A/N: Again, I love the reviews I'm receiving on this! But I need to address how this will not be like Twilight. Now I have read all the Twilight books, seen the movies, I ship the shit out of Edward and Bella, and lets say I fucking love the whole cast. I use to be majorly obsessed, but now I'm not so much anymore. But the only relations to Twilight and to Savior is that A) Vampires. I will not have werewolves whatsoever. This is filled with Vampires and Humans. B) Treaty. I have seen a fair share of Vampire movies that involve Treaties between Vampire/Werewolf or Vampire/Vampire or Vampire/Human. Usually go along the lines of "Don't kill our people, or we kick your fucking ass." Just because I do have a Treaty does not mean I am copying Twilight. My intention is not to copy Twilight, if I did, Eli's coven would be larger, Clare's family would be stronger and Jake would be a werewolf instead of a cocky half blood.

Now I'm just rambling, I am not copying Twilight. As a fan of Vampires, Twilight is not the greatest Vampire story to exist. Sorry to offend a lot of you, but in my opinion it isn't. I'm not copying Twilight, this is completely different from Twilight. So please refrain from connecting it to Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse or Breaking Dawn.

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi or the concept of Vampires.

"I was so stupid. Such a stupid girl." Clare thought mentally as she sighed heavily and leaned onto her palms. She looked down at the beaten wooden desk she was sitting at in Mrs. Dawes class and all that was on her mind was her conversation with Jake last night. She had been beating herself up over the horrible conversation since it had occurred last night when Jake dropped her off. Since the conversation, Clare has ignored Jenna and Alli's comforting glances and words and has not spoken to anyone since. No one had really noticed her odd behavior, her sad blue eyes or her slouched position at the desk. Although Clare swore she saw the new guy - Eli look over at her in quick glances throughout the forty five minute class.

As much as Clare wished she could stop thinking about the conversation, about how stupid and foolish she had been feeling, or how she had actually cried once in the comfort of her bedroom.. she couldn't. It felt as if she had heartbreak, but she had never dated Jake. He was never her boyfriend - although he could have been. At least that's what Clare had thought.

(...)

"My dad thinks its dangerous if we continue to hang out, Clare. I'm sorry." Jake confessed sympathetically with a small sad smile. Clare was taken back from the words and took a quick step back as she studied Jake, perhaps he was lying to her? Jake's father has always approved of Clare and she was sure that Jake's father had been encouraging him to ask her out on a date from the moment Clare turned thirteen and showed signs of being a real woman.

"What? Why? Did I do something wrong? Does your dad hate me?" Clare exclaimed as she stared at Jake with huge vulnerable blue eyes.

"No, of course not, Clare. You didn't do anything to my dad. He could never hate you, he's adored you since you were little." Jake cleared up briefly for Clare, hoping it could make her feel slightly better and not give her those sad blue eyes that were piercing him horribly. But all Jake could really think about was how his dad knew of what he did to Clare, how his dad had sat him down and scolded him for those wrongful actions. His dad even spit out that he wished his wife was here to talk sense into Jake which of course caused a dead and sad silence. Since then, the father and son haven't spoken to eachother. Jake had to come up with some bogus excuse for why he couldn't hang out with Clare, but as he looked at her now, he saw that what he did had worked. It worked, but it'd never be at how he wants it to be. She'd never be his. She'll always be another guys girl and it rubbed Jake the wrong way at knowing someone other than him had Clare.

"Then why is he forbidding us to hang out together?" Clare shouted and the sound nearly caused Jake's eardrums to bleed from the high intensity of her voice.

"He just thinks it'll be better if we spend less time together, that's all Clare. But don't worry, we'll still hang out together. You'll have Jenna and Alli and I'll have Drew and Bianca. We'll all be fine. Plus, I think of you too much of a sister to see you so hurt by this.. so please calm down." Jake said softly as he reached forward to place a hand on Clare's cheek, but he saw his wrongful words when she stepped back from his hand and gave him a look of pure daggers. She had sharply entered her home and since then, neither Clare nor Jake spoke to eachother. But that didn't mean the other wasn't on each other's minds.

(...)

