Ivy ( vampire love story)

I got ready for the dance against my will.

"Hmm, well I'm not doing anything to your hair, its too gorgeous. I'll just pin back some hair on the side so that its not in your face." I have my hair parted to the right, so she pinnedback the some of the left side, where there was less hair with a sparkling hair barrette. Next, she did my make up. I was worried about this, since she said I couldn't look in the mirror until she was done with me.

"Nat, your not going to make me look like, well, you?" I asked.

"What's wrong with me?" She asked. She was wearing a halter black dress with black stilletos. As if she wasn't tall enough. The front of the dres went down low, and still managed to cover everything. She had on a lot of eyeliner and mascara, but not in a whore-ish way, just the amount you would see on a runway. She did look gorgeous, but I could never pull that look off. Partially, because I would trip and fall in those heels.

"Nothing, its just that I don't normally wear make-up, so I mean I don't know if I'll really look that great with a whole bunch on." I swear I made that excuse up off the top of my head.

"Don't worry, you don't look anything like me." She laughed.

"Ok, your done." She let me walk over to my mirror. I looked really good. MY dress was beautiful. It was red and strapless and was sweatheart shpaed, but didn't show as much cleavage as that kind of cute normally did. It was tight fitting all the way down, until my hips. where it flared out slightly. For my make up I only had on a little blush, and mascara, wiht a tiny bit of clear lipgloss, and peach colored eyshadow. Completly different than what Nat looked like. Which was good.

"Wow, you really made me look good." I said.

" I know, now lets go!" And she dragged me out the door.

The evening dorm's cafeteria was gorgeous. It didn't look like a normal cafeteria. It looked almost like the Great Hall from Harry Potter, but not as grand, and only about a third of the size. I walked in looking around at everything, trying to capture it all at once. There were different colored lights raning from blues to purples to yellows-almost every color of the rainbow. There was a long table filled with drinks and food that looked delicious, even though I wasn't hungry. There were different colored galss balls and iciles hanging from the ceiling, everywhere. The morning class students seemed a little hesitant, but then started dancing with the evening class. I looked. For him but I didn't see him anywhere. Suddenly I didn't really want to be here. I know, stupid, but I had really looked forward to seeing him.

"Come on lets go dance!" Natalie shouted over the music.

"I think I forgot something, I'll be right back!" I called and ran out of the cafeteria. The halls of the evening class were like a gothic castle. A lot like the morning class, but somehow it seemed eerier with vampires around. I was going to back to my room to see if I had read the note right. I had been getting red rosses from David all week, leading up to the dance, and today this one had a note to meet him at the dance. He hadn't been there though. I'm so stupid! Why would he ever like me? I run away when he tries to kiss me, and then I don't talk to him for a week, despite the fact hes giving me roses on the sly. Unless. Unless it wasn't him. But, it had to be him. No one else would do that. He's the only boy who's ever shown a real interest in me. It just had to be him. It had to. Becuase as much as I hated to admit it, I was falling in love with him, and I'm pretty sure he didn't feel the same way. We barely knew eachother, it was crazy, but yet I couldn't help it. I was always sneaking glances at him in art, or if I saw him in the hallway, I would look. I kept the roses on my night stand so that I could se them before I went to sleep. I had issues, but I wasn't about to do anything to stop.

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I ran out of my dorm room. I was late for the dance. Damn it. I always seemed to blow things when it came to Rose. The kiss, not talking to her, looking at her in class. I really needed to talk to her. Sending her roses had been a good idea. I would see her looking at me in class, when she thought I wasn't looking. That's why I decided to give her a note with the latest rose. To meet me at the dance. But I was late, and I screwed up. Just perfect. Why do I even care? Its not like I was some big romantic guy. There was just something about her that made me this way. I was usually a loner, but she made me want to be with people. Well, her. Damn roommates, they were always stirring up trouble. They came from the families who still wanted to live by the old rules, of hunting humans. So, the Heads of the school decided that I would be perfect for them, since my family is of high status and was one of the first to establish the new laws. It was tough living wiht them, trying to make sure they didn't hurt anyone. Of course, I wasn't the only one who looked after them. There were a few other guys who families lived by the new rules, and they watched over the Breakers. Now I was late becuase a few families just couldn't commit....I stopped dead in my tracks. There standing before me was Rose. Looking beautiful in a red dress.

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Walking back to my room, I felt like there was someone else in the hallway. I looked up and stopped. David was standing there in a tux, staring at me, with an unfathomable expresion that let butterflies loose in my stomach. We looked at eachother for a moment, and then he walked closer, until he was standing right in front of me. I looked down.

"I thought you weren't going to show." I whispered.

"I was just running late." He said just as quietly.

"Oh" I was still looking down.

His finger lifted my chin up meet his pace once again. This time I wasn't going to stop him from kissing me. He didn't kiss me though. He just lifted ym face so that I woudl look at him.

"Rose, Rose, I-" "David!" I turned around to see another guy running toward us. David dropped my chin.

"What is it Ben?" He asked. The Ben guy looked at me uncertainly. I decided I wasn't really a part of this.

"Um, I should go. I'll see you later, David." I whispered and walked off towards my dorm.

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I looked at Rose's departing figure. What the hell was Ben' s problem? Wasn't it obvious that I was busy?

"Well, what is it? And it better be important." I growled, and crossed my arms.

"The Breakers, they want to go to the dance." He said. I was pissed, THAT was why he decided to ruin my one moment with Rose? Over the dance? I glared at him.

"There are more than enough evening professors. They can go, but remember to refresh their memories of the rules." I walked off towards Rose's dorm.

Being in charge of the Breakers was just another thing that set me farther back from getting Rose.

I was at her door. Being a vampire sucks. I couldn't ust walk in. She would get mad. But if I knocked she might not answer the door. I knocked.

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I took my hair out of the pin. This was stupid. A vampire could never be with a human. We were too different. I wished that Ben guy hadn't come. I wanted to dance with David. Or at least talk to him. Now that was ruined becuase I was human and whatever they had to talk about, didn't invovle me. I hated this. It would be too hard to be together, becuase of that one thing. I heard a knock at the door. Natalie? I didn't feel like talking to her. But, it could be someone else. I tried to not think of the one person I hoped it would be.

"Who's there?" I called.

"David." his deep voice was muffled by the door but it still sent chills through me. How could one voice make me so...happy? I didn't say anything for a second, too shocked that he had come here. Of course, it was David. I still sat on my bed unsure of what to do. He was a vampire, whom I was falling in love with. No matter what the laws said, it would never work. I stay seated.

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