Well here we are...one month since our first encounter with Alec. He's adjusted to our life style well for the most part; he'll drink a blood bag in the morning, go to school with Jonah and I for the day, do homework with me, then we all hang out. I'll go to dance class on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, so after I leave he'll just hang out with the boys until I come back.

Speaking of dance, Lorne managed to get an appointment at the end of the upcoming month with Pauley Sutherdale to discuss my future in entertainment. He thinks that if we establish a sense of trust with Pauley, then if we (a.k.a. If I) were to ask about the incident that happened to him, he may open up a bit more. Personally, I don't think that we need me to be involved and that we should just ask him about it but Lorne seems to think this was the way to go, so I'll trust what he's thinking. Who knows what he could have seen?

Alec is in no rush to discover his memories. After Ed had asked him about the "Prince of Traitors" message written in blood in the coffin that we found him in, Alec said he wasn't interested in finding out what he did to deserve that title. He brushes things like that off like it isn't a big deal, but I can tell it bugs him.

He and I have an interesting friendship...I guess you could call it that at least. I find myself talking to him more than I talk to my few friends I've known for years. I don't know what about him makes me so talkative; I tend to ramble on and on about anything. Alec doesn't seem to mind my ramblings. He's very talkative himself; possibly to the same extent as Lorne.

He's in all of my classes in school, and let me tell you, I don't think he can shut up. The teachers are still helping students recover from the aftermath of the car accident so they don't yell at him much for it. Honestly it's nice having a friend who always wants to talk to you. It's not that people don't talk to me, it's just that I don't talk much and people want someone to respond to them with more enthusiasm than I am capable of putting out. I guess that's why our relationship works; Alec's good at talking and I'm good at listening.

All the girls go crazy over him. I get it I guess. He's a really sweet person and humor just comes easy to him. That and he's very attractive. Josie and McKayla tell me all the time how grateful they are that I attracted such a "hottie" to our group. I roll my eyes and tell them that I didn't attract him, he just lives in my house is all so it makes sense that we have to get along.

Grace and Robert seem to like him too. Robert even took it upon himself to invite him to the get together he's having after homecoming. Grace roped me into going by telling me that she would come over to do my hair and makeup beforehand and we can "bond over girly shit" which was something I couldn't say no to. She looked so pitiful when I told her I didn't want to go and I couldn't take it anymore, so I agreed.

With homecoming being at the end of this week, being drowned in homework, and trying to balance school and dance, I almost feel like a normal teen. So far we haven't gained any information on the weapons we found, so shockingly enough things have been relatively quiet. Except for at the moment as a heated debate between my brothers continues...

"Can't we all just agree that Heath Ledger is the better Joker?" Connor asked, crossing his arms over his chest.

"No! Jack Nicholson! Jack Nicholson people!"

"Shut up Hunter!" Hunter laughed at Caleb's remark.

"Well I'm not the one who's over here fan-girling over Jared Leto's Joker either."

"I wasn't fan girling! I was just saying how his was a very different approach to the role and I respect that." Caleb retorted.

"Jonah who's right?" Connor asked. Jonah pointed at me.

"She's the Batman expert not me."

"Please don't drag me into this..."

"He's right Evie." Alec said with a wink. I rolled my eyes.

"Who's side are you on here?"

"Hey I'm just trying to give you the credit you deserve."

"I think you're feeding me to the sharks." He laughed.

"Evie you have to settle this." Caleb told me. "Tell them who's boss."

"Everleigh...remember that one time I could have said that mean comment to you but didn't?" Connor asked me.

"Nope." I responded with a smile. "I like how you tried to make it vague to get me to remember some random time in the past though."

"Oh no. Poor Connor...his plan was foiled." Hunter traced a finger down his slightly tanned face, as if drawing a tear drop. Connor flipped him off.

"Ha ha asshole."

"Ha ha."

"Ha ha yourself Hunter, Evie isn't even close to picking Nicholson, that much I know." Caleb told him. Just then the front door opened to reveal Ed and Lorne who were just getting home from a late night at the bar.

"Hey kiddos." Ed smiled as he placed his coat on the rack. He took Lorne's and did the same causing Lorne to look at him all lovey dovey like for a moment.

"We need you guys to settle an argument." Jonah told the two.

"Oh boy...Ed do you want to take this one?" Lorne shrunk behind the other male. Ed chuckled.

"Alright fine. What's the argument about this time?"

"Which Joker is better?"

"Oh, Nicholson for sure."

"Thank you!" Hunter explained.

"But Heath Ledger!" Connor exclaimed.

"Come on, what about Leto?" Caleb shouted at the same time.

"Why didn't you guys just ask Evie?" Lorne asked. "She's the Batman expert."

"See, told you that you needed that credit." Alec whispered to me. I bit my lip to stop myself from laughing.