"I'm dangerous? I.. I don't see how I'm dangerous, I don't do anything wrong. I've only smoked a cigarette once and I've only tasted red wine. I..I don't understand." Clare thought with a deep and heavy sigh that caused the guy sitting next to her to shift uncomfortably and scoot a bit away from her. That only caused her to sigh even deeply and focus her attention on what was outside the dirty and germ infested window. Hand prints could still be seen as Clare looked at the gray and dark sky that showed no signs of being sunny, which would make Clare's day even worse than it already was.

She was a good person, nothing that was dangerous. Had Jake's father got a wrongful impression of her since her parents were fighting? Maybe he thought that Clare should be grateful that she has both of her parents while Jake only has his father, his mother - Penelope, she had passed away years ago. Around the same time that her brother and sister had died as well. Clare remembered that when Jake had told her they had all been a freak accident after going on a outing as siblings, and they never returned. The information seemed odd and fishy to Clare, but she never pushed any farther after seeing tears glisten in Jake's dark hazel eyes that day.

Either way, Clare was clueless to why she no longer able to see Jake. It all didn't add up for her at all and she just wanted Jake. That's who she had been longing for, for the past couple of days. Ever since he had left her house after they watched a movie.. she had felt nothing more than passion and attraction towards him and it baffled her. Just last week she called him a pig for saying her breasts looked great in her new dress, and now she was head over heels for him in a matter of minutes. But nonetheless, Clare stopped questioning her sudden feelings for Jake, perhaps they were always there, always inside her heart. Those feelings had been fighting for a chance to escape from her heart and when they finally shook the cage for the last time, the feelings had came out in a warm passion. At the moment, Clare was falling for Jake like he had fallen for her. There was no denying it anymore. She liked him. He liked her. All she wanted was him. And she was sure eventually she would be his. She would be his. They'd be happy, like they are meant to be.

As Clare continued to be carried away by her unusual thoughts, across the classroom, Eli stole a quick worried glance her way as he wondered why she looked so upset. She had bags under her blue eyes, a red nose and a blotchy face. He briefly wondered if she had been crying, because by the looks of her now, she seemed unlike her scowling and rude self, she seemed so.. detached.

"Oh stop thinking about her, Eli." Imogen thought, interrupting Eli's own worried concerns over Clare. He glanced over at Imogen and saw the small smug smile on her lips, which caused a scowl on his face to appear at Imogen's obvious smug face.

"Get out of my head now, Imogen." Eli thought bitterly as he shot Imogen a cold glare in which she replied to by rolling her big dark brown eyes and gave him a knowing look that Cece often possessed at times.

"I could do that.. but Ms. Dawes lecture is pretty boring considering I've learned this lecture well over fifty times in grade eleven. It bores me. Your complex thoughts are more interesting and.. cute." Imogen thought with a soft condescending tone that Eli knew she only used with him to often get under his skin. He to gets under her skin, although not as much as he does with Fiona. But he often forgot that Imogen had the ability to see his thoughts in any two mile radius and he only wished she minded her own business.

"Do you like her? Is that why you don't want me seeing your thoughts?" Imogen asked seriously, no sarcasm or smugness hidden in her thoughts. She genuinely wanted to know if her brother had feelings for a.. mundane. It seemed so odd for Imogen to think, it stung her brain at the thought. Surely she had heard of full bloods and mundanes falling in love, it was risky and dangerous on both parts seeing as it was hard to injure your mundane lover and then usually they do birth a half blood. But what stunned Imogen was that Eli of all people could have feelings for Clare. He had never showed any interest in any girls since being born in the 60's.. he's always been a lone wolf alongside her. Imogen herself had commitment issues, it was Fiona who often found love with mundanes or half bloods or even rarely a full blood making their way through their territory.

But Eli? With a mundane like Clare? One who was falling for Jake? Imogen knew that those three combined would not be a good combination, she only hoped her brother wasn't liking Clare. As pretty as the girl was and she'd be even prettier if she ever transformed.. it wouldn't be good.

"Jesus Christ, shut up, Imo. I don't like her! She's a mundane for crying out loud! I don't like her, I'm just wondering why she's so upset. Sorry for wondering." Eli seethed in his thoughts, Imogen caught onto the harshness of his words and knew at that moment to back off of Eli. She just ducked her head and gave him a curt nod before grasping her pencil and began drawing a generic flower on the edge of her paper.

