Centuries Of Love

First Night

     The sun rose from the horizon as I gave a yawn, the sunrise was unexpectedly warm, especially in a cold place like Everblue, giving me the impression that today was going to be wonderful. I smiled to the sun before rolling off my bed and heading to the washroom to wash myself up. I emerged from the bathroom, my hair still dripping wet. The vapours from the warm water gushing out from the the bathroom into my bedroom immediately after I opened the door. I inhaled the scent of roses that came from the soap and shampoo I used. I took of my bathrobe and donned on my school uniform. I trodded down the stairs to where my foster parents were, "Good morning, Carlse, Melst."

     "Ah... A good morning to you, Rose, have you had a good night?" My father answered.

     "Yes, Carlse."

     My mother just returned me a smile, her beautiful face lighting up at hearing my voice, her lips forming an attractive, gentle grin. "I'll be taking my leave then, goodbye." I said to my parents. "Have a nice day." They answered unanimously.

     School is a disaster. School always was a disaster. Right from the last few centuries, I learnt the same things over and over again. The friends I have there have also been the same over and over again. Posett High, the name of my high school, a school filled with the world's most shocking beauties. "Rose!" I heard Esper call out to me. I whipped my head around to see Rigsin alongside her. "Good morning, Esper, Rig." I greeted. Rigsin nodded in adknowledgement, her quietness was nothing new to me.

"Did you hear?! Did you hear?! There's a new guy in school! And he is so TOTALLY hot! He's perfect!" Esper yelled excitedly, "Well, except that he's..." She trailed off. "He's not a Pureblood?" I guessed. "No! That's not it! There's no problem if he wasn't a Pureblood! But he's neither a Pureblood, nor a Trueblood! He's a Puremoon!" In this school, vampires and werewolves stay together, study together, but they don't get along well, or so some of the more older vampires say. I don't believe that rumour since I get along rather well with the werewolves though Esper and Rigsin did say that might be due to my looks, personality and background since they do not get along that well with the werewolves.

     "Wow! He's so hot!" "Look at him, he can be compared to Rose already!" I heard those voices and suddenly, the new guy piqued mey curiosity. Someone who could be compared to me in terms of beauty? He must be hot. I knew my looks were better than those of celebrities and though I did not like the attention, I have come to grasp and accept that fact rather well. I peeked through the crowd, catching a glimpse of the man. He was dashing, his sleek dark black hair having a few tints of red in it, his posture was straight and tall. And his eyes, his eyes were the colors of black and somewhat silver mixed together, and thay showed a long way down, as if it were a tunnel, a never-ending tunnel, and they were... looking at me! I gasped as he smirked and continued stroding off. Now that I thought about it, he looked familiar, a little too familiar to be just someone I met on the streets. Why?

     I stared after him as he continued his walk towards the administrator's office, to get his timetable, perphaps. "Come on, let's go! We're going to be late for class, we'll see him later during recess or some lessons hopefully!" I heard Esper's cheery voice in the background. I nodded and walked off to my first class of the day, Biology.

     Walking down the corridors, I saw a huge mob surrounding the exterior of the class. What's happening? I strode forward and walked through a little opening of the crowd and into the classroom... and stopped dead. There, seating at the seat beside mine, was the new student. I looked at Mr. Casme, the biology teacher who had just entered the room, "Wha... What is he doing there, sir?" I stuttered as I asked.

     "Ah... Well, the seat beside yours is the only one empty so he could only sit beside you." For years, the seat beside me was empty because I was the only Pureblood in Biology, and there were no Puremoons in the class either. School rules stated that only Pures can sit together beside one another, although it was sad to say that neither Esper nor Rigsin who had all the same classes as me were Purebloods. Purebloods are vampires that have pure vampire blood because... Well... We are the descendants of vampires whom have never ever messed with a human or a vampire who was not a Pureblood before, most Purebloods have children with their own family members - like everyone from my family - because then the bloodline would be more pure, and we thus have special powers because our bloodline is untainted - the less tainted, the more powerful. Truebloods, on the other hand, have generations of their family members messing with a human or other non-Pureblood vampires to have vampire babies. It's about the same with Puremoons and Truemoons, just that they were werewolves instead of vampires. Cold sweat dripped down my pale white face as I cautiously sat down beside him and caught him staring at me. "Good morning." He greeted, his voice sounded like music to my ears. "Good morning." I replied and looked away and faced the whiteboard as the school bell rang. It was so hard to concentrate with him studying me like I was an exhibit in a museum, and I knew that because I stole peeks at him when I thought he wasn't looking.