
“Joanna if you join our family then we won’t kill you.” Lrina offers.
I am outraged. ‘What! What are they doing?!’
“No!” I yell standing up.
“Go to HELL!” Joanna yells at them and me.
Lrina bends down to her on the ground and repeats her offer. Joanna refuses again.
“I guess we’ll just have to kill you. Pity I don’t like killing our own kind. Plus I thought you would be a good sister and daughter. Oh well.” Lrina says.
Colby bites a piece of her arm off. She screams in suffering.
“I’ll join you just don’t kill me!” She screams after a few more bites from André and Colby. “I swear I’ll do whatever you want just don’t kill me! I just wanted John! I’m sorry!”
Lrina nods and Colby and André back away.
“NO!” I scream in rage.
I run over to John. Hoping he will understand and be on my side in this chaos.
“Yes.” John answers.
“John no! She’ll kill me and you!” I yell at him.
“Her thoughts don’t seem to be heading that way.” John says weakly.
“John no! You can’t let that monster into your family! She’ll kill us all!” I plead.
John pretends to think it over. I stand there, tears beginning fresh in my eyes. Hoping he won’t chose her. Hoping he loves me enough to have her killed. Hoping desperately they will kill her.
“No she won’t.” He answers.
I am absolutely outraged. I walk away from him to the cave entrance. Joanna comes and stands next to me while the others help John up.
“I’m sorry.” Joanna says.
“Save it for someone who cares.” I say without looking at her.
“Truly I am.” She says a little to meanly.
I turn to look at her rage plain on my face and in my deep violet eyes.
“You might have fooled them into thinking your harmless, but I know better. I will expose you for what you really are. A liar and a murder, I will expose you. SO unless you want to be dead right now leave me alone.” I hiss at her still glaring.
“What can a human do to me?” Joanna asks dropping her oh so sweet act with me.
“I know ways to kill you. I’ll expose you and have them kill you. I hope you enjoy fire because you will roast in hell.” I hiss.
Then I turn around and walk over to John. Joanna plays the taken aback look on her face and in her eyes.
“I will be the one to burn you.” I say when I walk by with John.
“What did you say?” John asks.
“Nothing important John.” I tell him glaring at Joanna.
John is suspicious so I smile and turn away. I hug him tightly and kiss him lightly. Sending him happy thoughts.
“I’m glad you’re alright.” I tell him.
“No, I’m glad you are.” He says.
In that instant I know that he still doubt’s Joanna. ‘Good I can use this to my advantage.’ I think to myself. John leans over and kisses me again. Before our lips touch I drop my thoughts so he doesn’t know what I was just thinking. I kiss him back. We kiss for about two minutes before Colby tells us to break it up and get going. I jump on John’s back and he takes off running. I still can’t get over this feeling. I let John kind of read my mind. I don’t know how this works so I just try to be open like with an open mind. I let him go through my head. ‘It doesn’t matter if she turns good. I will hate her for the rest of my existence.’ I think to him. He sighs. ‘What it’s not like you won’t too.’ He nods sadly.

Chapter Eight
Are you kidding?!
John takes me home. My mom seemed pissed to see me back. I stay downstairs for a while trying to explain to her where I’ve been for the last two weeks. She doesn’t care though. Big shock. We end up arguing, again. Usually it escalates to violence, but she doesn’t dare do that when I’m dating John, John my knight in shining armor. I laugh to myself. I go to my room. John is waiting there, of course. I fall asleep grateful to have him there. I wake up around five thirty and John kisses me. Then he leaves, I get ready and walk down stairs. John arrives, but doesn’t come to get me, that’s a bit odd. I walk out to the car and see why. Joanna is in the back seat. I clench my jaw and turn around toward my house. John is by my side, of course.
“Listen she’s not going to hurt you.”
“ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT SHE SAID!” I yell at him.
He tries to calm me down, and after a while I do calm down and look back at his firari. She is sitting there eye’s narrowed; I go to the car and get in the passenger’s seat. Joanna leans forward.
“Did you really have to tell him that?” Joanna says and leans back.
John, of course, could hear. ‘So the b***h doesn’t like it when she’s throw out there in the open like that?’ I thought to myself. ‘Interesting.’ We arrive at school a bit too soon for my liking. Joanna goes and picks up her schedule leaving John and I alone.
“So what’s going to be her story?” I ask bitterly.
“She’s a cousin whose parents died in a car crash and now she has come to live with us, her last relatives.” John answers.
“I would say she deserved it.” I mumble to myself.
“What did you just say?” John asks already knowing.
‘Oh right vampire hearing.’ I think bitterly.
“I said that she would deserve It.”
“Listen I don’t know what kind of things that she told you in that cave, but you need to stop.” John says angrily.
“Whatever.” I say and walk away.
John grabs my arm and spins me back around to face him.
“What?” I demand.
“Why do you care so much to see her gone? Why do you hate her so much? Yes she kidnapped you, but he promised to be a better person now.” He asks sorrow ringing in his silk voice.
“I-I just…you had to be there. John it’s not…god! This is hard to explain.”
John hugs me and I hug him back. I let him read my thoughts they aren’t the happiest. Filled with memories of the cave. He pulls away and nods not wanting to see.
“Will you at least try?” He asks.
“Fine I’ll try.” I say.
“Good.” He says and kisses my forehead.
Then Joanna comes back. Everything is fine now well at first, I go off to English and find out Joanna is in that class, oh yea not to mention she sits right next to John and me! She passes me a note.
I am truly sorry.
Oh yeah? Go to hell.
That’s mean.
Friends? Right, I’m sorry.
Friends.
Wonderful can I make it up to you? I really am sorry I know you are too.
What did you have in mind?
Oh nothing just you dead on the ground.
But I thought we were supposed to be friends…
No! Supposed to act it yes. Why would I be your friend after what you did and said?!
I don’t know.
I rip up the paper so she can’t show it to John. He probably already knows anyway, considering he can semi-read minds. ‘Wonder how he’ll kill me.’ I think sarcastically.
The bell rings. I get up and leave throwing the paper in the trash. Joanna is right behind me, of course. John is walking towards Joanna and me. He seemed pissed. ‘Oh wonderful.’
“Rose I need to talk to you after school.” John says furious.
“Yes, John.” I say.
‘Better not make him madder than he already is.’ I think silently. He turns to Joanna not as furious.
“What did you do to make her write hurtful things?” He asks.
“Nothing.” Joanna lies.
“You will rewrite the note so I can see it.” John tells her.
He leaves off to his next class. Joanna follows him. ‘Oh perfect! She has next period with him!’ I yell at myself. I really hope school doesn’t end soon. I walk slowly away to gym class just wanting to die.