Imogen decided to leave Eli alone for a while, she glanced at him out of the corner of her eye to see him sneaking a quick glance at Clare who was sniffling and had watery eyes as she looked out the classroom window. Imogen gulped as she looked between the two and it was if Imogen could sense a physical pull between them. She often felt this between Bullfrog and Cece as well and once when she met these traveling full bloods who were married and had a little baby girl who was teething, Imogen distinctly remembers seeing the little baby's sharp incisors coming in through the pink gums. A sight that amazed her as she realized children who were born full bloods would be a handful. When Imogen had asked Cece how it was raising Eli, all she had done was chuckle and say,

"Oh Imo, you don't wanna know."

With different thoughts racing through Imogen's mind, all she could really focus on was the generic flower on the side of her paper and she wondered from time to time in Ms. Dawes's class if the pull between Eli and Clare was noticeable to others or if it was just her.

(...)

"I wonder what's on the menu for today!" Jenna exclaimed as she walked down the Degrassi halls with Alli and Clare, Jenna walking beside Clare with a peppier attitude than Clare could even muster in her whole life.

"Gross! We're taking Sav's truck and going to Gilman's for lunch today. I'd rather go out with Wesley Betencamp than ever touch that food." Alli stated with a disgusted look on her features as she quickly typed a message out to Sav about tagging along with him, his girlfriend Holly J and Holly J's best friend, Anya.

"I thought Sav said we weren't allowed to come with him to lunch anymore after the incident at The Dot?" Jenna asked curiously as she looked over at Alli who was now inspecting her long, newly manicured nails and was soon opened her phone up to a text from Sav. The incident at The Dot was a incident that was never brought up between the three, except for minor slip ups from Jenna who remembered the incident like it was yesterday. Alli had the stomach flu and after taking a bite from her burger had hurled all over her ex boyfriend, Drew and his new girlfriend, Bianca. In which caused Jenna herself to vomit her lunch after seeing Alli's lunch all over Drew's flannel and Bianca's tight tank top, but Jenna hadn't realized her lunch was hurled all over Clare who screamed at the top of her lungs at the mess surrounding her. The long story short, Alli was sent home with Sav, Jenna and Clare had caught the flu from Alli the next day and of course, Holly J and Anya had never seen such a disgusting sight in The Dot before in their lives.

"Gag!" Alli exclaimed as Jenna brought up the horrific incident no one was sure to forget. "I told Sav I'd tell mom and dad I caught him and Holly J having sex on our couch. Which isn't a lie, I did catch them last weekend humping eachother like dogs on the couch my parents had imported from India years ago." Alli confessed which earned a "ooh" from Jenna and absolutely nothing from Clare who had been trudging between them since they had met up with Clare at her locker.

Both girls knew something was wrong with Clare the moment she came to school, bags under her eyes, blothcy face and a groggy voice that groaned,

"Just don't talk to me today. I don't feel good."

Jenna or Alli haven't spoken a word to her since, but that didn't stop them from worrying and wondering when she'd eventually speak and tell them what has her so upset to where she couldn't sleep and had been crying. Alli suspected it had something to do with her parents, maybe they were finally divorcing? But Alli knew if that had happened, Clare would come running to her house in a heartbeat in tears. Clare was being secretive and in Alli's opinion, bitchier than usual. But just as Alli and Jenna were going to proceed down the hall where the exit door to the student parking lot was, they notice that Clare had stopped in her tracks.

Immediately, Alli and Jenna stopped walking as well and retreated their steps back to Clare's frigid stance as she was staring ahead at something that had her in such a state Alli had never seen.

"Clare? What's wrong?" Jenna asked soothingly as she placed a hand on Clare's lower back and gently rubbed as she looked at Clare concerned for what had her like this. Jenna wasn't use to Clare's antics as much as Alli was due to Jenna's oblivion, but this had certainly caught her attention.

