Okay so I started to get this idea in my head a while back and have only just thought about putting it out there. I tried on FictionPress but as there aren't as much readers on there I thought I would get a more varied response here? And seeing how much I love the Vampire Academy it was a no brainer for me let me know what you think…all opinions are welcome!

Prologue:

I have always known that I was different, even if there was nothing to show anyone. It was hard not to know really, especially when my parents started to notice and abandoned me saying that I was unholy and the daughter of the devil. I still saw their discussed face every time I close my eyes when they had finally seen what was growing out of my back. They left me with nothing, no one to look after me or tell me that everything was going to be okay and no money for food or a place to live. I had to become responsible for myself and scavenge for food when I couldn't find anything real to eat and make myself a shelter to sleep under when it started to rain. I'm just glad my body can handle things that normal people couldn't.

Chapter 1

You'd think that having wings would be the coolest thing in the world but you would be wrong. It was the reason I had no family, no friends and no home. They were a pain to hide and if they were strapped back for to long you would experience the most almighty pain ever. I can guess it was the same feeling as having two broken bones in your arm, not that I've ever experienced it.

That is the exact same pain I am feeling at the moment which I was trying to ignore and concentrate on my chemistry lesson, even if I had heard it may times in different rooms in different schools across the country.

I was staring at the clock on the wall so intensely I was surprised the glass hadn't shattered yet.

When the bell rang signalling the start of lunch I all but ran out the room, bags and books in tow, and crossed the sports field to squeeze through the gab in the fence which surrounded the grounds. I had cut the whole a week before I officially enrolled at this school, just to make sure there weren't any regular patrols around the grounds. I do not want anyone to know about my little visits to the forest.

This was my favourite time of day for me, not because I could socialize, but because I could have a break from acting like something I'm not. Acting like I'm a normal, but anti-social, teenage girl.

I took a quick little look around the slight clearing that I made which led from the gab in the fence, making sure no one was around before I got my wings out. Seeing everything was clear I took off my old trench like coat and top to reveal my glossy black wings which were strapped to my back with three slightly rusty old belts. When they were off and on the ground with the rest of my clothes and slowly uncurled my wings to their full wingspan, about 7 foot long.

I sucked in a quick breath as I felt the rush of my blood pulsing though the starved veins again and waited for the pins and needles to subside before flapping them a few times and then finally relaxing as I finally got the feeling back into them. I sighed and looked down at the three massive bruises that had formed on my stomach where the belts constantly pressed up against my flesh. It wasn't as soft as normal people's skin but it still bruised just as easily.

I cleared my throat and shook my head, now was not the time to be sentimental and feel sorry for myself. I flapped my glossy black wings a few more times before bending down to grab my belts and attaching them back around my body which was painful but had to be done. I tucked the tips of my wings into my jeans and tugged my tattered top and coat on before emerging back out into the world from my little heaven.

I never found any point in queuing up for lunch here as it was always to expensive and I never had enough money to actually get anything. I snatched my empty bottle from my bag and went to the water fountain to fill it back up and went to sit at a vacant bench in the courtyard. No one ever came to sit with me and to be honest I wouldn't have it any other way, its to much stress to make friends and keep my secret at the same time and I knew that from experience.

I pulled out my book that I had 'borrowed' from the library and carried on reading where I had left off last night.

I felt the pressure of peoples eyes staring at my back but it was easy to ignore, I was used to it by now and it didn't even really bother me anymore. What I wasn't used to thought was someone coming and sitting on my bench across from me.

I hadn't looked up from my book but I knew who it was that had graced me with his presence. Dimitri Belikov.

'What' I demanded at him still not bothering to look up from my book.

'I came by to give you this' he replied.

I sighed and looked up at him to see what it was. He had a small yellow sticky note in his hand and it was extended across the table towards me, awaiting me to take it from him. I shrugged my shoulders and looked back at my book, unconcerned with the note in his hand.

'It's my number' he continued when I didn't reply.

'I know' why didn't he get the picture that I didn't want to talk to him.

He frowned and folded the note up in half before he slid it in between the pages of my book as if it was a book mark. I picked it out, put my book down and then ripped the little note into four smaller pieces and threw them back in his face 'I don't have a phone'.

After that obvious rejection I thought he would get up and leave me alone but luck wasn't on my side.

'I'm Dimitri by the way' he carried on and extended his hand for me to shake.

'I know' I replied and got up and left, he was irritating me so much I thought if I didn't leave I would have done something I may have regretted later, emphasis on the may might I add. I walked across the courtyard and sat at another vacant table but as soon as I had gotten my book back out Dimitri had reappeared but this time he came and sat right next to me straddling the bench.

'For fuck sakes' I growled at him 'can you not take a bloody hint? That was me saying thanks but no thanks to you back there'.

He smiled 'no it wasn't'.

'Oh yeah your right sorry it was just a no thanks, now get out of my face and leave me alone!'

He ignored me, again 'your Rose right?'

'No shit Sherlock' I muttered under my breath 'did you figure that out all by yourself?'

'You know you swear a lot right?'

'Again, no shit Sherlock'. I actually rarely ever swear it was just part of my disguise to try and get people to leave me alone. It usually worked but for some reason this boy just wasn't getting the hint. To be honest I'm not very surprised, he was the school player, the longest he had stuck with a girl was about two months and that was only because she was a real slut. She was in the year below me and would have done anything for him.

'Come out with me tonight, we can do whatever you want my treat. How does that sound?'

The thought of going out and having a proper meal without having to pay for it tempted me but I wasn't a gold digger and no amount of food or money would make me actually go on a date with him and that's saying something.

'No thanks' I replied and picked up my stuff and left him on his own on the bench.

'Why not?' the voice came from behind me but I didn't have to look back to know who it was, did he ever give up?

'Look, I know this my come as a bit of a shock to you and that amazing big head of yours but I don't like you and so don't want to'.

'Okay but why don't you like me? You don't even know me'.

'Oh but I do'.

'Enlighten me, how do you'.

I sighed and turned to face him 'I don't want to go out with you because you are the school player, your arrogant, annoying, selfish, you through your money around like its nothing and you treat girls as if they are just possessions that you can just get rid of when you get bored of them or exchange them at a store!' I took a breath before looking back up at him in the eye 'is that enough reasons for you?' There was also the fact that I could never let anyone into my life as they would just end up leaving and hurting me but I couldn't tell him that so I just left it as that. 'Take your pick' I said looking up at him with a glare before walking off and into the girl's bathroom so he couldn't follow me. This guy was making me seriously loose my mind and I couldn't let that happen, if it did I would slip and start letting people in or telling them about myself.

I splashed some cold water on my face and stared at myself in the mirror get a grip on yourself I shouted at myself.

I sucked in another deep breath before emerging from the bathroom and into the hallway to come face to face with an empty corridor. There was about five minutes left of lunch before the next lesson so I quickly went to my locker to exchange my books before my next lesson.

When I opened my locker a yellow sticky note came tumbling out and stuck its self to the toe of my boot. I sighed, knowing who it's from, and bent down to read it.

Sorry for making you mad earlier,

Let me take you out and make up

for it?

D

I chuckled to myself and shook my head; did he really think a sticky note would work this time? I turned it over to find his number on the back. I screwed it up into a tight ball and threw it into the back of my locker, intending to take it home and burn it.

I grabbed my books and flew, no pun intended, to my next class hoping to make it before the bell goes to signal the end of lunch and the start of the next lesson.

At the end of the day I was intending to go back to my locker to pick up and drop off a few things before going home but I never even got out of the classroom before Dimitri was there blocking my path. He was leaning against the wall waiting for me and I couldn't help but groan in frustration. He pushed away when he saw me and started to walk over to me. Some girls gave me jealous and evil looks while others whispered furiously but I ignored them all, they weren't worth it.

I walked in the opposite direction of him and unfortunately my locker and headed strait towards the sports field hoping to get away from him but he followed me.

'So did you get me note?'

I didn't answer.

'And your answer?' He sighed in frustration when I still didn't answer so he snatched my wrist that was hanging down by my side and tugged me to a stand still. 'Look angle, I don't know what the hell is up with you but most girls in this school would be jumping at the chance to go out with me'.

I laughed and rolled my eyes at him, he had no idea how close that pet name was to my situation but he will never find out. I looked up at him and smiled fighting the panic that was rising in me 'good then you don't need me' I replied and ripped my arm from his grip and started walked away from him. 'And by the way, I'm not like most girls.'

'You know you're going the wrong way to get out of here don't you?'

I just flipped him off and carried on walking.

The place I called home wasn't much but at least it was something. I have lived here since I was around the age of twelve and over the years I have tried to make it as homely as possible, installing a small wind turbine to at least get a bit of power but it didn't produce much.

I'm not sure what the old building was used for but it had a trickle of running water in a sink on one side of the room but with no bedroom I used the 'living room' to live and sleep in. The old wallpaper was hanging from the damp walls and the floor was simple concrete and old wood panelling, probably the old foundation to the place. I stumbled across it when I was hunting one night in the forest and I have called it home ever since.

Sometimes I hear kids at school talking about an old haunted building in the middle of the forest and I'm always scared that someone is going to stumble across it and find me but no one ever does so I've kind of relaxed a bit after so many years.

I sighed and dumped my bag onto the floor by the door and walked over to the kitchen. I would have my last amount of human food tonight before I had to go and hunt. It wasn't like it was hard to do so but you can't really find the nicest of food in the forest like rabbit, fox, fish, berries and nuts.

After I had dumped my stuff by the door I went back outside and flew to the little river a few minutes walk away to have a quick shower before getting out and stretching my wings to dry them off before I flew back to the cabin. The river was cold but at least it got me clean.

When I got back I put on a long sleeved t-shirt of which I had cut most the back off and picked up my book to finish reading as I couldn't do it earlier because of a curtain big headed, but gorgeous Dimitri. I shook my head, trying to get the worrying thought out of my head before looking at the pages to start reading. I only had a hundred odd pages left so I should be able to finish it by this evening so I made a mental note to drop by at the library soon and change the book. The thing I liked about reading was how you could loose yourself in someone else's world and someone else's problems and just forget about your own. It's kind of addictive for people like me who always have an almightily amount of problems on their plates.

When I had finished I got up and got myself some pre-boiled rice, carrots and rabbit before getting out my chemistry book and flipping through chapter eight. This was the subject I knew least about and seeing as my teacher had asked me something I didn't know the answer to the other day I decided it was the best subject to look over. It was also my least favourite subject at school but I couldn't bare the thought of not knowing things that other students did, knowledge was the only solid thing I had in my life and I couldn't loose it.

Hoped you like it and please tell me if I should continue…