Chapter 1- Seeking humanity….not

There are tales out there of dragons and witches. I can tell you they never existed. My time has come and I am ready to die. Maybe it is time I passed my tale on. My life has existed as many: Thousands of years of lives. I can tell you one thing: Immortality is not what it is said to be. In truth it is hell. You live on while your family and loved ones die around you. My life began on a mid-summer's eve. Sit back and listen for this small tale of mine.

"Aeolus! Where are you!?" Kimmy, a girl I've met in this 'Lifetime,' was looking for me after class. This is my….well…I've lost track of my senior years in high school. She's cute and all, but my life cou8ld never have room for her. "There you are! I've been looking for you. Where have you been?"

"Uhm my locker?" I had been there for a while. I rarely went to class seeing as how I knew everything already. "Where else would I be?"

"That's easy you should be in class silly goose." I looked at her like she was crazy and it was apparent that she saw the look for its meaning.

"School's been out, and class is not entertaining anymore." The year- round school of Shadowridge High was not interesting to me, but being in a dark place was all I wanted. Kimmy was good company, but my hunger was what worried me everyday. Did I forget that? Sorry I am a vampire, but I don't feed on humans…much. Kimmy was hard to resist as she smelled so good. I wanted to bite her, and taste her crimson life flow between my lips moistening the back of my throat, but when she got near the burning of my throat became worse and worse. I had to endure and resist the temptation.

"Aeolus?"

"Hmm?"

"I think I lost you there for a second."

My eyes had become completely black as my hunger reached its peak. "No I just have to go…" I didn't even say Good-bye. Kimmy was probably upset with me , but I had to get out of there. When I reached the parking lot I jumped into the car and sped off into the town for a few supplies and to interact with the locals. My truck rolled into Kemson's Drug store's parking lot making people either turn their heads or make whispers against me. I didn't care. This town was full of either rich kids or else people who needed help from the amount of poverty. Kimmy was in the middle not rich, but not needy. That's why she got so much crap at school, but was also the most desired girl. Me on the other hand: Dressed like I had money sometimes, but drove a beater pickup with rust coming off the fenders. People often got confused as to which group I was.

I was known pretty well around town, but many just chose to avoid me for the fact of social status. If the underprivileged talked to me they were beat up by the rich, but if the rich talked to me they were sent away marked as outcasts for talking to a slime like me. I never wanted to know humans they bored me. Honestly being 18 for almost a thousand years gets really old. I've been in town for a while. For all they knew I looked 18 at 16 years of age. Now I'm 18 and a senior…..again. This means after graduation I'll have to leave for another part of the country because people get suspicious?

There are a few brave souls who ask me out and risk social rejection, but not many. I can never attach to another for fear of revealing the truth and causing panic. It happened once long ago when a girl ask me to marry her. Problem is I did and then she saw my teeth and the fact that I was finishing a blood bag from the blood bank. Kimmy is the worst of any of those souls. I've never had someone talk to me so much. She'll get close trying to hold my hands but I become a jerk and storm off before the cold grips her hand and I'm found out.

"Aeo?" Kimmy sounded sad today. Like she had seen her dog run over by an eighteen wheeler. It also sounded like she had been crying for hours on end. When I looked at her she had been. You could tell because whenever she cried her eyes got red dots under them. It made this whole situation worse. I couldn't talk to her.

"…"

"Do I disgust you?"

"Who told you such a thing?"

She had shook her head implying 'no' and forcing me to answer. "You go first" She said almost crying again.

"No you don't." I replied quietly.

"I just thought since you're avoiding me at every turn that you might not like me." It was obvious that she had feelings for me. If they weren't obvious enough as it was. Writing 'Aeolus' on her notebook with bats and hearts around it. It might have been from when I wore that black hoodie with the giant bat wings image on the back. This girl was obsessed. The only problem was accepting her into my life. A taboo that I could not break for fear of discovery. I had to hurt her to move her away and keep her save.

"Kimmy I can't be with you. I.."

"BUT!!! I think I know why. I'm not attractive to you, or I'm too late." She had interrupted me…ME of all people. This shy little girl took a stand and then backed off as quickly as she stood.

"Kimmy." I sighed looking for the words. "It's complicated, but you're not late or unattractive."

"Are you in danger? Did you get in trouble with the law?"

Hmm silly girl breaking it down to the simplest of things. She was looking for closure for her not me.

"No I get it you don't like me that way." It tore me up inside seeing her hurt. I couldn't stand it. Maybe I should tell her, but before I could say anything she ran off heart broken. That was murder.

"Kimmy if only you knew how I felt about you, and What I was." I had broken her heart, and now it was probably alone for eternity. "Kimmy….good-bye."