A week passed blissfully, with Emma-Lyanne learning more and more about how she could live in both worlds.
In fact, she was even going to college again, but night classes this time, so she could focus her days on her vampire community, where she had now fully adjusted and even grown to somewhat of a sympathiser of the newly bitten vampires. One thing was weird though, the whole week long, there had been no word from Nicalay what so ever. Not even a text, they both had matching phones now, another present.
She hadn't seen him since their wedding ritual and the evening after, but she supposed he figured she was ready to make it on her own?
And indeed she was, she found a temporary job in the community, so she could do her share, since they so kindly gave her shelter, made her feel like one of her own and provided her with food and clothes as payment for her duties as a teacher of the newbie vamps. She even had managed to make a view friends since the party.
And then there where, of course, the fractions of her old life; she turned out to finally be given some credit for her hard work in college, by getting straight A's. Cause she was fortunate enough to have been at the start of her third year when she was turned, it was easy for her to just show the night school all the good her completed tests and she could pick up nearly right where she left up and the teachers had agreed to tutor her in the subjects in which she was a little further behind. So she thrived in school and was having fun too and it was easy to combine it with her day life, because she only needed like two hours of sleep now that she was a vampire.
There was just one thing about her old life, or a person actually, that she couldn't quite get out of her head. Her best friend was the one person she still longed to see, cause it had always been the two of them. From the moment her parents died, when she was three years old she had gone in to the system; foster care, where she met Adeyn and he was the reason that she made it through the endless stream of foster parents and change of schools she had endured of the last 14 years. They had been best friends from that moment on and had always stayed in touch even when Emma-Lyanne kept moving from place to place if her foster parents couldn't raise her anymore.
She had a hard time in foster care, because every family that she had been assigned to had, sooner or later claimed that she was too difficult and that they just couldn't continue to take care of her, while every single one of them her stolen her money and had kept it when they kicked her out. Meanwhile she never made friends, because she couldn't keep them and she had never had a boyfriend, because she never let anyone come close enough to her and all the boys thought that she both wasn't pretty enough and felt like she thought she was better then everyone. Plus she was smart, so they thought she was a nerd and it wasn't cool to date a nerd.
Meanwhile Adeyn was growing sick with worry, because it had been nearly two weeks since he'd last heard from his best friend and it wasn't like her. He bought a train ticket and made the trip to her last foster home, only to discover, when he arrived, that her foster parents weren't even looking for her. They just claimed that 'the stupid kid' had run away and good riddance. This made her friend very upset and also extremely worried and he decided to go to all the places she told him she'd like to visit, but still he came up empty handed. He had already tried to call her a couple of times, but her phone had been disconnected and he had no way of reaching her and no idea about where to find her, but he realized that she might be in big trouble or in danger and then time would soon be running out and he would never see his friend again. Finally he realised that he was getting nowhere, so he said down heavily and started to sob at first and then finally cry uncontrollably in worry for his friend that he secretly loved and had loved for years…
Meanwhile Emma-Lyanne was none the wiser and still didn't realize what was happening to her, in fact she had just left for night class and, what neither of them knew was that she was only a view blocks away from where her friend was crying his eyes out. She was happily whistling a tune and just thinking about how much her life had changed for the better.