So come on and leave the years
When you watched the days go by
Come on and leave the fears
That you were afraid to find
Cause while you wait inside
The days go by
So all the memories fade
And the days go by
Forget the lonely yesterdays in mind
I know it's never gonna be the way you like
I know you don't wanna think about the endlessness you find
You wait forever blind- Lifehouse
Chapter 4: Faded Memries (November)
I opened my eyes to a clear blindingly light filled room. The hospital lights shone done on me like a laser, and in a sickly way, it made my skin paler than it already was. Which was very, very pale. It was a bone white that shone dully in the fluorescents.
Everything was so clear. Like in those old human Claritin commercials, it was like someone peeled the black lens of my eyes. I was Claritin clear now.
I felt stronger. My ears heard better, my teeth felt sharper. My mind had more room. And my eyes! How much they could see.
I looked all around me, looking at anything, everything. I could see the minute (A\N minute: really is mi-noot, which means microscopic) scratches on the walls, the ceilings. I wondered in the new spacey mind of mine why.
Anything I looked at was different than I remembered as a human. Looking at my memories through my human eyes was so annoying. It was like a person put that black lens over my eyes again. So, for right now I stopped looking through human eyes and began really looking through my vampire eyes.
There were dust motes floating about the air, colors of the rainbow and more even though nothing was in the sun's light because there was no sun in the room.
Dr. Cullen, looking like the sun (it was weird. I felt the urge to blink) was at the corner waiting for me to do something. I realized I wasn't breathing, but I felt fine. Like I didn't need to breathe. I breathed in. The dust motes went into my mouth. And the fire started to burn.
I hissed at the burn. What was that scorching burn at my throat? I growled and Dr. Cullen raised his hands at me. I stopped breathing, my lips were curled.
"You must be awfully uncomfortable with your thirst?" He asked. I nodded not wanting to waste breath.
He then pulled out a metallic jug, and the burning got worse. My red eyes turned to black and I hissed and closed my eyes.
"What is it?" I spit at him. My voice sounded soft and beautiful, like a spring mist. Then, there goes my air.
"It's the only thing your thirst for now. Blood. In these jugs," He pulled out a red jug, "is blood. Whichever you choose is the one you most crave for. It is also most likely the one you're going to drink forever." I stalked over to him, my eyes on the prize. Which was blood.
I picked up the red jug and smelt it. I almost flinched from the sweet- smelling nectar. It smelt better than anything I've ever smelt. Then I smelt the silver jug. It smelt worse, but in my case, that was better than the sweet one, sweet had never been a favorite. When I was little, I had eaten a poisonous flower that has smelled sweeter than I've ever known, and as a result, I almost died. I shook my head of the foggy human memories. I took of the lid carefully off. I thought I saw Dr. Cullen's lips tug up and the corner, then the image was gone. I glanced at him and he nodded.
I drank it all in less than a second. I looked at him, pleading for more with my eyes. My throat was still burning but now it was duller than before. He gave me another silver jug. I drank this one slower, savoring its almost sour taste. My throat felt good enough to talk. It was like when your throat was parched for water as a human, and then you got a minimum of a five sips and you were still parched but felt better.
"So which one did I choose?" I asked. He smiled.
"It seems like you will share a dorm with my own children. Well, they're not exactly my children but they were in my coven before all of this happened." I was anxious for him to continue.
"You chose the Mountain Lion blood. Animal."
"I did?" Again with the sweet voice that was now mine. I was momentarily distracted until he spoke again.
"Yes. Do you know why you're sharing a dorm with my children?" I shook my head no.
"Because you choose animal blood. Dorms are sorted by age, and what blood you drink. Few vampires actually go to the Animal Drinking Dorm for vampires physical ages ten to twenty."
I just nodded not wanting the searing heat of my throat to drive me over the edge.
"We will walk to your new dorms, but unfortunately feeding day is today for The Human Drinker Dorms. I'm afraid you'll have to not attack them if you want to stay in the Animal Drinker Dorm." He smiled pleasantly. How am I supposed to do that? Oh, well, better to get it over with.
We walked, or danced, into the lobby were other newborns were standing with their doctors. The vampire couple that I saw before the change wasn't here anymore. All the newborns with their bright bloody eyes fixed their gazes at me. No one said anything but some nodded their heads in my direction, noticing my presence. I nodded back.
