Chapter One: Valance Tod

It had already been a month, her father had to stay in Elysia for some unsettled business leaving her and her disoriented brothers.

" Mom! where are my skinnies? Tammy's gonna be here in an hour!" Valance Tod yelled from her room atop the stairs, her black ripped skinnies were missing and that was no good. Expecially since it was rumored that Jamie Nixson was joining them on their trip to Stokerton.

" Val I told you, you wore them for almost a week straight, it's time to wash them" Hayley replied from the bottom of the stairs as she started working on supper for her brothers.

Val rolled her eyes in anger, clearly it didn't matter...so what she had a mustard stain from when Tammy's sandwhich drippled onto her lap at that lunch period. And ok...maybe she fell in dirt from playing baseball for gym other than that they were fine.

" Wear another pair" Her mother recolied.

Val muttered in anger but found another pair of skinnies that were cordroy blue and had a couple rips but nothing big, she threw on her converse sneakers she got for christmas from her father and wore the black woodened necklace she got from her mom. She looked at herself in the mirror and freyed her hair.

She liked her long flowing blond hair like her mom's and her bright amber eyes she recieved from her father. She smiled and saw a tiny fang protude from her gums and figured a snack was in order. Before she left her vanity, Val put in a black rubber ear ring in her left ear and smiled.

She walked out and down the stairs and into the fridge where her mom had blood pudding all ready for her. Whenever mom got bored she would take Jell-o and mix it with blood packets and put wrap over them and freeze them. Val took one and ate it, she smiled mom always had made blood taste so good.

Mom walked out and pursed your lips.

" You know your father's thoughts on Tammy right? the Poes and Tod's don't get along very well"

Val rolled her eyes again. So apparently her father and Tammy's father, Eddie didn't get along only because he was a vampire paparizzi that only wanted to expose him as the monster he was.

Even Eddie was scared of Val, wouldn't even let her in his house only because he was worried that she would come in and suck him dry.

A car pulled up and honked it's horn. Val smiled as she knew it was finally a chance to escape. She kissed her mom and said good bye to Xavier and Ethan and stepped into Tammy's yellow Volkswagan beetle. Tammy was was a year older than Val and the same age as her brothers.

" Hey girl sup?" Her car smelled of vanilla mixed with a coconut and made the illusion of a summer tropical beach.

" Oh the usual, brothers playing Xbox and mom overworking" I replied as she back out of the drive way and began driving towards Stokerton, Tammy smiled as she pushed her glasses back up the ridge of her nose and put a finger on her lips as if to tell to be quiet.

" Don't worry I won't tell about us sneaking to Stokerton" Val snuck in her seat and sighed.

Her father had told her ever since she was born to stay away from Stokerton mostly because of the Elysia and the fact lately it was being quiet and secretive which was way her father had stayed for almost a month.

" It's no biggie Tam," Val checked the back seat and frowned she turned back to Tammy, cocked and eyebrow and in a smooth tongue clicked.

" Where's Jamie?"

Tammy flipped a strand of brown shoulderlength hair and smiled shyly she pulled to a stop as she turned to face Val.

" Couldn't make it"

" Don't lie, you only said that to lure me out" Val sighed heartbroken for some reason.

" Well duh, Valance you've been in your house ever since Vlad has been in Elysia and you don't wanna call me or do anything so what else was I supposed to say?" Val narrowed an eye and hastly chocked out with a whip of her tongue.

" Ummm what about hey Val it's me Tam wanna hang out?" It was Tammy's turn to sigh.

" Would you come out?"

" Probably not"

" Case in point"

Tammy drove past the Elysian building and Val felt her heart jutter as she pulled herself futhur into the seat, she told Tam to drive past it so she could avoid seeing it, but then again seeing as it was the tallest building in Stokerton, it seemed as if it watched over the city itself. Tammy drove along the main road and looked at for a passable lane, she swore as some old lady cut her off and drove in the new one and was pulled to a stop.

" Jamie's been hanging out at The Crypt lately, maybe you should go there... I mean" Tammy stared at her shirt with the fishnetting around her mid torso showing of her belly button and the two pieces of fabric which made the rest of the shirt, colored in her favorite color black.

" You are slightly gothic" Tammy pointed out. Val shrugged and tightened a lip upwards.

" Ya I supposse, but I mean he probably has a waiting list, tell me this list one girl who would not go out with a hot, senstitve boy?"

Tammy nodded as she pulled into Stokerton's mall parking lot and into underground parking. She got out and locked her car. She looked at Val who was still nervous of being caught. Tam smiled surely and patted her friend on the back.

" Hey relax ok? were here to have fun and fun were gonna have"

They spent almost two hours in the mall before Tammy and he stopped at a Mcdonalds for Tammys snack. Val waited patiently at a table fiddling with a straw before nimbly chewing an end, she pulled out and coyly smirked at her fang marks that pierced the yellow stripe.

Tammy walked over with a hamburger and two fries and a huge soda, she took a seat and handed a package of fries to Val. Val was taken back amused, she never ate human food it was only blood Tammy knew this, and she was glad she was nothing like her father.

" Just try, you might like them"

Val shrugged and pulled out a wiggly, soggy fry. She nearly cringed at the sight of it and stuck an end to her tongue and chewed and swallowed, before she knew it she ate another and another and another until they were gone. Val licked her fingers rid of the salt and looked up at Tammy.

" You were right those are good" Val smiled as Tammy mirrored her looks, Tammy took a sip of her root beer and coughed awkwardly.

" Actually, there was something I wanted to talk about as well, with you that is"

Val searched her empty red box hopeing to find another small fry wedged between the two small openings, discouraged when there were none, she pointed a finger and used her magic to make a couple more appear. She smiled and ate some more.

" Well thats one good thing about being a witch" Tammy praised as she licked some ketchup off her fingers after taking a bite of her cheeseburger.

" Half witch remember? I'm also half vampire as well" Val reminded her as she pointed a salted finger at her.

" Ya well anyways I'm dating Xavier" She blushed as she watched Val's eyes widen and her mouth open agape.

" My brother Xavier?"

Tammy nodded embarrassed.

" Good for him, oh and you as well, Xavier wouldn't shut up about you when he first met you and he fell in love with you...so when did he say so?" Val chuckled as she thought of her foreloan brother back in second grade when he met an oh la la Tammy Poe.

" Yesterday in Chemistry class, I couldn' t resist his look, he's so cute I couldn't say no" Tammy blushed brighter as she squirmed in her seat.

" Do you love him?" Val had to ask. She knew Tammy wasn't the one to break a man's heart but she wondered if so, she wouldn't want her nicest twin brother to get hurt that is.

" Yes, I always had a crush on him, Ethan is nothing like him"

" Ethan is more...of a dick" Val spat out but watched as parents gave her degrading looks making her pale face turn a little pink.

Tammy chuckled as she threw her trash in the bin and went around to look.

Little did Val know...someone was watching them.