"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, even months analyzing a situation, trying to put the pieces together. Justifying what could’ve, should’ve, would’ve happened. Or you can just leave the pieces.... you know Everyone has someone in their life that keeps them looking forward to another day...right? ")
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"I still remember that day like it was yesterday"..... It was raining heavily today, the sky was dark grey with no silver linear".... 

    Ironic how it's my birthday but even the heavens doesn't acknowledged me either,almost as if they too were mocking me for being born...... 


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     If you strain a little you could hear the sounds of the rain drops on leaves....

    The steady rhythm could lure you to sleep ,Every one at the academy would be either visiting their friends, reading in the library or trying out new spells...

     I've always wanted to watch the werewolves transformation up close...

    But am all alone.... I bet No-one would remember me if am dead, no-one has ever come to meet me even the Dean of the academy talks to me behind a closed glass...

     They are all afraid..... Afraid..... Of me... Of the curse flowing through my veins....  They told me that I was cursed at birth due to  family rival.... My parents fought the battle till their death...

      But they couldn't find a spell that could unlock the curse... Even the midwife die a few seconds after holding me....turning to ash...  I was brought here, at the academy, away from public eyes... I never knew my kingdom...

       My crown was made from darkness...  Darkness that always find a way to overpower me... I remember when I turn 12...i needed to feed..... On souls ...  I try fighting it... Instead it backfired... Tuning my skin black... Almost choking me...

       It took the Dean everything to be able to calm me down and because of that he gave me my own land... to live alone without endangering anyone and to do as I see fit...

    I feed on animals now.... But it's still not enough but I can't complain least HE put me down...  Now am 18 ,my powers are growing bigger than anything....

    It's almost mid-day, I decides to go out to hunt down animals for me to feed....    I went out into the rain not caring that the rain was already soaking through my clothes, I was freezing but numb it's not like I could die... The forest feels empty like me....just like an empty shell...

   I smelled the cold air for any scent of an animal... I could feel my jaw dropping, my gum aching and my fangs visible now Every step that I took reminds me that I need to feed....

     I was hurting and crying under the cold but no-one could hear it, no-one could hear my silent screams, agony and pain....
     
        Just as I ventured into the woods, I saw a  glow.... A shiver ran down my spine........ No-one comes down this side, the Dean made sure of that.... I follow to where the glow was coming from, when I tracked the source... I stopped dead in my track..
 
     (I'll never forget the first time I saw him.... His dark hair shone brightly, surprisingly dry....  Instead of rain falling around him.. It was snow and fog surrounding him like ants on sugar....  He was half naked, his pale skin contrast with the glow coming from his hands, on his arm was some amulet of a sort....  His crown was on the floor but unlike mine, his was made up with silver...)
   

       "It's rude to stare, you know..". ------- My head snapped back in attention, red colour tainted my cheeks... I was embarrassed that I was caught... Wait what? I have never blush in my entire life..

       His eyes looks cold and amused, am glad he found this situation funny.... The way he stands, you could feel his aura of danger,the glow was already fading in his left hand.... 

       I suck my cheeks, finding my voice to question him... ------     "W-What are you doing on this boarders?" -----He raised his perfectly arched eyebrow --

    "not that it's any of your business, I wanted to test out my new spells..." 

    "Well since you're in my land, it is my business".....------ The wind wasn't helping much, I could pick up his mouth-watering scent,I could feel his blood pumping through his veins... The demon in me was awaked.....

   "YOU NEED TO LEAVE, RIGHT NOW!!"


    "Look here am the crowned prince of Translogue and I answer to no one".... "I'll go and do what I please"....
  "You have no right to comma-

  Since I haven't feed for days it was getting hard to control my demon....  My eyes turn pitch black as I flung myself on his body... My jaw expanded.....but I couldn't.... I couldn't feed on him.... So I left.... Ran as fast as my speed could take me....

     I Immediately locked all the doors and windows when I got home.. My breathing was fast and irregular.... I almost killed someone...

     "Stupid stupid stupid!! "

"Wow nice therapy..."

I looked up in fear only to see the strange boy again.. But in my house... ----- "Do you have a death wish halfer?"

"What! How dare you look First of all you try to kill me and second you call me a...a..... Halfer!" ......-----He said in mock anger.... I could have laughed if not for our present situation......

      "well your body gave up the scent of a witch and vampire but unlike some, your witch side is more dominant.... Now leave!"


     "Well aren't you a ray of sunshine....Anyways if it makes you feel any better,I know you weren't going to kill me....

      you know, you're the first to ever guess my scent correctly. where is everyone? It's seems lonely and quite here........wait! dont tell me you killed all the maids?Christ! Are you a beast of some sort?"   

        I looked at him like he had grown a horn... -----'You're a real jerk, you no that?"

"hmmm if anyone else had said that to me, would have been beheaded, but you're an exception..."  

   I was speechless... His is in my house, we are sharing the same air but still he hasn't died..... Yet. I could tell he wasn't planning on leaving anytime soon...    


    "Look I think we start off on the wrong foot... Am Atticus, Atticus Ross.... Crowned prince and soon to be king of translogue kingdom..... You?" 

  
     My eyes widened at his question... He's the first to ever ask me of my name.... I can't tell him...it wouldn't take long for The Dean to find out that someone knows my name...... or had talked to me...

  "We both know I can't tell you, and am pretty sure you already know who I am.." ----- His brows narrow in suspicion....

      "What I know is that you're that kid, the young boy who wasn't allowed to pass his boarders during holidays, who study behind a bulletproof glass, no-one comes near you nor talk to you What I don't know is your name...."

   I was a statue now, I could still hear the rain drops on leaves... I watch him took a couple of steps forward....

     "Stop! Don't come any closer... Please.. You need to leave....if the Dean finds out you talk to me...you might be expelled...."

    The last part almost came as a whisper...he crock his head to one side smiling, a smile that melted me on that spot...

     "You should have known by now, I don't care about what others think.... Hmm... You need to feed, what's your favourite animal?..... Donkeys? Antelope? Or do you go for lions?..."   

    I raised an eyebrow at the sudden change of question...

  "Uh... Squirrels... I feed from squirrels..." 

   he walked gracefully to the Gothic Victoria style table.... With a snap of a finger... Dozens of squirrels appeared....  "Bon appetit!!"....

    He gesture to the squirrels, taking  steps backward away from the table...

     "Thanks?"
I took cautious steps towards the table,in a flash I had consumed half.. The ones I touched, immediately turn to ash....

    before I could reacts, Atticus was by my side... I forgot how to breaths...

    (i remembered His eyes was a beautiful nut brown...)

      "You seem harmless enough...just the curse playing with your personality, why would anyone cast that awful spell on you?"...

     He said slowly touching my cheeks... With that he vanish....

He didn't turn to ash... He didn't fall down and die... I was scared and happy about my discovery...

    I placed my hand on the side he touch me... Savouring the first touch of someone.. 

     A touch that didn't mock me for being who I am, for being born....i thought about how close we were, how if I leaned a little ,we might have kissed.... My cheeks burned to where my thoughts were leading to .......maybe it's all a dream...... maybe we won't even see each other again......



   


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