Dr. Cullen led me outside. The sun was down. I didn't breath, because as about a mile away I saw the humans getting out of their black limo-van. Then I smelled them and my sanity was lost. I didn't glance at Dr. Cullen when I streaked to where all the humans where. I grabbed the nearest human, a man in his sixties. I hissed, smelling his sweet throat, as deadly as a viper.
"NO! STOP!" I heard the doctor yell. Momentarily distracted, I put the scared, but still alive and well, human down.
"I'm so sorry, forgive me for almost eating you." I hissed. He stayed still and watched me with petrified eyes.
I took off faster than the speed of light away from the human and their beautiful blood.
Dr. Cullen tackled me and snarled, "Did you kill him?"
"Did you see me eat him? Now get off me." I spit.
He looked me over his eyes searching for any blood. This only angered me more; I hissed and threw him off. He easily landed on his feet and growled. I crouched in a defensive position; he eventually raised his hands, showing me he was no harm. I held the pose a second later than straightened up. Now we were by the doors of what looked like a dorm building. Or Castle.
"This is the Animal Drinker Dorm. You have your own dorm room here but the dorm president and vice president will explain it all to you." He said, acting as if I weren't about to eat a man a minute ago. I nodded and we walked to the white modern door. The pixie vampire I saw in the changing lobbies opened the door.
"Hey, I saw you in the lobbies three days ago. Come in, come in." She ushered us.
We walked into what looked like a lobby with huge maroon comfy chairs and a multiple flat screens that several people were watching. Chandeliers were hanging from the high peaked ceiling. There was a large staircase with intricate designs at the northwest of the room. Up the stairs were just closed doors with numbers and names on them.
"So how do you like it?" A British voice said behind me. I spun around to see a guy with dull maroon eyes with gold specks mixed in with the red and bleach-blond hair.
"Yes, the room is very beautiful." I smiled.
"My name is Ayden Malone. Nice to meet you." He said.
"Hi, my name is Morgan Price."
"My pleasure." He grinned. I gave him a warm smile. In the background there was a throat clearing. Ayden stopped staring at me.
"Well hello, Dr. Cullen!" Ayden welcomed him.
"Hello Ayden, how are you today?" Dr. Cullen asked.
"Good, good, Doctor."
"Alright then, I guess I should give the floor to the dorm president and vice president." Ayden said. He walked up the stairs and I heard the door close.
"I should take me leave then, too. It was nice meeting you Morgan. Bye Alice, Jasper, say I said hello to the others when they're not busy." Dr. Cullen stated. He held out his hand. My human memories flashed at a before time when he did this and I shook it willingly this time. He chuckled.
I know I should have felt tired of standing but I felt no different than when I was sitting.
"Bye." The door closed softly and I noticed the couple from the lobbies was sitting on the couch. They were in front of me instantly.
"Hi, my name is Alice Cullen and this is my husband, Jasper," Alice said, "Jasper's the dorm president and I'm the vice. We're here to explain the rules to newborns and keep everyone in the dorm in check."
I nodded and she carried on.
"The Dorm rules aren't that much, only don't run away, we'll catch you if you do by the way, on feeding days don't go near the humans or you'll get transferred to the Human Drinker dorm and don't violate school rules. School rules are you must wear your school uniform; our uniform is black and navy, while the Human Drinker Dorm's is red and white. There are also other rules; you know, no fighting, no talking back to the teacher, follow the dress code. You know, normal school rules. Oh, since you're allowed to bring bottles of blood into class, don't spill it. Tomorrow you'll get your schedule and uniforms." Alice smiled.
"Is that all, Alice?" Said a woman with long mahogany hair and sparkling topaz eyes. A man with windswept bronze hair and gold eyes held her by the waist.
"Oh, hello Bella and Edward. This is Morgan. Morgan, this is Bella and Edward Cullen. Where are Rose and Emmett?" Alice asked.
"Their upstairs having fun," Bella said, wiggling her eyebrows, "Hi Morgan." I nodded at her.
"Hi Morgan." Edward welcomed. I smiled.
"Well, I should show you your dorm." Alice stated. We danced quickly up the stairs. It didn't even take two seconds to go up a flight of stairs and down two corridors.
