Meeting My Vampire Prince

I wake up in a field surrounded by green pine trees. The weather has turned cold and I can finally feel fall in the air. I look around the little meadow that I am in and notice something strange. These aren’t just trees, they are doors. Each door has a different symbol on it. One has a bat, one has a wolf, one has a bear, one has a dove, one has a serpent, and the last one has a cat. What could they mean? I walk closer to the door that has the bat symbol on it. I look closely at it and c**k my head to the side. How strange? I go to turn away when the door creaks open. I turn back around slowly and look inside. “Hello…? Did someone open this door?” A cold chill runs down my spine as I see the long hand of something slide out of the door. I start to move backwards, but I can’t get away fast enough. What is going on? It wraps its long boney fingers around my ankle and pulls me towards the black doorway. I try to kick it, but it won’t let go. What is happening to me? Why can’t I get away? I try to scream, but no sound comes out as it drags me through the door and pulls me down into the dark abyss that it crawled out of. I wake up gasping and covered in sweat. I look over at my alarm clock and see the time. It is seven in the morning. s**t. I have slept through my alarm and I am running late! I quickly jump out of bed and start running around my room. My roommate didn’t even bother to wake me up, again. I wonder what I did to piss her off so bad? I have to give myself a quick sponge bath in the sink in our bathroom since I don’t have time to actually shower. Lucky for me, the joint bathroom that we share with two other girls is empty and I can get ready quickly. I brush my teeth, run a brush through my thick blonde hair, and throw it into a large messy bun on the top of my head. I throw on some gray sweatpants and a white tank top over my semi clean body before I slide socks on my feet. I throw an old blue hoodie over that, put on my tennis shoes, and grab my backpack off the back of my chair. I make sure that my laptop, wallet, phone, and keys are all in there before I rush out of my room and head straight for the dining hall on campus. I know I won’t be able to eat a real breakfast before class, but I can still get something to just grab and go. My name is Emily Smith. I am the daughter of the President of the Human Race and a senior in high school at Amalgamate High School. We are a private high school in Montana that has made it their goal to have a fully blended population. They are also the filler school to the Ivy League College Amalgamate University that is five miles down the road. Essentially if you want to get into the university you have to either be in the top one percent of all high school seniors in the world, or you have to graduate from their high school. Their whole goal is to have a healthy and balanced blend of vampires, werewolves, werebears, angels, demons, warlocks, and humans. What really happened is when all the races came out as being real, the humans made it their priority to destroy them all… That is until we all realized that some of us were fated to those of different species. Each species, other than humans, have higher powers who will fate them with another being. Most of the time it is species specific fatings. Werewolf to werewolf, werebear to werebear, and so on. Every once in a while, there is an interspecies fating like werewolf to werebear, vampire to human, or even demon to angel. It is pretty interesting to watch because half the time the humans don’t even realize it until the other species has them cornered and is making f**k me eyes at them. I run straight to the dining hall and pull out my student ID. It is mandatory that all students have a full meal plan with both meal swipes and dining dollars on their card. Each meal plan gives the students full access to all campus meal locations and even allows them to use their meal swipes at campus owned food industries. The dining dollars are for the chain restaurants on campus like Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonalds, Chick-fil-A, and Jersey Mike’s. I push through the doors of the dining hall and jump in line at the campus coffee shop. They have some pretty standard meal deals that allow me to get a cup of coffee along with a breakfast sandwich. Lucky for me the line is really short. I pull out my phone and send a quick text to my best friend Cheyenne. We have been friends since we were in diapers together. She and I have the same classes together, so I always know she has my back when it comes down to certain things. I sent the text asking her if she wants anything from the coffee shop. As I make my way to the front of the line she responds that she already got herself something to eat and is saving my seat for me in our first class. I place my order