A long, black haired girl sauntered down the hallway of the airport like she's done it a million times before. Her hair swaying behind her, her crystal blue eyes open and alert, she looked around the room, trying to find someone.
Her mouth turned into a smile when her eyes fell on the creepy butler, standing there, smiling as she was. "Jameson!" She yelled, waving her hand, shaking the black bracelets. She hopped over, losing her "star" quality, and picking up one of a child.
"Hello, Ms. Samantha." He bent down, picking up her luggage. Sam contemplated for a moment if he could or not.
"It's Sam," she corrected, and bend a piece of black hair around her finger. "Where's Alexander?"
"At home," Jameson told her, and she pouted.
"Why isn't he here to pick me up? In the letter, he told me he would." Sam pushed a piece of paper into Jameson's hands, put his put it back.
"Something came up, Ms. Sam." He started to lead her back to the car. Sam sighed, but then regained her cheery attitude and slid into the passenger's seat.
"What came up? Can you tell me?"
Jameson sighed. He knew that Sam would not shut up unless she's sleeping. "A party," he told her, and she gasped.
"Is it a party for me?"
"No."
"Blunt, aren't we Jameson?" Sam frowned, looking out the window. "So this is Dullsville, as Alexander calls it?"
Jameson nodded, and they into town. As they drove, Sam bombarded him with questions about Alexander. She hadn't seen her childhood friend in two years.
"Ask him those things," Jameson told her, and she crossed her arms.
"Fine, fine," she said, waving him off. As they got further, they noticed that tons of people were standing around a mansion wearing black clothes.
Sam pulled at her own purple and black dress, sighing. "Who are all these people?" she asked, looking around.
"All of the people in town," Jameson guessed, pulling in the driveway, making people get up and leave.
Sam hopped out, smiling around at everyone. "Wow! Is this how they look all the time?"
"No," Jameson said, smiling at her.
She smiled back. "Didn't think so." She grabbed her luggage, tugging it up the stairs, ignoring the people's stares. "Is Alexander inside?"
"Yes," Jameson told her, following her inside.
"Alexander!" Sam yelled, her voice echoing. "I'm hoooooome."
He came down the stairs, and Sam smiled. "You haven't changed a bit," Alexander noted, coming down face-to-face with his friend. Well, almost. Sam was just a little bit shorter than him.
"I got my hair dyed, though," Sam pouted, pulling at her black strands. "I was blond before. Yuck!" Alexander laughed, ruffling her hair before pulling her into a hug.
"I haven't seen you in forever," he told her, releasing her and making her laugh. She playfully punched his shoulder.
"I wasn't done yet, you dummy!" And she pulled him into another hug, making him sigh and place his head on hers. She laughed, jumping up and down in excitment. She hadn't seen her best friend in two years - and now she was coming to live with him!
The door crashed open, making Sam jump and cling to Alexander even tighter. A girl with raven-colored hair like Sam's looked at them, wide-eyed. "Alexander...?" the girl asked, suprised.
Sam let go of him, turning to her. "Is this your girlfriend, Raven, you told me about?" Sam asked, smiling. Alexander nodded.
"She's even prettier than you described!" Sam reached over, touching a strand of her hair. "Alexander talked so much about you in the letters."
"Sam!" Alexander said, slapping his friend upside the head. Sam groaned, rubbing her head.
Raven laughed nervously, pulling her arms together. "So you guys, aren't together or anything?"
Both Alexander and Sam turned to the side, both coughing and acting sick. "No way." Alexander pulled Raven over, his arm around her shoulders.
"We're just best friends," Sam said, punching Alexander's shoulder again.
Raven nodded, holding her hand out. Sam stuck her thin, pale hand inside Raven's and shook. "I'm Raven Madison."
"Samantha Carter. But if you call me Samantha, you will die." Sam winked, earning a laugh from Raven.
"I've made that mistake before," Alexander said, smiling at Sam, who frowned.
"I didn't kill you. Tried to, but I didn't." Sam laughed. "How about I'll put my stuff away and then I'll join you guys down here?"
"Let me show you your room," Alexander said, picking up Sam's bags and going up the stairs, the short, black-haired girl following. "We'll be right back, Raven."
As they headed up, Sam smiled. "So, she's pretty."
"Yeah."
"Don't like to talk much about it?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Stop it with the twenty questions, Sam." Alexander pushed open a door, revealing a large room. Sam bit her tounge to keep from yelling about how great the room was.
"I'll stop if you answer that." Sam pushed her bags to the corner, brushing her hands off, deciding that was enough work for today.