Chapter Nine
Fight
When the final bell rings I am literally glued to the floor. I now have to face John. I don’t think I can handle this. I slowly move to the door. Inch by inch him and I get closer. It’s like a bomb waiting to explode or a really good book building up on suspense until finally something huge happens and changes everything. I finally make it out the door to the parking lot. John comes up behind me and grabs my arm. He drags me to his car. I get in and take a deep breath before he gets in. Joanna must have run home or ridden with André. John gets in and throws a piece of paper at me. All in neat handwriting, it’s the note from earlier. We drive away from the school not talking. He pulls over and takes a deep breath. He bangs his head agents the steering wheel and begins to talk.
“I don’t know why you won’t even try. I have no idea what you think she did. I have-“
“Whoa hold up! What I think she did! I was there! I know what she did! Unlike you!” I yell at him.
“How can she do anything?! She can’t use her powers on you!”
“What power?! It doesn’t matter anyway! She still did what she did!”
“She controls people’s thoughts. She can make you think things you never would.”
“Kind of like André?!”
“Yes! But she didn’t do anything to you! I read her general thoughts at the time!”
“Oh really?! How could you?! You weren’t there!” I yell and climb out of the car storming off. I am walking away from him. We’re pretty far from my house, but I don’t care. I’ll keep walking. I look at him as I turn a corner. He has the worst expression of hurt on his face. I turn away and start to cry. I make it home in an hour. Some of my jet black hair is soaked with tears and my deep violet eyes glisten with tears to come. My mom walks in and sees me crying. She smiles.
‘Great she knows.’ I try going to my room, but my mom grabs my shoulder and spins me around. She punches me in my face and kicks me in my shin with her steel-toed boots. I cry harder from the pain. Not being beaten in a while just makes this worse. She grabs a fist full of my hair and drags me to the kitchen. I struggle of course, but it’s no use. She has done this much longer than I have. She smash’s my head agents the counter. I pull away and she knees me in the gut. I fall to my knees by the force. She grabs my face and lifts it. She then pulls out a cigarette lighter and burns my check with the flame. I scream and hit her, but she still burns my check. I knock the lighter out of her hand and hit her. I made contact with her gut and she gasps. I take my chance and I run. I run straight up to my room. I lock my door and push my desk in front of it. I then run to my bathroom and grab a razor I had hidden from days when I had no friends. I pull my hoodie off and slash the words ******** you and all your hate across my wrist. I gasp at the pain of the sharp metal cutting through my arm. I haven’t done this in a while. The blood trickles down soaking my black shirt. I freak out and look around for a towel. After the bleeding stops I fall asleep on the bathroom floor. I wake up a bit later and go to my room after looking at the damage to my face and arm. I have a small bleeding cut on my forehead and a dark red spot on my left check from the lighter. I look away and wash the blood from my head and arm down the drain. I go to change into my nightgown. I cry myself to sleep. I wake up earlier than usual. I want to be out of the house before my mom wakes up. ‘It will save me one less beating.’ I think as I walk out the door. Two weeks go by with the same routine.

Chapter Ten
Hurt
I never talk to John anymore, he’s always seems to be with Joanna. I think they’re together, but John seems to resent her as much as he used to. That’s a little relief. I sometimes catch him staring at my forehead and check. The marks haven’t faded yet. I miss him, but I won’t dare tell him that. I want him to admit he was wrong and that Joanna is a psychotic b***h. After school I go home, like normal, walking all the way. My mom, of course, beats me when I arrive.
Joanna’s view
‘Why does that little b***h always watch us? Hmmm how else can I make her miserable?’ I ask myself making John too busy to pay attention. ‘Oh yes. I will leave roses for her in her room that say ‘I miss you please meet me at twelve in my room’ that would work. I could be there with him and…’ I smile evilly to myself. ‘Perfect. Stupid human girls always fall for that.’ After school ends I tell my beloved John that I’m going to run home. He lets me go of course and I run to the flower store and buy roses. Then I write the message in John’s handwriting. I run to Rose’s house and I get into her room, before she comes up. I can hear her mom beating her. I laugh softly. I leave the flowers in plain view. ‘Without my gift this would be virtually impossible. It’s a good thing I am able to manipulate people’s minds.’ I think as I walk into my new home proud of myself.

Rose’s view
I get home and my mother beats me before I can walk to my room. I just give up resisting and let her go at it. When it’s done I run to my bedroom. I get in and lock my bedroom door. I turn around and freeze in place. There are flowers on my bed. I walk almost run over and see a card. I quickly read it. I miss you. Please meet me at twelve in my room. Tonight. ‘Is this possible? Can he really want me back?’ I ask myself. These questions are irrelevant because I’m going either way. I sit there staring at the clock, waiting for twelve.