"He.. He's with her." Clare growled for the first time since this morning. Her eyes never wavered or strayed from the object they stayed intact on. Jenna and Alli followed Clare's gaze to see that she had her eyes pinned on.. Jake and his ex girlfriend all three girls were very familiar with, Sadie Rowland. Sadie was often known for her reputation with boys around Degrassi, such as Alli's close friend Dave and Sadie had even gotten as far as giving a sexual favor to KC which Jenna had found out about and by Jenna's reaction to that news made Clare and Alli realize Jenna never really got over KC.

Sadie and Jake had a history Clare knew the best, they dated longer than Clare had bet with Alli, which was two months. They had dated for six months when Sadie was in grade eight and Jake was in grade ten. But then Sadie had cheated on Jake with Dave which got around Degrassi pretty quickly when Sadie was caught bragging about it at a party last year. Clare never enjoyed Sadie that much when she dated Jake, and after Clare found out what she had done to him, Clare was sure of her dislike to Sadie.

Since then, Sadie has avoided Clare and Jake like the plague, making new rumors for herself as she continues to sleaze it up at Degrassi and at parties. But this was the first time Clare had seen Sadie and Jake talking openly and Jake didn't look the slightest nerved by this interaction. Usually he talked smack about her whenever he could or when he passed by her in the halls, but Clare saw as Jake began talking and once he was finished Sadie began laughing as if Jake's joke was the funniest thing she had heard. Sadie then met the gaze Clare had on Jake and with a sneaky smirk on Sadie's pink lips, she made a risky move and placed her hand on Jake's shoulder and gave it a small squeeze that caused a smirk to come across Jake's face.

Sadie looked back at Clare and was pleased to see the obvious jealousy she had at seeing Sadie touching Jake openly. She merely smirked and dropped her hand as she walked away with Jake in tow, both their shoulders touching at the close contact. Clare scowled and could feel the heat rise in her cheeks at Sadie's obvious way of getting under Clare's skin and Jake's oblivion and smugness to it all.

"What was that about?" Jenna asked as she dropped her hand from Clare's back and she soon heard Clare growl and cross her arms across her chest as she sneered,

"Lets just go to lunch with Sav and his friends."

Alli and Jenna just looked at each other with a look that said they'd speak about the incident with Clare later once they hang out at her house later, but for now the two girls followed Clare's lead out the exit door leading to the parking lot.

Once the exit door closed from Clare, Jenna and Alli leaving, a small chuckle was heard nearby from Fiona who was sitting on a bench by her locker, Imogen sitting beside her and Eli leaning up against her locker with a baffled look on his face.

"Wow, talk about intense!" Fiona exclaimed with a smile on her face after witnessing "mundane drama" as she dubbed it. She had seen various forms of it since the 80's and was always giddy when seeing them so upset over such.. human and useless things. Fiona always found it better than television dramas that mundanes watch on Friday nights.

"That was so awkward." Imogen murmured as she looked up from the book she was reading which was, Looking For Alaska by John Green. It was the fifteenth time she had read this novel, not like she had been counting how many times she had read his novels which were like heroin to her addiction.

"Did you guys notice the girl Jake was talking with?" Eli asked as he looked over at his sisters with a curious look on his face. He had spent so much time focusing on Jake's thoughts which were usually along the lines of,

"God, can she get her hand off my shoulder?"

"Jesus Christ, stop listening in on what I'm thinking full blood."

"Clare's jealous.. okay good.. this is good."

"Stop listening in or I'll rip your pure jugular out."

"Sadie is so oblivious to what I did. She's even more oblivious than when we dated."

"Goddammit, Goldsworthy! Fuck off!"

Eli had considered calling Jake a dirt mix after Jake's statement, but he knew that if he said those words to a half blood like Jake he'd get a earful when he came home knowing Fiona and her obvious tattling. Plus Jake had walked off with the girl he was talking to which led to Clare leaving dramatically with Alli and Jenna following her on demand.

"Oh, you mean Sadie?" Imogen piped up as she looked over the top of her novel. "She's in my art class. From what I've heard, she's a floozy and use to be with Jake. Which explains why Clare was fuming with green jealousy when she saw them talking. Sadie cheated on Jake a while ago and this caught Clare off guard." Imogen explained as she soon returned to reading her book and blocking out what her brother was trying to figure out. At that moment, Imogen found Pudge and Alaska more interesting than Eli's little mission.

