Gabriel (Book 1)

Moving Out and Moving On

July 5th, 2011

Gabriel,

Your exact words were ' I'm done with you. So either you get over your problems and come to the party with us, or you can leave.'

I'm usually one to follow advice from friends, so I gladly left. Our friendship used to mean a lot to me but I'm glad it meant so little to you that you could just toss me aside and run for somebody else. Be nice when you are 'done with' Johanna. Your friends were shocked when you had me as a friend, they said you could be very dark and medieval. But I wasn't afraid of you, I knew you were a vampire, I could see that you had been hurt in your life. But isn't losing everyone you love in your mortal life a good enough reason to fight for the friends you can find in your immortal one? I thought your friends were wrong about you...but now I do see the monster and I agree with them. Any mortal that finds this angel of death will be lured in by the mask of pain and suffering of a fellow human, only to fall deeper into a trap and then immediately cut loose, as if they were nothing.

Tell Jordan I say thank you for the coffee.

Tell Sophia she is beautiful, powerful, and will be alright.

Tell Valentina I am sorry that we couldn't get to be closer (seeing as I only knew her for a day) but that I would have liked her friendship very much.

I am shocked that you've read this far, shouldn't you be off telling Johanna how "lovely" she looks?

-Rhoan Boulevardi

That was the letter Rhoan had left me last night. The page is ready to rip from me folding and un-folding it constantly. I must have read it at least 3 dozen times probably more. Rhoan is gone. I can't even really believe it. But its true. The basement he created to keep me in at Jordan's is also gone. After 621 years of killing people, I didn't think I could miss a human so much. But that isn't true, Rhoan isn't just a human, he was a good friend. He did so much for me and he hardly knew me.

I had sent Johanna upstairs saying that I couldn't be with her because I had business to take care of. She reluctantly went upstairs to bed while I stayed in the main room and read the letter. Valentina soon came along and aggravated me.

"Hey!! So where's my buddy?" She asks referring to Rhoan.

I can't bring myself to say that he has left so I hand her the letter.

She finishes it quickly and then throws it into my lap.

"You jerk!" She screams, "What did you do to him?!"

"I don't understand, Valentina. You don't even know him for a day and already he's your best friend?!"

"Yeah. Why can't he be? But that's not just it, he was your friend. He cared about you! He wanted to help you even though you were being a monster."

So everybody thought I was a monster. Its all coming out now, isn't it.

"Haven't you ever heard of 'bros before hos'?!?"

"What?" That was a new one.

She got annoyed with me and let out an angry sigh, "Never mind. Look, I'm not saying that it was right of him to say you should choose between him and Johanna but you shouldn't have written him off like that. He really was trying to help."

It was my turn to be angry now, "You think I don't know that? You think I don't miss him? Well I do!" I got quiet, "He was the first one who didn't run, he wasn't afraid of me. Valentina, I wanted to make things right, that's why I went in there last night, so we could-"

"No. You didn't. You wanted to tell him all about your wonderful night with Johanna. But to do that you would of had to apologize. What an inconvenience for you." She yelled and then stormed out.