The cars weren't far behind us while we were running. We kept running into people leaving confused looks on their faces. Most likely because they couldn't see us. All of a sudden Alex made a sharp turn and I followed suit almost tripping over nothing. The more we ran the less houses and stores I saw. I noticed how we were running on a pathway and it lead up to a huge house about 2 miles out. We kept running although we lost the police. Suddenly Alex stopped running but I didn't. I found out why a few seconds later. Ran smack into a door made of steal and man did it hurt. I rubbed my forehead and waited for Alex, who had a smug smile on his face. I was too angry to say some smart comment.

He held the door open for me and walked in. It looked like a mansion, just a smaller version. If this was just a place to stay on a mission then what was his real house like? Or mansion I should say. It was pretty plain though, mostly beige and white everything. I looked around for someplace to sit. Alex went straight upstairs.

I found a couch and sat on staring off into nothing. What was I going to do? Where am I supposed to go? I have no family but Sarah. And she probably didn't even know I was gone yet.

Tears started to from in my eyes and I forced them back. I had no money, no place to stay and I still wanted to be a marine biologist and go to college. How is all that going to happen if I'm on America's most wanted.

Maybe I could move Canada. Or some other country where I wouldn't be noticed But then how would I get to an airport. Everyone seems to watch the news all of a sudden. Was I on the new right now? There was a big flat screen TV and I looked everywhere for the remote. When I found it I turned it on and flipped to the news channels.

It was being viewed from the helicopters and the police cars where chasing another car.

They know that's not us. This is why I never watch the news. It so full of BS.

The news camera switched point of views and was interviewing Vanessa.

"How does it feel? Knowing that your own best friends killed you parent?" the news woman asked tauntingly.

"I-I didn't know. H-h-ho-how could she? They d-didn't to anything to h-her. I hope y-you guys find her so that I could speak my m-m-mind. How could s-she be so evil" she said between sobs. I winced at her words. I turned the TV off and threw the remote and the wall as hard as I could. I left a dent in the wall and stuffed my head into one of the couch pillows screaming. I gripped the pillow I had and threw it at a lamp that looked pretty expensive and it fell to the floor, shattering.

That what you get for lying to be you sob.

I wanted to break anything in sight but didn't really wan to have to replace them. It would probably cost me a lifetime so I pushed that thought aside. Instead I just started pacing. A hand touched my shoulder and I slashed out at whoever it was, not caring. It was Alex and he attempted to reach out to me again. I growled at him but that didn't stop him. I started moving backwards still growling, and glaring at him. I made a run for it but only got about 3 feet when he grabbed my arm and pulled me into his embrace.

I fell to my knees and started to shake lightly. I took me some time to figure out that I was crying. I let Alex hold me not caring weather he admitted his love for Blonde or not. I would deal with that later but for now I just needed some comfort. Then out of nowhere Blonde came from downstairs and when she spotted us glared at me.

Was this chick bipolar or she just can't seem to make up her mind. She hates me then she's all "hey their". Now she hates me again. What really bothered me was that she was in Alex's house.

It was dark outside and I stood up. If Alex really was with Blonde then I would not want to be the little whore on the side that he cheated with. When I stood up I realized how I didn't no if I was staying here to sleep in for the night. Or was I going to have to find a place? When I didn't have anything to think about I found out how thirsty I really was. I hadn't fed in what seemed like ages. I started walking towards the door and found that it wouldn't open. I pushed and pulled and turned knobs and unlocked locks but it wouldn't open.

Frustrated I kicked the steel door as hard as I could and regretted a second later. I wasn't sure if I broke my toe but it did hurt. I turned to Alex.

"I need to get out of here" I told him.

"I know, we will leave tomorrow."

"No, I mean I need to go outside and your stupid door wont open" I gritted my teeth.

"You're not going anywhere" I stared at him in shock.

"But I'm thirsty" I reasoned.

"It's going to have to wait till tomorrow, when the last time you fed?"

"When you saw me! If I go on a killing spree then it will all be your fault".

"Why would you wait so long?" he said and I felt like a retard.

"I didn't really notice until now. I guess a lot of things have been on my mind" I muttered.

"Well if you want theirs blood in the fridge".

I snorted "You think I want that? I need fresh blood or I'm going to go crazy" the more the thought about it the more I wanted it. "Just let me out! I wont take long!" I was practically begging and shamed myself.

"If you go then I have to go with you".

"Why? I can handle myself" I snapped.

"Take it or leave it"

I gave in. "Fine but how do you even open this door, I've tried every combination."

"I have a key" oh…duh.