"Sadie Rowland?" Fiona asked and Imogen curtly nodded whilst reading. "Oh yeah! I've heard of her around here. She'll let anyone between her legs from what I hear. Then I actually hear that she lets anyone between her legs. Sounds like a modern time whore to me." Fiona said as she adjusted the blouse she had on, along with the scarf she had draped around her neck as well.

"Did you guys happen to notice her eyes?" Eli asked again, hoping that at least maybe one of his sisters noticed Sadie's eyes and thought what he thought when seeing her sudden interaction with Jake. Especially after what Imogen had filled him in on.

"They looked glazed, like she was stoned or something. She probably was. Most sleazy girls around here do drugs on the side from opening their legs." Fiona mentioned, Eli rolled his eyes as Fiona continued to call Sadie a floozy. That was beside the point from here, at least Fiona had noticed something different from Sadie's eyes, but had quickly dismissed it as drugs.

"Well yes, they were glazed, but she didn't have a distinct smell in her blood like most mundanes do when having some drugs in their system. She smelled clean to me, but her eyes looked so glazed over and.. controlled.." Eli then trailed off, but as he trailed off he heard Imogen's book fall from her hands as she looked at him with big brown eyes. She knew exactly where he was getting at.

"He couldn't.. Half bloods don't have powers!" Imogen exclaimed as she looked at Eli with furrowed brows. Half bloods never have special powers like full bloods do. "Maybe Fiona is right.. maybe she was drugged!" Imogen said, trying to dismiss it as drugs.

"No." Fiona interrupted which surprised Eli and Imogen. "Her blood smelled sweet.. clean. She smelled normal. She wasn't on drugs or was she drunk. She looked controlled and she was keeping eye contact with Jake most of the time anyway." Fiona explained which showed that she had payed as much attention as Eli had to the situation.

"Are you guys suggesting that Jake has the power to.. compel? That he compelled Sadie into flirting with him?" Imogen whispered in fear that someone could hear them, someone like Jake. Fiona looked at Eli, awaiting for a answer from him since it would right for him to answer over her seeing as Eli knows more about compelling than Fiona and Imogen.

"Coming from a person who has the power, I'm pretty sure Jake compelled Sadie into flirting with him in hopes of making Clare jealous. I'm not sure how he was born with such a power or how good he is at using compulsion, but he used it in a selfish way." Eli said, sure of himself after watching Jake's motives on Sadie.

"Isn't compulsion already a selfish power?" Fiona asked and Eli looked down at Fiona to see her shrug her shoulders. Eli never liked having the compulsion power, he found it fairly disgusting to obtain such a greedy power. Reason why he rarely ever used it, the last he had was out of anger at Fiona to make her stop bothering him. It had been years since he had looked her in the eye, had her body in a invisible vice and made sure she understood the words he uttered to her. Eli knew that once full bloods or in other cases, half bloods are trained enough they can use compulsion with their minds. But Eli had never been trained enough to do such a thing, he didn't want to either. It was enough knowing every ones thoughts, why have a hold over a person as well.

"Yes, but.. Jake seems like the kind of person to have already used his selfish powers in a greater selfish power. Greater than using it on a sleazy grade nine that was oblivious to begin with, I have a feeling he already used his power on someone else. He's using his powers in a horrible way." Eli murmured, the words had Fiona and Imogen quiet. Neither were sure what to say to their brother and his speculations on Jake.

For the rest of the lunch period, Imogen made it halfway through Looking For Alaska and cried for the fifteenth time when remembering Alaska dies. Fiona had played a "mundane game" she had on her phone and would mentally curse every other minute when losing. Eli had his ear buds deeply embedded into his ears, allowing Brand New to try and take his ever growing thoughts and push them to the side.

But even for Eli, that was incredibly hard for him.

(...)

"Out of all the people to talk to, he chooses to talk to her! To Sadie! His ex!" Clare exclaimed in a unbelievable tone. She had been battling with her angry and upset feelings all throughout the rest of her day at school and now that she was in the solace of her bedroom with Jenna and Alli by her side, she was free to shout her feelings without much judgement or odd glares.

