CHAPTER ONE
"Ariella Reames, why haven't you cleaned your room yet?!" shouted my mother. I groaned. Oh, great. Yet another demand from the Queen of Demands- as I called her.
No, this woman wasn't really my mother. In fact, she didn't even exist.
I released my powers on the Dream I had created.
Dreams. They're wicked little things, but they can also provide you the moral support you sometimes need.
Dreams are like regular dreams- but you don't have to be sleeping to create them. If you're a vampire -or a Special One- you can create Dreams whenever you want.
I'm a vampire -most Dreamers are- but there are a few Special Ones who are Dreamers.
You probably know what vampires are, if you've read Twilight or other completely non-factious books like that, so I'm not going to bother explaining what vampires are to you. But Special Ones- well, they're a whole different story.
Special Ones are humans, but they have special powers, like vampires. Special Ones can do various things and/or have multiple powers, while vampires only have two or three main powers.
Usually, Special Ones don't know they're, well, special, but us vampires can always tell whether a human is a Special One or just a regular human.
It's partly because of our instincts, but it's also because that a Special One's scent smells sweeter than a regular human's scent.
Now, don't start thinking about werewolves, because werewolves don't even exist. Vampires killed them off hundreds of years ago. No, vampires just smell people because vampires are special. There's no real reason, actually.
"Ariella! Are you up there?" Now that was real. I winced. Oh, did I mention, I liked to be called Rella- and Rella only?
My best friend, Jacob, climbed up the ladder to the treehouse where I lived. He grinned. "Hi, Ariella," he teased me.
I groaned. "Please, Jake, stop it!" I begged. "Okay, fine, Rella," he relented.
I pulled Jake up farther into the treehouse. He looked around.
"Wow, Rella, those are some amazing pictures," he commented. I blushed fifty-seven shades of red -when did that start happening?- and smiled. "Thanks," I replied. "I made them recently; I'm actually still working on a seventh picture."
Jake raised an eyebrow. "Oh, really?" he asked. "What's it about?" I shrugged.
"I'm not quite sure," I admitted. "All I know is that I'm going to start working on a seventh picture soon; you know me and my Visions." Jake laughed bitterly. "Don't we all?" he sighed.
I blinked, and for a moment I remembered how tough it had been for me during the first months of being a Newbie- Newbie as in a Newbie vampire.
Eating like crazy, but then trying to resist feeding on humans; that basically described my first few months as a Newbie. Everything had been chaos for me- until I found Jake.
I remembered just exactly how I'd met him…