He went and opened the key and all off he locks unlocked at the same time and he pushed the door open. I started to run, although I wasn't running from anybody, the urge to drink was really strong. I went to my usually alley way and kept my head down incase someone noticed me. I saw a girl and her boyfriend, the girl kissed him goodbye and went into a car that drove off. The boy was walking in the opposite direction I was. I started to follow. I looked around and saw Alex nowhere although I'm pretty sure he was watching.

I remembered when he told he didn't like the way I drank from my prey…if that's what you call them. So instead of the usually approach I just knocked him out cold. I drank from him and felt the sweet blood flow into my mouth. When I was done I didn't even wait to see if the wound closed. I started running back to the 'house' and opened the door with ease. Why isn't it that easy to open from the inside out?

Blonde was standing right in the entrance.

"What?" I snapped in her face.

"Stay away from him" she stressed the word him so I knew exactly who she was talking about.

"Whatever, just get out of my way. You cheap slut" I retorted.

"What did you call me?"

"Did I stutter?"

She lashed out at me and I dodged it easily. And this time my mental walls were up, there was no way she was going to paralyze this time. I could feel her trying to and froze for just a mere second. So you want to play dirty, little bitch.

I grabbed her hair and slammed her head into the floor. She went unconscious in a matter of seconds. I kicked her sides and was positive I broke something. Satisfied I went upstairs to explore the 'house'. There were at least five bedrooms upstairs an I opened one. It was empty, I opened another, it was also empty. Finally the last door just had one king sized bed. I wondered if Alex and Blonde shared it…I shuddered at the thought. When I turned to leave and saw an angry Alex glaring at.

"I think it's safe to assume you found an unconscious Blonde".

"This not funny" he said sternly and I snapped.

"What? You think I want to be here? I'd much rather be home relaxing. But you know what, I can't do that anymore. Hell I can't even show my face unless I want to spend the rest of my life in jail. I'll would die within weeks!"

His eyes softened…or at least I think they did, I wasn't sure because mines were starting to water.

"I'm sorry" he said softly.

"I don't want your pity" I pushed pass him wiping the tears from my eyes. God I'm such a wimp. I don't want any pity, now even from myself.

I looked where Blonde's unconscious body use to be and it was empty. Did I seriously just fight over a boy? I swore to never stoop so low. A few hours later I fell asleep and when I woke I was in a totally uncomfortable chair. I slowly took in my surroundings. There were rows two rows of chairs.

Am I dreaming? I'm in an airplane? First class, nice.

I looked around and saw Blond sitting as for from me as possible. She had a horrible knot on her head. Glad to know I messed up her pretty little face.

To my disappointment Alex was sitting next to her looking tense. Maybe they were taking me to his little kingdom, and then I would be like any other normal vampire. I probably would never even see him again. I sighed and closed my eyes. I imagined I was in a garden full of beautiful flowers. Then I imagined cutting off Blonde burning down into the ashes. Suddenly I felt the airplane start to fall and screaming was coming from Blonde, she was on the floor grabbing her head. I looked and saw that we were falling. Oh no. Alex was next to me in a second staring at me expectantly.

"What?" I snapped even though we were all falling, probably to our death.

"Your stupid illusions are going to get us killed!" he yelled at me. I winced. I had put up an illusion without even realizing it.

I lifted it immediately and we kept falling for about a minute and the plane was finally back on track. I heard the flight attendant assure that everything was okay and that he was changing shifts, apparently he thought he was hallucinating and needed more sleep.

"I didn't do it on purpose" I muttered.

"Well you still did it! We could have died, you could have died, did you ever think that someone was actually flying the plane?" his tone was deathly low and it scared me.

"Just leave me alone, if I did die, I would be doing myself a favor" and I turned and faced the window. He sat down on the chair next to me and I inched away as much as possible.

"Cleo-"

"Why can't you just leave me alone, go back to your lover and leave me alone" I said and really didn't like the fact that his lover was Blonde, not me.

"Risa is not my lover" he scoffed.

"Lover, sex toy, prostitute, girlfriend, call it whatever you like, the list can only be so long".

"She's none of those"

"Not according to her" I mumbled.

"Why are you always arguing with me?" he asked and I turned around to look at him.

"Why do you even bother with me? I'm sure there are other vampires would love just being in your presence."

"You do not like my company?"

I didn't reply but just sat there looking out the window.

"Look at me" he said, I stayed right were I was, not moving a centimeter. I heard him sigh and strong hands turned me around.

He looked me right in the eye and my heart did a cartwheel. I turned my gaze to the floor.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Like how?" I could tell he was messing with me.

"Never mind." I tried to turn around but he was still holding me in place.

