Chapter 49
~Normal P.O.V~
As I began to wake up I groaned and sat up in my bed. For some reason I could not remember what happened last night. The last thing I could remember was reading my book. When I tried to remember my head throbbed painfully which also brought my notice to a pain on my neck. I reached behind my head and rubbed the skin that hurt and when I did the skin felt soft, bruised. Something, or someone, must have hit me.
'What the hell happened to me last night? Why can't I remember?' I thought to myself, frowning. Getting more comfortable I sat cross legged in the middle of my bed.
Curious to the time, as I still felt sleepy, I looked over to the alarm clock Kaien had given me. To my surprise it was only seven am. Groaning, I flopped backwards back onto my bed. I couldn't believe I had actually woken up at this time on my own. Perhaps it was just habit from getting up early for school. It still sucked though.
"It's way to early to get up. Is it a Saturday or a Friday today? What was yesterday?" I asked myself, yawning sleeping. As I was getting myself in a comfortable position to sleep I noticed a cold breeze brush past my face.
"Hmm?" I thought to myself, confused. Sitting myself up again I glanced over to the window, the sorce of the wind.
For some odd reason the window was left open. The curtains were half closed and flapped as the wind blew in. I was very confused since I didn't normally leave my window open. Yet there was also the fact that I couldn't remember what had happened last night. Perhaps it had to do with the person, or the thing that had hit me last night, causing me to lose my memory.
"Strange." I mumbled to myself. Sliding of my bed, and yawning, I walked over to the window, shut it and pulled the curtains over it to make it darker.
"There, that's better." I said happily, glad to be back in the dark. Or at least it wasn't overly bright.
I had always had a problem with bright lights first thing in the morning. They were annoying as well and always made me feel as if I could go blind. I have always been that way ever since my parents started waking me up in the morning by turning on the lights without warning. Talk about a rude awakening, huh?
"Well I don't care if it is Friday. I am going back to sleep." I spoke to myself with a yawn. Climbing back into the bed I curled up comfortably and, yawning once more, closed my eyes to sleep.
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"Hey, Ms, are you alright?"
A boy's voice pulled me out of my thoughts. The voice somehow sounded strangely familiar, and it even had a Japanese like accent to it. I opened my eyes and turned my head to the side to see a boy was standing behind me. He had neat, shoulder length, dirty blond and dark green eyes. He looked to be a few years older than I am and he was also taller than I was; between three or five inches taller I think. The boy was smiling at me and I had the strangest feeling that I had seen him somewhere before.
"I'm fine, thank you." I said polity as I could while I tried to figured out where it was that I've seen him before. The boy frowned suddenly and I guessed he caught the sad look I must have given.
"You don't look that good. Are you sure you are alright?" He ask in a soft tone that people use to sooth sad people and I gave a soft sigh.
"My parents and younger sister died recently. I'm still in grieving." I said as I looked down to avoid the older boy's gaze.
"Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that. I myself lost my father in a murder when I was really young and I haven't heard from my mother in a very long time. The only family I have is my grandfather." The boy said with concern in his voice. Blinking, I lifted my head to look at him.
"I'm sorry to hear that." I said and attempted a small smile to show sympathy. It was then that I noticed that he was holding a manga in one of his hands.
I squinted my eyes as I tried to make out the title of the book. In white letters it said Blood Kiss and it had a small red heart between the two words. Hmm, I had read that manga before but it was on the computer on a sight called One Manga. I happened to read almost all my Manga on that website. Even if it was out, I'd read on One Manga. The words would be different than the ones they used in the books.
The boy seemed to notice that I was looking his way and he looked down to see exactly what I was looking at. When he saw that it was the book, he looked back up with another smile.
"Do you like manga?" He asked with bright and cheery smile. At the same time I was still trying to think of where I've seen him before.
"Sure. It's one of my favorite types of book to read. I've also read Bloody Kiss before, but only through the internet. I really like it but I wish it was longer." I said and he laughed. It seems as though he was agreeing with me.
"So, what's your favorite manga?" The boy asked. For the first time in a while I found myself smiling; for a moment my mind let me forget about my dead family.
"It's a manga called Vampire Knight..." I started but trailed off when I finally realized where I have seen this boy before. Only there was one problem with that; it was from a manga.
'No, it can't me him. It just can't be. It's not possible. It's just not possible. He just looks like Takuma Ichijo from Vampire Knight. I'm just stressed and my mind is playing tricks on me. Calm down, Ashley, it's not really him.' I thought to myself as I felt my heart beat speed up in my chest.
"Oh really?" He asked as he raised an eyebrow. It was as if he knew something that I didn't. I gulped lightly and hoped he didn't notice.
"Who's your favorite vampire?" He asked me with a smile that seemed different from the one he was giving me a little while ago. It looked a little sly like, like he knew something I didn't, again.
"Um, I'm sorry but do you know what time it is?" I asked, trying to change the subject. I was a little scared that this boy may really be Takuma Ichijo from Vampire Knight.
"Oh, it's almost 4:30pm." He said once he looked at a watch that he was wearing on his wrist. I widened my eyes as I realized that I had been standing around and talked to this boy longer than I had thought.
"Oh no, I'm late. I'm going to be is so much trouble." I said in a whiny panicked voice. I had to say that this was one of my best acts.
I didn't actually care if I got into trouble with my foster family. All I really wanted was to get away from this boy who resembled Takuma Ichijo so much. It was just too creepy.
"Oh, it's alright, I have a job I have to get anyways. Although, may I have your name before you leave?" He asked and gave me a cute smile. I already turned my back on him but I turned my head around so I could face him.
