Hi, I am Gwen, Gwendoline Ravanna, but my friends call me Gwen so you can as well. I am sixteen and I have a big fat secret, that is I am a vampire...shhh. Don't tell anyone alright? As I said its my secret, my family secret actually. My father Daemon Ravanna was a vamipre of New Orleans and my mother Esmeralde Ciel was from Buffalo. They met almost a hundred years ago. Though we are vampires but we do not feed on human blood. Like...lets take my dad for instance, he feeds on darkness, he cannot stand the sunlight, he hates it to his bones. At night my father takes walks, when asked he says its refreshes him and the darkness fill him and frees him, but my mom on the other hand is a half human and a half vampire, she feeds herself by inhaling perfume. I know you think this is scary and dangerous in fact but she feeds only on the perfumes that she makes that are basically a concoction of various herbs mixed altogether along with  pigeons' blood as side dish. Yeah she is the gory one. But I promise she is not the reason you see less of pigeons these days. And as for me, I feed on hatred, yes hatred but not literally suck the hatred from people and drain them of it, but transmit their negative emotion to myself through physical contact , that is touch. Yes I feed my self by touching (not in a weird way) people who are angry, frustrated or having a bad day. But before you decide to stop reading further let me tell you my life as a vampire under over was short lived. Yes, people I knew found out that I am a vampire and believe me it was not pretty.

Three months ago,

Alarm goes off...

I wake up with a jolt, "Ughhhh..." I angrily press on the stop button and go back to sleep. I do have school today but then again I am a vampire and sun is our biggest enemy but thanks to my mom's half human genes I can actually stand the sun heat, but dad..oh boy, he hates it to his core which is kinda good for me cause I kinda get to feed on his hatred of the sun which believe me is very strong it can keep me going for a week without food.

"Sweetie wake up, you will be late for school!" I hear mom's muffled through my bedroom door.

"Yes...I am up.. almost." I grumble against my pillow desperately wishing her to leave me alone. I sleep late at night and getting up at six in the morning is such a pain. Anyhow, I simply manage to get up, brush my teeth my canines are sharp but not as much as that of a blood-sucking vampire. Yeah they exist too. My cousin Elijah is a nocturnal beast of blood suckers.

I do have traits that any ordinary vampire would have except the blood sucking part. This in fact is only an exception for the Ravanna family. It is believed that one my ancestors (Great Great Great Great Great Grandpa Zeke) had once fed on a witch, one that belonged to the Coven of the Mystic Grooves, named Eve Moriarty. Therefore, we were cursed by the rest of the coven and we couldn't feed on blood no longer, and we were called the Fanged Horde thereafter. Later atleast after a millinia I was born, which brings us to today, which also brings us to now wherein I finally managed to get dressed and am going don to the kitchen to find something for breakfast.

"Good morning.", beams my mother, who somehow is always sooo cheerful. "Mornings are never good!" says my father who is absolutely right. "I agree dad."

"Oh honey! I know why you say so and trust me you don't mean it.", replies my mom. Always the sweetheart.

"Oh sure I so.." replied my father rather grumpily. I just grab a bread and head to the door, suddenly my mom vampire speed walks before me and stops me from stepping outside. "Hold on little princess, where do you think you are going without having a proper breakfast."

"Mom I am getting late for school." Desperately trying to run away from my mom and dad's vampire parenting.

"But you....", I intervene "Will get something on my way to school." I usually don't get away with cutting her words but I don't give her a chance to get hold of my and quickly speed walk outside my house and get on my car. We are vampires and therefore we are rich, its old money but we can afford a lot of luxury and dad owns a company and my mom owns a school for the special and gifted children, a.k.a. the supernatural kids of Dargan Wood, which is also where our house is located, The House of Bat, yeah that is what it is called literally. I looks shaggy from outside but that is because of a magic spell that one of the witches of the Moonlight Coven cast on our estate, a favour for educating the young witches and warlocks of their coven. Moreover, Dargan High is also a boarding school which helps abandoned and orphaned witches, warlocks, werewolfs, vampires by taking them under their care and teaching then to control their powers. I for change on't go to Dargan, and that's only because I was strong enough to control my powers since childhood. My mom taught me various things and and the witches from the Moonlight coven gave me various spells to hide my vampire powers if necessary, no I am not a witch, these spells only require proper incantations to take force. Moreover, I lead a normal high school life, a boring school life.

I drive out of Dargan woods and out beyond the woods there is a school on the hills known as the Vonbrough Hills. The school is actually a boarding school which serves as a home for the rich and sophisticated, and also bitches. But I am lucky in a way cause I don't have to stay in that school. I may be rich but getting along with bitches didn't come with the package, but not all of them are evil, Faith Clifton I my one and only bestie, we have been friends since I first moved to this school at the age of five, that is kindergarten.

I enter the foyer of the school and see Faith and her boyfriend Brian by the long line of lockers. "Hey!" I greet with a huge toothy smile. "Hi" they reply in unison.

"How was your weekend?" Faith asks me. "Good" I reply as plainly as possible.