"Sounds like someone is jealous." Jenna replied with a giggle as she sat cross legged on Clare's bed, Alli beside her as they looked down at Clare who was sprawled out on her bedroom floor as she groaned dramatically at Jenna's words. She wasn't in the mood to receive the harsh truth from her ditz of a best friend.

"I am not jealous!" Clare exclaimed, defending herself as she rolled over on her stomach and propped herself up on her elbows. She looked up at her best friends who had smiles on their faces as they looked at eachother, almost saying,

"Told ya' so."

Maybe now Jenna and Alli would be satisfied that Clare had finally felt something for Jake, a moment both girls had been waiting for, for years since meeting Clare in middle school. Jake had obviously been crushing on Clare since grade eight and has made it known - even when he was dating Sadie he would so obviously flirt with Clare. He'd walk her to class, carry her books and bag for her and even pay for her lunch when she was short a dollar. Everyone had bet that they'd date before high school, but Clare's platonic feelings for Jake never wavered the slightest.

As Clare entered high school in her grade nine year, Jake was a grade ten, they stayed best friends and her feelings stayed platonic, even as he was dating Sadie they stayed friendly as ever. While Jake's feelings for her were growing ever so fast and all he had wanted as one thing from her and he wondered why it just couldn't happen yet. He had been seeking it from her since they were children and his mother had informed him of it when he was ten. He was keen to seek it from Clare, but seven years later he hasn't seeked it from her yet and it has caused him to do drastic measures that Clare or no one else was aware of yet.

"Then why were you so pissed off when Sadie was talking to Jake?" Alli asked as she unlocked her cell phone and began typing quickly to reply to a text from Bianca, a girl Alli had grown to know as a friend after the two shared a detention after trying to pull each others hair out. Alli was always the one to eventually befriend the ones she never cared for in the beginning.

"Because." Clare paused to sigh deeply and look up at her best friends with seriousness as she said, "I never forgave her for what she did to Jake. We all know she cheated on him with Dave and maybe neither of you were there when he upset, but I was and I remember all that happened that day. So I have a right to be pissed." Clare sneered as she groaned and ducked her head as she realized her harsh outburst at Jenna and Alli. Silence had overcame the room from Clare's words, uncomfortable shifting was heard and soon feet padding on the floor. Clare watched as Jenna and Alli made their way off Clare's bed and head to the door, grabbing their purses on the way.
"Where are you guys going?" Clare asked sadly as she rose to her feet and looked at her best friends who had a uncomfortable look on their faces as they shift from foot to foot as they thought of a way to reply to Clare.

"I have dinner with Kyle and his girlfriend." Jenna quickly said and Clare immediately knew it was a lie seeing as Jenna cannot stand Kyle's girlfriend, Madison and always has dinner with Alli and her family or even at times with Clare's. Once Clare made eye contact with Jenna, Jenna ducked her head and stared down at the white boots she was wearing to avoid Clare's glare.

"I'm gonna be honest here, Clare." Alli began to say and Clare rolled her eyes, Alli was always the one to say things truthfully, but always managed to say it in a rude tone without realizing it. "You need time to be alone, to figure out these feelings for Jake because I'm not gonna buy the bullshit of you not forgiving Sadie. You don't need that slut's forgiveness. All I'm gonna say is that, figure out these feelings and tell me and Jenna when you figure them out." Alli concluded as she gave Clare a small, hopeless smile as she looped her arm through Jenna's and made their way out of Clare's bedroom.

Clare groaned as she collapsed on her bed and looked up at the ceiling, breathing dramatically as she reached over for her phone which was laying on her night stand. A box popped up on the screen that said in bold letters,

One New Message From Mom

Rolling her eyes and already having a pretty good feeling about what the text says, Clare opens the text and reads the message with a blank look on her face and the usual churning in her stomach that she always gets when opening texts from her parents or Darcy. Messages from her broken family usually caused a red flag to go up and alert Clare that nothing good would come from it.

"Clare, I will be late from home and your father will be late as well. Use the money in the jar and order pizza. I'll see you late tonight. Mom."