Joanna’s view
Even though I can’t manipulate her thoughts I can tell she would never refuse and offer like that. So I sit in André’s room waiting for midnight. Twelve o’clock comes and I have successfully tricked everyone into a hunting trip without John and me. I walk over to John’s room. He is sitting there on the couch upside down, sad, looking at the wall. I can fix that though.
“John?” I ask.
“Yes Joanna?”
“Are you sad?”
“Yes.”
“What are you sad for?”
“Rose won’t talk to me.”
I grit my teeth together. ‘Calm down.’ I tell myself.
“Well that’s her loss.” I say walking over to him and putting my hand on his shoulder. ‘What the hell?!’ He thinks. If I want this to work I’m going to have to manipulate his mind. I turn him to face me and I look into his emerald eyes.
“You are the best person ever! I love you Joanna. I never want anyone different at this moment.” I say putting the thoughts in his head.
I know he won’t actually love me, but for this charade it works. I make him sit properly. I sit on his lap, and I kiss him; he kisses back because he has no choice. I take his jacket off. He takes off his shirt and my jacket. We kiss again. I hear footsteps. ‘Perfect now that little b***h can see this.’ I think, as she walks in the door.
Rose’s view
It’s twelve and I leave. I walk to his house. It isn’t that far away. There is a sign on the door that says to come in and up. So I walk up to his room. I see his door and I smile. Still smiling I open the door. Across from the door, on the other side of the room, I see Joanna and John on the couch. Joanna in a tank top, John isn’t wearing a shirt or jacket and they are kissing. I look at John. I almost start to cry.
“John! How could you?!” I yell and run away devastated.
I make it out the door and down the driveway before the tears come. I run home and up to my bedroom. I grab the razor hidden in my drawer. I promised I wouldn’t to this again, but I can’t think of another way to leave this pain behind. I carve new words into my arm this time. The words are: My life plays out like a fairy tale in front of me, but I don’t see a happy ending. After both my arms are bleeding I decided to stop, I don’t want to kill myself although I feel like dieing.

Joanna’s view
After Rose yelled, John snapped. He stopped kissing me and pushes me away. I leave pleased with myself. He’s yelling things like ‘you b***h! How could you do that?! Rose! No!’ I just get tired of hearing him yell so I leave the house to go hunting.

Chapter fifteen
Death
Joanna smiles an evil smile while looking down at me.
“What did you do?!” I shriek in a faint voice.
“I almost drank you dry, but I had to save you by my blood. I need you alive, so John can watch me kill you.” Joanna says.
I start to hyperventilate. I try to get up and move away, but Joanna sees what I’m trying to do and grabs my arm.
“Tisk- tisk. That’s not how the game goes.” Joanna says.
“I don’t care!” I hiss at her, gaining strength back in my voice.
“For my love of John.” She says throwing me agents a wall. “I will kill you.” She says picking me up and dragging me over to a door.
The door leads to a balcony that overlooks Lake Erie.
“Where are we?” I ask out of pure stupid-ness.
“Near Lake Erie. For you John I will kill Rose!” Joanna says lifting me up and throwing me off the balcony. I scream.
John’s view
“John where is Rose?” André asks.
I turn to where Rose was standing. “Joanna.” I hiss.
André nods and calls Colby and Lrina to let them know we are chasing Joanna. They fear for our safety, but say nothing. I know that they can’t come because it wouldn’t be worth it. If Joanna does kill Rose I’d kill her. I follow Joanna’s sent for about three hours, to a building right next to Lake Erie. I hear Joanna talking. She says ‘For you John I will kill Rose!’ I hear a scream and see Rose thrown over the edge of the balcony; she is thrown far out into Lake Erie. I jump in without thinking and swim to her. Vampires don’t swim fast in the water they are like normal people. After twenty minutes I reach where Rose was thrown. I dive down and try to grab her. I pull her up and start to swim back. It’s harder to swim now, but I will not let go of Rose.
André’s view
When John jumped into the water I knew it was too late. I ran upstairs to Joanna.
“You killed Rose!” I screeched.
“Yes I did.” Joanna said plainly as if she was bored.
“We did everything for you!”
Joanna looks down pretending to be a little ashamed.
“How could you! We took you in and didn’t kill you, but oh no, you had to kill Rose!”
Joanna flinched at the words, still pretending. “I feel so bad now…” She whispered with fake sorrow.
“You should! I will offer you two choices. Either you can, repent fix Rose and live with us under our rules and you will have to be nice, to everyone; or I’ll kill you, without my parents hesitation.” I say trying to bring her over to our side because I really don’t want to kill any vampire, good or evil.
“I would like to live with you, but John would kill me.”
“No. I don’t think he will. He will most likely leave the house.” I say, sorrowful.
Joanna nods. “But I don’t want to push him from your home.”
“He would leave anyway. He loved Rose and you killed her so he would leave because there is nothing here for him, or he’d just try and kill you.”
Joanna nods.
“Let’s go.” I say.
We walk down the stairs to where John is with Rose’s corpse.
John’s view
I look up from Rose’s body and see Joanna and André walking over to me.
“YOU! I’LL KILL YOU!” I yell at her and stand up, furious.
“I’m sorry…” Joanna replies.
“NO! YOU! ARE! NOT!” I scream and slip into a hunting crouch. “I’ll kill you.” I hiss menacingly.
I start to circle Joanna; she just stands there, not caring.
“Go ahead. I deserve it.” She says with a cold emotionless voice.
“John stop!” André yells.
I ignore André and lunge at Joanna. I knock her over. I hiss and bite her in her arms, legs, and I almost rip out her throat. André is the only thing that stops me. André runs over after she sees me lunge and pries Joanna and I apart; I snarl and lung at her again. Joanna is screaming in pain and I only want to make it worse. André is now holding me back as the vampire venom in Joanna starts to heal her. I break free of André’s grip and lunge at Joanna again.

