7. Shopping with Mary Alicia Minerva Breanne Brandon

Complete!

A/N: After a lot of contemplating, I decided on Takuma Ichijo even though I'm practically in love with him (I'm sacrificing my love here) because I think that there would be too much jealousy against Melinda if she chases Aidou. (His fan girls are crazy for him). Wait! Never mind! Three guys will be in love with her and all their fan clubs will chase her! She'll be hated by all but Zero and Yuuki! Mwahahaha! (Sorry, I'm drunk on caffeine Hey; I might throw in a Kain romance, so that Ruka will be pissed off at someone other than Yuuki. Or may be not. Idk. Oh yeah, to answer xXx-Black-And-White-Roses-xXx's question, no, you were not too late, this is the chapter when Takuma and Melinda first meet. Now I'm jealous of a character that I've made because she has my favorite characters chasing after her. I don't know weather to feel proud or chase her screaming, "You'll never get away with this!" Takuma is like a best friend type of guy so this will be a challenge. HE WILL NOT BE LIKE JACOB BLACK; he will have a chance and be head-strong about his feelings. Melinda won't play with Takuma because I hated it when Bella played with Jacob in Twilight just to get information (she thought that she was such a bad person and thought that she was so bad when I can make Melinda just so much worse), Jacob probably wouldn't have chased after Bella if she hadn't led him on. Takuma is going to act pretty much a little OC. Of course, some of their love is one-sided, and other's are not, I'll reveal all in the end, but for now you can guess. Hey! That rhymed! Melinda didn't notice Takuma before because… (Thinking of reasons)… he was out:

(a) Buying new mangas

(b) Then he got sick

(c) He was scolding White Lily (AKA the horse from hell) for kicking Yuuki in the ass on Kaname's orders

(d) He ditched

(e) All of the above

Choose whatever makes you sleep at night (choose c, what makes me sleep at night lol jk, jk). Anyway, I want Takuma to have a love interest and I also want to see his jealous side. *smirks at Takuma* You are going to be so OOC when I'm done with you that I might alter Matsuri Hino's plot.

Author's notes in BOLD and all thoughts/flash backs/visions in Italics.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, everything that I mention in this story, are not own by me, and no profit is made by this story.

MPOV

In Dreamland…

Where am I?

A girl roughly by the age of 18 was wearing a pink Lolita dress picture on profile, a plain pink headband, plain pink ballet flats, a golden choker on profile, and a platinum bracelet with a diamond charm, what looked like a fang charm, and a platinum heart locket on it. The girl had dark blue eyes that looked almost navy blue if only they didn't show the slightest hint of lilac purple, and long amber blonde hair set in loose curls that reached her waist. Her face and figure was clear of physical flaws. She shined in plain darkness.

Who is that?

The scenery changed. The same girl was now sitting at the top of a tower. Her eyes stared off distantly. Her hair was now golden-brown. It was then that it hit me, I was the girl. The girl now smirked, got up, and walked away. I turned around to see what she smirked at. My eyes widened at the site before me.

Where there should have been the Moon Dormitories, was now only ash. Three figures stood at the remains of the Moon Dorms. Somehow, I was getting closer the scenery of the three people. There was one girl and two guys. I stopped getting closer and if possible, my eyes were even wider. One of the guys were Zero Kiriyuu, the other was my dear friend, Kaname Kuran. The girl stood between the two men, she was Yuuki Kuran (or if you want, call her Kurosu), she looked the same except for the fact that this girl's hair was so long that it a little bit past reached her waist and she seemed slimmer, and her eyelashes were noticeably a bit longer.

It was then that I noticed that Zero Kiriyuu had a gun in his hand and thorns a around him, Yuuki Kuran was holding a scythe like-thing in her hands, and Kaname was not holding a weapon, but had a really nice trench coat, it was simple, yet, he made it look so much better because he was the one wearing it (Same as the scene in the manga). I couldn't hear what they were saying, but, the last thing I saw was the Yuuki Kuran licking blood from where there should have been a hand on Kaname.

NPOV

Melinda Baudelaire woke up in her bed jolting up from her sleeping position, clutching the covers as if it were her life. After she jolted up, she spoke a few words so softly that you wouldn't have heard it was as if it weren't spoken at all, with a sad expression on her face, rather than the usual vacant expressionless.

"The future isn't to be delightful at all."

After Melinda spoken she saw a blond figure at the door watching her with unforgettable jade green eyes. The pure blood witch rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't hallucinating, but when she opened her eyes again, the figure was gone.

"Who's there?" Melinda shouted in a cold and cruel sounding voice grabbing her wand. From the wand-holster on her arm. "Show yourself vampire."

After no one answered for a few minutes, Melinda used a spell to lock the door, then changed from a plain white night gown (on profile) into a red and white skirt with ribbons, a pair white stockings with red bows, and a off white Victoria maiden collar shirt, whilst hanging a Inwear Bilisa red pea coat on her thin shoulders, and grabbing a pair of designer oversized sun glasses. She looked at the mirror to herself before deciding to wear a classic pearl necklace and white headband. Afterwards, she walked downstairs, wrapping her Burberry scarf around her neck.

