Beautiful white snow covered everything and more fell from the sky. It was dark and cold and I shouldn't have been out anyway, but I was. I was almost home when a man came up out of nowhere. He looked down at me and smiled.

"May I?" he asked.

He grabbed me and went for my throat.

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I woke up screaming. I immediately grabbed my throat to be sure I wasn't bleeding.

"Raven!"

My brother, Senri, dove into my room with a silver, magic traced knife and his fangs showing. He looked around and checked all the windows before dropping the knife and coming over to my bed. He gently rubbed my shoulder and pried my fingers from around my neck.

"It's alright, Rae." he assured me.

I shook my head and smiled apologetically.

"You should know it's just me dreaming, Senri." I said.

"Yea, well, I wanna be sure." he flopped down next to me and ruffled my hair. "I'd feel really awful if something did happen to you and I never came."

I smiled at my brother. We're twins but we look nothing alike. He's tall, blonde-haired, and blue-eyed. I'm not really short, but I'm about a foot shorter than him with black hair and red eyes. Yes, red eyes. I have to wear colored contacts so I won't freak anyone out. The only thing Senri and I have in common, is we're both vampires. Our whole family is pureblood. We've all got some kind of talent or power, but again, I'm the weird one. I can do anything….basically. It takes a lot of practice to keep my powers under control. I'm getting really good which means Mom and Dad will send me to Cross Academy with Senri. It's a private school with a day class for humans and a night class for vampires. Senri told me that a few of the vampires are allowed in the day and night class. Of course, the humans don't know.

"Ugh." I groaned.

"What?" Senri asked. "What's wrong?"

"I don't want to go to Cross Academy." I whined.

Senri laughed and the light glinted off his still extended fangs.

"You have to Rae. You're a vampire by blood, even if you don't act like one. And besides, it's really nice there."

Senri had been enrolled last year, but I hadn't. Mom had made me wait which I really didn't mind. I'm not like other vampires, obviously.

"Senri," I started, "They'll know."

"No they won't. I promise." he smiled and stood up. "Now get ready, we leave in an hour."

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An hour and a half later we waved goodbye to our mom. I felt out of place even though I was wearing the same black uniform as everyone else in the day class. Senri insisted on carrying my stuff, so I had a death grip on his free hand.

"Calm down before you break me, geesh."

I loosened my grip and took a half step away. He felt bad, I could feel it, so he gave my hand a little squeeze.

"It's gonna be ok Raven." he whispered. "It's just like regular high school."

"Just add blood sucking vampires, right?" I added only half joking.

"Raven, we're good vampires." he reminded me. "We don't do that."

"That's what scares me Senri." I admitted. "I look like the bad vampire. My fangs stay out and my eyes are always red. I don't even drink blood! I'm the different one."

Senri stopped and looked me in the eyes.

"Different is good, Rae. Everyone here is different. We're vampires for God's sake!"

I couldn't help but laugh. Senri smiled and led me into the main lobby. Almost immediately people started staring. At first I was afraid I didn't have my contacts, but then I blinked and felt them. I tried telling myself I was ok, but it wasn't working. I was about to tell Senri that I couldn't do this, when someone came running up to us.

"Senri!" the guy yelled.

"Hey isn't that-"

"Kaname!" Senri yelled, cutting me off.

I let go off Senri so they could shake hands or whatever. Kaname looked at me and winked. I blushed and looked down at my feet. I had met Kaname last year when Senri came home for Christmas. He's tall with light brown hair and matching eyes. He's really nice so he's easy to like. Senri draped his arm around me and squeezed.

"Kaname, you remember my twin sister, Raven"

I looked up to see his reaction.

"Of course I do." he said. "Raven?"

He held out his hand for me so I placed my right hand in his grasp. He gently kissed my knuckles, which made me blush again.

"Hey Kaname." I sighed.

He smiled before turning to talk to Senri. I honestly didn't care to listen to them, so I scanned my surroundings inconspicuously. It looked like any usual high school hallway complete with lockers, restrooms, and of course, kids. We were across from an open classroom, and I just couldn't help myself from looking in. There were a few people in groups talking, but one guy was all by himself in a desk beside the window. His hair was a silver-ish white and his eyes were an impossible shade of lavender. They were beautiful. He looked at me and I blushed with embarrassment. I hated when people stared at my eyes, so I knew he must feel the same way.

"Raven," Senri called. "Let's go."

I turned and nodded. Senri waved at Kaname as we walked away.

"See you later Raven." he smiled.

"Bye Kaname." I muttered.

I couldn't help but look back in that classroom, and the guy with purple eyes was looking after me.