Chapter 1

Atlanta, Georgia is known for their cooler months which are normal to my kind, pleasant against our skin in fact. We prefer rainier and damper places to live in, compared to the average hot month. Sunlight is what makes us look like such outcasts, but we are amazingly gorgeous when directly facing it. I've always accepted what I am, but it still pains me to see teenagers my age, 17, eat and drink constantly. My kind says that it's disgusting, but how could I know? I can't even remember myself as a human, and I hate every second of it. Why am I the one who has to be different? Why can't I just be normal?

I don't have what you'd call parents. Their called creators, the ones who made us like this. Because I can't remember myself as a human, I have no memories whatsoever of whom they were. I was changed at the aged of seventeen, and will stay that way forever, as a vampire.

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One particular August afternoon, my brother (is what I call him), Seth, jumped through our large and overly extravagant window and landed perfectly in front of the designer couch I was sitting on. God, some days he can really agitate me, especially when I'm reading. He knows only too well that I don't like to be interrupted.

"How's it going Zo, what you doing?"

"Reading a book Seth, what do you think?"

"I know it's a book Zo, what I should have said was, what's the book called, that better?"

"Hmm, it's called Wuthering Heights." I said, trying ever so hard to concentrate on page 22.

"Not that book again Zoey. How many times have you read it now, a million?"

"For you information Seth, it's only the seventh time that I have read this particular book. "

"Only? Gees Zo, you need to get out more you know."

"What and look like an idiot? Hmm, no thanks think I'll pass on that one."

"You won't look like an idiot. You'll be with me." He said, smiling ever so broadly.

"Yeah, I so won't look like an idiot with you. I swear, if a fresh smelling human popped out in front of you, you wouldn't keep walking. "

"Whatever Z. By the way, school starts tomorrow at 8:30am."

"Ugh! Not school. What's the point of us doing classes if we've already graduated school twenty-six times?

"To blend in dumb ass."

Then he walked away. Great, I'd have to make it up to him later tonight. I hated making him upset. He was very touchy about humans. Why, I do not know.