Chapter One
The new town, the new boy, and the new world.
Have you ever thought about you prince charming or you night an shinning armor? I know I do. But I can never seem to see his face. I imagine him tall, dark and of course handsome. I also imagine him very strong. Strong enough to throw a car across the street. In my dream me and my mysterious man dance for what seems like for hours and then he takes my soft hands and looks into my dark green eyes, as I stare back into his silver eyes. Then he kisses me and unfortunately my mother wakes me up for school.
Don't you hate when you are in a good dream and something wakes you up? I know I do, I hate it. So anyway I can't wait to see my prince charming. But right know I have to go to school. Today's my first day of school since I moved here. I moved from a big city in California. You probably heard of it, it's L.A. Then my mom made me move closer to her boyfriend Jared, in some town in Montana. I've lived her for two weeks and I already hate this place. There aren't really any stores around here or any places to hangout.
"Come on Darla your going to be late for school!" yelled a faint call in the background.
"It's ok. I rather not go to this dumb ass school!" yelled back Darla.
"Watch your language and get your ass down here!" yelled Darla's mother Karin.
"Why don't you watch your language. And you wonder where I get my beautiful vocabulary from." Sarcastically said Darla as she grabbed her pink backpack.
"Darla knock it off and get in the freaking car. Your going to make me late." told Karin as she got in the car as Darla got in to.
Darla finally arrived at Mill creek high. She got out of the blue Ford truck. Her mom grabbed Darla's pink backpack from the passenger seat and threw it out the window towards her.
"Thanks!" yelled Darla at the moving vehicle.
Darla walked up the steps of Mill Creek high. She walked into the small girls bathroom. She looked into the red mirror and saw a dirty blonde, skinny, and green eyed girl starring back at her. Darla looked down and got a pick tube of Victoria Secret lip gloss. She put it on and headed out the bathroom. She bumped into a tall, dark, and of course handsome looking guy.
"Hey watch where yo.....ur go.....ing." stumbled Darla as she grabbed some of her books off the floor.
"Hey I'm sorry. Here let me help." told the cutie as he fished picking up her books and her backpack.
"It's ok. I'm Darla." she said as she shook his hand.
"I'm Travis." as he stared in to her dark green eyes.
"Wow, Travis did you know that your eyes are a silver color." she asked as she stared back.
"Um. Yea. Hey I got to go I'll see you around." he said as he left.
Darla thought that Travis looked a lot like the guy she imagined in her dreams. She never seen silver eyes before except on the guy in her dreams. Darla went to her next two classes then she went to lunch. Travis walked over to Darla.
"Hey Darla."
"Hey Travis.' she replied back.
"Would you like to sit with me?" he asked.
"Yea. I would love to. Where should we sit?" she asked as Travis took her tray.
"Lets sit outside." he said as they walked outside and sat at a bench. The bench was right next to a rose bush.
Roses are one of Darla's favorite flowers.
"So. Darla where are you from?" asked Travis.
"I'm from Los Angles." she replied as she took a bite of her ceaser salad.
"Wow your far away from home." he said.
"Yea. Hey why aren't you eating?" asked Darla.
"Oh I'm not Hungary. I'll eat later." replied back Travis.
"Ok. I moved here because my mom moved in with her stupid boyfriend. I hate him. What about your family." she said as she took another bite of her salad.
"My family is very complicated. My parents are pretty strict. I'm not close with them at all. I mostly do my own thing." he replied back.
"Oh. That's cool. So is there anything fun to do in this small town?" asked Darla as she threw her salad away.
"Yea. There is this teen club up the street called The Wolves. It's pretty fun. Maybe tomorrow I can take you there." Told Travis.
Meanwhile Daphne and Matt couldn't but to ease drop on them.
"Courtney will love the new girl especially with Travis being her friend." told Daphne.
"Yea she'll love her new present." replied Matt as they both laughed.
Two hours went by and Darla was finally done with school for today but she had tomorrow. Jared pick up Darla from school.