"Yo! We are going to Dargan High for our nest soccer match, dude. " josh who I believe is in the football team comes and tells us, Brian in particular. Faith turns towards me and says, "Hey, is'nt that the sch...." I grab Faith before she could complete the sentence and run towards the cafeteria.

"What? Why did you run off like that?" she asks panting.

"Look no one knows that Dargan High is owned by my mom, and I want it to stay that way." I say  my voice laced with worry and anxiety.

"Uhh..okay I you say so...But why?" I really don't wanna answer that question. "Nothing specific, I just don't want the kids to be douche about it and treat me indifferently...", I lie, obviously everyone hates Dargan High because apparently they are not only rich but also special and the students of Vonbrough are just rich, and if someone other than Faith knows I am sure I will be treated as the outcast. I am rather surprised that Faith doesn't see that. She is such a simpleton but my and only my simpleton, I love her so much.

"Don't worry Gwen, I will never hurt you." Aww what a cutie, you see this is why I love her, she is so innocent, "I know you won't Faith. But promise me that you won't tell anyone about it?"

"I promise Gwenny." I smile everytime she calls me Gwenny. I would never trade he for the world, never.

The bells goes off which means we have to gather in the hall for the daily hall meet where we are given instructions for the rest of the day by the principal, in general though.

"Today, start our season matches for the varsity soccer team and the first match of the season, we are teamed off against the soccer team of Dargan High." A loud cheer fills the entire hall. "We will leave for the Dargan woods sharp at eight-thirty, so I expect all the players and the cheerleader to be ready by then." Mr Blackwood stepped down the podium and we were ordered to disperse. I and Faith head to the girl's locker room to get changed to out cheer-leading outfit and head towards the school parking lot. We get on the bus and drive off to the woods. The drive took longer than it usually takes me to drive to school from home and I have no idea why. 
I have been to Dargan High before, it was during the prom nights that Daniel, one of my mom's students asked me out. It is almost like a palace and is divided into four quarters, three of which cater to the witches, werewolves and vampires respectively and a common wing for the regular classes related to the modern sciences and humanities. They have a common meeting hall which is huge, twice the size of Vonbrough's soccer field.

"We are gonna kick their ass, you see my boyfriend is the best player in the team. He is our only hope." Ughh Genevieve, one of those sophisticated bitches. She is pretty but her heart is a black hole that swallows any humanity that might be left of that monster. She has been mean to literally everyone including her friends Jacintha and Elena. I have no idea why those girls stick with her like glue. Her boyfriend is Joe, he is the captain of our varsity team but he is not the role. One of the typical high class douches of the society.
No idea what they would do to me if they found out this school belonged to my mom...shit! I forgot to tell her to pretend that I am not her daughter, at least for today. I sneak off the field and leave aside the rest of the team. Mom, I really need to get to her. I look around and make sure no one is watching and run, with my vampire Godspeed, to my mom's office.
Mom is in her office and looks like she is about to leave to overlook the match thats about to take place.
"Mom, listen to me!" I barge into her office. She looks like she saw a ghoul.
"What is it? Gwen are you okay? What happened?" She had worry laced in her voice.
"Mom, I want you to pretend that I am not your daughter..." I saw real hurt in her eyes and I immediately regretted my words, but I had to say it for the sake of my survival at school. I know I am being selfish but it was also so that I don't end up feeding on myself which has happened only very few times...and it was never good.
"But why?..." she sounded, seemed upset. "Please, just trust me okay? I love you but...I really wouldn't want people knowing that my mom owns this school." I had a good enough reason to not say it or so I thought.

