A/N: You should all feel very lucky. I decided to give you an extra chap this week! Why? Because I am super happy that vacation started 1 1/2 hours ago! Yeah free, free, free, free! Free from all the idiots! Ok. Here's the threat of the week; if none review before Monday I'm not posting until (when a sufficiently evil amount time?) The last day of May.

Disclaimer: I own the following: Taber, Angel, Devin, Andrea, Lucy, Lynx, Dragon, Jade, Merl, Safire, Run, Tizzy, Dream, Spaz, Blitz, Amare, Spacey, and Enix oh and that thingy what-cha-call-it? Oh yeah the plot. They are MINE! If you attempt to steal them I will sue you! Why? Because I need the money and I feel like it. ( I apolgise for being annoying. It is very late when I am writing this I have not slept in two days and I hurt like hell ok? Good. *Nods*)

Pretty-in-pink898 Hey lookie a new reviewer *dances around* ouch can't dance to well...you're right his room is right above hers but she doesn't know that oh an you're lucky to get another chap so soon courtesy of VACATION! Yeah...

Nite-huntress Ah but Taber is a mean horrible person he just- *grins* well you'll find out later... I like Angel's point of view hence why I only write from her POV even when the story dictates that she is unconscious for days... Scarily accurate w/ the pacing thing

Fire In The Skies two new reviews for one chap I am sooooo lucky! Ok here it is five days early.

I woke feeling excited about the festival and meeting Devin's friends. I slid out of bed and looked at it oddly. Huh. I didn't remember making my bed yet every night it was made up perfectly with fresh sheets. Taber's servants must be cleaning my room. I went into my bathroom and turned the taps in the walk in shower. After discarding my cloths and taking a brief shower I stood wrapped in a towel searching through my dresser for something I could swear I'd bought. I finally found it; it was a sapphire blue shirt with a sheer black layer over it. It had long flared what my old friends had called 'angel robe' sleeves. It had a square neck and it was made so that the sapphire blue part of the shirt was like a normal shirt the sheer part was cut at a diagonal. I took out a pair of tight black jeans that went half way down my calves. I changed into the cloths and then went into the bathroom to decide on some jewelry and make-up. I put on eyeliner and mascara. Then I put on some smoky gray eye shadow. I put on an anklet with bells on it and a choker made of leather with silver beads braided into it. I flashed a smile at my reflection and walked out of my bathroom and got my new purse. I put my cell and some money into it. I made my way down to the kitchen and ate quickly. Then I walked down stairs to the garage. I got into the car and started it. I drove to the mall and found my way around the huge building to the back lot. There was only one other vehicle parked there a small silver truck. Devin was leaning against the truck and didn't even flinch when I parked Taber's car right next to it. He was wearing dark blue jeans and a light blue t-shirt. I got out of the car and walked around the front.

"Hi, Devin."

"Hi, Angel. Ready to go?" He asked.

"Yep." He made a motion for me to go around and sit in the passenger seat. I got in and he started up the car and began to drive. We drove the whole way in silence. We parked in a dirt lot across the road from a grassy field filled with people setting up tents and activities. We got out of Devin's truck and had started to walk to the road when we heard some one calling for us to wait up.

"Devil! Devil Wait up!" Devin stopped and turned around waiting for the other person to catch up. When the other boy stood near us catching his breath Devin turned to me.

"Angel, this is Andrew Jayden." He said gesturing from me to the other boy. The other boy wore camo-cargo pants and a dark green t-shirt. "Jade this is Angel...um?" He said looking at me. I smiled and held out my hand to Jade.

"Angelica Kayla Ornn. My friends call me Angel." He shook my hand. He made a face as he spoke.

"I'm Andrew but my friends call me Jade. Nice to meet you." Then he laughed and nudged Devin in the side. "I can hardly wait 'til Dragon meets her." He said a huge grin on his face. We started to cross the road before he finished what he was saying. "I almost died of laughter when he met Spacey and it'll be twice as bad this time."

"Don't say things like that Jade you'll scare her." Devin said having seen the uncomfortable look I got on my face. "Where's the crew?" Devin asked looking around at the crowd of people.

"We took over one of the gazebos." Jade answered. He started to weave through the crowd heading for a big tent. Devin made long strides after him and I managed to keep up. We skirted around the tent until we were behind it and only then did I see our destination. There were several gazebos and picnic tables scattered around. The one of the gazebos had a mixed group boys and girls all about our age hanging around it. Some sat at a picnic table that had been put inside it. Some sat on the floor or at little trestle tables that were also inside. Some stood and a couple actually sat in the lattice work that held up the roof of the open-air gazebo.