"So how was your first day of school?" asked a short, pale, plumy, red haired man sitting in the driver seat in a red Ford explore.
"It was fine." replied Darla as she rolled her eyes.
"Did you meet anybody?" he asked her.
"Why do you want to know?" she asked him as she glared at him.
"Because I was just wanted to know if you made any new friends. That's all." replied Jared as he looked at her and then looked back on the road.
"If you must know. I made a friend, his name is Travis." Told Darla as she crossed her arms.
"Travis who?" he asked as he pulled in the driveway."
"I don't know. He didn't give me a biography about his life. Stop asking me so many questions ok." told Darla as she walked in the two story house and walked upstairs into her large room.
Darla walked over to her phone and called her best friend Kelly Jacobson.
"Hey is Kelly there?" asked Darla as she sat on her purple bed.
"Yea this is Kelly. Is this my b.f Darla Rose?" asked Kelly as she sat on her blue computer chair.
"Yep it's her. You know the dreams I've been having?" asked Darla.
"Yea. Is it about your prince charming?" she replied back to Darla as she began painting her toe nails blue.
"Yep. That's the one. The guy I've been dreaming about. I saw him at my new school." Told Darla.
"No way. What's his name?" she asked as she stopped painting her toe nails.
"Travis something. He's so sweet and he's a real hottie!" told Darla.
"No way. I wish I was there with you experiencing the something with you." said Kelly as she began painting again.
"I wish you where here too. I miss you so much. I also miss that lemon hair of your too." giggled Darla.
"Oh shut it." she laughed as she began again.
"Hey sorry to shorten our daily calls but I have to go eat with my family. Love you tones. Talk to you later."
"Ok bye." Replied Darla as they both hung up.
Darla laid on her bed staring at the ceiling wishing that her life could be more exciting but for her it just got worse. It was dinner time with the lame ass step dad Jared Glenn. Darla's mother was always late for dinner on Mondays. It made Darla wonder where she was and what she was doing.
"Darla dinner." yelled the evil man downstairs.
"I'm coming." she yelled back. She walked down the large stairs case and then walked into the small blue dinning room.
Darla sat in the middle of the wooden table while Jared sat at the other end of the dinning room table. Tonight they had Jared's favorite dinner, tuna casserole. The thing looked like it was barfed up. Darla starred at it in freighted.
"What's wrong Darla?" asked Jared as she stared to eat the tuna casserole.
"Well for starters I hate tuna casseroles and last and surely enough not least it looks like it has been barfed up." she said.
"Well you have to eat it or starve." Told Jared as he began again eating.
"I guess I pick starving to death." she replied back.
Darla went upstairs and took a long shower. Then she watched TV until 9:00. After that she went to bed. Three hours later she woke up to a creaking sound in her room. She got up and head towards the hall, she opened her door and nothing was there. She turned around and there standing was a tall pale girl. She had blonde curls past her shoulders and her eyes where as black as night and her arms where as strong as a steal rode. She also had long fangs striking out of her mouth.
The pale girl grabbed Darla and threw her on her bed. The girl pined her down. She turned Darla's head and headed towards her neck until a pure white wolf jumped on top of the vampire and bit her. The vampire began to talk to the pure white wolf.
"Travis you can't protect her forever."
After she told the wolf she jumped out of the window. Darla stared at the white wolf. The wolf started to glow in a white light and turned into Travis.
"What are you?" asked Darla as she looked surprise.
"I'm a werewolf. I know it sounds a little unrealistic but it's true." replied Travis
"I think I can believe you after what just happened. Who the heck was that? And what did she mean you can't save her forever?" she asked. as she took Travis's hand and sat down on her soft purple bed.
"That was Courtney Allen. She's a vampire. An evil one at that. Um. I would think you would know." he told her.
"Um no. I'm pretty sure I don't know what you mean." said Darla
"Really?"
"Really." she replied back.
"Can't you see the future?" he asked her as he stared at her blankly.
