AN: This is about the HBO series "True Blood" mixed with a little bit of The Vampire Diaries. It's told by the POV of a teenager living through the time that vampires are starting to come out. Would love to get some feedback.
Prologue
Through the first few years of my life, I have been beaten and abused by my parents. When child services finally decided to get me out there, my foster parents thought they might have been too late. I have been living with foster parents for ten years till I met my boyfriend. It was love at first site and what a site it was. He was able to arrange a family and get them to adopt me. The 17 yrs. of my life, who would think I'll end up with a vampire as a boyfriend? Not me! Well, remember the whole love at first site thing? Well, he is a vampire and me, well I'm a girl. What a dilemma huh? I'm not bad looking. I'm about 5'5" with long golden brown hair and jade green eyes. To him I'm more like bait. He blames himself about the hard two years that we had together. Werewolves and other vampires were coming after us. For my own protection he left me. Just like that he was gone. He thought that without him there that everything would be okay. It was not. I became suicidal and a threat to myself. Thankfully he came back when everything started to settle down. He's the good in me and I bring out the good in him, but maybe having a vampire as a boyfriend wasn't a good idea after all.
Chapter 1
I sat there waiting for the toast to be done. I'm thankful that my vampire boyfriend didn't really NEED food. We saved a lot of money, or I saved a lot of money, on food.
So, if you haven't figured it out, we are living together. An 18 yr. old, really 108 yr. old, vampire and a 17 yr. old girl. He's supposedly a freshman in college and me a senior in High School.
Mr. Know-it-all doesn't even need to be there. He could easily be a college professor if he wanted to. I on the other hand, have to study her ass off just for a quiz. A test and a final are even worse. That's what I've been doing all night. I had Eddie help me. Yea, Eddie Guzman, my vampire boyfriend. Soon to be fiancé I hope. By the way, my name is Victoria Miller
I was going over my notes when the smell of burnt toast filled me up. Damn it. Another morning of burnt toast. I felt Eddie's presence in the kitchen. His cologne is something that I can easily hint, the first thing I recognize that it's him. I have taken blood from him before. It was a life or death situation. One that every time I think about it sends chills down my spine.
Taking that blood from him enhanced some of my senses. My smelling increased dramatically. He said that it was very interesting because not a lot of people, human or vampire, have a strong sense of smell. He said when I turn into a vampire I could become a tracer. With me sense of smell, I can easily pick out anything. If a vampire or human that seems dangerous comes around I can easily sense them.
I started to like that idea. He wants me to become a vampire, but I don't want to. I'm not ready to give up my human life for a vampire life.
It's funny though, I wanted to become a vampire since I was really little. Now, my view of it changed. I wanted to wait till my senior year was over and it we marry each other. Then I would become a vampire for him.
He came up from behind me and wrapped me up in a big hug. "You need to relax Victoria darling. This test is going to be easy. You know the information well enough that you could talk about it in your sleep."
I have been talking about it in my sleep. He chuckled at my thought. Oh, his power of reading minds can be good and bad. He tried his hardest not to read my mind. I don't mind that much. It's only the things that bother or upset me that get stuck in my mind that bothers him.
He has been very protective over me since our hard two years together. When I first found out what he was, he was thinking about killing. I lived in a foster house and they wouldn't care if I was missing. So, I told him to go ahead.
I remembered that look on his face. It was a confused look. Here he was, a strong vampire, with a weak girl, holding her down with his hands on her neck.
Eddie moved me a little. "Come on, you're going to be late." He hates it when I think about that moment. He'd be killing his true love.
"You are taking me today?" He nodded.
"You need your sleep. Being a little rested can help you stay focused during the test."
"Or you could give me more blood and it can help me stay awake." He sighed.
"No more blood for you missy. Like I said, it's only for emergencies."
"Fine, let's get going."
Before I could finish putting my stuff together, Eddie was waiting for me in the living room. "Instead of just sitting there you could help me get my stuff ready, so we could leave faster."
"You want to live your life as a human, so you have to do things at your own pace." He was right. I could be a vampire right now, but no. I was being stubborn and wanted to stay human.
He stood up and took my hand, his ice cold tough, and walked me to the car. Being the gentleman that he sometimes is, he opened my door, waited for me to fully get into the car, and closed the door.
In a blink of an eye, he was in the driver's seat of his camero and the engine was running. No matter how many times he does that, I think it's cool. He started drive, following the speed limit, which in his case was rare, just to not be there 30 minutes early. I started to close my eyes. As I did, images of what I knew from the History textbook filled my mind. Different governments, the states and capitals, and the one that was most important the past presidents.
I went through them again and again. I didn't want to forget the order. It was difficult since there were MANY of them. I felt sorry for the others after me. When they reach my age, maybe three more presidents would come and go into the office.
"You're still forgetting one." I heard Eddie say.
I opened my eyes and asked, "Which one would that be?"
"Franklin D. Roosevelt."
I went through the list. Again, he was right. How could I forget such a great president? "What number is he?"
"He is the 32nd president. After Herbert Hoover and before Harry S. Truman."
"I knew I was forgetting him Eddie. I just couldn't remember where."
"Well, now you know." He smiled his perfect smile.
We arrived at Fairview High School with minutes to spare. "I'll see you at lunch, okay?"
"Okay." Then he reached in and kissed me. It was a quick kiss that I hate. He hates it as well.
We said our see you laters, walked to my first class, psychology. The human mind and now vampire mind seemed interesting to me. I wondered why people act the way they did. Does it really have something to do with the mind? If it did, then we would all be mad by now.