"Jeez, thanks a lot, mom. I can so feel the love." Clare thought sarcastically as she replied to her mom's message with a "okay", not even bothering to add a "love" or "xoxo" knowing that her mother would ignore it like she has for the past year. The word "love" has not been used in Clare's household for a year now, and Clare use to blame her sister's absence from the family for it, but then Clare had realized that her sister's absence was just small part of it all. She had not realized it, but her family had been falling apart at the seams for years and Clare had been oblivious to their weak strength in keeping the family together. Now the family was in shambles, Clare's mother spends her time at work or with her friends she has at the church. Clare's father also spends his time at his work office and as Clare suspects it, with his other woman. Darcy, Clare's sister, was in Kenya, having a far better life than all of them due to the fact that she is far away from Canada soil and the drama it brings.

And Clare herself? She's busy spending her time with her phone addicted and moronic best friends and chasing after a boy who she now chooses to feel for. It was times like these Clare wishes she was all of five years old and was learning to ski with her family.

Sighing, Clare sat up in her bed and shoved her phone in her pocket as she proceeded to leave her room and walk down the narrow stairs to the foyer. She grabbed the notepad off the family desk and threw off an old note from her dad a couple weeks ago and wrote a new one,

"Mom and Dad, I'm taking a walk around town for a while. Call if you actually need me. Clare."

Clare ripped the note off the pad and stuck it to the white fridge which was filled with notes addressed to Clare, rarely addressed from one of her parents to the other. She rolled her eyes and left the kitchen in a scurry, wanting nothing more than to take a walk and figure out all her thoughts which were running at vapid speed in her mind. But as Clare stepped out of her home and felt a cold drop fall on her nose and cascade down her cheek, she scowled and realized that she has picked the wrong time to take a nice stroll around her town. Clare huffed dramatically and stepped out into the cold drizzle as she cursed,

"Damn rain."

(...)

Within the next hour, Clare had managed to visit several parks, walk into eight drug stores and buy absolutely nothing and flip a old penny from her pocket into a fountain of wishes and the only thing she wished for was,

"I wish things can look up from this focal point."

Usually, Clare would have already asked of that already, to God, but Clare's faith had been wavering for a year since her family's shambles. She still wore her purity ring which was causing her finger to swell under the sweat and her Christan necklace Darcy had gave her for her eleventh birthday. But Clare no longer attended church every Sunday like her mother did or talk to Priests like she would. Clare had been detached from her solace of goodness for a while and everything was in shambles around her, she could no longer look to God for an answer to this misery. So instead, she placed her faith on a filthy wishing fountain that had bird feces on the stone.

Clare was now taking the long route to her home which would take thirty minutes to get there if she walked at the sluggish pace she was keeping. The sky was growing darker she had realized and a twang of nervousness hit her stomach, but she shook it off and continued on the sluggish pace she was keeping. But as Clare walked in front of a rather large two story home in her long route to return home, she heard a deep voice say behind her,

"Its a little too late to be walking alone now isn't it?"

Clare stopped in her tracks and yelped as she heard the deep yet very familiar voice murmur in her ear. She heard the voice chuckle at her high pitch yelp and quickly turned around to come face to face with Eli who had a smirk on his face and his arms crossed tight on his chest as he gave her a once over that made Clare huff out dramatically on whim.

"Oh its just you." Clare said as she realized it was the new kid who had scared her. Anybody would be scared of him in the evening, his pale skin, his thick black hair and the dark green eyes that shone under the mat of hair on his head. He wasn't exactly the friendliest face to appear at night time. Yet here he was, looking smug as ever as he stood before her in a stance that made her angry.

"Who else would it be? A big scary.. hmm.. vampire for example?" Eli teased with a grin on his face that made Clare roll her eyes and place a hand on her hip as she scowled at his teasing. She wasn't in the mood to deal with his jokes or to even speak with him for the matter. Clare didn't want anything to do with this Eli character or his family, she had bigger things on her small plate.