"Hi Devil. Hi Jade." Some of them called having noticed us but completely ignored me except for two of them a girl who had been sketching a boy who sat in the latticework, and a boy who sat on the ground. When the girl thought Devin and Jade we all done with greetings she spoke softly.

"Yo, Devil. Who's Domina Noctis?" She asked Devin. Though her voice was soft most people seemed to hear it as many of them looked at me openly and the other stole glances at me. I glanced at Devin, hoping he would introduce me but it was Jade who spoke up.

"English please Dream?" Jade said looking at the girl who had spoken. Dream rolled her eyes looking bored.

"Who is the Lady Night?" Another boy asked. I heard a low whistle and then some one saying 'Damn she's hot.'

"This is Angelica Ornn. Angel these are my friends. I'm not going to try and tell who they are they'll come and introduce themselves soon enough." Devin wandered away from me to talk to some one leaving me with Jade. A small cluster of people broke away from the main group and walked over to us. A girl wearing a red tank top and khaki pants seemed to be leading the group.

"Hi Angel." She said smiling at me. "I'm Lindsey. You can call me Lynx. This is Stephanie. We call her Safire." She said indicating a girl wearing a denim skirt and black top. The girl smiled inclining her head. "This is Victoria or Tizzy." She said gesturing to the only other girl in the small group. Tizzy smiled and nodded. "This is Merl. I honestly can't tell you his real name because I don't know." She said pointing to a boy who looked as though he was going to fall asleep any second. "This is Ransom. We call him Run. Oh, I almost forgot David. His name is-"

"Dragon." A dark haired boy with a deep voice cut her off. He had tanned skin, dark eyes, and he was wearing baggy black jeans and a black shirt with a moonscape on it. He stepped forward smiling at me. I had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling. He was the one Jade had been laughing about me meeting. I smiled at him and held out my hand to shake. He took my hand but did not shake it instead he turned my hand over and rubbed my palm with his thumb. Then he kissed the back of my hand and bowed over it.

"Did I mention he's insane?" Lynx joked smiling. Jade started laughing uncontrollably. Dream walked over and poked him in the side.

"Hey, Jade come on I wanna sketch you, Dude." Dream led the still laughing Jade away.

"Tizzy! Run!" Some one called. Tizzy, Run, and Merl all walked off in the direction of the voice.

"Let's go get something to eat." Safire suggested.

"Yeah." Lynx said linking her arm with mine in a friendly way. "I'm really craving some grease on a bun. How 'bout you?"

"French fries."

"And onion rings. Can't forget those. What kind of fair goers would we be if we didn't try all the foreign food?" Safire added as we started to walk away from the gazebos.

"I'm coming with you." Dragon said as though we wouldn't be safe alone.

"Oh, joy." Lynx said. "The big bad, Dragon is coming to protect us from the invisible monsters!" She pulled away from me and batted at the air. "Help! Help! One of them's got me!" She said before we both dissolved into laughter. Dragon glowered at her but said nothing.

Later...

I stood my back to the setting sun. Dream had insisted on sketching me. So I stood as she had told me; my arms slightly away from my sides my mouth partly open the rest of my face totally blank. I was watching Dragon out of the corner of my eye. He was beginning to bug me. He was watching me too he sat at the picnic table near Devin. His dark eyes had barely left me all day. As far as I could tell Dream had spent the majority of the day sketching various people. She had expressed an interest in sketching me shortly after lunch but had wanted to wait until the light was right. I had spent a lot of the day meeting Devin's friends and ignoring Dragon. And still he stared at me. I didn't get it. I understand that I'm attractive but he was being weird. As of yet I had only met every one who was here but that was only abut two thirds of the total group. I had met, Lynx, Dragon, Jade, Merl, Safire, Run, Tizzy, Dream, Spaz, Blitz, Amare, Spacey, and Enix. It was going to take forever to get all the names strait.

"You can sit now!" A girl sitting near Dream called. I went over by her to sit.

"You can't look at it yet." Dream said still sketching on her drawing pad.

"I'm Nell." The girl who had called to me said. "Spelled N-E-L-L-E." I furrowed my brow.

"Why?" Nelle scrunched up her nose before answering me.