"Your going to learn to love me, everyone does" he said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"You mean all the woman do, and there is a difference between love and physical attraction. Just thought I should let you know". He let go of me and faced forward, his face stone hard. Was it something I said?

"The plane will be landing in 45 more minutes. Stay seated during landing" someone said overthe intercom.

"Did I offend you?" he said nothing but closed his eyes. I swear he looked like an angel, one that I could never have. I mumbled sorry and one eye opened to look at me like hearing sorry from me was a miracle.

"What? I'm not all that horrible you know, I still have a heart".

"You're not horrible at all, just confused".

"I'm not confused, I know exactly what is going on."

"Not in that sense."

I tried to think about what he could mean by a different sense but came up with nothing. Finally the plane went below the clouds and my breath caught in my throat. The land was beautiful. There was a long river that stretched as for as the eye could see. There were a lot of tree's and as we moved forward the tree's started to thin and there was just a huge clearing it looked plain and wrong for nothing to be there. Then we passed the huge clearing and there were big lakes that were so blue it could have been painted. The grass was so green. I don't know how long I was admiring the scene because when I was done the plane was landing.

Wait…the plane is landing? There's not an airport in sight.

"Umm, how are we landing?" I asked, truly curious.

"We're going underground".

Ok… it's like as soon as he said that everything went pitch black but my highly trained eyes responded quickly. When I looked outside it looked like we were in a tunnel, kind of like a subway only without the people, just the tunnel. The plane made a few turns and emerged from the darkness, sunlight shining into my eyes. I squinted and when my eyes adjusted it wasn't sunlight but light bulb light. When the plane came to a complete stop we got out. I looked at the plane to find that it was really small but classy looking. We were inside what seemed like another tunnel just enough room for the plane. A few yards ahead was a flight of stairs and Alex started lead me up them and Blonde was behind Alex. Most likely so we wouldn't fight again.

When we finished walking up them there was a huge room. It looked kind of like a ball room and there were vampires all over the place. I had never seen so much at once in my entire life. There were also other creatures that I didn't really know what to call them. All I knew was that they weren't vampires and they didn't smell like humans. As we followed Alex everyone now and then he would nod to someone or a girl would run up to him and kiss him on the cheek saying 'Welcome back my love' or 'Oh your back, I missed you so much'. One vampire girl was practically on top of him trying to kiss his lips. My eye twitched and Blonde growled at the vampire.

The vampire backed off immediately but looked at Alex and mouthed 'we'll finish later'. I made a gagging noise and a deep seductive voice chuckled from behind me. All three of us turned and I saw almost an exact replica of Alex. He was just a gorgeous to and he staring right at me.

"Hello, young lady. You look beautiful." He said to me and I was shocked with his forwardness. Usually guys just whistled or made comments they thought I couldn't here.

"Thanks, you're not all that bad your self" I said even though it was a complete lie, he was way more than half, hell even full.

He chuckled again. "Would you like me to show you around?" I didn't even know where I was, a tour would be nice.

"No." I turned around to glare at Alex, was he my father? Blonde was also glaring at Alex, she obviously wanted to get rid of me, I wanted to laugh at the ugly knot I made on her head.

"Brother, why don't we let the lady decide?" Brother? That explained there similar looks.

"A tour would be nice…I guess I'll see you later" I waved goodbye to the now pissed off looking Alex and a smug Blonde.

"And what might your name be?"

"Cleo, and yours?"

"Blake…you have a very unusual name. It's different."

"Why does everyone keep telling me that?" I muttered.

"Here, different is a good thing. Everyone is the same but you're different."

"Ok, thanks. So what I really want to know is where we are."

"Different realm, same world" he looked at the confusion on my face and laughed "We are like in a protected big bubble where no humans can bother us because that protective bubble is a barrier. The barrier doesn't allow humans to go through and it enables them so see through it. Actually no one can see it until you actually in it but since humans can't go in it they can never see it."

"Well how do you drink?"

"Blood donors…though most vampires like the hunt better."

"You mean like humans who give up there blood? There's no thrill in drinking from a plastic bag…"

"Don't be silly the blood donors are here. They let us feed off them" my eyes widened.

"What? I thought humans weren't suppose to know about vampires, what if they slip up and tell one of their friends or something? I thought humans couldn't pass the barrier".

"First of all humans aren't suppose to know about but there is an exception for blood donors. Secondly they can't slip up because they are here their whole lives. Thirdly the blood donors are bit and venom is injected into there veins. That causes some kind a chemical reaction in their body and they are able to pass through the barrier. I don't know the details but that's the pretty solid explanation don't you think?"

"They stay here their whole lives? That is horrible, how much they must hate it, oh poor things".