"See the future are you nuts?" she laughed.
"You are Darla Lynn Rose? When you where nine you had a dream of your friend going to be shot by a drive by. You made her take the long road home. And the day you where sick she took the short cut home and on her way she was shot by a gang member. I'm I correct?" He asked her. Darla's face was shocked from the story that she just herd.
"Yea. How in the heck do you know that?"
"I know a lot of things about you. I was sent here to guard you from the vampires. The vampires want your gift. They are gathering people like you to build an army to destroy the werewolves." told Travis as he touched Darla's soft gentle face.
"Wow this is a lot to handle. Travis what's going to happen to me?" she asked as she look into his eyes.
"I don't know. I need to keep you safe. I don't want to keep you here all by yourself for the rest of the night." said Travis.
"Then stay the night here with me." demanded Darla.
"Are you sure." he asked her in a calm voice.
"Yea. I'm sure. Can I ask you a personal question?" asked Darla as she laid on her bed and Travis laid besides her and he began to speak.
"Yea sure go ahead."
"How old are you in werewolf years?" she asked.
"I'm sixteen like you. When I reach to the age of twenty five I start to age slowly. Twenty years for a human is a year for a werewolf." he answered
"How old where you when you turned into a werewolf?" she asked back.
"I'm a pureblood. That means that both of my parents are werewolves." he answered as he turned to Darla's face. He look deeply into her eyes and she did the same. Travis kissed her soft pink lips.
Travis and Darla kissed for a while and they began to get tired so they cuddled to each other and fell asleep. As soon as Darla feel asleep she began to have a dream about her mother.
In her dream Courtney the vampire entered their house. She walked into the large rectangle master bedroom. She opened the large brown wooden closet door and got in. She didn't shut the closet door all the way. Darla's mother entered the master bedroom and Courtney jumped out of the closet and attacked her. She took Karin's head and tipped it sideways, then she opened her mouth and stuck her fangs into Darla's mom's neck. Karin's warm, red, sticky blood dripped down from her neck.. Courtney sucked all of Karin's blood. There was nothing left but the limped corpse.
Darla jumped out of her large purple bed and screamed.
"Darla are you ok?" Asked Travis as he heard footsteps running up the stairs. Travis got out of the bed and ran over to Darla's wooden closet on the other side of the room.
"Honey is everything ok?" asked Karin as she entered the bedroom in freighted.
"I'm fine. I just had a really bad dream. I'm just going to get ready for school. Ok." said Darla as she sat back on the bed.
"Ok than. I'll just leave. Call me if you need anything." Said her mom as she left the room. As soon as she left Travis came out of the closet he ran over to Darla.
"What was your dream about?" he asked.
"It was about that vampire that attacked me last night. She killed my mom in my dream." she replied as she held Travis tightly and began again.
"How come I feel like I've met you before?"
"You have. You've seen me in your dreams. I tried to contact you in your dreams that's how we met" he said softly as he began again.
"You better get ready for school or you'll be late."
"Ok." she answered back.
Travis opened the window and jumped out. While Travis jumped out the window Darla went to her closet and picked out a white summer's dress. After she put her dress on she curled her hair and put her makeup on. Then she went downstairs to the living room. Waiting outside was Travis in his red convertible. When Darla headed down the stairs her mom intercepted her from the front door.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to school." Darla replied back.
"Who is that in the sports car?" asked her mom.
"Oh that's Travis he's my new friend that I met at school." she replied back.
"Oh ok. Be safe going to school." told her mother.
"I'll see you after school." she said as she went out the front door and waved to her mom goodbye.
Darla smiled at Travis.
"Come on where going to be late for school." He yelled as Darla opened the car door and got in.
"Is there something wrong."
"No nothing's wrong. Oh except my mom being killed by a vampire." sarcastically said Darla.
"We will save her. I'll tell my family about what you saw and I'll have them watch over her ok." he told her as he put his arm around her.
"Everything's going to be alright trust me."