"She never gave her answer." Connor told him. "So Evie...who will it be?"

"I don't know, I feel like they all played the role so differently that you can't judge them. They were all good, but different, you know?"

"Okay but if you had to pick!" Caleb whined.

"You know what, fine. I'll pick Cameron Monaghan from Gotham."

"What the hell? He's not even technically the Joker! They never called him that!" Connor exclaimed. He and I watch the show together, and he gets really annoyed by that.

"He's the Joker like character on the show so that's all I need to know. He doesn't need the name, just the personality."

"Okay I'm done now. Evie you disappoint me. We were talking movies." Hunter said exasperatingly.

"Sorry. I just like them all. I wanted to be different."

"You don't have to try hard." Jonah teased.

"Don't let them bug you Evie, different is special." Alec told me.

"Alec don't lie to her." Caleb teased. Alec pulled me behind him.

"You wanna go outside?"

"Yeah let's go!" The two of them banged on their chests. I groaned as Lorne went over and stood between them.

"Um no, it's snowing out and I don't want to clean up body parts all night in front of our neighbors."

"Aw come on Lorne, can't you let me beat the crap out of him just once?" Alec joked with a smile.

"Lorne you can be the hot guy who holds up the cards that have the round numbers on them."

Caleb doubled over at his own dumb joke. You could tell Lorne was disappointed but I couldn't tell if it was with himself for getting involved, the comment itself, or if he was just regretting starting this coven with Ed (I'm kidding about that one...sort of). The world may never know.

"If only you were younger so I could put you in the corner..."

Lorne walked back over to Ed who tried to suppress his laughter as he wrapped Lorne in his arms. They were honestly so cute together. It was so perfect. I hope someday I can find a love like they have.

After everyone settled down for a little bit, people began disappearing for the night. Lorne and Ed retired to their room, the same went for Caleb and Jonah a little while later. Hunter and Connor went out somewhere, so it was just Alec and I hanging out in the living room.

"Hey Evie?" Alec asked me. I hummed in response. "How did you all find each other?"

"What do you mean?" I sat myself up so I could see him properly. He sat on his spot on the couch. It was crazy to think about a month ago he sat there covered in dried blood and dirt.

"Well I remember Lorne told me that he and Ed just gathered you all up as time went on, but like how? I never realized that you all weren't actually related; except for you and Jonah and then Connor and Caleb."

"Well we all have our own stories about how we were turned. Hunter was the only one of us who was turned by Ed. Connor and Caleb were turned by one sire and then Jonah and I were turned by another."

"Why did they turn Hunter?" I sighed.

"Well you see, Hunter was driving home from college, and he got into a really bad car accident. From what he told me, he says he saw this man standing in the middle of the road. The highway was apparently backed up with traffic, so he was taking a back road. He slammed on the brakes and before he could even blink, the man was gone and he was laying in a ditch somewhere in the woods. The car somehow flipped over and flung him out before catching on fire and destroying any evidence that he was there. Hunter was really badly injured at that point.

"Ed was just starting out in his work for the government so he was sent out to do some investigating on his own before the cops and other accident responders got there. Ed smelt all the blood Hunter was loosing and turned him before he could die. He and Lorne then did everything they could to make sure that Hunter was safe and comfortable after that."

"They would just take in someone they didn't know like that?" Alec questioned. I nodded.

"If you don't recall, that's what they did with you." He shrunk down into the couch. "It's okay, they did it with the rest of us too."

"What about Connor and Caleb?"

"They were turned by a rogue vampire trying to make a newborn vampire army so she could avenge her dead lover or something like that. Before the fight began, they snuck out. None of us really knows what happened to the army after that. I don't blame them for leaving, it's stupid for someone to come take them away from their home and be like "you get to fight and die for me because someone killed my lover." I mean, I don't know..."

"I kind of get where that lady was coming from. If someone ripped someone I cared about that deeply away from me, I would be angry too. Even still, an army seems a little drastic."

"Just a little?"

"Just a little?" He mocked. I stuck my tongue out at him. "Maybe it's really drastic but anyways, on with the story."

He smiled like a little child being told a bedtime story. I don't see why he doesn't just ask everyone else their personal stories. I guess just getting them all at once is easier.

"Connor and Caleb travelled all over the country for a few years, and eventually they ran into Hunter who convinced Lorne and Ed to take them in as well."

"So how do you and Jonah play into all this?" I stayed silent for a moment trying to figure out how to word a response. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. Lorne said it wasn't a good experience for the two of you and..."

"It's okay..." I interjected. "I just need to find a way to word it for you. He's right, it wasn't a good experience. None of us really had good experiences in the vampire department before we came here."

"Are you sure? I don't want to make you uncomfortable."

"Yeah." Alec scooted away from his spot and moved closer to me.

