Liza is an eighty nine year old vampire stuck forever living as a teenage girl, for decades trying to run away from her past. She tries to control her desires and the strong temptation she faces being what she is, fighting to save her own sense of h...
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"Who was she? That entrancing girl from the alley who almost caught me feeding last night?"
I am deep in thought as my sister and I are driving to our new school in Manhattan. I've been a student multiple times in my existence, thirty one to be exact. When I was human, I had just graduated high school at eighteen. My future plans weren't exactly of the era. In the fifties English and American women alike were being pushed at younger ages to finish secondary school, only to settle down with bread winning husbands and start families of their own. Yet I wanted more with my life, my parents always seeing my full potential as a professional pianist. From living in Europe to moving to America they encouraged me to go strive for my own American dream, find happiness, maybe even find the man that would swipe me off my feet. What I didn't know then was my attraction to women...or to anyone really as I truthfully had no time or much interest in a love life.
I had been accepted into Juilliard with a full scholarship, a rarity for a girl in those times. But I decided to put my dreams on hold to help out my family. My father at the time to my grief was mainly away due to his line of work, working for the New York congress with his expertise in global studies. So I wanted to assist my mother with the household responsibilities. But that wasn't the only reason. I had a secret of my own; I wanted to spend as much time with Evelyn as I could while I still had it. The two of us had grown extremely close since the day she came into our lives, and I was not willing to let that go yet by any means. Juilliard, one of the most renowned music schools in the world, had always been my dream. Yet when Evelyn came into the picture I had a new one. I gave up my scholarship for her because she trusted me, more than anyone else. I wanted her to know I would always love and protect her, make time for her, and that she would be forever apart of my family.
I had not found love either. It was not something I really ever searched for as I focused more on my studies rather than being pursued after. I was also rather aloof when it came to men being a "heterosexual" teenager. Although in the dark about my own sexual preferences I had an idea of what I wanted and indeed what I didn't. My dad set the standard in my eyes of what a man should be: Kind, chivalrous, ambitious, selfless. I caught quite a few's eye, yet all of their advancements were tasteless.
There was only one who met the bill, Jerrod Galloway. He was the guy every girl in school had their eyes on. He truly was swoon worthy. I can't say I didn't fantasize about him being my first kiss every now and then, maybe even us being the so said couple who made out under the bleachers in high school. But like I said, purely teenage fantasy. Though I wanted to ignore this fact back then, I was still a hormonal teenager like every other girl my age. Even if I had been truly straight it would have never worked out anyway. I was too busy with my ambitions and the boy got drafted into the war only to die a few months later.
Truthfully I didn't desire a relationship, for my family and a profession in music was all I desired to have at the time. Yet I never got the opportunity to ever work again towards my dream as life took an unsuspected turn. Two of the most important people in my life and my biggest supporters were now gone, the passion for my craft beginning to fade along with them. The life I once knew was gone, becoming only a painful memory.
