Cinder Blossom was a 15 year old girl who lived her very mean stepmother and two stepsisters. Cinder had had a loving father until he had died. No one knew how he died, but it seemed he was murder. Only when Cinder's father was a round would her stepmother pretend to be nice and love her, but in reality, she hated Cinder. Once Cinder's father had died, her stepmother had turned her into a house maid, well more like a slave. Cinder kind of found her life like Cinderella's, except with no prince to set her free.
"Cinder, set three more plates, we are going to have guests coming." Cinder heard her stepmother call from the up stairs. Cinder sighed sadly then got out three more plates to stack on the other three, since Cinder's stepmother wouldn't let her eat with her or the sisters, even when there was company over. As she was setting the table, Mary and April walked into the room.
"Hey, Cinderella," Mary said, giving Cinder the mean nick name.
"Did you hear about the guests coming?" Then April smiled cruly. "It's too bad that you can meet them. They are all so cute. Too bad for you, though." Both of the girls then walked away, laughing meanly. When Cinder was done setting the table she went back to the kitchen to eat for herself.
"Cinder, get in here." Again Cinder heard her Stepmother call her, although this time it came form the dinning room. Cinder sighed then walked into the dinning room, stopping only for a second when she saw three teenage boys, all about 17 or 18, sitting at the table as well. All three of the boys turned to look at Cinder as she entered the room, getting the mother and sisters to look at her as well.
"Cinder, this is Takuma Ichijo, Hanabusa Aido and Akatsuki Kain. They will be living with us for the time being." As Cinder's stepmother pointed to each boy, she noticed that Takuma Ichijo looked a little older then the other two. She also noticed that each boy was extremely cute. One more thing she noticed was that Aido and Kain looked a little alike. They were ether brothers or cousin and some told Cinder it was cousins. She then bowed her head in greeting.
"Welcome. I hope your stay will be a good one." Each boy gave her a warm smile then Cinder went back to the kitchen. Before leaving she was told that the boys were their new boyfriend.
A couple hours later Cinder started to wash the dishes, when one of the plates broke in the sink and she cut herself pretty deep on a sharp piece. She took her hand out of the water and looked at the finger she had cut. It was bleeding pretty badly. It was a deep cut after all. before Cinder could find anything to cover her bleeding finger with, two of the three boys walked into the room. She blushed when see saw then looking at her but still turned to them.
"Yes, may I help you?" She asked with a small bow. The two boys, Aido and Kain, smiled some more.
"No thank-you, but would you like some help? Washing breakable dishes in soapy water can be dangerous." It was Aido that said that, eyeing Cinder's bleeding finger. Cinder was a bit shocked that someone was offering to help. That had never happened before. Cinder wanted to say yes, but her stepmother wouldn't like it, thinking that she asked for help rather then it being offered.
"No thank-you, I got it handled. Now if you don't mind I have to get back to work." Cinder said and turned back to the sink. Neither Aido or Kain left the room. Instead, Aido even walked a little closer to Cinder.
"May we at least have your name?" She heard him asked and Cinder turned to look at him. Aido was giving her a very charming smile.
"Um, it's Cinder Blossom." she told him and Aido's smile grew more charming, if that's possible, and his blue eyes appeared to sparkle.
"What a lovely name for a lovely girl." He said and walked even closer to her then took her hand that had the bleeding finger. Cinder blushed and Aido let out a small, soft laugh when he saw this.
"Wha..what about April?" Cinder asked, wondering way this boy was flirting with her when he was with her stepsister. Aido gave her another charming smile.
"You are a lot prettier then April." He then looked at Cinder's bleeding finger as she blushed from the comment. No one had ever called her pretty before.
"Let me help you with that cut." Aido said and he lowered his head.
"Hanabusa, don't do anything stupid." Kain warned his cousin, but it was a little too late. Aido was already licking Cinder's bloody finger.
Cinder's eyes widen in shock as she felt Aido lick her bleeding finger. Aido must of liked what he had tasted, since he licked the finger two to three more times. Cinder then felt a sharp pain as Aido bit into her hand. Cinder could feel Aido's tongue as it licked the blood from the wounds he had made with his teeth. Cinder just stood there, watching as Aido continued to drink her blood. She turn looked at the other boy, who had a hand on him face.
'Does this mean he is also a vampire? And what about the other boy, him to?' She thought, not really all that scared.
"Aido!" Another voice said and Cinder saw the other boy, Ichijo come into the room. Aido seemed to tense for a second, realizing he was in trouble. He gave Cinder's hand a few more licks then let go of her and backed up. He then turned around to look at the boy that called his name.
"We were told not to realize our turn selves, Aido." The Ichijo boy said, with his arms crossed. Aido rubbed the back of his head and tried to think of a excuse while Cinder held her hand, which was still bleeding a little. Although the finger seemed healed. After a bit of not paying attention to what was going on, Cinder looked up to see Ichijo in front of her.
"Let me see your hand." He said sweetly with a sweet smile on his face. Cinder hesitated for a second, then gave her hand to him. He then rapped up the hand with a piece of cloth that was in his pocket. He then asked if she would allow him to take her to her room, which she said was fine. "Cinder, what's going on?" The stepmother asked when she saw Ichijo talking her to her room. Ichijo answered before she could. "She had a little accident in the kitchen, ma'dam. I'm just talking her back to her room for some rest." He said and smiled. The stepmother just gave Cinder a look and then told them to carry on. Aido must have taken more blood then Cinder thought, because the last thing she could remember before blacking out was feeling really tired and dizzy.
"What should we do? None of us can erase memories." Said one voice.
"There isn't much we can do." said another. Then that same voice sighed.
"You just had to bite her, didn't you?" the voice asked.
"Hey, I couldn't help myself. She was bleeding and the smell of her blood just tempted me too much." the third voice said, defending himself. Cinder kept her eyes closed as she heard the first voice sigh, and recognized it a Ichijo.
"There is always the possibility that one of us could take her back to Cross Academy and have one of the others erase her memory, but that might just wast time." Then the voice she recognized as Kain's said.
"We could also just trust her for now, until we figure out what to do." After those words, the other two agreed that it would be best to trust her with their secret until they figured out what to do. Cinder chose then to open her eyes. She was lying in her bed. Ichijo, Kain and Aido were all in the room with her.
"So, you're finally awake." Said the nearest boy to her, which happened to be Ichijo. Cinder looked at him for a minute then looked at the other two. Cinder had no idea why that finding out that all three boys were vampire over getting bitten didn't scare her even a little.
"Are you alright?" Ichijo asked. Cinder sat up a little before answering.
"I'm fine. No harm done." Her response kind of surprised all three vampires. She was being so calm, especially after being bitten. The they seemed to smile in relief.
"Well that's good to hear." Ichijo said and paused for a second. "Cinder, we are going to ask you to keep the fact of what we are a secret. If you start spreading it around, we might do something that we'll regret." Cinder sighed, knowing even if she told no one would believe her, but still, she wasn't that type of person.
"Don't worry, I can keep a secret." She said, still feeling really sleepy. All three faces of the boys, vampires, seemed to relax.
"Alright then, we'll leave to let you sleep." Ichijo said and they all headed for the door. Although, when Aido was about to leave, he turned his head to look at Cinder, who was about to fall asleep at any time, and smiled.
"I still mean what I said earlier." And with that, Aido left the room, and Cinder feel asleep soon after, having pleasant dreams of her father.