MPOV

I walked downstairs in slow confident steps in my Gucci platform pumps, there was a light tapping sound, but not loud enough that someone with normal hearing would hear it. The stairs were dark, as it was technically still night time, but slightly illuminated because of the moon light streaming through the windows. With my wand in hand, I was confident that I would be able to handle any problems coming my way. The walk was pretty uneventful; I walked to the moon dorms, and then used my wand.

"Tempo." I muttered silently.

Magical time:

3:57 Ante Meridiem, Japan

December 8, Magical Era van der Heilig year 476

Muggle Time:

3:57 Ante Meridiem, Japan

December 8, 2086

I had to wait three minutes before class was over for the Night Class; I remembered that classes end at 4 A.M. for them through Kaname's memories. I then held out my sunglasses in front of me and muttered, "La visione notturna di vetro attiva." Then I put on my sunglasses despite the fact that it was early morning, or late at night if you prefer to call it that way, because it was charmed to have night vision at night.

I slightly leaned against the gate entrance, poised, waiting for them to come. I put back the wand in its holster on my lower right arm.

I eventually saw them heading towards where I was, they seemed so synchronized and poised. I smirked, it'd be funny if they did practice synchronized walking, it could have been plausible, Kaname sure found some amusing punishments, and I would know.

"Hello Vampires."

They all stopped simultaneously. (Seriously, did Kaname train them to do that?)

"I suppose introductions are in place, Hello, I am Princess Melinda Lillian Catherine Aimable Baudelaire, Duchess of Magical Kent and Magical Devonshire, but you may just call me Melinda-Sama."

Kaname smiled warmly, "Melinda, is the dramatics really necessary?"

I smiled back charmingly, "I think we all know the answer to that question Kaname."

"Then why don't you include that your family is next in line for the throne when the pureblooded van der Heilig family dies out."

"I wasn't going to mention it, for I assume that your underlings know of the magical system enough to not need mentioning of the line of successions for families in line of the throne."

"Are we to just stand out here for the rest of dawn having a public conversation?"

"No, why do we not go inside for I know that the Day Class is much too enthusiastic for the Night Class."

"Very well, shall we then?"

"Of course my dear old friend."

Melinda and Kaname went inside, continuing their conversation, while the rest of the Night class pretended not to listen. Afterwards, the two went into Kaname's room.

"Is this room sound proof?" Melinda asked while sliding off her pea coat.

Kaname looked at her with his wine red eyes, which started to glow, "It is now."

I slowly took off my Burberry scarf and let go of the charms that kept me looking the way I do: my tan skin turned pale, my blue eyes turned into a glowing green, my dark blonde hair turned to a pale platinum blonde mess of hair, and I grew from a nice 5 foot 11" to a taller 6 foot 4".

I looked in the mirror, "Ugh! I look like an Amazonian savage, it's disgusting!" I exclaimed.

Kaname put an arm across my chest while the other arm cradled my head, he licked my neck and murmured, "I'm sorry I have to do this again," and then he bit my neck.

"Ah!" I exclaimed while my breathing became shallow, but gradually became more even with time. When I was finally breathing normally, I said, "Don't be, our ancestors, your descendants, made an agreement with each other, this is meant to happen."

[Insert eerie old woman voice]

Long ago, when hunting of magical creatures were at its peak, the pureblooded vampires and pureblooded witches/wizards made an agreement. The witches and wizards were to go underground, hide, and commit to secrecy, while the vampires condemn to secrecy as well with the purebloods of each race to have the cover as part of the aristocracy.

But the pureblooded witches and wizards knew that the vampires would thirst for other's blood (other blood than that of vampires'). So, the witches, wizards, and vampires made a pact that pureblooded vampires could not turn a pureblood of another race (witches and wizards only) into part of the vampire race unless the pureblood witch or wizard whom was bitten wants to become a vampire. If a pureblooded witch or wizard willingly chooses to become a vampire, the pureblooded witch or wizard bitten would become a pureblooded vampire, but the fangs that sink into the pureblooded witch or wizards would have to be from an alive pureblooded vampire that willingly bites the pureblooded witch or wizards (because the purebloods were afraid that a pureblood might grow up to become evil or fall far from the tree and would turn against the race and want immortality as well (to continue his cause) and try to kill any whom were not witches or wizards. The purebloods feared that the pureblooded vampires would become merely weapons for immortality or a massacre of pureblooded vampires would occur, and the fangs of the pureblooded vampires would be taken out forcefully).

These conditions are only offered to the purebloods of the vampire, wizard, and witch race. That is just one of the many reasons why purebloods witches and wizards are so much better than mud bloods and half-bloods.

[Insert normal voice]

After another minute of Kaname drinking my blood, he stopped, slid his fangs out, and licked the wound again so that it would close faster.

"Opps," he said.

I turned around quickly to ask him what do you mean Opps?, but that was a mistake, for I was dizzy from blood loss, and I instantly gained a headache. I lifted my hand to my forehead.

"The room is sound proof, but not scent proof." Kaname explained.

"That's not your average Opps, that's a big bloody hell! What will we do? There has to be a few blood thirsty vampires in this dorm now, and now they are after my blood on top of that! We have to think of a cover up." I said walking to the couch, I'm way more useful when I'm not light headed.

Come on, there has to be something that won't damage my- I mean our- reputation, I bet they all called their parents about this and all of London is talking.

"Dating!" I exclaimed, I am a genius, "We could say we are dating and it is traditional for purebloods who are quite smitten with each other to want to share blood."

"But Yuuki."

