Okay, so this is chapter two. I hope you'll be able to get an idea of Ayame's appearance. I would like to thank Sacha Michaelis for helping me come up with Ayame's appearance.

Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight or any of its characters.

"Beep! Beep! Beep!" The alarm clock started going off and I desperately wanted to pick it up and throw it across the room hoping it would smash into a bunch of pieces. I reached over and slammed my hand down on top of it making the beeping stop. Slowly, I got out of bed and put my day class uniform on and heading to the bathroom to get ready. I ran a brush through my chest length red hair and brushed my teeth. Quickly, I left the bathroom and get my stuff together to get ready for class. My roommate, Kasumi Hayashi, was then entering the bathroom.

"Hey Kasumi, you ready to go?" I questioned as she returned from the bathroom. My materials were ready to go and I reached down to pick them up.

"Yeah, let me just grab my stuff." She responded cheerfully as she walked over to where her materials lied on her bed.

"Wait, one more thing." I smiled as I looked at her.

"What?" Kasumi gave me a confused look.

"Would you be mad if I destroyed the alarm clock?" I asked curiously. The thing did get on my nerves with its beeping every morning.

"Well, we need it to wake up at a decent time in the mornings, so yes." She started to laugh at my pretend pout.

"Eh, it was worth asking." I responded and started to laugh with her.

We begun leaving the dorm room and walking to class. I had known Kasumi since I was fourteen and I'm seventeen now. So, I met her three years ago when I enrolled in Cross Academy. Kasumi is a short girl with long, waist length, black hair and hazel eyes. Her parents are very wealthy and she leaves on breaks to go visit them. As for me, I'm certain my parents are still alive. I don't know a lot about them though because I used to live with my Grandparents before coming here.

"Ayame?" Kasumi questioned as she loooked at me from a doorway.

"Yeah?" I replied, turning around to look back at her. I didn't realize that I had missed where I was supposed to turn completely.

"You missed the entryway." Kasumi bit back a laugh and I could tell she was amused by the look on her face.

"Oh, yeah! I know that, by the way." I responded laughing at myself. "I guess my mind was wandering!"

We entered the classroom and made our way to our seats. I sat at the front in the second row of seats while Kasumi sat behind me in the third row. I normally get good grades in school, A's and B's. Every now and then I get a C, but I stay on top of my grades for the most part. Today seemed like it was going to be another typical day. I'd go to class like always, most likely head back to my dorm room afterwards, complete any homework or study for anything, and then go and do my job as a prefect.

"Class seemed to drag on forever today." I emphasized the word forever as Kasumi and I left the classroom. "I got bored out of my mind."

"Really? It seemed to go by quickly for me." Kasumi replied as we walked back to the dorm room.

"Yeah, I seemed to zone in and out. I just can't focus today. Oh well, class is over so it doesn't really matter now." I shrugged as we reached our dorm room.

"We have minimum homework, in case you weren't listening to that." Kasumi stated as she grabbed her homework from her materials.

"Yeah, I managed to catch that." I responded as I joined her in grabbing my homework. We sat there and started to work on our homework.

I looked at the time and left Kasumi and I's dorm room to do my job as a prefect. This time, I didn't bother stopping by Zero's dorm room and just continued on outside. I begun to walk around the school grounds and make sure that things were in order. I eventually stood in one spot and waited for Zero for a while. Looking through the dark and waiting for his figure to start appearing, I turned my glance up to the night sky. I enjoyed looking at the stars occasionally and the moon. They were all the way up in the sky, not having to worry about a thing. Sometimes, I was quite envious of the stars and the moon and even the clouds occasionally.

After about thirty minutes, I came to the fact that Zero was not going to show up. I started to walk around again and this time, my thoughts turned to Zero. I really wish he'd just let people in instead of scaring them off like usual. I think he needs to understand that not everyone is going to hurt him. I may know only a little about his past, but I can tell that its probably not good. I know he's lost his family and his friend, Yuuki, left, but not everyone's just going to walk away from him. Probably the biggest thing that irks me about Zero, would be his inability to at least try and converse with someone. I'm now his partner, yet he will utter only a couple words to me.

"He he he!" I heard this psychotic kind of laughter from somewhere around me. I turned around blindly in the dark and scanned my surroundings.

"Who's there?" I called out with a little bit of harshness in my voice. I wouldn't admit this, but I was actually starting to get pretty creeped out.

"Your blood! It smells so delicious!" The psychotic voice rang out again and I finally saw what was talking. It was a Level E vampire, a former human who has lost all their sanity to their bloodlust, just like Zero eventually would. The beast was around five foot seven inches and had a crazed look in its blood red eyes. The Level E also had short, messy brown hair. It started to advance toward me and now I just realized that I didn't have anything to protect myself with.

"I'd stay away." I spoke back to the beast with no emotion in my voice. The Level E looked at me and begun to advance towards me again. The crazed look in its eyes never left its face for a second. Well, this looked like it would be it for me.

The beast grabbed a handful of my chest length red hair and pulled it back wich made my head move back as well and expose my neck. I felt its fangs graze my neck before chomping into it. I could hear the sound of my blood being sucked from my body. Blackness started to creep its way into my vision and I knew this was it, I was going to die. Suddenly, I was dropped to the ground and hit my head on something hard, the blackness completely took over my vision and I shut my eyes. The last thing I heard and felt before I passed out was a gun shot and someone's arms around me.

So, I added a bit of a cliffhanger at the end. Does anyone have any ideas about who it was? I hope this chapter was longer. Comments, flames, ideas, and anything else is welcomed. Thanks for reading!