"Ok. I'll trust you." she replied.
"Is there anything else bothering you?" he asked.
"No that's about it." she said as they began to drive to school. They got there fifteen minutes later.
Darla saw Courtney and her friends. Courtney was laughing and pointing at Darla. She looked at Travis and began to speak.
"You know I thought vampires couldn't be in sunlight?"
"They can but not for a long period of time. You see they wear sunglasses to help block the sun's rays. They can't be in the sun for more than an hour. If they stay in the light for more than an hour they become week and become a big fire ball. I mean literally. The longer there in the sun the weaker they get. That's why they wont attack in browed day light." answered Travis as he walked with her.
They walked to class together. Courtney sat right next to Darla in Science class. Courtney looked at her and began to speak.
"You know your werewolf lover isn't going to save you forever. I'm going to get you. I'm going to kill you and your lover. But first I need your powers to destroy all the werewolves."
"You'll never capture me." said Darla as she glared at Courtney.
"Watch that mouth of yours it might get you into a lot of trouble." laughed Courtney as she sat up and sat in the seat behind Darla.
Darla was pissed that her first vampire was a royal bitch and that the vampire was going to kill her. She wished that Travis was here. He make her feel so much safer. Knowing that he'll be there when ever she needed made her feel safe. After class ended Travis was waiting for her outside the classroom. He held a single red rose in his hand.
"This is for you." he said as he gave her the rose. Darla smelled the red rose.
"Wow this so pretty. Thank you." she replied.
"I really missed you during science class. I had to sit next to Courtney. She wasn't very nice to me. She told me how she was going to kill me."
"Wow that's harsh. I'm sorry that I wasn't there." he apologized.
"It's ok." she said.
"Ok good. Lets go to class now." he demanded as they walked down the narrow hallway to their English class.
They walked into the classroom. They sat next to each other at a table in the back. Before class started Matt and Daphne walked in and sat right behind them. As soon as they sat down the class began to start. Daphne whispered into Darla's ear.
"So I heard you got a little visit from Courtney. To bad she didn't kill you while she was there."
"Yea no kidding. I wish I was there to bite into your soft warm neck. Pierce the skin like when a knife pierces the soft mushy grape, and see your red blood pouring out of your neck. I wish I could see that." told Matt as Travis stood up and began to yell.
"SHUT UP MATT!" as he fished yelling at Matt he punched him in the face.
The whole class stared at the two boys in the back of the classroom. Mrs. Jones stood up from her desk and walked over to the boys.
"Travis to the principals office now!" she yelled to Travis
Travis walked out of the classroom and head down the hall to the large office and walked into the principals office. There sat a tall, skinny, honey haired man.
"Travis, you where the last one I ever suspected standing here in my office." Told Mr. Honey as Travis sat down in a black leather chair located in front of Mr. Honey's wooden desk.
"I know. I'm sorry Mr. Honey . Matt got on my nerves and I had to take him down." told Travis as he looked down to the ground.
"Matt who." asked Mr. Honey.
"Matt Arson. He's the vampire that hangs out with Courtney and Daphne. He was going to hurt Darla, my assignment." he told him as he realized he called Darla his assignment. He wanted to take back that word to describe her but he knew he couldn't.
"Oh. Ok. Your free to go Travis. But please don't get into anymore trouble. I'll see you tonight at the werewolf ceremony." he told him as he blinked his silver eyes.
Travis sat up and left to his English class.
He entered his English classroom. Darla sat there staring at him in fright.
"Well, welcome back. Travis sit down and please no more punching anyone." demanded Mrs. Jones as she continued writing on the white board.
"Yes ma'm." he replied back.
He sat down in his seat right next to Darla. 30 Minutes went by and class was finally over. It was time for lunch so they went to the cafeteria. Darla got a b.l.t and sat outside in their new favorite spot.
"So Travis did you get into trouble?" she asked.
"No, I didn't." he replied back.