"Darn! Why does she have to be in this school… I believe, we can make the night class keep this to the pureblood worlds, and make sure Yuuki never finds out, none of the vampires are to ever mention this, and in a week or two we say we break up because of 'irreconcilable differences.' I am a genius!"

"Zero Kiriyuu has been pining for Yuuki for the longest time. He will tell her, he must have smelt the blood, she will push me away and invite Kiriyuu in. She will forever think of me as the brother and only the brother, no romance."

"Is Kiriyuu the type of person who can help this situation?"

"I doubt it, he won't lie to Yuuki if it means she would push me away."

"Damn! How about memory modification?"

"How about no? I need the night class to keep their memory intact."

"I was talking about Kiriyuu."

"He'd find out, sometimes I wish Kiriyuu is dimwitted, but no, it has to be a hunter gene."

"For now we can modify his memory, maybe we can make it so he would keep his distance from Yuuki as well."

"Only way he would keep away from Yuuki is if he were in love with someone else, a love potion would be suitable, but who for his love interest to be? If it were anyone in the night class, suspicions would arise, it is not a well kept secret or a secret at all for that matter that Kiriyuu hates the night class. The day class is also afraid of Zero, with the exception of Yuuki."

"Sayori Wakaba of the Day Class, she isn't afraid of him, or perhaps Seiren of the Night Class. Seiren is not often seen by the night class, and I'm sure Seiren would help you lead him away from us for a week or two. We are not asking for her to kiss him or anything, just lead him away from us."

"Then how are we going to get love potion in him everyday for two weeks?"

"That's a very good question."

"You worked out the solution this quickly?"

"I said it was a good question, not that I knew the solution."

We sat there for the longest time, not talking, thinking of options.

"Injection through the blood stream!" I exclaimed, "We could sneak into his room every night and inject the potion into the blood stream. All we have to do is add Kren's Loan of Death! It makes potions stronger meaning you can prolong effects of potions, it'll stay in his system longer, but the effect is the essentially the same for a normal size, but the potion has the side effect of shortening lives, Kiriyuu is a Level D so his life is already shortened, so it doesn't matter. I doubt Shizuka Hiou is going to give him her blood. Kren's Loan of Death is hard to get from stores though, but it will be easy for us to make, all you need is a concentration of Veritaserum, which I always have with me…"

"You always carry concentrated Veritaserum with you?"

"Just incase, don't judge, I have the excuse of being young and inexperienced. And as I was saying, we also need a calming potion, and the blood of the pure vampires, and pure magic bearing mortals, also known as witches or wizards but either would do."

"Those are not easy ingredients to find, for common beings."

"For common people perhaps, but we are not common people, I'll provide the potions and my pure magical bearing mortal blood, and you bear pure vampire blood. So, therefore, it is easy for us. We also need hair of the person who you decide the love interest of Kiriyuu will be. When we find him, modify all memories of tonight and his nights that we give him sprays of love potions."

"Alright, but we have to be quick about this."

"I understand. It will only take 20 minutes to make. We need to go to my room; I have hidden rooms we can make potions in. Anyone with less than pure vampire, witch, or wizard blood will not be able to see the room unless I give explicit permission."

"Let's get started then."

"I just had another idea!"

"What is it?"

"We send Yuuki away just incase she thinks Kiriyuu's behavior is weird or unusual, it would also give her rest from the disciplinary committee duties, but we do not send Zero, I think he would use the opportunity to confess to Yuuki, and she would be swept away from the new location and think that it was because of Zero, then all your effort for the past 10 years would be for nothing."

"Alright, where shall we send Yuuki?"

"A place where she shall be treated as she should be treated, like a pureblood Kuran Princess, but won't cause suspicions… London, we can let her stay in one of my families' townhouses, have the house elves pamper her, but she will need a body guard. Perhaps we shall send Wakaba with her so that Yuuki will not be lonely and get a bodyguard that can double as a tour guide so they won't suspect. Now, we just need a reason for her to be there."

"Wakaba is in the day class so she can't know about the magical realm unless she is already a magical being."

"Then a five star muggle hotel? A letter that headmaster needs to get to England, that is top secret, and needs to be there at, oh say Thursday? Headmaster Kurosu cannot go himself because there is a meeting he has to attend here in Japan on Thursday involving the school, so Yuuki has to deliver it in his stead. Pretend Kiriyuu stays to keep the Day Class at bay. I believe that Wakaba has family connections in Europe, so she probably knows London well. We can tell Wakaba that Yuuki needs to get to London, but as we both know, she gets scared outside the academy, so she needs to go with Yuuki for comfort sake."

"Okay, so we say that the letter mentions Kaien's vampire hunting past, so strictly confidential. We don't want the letter to get lost in the mail, so that's why hand delivery is necessary. She is to leave the letter at one of your house's doorstep, which we will say is a random rendezvous and to leave it under the doormat, you inform your house elves to take it once they are out of sight, and deliver it back here."

"Yes, the plan is perfection."

"Okay, let's get started then."

I put back on my charms, and put back on my pea coat and scarf. When we walked out the doors, all the night class were waiting out the doors with glowing red eyes except for the Cullens, the Hales, and a Brandon (which had coal black eyes).

"We smelled blood," a blonde vampire said simply.

