In this chapter its mostly what the pages of Celeste's journal say so I just wanted to tell you it will be kind of confusing because I made it so she doesn't elaborate a lot on who the people are but it will be cleared up in later chapters so don't get all frisky. Also my dates probably are way off so don't throw things at my head -- if you rpg-- I used a 2003 calender.

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Today I met Michael at the meeting. Michael is the sweetest guy I've met. He treats me perfect and his hunting ability is amazing. Though, I do prefer healing sometimes he can kill a vampire easy. We had lots of fun sneaking away from Dominique and those old crones for some private time. He took me to the lake and it was beutiful. We watched the sun set and talked like we never had before. He finally turned to me and asked me to marry him. I fell right into the lake. He laughed and helped me out but the diamond ring in his hand sparkled like nothing I'd ever seen before.

I took it of course and put it on screaming happily- I think I scared him a little. He took me home and My father had to chase him away because he wouldn't leave. So here I am now writing in you to keep this secret since I haven't told anyone.

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Marina smiled slightly. So that was how her mother had been purposed to by her father. She had never known before. She pulled out a picture of the handsome man that was, or what she thout was, her father. He looked kind and happy, so why did Silver say he was cruel enough to get rid of her because he didn't want her. She turned the page.

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*Thursday, June 5*

I met Silver today. He seemed stressed and a little angry when I told him I was marrying Michael. He looked like he was trying to hide something from me but I wasn't sure what and didn't want to ask. He seemed not to like Michael and I's relationship from the begining but he never said anythingand held back insults like a gentleman. I never thought I'd call a vampire a gentleman before I met him. God I love him. He's such a big brother and takes care of me when I need it. Even when I called him an Albino bastard.....

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Marina laughed reading this. What a shock it must have been for him when she said those exact words as well.

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......which he seemed to get really angry with me. I hope he understands that I really love Michael. He's an amazing man and if anybody accepts Michael that I care of it's him. I needed his blessing before I did anything more with Michael. And I got it today. He didn't seem to like it but he gave it to me. I'm going to marry Michael and goddess forbid my father to get in the way! The old man is sixty-three and retired but still thinks he has control over all of the younger generations. I think it was the generation before mine that gave him the nickname father anyway! But still he is good to talk to and understanding. Plus he says I make him feel so old and everytime he says it I laugh at the scorn in his voice.

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Marina read the next few pages finding more pictures and gasped when she found something she had always wanted but never gotten- a picture of her mother. It looked new and she looked on the back to see if it said anything. It said: To my only love Marina. She squinted at the lettering matching it up with her mothers but there was a tiniest faint of aura on it that she couldn't categorize. Was it from Silver trying to copy her mothers writing so she thought it was from her mother or was it really from her mother? The date on the bottom of the card also written in her mother's handwriting though said it couldn't have been. The note had been written five years ago-her mother was dead way before five years ago.

Marina turned back to the journal in hopes of finding the answer. The page she flipped to seemed stained with tears.

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*Sunday, June 22*

I'm pregnant. I can't believe it. I never though it would happen like this. Who can I possibly tell that would understand how can anyone help me? Michael doesn't know and I don't think I can even tell him. Is that Silver.....

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Marina held her breath. So this was when Silver found out.

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..........there I told him everything and he made me feel even worse. How could he do that! Telling me he would protect my child through everything as long as he lived. bDevoting his life to take care of her! What if he gets killed or something? Then it's my fault for telling him! He told me he would take care of her and kill anything that held her back from being what she could be. I don't think even Michael could make a promise like that, to his own child much less. I don't know wether to get rid of the child or not.

I can't. It is my duty to protect all life and I have to make sure even an unborn life safely goes on living. I might tell Trent and ask him to tell Michael. He always did things like that for me when I was little. I hope he will.

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A tear slipped down Marina's face quickly wiping it away. They were just words. Silver could have lied for many reasons. So why when he told her he'd protect her did he seem so convincing. She sat on the cold floor of the kitchen and not even the cold could break her from her thoughts.

Shen tilted her head at the roughly ripped edges sticking from the journal. It seemed there were at least twenty pages ripped out only three passages remaining.

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*Sunday, August 10*

I was so confused when I awoke but he was there telling me what to do to make the pain in my chest go away. I was blind and then my vision just sht at me. I had never known such pain before, but the power and aura showed me I wouldn't feel it for long. I took a breath finding I didn't have to exhale. I closed my eyes but somehow still knew where everything was, including him. But of course his aura stuck out.

When the sweet scent filled the room I turned to him expectingly taking his wrist and wrapping my lips about the wound. As the bittersweet taste filled my mouth I realized something.

Silver turned me into a vampire.

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Marina slammed shut the book tossing it to the other side of the room in shock. She stared as it slid and came to a stop tears spilling from her eyes and she making no attempt to wipe them away. She took quick shallow breaths and held her stomach about to vomit. Her mother didn't die, she was a vampire! Silver changed her! How could he do something like that!

She stood moving to the sink as she began retching. Why was it making her sick? Why didn't her mother take care of her if she was alive? Well undead anyway. Did her mother believe that her daughter wouldn't love her because she was a vampire? Marina wished she couls talk to her but what would she do just go up to Silver and demand to see her mother?

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Juicy isn't it?