Okay, next Chap! I'm going to try and keep on top of this one this time as I'm really enjoying writing it lol At the moment I'm a few chapters ahead of what I'm uploading so that if I'm stuck with writing I still have something to upload! lol Sorry this chapter is small but hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight (unfortunately :P)

Party poppers spray all over me, various people exclaiming "Happy Birthday" to me. I'm frozen in surprise, having forgotten all about my birthday. Cross-san and friends were all gathered in our living room, banners and balloons covering the walls.

"Happy birthday Yuuki!" Cross-san jumps onto me, knocking me to the ground. Groaning I push him off.

"Cross-san! Gerroff." I laughed slightly standing up. Standing at full height, he latches onto my arm, wide grin on his face.

"Yuuuukiii. You're so cruel to your father." I look around, noticing a few faces from my years spent in the hospital. Nurses and doctors. Friends of the family. "I'm not your headmaster here you know."

"I know." Yori walked up to me, putting one hand on my shoulder, a kiss on my cheek and placing a small box in my hand.

"Happy birthday, Yuuki-chan." I opened the box, a white gold heart ring with a pink sapphire.

"Oh Yori-chan." I hugged her before fitting the ring onto my right middle finger.

"How does it feel to be finally seventeen?"

"Just like it did when I was sixteen." We laughed and talked for a bit before Cross-san dragged me away to see familiar faces. I looked around, nodding occasionally and smiling at what people were saying, but not really listening. Most of the school was here, everyone coming up to me wishing me a happy birthday. I know all their faces but hardly any names.

I'm the prefect at my school, working during the nights to make sure none of the Day Class interferes with the Night class. Our school's system is split into two: the Day Class, mine and my friends' class, and the Night Class. The vampires. Cross-san used to be a vampire hunter before he built this academy for both humans and vampires. Only Cross-san and myself know what the Night Class really are; everyone else is oblivious. But we live alongside each other. Which is what Cross-san wants.

He believes that humans and vampires can live side by side in the world. I do too ... but not all vampires share this view. The vampire students in our school all believe that we can get along with each other, especially seeing as the Day Class idolises the Night Class. They're all really popular with the Day Class students, especially the girls.

Though we're separated most of the time, both classes do interact every so often in events, like the formal dance every year and Valentine's Day. Though on these types of days I always have my work cut out for me.

I turn my head to the left trying to find Yori. I'd much rather be resting in my room and catching up with my school work. Because of my prefect duties I barely get any sleep so I usually fall asleep during my classes and miss all the work. My scores in the exams are so bad that I'm always bottom of my class.

I catch Yori out of the corner of my eye and head towards her, sneaking away from Cross-san. She smiles at me while talking to someone. As I get closer I notice that it's Kuran Kaname from the Night Class. He turns to look at me giving me that smile that he gives no one else. My heart starts to beat faster and I smile back.

"Happy Birthday Yuuki-chan." He leans down and kisses my cheek, lingering for a few seconds longer that Yori did. I feel the heat rush up to my cheeks and thank him, looking away slightly. He nods at me and Yori before walking away to join the other Night Class students.

"Are you okay?" She puts the palm of her hand against my forehead and lean against the touch, savouring the cold that her hand gives off. "You're burning up." She takes her hand away and I silently miss the touch.

"I'm fine, I'm just tired."

"You're lying. Yuuki-chan... how's your condition been lately?" I shake my head at her slightly and smile.

"You're worrying too much. I'm fine. Though I could do with a lie down." The party was starting to die down a little bit, people leaving to either go to work or study. All the Night Class had gone by now. "I think I'll go to my room." It's the holidays so we don't have to go to classes at the moment, some people chose to stay at their dormitories, some went home. Yori decided to go home this holiday, only coming to visit me on my birthday, so I'm staying with Cross-san in my old room. I hate staying in mine and Yori's room by myself.

I bid farewell to Yori and some others before sneaking off to my room. I lightly touch the cheek Kaname-san kissed. When I first met him I thought that maybe he was the one in my dream that night. But I never got a chance to see the person's face; all I know is that I felt safe in their arms when they held me. Apparently I'd met Kaname-san when I was a lot younger but I don't remember anything.

Sitting down on my bed I pull out some painkillers from my bedside table and swallow them without any water. Lying down on my back I drop my arm over my face, covering my eyes. Thinking about the fountain and the dream, I sigh. I haven't been able to go the past few days because Cross-san is just across the corridor to my room.

I move my arm so that it's resting over my stomach. Rolling over onto my side I find myself drifting off, sleep consuming me. Just before I succumb to the darkness I see a flash of silver and feel pain and sorrow. Before I can open my eyes I'm consumed by the black.

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