"Stalking much? Why don't you just turn around and go back to where you came from. Buh-bye." Clare sneered as she gave him a condescending smile and waved her hand in a gesture that would make anyone completely annoyed, but Eli wasn't annoyed by her gesture. He merely rolled his eyes and uncrossed his arms from his chest as he said,

"I'm the stalker? You're the one who is outside my house, so why don't you go buh-bye?" Eli remarked as he soon made the same gesture Clare did and she was immediately nerved by his attitude more than she had thought she'd be. But then she looked up at the house she was before and gasped at its size, surely it was large, but it was beautiful as well. The house had been well secluded out here in the tall forest and Clare liked that they had their own privacy, she wished she had her own place to herself, away from the busy city with its honks, screeches, crying and rude people.

"Woah, you live here?" Clare asked in amazement as she continued to look up at the beautiful black brick home, flowers lined around the porch and walkway, the front door was a gorgeous mahogany and Clare could only imagine what the inside looked like or even the never ending backyard. Did Eli have a lot of money to his name? Because as Clare further looked at the house in awe, she was sure he had plenty of dollars to his name. As Clare looked up at what the second floor of the home looked like, she swore she saw a pale hand quickly close the curtains, almost as if whoever was in the second floor was watching Clare's interactions with Eli. Which brought her back down to the current situation as she looked at Eli who said,

"So.. why were you so upset at school today?" Which caused Clare to give him an odd look. She knew that Jenna and Alli knew she was upset, but she had no idea that Eli of them all knew she was upset and was concerned enough to even ask her.

"Its.. Its none of your business, Eli." Clare stammered as wrapped her arms around herself in a nervous habit. She sighed and was about to walk off from Eli and on her way home, when she felt a hand on her arm. The touch sent a shiver down her spine and gave her feeling she had never felt before when being touched. The feeling almost felt.. nice, but a different kind of nice. It was a warm and happy nice that filled her once Eli touched her skin and as she turned her attention on Eli, she noticed he had the same baffled look on his face as he slowly pulled his hand off her arm.
"I..I'm sorry for that. You need to get home, its getting late and I'm sure you don't want to be out here alone. I'll go and have Imogen walk you home, she'll be more than happy to." Eli stammered as he shifted awkwardly from foot to foot after feeling the warm shock spring through his body as he touched Clare's bare arm for the first time. It was surely a feeling he has never felt, his kind never felt warmness that he felt when touching Clare. It baffled to him to the very core.

"God, Eli." Clare began to say which pulled Eli from his mind as he looked down at her as she was facing him now. "What are you?" Clare asked as she gave him a confused look that made Eli freeze at her words. What was he? This was too soon, this doesn't happen. This was why he doesn't talk to mundanes, they suspect and then they speculate and they ask. Then things go downhill and the last thing he wants is for things to go downhill for his family.

"What.. What I am? I'm afraid I don't understand." Eli replied, trying to play it cool as he rubbed the back of his cold neck out of nervousness and chuckled. Clare sighed as she dropped her arms from her chest and looked up at with with true curiously in her eyes as she realized that this Eli character had more to him than she had suspected. He was truly.. something.

"One moment you're this cold hearted bastard, do not excuse my language and the next you are some sweet guy that are only written in books by lonely virgin women. What are you?" Clare asked again as he huffed out dramatically and awaited her answer from Eli. But there was only a eerie silence between the two and she watched as a smile crossed Eli's lips as he said under his breath in a teasing tone like he had before,

"Vampire."

Then Clare was sucked into old flashes when hearing the word "vampire." That word hasn't graced her ears in a long time and as she heard it, she felt the need to vomit everywhere. The bits of flashes came before her blue eyes. Her six year old self running around in the forest with Jake close behind her, both were playing tag with one another as Clare had exclaimed he had cooties. It then flashed to another bit when she was sitting on the dirt floor with tears cascading down her cheeks as she held her bloody knee in her hand and wailed for Jake to come help her. The next flash was the blurriest and it was of Jake assuring her that she'd be fine and it wouldn't hurt, his lips attaching to her knee and she felt the worst pain in her life.

Then Clare had left her brief flashes which had her staggering on the ground as she brought her hand to her head and looked around her, only to see shaky green trees and the ground coming closer to her face. She closed her eyes and embraced herself for the fall on her face, but she only felt herself collapsing into strong arms that held her up as they shouted her name and questioned for her to speak. But Clare had already fallen under before she could respond.

A/N: I'm gonna try to update this story as much as I can, so please REVIEW!