I looked at Kaname, then smiled charmingly, looked at the crowd and said, "Yes, you see, Kaname and I are childhood friends, and fell recently felt attracted to each other. We shared blood, as it is a tradition for purebloods smitten with each other to do so."

This time, Aidou spoke up, "But she's not a vampire."

Kaname smiled and said, "Melinda is a pureblooded witch from Great Britain. Where sharing blood is also common."

"So you two are married now, and Melinda a vampire?" Alice asked.

"Mary Alicia," I said, "Kaname and I are dating, heaven knows we are far too young to marry, and Mary Alicia, do I look any less than my self?"

Together, Kaname and I excused ourselves and put our plan in motion. The Headmaster did not question Kaname, and bought plane tickets (in the vampire realm, do not question purebloods). Yuuki and Sayori were informed immediately by Kaname.

I was almost done with the potion, all I needed was Kaname to add a drop of his blood while the fire was still burning, and the fire would burn until the potion is done, or I extinguish the fire, so I stopped working on the potion and worked on the love potion which was fairly simple might I say.

"Are you done M?" Kaname asked walking in the room.

"Yes, all I need is for you to add three drops of your blood to the cauldron behind me, and to stir with the gold ladle three times, and potion will be done. I'm almost done with the love potion, so make yourself useful and do what I need you to do."

Kaname went to the cauldron, and I went to grab some Veela hair and Black Rose petals (they are magical Black Roses which are extremely rare because the need to be fed vampire venom every day, grow in the dark, but come out every new moon under a silver dove which is also rare).

"I haven't seen a Black Rose for almost 10 years." Kaname said.

"I know, they are almost extinct. Only a few roses still grow, and they are extremely useful in a good love potion. I guarantee that Kiriyuu will not know of a thing that happened, and he will think that it has been a 'regular' two weeks for him, he will not suspect a thing."

"That's good, the potion is finished by the way."

"Okay, the love potion is finished as well, are you ready?"

"Of course! Who do you think I am? I am always ready!"

"Okay Mr. Almost ready, do you have a lock of Seiren's hair? Speaking of Seiren, what did she think when you stole her hair brush?"

"She was blushing, I didn't even know that it was possible. It turns out that Seiren has a small crush on Kiriyuu."

"Are you serious or is this one of your bad jokes?"

"I'm serious."

"Wow… Kiriyuu and Seiren, who knew they could be love birds."

Latter that morning…

"Wake up Melinda!" a perky voice said happily. "Wake up!"

"Go away!" I groaned softly trying to fall asleep again.

"No! Melinda, there is going to be a dance in two weeks, and we haven't had our outfits picked yet! I don't know about you, but my closet is empty, I vow fill it up, Mels, my closet is three times larger than your closet here, and I haven't filled it up! I haven't had any clothes here except my uniform! I HAVE TO GO SHOPPING! I hadn't shopped in a month! Melinda! You have to go shopping with me or so help me gods, I will carry you there! Also, congrats are in order, Kaname Kuran is the top bachelor in the vampire world, this is your biggest accomplishment by far."

My eyes opened up and widened, I'm sure my eyes looked like they would have popped out. Mary Alicia Minerva Breanne Brandon, aka, my evil shopping pixie from hell, hasn't shopped in a month and has a bigger closet than me.

I was now sure that if I truly didn't go shopping with her right now, she would seriously drag me there. Also, why does she get a bigger closet than me? I live in a 14 room suite/dorm by myself with all the rooms magically enlarged. How could she possibly have more closet space than me?

Ha! Kaname is in love with Yuuki, he and I couldn't possibly actually be together, it was just an act because my reputation is everything to me and he knows that. That's the only reason he agreed with the plan to begin with. Also, it would make Rido think that I'm Juri's daughter so that Yuuki can stay "human" longer.

"Alice, if I get up now, can I take a shower first?" I asked.

"Of course you can!" she replied all too happily.

Then Alice disappeared, probably to my closet. That girl has no boundary that is a good thing and a bad thing. She has no limit and sometimes crosses the lines.

"Mels, I'm choosing your outfit for today." She stated from the closet.

I raised one eyebrow and replied, "Mary Alicia Minerva Breanne Brandon, I know how to dress myself nowadays, thank you very much. I have always known how to dress myself ever since I was 7 years old."

Alice came back into the room and used her famous puppy dog pout and sadly said, "But Melinda! I haven't dressed you up for over a year, why would you deny me this joy!"

I closed my eyes and sighed in defeat, I had a feeling that Alice could get away for murder with her puppy dog pout someday (it works wonders with other people). I'll give in for old time sake, plus, choosing my clothes is not that big of an issue unless she tries to dress me like a slut.

"Fine Alice, but remember, something that I would actually wear! The look that I go for now is a simple timeless look that shows my curves, but no cleavage! Skirts are okay, but no shorter than my mid thigh length. I'm going to go shower now. Once you've decided, bring the clothes the bathroom and knock." I said walking away from my closet and toward the bathroom.

The last thing I heard before going into the bathroom was a squeal of delight from Alice, then a scream, to which I say, I bolted out of the bathroom for.

"What happened A?"

