Chapter 2

My whole life had been a huge vortex from the start. I kept whirling into something, then coming out of it, and then getting back into it again. This was the way it was for me, no way to change that even if I tried!

That day, he chose me to be his ate. This wasn't expected by me, the generals, the vampires and the princes. But it surprised no one that Evanna seemed at peace with this turn of events.

For me, this was amazing, insane, awesome, great, frightening and many, many, MANY other things.

He fixed his stare on me, and this time I could tell his expression; disappointment.

I knew that was coming, I hadn't really expected anything more. It was this huge secret that had shammed me, all the vampires looked at me like I was some goddess, but his stare shammed me to the abyss.

That night, I kept my distance from him as the bustling vampires buzzed past me.

I made it to the medical wing where one of my friends, Mira (Vampire Mountains only nurse) was. Her own vampire boyfriend (not mates), Yebba, was not there, sometimes, he snuck up on her and tried to scare her. It worked sometimes and she threatened to gut him like a rabid dog ((A/N: ninth book of cirque du freak is where that quote comes from)) if he did it again but never came around doing it. I didn't have to knock to enter; she always let me in whenever I wanted.

"Hey Merc. Quite a show back there huh?" She smiled. She kind of looked like me, but younger and smaller. She had my dark brown hair but her eyes were lighter shade of brown. But we both held scars from old battles and such. Mira's came from her trials.

"Show? You can hardly call that a show." I groaned and sat down on one of the stretchers, "He hates me."

Mira scoffed, "Yes, he hates you and he picked you to be his mate. That's Einstein's work that is. Even I couldn't have figured that out." She can be REALLY sarcastic at times.

"But why did he? I don't get it." I said quietly.

She shrugged, "Men will be men. That explains why Yebba will give me a heart attack one of these nights."

I groaned again, "Not helping."

She sighed, "Look, the worst thing he could do is tell you you're a bitch who needs to get a life."

"Comforting." I muttered.

"That's the worst case scenario my friend. The good is that he will forgive you and you'll give him a kid whom I'll end up having to baby sit and bada bing bada boom! Happily ever after!" She clapped her hands.

I studied that scars on my left arm, thinking over what Mira had just said. Then I sighed,

"But Yebba is not Mika. He's more out going. And Mika is more...ugh emo!"

Mira threw back her head and laughed, "Now that's funny!"

I smirked and said sarcastically, "Yes, hilarious." Then I went back to my sullen mood.

"Your lucky Mira, you don't have to go through this."

Mira snorted, "Hardly, living in this hole practically all my sorry life and your calling me lucky??"

I shrugged, "At least Evanna is not your mom."

Mira thought about that, "True." Then ducked as I tossed a rock at her. We laughed a little while then I said, "It's not as easy as you think."

Mira nodded, "My mom used to be a midwife. I've seen it happen."

I groaned, "Spare me the details."

Mira grinned, "It's not that bad," when I looked at her incredulously she sighed, "Ok, and maybe it is."

I shrugged and sighed for the millionth time, "Maybe it should have stayed a secret."

"Maybe. But you forget when women do out of boredom." Mira said, stifling a laugh, "so much for secret then!"

I laughed too, that was true, and true enough; life just wasn't interesting for vampiric women.

"so what should I d?" I asked.

"Go there and confront dest- I mean fate." Mira said simply.

I shrugged and stood up.

"Luck Mercy."

"Luck."

The irony of the word!

Yes, i know its short! I'm sorry! I couldn't think of anything else to add! pls leave a review! Thank u!!