Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight. A.N: Romance is another genre, but it's not as pronounced.


Chapter 1

I've never been super rich or poor, just exactly average. Actually, most people in my family are exactly that in general. Average. Average in grades, looks, social status, you name it. But when I was born with above average school intelligence, my parents wasted no time in accepting my scholarship to Cross Academy's new middle school.

Not that I had much of a say in it. Now I'm forced to transfer to a new school in the middle of my first year of middle school where I know no one.

It's a great way to help a girl to deal with the great transfer from elementary school.

Now I'm standing in the headmaster's office, in the middle of the night, with absolutely no one at the school but him, me, and the new black and white trimmed uniform and dorm keys I have in my hands. Not even Kaname Kuran or the prefects I've heard about were here.

I sweat dropped, just what the heck is going on here?

Kaien Cross looked at me with a big, wide smile,

"Now you have everything you need for school life here. I hope you enjoy it here."

I still think it's weird that's we're here alone, "Umm, sir. Thanks for the scholarship and all, but is there a reason why no one else is here?"

Kaien smiled deviously and I could almost see sparkles appearing around him, "As you may know, Kaname Kuran is in charge of the high school's Night Class. Because I haven't seen much progress there, I decided to take some matters into my own hands by creating a secret middle and elementary school behind his back." His voice got higher as he finished.

My eye twitched, if I've heard anything about Kaname Kuran, it's that he's a guy you don't want to mess with...

I paused as I spoke, "Umm, wouldn't he kill you if he found out?"

Kaien got a little more serious, "Of course, but I want to see what the school would have been like if it was left almost completely alone in Night Class manners."

I felt my anger rise, "So are we some kind of experiment then?..."

Then Headmaster was back in dramatic mode again, "No! No! No! Don't think of it that way! It's still a school like everything else!"

I was still a little upset. I don't like the thought of being an experiment, at all.

I turned around with my small suitcase towards the door. I gave Kaien one last goodbye, "Nice to meet you Headmaster. Thanks again for the scholarship."

He gave me a smile and a wave before the door closed behind me. I made my way to the front where a bus was waiting to take me to the middle school campus.

...

I fell asleep right when I got to my dorm room. It had two beds, but whoever my roommate was, she didn't show up during the night.

I jerked awake to the sound of my annoying, old alarm clock that I got from my grandmother. I sat up and stretched. I could feel some of my bones cracking as I stretched, it felt good.

I glanced at the other bed and saw that it still looked untouched. I sighed, I wonder if I even have a roommate at all...

I started my morning routine of getting dressed, brushing my teeth and hair, and wearing my ever present silver hair clip in my dirty blond hair. I did add a little bit of "stolen" makeup from my parents to my eyes to make them look even more blue. I want to make a good impression on my classmates on my first day.

I made my way down the stairs and saw everyone's empty plates from breakfast. Wait. Empty plates?

My alarm clock was still set an hour late from my old school...

Greeeeaaat.

Forget about breakfast. I ran (and almost tripped) as fast as my "I sit on a couch and do nothing all day" legs could take me to my classroom. 1-A.

And to make things worse, I ended up tripping though the door. Everyone was staring at me as I did a guilty smile at the teacher.

Everyone giggled and whispered. The teacher glared at me and said to me sternly, "Welcome to class, Miss Ningen. Since you're our new student, you'll need to introduce yourself to the class."

I stood up and stood a little too straight in front of the class and introduced myself,

"Hi, I'm Atara Ningen. I'm a transfer student on a scholarship. Nice to meet you."

I got even more whispers after I mentioned "scholarship". I rolled my eyes, yeah I'm smart.

The teacher pointed towards an empty seat next to a sleeping girl with auburn, red brown hair and creamy white skin, "You'll be sitting next to Akana Mangetsu, who should be awake right now."

My now snoring desk mate snorted as she picked her head up from her desk. I made my way towards my seat.

She looked at me sleepily, "You're Atara?"

I answered her question like it was obvious, "Yeeesss, I am. I did just announce it."

She seemed more alert now, "Oh! Nice to meet you then. I'm Akana. I'm your roommate."

So she's my roommate, "Oh, so you're her? Where were you last night?"

She scratched her head sheepishly and pulled an energy drink out of her bag, "It's a long story..."

I want to know this story. I decided to ask her, "What happened?"

Akana started to go back to sleep, "Don't ask..."

I felt a little bit mad that she wouldn't tell me, "Why?"

I could hear annoyance in her tone now, "Maybe I'll tell you later."

I hate not knowing things...

I glared at her, "Why not now?

All I got was a grown this time. I sighed angrily. Fine! If you don't want to tell me now, I'll just force it out of you later...