"Melinda! Because I'm a vampire, I have to follow orders of a pureblooded vampire or the three kings. So I guess you have to wear that hideous outfit now. It's YELLOW for god's sake." (Dress on profile)

APOV

I was so happy, I squealed in delight! I loved dressing up Melinda (she is like my very own Barbie), but Mels always thought that it was torment, but she was fun to dress up. Mels always hated it, but I loved it. Mels is probably unaware of it, but, she has the perfect hour glass figure, flawless naturally ivory pale skin, and to legs that are to die for. It was easy to find things for her to wear that she looks good in, but although I am slender in my own way, I often don't look good in particular outfits so my choices are limited, but Melinda would even look good in those horrible clothes that Umbridge wears, so it's good to know that no matter what I chose, she will look good in it.

Ah ha! I found the perfect dress. I chose a white Catherine Malandrino Swing Dress. Next are the handbags! (Picture on profile)

Oh my gods! There was a yellow dress laid out on one of the closet's couches, which had a note on it.

For you M, from Kaname [insert heart sign here]

As soon as I went to the hand bag section, I spotted the super cute bag that would totally go with the white dress! It was a white Balenciaga bag (I know, there are better matches out there, but I don't want to search for the perfect bag, I'm lazy, I know, picture on profile). I couldn't help but squeal again. OMG! I love Balenciaga bags! Okay! Now shoes!

I couldn't help but fume about it, here I was with the perfect dress, perfect bag, and I couldn't make Mel wear it, all because of Dorm Leader Kuran. Aphrodite must love to torture me.

I headed toward the shoe section. It took a while to find the shoes and by a while I mean a whole 3 minutes, but I finally settled my decision on the white sandals they would go with anything (even that yellow tart. (Picture on profile) I now went to the coats section, and got a white Mary Magdalene dress coat to cover that oversized lemon (picture on profile) and went to her accessories section to pick-out a headband and necklace. Of course, I found the perfect headband and necklace; I chose the Jennifer Behr Rosette Headband and a simple diamond necklace. (Pictures on profile).

I now checked my cell phone. Great! I had that done within 10 minutes.

I walked to Melinda's bathroom and knocked 3 times. I waited 30 seconds. I heard the water stop and Melinda opened the door only about 2 inches. She held her hand out. I placed the clothes and accessories in her open hand. She grabbed it and closed the door quickly.

"Thanks A!" she shouted.

"No problem Mels!" I replied as I heard the water turn on. Then the vision hit me.

~Vision~

My cell phone rang, the caller was unknown, and I picked it up.

"Hello, Mary Alice Brandon speaking." I said in a monotone voice.

"Hello Alice, its Kaname Kuran."

"Hey Kaname! Listen, I already saw all this in a vision; I got Yuuki's dress already. I have almost everybody's measurements, so the dress will fit perfectly on her. I've already picked out the perfect dress from a small French boutique called Regard de Robe I found in town. You don't have to worry."

"Okay, can you bring me the dress when you come back to the Moon Dormitories?"

"Okay, bye!"

~End Vision~

NPOV *3rd person*

If possible, Mary Alice Brandon smiled even wider. Yay! I also get to shop for Yuuki Kurosu!... but why is Dorm Leader still acting interested in her? He's dating M now. Oh well! It's better to not ask and just shop.

2 hours latter

MPOV

As I got out of my car (Picture on profile), Alice and I headed toward some French boutiques. I loved my car! My father got it for me a few months ago during my birthday. When I first saw the car, I was speechless. My father thought that I didn't like the car because I hadn't said anything. Of course I thought that the car was a bit plain for my taste, but the car was a really safe car.

Flashback:

'The car looks so plain!' I thought.

"Mels, I know you wanted a convertible, but, for my little girl, safety first"

"Dad! Convertibles have bullet-proof windows, brakes and airbags, what more do I need?"

"… Mels, this car is missile-proof, flamethrower-proof, and let's not forget those brakes you mentioned"

"… and I suppose that it has airbags to top it off. Yeah… sure… that just makes it all better I suppose." I sarcastically remarked.

"Yup" he replied with a smile.

I rolled my eyes.

~End Flashback~

APOV

As I left Melinda's car with her, I couldn't help but notice that people were eyeing her car.

Like candy to a five year old. I just love the spotlight!

I was grinning like mad, I exited Melinda's car. The first boutique I saw was the French boutique in my vision, Regard de Robe. It didn't take long to drive here because we are currently in Yamanashi; it took about an hour to get here because the school is on the side of Mount Fuji, near Yamanashi Prefecture (a real city in Japan, I don't really want to study cities in Japan, so pretend that half of it is a big shopping city and the other half is rural- living in or characteristic of farming or country life). The school is just within the city limit which is why it took so long to get here.

As Melinda and I entered the store, I was struck with a vision.

Vision

Yuuki Kurosu entered the Ball room wearing a pink dress (I wont go into detail, it's the same dress as the one in the anime and manga), with a red rose on a simple light pink ribbon used as a choker, and heels.

"Ah, Zero!"

End Vision

I smiled. Great! I know exactly what dress to get for Yuuki now. That was a rather short vision so Melinda probably won't notice. I looked around for the soft shade of pink from my vision, but to my surprise, about a quarter of the shop was defiantly pink, but the shop also had other varieties in terms of colors and dresses. I smiled at this.