"Fine. Because I haven't been talking to her much, okay?" Alexander blushed, making Sam coo.
"Is wittle Alexander embarrased?" She hugged his arm, and he hugged her back. Sam sighed. She had missed her caring best friend.
She pulled away. "Let's get downstairs. Someone's girly is waiting."
"I think Jameson can wait a few more seconds," Alexander joked, making Sam punch his shoulder, hopping down the stairs in her chunky black boots, her pale legs sticking out and snaking their way into her medium-lenth black and purple dress that hung just below her knees.
They met Raven at the bottom, who was twirling a piece of hair on her finger. Her eyes lit up when she saw Alexander. They all walked outside. "Introduce me to some people," Sam said, glancing over at the people who were mingling.
"This is my friend Becky," Raven told her, pulling Sam over to a mousy looking girl. The boy next to her glanced at Sam. "And her boyfriend, Matt."
"Hi," Sam smiled, showing her white teeth to both Becky and Matt.
"I haven't seen you around here before," Becky noted, pressing a finger to her chin. "Are you Raven's cousin?"
"Nuh-uh," Sam said, shaking her head. "I'm Alexander's friend from Romania."
"You don't have an accent either," Matt said, smiling at Sam.
"I traveled too, but I stayed more often than Alexander." Sam nodded, and then Raven grabbed the girl's skinny arm, pulling her over to two adults who looked almost like hippies.
"You should meet my parents," Raven said, smiling. "They'll be happy I made a girlfriend who's like me." Sam smiled back.
"Mom, Dad, this is Sam," Raven spoke, pushing Sam and making her chunky black boot hit the ground. Sam smiled.
"Hi there, Mr. and Mrs. Madison." They both waved, smiling at the spunky girl.
"Are you friends with Raven?" Her mom asked, glancing at Sam's clothes.
Sam nodded. Raven also nodded, pulling Sam in yet another direction. "Where are we going now?" Sam said, giggling in excitment. She glanced over at Alexander, who was smiling at her.
"You're going to meet my brother and his friend," Raven said, smirking.
"Okay!"
"I thought you'd be mad..." Raven fake-frowned, as Sam giggled.
"But he's your brother. I'd meet him anyways," Sam pointed out, and then stopped as Raven found a short boy with black hair, next to a boy with glasses.
"Billy, Henry, this is Sam Carter." Sam waved, and the boys waved back. Billy showed her his fake fangs.
"Whoa! Your a vampire," Sam joked, smiling at the excited boy.
"Scary, huh?" He asked, smiling.
"Totally. Wanna see mine?"
Both boys nodded eagerly. Raven looked confused. Sam opened her mouth, pointing to two, small fangs. They were definatly bigger than a human's fangs, but smaller than a real vampires. Billy and Henry laughed.
"Are those cheap?" Henry asked, leaning forward and pushing hard on Sam's right fang. "Because they don't look big enough to be good."
"Yeah," Sam admitted cheekily, blushing of embarrasment.
Raven laughed. "How do they stay on so good."
Sam put her hands on her hips, looking up. "Super-glue." When everyone laughed, Sam pouted. "I'm not joking."
Raven led the embarrased girl back to Alexander, who was waiting on the porch. "I saw your "fangs"," Alexander joked, pushing Sam's shoulder.
She swatted him away, sticking out her tounge. "They still haven't grown."
Sam's face flushed, and Alexander sighed. Raven blinked. "What do you..."
"I meant, Sam still hasn't grown. After all, she's still super-gluing fake teeth to her mouth." Raven laughed, nodding.
Sam's pale color returned to her face as she laughed along with everyone. "Yes, yes. Make fun of Sam. Go on."
Raven smiled, tugging on her boyfriend's arm. "Let's go enjoy this party," she said, but then her eyes flickered to the driveway, a dark figure walking up. "Why is he here?"
"Why is who here?" Sam asked, confusion in her eyes.
Raven looked at her, taking Sam's pale, skinny arm in her hand. "Trevor," she says and Sam tilted her head. "My nemesis."
"Whoa! Jealous. I don't have a nemesis." Sam crossed her arms, making Raven smirk.
"If you want, you can go persuade him not to come up here. Then maybe you'll have a nemesis." Sam smiled.
"Kay!" She started to hop down the driveway, making people stare. At the bottom, Sam saw a boy with blond hair and green eyes. "Excuse me, sir?"
"I'm going somewhere," he said, almost in a rush, and began to push past the small girl.
Sam put her hand on his shoulder. "A moment of your time?" Her mouth split into a grin. He stopped.
"Who are you? I haven't seen you around."