"I was...different, even as a human. The gifts that I have transferred over from my human life into my vampire life. They first manifested when I was twelve. I've spent time in a few mental hospitals growing up..."

"Why?"

"Huh?"

"Why would they put you in a mental hospital?"

"My parents didn't know what was going on with me. Neither did I to be honest. When your twelve year old daughter can control people by singing and can see into the future, it can be hard to deal with. Humans don't understand that kind of stuff."

"Humans are afraid of the things in life that they can't understand...they do terrible..." Alec cut himself off.

"Are you okay?" He blinked a few times and then looked back at me.

"Yes I'm fine, I apologize. I don't have the slightest idea about that. Please continue." I just stared at him for a few minutes. "Really, I'm alright."

"Were you remembering something?" I questioned. He just shrugged and smiled.

"I seriously hope not. Anyways..." I decided to continue my story since I was sensing that he didn't want to tell me about what had happened. That's fine. His memories are his business.

"Let's see...where was I going with that...oh right. So I spent some time in a few mental hospitals here and there. That was mainly because of my visions though. They didn't technically know about the singing stuff because my father had no way of explaining that to the doctors. I wasn't myself anymore at that point. I was angry at my parents for putting me into those places.

"They were just trying to do what was best for me, but if I would have just stayed with them instead of going to those places maybe...I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. Basically the routine for the next four years was that I would have a really terrible vision which would force me into hysterics, my parents would find me huddled in my room with random words written down on the walls; sometimes written in blood, sometimes not. Then, I would be admitted into a mental hospital for a month and because there wasn't nothing mentally wrong with me during that month, I got sent home.

"I was in a mental hospital for my sixteenth birthday. I don't remember any of the names of the hospitals I went to by the way; those faded with a lot of my human memories, but anyways, I wanted to go see Jonah for our birthdays so I broke out. Honestly security sucked at that place so it wasn't hard, but I'll saving you the boring details of it.

"So I was out and about trying to find my way home to see Jonah and all of a sudden I find myself in this alleyway and I'm being pinned up to the wall by this weird man with red eyes. I later learned his name was Enzo McClain. He had chosen me to be his next meal. Now obviously that didn't go as planned seeing as I am still alive and sitting before you now, but killing me was the goal. He didn't finish draining the life out of me so the venom took its course. I had passed out from all the blood loss and remained unconscious throughout the entire change but I still felt the pain of it.

"I'm surprised Enzo didn't didn't dispose of my body. Well, I guess you could say he tried considering my body was left under trash bags next to an over filled dumpster. I don't know how I ended up finding Enzo again, but I somehow stumbled around the city until I found him. He was less than pleased but told me that now I was his responsibility so I had to stay with him. Our lifestyle for the first little bit...was different than the lifestyle here. He and I would find humans in the surrounding cities to feed off of and then dispose of the bodies. Like, actually dispose of them though, not the half ass job he did with me. The guilt of that still eats me alive.

"Here's where Jonah starts to come in. Enzo couldn't be bothered to even try to take care of me in the slightest, so he took it upon himself to find my parents; who believed I was dead, to see if I could go back to them once I had myself more under control. I was technically "missing" but I think my parents gave up hope too soon. I don't know why I agreed that his plan was a good idea, because honestly it's so stupid. Humans shouldn't know about the existence of supernatural beings. Enzo wasn't a very pleasant person to be around so I guess that's why. When he went to approach my parents one night, he witnessed them get shot and killed. Jonah was with them...I guess whoever killed them didn't want any witnesses, so he shot Jonah too.

"The only nice thing that man has done for me was turning Jonah. I know that sounds selfish of me, given that living life as a vampire isn't always the best situation to be in, but it's true. I don't think I could have gotten through anything if it wasn't for that. We stayed with Enzo for a little while but unfortunately...or fortunately, I guess it depends on how you look at it...our gifts were too much for Enzo to attempt to teach us to handle. He wasn't gifted himself so he didn't understand any of it anyways.

"With that being said, he caught wind of a coven nearby and asked if they could help. Lorne and Ed didn't realize that we were being shipped off to live with them when they made the deal with Enzo, but they were kind enough to take us in anyway and we've been here ever since."

"Is Enzo still around?"

"Who knows? I certainly don't care."

"But he's your sire..."

"So? He doesn't give a damn about Jonah and I..."

"Then why would he send you here to get the two of you the assistance you need?"

"Because two newborns were too much work for him. I was just a mistake and Jonah was only turned because Enzo thought it was best that I have someone else who can deal with me. He didn't care...he was so selfish...all he could do is tell me how hopeless I was and how I was an accident; a mistake that was never meant to be made! I should have never...I should have..."

"Evie..."

"I shouldn't have been turned. I should be dead. I'm just a freak...can't blend in...can't be normal...I...I...no..."

"Everleigh." Alec said my name sternly.