"Why not? If guys at my old school did that the would get suspended." she asked as she took a bit of her b.l.t sandwich.
"Well Mr. Honey is one of us. He knew the only reason why I punched him was to protect you." he answered.
"Wait so your telling me Mr. Honey is a werewolf like you?" she asked in a surprise tone.
"Yea he is, but I'm not suppose to tell you." he answered.
"Oh that's not creep in anyway." she sarcastically said as she took her last bit of her sandwich and threw it away.
"He got this job so he can protect the students here from the vampires." he told her as he stood up and walked over to Darla whose hair seemed to whip around in the wind.
"Ok lets drop the subject and go to our next class." she replied as her and Travis went upstairs to their next class.
After school Travis drove Darla home. He walked inside to check if there was any vampires inside. He looked everywhere and there was nothing there. So he signaled Darla to enter the house. He started going towards the front door to leave, but Darla stopped him.
"Wait don't go. Cant' you stay here with me?" she asked him in a soft tone and then kissed him on his soft smooth lips.
"Yea I could. I mean I couldn't just leave you here with all of those vampires around." he replied back as he kissed her soft lips.
They both of them headed upstairs to her bedroom. Travis held her in his long muscular arms. He laid her on her bed and kissed her passionately. Then they both heard a yell in the background.
"DARLA WHERE ARE YOU?" yelled Darla's mom, Karin.
"Oh crap my mom's home." told Darla.
"I'll hide in the closet." he said as he ran over to the closet. He opened the closet door and hid in there.
Karin walked up the stairs and opened her door. She saw Darla on her bed reading her green math book.
"So the square root of 64 is...... Oh hi mom. I studying for a test in math." told Darla.
"Hi Darla. Since when do you study?" asked her mom as she started to laugh.
"I study a lot while your not home." lied Darla.
"Yea ok. I'm going to fix dinner are you wanting anything?" she asked yet another question.
"Sure. Can we have my favorite?" she asked "You know its spaghetti."
"Yea I know that's favorite food. I'm not stupid." said her mom as she rolled her eyes and started walking out of the room.
"Well you never know. Old people start losing their minds." joked Darla as she went back to reading her math book and her mom left her room.
Travis came out of the closet.
"That was a close one." he laughed.
"Yep it was. Maybe you should go. I'll text you later okay." told Darla as she put her green math book down.
"Ok I'll. I'll see you tomorrow." he said back as he gave her a small hug.
He jumped out her window. Darla looked into her small mirror located by her wooden closet. She saw a young girl not knowing what she should do next until her mom yelled for her.
"Darla, come down her please!"
Darla came running down the stairs.
"Yea mom?" she asked her mom who was standing by the dumb ass Jared.
"I forgot to tell you that Jared is taking out for dinner." told the shy mother.
"What? Then what am I suppose to do for dinner?" she asked her mother who was thinking.
"Well you could make yourself something to eat. Oh yea that sounds great." she told her daughter who was rolling her eyes.
"Well I guess I'll just have to starve to death." told Darla with an attitude.
"Whatever Darla." said Karin as she looked at Jared then at her silver white watch and then began again.
"Look at the time we better be going or we'll be late."
Darla's mom left the kitchen in into the blue ford truck. She walked towards the fridge.
"What should I have for dinner?" she said to herself and began again.
"Oh look left over Chinese food. I guess I'll have that."
She walked into the living room and then sat down on mocha brown Ashley couch. Then she gabbed the gray remote and turned on the 52 inch plasma. She flipped threw the channels until she saw her favorite TV show Beverly Hills 90210. She ate her food quietly on the couch and watch the TV for an hour until she heard her Iphone ring. She put her food down and answered it. It was her best friend Kelly Jacobson.
"Hey Kelly what are you up too?" she asked her sweet best friend.
"Very good. Guess what!" yelled Kelly from the other side of the phone.
"What?" she asked.
"Steven Drake asked me out!" excitedly said Kelly.
"No way. I'm so happy and proud of you." she said back.
