I decided to finish it there. Truthfully I had no idea where I was going to take this story and it was driving me a little crazy. Thanks to all the readers and reviewers. I hope you liked it
All of that was 50 years ago now! I never made it to my 22nd birthday. Officially Anyetta Kekai died in a car crash. Her car went over the cliff and the body was never found. Of course there were witnesses to testify that she was behind the wheel.
The day that Anya died was the day that Lailani St.John was born. Half sister to Mick St.John and miraculously best friend to Anya. They were such good friends that Anya left all her worldly possessions to Lailani. Some people even thought that they were twins.
Ok ok, so you guessed it, Josef turned me! Were you really that surprised? After the court case with my family we realised that what we had was forever and there was no way that I was going to age gracefully while Josef stayed the same forever.
What happened with my family? Well they got exactly what was coming to them. All their past bank accounts were looked into and they were ripping me off royally. After selling their four very expensive cars, all their jewellery and possessions, all money was paid back to me with interest. When going through their jewellery my mother's locket was found. I now where the original while Josef had the replica melted down and made into my engagement/wedding/eternity ring. All that I left my family with was a practically empty house. Unfortunately they didn't get to keep that either. While going through all their accounts Josef's lawyers found that not only were they ripping me off, but they also weren't paying their taxes. Being the good citizens that we are, we thought that it was best that we informed the IRS of this. Their house was seized and their wages will be garnished, probably until they die!
I went and visited my Grandmother not long before Josef turned me. It was my way of saying goodbye. The whole time that I was there she was acting very strange, and then 4 days before I was supposed to leave I found her in her bed. She had gone to sleep the night before and died quietly in her sleep. They did an autopsy and found that she just stopped. It was like she had had enough and just stopped working. No disease, no illness, no poisons. She just shut herself off. I wasn't sad for her. She had known that it was coming. Like my Grandfather she had prepared everything before her death and when I found her on that morning she had a smile on her face. It was what she wanted.
Kate left the day that Anya died. She came to terms with my relationship with Josef but couldn't really handle me being a vampire and maybe one day having to feed from her. Not only that but she was reaching the age that it became unhealthy for her. She still kept in contact with Lisa and her sister (when she did become a freshie) through them I heard that she put her degree to good use and became an architect in Chicago. She met a girl named London and they settled down together. Through a sperm donor Kate gave birth to twins. A boy named Jarrod and a girl named Anya!
About a year after I became a vampire we moved to Paris. Josef was sick of the new world as he put it and wanted to go back to being a European Aristocrat. Other than that, if I was ever photographed with Josef then some people may have recognised me. I loved Paris, we still go back often. Not long after we moved their Mick and Beth joined us. Beth had finally talked Mick into turning her and because her face was so well known in the states, they had to go to Europe.
After all this time Josef and I are still together and as in love as when I was human. Robert did end up buying a cow bell and still rings it occasionally when coming into a room. We all now live on a vineyard in Tuscany in a villa, though I don't know how it can be called a villa when it is three times the size of the L.A house. I wrote a few books under a few different names over the years. Josef is still taking the business world by storm, earning millions everyday. Last we heard from Mick and Beth, they were in Russia. Beth does articles for different papers under different names and Mick has become a bit of an artist. He does beautiful wood carvings and paints. Josef just says it's something to do in his old age and that he'll get over it soon enough!
Well that was my life as a Freshie. I guess it's not typically what happens to every Freshie if any at all. Josef asked me once if I regret giving up my human life. If I regret not having children or growing old. I told him
"Josef firstly getting old is overrated. Too much crap comes with getting old and other than that, there was never a 100 percent guarantee that I would have gotten old. I could have actually died in a car accident or gotten sick. As for children, maybe a little, but then I think about the love that you and I have for each other and that's all I need"
I never regretted any decision that I ever made. They have all led me the right way. I may have given up a lot but I got so much back in return and it was all because of the simple life of a Freshie!