As much as I hate it that it sounded like he was scolding me like a child, the sound of my name crossing over his lips was something that I almost liked hearing. It was at that point I realized I was standing in front of Alec hyperventilating with bloody tears rolling down my cheeks. My hands were shaking and I couldn't seem to get enough air into my lungs. I didn't technically need to breathe; one of the normal things about me, but I still couldn't stop gasping for air.

"Hey...I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked." He spoke softly. A look of pain flashed across his face as he placed his hands on my shoulders. "I didn't mean to upset you. Please don't be angry with me."

"I'm...I'm not...angry...with you." I felt so embarrassed. Alec doesn't need to see me get all worked up about stupid things like this. It doesn't even matter anyway. I can't change the past. What happened has occurred and it's over.

"You aren't a mistake."

"What do you know?" I asked, backing away from him.

I turned around and wiped my eyes with the bottom of my sleeves. The white colored sweater now looked like it would belong in a horror movie. I hated how my tears had to be so thick because of the blood, so it looks like I was murdered whenever I cried.

"Well I know that if it wasn't for you I probably would still be in that coffin."

"Anyone could have found you..."

"But you're the only one who heard me..."

"Well I..." I felt his fingertips slowly caress the top of my hand. He fit his hand into mine.

"Please don't argue..." Alec pulled me in the direction of the couch. "I would like to believe it was fate that we were to meet..." I've never seen Alec this serious other than right after we first brought him here.

"What do you mean?"

"I've been pondering this for a while now..."

"Oh, you've been pondering?"

"Yeah."

"Ha, pondering...that's a funny word...you can be so British sometimes."

"Out of all the times you could have chosen to mock me, you chose this moment?" I laughed through the tears very briefly.

"Sorry."

"It's alright. I'm just teasing you. But Everleigh..." Alec pulled at our intertwined hands to pull me closer to him. He leaned down so his lips were right by my ear.

"Alec..." I mumbled. "What are you..."

"You were not a mistake. You simply just survived someone else's idiocy." His voice was quiet even though he was so close. He spoke in a tone laced with such sincerity that I couldn't help but melt.

He pulled back slightly and moved in again. When his lips slowly connected with my cheek, I froze. I just couldn't believe it. What...Why... What did this man want with my blood soaked face? He's probably just doing it to try to make me feel better...I appreciate it I guess. When he stood up straight to face me, he looked nervous as all hell.

"Never forget that."

"You should be a motivational speaker..." His sweet laughter hung around me even after he stopped.

"I'm just telling the truth." I shrugged. "I am."

"Fine." Alec shook his head and smiled.

"What am I going to have to do to get you to believe me?" I shrugged again. He sighed.

All of a sudden; at top vamp speed, Alec had wrapped his arms around me and flopped backwards onto the couch. I squealed from the sudden movement and tried to squirm away out of instinct, but he didn't budge.

"What the hell was that?!" I exclaimed.

"I'm hugging you."

"You're hugging me?"

"That's what I appear to be doing, no?"

"What is your definition of a hug?"

"What is with you and the questions again?"

"Me with the questions? I believe that's you! You always start it."

"But you started it this time..." Alec had a point. I huffed as a smile formed on his face. "Does the mean I win?"

At that point I had enough of his snarky attitude. Did he win?! Nope! I moved quickly before he could protest and pinned his arms above his head. It may have been very uncharacteristic of me to do so, but the look of surprise that fell on his face was enough to allow me to push the embarrassment away for a moment.

"Damn..." He breathed. I couldn't help but smirk at his reaction. "You're really cute when you're terrifying like this..."

"What?" My hands flung off where I was holding his arms down. His hands flew over his mouth.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to say that..." His voice was muffled by his hands. He would be blushing if he could.

"Why are you getting so flustered now? You're the one who kissed my cheek over there..." I jabbed my thumb back at where we were standing a few moments ago.

"Well..."

"Well?" I deepened my voice to mock his.

"It felt like it was the right thing to...to do I guess...I don't...you were upset and...I thought..." I couldn't handle his stuttering anymore. The poor guy was having a difficult time.

"I was just teasing you." I sat up and realized that I was straddling his lap. Well this was kind of awkward. "Sorry...I..I'll get up now..."

"No." He protested. "Well I mean you don't have to..." His eyes averted mine and moved to the floor. "I don't mind it if you don't."

Oh geez! Come on dude why do you have to make this my decision! I mean we've known each other for like a month which feels like a long time but it's really not...though I do admit, when a guy as kind as Alec shows this much interest in a girl, it's really hard to say no.

"I guess that's okay." He smiled and pulled me back down to lay on his chest.

For a while everything just seemed perfect. Alec and I just laid on that couch holding each other for the longest time. Once he started running his fingers through my hair, I began to get tired and ended up falling asleep.