with the college student from Amalgamate University and step aside to wait for my order. As soon as it is ready, I grab the bag and rush to the classroom just down the hall from the dining hall. I am so glad that I am a soccer player. Due to months of conditioning in the summer heat, I am able to run much faster than normal humans. It makes me a more desirable player when you compare me to the other races. The bad thing is I get really focused on where I am going and forget to look up sometimes. That happened today because as I rounded the corner in the hallway, I ran straight into a rock hard chest. I brace myself for the impact with the floor, but it never comes. I feel butterflies as I look up into a pair of blood red eyes that seem to be staring straight through my soul. “Are you alright…?” His thick Russian accent is only challenged by his thick black hair. His pale, strong arms are wrapped tightly around my waist as I breathe deeply to try and catch my breath. If he only knew just how much I have wanted him since the first day we met. “I’m alright. Thank you Demitri.” I give him a polite smile and he nods his head in return. Demitri Petrov is the First Prince of the Vampire Race. He is going to be the next King when he comes of age and gets married to his queen. I know it will never be me, but a girl can always dream. “You should be more careful, Emily. Not all vampires are as nice as I am.” He gives me a smug smile as I stand up straight. He doesn’t seem to let me go as I am back on my feet. I clear my throat and give his broad chest a little shove. “You can let go now, Demitri. I promise I’m not going to fall.” He clears his throat too and steps back. “Of course… Where are you headed to?” I point over his shoulder to the classroom. “Right over there. I have Trig this morning.” He nods his head firmly. “I see. I also have that class this morning.” He does. I’m surprised he is just now noticing that we have almost the same block schedule. He clears his throat again and nods his head. “I shall escort you the rest of the way.” He offers his arm to me and I can’t help but giggle. “You don’t have to escort me, Demitri. It is not like it is that far away.” He gives me a small smirk and shakes his head. “Nonsense. My father would never approve of me not escorting the female heir to one of the other races.” I shake my head. “I’m not an heir. My father just happened to be elected by the Human race to lead and protect them through political and diplomatic strategies.” I raise my head a little higher. “It is not like I am royalty like you, Prince Demitri.” I watch as his jaw tightens slightly from me mentioning his title to him. He c***s his head to the side and looks deep into my eyes. “Your birthday is just around the corner, right?” I laugh loudly at his drastic change of subject. “Yes, it is. Why do you ask?” He smirks and shakes his head at me. “No reason… I was just wondering if you knew your parents were throwing you a birthday party.” He turns and motions for me to go in front of him as we walk the rest of the way down the hall. I swallow hard and sigh. “Yes, I knew… I assume that you and your parents received an invitation?” He nods his head slowly as we make it to the door of the classroom. “We did. I have to say, I am a bit excited to see how it goes. Your parents do know how to throw a lovely party. I hope you don’t mind me asking you this. What do you want for your birthday?” I gasp and give him a small smile. I shake my head and look up into his eyes. “Whatever you want to get me will be fine. I’m sure that whatever it is, I will love it.” I giggle and shake my head. “Demitri, we have been social friends for a while now. I’m sure you will come up with something that I like.” I look down at my phone and nod my head. “Well, we better get to class. It should be starting soon.” He nods his head and gives a small polite smile. “Of course. After you.” He gestures for me to walk through the door first. I smile and head straight inside and walk right over to Cheyenne. “Hey girlie.” I sit down next to her and plop a blueberry muffin down on her desk. “Hey Emily! Is that a blueberry muffin?” She sniffs the bag and licks her lips as her brown eyes roll into the back of her head. “I told you I already had breakfast.” I giggle and nod my head. “Yeah, I know, but it is your birthday week! So, count this as the first gift you will get this week!” Cheyenne gasps and gives me a tight hug. “Thank you! I didn’t think anybody was going to remember!” I giggle and shake my head. “I’m always going to remember my best friend’s birthday! Now, enjoy the first of many gifts to come. Oh, I also got you a blueberry smoothie. I hope you like it!” She shakes her head and giggles as we both dig into our blueberry muffins, blueberry smoothies, and bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches.