All my life I believed I knew I was never ordinary, but to find out that my dad was a vampire, I'm a half-vampire and my mum was sending me away was quite a shock. Oh and did I mention she's sending me to a vampire school? Yep, I'll be the oddball again. No change there.
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I felt tears in my eyes as I stood on the pavement with three of the people who I had been the closest too my whole life.
"I'll miss you Kali." One girl said, she smiled happily trying to fight back the tears that welled in her emerald eyes.
"Me too Laura." I replied.
Stepping forward we firmly embraced one another, as I squeezed her tightly her blonde hair tickled my face.
"Ouch… erm Kali?"
"Yeah?" I asked still holding her.
"You're cutting off my air supply." She gasped.
I immediately pulled back scratching the back of my neck as I blushed, "Sorry." I mumbled, "I forgot my own strength."
She smiled, "It's fine."
My whole life I knew I was never ordinary; it wasn't just my amazing strength but everything else. I seemed to be perfect at everything.
I had nearly impossible speed, agility, brains, strength etc. You name it, I was good at it. You may think this was good but for me it just made me more of an oddball, I had loads of people at school trying to be my friends but I ignored them.
Harsh I know but there was no other way to get the message across.
However… the three people in front of me meant more, they were like family to me. First there was Laura who was one of my best friend's, if not that she was definitely second and came close to first. Emily had been with me ever since I was little and didn't care one bit that I was strange, she seemed to love it.
I turned my attention towards her, she smiled weakly. Unlike Laura she wasn't holding back tears; they were clearly falling down her face and dropping to the pavement. Her brown hair was falling over her face in a mess and she was fumbling with her fingers.
"Well hug me you idiot!" she cried leaping forward and throwing her arms around me as she placed her head on my shoulder.
I placed my arms around her too and patted her back; tears were now also falling down my face. I tried my best to not squeeze her too tight.
As she pulled away I turned my attention to the last person, unlike the other two he was a boy and as his eyes met mine I held my breathe. I quickly wiped the tears from my eyes and he smirked.
"Don't worry Kali." He said stepping forward and placing his hands on both my cheeks, "Nothing will change."
I frowned at him and as my violet-like eyes met his blue one's I replied, "Of course it will! Everything will change! I'll be millions and millions of miles away!"
He sighed and pulling me into a hug whispered soothingly into my ear, "Not millions but yes you will be far away."
More tears fell and from behind I heard a car honk, my fists clenched. Couldn't my mum tell I was in a state!
I pulled back and glanced at him, "I'm sorry Harry but I have to go, but I'll ring you every day!"
He smiled at me as he always did, "Don't worry about every day, but ring as often as you can. I can't bear to not hear your sweet voice."
As I nodded trying top hold back a whimper he gently pressed his lips against mine for a brief second, as he straightened up he said, "Now hurry, you're mom's about to throw a fit."
I took a last glance at them before turning on my heel and rushing over to a car on the pavement, brining the door open I quickly jumped in and put my seatbelt on.
Not a second had passed that I had jumped in before the car was speeding away; despite this to me it seemed as if a whole minute had passed before the car went in motion.
Everything had been like that for me, ever since I was little the world around was different to my eyes. Things seemed much slower and it was good I had patience.
"Are you alright?" my mum asked.
I nodded whilst staring out the window, "I just want to have a few thoughts to myself."
My mum understood and said nothing else.
Staring at the car mirror just outside the window I looked at my reflection, I wasn't looking forward to this new school my mum was taking me too. Not a day had passed since I had found out the shocking news about myself!
Flashback:
"What do you mean moving!" I cried as I shivered with rage, my mum sighed as she stood before me in my room.
"Dear you're sixteen now." She replied.
"So?" I asked.
"It's time you found out the truth." My mum said softly.
I paused confused; she sat on the end of my bed and patted the space besides her. I shook my head though, I was comfortable standing and could do so for hours if I wanted too.
She smiled and began speaking, "I've never spoken of your father but I think it's time I did."
I remained silent, all my life I had been waiting to hear about this and now I finally was.
"When I was younger." My mum began, "I came into some danger."
"What kind of danger?" I interrupted.
She smiled sweetly at me, "That doesn't matter but what does is that your father saved me."
I nodded; I wanted to know the danger but decided it could wait.
"Anyway I fell in love with your father at sight and he did with me, we met up regularly at his place and had happy memories."
As she talked I saw she was thinking back to those times as her eyes were distance.
"Soon I gave birth to you." She added, "And your father agreed that he would pay for you however…" her smiled faded, "To do this he had to go far away and said he wouldn't come back, he did however say that on your sixteenth birthday you would have to find out the truth."
"What truth?" I asked.
My mum looked up, her eyes serious, as she glanced at me she said, "Kali, you're no ordinary girl."
I nodded, I already knew this. I had very pale skin but of course that was because I was anaemic, my eyes were more violet than blue and of course there was the fact I was great at everything.
"You dear… are part vampire."
End Flashback.
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At those few words my whole life changed, it had been explained that my mother had fallen in love with a vampire and had me. I was a Dhampiresa – the child of a vampire father and human mother.
This made me even more of an outsider, not only was I not an ordinary human I wasn't an ordinary vampire either.
Ha, seemed weird how I could already say that word so care-free.
It did however explain why I was so pale (I had always doubted myself being anaemic as I never had to take any medication) and good at everything I did, but even so… I was an in-between. What would life be like at this school?
My father had stated to my mother than when I reached 16 I had to attend a vampire school by law. It seemed my grandfather (vampire side) was the headmaster of the school and so although they weren't very keen on half-vampire's (at least their honest) he had accepted me.
I had never met him or heard of him; hell I didn't know I was part vampire till yesterday! And already I was being torn away from my friends, my home, my boyfriend and everything else to go attend a vampire boarding school.
Oh joy.
As I watched the scenery change I found us coming into the country side, on the road we passed a sign saying 'Do Not Enter.'
How happily I would obey if it wasn't for my mother.
It seemed the school I was to enter had a type of shield fifty miles in diameter. There was some strange voodoo magic on it so that any human (who was unaware of vampires, my mum was an exception) who came near it would suddenly feel the urge to get away.
I sighed and looking up realised that further above a large iron fence went across the fields and road for miles on end, at the centre where the fence met the road were two gigantic gates that were currently closed.
Just beyond that would be my new life.
My new school.
In other words, the place I like to call 'hell.'