"Ashley. Ashley Riehl." I told him. Once again I found that he was smiling at me.
"What a Interesting name. Mine name is Takuma. Takuma Ichijo."
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"Hello there, little girl." An almost sinister, evil, man's voice said from behind me. I turned around to see the figure of a man standing in the shadows.
'Little girl? I'm sixteen.' I thought to myself as I tried to get a better look at the man. He was standing besides one of the sidewalk tress, which shadowed him even more in the darkness.
"Uh, excuse me sir, I don't mean to be rude but I really need to be going." I told the man, starting to get nervous. Even though I have been told I can be very rude I always try to be polite with strangers since you never know who you talk to.
I was about to turn around to leave but gasped startlingly as the man suddenly appeared in front of me. How the hell did he do that? He had shaggy, short black hair, looked to around his twenties and had wine colored eyes. His clothing was nothing special, brown pants, a white shirt and a blue open jacket. His skin, however, in the light of the near by street lamp, I could tell he was not from around here.
"Heheh. Everything looks so strange in this weird world. Everyone smells so good here, including you, for an alien." The man crackled evilly, obvious ignore me. Although I was frightened I also felt very confused and insulted at being called an alien.
"Alien? I am not an alien, what are you talking about? What do you mean by blood and this world?" I demanded while I took a few steps backwards. This man was starting to scare me and I was very tempted to take out my knife; especially when the man's eyes started to glow red.
"Oh my. It looks as if this world has never heard of vampires. Or is that just you?" The man asked, seemingly in a mocking tone. I continued to be confused until the man bared fangs and I eyed them in shock.
'A real vampire? No, that is impossible. This has got to be some kind of joke. Maybe that Takuma look alike is doing this to mess with me.' I thought, trying to convince myself this was true. However I couldn't stop the feeling of fear shooting up my spine as the so called vampire jumped at me with a hiss.
"Ah, your blood is even better than the girls back in my own world." He snickered evilly and I turned around to see him licking blood off his fingers. After a few seconds of confusion my eyes widen as the pain finally took it's effect.
"Ahhh." I screamed out and gripped my bleeding arm. Even though I didn't believe this man was a real vampire he was insane and I glared at him angrily.
"What in fucking hell are you doing?" I demanded, angry and surprised by the attack. The man that was pretending to be a vampire simply giggled, licking the last bit of blood off his fingers.
"Little girls like you shouldn't swear." He mocked me as he once again ignored my demand. Feeling that my life may be in danger I let my arm go to grab at my knife.
"Stay away from me you freak!" I screamed at him, holding out my knife. By this time I was surprised no one was coming to see what all the noise was about.
To my fear the man only raised his eyebrows and began to laugh at the sight of my knife. I refused to believe that this man was a real vampire but then again more strange things have been happening. I had met a boy claiming to be Takuma Ichijo and, by chance that was him, maybe this man came with him. If that was true that would make this man a former human and I was in serious danger.
"Ah, how cute. You're pretending to be all brave. Unless I was wrong about you. Perhaps you are a hunter and they always have the best blood." The man snickered and, before I knew it, was running towards me. Before I could do anything my arm was slashed and I screamed once again
'Why is no one coming outside? Why is no one coming to help me?' I thought and falling to my knees. Out of reaction I let go of my knife to grip my bleeding arm.
"You fucking bastard!" I screamed at the man in my angry. There was no way I was just going to sit there and do nothing to protect myself.
Acting as quickly as I could I grabbed my knife and stood up. Trying as hard as I could to ignore the pain I slashed my knife out at the man as he tried attacking me again. This time he cried out in pain and jumped back, gripping his shoulder. However he soon got over the pain, or so it looked like it, and he was glaring at me.
"You won't live to regret that, little human looking alien." The man snarled at me angrily. However I was still annoyed and confused about being called an alien; was that supposed to be some kind of joke?
Just like last time before I realized what was happening I was pushed against a telephone pole by my shoulders. I didn't even have time to cry out in surprise before I was crying out in pain as my hair was roughly grabbed. It got even more painful when my head was forced to the side, exposing my naked neck to the man. Without any warning I felt sharp blades enter through my skin but they weren't really blades but a pair of fangs.
As I screamed in the pain and fear I finally realized that this was a honest to god real vampire. I wasn't getting pranked at all but actually getting attacked by a real blood thirsty vampire. Could that also mean that that Takuma boy really was Takuma then? It seemed impossible but then again I was having my blood sucked rather painfully. I could feel the monster's tongue licking at my throat over and over again. I groaned in disgust and fear as it felt like I was getting a hickey.
"Let go of her you scum!" I heard a familiar voice shout, though it was faint from the blood loss. I could make out a soft growl before I felt myself slide to the cement sidewalk, blacking out.
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I sat up in bed, blinking rapidly in confusion. I had no idea why I had forgotten all about those incidents up until now. That is until I calmed down and remembered Takuma's voice before I had fainted. He must have erased my memories of him and the attack before bringing me here. I had always suspected a vampire had attacked me when I found the gauze around my neck. But now at least I understood Kaien and Kaname better.
"Huh, so that is how everything went down, huh? I am such a hypocrite." I chuckled to myself as I brushed my hand through my hair. After promising myself not to get scared if a vampire attacked me I got scared.
Speaking of getting scared and vampires, it reminded me of Kevin, the vampire that had kidnapped me. I wonder if he had been killed yet or if he was still alive. I sure hope so or else a new group of girls will be in danger. Sighing and stretching my arms over mt head, I got out of bed. As I began to get dressed I got the feeling that Kevin wasn't finished with the story line just yet.
