~Claire's POV~
The sun hit my face and made my skin shine slightly, but i ignored it. The sun shouldn't shine for me. I didn't deserve it. I had broken up with Alex. There was only one reason why i broke up with Alex: he wasn't a vampire. I wanted a vampire to sweep me off of my feet, and he wasn't a vampire. He was human. he was sweet, innocent, gentle human who I had destroyed.
Sophie ran up to me and sat on the tother swing. We both were silent. She knew i needed time alone when I went into my "i'm an evil slut who no one should care about" rants. usually these4 rants were silent and only in my head, but Sophie had learned the hard way that if you disturbed them, they turned nasty really fast.
We just swung next to each other, waiting for our parents to come. If you looked from my parents to Sophie and I, you would probably raise some eyebrows. Our parents had matching brown hair, and somehow both my sister and I had purple hair. Don't ask me how. Purple hair was impossible. Most people asked us where we got our hair died so they could go too. They always wrinkled their noses in confusion when we told them that our hair was naturally purple.
Our parents finally arrived and we gathered our stuff and jumped in. "So, how did your days go?" Sophie started relaying her day, and my parents listened in. they looked at me expectantly, but after a minute or two realized the all-famous rant was going on inside my head.
Why would you go out with him in the first place if you knew you wanted a vampire? How could you be so cruel and stupid? No, I liked him. It took me a while to realize that I wanted a vampire. And meanwhile you had him wrapped around your finger. And then you destroyed him. Shut up. Make me. I groaned inwardly, knowing that my angry side had won. It continued scolding me, and this time my defensive side didn't fight back. My family fell silent eventually, recognising the tension in me and knowing exactly which side had won the argument.
I got home and collapsed onto my bed. I did my homework as quickly as possible, not wanting to think seeing as whenever I thought I thought about what had happened. And to think you thought you liked him. If you really liked him, you wouldn't have put him through what you did. I groaned out loud this time and buried my head in my arms.
"Why can't I just live with the fact that I'm human? I'll probably never get the vampire I want!" Lately, one of the most popular girls in school became a vampire's finacee. that's who you had to be. The best of the best. Most vampires wanted other vampires. It was very rare that one would set their eyes ona human. There was no hope that I would get a vampire to love me.
I fell asleep half way through my geometry homework. I was completely unaware that my life was about to completely change.
~Alex's POV~
I stumbled down the street. It amazed me that i was still disoriented by it. She had broken up with me. Claire broke up with me. I was resigned about it, though. She wanted a vampire and I understood that. Super speed and strength, mind reading, amazingly good looks, I just couldn't compete with a vampire. And I wanted her to be happy, soI wasn't going to bug her. Besides, she had said we could be friends if i was comfortable with it.
I arrived home and opened the door. I yelled for my family, but only got silence. That was strange. Whenever they went out, they always locked the door, but it was unlocked. I shrugged and walked up the stairs.
I heard a crash and i stopped. It had come from my parents' room. I ran to their room and opened it to find something I did not want to see.
There were many things that registered in my mind at once. 1) my mother was dead. 2) my father was almost dead. 3) everything they owned was trashed around the entire room. And 4) there was a vampire smiling cheerfully at me.
"Well, you smell a lot better than your parents, let me tell you." She had blonde hair down to her waist, which shined to the point of blinding me when the light hit it. She had curves in all the right places, and her face was simply flawless. But her impossible beautydid not make me forget that she had killed my parents.
"Well then. I'm Marcy."
"Why are you telling me this?" She shrugged.
"I just like people to feel like they die with someone they know. It's horrible to die alone." I shivered. This vampire chick didn't exactly think like a human chick would. Death shouldn'tbe a casual subject. Next thing I knew she had me pinned to the floor and was simply beaming at me. I narrowed my eyes. She was the strangest vampire I had ever met.
"Don't worry. I'll make sure it doesn't hurt." She bit me and I found myself going limp. I couldn't fight at all. I knew what it was. It was the immobilizing venom in her teeth. It spread even quicker than i thought.
She was ripped off of me suddenly and I looked up wearily to see my father on top of her. It was the last thing he would ever do. I watched with horror as my father slumped against Marcy and she rolled her eyes. "Your father is quite heavy." I ran as far as i could away from the house as fast as i could, like I should have done when i first discovered them.
I could barely hear her whisper with an exasperated sigh, "Why do they always run?" I didn't turn back at all, but my energy quickly dissapated. I collapsed in the middle of an alley and cursed under my breath. i heard laughing behind me. "I must admit, the chase is always the best part, even if the start of it always annoys me."
Marcy smiled at me and pinned me to the ground and smiled sadistically. She practically purred when she spoke next. "You're awfully pretty for a human, aren't you?" She smiled brightly and jumped off of me, sitting next to me instead. She bit her wrist and forced it into my mouth. "Come on just drink it. You'll feel better."
I fought the urge to swallow as long as i could, but eventually it seeped into my throat. causing me to cough and swallow the thick, coppery substance bleeding out of her wrist. My vision became plagued with dots and Marcy smiled triumphantly at me before I passed out.