Chapter sixteen
Confusion
I hear people fighting. ‘John?’ I think confused. I roll over and feel water. I jump up and onto my feet, surprisingly fast. I see André trying to pull John off of Joanna. ‘Where are we? What are they fighting about? What happened?’ I ask myself. André looks up and sees me. She stops trying to pry Joanna and John apart. I smell a sweet sent. It’s coming from where Joanna and John are; I walk over to John and Joanna. Joanna is on top of John trying to rip out his throat, to save herself. Then I see it. The sweet smell is blood. I grab Joanna by the hair and I rip her off. I am shocked for a moment. For some strange reason I’m actually able to do this. John’s expression goes from fury to shock. Joanna’s expression does the same.
“Rose?” John asks in disbelieve.
“Yes?” I say in a voice like bells. ‘What the hell?!’ I think.
“But how? You-you were dead.” John says standing up slowly.
“Dead? I’m right here.” I say with confusion in the bell voice.
John looks at me. I start to feel a little uncomfortable. He runs down the road and back.
“Did you see that?” He asks.
“Yes, I did. Oh wait! I shouldn’t have been able to see it! I’m a vampire! How!?” I shriek.
Joanna looks at John.
“I never took enough and I didn’t give her blood in return.” John says looking at Joanna.
“I turned her? I almost drank her dry and I gave her my blood to save her.” Joanna says looking at me. “I created you.” She says with hate and disbelief.
“I love him. I will not be your creation!” I hiss at her.
Joanna shakes his head. He walks behind me and wraps his arms around me, he kisses my head.
“I’m sorry for attacking you Joanna. You have given me the greatest joy of my life, so in return you can live with us as long as you follow our rules.” John says.
I smile at his words; Joanna and André take a step back. I stop smiling, and close my mouth in confusion. I use my tongue and feel around in my mouth. I have fangs! Actual fangs! John squeezes me.
“Let’s go.” He says aloud.
Everyone nods and I let John know about my wonderment. ‘John, I am a vampire! I have fangs! It’s a miracle.’ He laughs. We all run back to the house. Running is amazing, I love it, I never want to stop, but as we near the house everyone slows down. Joanna and André walk in first. I see Lrina and Colby’s face go to shock as John and I walk in. André and Joanna explain as John pulls me upstairs. He shows me a mirror. I close my eyes; I don’t want to see, yet. John grabs my hand and squeezes. I open my eyes to take in my reflection. My hair is a tangled moonlit, midnight colored mess. My eyes are practically black. My complexion is as smooth as white porcelain. Everything about me is completely perfect, which for me, is a shock. I almost screamed, but John interrupted me.
“You thirsty?” John asks.
I’m confused until I realize what he means.
“Are my eyes showing that dark?” I ask.
“Not really, most vampires have dark eyes at first, I’m just asking.” John says.
I nod. He gets up from his couch and goes to his closet. He pulls something out and holds it behind his back. He comes back over and gets on one knee.
“I’ve wanted to ask this for years, but I was concerned for your health. Will you marry me?” He asks as he opens the box.
I am overcome with joy. I tackle him to the ground and I kiss him over and over. He laughs and pulls away.
“Is that a yes?” John says.
“Yes.” I say and kiss him again.
We kiss for a while until Joanna knocks on the door. We pull apart, and we get up off the floor and walk to the door.
“Colby wants you, both.” She says.
We look at each other then back at her, confused.
“He had a vision.”
We both nod and walk down stairs. Lrina is in a chair with Colby and André is on a couch with an excited expression.
“Do you have something to tell us?” Colby asks.
I blush. I now know what his vision was about. It was about our marriage. John looks at me. I wave my hands around my face so I can cool myself down. John’s eyes grow huge.
“Rose! You can control ice?!” He says stunned.
I look at him confused then I look at my hands.
“Holly s**t!” I say.
“Oh my darling!” Lrina says.
“OMG!” André says.
“My sweet lord!” Colby says.
Joanna says nothing at all. She just stares at my blue hands and me. She looks shocked, but more frightened than shocked. She moves a few inches away. I look at her with suspicion, but I don’t let the others know. I turn back to the crowd that is staring at my hands; I don’t know how to turn off the power. So I think of warm things like beaches and what not. My hands turn back to there normal color. Everyone looks at me, then my hands. Colby sits back down and clears his throat.
“Well, anyway, what is the news you want to tell us?” Colby asks.
“Well, we wanted to tell you that, although you have seen this father, Rose and I are getting married.” John announces.
“Really!?” Lrina asks excited.
I nod. She giggles much like a schoolgirl who just saw the hottest guy wink at her. Everyone laughs.
“So who is doing the wedding?!” André asks.
I look at John. We haven’t really got an idea of who is planning it; well at least we didn’t go over it. I open my mind to his and he reads my questions.
“Umm…well we haven’t decided.” John says.
“Awe come on! Please can I do your wedding?!” André asks.
‘Well why not John?’ I send the thought to him. He nods.
“Ok you can do the wedding, just don’t over do it.” John says.
André squeaks and goes off with Lrina. She’s talking nonstop to her and is making a whole bunch of tiny squeaks. I laugh and look at Joanna. She gets up and follows them looking as perky as ever. ‘Something is not right about that girl. Not at all…’ I think to myself. I turn back to John and smile. He kisses me quickly and pushes me off the couch and in the direction of Joanna, Lrina, and André, just as André is about to turn around.
“Oh good your coming, you can pick the color scheme, the dresses, and the flower type.” André says to me.
She holds out a bunch of color tiles. I look down at the deep violet gemstone in my ring. ‘It truly is a lovely engagement ring.’ I think to John. He smiles. I turn back to the color tiles.
“Umm…can the color scheme be based on the gem stone in my ring?” I ask.
There are different colors to it. Mostly it’s deep violet, but there are some lighter purples in there too. André takes my hand and examines the ring.
“Hmm…you want us to do a purple diamond color scheme?” André asks.
I smile weakly and nod. She laughs.
“Even if I think you have horrible taste, it is your wedding.” She says and lets my hand drop.
I sigh. ‘I so can’t wait to see how this turns out.’ I grumble to myself.