I love looking at and trying on outfits, but what I enjoy more, is dressing up other people and making them beautiful or even more beautiful than they originally were. I believe that everyone and anybody can be pretty with the right clothes and makeup. I never told anyone this, but, my dream is or more accurately was to become a beautician/fashion designer I can no longer say my dream is because I can't sleep and I never actually dreamed of what job I'd do in the future, because the future is constantly changing. Wow, what deep thoughts after exiting a car, good thing that mind reader wait scratch that, he doesn't like being called that, Edward Cullen or Edward Masen, ugh, Edward something, is not here, so I wont be considered even more weird by him and the other vampires, particularly a honey-blonde vampire who used to live in the South at the States. Damn my thing for American Southerners never faded. *sigh* I really am weird. Oh well.

MPOV

I sighed, Alice seemed out of it during the car ride and she seems to be either in deep thought. Maybe she will go easy on me today.

"Mels?" Alice said in an all too innocent voice, "Can I pick out your dress for the dance?"

"Umm…" Shoot! Alice is going to cause a scene unless I let her, but if I let her, she's going to make me try on all types of dresses, I might get stuck with one that I don't like. "No?" I said.

"B-b-but, Mels, I really wanted to dress you up for our first dance in the school, and I almost always dress you up for dances and events. The only exceptions are the events and dances held last year." Alice wined with a puppy-dog pout.

Dear god, Alice is using a guilt trip and a puppy-dog pout, the pout usually doesn't work on me, but it does right after a guilt trip.

"Uh… okay, you can pick out my outfit, but I wont try on any of your choices, if it seems ridiculous, as in sluty (is that even a word?), too much cleavage in certain spots, you know."

"Yay! I promise that I will find outfits that will make all the boys go crazy for you!" she squealed.

No! I mentally moaned.

"Okay, pick out your top ten, from all of the stores then, take a picture, and send them to my cellular device, I'm going to find a book store, I've recently started reading manga, and it is so addicting! I found this manga store online that's across from a French café at the outskirts of town, the area is supposed to be similar to rural areas."

"Okay! I promise Mels, I will pick out the most perfect dress. I know your style! Simple, timeless, elegant, high quality, like what refined high society people, or respected aristocrats would wear to a gala event. But Mels, you know that even though I love shopping, and buying things, makeup, makeovers, and such, you're more important than shopping, so if you wanted, I could…"

"Nah! This town has a low crime rate, so, I don't think that I'll have any problems walking to the store. Well, I guess I'll go to the store then, bye!"

I reached inside my small bag for the directions from Regard de Robes. According to Kaname for walking, I just head toward that direction for three blocks, turn left, walk through the alley, turn left again, then turn right, walk up the small alley, turn left, then walk down a block, the store is the one at the corner.

Normally I would drive my apparate, but walking would be so much healthier. Also, I am going back to this area latter to pick out a dress with Alice, so it makes more sense to walk. The only thing that I worry about is someone trying to jack me for cash, or rapists. Golly, our world is so safe, what? With all the kidnapers and child molesters out there, the least that I'd worry about is someone jacking my purse!

Sometimes I feel unsafe walking through unfamiliar towns, so I brought my wand for safety.

Okay, now I turn left!

*bark* *bark*

My head jolted up high, I looked all around.

Gosh! This alley is making me paranoid. I'm going to take out my wand and hold it just in case, when I get out of the alley, I'm going to put the wand back in the holster, and continue to the shop. Okay now turn left again. This is a really long alley.

As I walked down the alley, I realized that the bad feeling I was getting while in the alley is probably, my paranoia getting the best of me. I mean come on; the chances of something happening to me in this alley are probably less than one percent, right?

Okay, now turn right. I feel bored, I have an idea! I'll skip to the shop! Tralalalala, now turn left again and walk down the street!

I was swinging my bag while skipping down the street; the streets seem very empty, very so different from the other street. What was it called again? Oh yeah! Sakura Boulevard (None of the streets mentioned are actual streets in Yamanashi, Japan), because it has a Sakura tree in front of every building on the street. This street is called Nadeshiko, and has a few Nadeshiko plants growing in front of every building.

Okay, just one more building! Ah ha! Here we are!

I stopped skipping, because I was in front of the shop. I walked into the shop and looked around to survey my surroundings. The shop was called Akabara's English book shop Established 1857. The shop looked like one of the shops at Diagon Alley. There were a lot of books in the shop, and the shop was big. I saw that there were many good classic books that I've read in past years as well as recently popular books and varieties of other books that I haven't read. I walked up to the counter and talked to the employee in Japanese.

"Excuse me; do you have any English manga here desu*?" I asked.

"Of course miss, the manga is just up these stairs madam desu."

"Thank you very much!"

I walked up the stairs. There were only about 30 other people in the entire store that weren't employees. I when I reached upstairs, I found that the entire floor was English manga. I'm in heaven! I decided to browse around the floor before I buy something.

After an hour, I decided to buy all the volumes that are currently out for Record of Fallen Vampire (an actual manga that is really good).I paid the woman in cash. As I exited the store, I headed to my right. When walked out of the store holding the books in a plastic bag with the manga inside. I tied the handles up so that nothing would fall out.

Great, now I have two weapons, wand if they are at a good distance, books for if I drop the wand on accident. Now turn right. Who ever said "books don't hurt you," obviously hasn't been hit by a hard cover book. I have my wand out ready, just in case. Now turn left.

I am now walking through the alley. Tralalalala! Ouch!

For some reason, I'm laying flat on the ground.

Why am I laying face flat on the ground? Oh yeah! I must have tripped!