I went back to the field and the match was about to begin. "Where were you?" Merida asked me in a hushed voice. " The loo..." I said trying to be as convincing as possible.
The match was going on well, the supernatural's  were not using their powers and the mortals had no clue of their strength whatsoever. The match was over after ninety minutes and we won, but that was only due to the mercy of the Dargon kids. Every one knows that ordinary mortals can't win against kids who lets say are kinda of immortals, but we rejoiced nevertheless. By the time we are about to return back its already two o'clock in the afternoon. We were about to get on the bus,"Hey I think I forgot my cell phone in the bleachers...you guys go ahead, I will be back in a minute!" I say to Faith and Merida. I take care that no is watching and speed run to mom's office. She is their thankfully. I walk to her and give her a tight hug. "Thanks mom...", she sighs softly and hugs me back "I love so sweetie." She smiles but one that reflects her hurt at what I said in the morning. "Mom, I promise I will explain everything when I get back home, alright?" She nods slightly in agreement. I give her one last hug and walk back to my teammates. Meanwhile I walk to where they are in the parking lot, someone speed walks out of nowhere and blocks path. "Going somewhere Gwendoline?" It hardly take me a minute to recognise that cat like sly voice. Prudence. Now here is a literal bitch of Dargon High. She is a vampire and witch hybrid. So yeah she can conjure and suck blood. "None of your business Prudence!" I say as mean-ly as possible.
"Oh love. You are soo sweet aren't  you.  Maybe your friends should know what you are up to!" I swear my face must have looked horrified at that statement. She started saying a spell, "Viretum magnie treto summonium sreita", a summoning spell. Who was she summoning.... after she finished saying the incantation I see two figure appear before me... Faith and Merida. She summoned them, she risked giving us our. Shit shit shit.
"Hello mortals." Prudence greets them with a sly smile.  "Uhhh...sorry what? And how did we get in here" a confused Merida question.
"Yeah we were just about to get to the bus and poff we are here. How did this happen?" I try to talk and come up with an explanation. "Guys...well maybe you know....uhmmm I...uh..." I suddenly forgot words. DAMN IT!!!!!
" Oh lovely mortals. Your friend Gwen here is hiding something very very important from you." Adds Prudence which sadly drags me into the mud even deeper. Helplessly I try to do something... "Sorcere Convoco la luz del sol poderoso." A sudden spell incantation...man I am so not used to this...Nicholas just managed to summon sunlight into the room which made Prudence scream, she may be half breed but she can't stand the sun nevertheless. Prudence cusses at Nicholas and just winnows away to God knows where but I thank him for saving my ass though not in time but I still appreciate it. Now that issue that was at is that my human friends know the kind of school this is. Nicholas offered to erase their memories but I didn't want it because its something that belongs to them and I didn't want to take it away form them nor did I want to compel them to forget and somewhere deep down I hoped they would understand...if I tired to explain.
"Gwen can you explain what just happened?" Merida looked really pissed. "Yeah, yeah I will but can you please not tell anyone in school?" I plead. They just nod their head and their expression seems so confused which is okay but I have to make sure they don't freak out and tell someone in the hopes of asking for help...
"Nicholas thanks a lot, and please do me a favour and dont tell anyone about what happened...not even my mom." Again I had to lie to her..I hate doing that. "Nick, call me Nick, Gwen. And sure I am not gonna tell anyone." I sigh atleast someone's sensible in this school. I ask Nick to help me cover up magic trace and he also winnows us to our bus we get on and drive back to our school. The drive sure felt even longer than it did before.  We did not talk for the rest of the journey. When we reached our school I followed Merida and Faith to the locker room. "Guys I can explain...",Merida cuts me off before I can finish, "Sure but not here...come with us to the dorm room. We will talk their.", I nod in agreement and follow them to the dorm room. I explain them everything and they patiently listen to me and try to understand what I was saying, "So you are telling us that you are a vampire thay does not feed on human blood but human hate?" Faith asks a little sceptical I believe, "Yes that is exactlu what I am saying."
"You know that is actually kinda cool. Imagine being friends with a vampire nothing can be cooler than that right?" Merida seems to get along with the ride, but Faith is a question-mark. Before Faith could say anything I hear my worst nightmare come true. Genevieve enters into the room, "Oh so now we have a little vampire with us. Interesting...",
"You succubitch you have been eavesdropping for how long now?", Merida seems pissed totally. "Not long, but long enough to have a reason to send this freak away from Vonbrough.", oh god no no no this can't be happening, what the heck do I do now....
"No wonder you are so pale like a ghost Gwen.", she smirks and leaves. Yeah she fucking leaves. If I attack her it will be more obvious and she will have a proof but if I let her people might think she is kidding or not...but I couldn't take the risk of attacking her. I walk out of the dorm and run to the ground, I hear Merida and Faith calling after me but I don't stop I don't wanna talk to them now,because I was crying and I hate people seeing me cry, I needed to get to my car and go home. I needed mom to help me. I really did.

Back at home

I walk into the house and I run to mom and hug her, I was crying I made the biggest mistake of my life and that is going to Dargon for the match I should have just called school or simply refused to go. I never knew it would end up like this. Mom listens to everything and she askes me to go back to my room its already seven o'clock in the evening and I do as she says but going to my room makes it worse I don't know what they are doing and half of the school already knows that I am a vampire and half an hour later I see the proof for myself. People text me and ask if its true, they probably think its some sick joke pulled by Genevieve but I know that its true and I don't want their sympathy or concern or whatever it is that they feel for me. I feel rage, growing inside me, dark boiling rage. This has happened before and it is happening again, I am being eaten up by my own rage, uncontrollable rage that turns me into a monster. A moment later I lose consciousness, I remember nothing because I no longer am Gwen but a beast that can kill. Everytime I feel hatred for someone that is strong I start feeding on it, on my own rage until I become an actual vampire that can kill. That is something that happens very rarely but only a witch can tame my monstrous instincts. Next morning when I wake up my mom tells me that they have decided to enroll me into Dargan and they were gonna make the students of my previous school forget about this incident. I would have to give up my friends all because I am a vampire and a dangerous one at that.

Author's note
Hello people I finally updated my Short Story book but I was wondering if you want a sequel to this story. What happens after Gwen has to leave school possible her live in Dargan High and the adventures she embarks upon after missing with her own kind. Not exactly but yeah. Comment below if you want this to be another book. And please vote for my stories.

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