Author's Note: I know that it's really short, but it's a prologue, and prologue's are always short. so sue me.

Dead Blood Can Love

Prologue

by Morgaine of Ithil

Amanda Cindy Roberts was quite possibly the most plain person in the whole entire world... living or dead. She got good marks, but she wasn't the best in her class. She wasn't very attractive since she always wore huge round glasses and her limp brown hair was hiding her face. She was a typical 15 year old in regards to her teenaged problems (i.e., finding a boyfriend, etc.) except for the fact that she didn't have much of a social life. She had one best friend, Suzie, who also happened to be her only friend, with whom she had just finished a pre-beginning-of-school study session. Since Suzie lived only a couple of blocks away from Amanda, Amanda decided to walk home. It was 10 pm, but she thought she lived in a safe neighborhood so she walked home.

Her town was fairly small, downtown consisting of only two or three streets. She attended Rosedale Secondary School, and she really hated it there. She lived only a couple of towns away from Mansbridge Academy, which was the school she really wanted to go to. Her brother had gone there on a scholarship but he had graduated a couple of years ago. Amanda wanted to go to Mansbridge because she knew absolutely no one there. But her parents said it was too far and too expensive and so Amanda could never go to Mansbridge. During her walk home, she thought about how horrible her life must be, since in just six days she would be starting 10th grade at Rosedale. She knew she was in for another year of being average, just a wallflower. She was so deep into her thoughts that she hardly noticed when a shadow moved and she suddenly found herself in a dark dead-end alley.

"Why, hello there," said a deep voice, obviously male. It chilled her to the bone. "Aren't you out a bit late?" it asked her.

"It's only 10:30," she pointed out, with as much confidence in her voice as she could muster. But inside she was shaking. Would she get mugged? Or worse, would she get raped? Every instinct told her to run, but the man was blocking her way out of the alley, and she knew she wasn't fast enough to out run him anyway. She backed up as he began to come closer to her. Amanda found her back against the brick wall and the man inches away from her.

"Aww, what's the matter honey?" he asked in a taunting voice. "Are you scared? Of me?" he questioned her.

Slowly, she nodded. What are you doing?! her mind screamed at her. She was talking to a strange man in a very dark alley and she couldn't even see the man she was talking to.

Amanda saw the gleam of sharp, white teeth as the man smiled in the dim light. "Good, you should be," he told her in a menacing voice. His eyes glinted and in the dim light she thought that they were red, but knew her eyes were probably playing tricks on her. The man closed the distance in a split second and for a moment, Amanda thought that he would kiss her. It'd be a depressing first kiss though, in a dark alley by some stranger, of course, the typical thing that would happen to Amanda. But the man dipped his head down, grabbed Amanda by her shoulders, and bit into the main vein in her neck.

Amanda could feel the blood slowly being drained away from her. Her mind tried to process what was happening, but all she could think of was vampires??? I am getting sucked dry by a vampire??? this can't be happening... and then, a new thought, a new idea ... what if I become a vampire? It seems so right... so right.... and before she could do anything else or think another thought, her mind shut down and the world went black. Amanda slouched against the wall behind her, unconcious.

But, as every vampire has a gift, this particular vampire had the gift of reading minds. And so, he heard her last thoughts, and made some decisions. Why not? The vampire race is dwindling anyways... besides, she'd definitely have a better life as a vamp. Ah, what the hell... The vampire made her one of his own kind, then hastily left, having been fed for the night. Amanda's body lay in the dark alley, and to all that knew her, she disappeared.

A/N: Stay tuned for the next chapters! I promise that I'll write at least one more chapter... hehe, at least one. I'm a little iffy on the title, I might change it later on... any suggestions would be helpful! Please Read and Review, it's not that hard, you know! And read more of my stuff! ~Morgaine of Ithil~