Chapter seventeen
Happy ending or is it?
Two weeks pass and the wedding is set up. John’s family has rented a small house for the wedding. My dress looks fabulous; I adore it so much. It is deep violet, exactly the shade of color my eyes were before I was turned, it’s strapless and is down to my shoes, it has black diamonds studded into it so it shines and shows off my black hair, it has a small sash below my bust, and it shows off my curves until it hits the bottom of my waist, from there it flows out behind me. My black hair is twisted up into many small braids with violet diamonds laced into them. My veil is deep violet, just a shade lighter than my eye color before, and has a net work of black and violet diamonds laced into it, it flows out far behind me. I’m shaking because I’m so nervous. André is trying to calm me. She looks beautiful in her maid of honor dress. Her dress is a purple lilac color with violet sequence on it. Her beautiful brown curly hair is straightened so it is down to her shoulders. She looks at me then at the floor.
“What?” I ask nervous.
“It’s just I hope you like the wedding…” André said.
“Oh André, that’s not what I’m nervous about.” I say.
“Then what are you nervous about?” She asks confused.
“I’m nervous I’ll trip down the stairs and ruin the whole thing.” I say.
André laughs. Vampires have perfect reflexes and don’t make mistakes, unlike me before I was changed. I was always the klutz. Maybe because of my mother, but I don’t really care.
“You won’t fall, trust me. You’re a vampire now and vampires don’t fall down stairs.” André says still laughing.
I just nod and pretend like I believe her. Knowing me I would fall and ruin the whole thing.
“The ceremony starts in a fifteen minutes. No one is inside yet. Hmm…I’d better go make sure everyone is seated and the room is set up right. I’ll be back before you hear the music. Bye.” André says and kisses my forehead.
‘Great now they leave me alone, when I’m already dressed and ready? Prefect. I hope she didn’t go overboard. No, what if she invited a bunch of people?! God can this day get any worse?’ I hear a knock on the door that interrupts my mental tirade.
“Can I come in?” Joanna’s voice leaks through the door and into the bathroom. Her voice has changed from animal like to a almost honey type of voice.
“Sure.” I call in the bell voice, which is my regular voice now.
‘God this thing is annoying!’ I scream at myself.
“André sent me up here to keep you company.” Joanna says.
”When you say company you mean she sent you up here so I can’t have a mental break down or run away?” I ask.
“Yup, plus I have a question.” Joanna says.
“What’s your question?”
“Well, you know how you can control ice?”
“Yea?”
“Well I want to see you control ice.”
“Didn’t you see me when I was blushing two weeks ago and I made ice shoot from my hand to cool me down?”
“Yes, I did, but I want to see if you can freeze anything.”
I scrunch my eyebrows. ‘And what you mean by that is, ‘I want to see how strong you really are.’ I think.
“Umm…ok.” I say trying to play along. “What do you want me to freeze?” I ask. ‘Your face? Or you?’ I pretend to ask her.
“Hmm…how about this?” Joanna asks holding out a cup of water.
I put my hand over the top of it. I concentrate and it freezes instantly.
“Wow, well thanks.” Joanna says. “I have to go help now, so bye.” She says and leaves.
‘She won’t be messing with me now.’ I think. After ten minutes André is up in the bathroom again. She starts looking over me and fixing anything. I hear the music start and I stand up. Lrina, André, and Joanna make there way down. Since my dad is dead, Colby is going to lead me down. I gulp and begin to descend down the stairs. The staircase is spiral so I don’t see anything till I’m almost done walking down the steps. The house is gorgeous. There are purple lilacs, red roses, and lilies everywhere. The walls are painted light purple with hints of darker purple. There are very small amethysts sprinkled over the flowers that shine like sunlight. I resist my urge to run over to everything and look at it. There is a small diamond chandelier hanging over where John is standing at the end of the isle. He looks so magnificent dressed in his black tuxedo. His black hair is pushed out of his emerald eyes so I can see them with my dark gray eyes. Colby leads me over to him and the minister. I haven’t even looked at the surrounding people. I don’t really know who is there. The ceremony goes on and I speak when it is my turn.
“Rose Hamilton do you take John Diama to be your loftily wedded husband?” The minister asks.
“I do.” I say.
“And do you John Diama take Rose Hamilton to be your loftily wedded wife?” The minister asks again.
“I do.” John says.
“With the power vested in me I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride.” The minister says.
John doesn’t hesitate. He leans forward and kisses me so passionately it practically burns. Colby clears his throat and John and I separate. We are instantly swarmed with people. Lrina, André, Colby, and Joanna are the first to swarm us. I see someone I know and hate standing alone. I break away from the swarm and go to her.
“Hello.” My mother says.
“Why are you here?” I ask.
“It’s your wedding and I was sent an invite.”
“But why did you come?”
“Because I love you deep, deep down and it’s my daughters wedding.”
“That’s bullshit. You weren’t there for me any other time, why now?”
“I wanted to see you.”
“You wanted to see if it was true or if I would fall on my face right?” I ask hatefully.
“No…”
“Yes…”
“I truly love you and I wanted to see your wedding.”
“Save it for someone who cares.” I say and turn away.
I go back to the swarm of people. I smile and say hi. Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. John introduces me to everyone.
“Rose this is Amethysts, Arileo, Bianca, Sheryl, Gregory, and Karl.” John says pointing to each vampire.
Amethysts is a tall, mid twenties, emerald eyed, silky blonde haired vampire. She nods to me and shakes my hand.
“Greetings Mrs. Diama. I am Amethysts, as you already know; I have a coven in New York City. My coven could not come with me, but I am here to represent them.” Amethysts says in a voice that sounds like a flute.
“Hello.” I say and nod back.
Arileo steps up after her. He is an average height, mid thirties, light gray eyed, brown curly haired vampire.
“Hello Rose. I am Arileo. I have a coven in Canada. My coven could not come with me, because they are not as civilized as I am, so I represent them.” Arileo says in a deep smooth voice.
“Hello Arileo.” I say.
Arileo steps back to let Bianca come forward. Bianca is a red, long haired, short, mid teens, emerald eyed vampire.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you maim.” Bianca says in a heavy southern accent.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you too, Bianca.” I say back.
Bianca blushes and steps back, Sheryl steps forward. Sheryl is a short, strawberry blonde haired, tall, mid forties, emerald eyed vampire.
“Please forgive Bianca if she’s a bit childish. She is only fourteen, well actually she’s one hundred and forty, but she’s a kid at heart. I’m Sheryl. I am the maker of the coven she is in, we live in Texas.” Sheryl says in the same accent.
“It’s a pleasure.” I say and shake her hand.
Sheryl steps back and lets Gregory, who was staring at Sheryl come foreword. Gregory is a tall, short red haired, gray eyed, late thirties vampire. He shakes my hand and gives a little bow.
“Hello Rose. I am Gregory, of the French coven.” Gregory says in a light French accent.
“Hello Gregory.” I say.
He nods and steps back letting Karl step foreword. Karl is a short, early teen, emerald eyed, brown straight hair down to his ears, vampire.
“Hello I’m Karl. My coven in Washington regrets not being able to come. They sent me to represent.” Karl says and shakes my hand.
“Hello Karl.” I say and shake his hand back.
“Now everyone, may I dance with my wife?” John asks.
They nod and leave to mingle. I notice that Gregory stays with Sheryl. I laugh to myself. ‘Maybe he’ll change to a vegetarian and marry Sheryl.’ I think. I turn to John and he takes my hand. He leads me out to the porch. The decorations are much like they are inside. John spins me around so that I face him. I smile and he smiles back. We dance to the music that drifts from the party inside. The music is a waltz. One of his hands is on my waist the other one is in my hand. One of my hands is around his neck. We just dance for a while with out talking, he breaks into laughter a moment latter.
“What’s funny?” I ask laying my head on his chest.
“It’s just what Gregory’s general thoughts are.” He says still laughing.
I laugh along. “I figured that her liked her.” I said.
“Liked who?” John asked.
“Sheryl.” I say.
John laughed. I laughed too and lifted my head off of him. I looked up at him.
“Yea, well we have to get ready.” John said.
My look turns confused and I don’t even have to say what I’m thinking because John explains.
“We’re going on our honeymoon.” John said.
“Where?” I ask.
“Somewhere,” John said.
“Lovely.” I say sarcastically.
John laughs and leads me inside. On the bed, upstairs in one of the bedrooms, are two suitcases. One is blue and one is purple. I laugh. ‘Wow, everyone in this house must know that purple is my second favorite color.’ I think to John.
“I know almost everything about you.” John said.
“Yea,” I laugh.

