An This is my first morganville story, so please review and let me know what you think.
Cpov
Well I never expected that, in fact I never expected any of it. First I find out that I have vampire blood running through my veins, in fact my whole family had for generations. We were not full vampires but it had allowed for us to have a better immune system than most, some of us were enhanced in certain areas like me and my big brain as eve had dubbed it. It also explained my draw to Morganville, although I was the first Denver to live here. Myrnin and Amelie were fascinated by this although Amelie's fascination was less obvious than everyone else's but then again that was amelie for you. Michael and eve thought it was cool, in fact everyone was very accepting, well everyone apart from Shane.
No Shane had not taken the news well, when we found out he had not said a single word to me, in fact he avoided me as much as possible. This went on for about a week. Whenever I would walk in to a room, he would make an excuse and leave. I would often hear him muttering about vampire inbreds, I know he never meant for me to hear them but it still hurt none the less. It became unbearable and he finally put me out of my misery and ended things stating it was for the best and we were not really working anyway, I had just nodded unable able to say anything as I knew my voice would betray me. This was killing me, I loved him yet he wanted nothing to do with me. I should have no better; he was used to normal fully human beautiful girls not plain boring slightly not human girls like me. I also knew nothing I said would change his mind so there wasn't any point.
After that the tension in the house just seemed to increase, neither Michael nor eve knew what to say, they were friends with us both and I was pretty sure they could understand Shane's behaviour and if I was being truthful I could also. I chose to make things slightly easier spending all my free time either helping Myrnin with learning everything he wishes to teach me or spending time hanging out at the campus either in the library or near the coffee bar, catching up on some reading, it was quite peaceful once you blocked out the noise and it always felt safe somehow with people around even if they didn't know about the hidden dangers that surrounded them.
I was so caught up in thinking about all that had happened to notice someone had sat down in the seat beside me until they cleared their throat. "Sorry I didn't mean to disturb you, I was just wondering if you were okay, you looked like you were thinking mighty hard." The voice spoke; I turned to see it was a boy around Shane's age, with a light tan to his skin and short jet black hair and the most amazingly vivid green eyes that felt as if they could see all your darkness secrets. He had a slight twang to the way he spoke, obviously a Texan native, I didn't know what to say, I was scared to try in case I end up looking like a goldfish, after all no one really ever to spoke to me apart from my friends.
" sorry just thinking some things through, and I'm fine but thanks for asking" I replied after getting my thoughts together, I'm sure he must think I have some sort of mental deficiency or had serious social problems, great just what I needed someone else to think I'm a freak. "I'm glad you're okay. If there is anything I could do to help just say the word, and I'm chase by the way and it's a pleasure to meet you..." while he was speaking I was able to get a better look at him, he was gorgeous with the dark hair piercing eyes and toned upper body from what I could see and his clothes did little to hide it, and I had no idea why he was still talking to me, the last time a random good looking guy spoke to me things did not go well, but as I was now a single woman again I was not going to let what happen before prevent me from moving on.
It wasn't like I was looking for another boyfriend or anything, I still was trying to get over my current breakup but friends I could do, "Claire, I'm Claire and thanks it's nice to meet you too chase" I replied giving my best smile, this day was defiantly looking up, " well Claire I know its proberly a bit forward and all seeing as how we have just met but I was wondering if you would allow me to take you out some time" he asked, I should be surprised but I had seen where this conversation was heading, " you seem like a nice guy and everything but the thing is I've just come out of a relationship and I'm not exactly ready to start dating just yet, so maybe we could just settle for hanging out, getting to know one another, be friends if that's alright with you." I held my breath in anticipation of the rejection that was sure to come. I know we only just met but I feel as if we could become great friends and right now a friend outside of the house would be great.
"That would be great, friends it is then. I don't have any here yet due to transferring so this is really great and as for the ex boyfriend situation well it's his loss and the male populations gain" he seemed a little nervous and I could feel the heat start to creep up my cheeks at his comment as I willed myself to calm. I had the rest of the afternoon off as I had no more classes and Myrnin had given me the day off but he had given me homework to study but I could do that tonight and besides right now I needed a distraction outside of the house. " that's very sweet of you to say and I'm free for the rest of the afternoon if you wanted to hang out, unless you have class of course" great at this rate I'm going to either turn in to a stuttering wreck or be a permanent shade of red, neither was an appealing option.
"No I don't have any more classes, that's why I thought I would come and get a coffee and see if I could meet some new people, I never dreamed I would get to meet a pretty girl and that she would agree to talk to me. How about I go and get us some refills and we can just sit here and chat." I just nodded and got more comfortable as he went to get our drinks. I had never even noticed my cup had been empty, and my day had gone from being depressing to good thanks to one individual, one guy who just happen to be gorgeous and interested in me, I just hoped he was able to keep a decent conversation and wasn't at all like those frat boys who didn't actually know what a conversation was.
When he came back we talked sharing basic information like age, what we were studying, what interested us before getting into a discussion about books. It was fantastic he was really smart and contributed a lot, I had been right about the age, he was 18 and surprised when I told him how old I was, saying that I seemed very mature for my age. He was studying English and history, he loved science but chose not to study it as it was a hobby and more of an interest then anything else. It was quite surprising how easy we seem to fit together, it was nice and time really did seem to fly and before either of us knew it was time for me to leave. He walked me to the campus gates before entering his number into my phone. He had a full days worth of classes tomorrow and I had a couple of classes and my job with Myrnin in the afternoon.
It wasn't far to walk and it wasn't dark yet so I walked home, I knew Michael and eve would have something to say about that but I wasn't bothered, I wore this bracelet for a reason and besides it wasn't even dark. It wasn't my turn to cook tonight so it was either going to be chilli or whatever eve concocted up either way I wasn't to fussed. Closing the front door behind me, I took a deep breath in and smelt no chilli so eve's cooking it was then, I barely made the stairs before eve stepped out of the kitchen in all her Goth glory, " please tell me you didn't walk home" I just shrugged, what else would I have done, called her or Michael or the one taxi in the whole of Morganville, no way and besides the fresh air and exercise was good for me and with my heavy backpack it was defiantly a good cardio workout not that I would say that aloud.
"For a smart girl you defiantly don't make some smart choices. What did you get up to today as is if I couldn't guess" she said
" just caught up some reading and hung out on the campus" I replied, that was strictly true I had hung on campus I just hadn't mentioned who with and I had done some reading before I had got caught up in my thoughts. "You do realise there is more to life then books you know. You need to have some fun once in a while; it would do you some good"
"Maybe I replied with a non committal shrug before heading up to my room. She had no idea how right she really was.