"And this, is your room." She gestured her pale arm to the beautiful room in front of me.
"I saw that your favorite color was blue so I did me best with the colors and others colors you preferred." Alice said.
Looking around the space I murmured, "Thank you." With a light smile she flitted out of the room.
I fully looked around the entire suite, wondering of its magnificence. It had a light romantic blue on the walls, and the dark hardware floor complemented it elegantly. To the right, there was a large black velvet couch with big fluffy pillows. There was a darker aquamarine rug under the couch. A bookshelf was on the wall at the foot of the large couch, and a black lamp was noticeably were I should out my head down.
To my left there were two doors. I opened one to find a large empty closet, waiting for me to put my belongings in there. The other one reveled a large bathroom complete with a shower and a spa tub. It had a gold and white scheme, making me think my room was subtly ocean themed. I had never seen the ocean.
The tub dipped into the ground, making it so you slid in to it. The shower had a glass case around its huge area. I could see there was no toilet, seeing as I wouldn't have the need to go to the bathroom for the rest of my existence.
I dashed to my room, shutting my bedroom door and locking it.
I strolled into the bathroom, slipping off my clothes and sliding into the tub. I filled it with boiling hot water, watching as the steam rolled off me in waves. I sighed and went under the water.
I didn't need air; my body had already been stolen of that particular function. I stayed under there for a long, long time, forgetting I was a vampire, remembering the good times when I was little and played with our dog in the tub back at my human house. I refused to call it my home now, that place was only filled with empty love now. I noticed how the memories became darker, faded, and grainy like a television that was old.
I reemerged about four hours later. I washed my hair, then grabbing a towel getting myself dry. I left the steamy white and gold washroom. Grabbing a pair of sweats and my favorite sweater out of my bags, I began to unpack. It was eerily easy, with all this new vampire muscle in me.
About two hours after finishing putting away my clothes I was sprawling out on my new velvet couch, reading, when Alice knocked. I unlocked the door and let her inside.
She was smiling at me. "I see you like your room. Good. Well, get dressed properly and I will go with you to get your uniforms and schedule."
"Alright." I walked into my closet picking out a pink and black-stripped hoodie with black skinny jeans with flats. Alice was on the other side of the door now, so I changed quickly throwing the sweats on the couch.
It was weird I wasn't even tired. It was like someone had put me on an energy pill only given to people who are in desperate need of consciousness.
We walked through the grand room and strolled into the frosty dawn.
"We'll just go into the office get you fitted, get your schedule and go. School starts in three hours." She set the agenda. I nodded, making note I only had three hours until an entirely new school. My eyes widened and I froze, unnecessarily. It wasn't like anyone was going to bite me now. Alice turned, gave me a sympathetic smile.
"You'll do fine."
"Sure." I shrugged.
The office buildings were nearly as fancy as the Animal Drinker dorm. Gold candleholders were on the gray stonewalls. Ancient rugs and tapestries made the room look like a medieval castle.
"Hello, darlings. I assume you are the newest student?" The blonde haired Human Drinker asked me. I nodded.
Alice grinned, "Hello Kestrel. How are you today?"
Kestrel smiled politely and muttered, "Good."
"Here let us go into the fitting rooms," She walked into a room filled to the brim with two kinds of uniforms. One was black and a navy blue while the other; larger in stock was a white and maroon pair.
"Says on my list you are a Animal Drinker." Her lips curled up distastefully at the words. I hissed quietly.
"What size are you?" I told her I we found the right fitting. My uniform was navy blue and black. The long-sleeved blouse was navy, and the silk tie, skirt, were black. Kestrel told me that I could wear any type of shoe as long as it was black. I nodded at her.
We headed out of the room. She handed me my schedule and I looked it over.
Homeroom- Bunkers
1 period- AP Language Arts- Meyer
2 period- Vampire Social Science- Saigsu
3 Period- Physical Education- Smith
4 period- AP Calculus- McCauley
5-Science-Parker
6-Music- Schellden
7- AP Human Social Science- Canty
"Goody, we have homeroom, seventh, and first together." Alice cooed. I looked at her. I sighed and looked grimly at the courtyard with contained excitement. She patted my head.
"Oh, stop looking all weird. You'll do great." She winked playfully.
"I'll try."