Chapter eighteen
Where are we going?
John laughs and grabs the suitcases. I reach out to help, but he shakes his head no. I frown, but nod. He leads me down the spiral stairs. Everyone sees us, they all laugh, smile, wave, and hug us goodbye. I smile and hug them back, well everyone except my mother. John grabs me by the arm so we can leave. Outside is a car with cans on the end. It says just married in the window. I roll my eyes and get in; he climbs in the driver’s seat. He drives us for a long time. I don’t really know where we are because I’m too focused on him. The only time I look out the window is when he stops.
“Where are we?” I ask confused.
“We are in Macksburg.” John said.
“Macksburg? Why here?” I asked very confused.
“We are here because it is a very small town and very far away from Akron and everybody.”
“But, here?”
“Plus, it can be very romantic.”
“How?”
“How? Well this isn’t our final stop.” He said deviously.
“Where are we going?” I ask even more confused.
“It’s a surprise.” John says.
I roll my eyes and look out the window.
“Then where are we going to go from here?”
“Umm…look out the other window.” He said.
I turned to the other window. There was a very small airport.
“Why didn’t we take a plane in Akron?” I ask.
“We didn’t take a plane in Akron because they would be overly crowded, and you are just a newborn.” John told me.
I just nodded. I understood what he meant. It was too dangerous.
“Ok.”
John laughed and got out of the car. He went over to my door and opened it. We walked into the tiny airport and went through security. We sit down in the only waiting area. Humans surround us. I smell them and almost pass out from the pure sensation of it. I take a deep breath. It doesn’t work well to keep me calm. I get a huge whiff of human goodness. I lean towards the person sitting two seats away.
John grabs my arm and takes me away. I turn back to him.
“Sorry. They smell so good…” I whispered to him so no human could hear.
“I know. It takes time. So resist.” John said.
I nodded. Then the announcer came on announcing our flight number. We stand up and walk to the gateway. We find our seat quickly and sit down.
“Are you thirsty now?” John asked.
“Yes.” I said as my throat flamed.
John rummaged through his carryon. He pulled out a pack of red liquid. I could smell it. It was blood, but it smelled funny.
“What is that?” I asked.
“Blood, what else?” John whispered.
“I know that. I mean, well it smells funny.” I said.
“Its animal blood.”
“Oh…ewe.”
John laughed and handed me the packet. I took it and drank it. It tasted funny, but it helped my throat so much. I looked at him. I was covered in blood. I had changed from my wedding dress though. I was wearing a red long sleeve shirt and blue jeans. I looked at John. He sighed and held out a clean white shirt.
“White? Are you serious?” I asked him.
“Yes, it will be fine.” John said and rolled his eyes.
I sighed and got up. I walked to the bathroom and changed shirts. The shirt is a button up, puffed, short-sleeved blouse. I sit back down. I look at him. I smile to myself and play with his black hair. He looks over at me with a raised eyebrow.
“I can’t wait! Tell me where we’re going please!!!” I say.
“No. You’ll have to wait.” John said.
“Please!”
“No.”
“I’ll persuade you.” I say and kiss him.
He pushes me back, smiling.
“No.”
I make a pouting face and lean away. I slump back into my chair.
“Fine,” I say making my voice all sad.
John laughs and turns my face to his.
“You’re so full of it.” He says then kisses me.
I smile in my mind and kiss him back. The flight attendant comes by. She clears her throat.
“Excuse me, but we do not allow that, because it would disturb other passengers.” She said politely.
I mentally roll my eyes and frown. I sigh and lean away.
“Whatever.” I mutter.
John laughs and smiles at the attendant.
“Well, yes that would be rude. I’m so very sorry.” John said in his most silky voice.
I see the flight attendant blush, smile, nod, and curtsy. This ticks me off. He’s my husband. I clench my fist. ‘I could kill her. She’s just a stupid human messing with a vampire’s husband.’ I think to John. John turns away from the attendant and his eyes changed a dark gray. He looked back at the attendant.
“We won’t do it again.” He said, his voice losing a bit of its silkiness.
The attendant nodded, blushed and walked away stumbling. John turned back to me. His face was contorted. His eyes were dark gray almost black, with anger, he had his lips pulled back from his teeth, and his face was scrunched up. I shrank away and bared my teeth. John saw my response and stopped.
“I’m sorry, it’s just we don’t think those thoughts in my family.” John said very angry.
“I-I’m sorry…it’s just that well, I know that she was thinking the same thing I was the first day I met you.” I say reluctantly.
“Oh really? So the first thing you thought when you saw me was ‘Holly s**t he’s ******** hot!’?” He asked.
“Yea…”
John smiles and his mood lightens. I smile back. His eyes are back to the lovely emerald I love. My eyes are still dark. They are lightening, but they are still a dark gray. I turn away from his smiling face and look out the window frowning. My eyes will never be dark violet again. I feel a strange stinging at my eyes. I move my hands up to see if I was crying. No, I wasn’t crying, I was trying to cry though, but as of course, vampires can’t cry. I turn back to John. He’s looking at me with concern.
“What’s wrong?” He asks.
“Did you like my eye color before?” I ask.
“Yes, is this what it’s about?”
“Yea, I’m afraid you won’t like the new me. My eye color won’t be the same.”
“Honey, I still will love you.”
I nod and hug him tightly. He hugs me back.

