The Border Trilogy (Book #1) Enemies to lovers, Forbidden love

Part 1

Eva

I opened my eyes slightly as the sun peeked in through my window, aiming straight into my eyes. Giving a light groan, I sat up groggily in bed and stretched my arms and legs, and rubbed my eyes. I waited for the 'good morning' that always came from my sisters who shared the room with me, but when it didn't I took a look around the room and noticed their beds were already empty and made. Crap. I must've overslept. I jumped off the bed and quickly dressed, throwing on a pair of black leggings, a white sweater and black boots before I ran outside to join the tribe.

Tonight is Hunting night, a night that comes twice a month during the moons first and third quarter. During this time, every vampire in the tribe plays a part to prepare for the long night ahead. The adults spent the day readying their weapons, preparing themselves for the hunt, the younger male vampires assist the adults with the weapons at the weapon prepatory grounds, whilst the younger female vampires would gather up the children into the stone houses. The stone houses are the most secure buildings in the tribe. Used every hunting night, during any attack or battle, and daily for classes, it could hold up to 50 vampires, and there are 8 of them throughout the tribe.

Our tribe is in it's most vulnerable state on nights like these, with all the adults gone with the exception of counselors and the Elders, any tribe could see it as an open invitation to attack us. I don't think we've ever been attacked on a hunting night, but the threat still applies so we take every precaution. After the adults leave and all the children are safe in the houses, the girls stay inside with the children and the boys spend the night as protectors and watchers, guarding us from outside.

Watchers are like protectors, but it takes less training to become one. They don't necessarily need to fight or restrain anyone during their shifts, the tribe members know better than to defy a watcher, so they train less. They watch over the tribe to make sure we aren't breaking any of the many laws that we live under, or harm each other, or do anything wrong. Basically, they watch, they report. I suppose it's similar to the way humans get car tickets, they get caught, given tickets, and show up to their own counsel.

I began walking towards a tribe counselor, Brenda, she's sort of our boss. On hunting day, we go to her and ask for specific jobs such as rallying the children, doing a head count, making sure there was an equal amount of children in each stone house, all that fun stuff.

"Eva wait up!" I heard someone call behind me.

I looked back to see my older sister Katrina running towards me.

"Nice of you to join us!" she said as she put her arm around my shoulders.

"Yea sorry, I went to bed kinda late last night." I said as we began walking towards the line that was forming in front of Brenda.

"Mhm, I know. So, tell me about it,"

"About what?"

"Oh don't play dumb! I know you were with Lucien!"

"Wha- How did you know?"

"Well you just confirmed it! I figured no one else would be able to keep you out late, not even that best friend of yours Madeline," we stopped at the back of the line, there were about 8 girls ahead of us.

"Where do you think Lucien is now?" I asked.

"I saw him heading to the North weapon prepatory grounds, now tell me what happened last night!"

"I can't"

"Why not?"

"Because you'll kill me,"

"What did you do?" her eyes narrowed towards me.