"My real name is Ellen. I mean Ellen is so bloody boring. So when Amare was telling me about 'Diamond Age' I decided what my nickname would be. I put an 'e' on the end to make it the reverse of Ellen." I chatted with Nelle for a while before Dream ripped a sheet of paper from her drawing pad and gave it to me. Looking up at me from her seat on the ground to watch my reaction. I looked down at the sketch of me and my mouth dropped open literally. Dream smiled as if this was the reaction was the one she wanted and went off presumably to sketch some one else. I stared at what she'd drawn. It was me oh yes definitely me. The sun was setting behind me in the sketch throwing me into interesting contrasts and shadows. In the sketch I wore a black tank top and black leather (I assumed they were leather as they appeared painted to my skin) pants drawing a sharp contrast to my pale skin. I wore a long black high collared duster. My arms held the duster away from me like wings. In the sketch I was smiling exposing two elongated upper canines. My eyes were what threw me off the most though. They reminded me so much of Taber's eyes. Black-on-black. Dead eyes. I was tempted to crumple the paper and toss it away from me but I resisted the urge. I noticed Dream had signed it artfully hiding the signature in one of the shadowy folds of the duster.

"Well I have to go." Nelle said. "It was nice talking to you." I snapped out of it.

"Bye Nelle I'll see you at school tomorrow."

"Ugh, don't remind me. Bye." She said and walked away. It was only then I realized that almost every one was going home. Only five of us remained. Lynx and Dragon who were teasing each other unmercifully. Myself, Devin, and Jade. Lynx now sat silently glaring at Dragon. I wasn't surprised that Dragon was watching me. Lynx noticed this as well and poked him hard in the rib cage.

"I'm going home now Dragon. Since I brought you here you have two choices. You can come home with me or you can walk home." Lynx walked away and Dragon followed with one last lingering look at me.

"What did I tell you, Devil? I was right wasn't I?" Jade asked Devin as they walked in my direction.

"Absolutely." I said. "You were right if you meant he was going to be obsessively creepy." Devin cracked a smile and the three of us started walking by mutual consent toward the lot of cars.

"Don't worry about it." Devin said when we were alone in his truck. "Dragon is always weird about new people in our group." I knew Devin's words were meant to reassure me but his eyes told me he was hiding something. "So, how do you like my friends?" Devin asked. "Barring Dragon, I like them a lot they're really nice and fun."

"That's good. Did Dream ask to sketch you?"

"Yeah, she sketched me with the setting sun at my back." I didn't mention that I had been a Vampire I the sketch.

"That's good it means she likes you." He smiled. "She's never sketched Jade. They fight constantly." At this point we were in the back parking lot of the mall and Devin had pulled up by my car.

"Thanks for inviting me to come, Devin."

"Your welcome Angel, have a good night." Said as I got out of his truck. I walked around the front of my car and got in putting my purse and Dream's sketch on the passenger seat. I drove to Taber's house thinking about today. All in all it had been a good day if one discounted Dragon's creepiness. I walked up the many flights of stairs feeling tired. It would be nice just to change and get into bed and sleep. All thoughts of fatigue flew out of my mind as I opened my door and saw Taber sitting on my bed studying some papers. I closed my door with a loud click behind me and walked over to my desk and put down my purse and Dream's sketch. I pulled out the padded desk chair and turned it around. I sat down in it and watched Taber. He seemed unaware of my presence.

"Where were you today?" He asked setting the papers down on my bedspread.

"I'm sure you know perfectly well where I was." I said affecting a bored tone. He sighed.

"I wish I could just have a conversation with you." He said sounding marginally annoyed.

"Wishes don't shape the world." I snapped at him. "If they did I would not be here."

"They don't but you could try to have a conversation with me like you do with Andrea."

"I could try, but I won't because I don't need to. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the fact that I'm not human. I could never go back to my family now."

"You'll try." He said voice very cold. When I looked up again he was nowhere in my room. I smile a small smile to myself. Good, I thought, he gets frustrated with me. I changed then set my alarm clock and got in bed. I could hear the person above me pacing again at first it was a frantic kind of pacing but soon it slowed and found a rhythm. I drifted into sleep only vaguely worried about school.

A/N: I realize they have issues. I realize also that they are supposed to be this way. Ok? I refuse to change them! I like them the way they are other wise they would be different...makes sense doesn't it? That I made them the way they are for a reason? Neway...Review or Flame! (-^_^-)

P.S. Does any one know if Vampires can have sex? I kinda get mixed messages from books and I'd like your opinions. Thanx!