Gabriella's Prologue

1997

"Bye Gabriella." Mr. Johnson said as his best, yet quiet student walked out the door.

Gabriella. No last name. She's an orphan and never knew her parents. She lives in an orphanage, like other orphans of course. But she doesn't have any friends. She doesn't care for them. She's extremely smart, and witty. She wears big glasses, knee length long socks, a plaid skirt and a button down blouse. A total nerd outfit and even she knew it.

It was 1997, and her senior year. She'd be able to leave the orphanage and start her life. But she didn't know what she wanted to do, and she's always felt like she's been missing something. She knows that it's a family she wants, but no one seems to want to adopt her.

Anyways

Gabriella was walking home from school at 11:57pm. Now you may ask, why the fuck is a student coming home from school at that time? Well you see, Gabriella hates going back to the orphanage. So she spends all the time she can at school, and Mr. Johnson, her favorite teacher, agrees to stay with her every day until this time.

She walked pass an ally and heard a Mew. She still and listened again. Mew. It sounded like a cat in distress. She dropped her backpack and ran to the end of the ally and saw a cat stuck under a trash can lid. She immediately picked the lid up and let the cat out. It gave her a cat like smile and an appreciative meow. Gabriella smiled before turning around and freezing in place.

In front of her was a man, he was blocking her way out, and it didn't look he was going to let her out either. He had dark brown hair, dark green eyes, and a great body. He was wearing a black leather jacket with no shirt under it, so she could see his bare chest, and some jeans. All and all, he was pretty hot, but she was still scared.

She back up until she hit the wall as he stepped closer to her. "Hello." He huskily said with an evil voice. Gabriella closed her eyes tight when he came up to her face. He nuzzled his nose in her neck and breathed in deeply. He shivered at the smell of her before saying, "Your blood smells so, so good."

Gabriella's eyes widened at his words and then she gasped when she felt his teeth penetrate her neck. She tried to scream, but she couldn't. She just stood there, not believing what was happening. She couldn't breathe, she couldn't speak.

Suddenly, she felt him back away, and she fell to the ground, half unconscious. She could see him lean against a wall, as if he was trying to recover his energy. The last thing she saw before she blacked out was him, running away.

~*~

Gabriella stood up and shook her head to try and gain full consciousness again. She didn't remember what happened, or where she was, or what time it was. She immediately noticed that it was night time, it was a full moon, and she was in a dark, abandoned ally. She didn't even stop for a second to think, she just started to walk back to the orphanage home. She knew everyone would be upstairs and asleep by now.

She felt a little different though, and she could tell something was different when she walked through her door. Mainly because there were a six people the 'living room', and they all were wearing black, leather trench coats. She didn't scream, but she knew she should be screaming. Gabriella was just staring at the people that looked like they could break her in half with the flick of the wrist.

"Hello Gabriella." She heard a husky male voice say. She didn't know them, so how did they know her name.

"Can I help you guys with something?" Gabriella asked calmly, and she saw almost all of them smirk before coming towards her.

For some, bizarre, weird, freaky, and unexplainable reason, Gabriella wasn't scared, afraid, nervous, or freaked. She just felt nothing. An old woman in a purple fantasy dress came forward and said, "At precisely 12:00am you were bitten by a vampire, and turned into a vampire."

Gabriella scoffed before she caught sight of herself in the mirror next to her. She could see herself, which must mean that she's not a vampire. But her black curls seemed longer and more wild, and there was a single dark red streak in it, it looked like a streak of blood. Her lips were red too. She brought her hand up to try and wipe it off, as if it were lipstick. But it wouldn't come off. Then she noticed that she wasn't wearing her glasses, she was seeing without her glasses. The top buttons on her blouse were open, giving a slight glimpse of her cleavage, and she looked…well, really sexy. A part of her told her that something was seriously wrong, but another part was telling her that this was cool, and she shouldn't be afraid.

"But I can't be a vampire, I have a reflection." She said, trying to be reasonable, but she felt her reasonable side begin to slip away with every breath.

The people behind the woman laughed before one of them said, "Don't you believe everything you hear about vampires."

"We can walk in the sun, and we have a reflection. We just have extra strength, immortality, and the urge for blood too." The old woman said as Gabriella looked at her nails and saw that they were painted dark red. She didn't remember painting her nails. She has never painted her nails.

Gabriella looked up at them and saw that it was five guys and the old woman. "What do you want with me?" She asked, calmly.

"You were bitten by Jordan Gray, a man who used to be in our tribe. But now he's with our enemy…Very rarely do females that get bitten survive. They lose all their blood and die because vampires have a very hard time controlling themselves around the opposite sex and especially their mate. There are only nine female vampires in the world that were turned; the other twelve were born vampires." The old woman said as she came closer to Gabriella.

"And…" Gabriella said, motioning with her hand for the old woman to continue.

The old woman looked behind her to see most of her boys looking at Gabriella with lust in their eyes. "Your mother is dead, and you father is gone. This orphanage is not the home for you…I'm Vikki Montez. I'm here to welcome you to our tribe." Gabriella liked her name, it suited her.

Gabriella Montez, it does sound nice, and she's always wanted a family. Gabriella smirked at her before asking, "Can I still go to school?"

Vikki smiled before saying, "You can do what ever you want."

Gabriella smiled back as she came and hugged her. She just met this lady and already loved her. She looked at the boys and said, "Hi boys."

"I'm Robert." The one with crazy blond hair and green eyes said.

"I'm Scott." The one with straight light brown hair and brown eyes said.

"I'm David." The one with dark red hair and brown eyes said.

"I'm Brandon." The one with slightly long black hair and green eyes said.

"I'm Tyler." The one with dark brown hair and green eyes said.

"I'm Peter." The one with dark blond hair and blue eyes said.

They were all very, very, very, very, very, very, very hot looking guys. And Gabriella could see that they were all looking at her with lust in their eyes. Looks like Gabriella was going to be the only girl in their tribe, besides Vikki.

"I think this might be interesting."