A/N: Okay, because of a bit of a snafu of sorts in the reviews, I want to say that Alucard, Integra, and the others will be appearing in their own time. Please be patient. Only about two or three chapters until then, everyone, please stay with me! --------

At the time, I had no idea it would go this far. I mean, it sounded like a good idea at the time, but I never expected this. Never in my wildest dreams. My nightmares are another story..

It was spring of my senior year of high school. My boyfriend, Keiren, and I had just gotten back from separate spring vacations. He has gone to England! I was so jealous! I spent my week in Cancun with my older sister. She went to Butler. It was so much fun! If my parent's knew half of what I did there they'd so freak out! But anyway, I just flew back in on Sunday before class started again so I didn't have a chance to see him before he picked me up for school. I was still experiencing a bit of jetlag. If it weren't for the review for a big Chem test that was to be the next day, I wouldn't have gone to school.

"Hey babe!" I said half heartedly. "How was your trip?"

"Fine." he said even less enthusiastic than I had. I noticed bags peeking out from under his sunglasses. 'Okay, this is weird! He'd usually be rambling on about the trip while on a caffeine high from his usual five cups of coffee in the morning.'

"Hey! Nice contacts! The red eyes suit you!"

"Uh. thanks."

I could tell that I wasn't going to get anywhere. "I need to go to the nurse's office this morning, so could you drop me at the door?"

Keiren only grunted.

The rest of the ride was quiet. I kept my eye on him and I saw him make like he was going to say something but then thought better of it.

When we arrived at school, he dropped me off at the doors and he seemed very eager to do so.

I got some aspirin from the nurse to try and get rid of the headache before it was aggravated.

I saw Keiren again in second period English. When I walked in the room I saw him talking to the teacher. "Okay, go ahead!" I heard Mr. Flemming say.

"Thanks a lot! Your next movie is free!" Keiren said. He worked at the multiplex downtown.

I went to my assigned seat and turned around to talk to Keiren but instead I was greeted by a dirty look from the class bitch, Claire. "Oh no..." I muttered.

"Oh yes, my dear Hikari, we get to bond for the rest of the year," she sneered.

"Why are you here?"

"Oh, have you and Keiren stopped caring about each other?" she giggled annoyingly at her pun. "It seems your boytoy has gotten sick. He's gotten a bit sensitive to sunlight so he asked Flemming to move him away from the windows. I don't what it's about. Maybe he got something in England. Maybe he caught something from one of the local girls if you know what I mean."

I rolled my eyes. I didn't even validate her with a verbal response. I looked over to Falen. 'What's wrong with you?' I tried to ask him telepathically. But, since such things are the stuff of fiction, I got no response.

"Alright everyone! Listen up! I hope you all had fun on your vacation. Those of you who went somewhere, for extra credit, you can tell me where you went and a little bit of what you did. Just a page, not too much.

"Now, take out your copies of David Copperfield. I hope we all did our reading assignment over the break because you have a quiz tomorrow." Groans chorused from the class. "Now, now, no whining; you knew it was coming. At any rate." and as Flemming turned to the chalkboard, I tuned him out and turned to Keiren. He was whispering to one of his friends.

Now that he had his sunglasses off, I could see how dark the circles under his eyes were. 'You'd better tell me what happened at lunch today or you're dead meat.'

But, he never showed up at lunch. I was so pissed at him! I spent the entire lunch period ranting at my girlfriends about how he ignored me all day. He's going to get it.

After school, I made my way against the crowd exiting to his locker. I pounded my fist on the locker next to his and made a loud bang. He jumped, dropping his sunglasses. "Okay, I'm not going to leave you alone until you tell me exactly what happened in England. Day by day."

"I was afraid of this," Keiren sighed. He gathered the rest of his stuff and closed his locker. "Come with me. I know somewhere private where we can talk."

I followed him outside, past the parking lot, to the football field. It took a while to find the key but he eventually unlocked the door to the locker room. He speed aside to let me come in, then locked the door behind us. We were in pitch darkness for a while until he found the light switch. "Okay, I'm going to make this short." He grabbed a couple of metal folding chairs and turned them to face each other. I sat down soon after he did. "The first day there, I was at a club. The drinking age is 18 there so I was a little trashed." I raised my eyebrows at him. "Okay I was totally trashed. Anyway, I don't remember too much but something happened. People stated screaming, and people were running. Somehow, I got myself stuck not far from the exit. This guy was there and he was as calm as could be. He wasn't worried at all about the pandemonium all around us. I asked him what was up and he answered me by biting me. That's all I remember. Well, I do remember one thing." He pulled down the collar of his sweatshirt. There, plain as the eye could see were two holes. "Now.. I'm a vampire."