Chapter nineteen
Honeymoon fiasco
John and I talk for what seems like forever. The stupid attendant came over a lot asking if we needed anything, well she was mostly asking John, but whatever. I always answered her, just to tick her off. It worked pretty well; because after the tenth time she came over and I answered she got really mad and left. I laughed.
We land in New York. I am even more confused, because New York isn’t the best place for a honeymoon.
“Umm…Hun, not that I don’t love New York, but this isn’t the-“I start to say.
“We aren’t staying here. Come on we don’t want to miss our next flight.” John interrupts.
I nod still confused and follow him. We are now going to a bigger airport, with more people. I just hold my breath and hope I don’t kill anyone. John had given me a bottle of blood, but it looked like cherry juice, so the people wouldn’t know. It was a good distraction, because if it weren’t for the bottle probably more than half the people in here would be dead. We get through security without a problem, because vampires are naturals at persuasion. We board the plane and are off. It takes, what seems like forever to land. When we do John covers my eyes and leads me to a car. The windows are tinted black so the sun doesn’t shine in. I laugh mentally. ‘Wouldn’t want to be more of a distraction now would we?’ I think to John when he lets me see again.
He laughs and gets in the drivers side in two seconds. ‘Wow, I really hope no humans saw that.’ I think to him. John laughs again before he speeds off.
“We’re in a different country. No humans saw anything.” John said.
I laugh. “Yea, I know exactly what you mean.” I say, even though I don’t get the joke.
“You don’t get it do you?” John asks.
“Yea, I have no idea.” I say.
“Well human are very unobservant, they wouldn’t know if a car hit them, unless someone told them.” John said.
I laugh. “Oh I get it now.” I say looking out the window. “So where are we? I see a lot of grass.” I say.
“We are in Transylvania.” John said.
“Like Transylvania in Van Hellsing?” I ask.
“Yes, like that.” John laughs. “Wow you are a nerd.”
“Yes, I am and I’m proud of it.” I reply smiling at him.
John laughed and went back to driving. I looked at the speed ohmmeter. We were reaching two hundred. ‘Wow you must really want to get to where ever we’re going.’ I think to him. John smiles and shakes his head no. I laugh and look back out the window.
“I just want to get there and have a nice honey moon.” I say.
John laughs and speeds up. He makes a sharp right turn and then stops. He unbuckles and gets out of the car. I unbuckle and open my door.
“We’re here?” I ask looking around.
“Yup, ready?” He asks.
“Ready for what?” I ask very confused.
John laughs and walks over to me. He picks the suitcases and me up. I laugh and smile. ‘I can’t wait to see him open the door.’ I think and snicker to myself. He gets to the door of a castle looking house. Its one story, made of stone, has a few windows; there is an arch doorway, and a very, very old looking door. ‘Wow, it’s so, just so beautiful.’ I think to John while I admire the house.
“Not as beautiful as you.” John says smiling.
I laugh and go back to looking at the house.
Joanna’s view
‘That little, lucky b***h! It should be me up there in that dress! Not her! He loved me! Wait…I know a way to repay him. I just have to call up an old friend in Transylvania. I hope he doesn’t have any hard feelings, I really need him to help me.’ I think and smile. Rose says the words ‘I do’ and I leave. I cannot see them kiss. I get outside while everyone swarms them. I pull out my cell phone and dial the number. It rings four times before anyone answers the phone.
“Hello?” I hear the groggy voice on the other end say.
“Hey Alin, its Joanna,” I say holding my breath, if that were possible.
“Joanna?” Alin says in a surprised tone. “What do you want?” He asks in a harsh, suspicious tone.
“You remember John, right? The guy I told you about? Well he got married and is going to Transylvania for his honeymoon. I hate the girl; her name is Rose. I need you to get rid of her for me, but be careful. She’s a vampire too, and has the power of Ice.” I say.
Alin takes a while to reply. “Why should I help you? You almost killed me, not to mention the fact that you killed my mother.”
“You wanted me to kill your mother, and I wasn’t trying to kill you, I just lost control. You should help me because, if you do, I have a place here for you. It’s in Akron, Ohio, you can kill as many people as you want, as long as you get rid of Rose.” I tell him.
“Hmm…. tempting…. sure why the hell not?” Alin says. “Where are they going to stay?”
“It’s one of the very old houses in Transylvania, umm I’m not sure what road, but I packed one of my things in with Rose’s so you can follow my sent right?”
“Yea, I’ll track them that way. Bye Joanna.”
“Bye Alin.” I say and hang up the phone. I got back inside and smile and play along like I’m so innocent.
Rose and John come down stairs with there suitcases. ‘Look at the cute, little, perfect couple. It makes me sick.’ I think quickly, so John doesn’t read my thoughts. I run over and hug them, then step back. Once they’re gone everyone starts to take down the decorations in the rented house. I reluctantly helped, it’s not like I had a choice; they would suspect something.
John’s view
As the music plays slowly, I wait to see my darling sweetheart walk down the spiral stairs. She slowly descends the stairs and I suck in air. She looks magnificent. It’s hard to believe she is all mine. Smiling like an idiot, I stood there while she made her way to me. The minister begins the ceremony; Rose says her part and I say mine.
“I do.” Rose says.
“And do you John Diama take Rose Hamilton to be your loftily wedded wife?” The minister asks.
“I do.” I reply.
“With the power vested in me I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride.” The minister says.
I kiss Rose with all the passion I have in me. Rose kisses me back equally passionate. It is the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Colby coughs and we reluctantly separate. Everyone swarms us. Rose somehow escapes and finds her mother. It might have been a bad idea to invite her, but I did so that’s over with. Joanna disappears too. ‘Hmmm…wonder what’s up with her.’ I think. As the evening goes on I build up suspense for the surprise. Soon enough, it’s time for Rose and me to leave. We say our goodbyes and get in the car. I drive to the airport in Macksburg. We fly to New York and then fly to Transylvania. I drive us to the house my family had gotten for our honeymoon. I get out of the car and pick Rose up. As we walk to the house I can tell she wants to get there fast so I speed up.
Rose’s view
John speeds up and we get to the house. Slowly and gracefully John opens the door and walks into the house. It has a stone interior, red and gray plaid rug, a shabby, dark green couch and chair. There are old paintings of countryside’s and buildings on the wall above the fireplace and all around. On the fireplace mantel is some glass figurine animals and candles. There is a mahogany coffee table in the center of the rug with a diamond chandelier above it. On the left side of the wall there is an oak wood bookcase flowing with books. I gasp and look at John.
“John…. It’s beautiful.” I say.
“It’s not much, but there is a lot of history here.” He replies nonchalant.
“No kidding! This must have cost a fortune!”
“No, the owner was killed in an accident, he willed us the house.”
“Who was the owner?”
“Another vampire, by the name of Davis.”
“Oh poor Davis.”
“Yea it was tragic.”
“Maybe we should leave.”
“No, it’s fine. He wanted us to have the house.”
“Okay…if you say so.”
“Rose, calm down, it’s fine.”
I nod and look back at the house. Before I know it we are in the bedroom. The walls aren’t stone; they are a pale green with a white strip across the middle, top and bottom of the wall. There is another oak wood bookcase with a vase on it. In the vase there is a red rose. There is a floor to ceiling mirror, a cherry wood dresser with more figurines on top of it, a four-poster king sized bed with pale green and white down sheets, the back wall of the room is completely glass. Outside the window there is a small pond. Standing in the middle of the pond is an ancient roman goddess that is a fountain. There is a pine wood door that leads to what I assume is the bathroom. “John…it’s…. it’s gorgeous!” I squeal with happiness.
“It’s not that big of a deal. I just touched it up a little bit.” He replies lazily.
“Not a big deal? You’re kidding right?” I ask shocked.
“Well, ok it does look a lot better than it did when we first got it.” He finally says.
I nod having really no clue what he’s talking about. I mean yea I know they had to clean it up a little, but I didn’t see it before hand so I didn’t have anything to base agents it. I smile at John. He smiles back and set me down on the bed, I lie down. He goes and puts the suitcases down in the corner by the dresser. He comes over to the bed and lies down next to me. Smiling, I turn over to John. He smiles back and kisses me. I kiss him back with fiery passion.