A waive of sorrow hit me. Why can't I just stop being a klutz for one second? I pushed myself up from the ground. As I was half way up, I felt a slight pain from my right leg.

"Ah!"

I looked at my leg.

I must have scraped my leg when I fell down. Therese a little bit of blood, but it'll stop quickly.

*rustle* *rustle*

I looked around, but saw nothing.

Strange! I thought I heard someone.

*swish*

I looked up. A man was reaching toward me as he was falling down. I quickly went with my instincts and ran to the next turn, and shot the man with a stunner, but it bounced off as I was running. 30 seconds when I reached the turn, the man was running towards me again when.

The man was laughing with sinister smile upon his face. I didn't notice until now, the man had fangs.

"Level E, dragon's dung!" I cursed.

*slash*

A blonde boy with green eyes was holding the Kanata (type of sword) with a sexy serious expression. The man now turned to dust. I just now noticed. The blonde boy was accompanied by another boy that was a brunette with silver eyes that had tints of blue. They are wearing the same outfits as when they did in the manga.

My eyes widened again. Without thinking, I ran away from the alley, and back to the crowded main streets.

I'm sure I'll lose them in the main streets.

I felt a vibration from my bag. I took out my cell phone and looked at the screen.

Ah! A text from Alice!

*text message*

Meet me up two blocks from Regard de Robes at Serena's. I've got the outfits.

NPOV

Takuma Ichijo and Senri Shiki watched as the teen ran away from them.

"Do you think we should have run after her?" asked Takuma.

"I don't like chasing" replied Senri.

*ring*

Takuma took out his cell phone.

"Hello?" asked Takuma.

"Ichijo? It's Kaname; there has been another report of another Level E in town. Can you exterminate this one immediately as well?"

"Yes Kaname-sama, but your girlfriend just saw us exterminate a level E and ran away."

"Alright, good bye Ichijo."

"Alright, but are you not worried about your girlfriend?"

"No, end of conversation Ichijou."

End Conversation

"Ah! Well, I think we can leave her be Shiki. Kaname doesn't mind!" Takuma said cheerfully as ever, and then he mysteriously said, "For now that is."

"What ever." Shiki said in a monotone.

I was originally going to end it there, but decided to write more.

MPOV

I ran down the block after getting the text. I looked around the crowd of people for the store Alice mentioned in the text. Serena's? I think it was called.

Ah! There it is!

Serena's was a large department store similar to Barney's New York, and Saks Fifth Avenue. As I walked inside, I could tell that the store was filled with tons of expensive things. The displays were expensive perfumes, and hand bags that cost around the price range of an average American's salary. All the clothes in the store were designer brands ranging from brands such as Louis Vitton, to brands like Zac Posen. Trust Alice to find the best shop in a town in less than 20 minutes.

*vibrates*

Ah! Another text message.

Text message

Meet me at fifth floor at changing rooms.

I walked to the elevators.

*Ding!*

I turned my head to see that people were exiting an elevator going upstairs. I walked to the elevator and once inside, I pressed 5. As I stood in the elevator, thoughts drifted into my head as the door closed.

What the hop-goblins was a Level E doing near Yamashi? Usually they are at more rural areas of town.

*Ding!*

I walked out of the elevator as the door opened and walked to the changing rooms.

"Mels!"

I turned around to see Alice running towards me with many outfits in hand darn her vampire strength, now she can carry more clothes.

"Hey Alice. Which clothes should I try on?"

"These." Alice said holding out straight her left hand.

It's a miracle those clothes don't fall into a heap on the ground.

"Okay, I'll try them on."

I went to the changing room to try on the clothes. All outfits on profile.

"So Alice," I said while changing, "I was almost attacked while walking through an alley today."

APOV

I stood outside Melinda's changing room as she was trying out dresses, so I could give her my opinion when she came out. I don't know why.

"So Alice, I was almost attacked while walking through an alley today."

I stiffened, I paused before I curtly said, "How so?"

"Well, I was walking through an alley, when I tripped, I of course gotten up, but then I heard rustling, I looked all around, but no one, when I looked up, I saw a vampire diving down, like he was going to attack me, I of course on instinct, hit him with a stunner which bounced off, and ran to the next turn in the alley, which is also the last turn in the alley until the main streets. As I ran, there were two boys that saved me, a brunette and a blonde…"

I waited a few moments. "Go on." I encouraged stiffly. Melinda walked out of the closet looking as if the dress was made for her.

Melinda spoke quietly, "Well, I noticed, the men had blue eyes and green eyes, respectively, and I want you to find out who they are in the Night Class." Melinda said in a commanding tone.

I took in a deep breath when Melinda looked down to me and said in a demeaning tone, "Can you still data mine the system?"

"Of course, this is me that you're talking about."

"Okay, well, I have to go bathroom." I lied, vampires don't have to go bathroom.

"Sure," she smiled, "but first, tell me your opinion of this dress, I personally think that it shows to much skin for my liking, and looks like it's for a bridesmaid, but a bit to short for my liking."

"Now that you mention it, I notice it too. Let's just cross this dress off our list. I'm going to go now; can you hold my stuff for me?"

"Of course."

I ran to the bathroom at human speed. Luckily, there were no lines for the bathroom. I went inside and into a stall. I closed my eyes and the vision came.