"Have you ever been bitten by a vampire?" I nodded no.

"The only vampires I even saw before this was my cousin Sarah, Alex, and Blonde".

"Blonde?"

"Err… I mean Risa, I guess I'm so use to calling her Blonde in my head it only comes naturally when I say it aloud". He chuckled again.

"So where are we right now?"

"In the main hall, come on, time for your tour" he said grabbing my hand that earned us a few whispers and gasps.

"Someone's mighty friendly" I told him. I barely knew him and he was already holding my hand.

"I think we are going to be wonderful friends" he said now leading me to an elevator "there are seven floors in this place and it is pretty huge. The first floor is used mostly for dances and stuff like that. The second and third is the classes…yes I know it must suck, having to go to school, although you seem pretty smart". I gapped at him.

"I did go to school, thank you very much and I passed all of my grades."

"Oh, well most newcomers have never been to school. They just live big until something happens that causes them to flee" I eyed him warily; he couldn't possibly know my story. We went into the elevator and up to the fifth floor.

"Why'd you skip the fourth and fifth floor?" I asked.

"Because that's where the boy dorms are and I don't think they will be able to keep their hand off you and the fifth is the girl dorms and I don't need slobber all over my shirt". I rolled my eyes.

"I could handle myself, I would break whoever's face I needed to if they made me feel uncomfortable".

"Feisty are we?"

"Oh no, that's just common sense" he looked at me like I was crazy then we laughed.

"Your definition of common sense is a lot different form every other girl around here. They we a hot guy and blow them off."

Wow, are all female vampires like that? What a disgrace.

We went up to the 6th floor which happened to be where training in combat was done. The 7th floor no one was really allowed to go because that's were the Council held their meetings. Turns out we are at war with others just like us only they are evil. There called the Apocalypse because if they succeeded in world domination that what it would feel like, I thought the name was pretty funny. From what I was told they kill humans for sport and pretty much anyone weaker than them. This place is sort of like headquarters and they also had their own although we had no one had an idea where it is. People believe it's amongst humans or something.

I also learned that there are such things as shape shifters, pixies, werewolves, and witches. There are also these kinds of things called Shadow Dwellers and they supposedly can move form shadow to shadow without being known. Blake told me that we have a few here but most of them went with the Apocalypse. I also learned that Blake's power was to read minds. I was so embarrassed when I found that out but that was but them he told me it only worked when we was touching the person. I was grateful for that because how embarrassing would that be, calling him gorgeous like his brother ugh.

"So what's your power" he asked.

"Do you really want to know?" I said smiling evilly.

"Yes" he looked a little cautious and I laughed.

"Ok but don't get mad at me, remember you asked".

Call me perverted but I willed him to see himself naked in front of everyone but I'm not that cruel. Only he could see that he was naked…but he didn't know that. I continued looking at him knowing I couldn't see but he did. His eyes widened and I laughed. He looked around and saw nobody was doing anything.

"You can make clothes disappear?" he said, with a sly smile

"Haha no. You seem like you don't care about being naked though."

"I don't have anything to hide"

"Well I can't see but I know you see, I could have made everyone else see and girls would be running over to you like insane women".

I lifted the illusion and he frowned.

"So what is your power?"

"Illusions." His mouth almost dropped.

"How long do they last?"

"Well I've been practicing ever since was small but around two minutes."

"That's amazing" he said in awe.

"How so?" I was sure there were plenty of others who could make illusions.

"Well…there's only like one other illusionist but he's with the Apocalypse. On top of that there has never been a female illusionist, ever. How long does it usually take you to bring them up?"

"Couple of seconds…depending on how many people I try at a time" I said honestly.

"Can you only use it like once every hour or something?" now that was a good question, no one has ever asked me but I knew the answer anyway.

"Nope, but it doesn't get exhausting depending how often and how long were talking about. Like say I did it for the full two minutes then is dropped. Then I put another one up after that immediately and it lasted the full 2 minutes I would get a slight migraine. After the third time I'm practically comatose for like a few minutes then I just fall straight to sleep for a pretty long time. I usually wait an hour or two between putting up illusions."

"Wow…that's pretty cool. My brother is coming. Don't get pissed off at me ok? You're really cool."

"Ok…"

"Close your eyes" I did.

Then he did the totally unexpected. He kissed me and I stood their completely frozen. I opened my eyes in shock.

'Don't look so surprised' I heard a voice in my head and it was Blake's.

'What's your problem?'

'Oh please, you could break away any second but you don't want to'

'You and your brother are so full of yourselves.

I pushed him away and when I turned around I saw the angriest Alex I had ever seen.

Wow finally, this chapter is finally done! Took me forever!