Alin’s view
‘I can’t believe I’m doing this.’ I think while I sigh and climb out of bed. I get dressed in my hunting outfit. Which is all black. Black slacks and a black shirt. With of course black shoes. I run out of my ‘house’ and down the road. I pick up Joanna’s sent at the airport she told me to go to. I follow it to the house. When I get there they are just kissing and hugging. I want to gag. Instead I walk to the front of the house and opened the door silently. Slowly like a ghost I crept into the house. I went to the bedroom door and sat outside waiting for an opportunity to go in and kill them. Suddenly they stop moving. Hesitating to leave I sit and wait trying to hear them.

Rose’s view
“What is it John?” I ask.
“It’s…. It’s I don’t know let’s forget it.” John says.
“No something is wrong and you’re not telling me.” I say sternly.
“You’re right, but it’s not important right now.”
“Tell me the truth John.”
“No.” John says and get out of the bed and go to the bathroom.
I am so irritated, that I get up and leave the room. I walk over to the door leading to the living room. I open the door.

Alin’s view
She opens the door and I stab my dagger through her heart. Before she has time to scream I jump up and cover her mouth. Still not dead because she is a vampire tries to get away from me. I yank on her hair and push her out the front door. Falling to the ground she tried to stabilize herself. Because she is losing so much blood she falls awkwardly and the knife goes further into her chest. She tries to scream again and I run up and slam her agents a tree not far away knocking the wind out of her. She falls gasping for breath.
“Do you wish to be quiet?” I ******** “You.” She says and she falls limp to the ground.
Sighing and bending over her body I pull the knife out of her chest and begin to cut her up into small bite sizes pieces. I wait after I am done with the arms and legs to hear if the husband is coming out. I hear nothing and continue.

John’s view
I come out from the bathroom and see her gone. ‘Yup, she did leave, as I heard.’ Sighing I plopped down on the mattress. After an hour or so I begin to worry. ‘She shouldn’t be gone long. She doesn’t know the area…’ I get up from the bed and walk to the living room. ‘Nope, not here, hmmmm’ I open the front door and see a black crouched figure over diced up vampire flesh. Horrified I stand there shocked gasping. The figure hears me and turns around laughing.
“I see you’ve come out.” The figure says without showing me his face.
“You a** hole!” I scream enraged.
Laughing the figure takes off at lightning fast speed and leaves a bloody knife next to my wives chopped up body, covered with blood and clothing strips. Crying so hard I can barely see, I stumble over to Rose’s body and kneel down crying my heart out. I feel like my soul has been ripped from my body and is now gone. Looking up at the place the figure disappeared into I seek revenge.

The End

That you for the critique, but no I am NOT a Twilight fan. I dispise Twilight with all my heart. There are some sililarities, but i'm not quite done with it yet. I have to fix it, like you said with the grammer. Yes I agree with the characters, but I also like John. I have read Romeo and Juliet, and I hate Paris. I created John out of my mind and I figured he'd have to have some type of power, and I liked the fact he had the mind reading power, although it is like Edward, I started to write this before I read Twilight. It irritates me mostly when I write a good story and then other parts of it (like the powers) are used in famous storys, then people think I'm copyrighting. But yes, I see your point, and i'm going to fix it all as soon as I can.

Lolx no need to say sorry. It's ok. Lots of people do it. smile No need to worry. It's okie dokie.

Thank you Lyrica. I have a lot of editing to do on this story.