"I'm Sam Carter. I am new here. I'm living with Alexander." Sam jerked a thumb behind her. Trevor, or whatever, looked at Sam like she was crazy.
"Why would you live with him?"
"Because he's my friend."
"Why is he your friend?"
"You're starting to sound like me with all the questions," Sam muttered, but still smiling, her skinny arms now crossed as she tapped her chunky boot to the music.
"Did Raven put you up to this?" He asked, watching as her boot thudded on the ground. She shook her head.
"Nope! I saw you coming and just had to see who that handsome devil was." She smirked to herself, hoping that he would be freaked out by the new Goth girl coming onto him. But instead he just smirked right back at her, making her flush.
"Do you go to the school?" He asked her.
Sam shook her head, stopping her foot tapping. "Nah. But I want to see what it's like. Maybe I'll see you there."
"Maybe."
"But," Sam chortled, raising a black-fingernailed hand. "I'll only go on one condition."
Trevor looked at her. "You have to leave. Right now." She began to shoo him away. "And if you go away for the night, I'll be in school tomorrow."
"Fine." He said, and he began to walk down the driveway.
"Wait a minute!" Sam called, her blue eyes shining. One last kick, she thought to herself. This was how she used to freak out guys back home. She ran up to him, wrapping her arms around him, giving him a hug.
Shocked, he took a step back, and she waved. "Goodbye now!" And she skipped up the driveway without looking back.
Raven and Alexander were standing on the porch. "How did it go? Find yourself a new nemesis?" Raven asked.
Sam put her hands on her hips, smiling at the bright moon. "I think so. I told him I'd see him in school tomorrow if he left."
"How did that...?" Raven was confused.
Alexander glanced over at Sam, his hand on her shoulder. "You didn't try to scare him off like you usually scare off guys, right?"
Sam looked back and forth between Raven and Alexander, her ocean blue eyes losing their shine. "Yeah, I did...why?"
Alexander sighed. "He probably thinks your into him now."
Raven couldn't help but laugh as Sam looked back and forth between them both in disbelief. She bit her lip, contemplating something. "Well, he was kind of cute..."
Raven looked up at her, wiping a tear from her eye. "I didn't think you liked those types of people."
"You haven't know me for that long," Sam pointed out.
Alexander nodded. "Sam's crazy."
"I should say I'm going to stay for a minute to Becky," Raven said, turning on her heel.
"Sam and I will wait inside and help clean up," Alexander said, but Sam stayed put. He raised an eyebrow.
"I don't want to clean up!" She almost screamed, but Alexander grabbed her arm, dragging her in.
"So, do you like the people here?" Alexander asked as they went around the bottom floor, grabbing anything that looked like trash.
"Eh," Sam said, shrugging. "They seemed okay tonight. But I bet their really drabs."
"Not all of them are bad," he said, shrugging.
The door opened, revealing Raven. "I'll help!" She spoke, and Sam decided to let Raven take her trash-bag and do her work.
"Oh! I'll be right back," Alexander spoke, leaving the room to go up the stairs.
"I wonder what he's doing," Sam mused, pulling at her shoelaces, tugging off her black boots. Raven shrugged, pulling the trash-bag together and putting it on the floor.
"I don't know," she admitted, standing next to Sam in the doorway. "Hey, Sam?" Raven asked, pulling at her skirt.
Sam looked up. "Yeaaah, buddy?" Raven laughed.
"Uhm, I was wondering, want to be friends?"
Sam beamed. "I thought we already were."
Raven laughed. "And maybe sometime I'll show you where to buy real cool vampire fangs." Raven pointed to Sam's tiny fangs, and Sam lost her shine for a moment.
She regained it quickly. "Yeah! That'll be nice."
Alexander came back down then, wearing a fake-cape and smiling. Sam giggled, pushing Raven forward. "Go meet your 'prince'," Sam said, laughing.
"My dream prince," Raven spoke, and they were so close to each other, Sam had to giggle. As they started kissing, Sam covered her eyes.
"Ew! Romance." Sam stuck out her tounge, making both Raven and Alexander laugh.
Raven started to try and pull Alexander's fang off, but he winced. "Ouch."
But Raven responded with a giggle. "Why did you super-glue them? Following in Sam's footsteps?"
Sam rolled her eyes. "Hurdurdur. Very funny."
Raven stepped onto the doorway, and felt her lipstick with her hand. Not satisfied, she whipped out a compact, looking in it.
"Sweet dreams," Alexander said quietly, and Sam stood in shock, her blue eyes widening.
Both of them weren't seen in the mirror.