It was a silent snowy night. I looked out the window. A couple was returning from the walk.

"Nice to see you again, Emi" said the woman, taking off her coat.

"You too, Juri-sama, Haruka-sama" I said with a smile.

"That's sad, that your parents passed away" said Haruka sadly. "I liked my brother, and your father" (of course this brother is not Rido)

"Make yourself feel at home. At last you'll live here from now on" said Juri softly. I nodded with a forced smile.

"Meet your cousins" said Haruka. "Kaname! Yuuki!" They appeared immediately.

"What's up, dad?" said the girl, Yuuki.

"Meet your cousin, Emi."

"Nice to meet you" I said. "I'm Kuran Emi"

"Kaname" said the older brother. I looked at him, and quickly turned my head. I was strucked by his beauty. I never saw such a wonderful man as Kaname. I hoped, that my face didn't turn red.

"I'm glad that the new person joined our 'little family' " said Yuuki with a grin. I smiled to her.

"Yuuki, could you show Emi her room?" said Juri.

"Of course!" Yuuki grabbed my hand and pulled me to my new room.

"It's beautiful!" I exclaimed with delight. There was many space in it. In the middle was a very big bed. On the left was big closet, already stuffed with my clothes. The whole room was decorated with roses.

"Kaname's idea" whispered Yuuki to my ear. I immediately blushed and turned my head, so she couldn't see my red face. "Something happened?" she asked.

"Nothing" I answered. "I just like the room. It's very modern and matches my style."

"I'm glad" said Juri, standing in the doorway. "Time to go to bed, it's getting bright." We both nodded and Yuuki left to her room and I layed myself on the bed.

I woke up in the evening and I had dry throat from hunger, so I went searching for blood tablets. I finally found it in a kitchen cupboard. I greedily poured into my mouth a large dose of it.

"Already awake?" I heard Haruka's voice.

"Yea" I answered.

"How was your sleep?"

"Good. The bed was very comfortable" I said with a big smile. "This is a very nice house."

"Indeed" said Haruka laughing. Suddenly we heard steps coming from above. "Oops, we waked Kaname up!" He escaped quickly from the crime scene.

"Traitor!" I whispered. So, I was standing in the kitchen alone, again. The steps were getting louder. And suddenly stopped.

"So, it was you, who waked me up" said Kaname, leaning himself against the balustrade. I sighed.

"How could I?" I answered, blushing. "It's obvious, that your father did that!"

"Stop saying shit like that! The only one person, who's there beside me it's YOU" said Kaname. "And I heard the noise from this place, so it must be you!" I gave up.

"Ok, I apologize" I said. "I won't make any noises, that could wake you up, so go to sleep, ok?"

Without hearing the answer I went to my room and quietly closed the door. I screwed up. On the first day I said that things to person I like. It's obvious, that he'd hate me. I sighed. There's nothing to do at this hour. Everyone, with who I can socialize are asleep, and I'm new to this house. I liked Haruka, but now I was angry at him. Because of his escape I made Kaname hate me, or that it seemed. I suddenly heard knocking to my door.

"Enter!" I said, curious, who's there at this time.

"It's Yuuki, everything alright?" asked my cousin. I wanted to answer: 'No, it's not! Kaname is angry at me!', but I didn't tell that.

"You could see, that I'm good" I said. "But that's nice of you, that you worry about me." Yuuki smiled.

"Great to hear that, because I heard loud voices down there, in the kitchen, so I thought you could have problems."

"No, not at all" I said. "But I'm a little bored right now."

"Maybe we could go out" said Yuuki smiling.

"Are you sure, that's alright?" I asked.

"Of course!"

"Then, ok" I answered. I haven't got anything to do right now, so it could be good to hang out with my cousin a bit.

"My brother may sound scary, but he's a good guy" said Yuuki suddenly, while walking around the town.

"Hard to notice this" I said quietly, but she heard it.

"Don't worry, you'll get along soon" she said with a light smile. "He always acts like that around the people, who he don't know, but soon he'll think of you as his precious friend"

"I see..." I answered. 'Precious friend' and that will be it? Of course, he has his lovely younger sister, he won't think of me in THAT way... Yuuki noticed, that I'm not saying anything and stopped.

"Is something wrong?" she asked friendly.

"No, I was just thinking about things" I answered quickly.

"Maybe I can help you" she offered.

"No, I'm alright. Thanks for worrying." Of course, she wouldn't help me, 'cause it's about her and her brother! I wasn't sure of Kaname loving his sister, but I could suspect. After all Juri and Haruka are siblings too. And, so, we walked silently, until we reached the beach. Sun was barely seen on the horizon and the wind today's afternoon was strong, so waves were bigger, than usual, but I thought, that the ocean is more beautiful that way. We sat on a short concrete wall and gazed at the sea. In this area there were no humans, they went to their homes, or somewhere else. We were all alone, two cousins, sitting next to each other and looking at the waves. Yuuki first broke the silence.

"So... What do you think of our family?" she asked out of the blue.

"Of course, I like you so~ much!" I answered without hesitation. It was true. "I have seen your parents earlier, but you and Kaname are new faces to me, but I think you're nice, although your brother got today angry at me, because your father made the noise in the kitchen and escaped, leaving me alone to bear with angry Kaname..." I said too much. Yuuki got interested.

"So, how did you solve the problem?" she asked.

"I apologized and went to my room." I sighed. "Surely, he must really hate me now."

"If that's the case, don't worry" said Yuuki. "He never hates anyone for doing things like that." I felt a bit relieved, hearing that from person, who knew Kaname for 16 years. "So, that was the thing worrying you?" she asked. I nodded. "If something happens, I'll never let Onii-sama hate you!"

"Thank you, Yuuki-chan" I said. "You don't know, what it means to me! I'm very grateful!"

"You're welcome!" said Yuuki. "You're our cousin after all!" I smiled to her. She was so nice! But it's kinda annoying, that she would probably marry Kaname instead of me. I think they are engaged, or they will be. I know, that they will follow the path, which their parents took. And I'll be all alone. Again. I shook my head to get rid of my bad thoughts.

"Maybe we should return to the mansion" I said. "Everyone are probably awake and they're waiting for us. Don't make Kaname worry about you."

"You're right" she said. "Let's go back." See? When I spoke of Kaname, she immediately rose and started walking towards home! She's definitely in love with him! How sad for me, good for Kaname, I think... We appeared at home in few minutes. It wasn't near, but we were running very fast, and the vampires are the fastest creatures in the world, especially purebloods, like us. When we returned home, we were standing in the doorway, surprised. Everyone were asleep!

"Maybe we could longer stay on the beach..." I sighed. Yuuki went upstairs and I, with her. We stopped suddenly. I knew, who was in the room. Yuuki opened the door lightly, and of course Kaname was inside, sleeping. He looks cute that way, I thought, blushing. Yuuki went inside the room and sat by her brother's side. She touched his hair, and played with it, then she smiled softly, an him on the lips.

"Kaname onii-sama, wake up!" she said. But I didn't knew, if Kaname was awake, or not, because I ran away with a broken heart.

"You got, what you want. They're deeply in love in each other!" I said quietly to myself. I could feel the tears falling from my eyes. I locked myself in my room and cried silently, covering my face with the pillow.