Vision

"Melinda," I croaked with a sad expression as if I was going to cry while holding Melinda in my arms. "I'm going to protect you with all my powers and with all the help I can obtain, so don't worry."

While all this was happening, Melinda was unconscious with a peaceful expression on her face.

End Vision

I opened my eyes and put on a solemn expression, something is going to happen to Melinda, and I must use all my powers to prevent this catastrophe.

MPOV

I tried on the second dress, it fit perfectly, but it looked more for a funeral. I sighed and took off the outfit and tried on the third dress.

This dress is perfect, but there's always a better dress out there, so I should try on the others as well.

I took off the dress and tried on the fifth dress. I didn't try on the fourth because I didn't really like designs on dresses, I prefer a solid color, but every now and then, I wear dresses with more colors, but not so much that it looked like someone sneezed in it.

This dress seems perfect as well, but it's below my ankle, so it's too long unless, I'm going to a wedding.

"Wow, that dress looks wonderful on you!" Alice said in what seemed like a confused tone.

"Is it not supposed to Mary Alicia?"

"No," she said sadly.

"Is something wrong?"

"No, nothing's wrong"

"Well, okay then, I'll try on another dress." I said as I closed the door of the dressing room.

Something is wrong! Alice always gets worked up when I call her Mary Alicia, unless something is wrong or she's in front of a superior.

"Melinda I have to tell you something."

"Hmm? What is it?"

"I… I have a crush!"

"Really? Who's the lucky guy? And how do I look?" I said walking out with the sixth dress.

"He's… he's… You know, you look great in that dress." Alice said with false cheeriness.

"Really? I personally think that this dress is more suitably for prom or a ball. Why are you switching the subject?"

"No! Of course I'm not changing the subject! I have a crush on… Jasper… Jasper Whitlock."

"I don't think that I've heard of him, is he in the Night Class? I'm going to try on another dress." I said nonchalantly.

"Coward."

"Beg pardon?" I asked.

I looked at the next dress, it looked unique and pretty, but I thought that it would make me look like I really want to stand out at the dance, so I didn't try it on, I tried on the next dress (the eighth dress).

"Nothing! Um… the truth is… I don't have a crush on Jasper Whitlock, or Cullen, he sometimes goes by Cullen."

I walked out of the changing room with the eighth dress and said, "Then what were you trying to hide? People usually don't lies unless they are trying to hide something, or they benefit from the lies."

"Wow that dress looks perfect, but part of me doesn't imagine you walking into the ball room with that dress."

"Don't change the subject, and I think that this dress is perfect also, but part of me keeps on saying that this dress is not the one, and there's a better dress."

"Okay, um… I'll tell you after we finish with the shopping."

"Sure," I said walking back into the dressing room.

I looked at the ninth dress, it looked like a great dress, but it seemed more suitable for someone taller, and I think that it would be better on a blonde, but currently, my hair color was a chestnut brown with strands of my natural pale blonde hair, my hair is turning back into its original color. I instead tried on the last dress. It looked beautiful and high quality.

I walked out to Alice and said, "What do you think?"

"It's perfect, I imagine that you going to the dance with that dress."

"Okay then I'll change back into my normal clothes."

"What? But you still haven't tried on a few dresses."

"I didn't like them."

"B-b-but, I really liked th-those dresses." Alice wined.

"Really Alice, over a few dresses?"

"Melie, please." Alice asked in a childish voice.

"Don't call me Melie, it's really childish."

"Melie, Melie, Melie, Melie, Melie, Melie, Melie, please Melie, please!"

"Call me Melie one more time, and I'll call you Mary Alicia for the rest of the day."

"You wouldn't dare, you know how much I detest that name!"

"Which is how I know that we are on the same page, right Mary Alicia?" I said empathizing Mary Alicia.

Alice flinched, "Okay, just don't call me that atrocious name again."

"As long as you don't call me Melie."

"Deal, we'll buy this dress and I'll tell you the truth."

"Actually, some other dresses caught my eye, so I'm buying some others as well."

"Okay I'll wait outside for you."

"Sure."

Five minutes later

APOV

I'm going to tell her once we get back into her dorm room, I know part of me is trying to post pone this, but, once I go forward with this, I might loose Melinda as a friend, but I'll risk it, I'm tired of lying to my best friend.

"Hey Alice, I'm done, lets go to the car. What did you want to talk about?" Melinda asked holding a shopping with the dresses inside along with her books.

"Actually, can we postpone it until we get to your dorm?"

"Avoiding the subject will get you nowhere in life Alice."

"I'm just not ready yet." I said feeling detached.

One hour and a half latter ~ in Melinda's dorm

MPOV

We were sitting on the couch at the living room near the entrance, Alice told me that she will tell me the "truth" about her, I don't really understand what she means, but that doesn't mean that I'm not all too unwilling to hear what she wants to tell me.

"Look, the truth to why I have been so distant with you lately, is because…" Alice said while taking a deep breath, "I saw a vision of us in ruins and I'm afraid of what the future will hold."

It was clear that there was no more, so I said, "Alice, the best we can do now is just make plans just in case, so you can prepare for the worse case scenarios, your visions of the future can change, mine cannot, so all will reveal itself in due time."

Alice looked away, "Your right Mels, I'm going to work with all I have for now, I should have known you had those dreams before I had my visions, good bye M."

With that Alice vanished away.

And that's chapter seven! Please rate and review.