"You where the first person I had to tell. He asked me out after the football game." she told Darla.
"Oh my gosh. You guys make the perfect couple. But hey Kelly I have to leave. I have to get my homework done. So I'll call you tomorrow." said Darla as she looked around the living room.
"Oh ok. Don't forget to call. Bye." told Kelly as they both hung up.
Darla heard a creaking sound in the kitchen so she went to go check it out. She saw Matt by the marble gray counters. Matt ran over to her and whispered into her ear.
"Oh Darla. I want your fresh blood."
Matt grabbed her left arm and flung her against the cream colored wall. After she was flung against the wall the door flew open and Travis ran in.
"Leave her alone Matt!" demanded Travis.
"How about I don't." replied Matt as he went to go punch Travis but Travis caught his fist and flung him out the kitchen window.
He ran outside to meet up with Matt. Matt jumped up and kicked Travis in the stomach and he landed in the muddy ground.
"You werewolves are pathetic." laughed Matt.
Travis got up from the muddy ground and ran towards him. He went to hit him but Matt blocked him. Matt showed him his fangs as a symbol of integration. Travis glowed a white color and turned into a werewolf. Travis showed him his teeth and bit him. Matt grabbed his arm and ran home. Darla ran outside to Travis. Then Travis turned to his normal self.
"Oh Travis your bleeding." she said in concern as she brought him inside the warm house.
"Its ok I promise. The cut on my head will heal in no time." he told her. In the mater of seconds the cut on his head stopped bleeding and healed. It looked like it never been cut.
"Wow, that's incredible." she said in amazement.
"Yea, it helps in a cases like this." he laughed as he took her in his arms.
"Its getting dark outside. Maybe should stay the night, so when those creepy vampires attack you'll be here. " she suggested as she cuddled in his strong arms.
"I don't know." stuttered Travis.
"Please I don't want those creepy vampires to touch me." she told him.
"Ok I will but, only tonight." he replied back as the both went upstairs.
The night grew to day. It was a beautiful Wednesday. The birds where chirping, the bees where humming and the two love birds where sound asleep until a blonde, brown eyed mother walked in. Before she entered the bedroom Travis woke up and jumped out of the window. He landed on the gray cement.
"Honey your going to be late for school." told her tall mother.
"Ok mom." sleepily said Darla as she rubbed her tired eyes.
Darla got up and took a short shower. After she got out of the shower she towel dried her hair, and then she put on light colored jeans and a yellow shirt. After she up on her clothes she went down the stairs to the kitchen.
"Darla do you want some breakfast?" asked Karin.
"No thank you. I don't have enough time." she replied.
"Do you want me to drive you to school?" asked Karin.
Yea, sure." she told her as she got into her mothers blue truck.
Her mom dropped her off in front of the some what large school.
Have a good day honey." yelled Karin at her slowly moving daughter.
Darla rolled her big green eyes and kept on walking. She looked everywhere to see if she could find Travis, but she finally found him sitting on a bench in the back of the school.
"He I've been looking all over for you. What happened to you this morning?" she asked him as she sat right next to him.
"Sorry I had to go. I didn't want to get caught." he replied.
"Its ok. I have a question to ask you. Why are vampires bad and werewolves good?" she asked.
"Well started when humans where created. They say that the reason vampires where created was to kill off all humans. And they also say that someone created werewolves, to save the humans and kill the vampires. Ever since then vampires and werewolves have been in a battle. Some of the humans where born with an ability like you. The werewolves wanted to protect them and the vampires wanted to destroy them." told Travis as he looked down.
"What's wrong?" asked Darla.
"I'm afraid of telling my parents I fell in love with you." he replied.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because werewolves have to be a pure blood. They don't want half werewolf and half human. Its a disgrace to our community." he replied.
"Oh." she said sadly.
"I better go." told Travis as he left.
That night Darla was all alone again, but this night nothing happened. There was no vampires. It was finally a quiet night since she moved to Mill Creek, Montana.