CHAPTER 2

VLADIMIR'S POV

Next morning, I went to school. I still live a normal life, pretending that I am a human even though I am not. Since then, we have been moving from place to place. Every five years or six years we move so people will not realize that we don’t die. I’ve been to different places, lived in different houses, and used different names for the last hundred years. The name I am using is actually not my real name, but the surname always stays.

My sister, Via, actually has the ability to change and play with people’s memories. It’s her gift. We change some of the memories of the people we’ve met before leaving them. But there were few people we chose to remember us. They were the people whom we created lots of beautiful memories we can’t afford to lose.

I walk inside the hallway of the university. We stopped growing when we reached the age of 18. College days, so I usually start going to college in every town we move to. To tell you, if there is only one award for having the most degrees and medals in college I will be awarded. I tried so many courses along with Van, and my sister Via. I also have one more sister, Vanna, but she doesn’t like going to school so she’s just at home. The reason is she’s our owl.

She’s our connection to the past, present, and future. She sees everything in her vision. Each house was given an owl. She was ours for the last hundred years. She usually spends her time in our library, she just goes out to buy the things she needs like books. It’s risky to let the owl go alone.

I chose Literature as my course now, never tried it before so I agreed with Via and Van though we don’t stay in the same class. I don’t like having them around with me, so do they. We keep a low profile wherever we go, we don’t create names for us. We just live like a normal student. But sometimes, we can’t because we need to avoid them and their blood. Though we don’t feed humans, there are circumstances when we can stop ourselves.

They can also see how unique we are from head to toe. We look like corpses. We have pale skin. It’s like the sun forgot to shine on us when we were kids. We don’t reflect on mirrors and pictures so we tried our best to hide ourselves from those things. Actually, on our first day at school we let them fear us. We wouldn’t be Fear for nothing. We created rumors about us that would make them avoid us. Mostly, they would believe. But I’ve also met people before who never believed and those people became our real friends.

I sat on my favorite spot beside the window. Of course, I have no one next to me. They usually avoided me because we spread rumors saying that we were once drug addicts and were taken into rehab. We created fights the first day we came here so Van and I avoided them. As for Via, she can be friendly, after all she can play with memories so she sometimes created names for her like joining on pageants, sports, and other activities. After that, she would change their memories like she doesn’t exist.

My usual routine would be sleeping in class and still passing though I sometimes fail the other subject and I just don't attend. To tell you, I am getting tired with my life. I no longer know what my purpose in life is. I kept on waking up, and living but with no real destination. I envy people, because no matter how short their life is they know what they want in life.

It was a literature class and we were asked to read books. I started reading, there was no problem at reading because I always love books. I don’t even know why I just now thought to try this course.

I thought for a minute that there was no problem, until the professor went in and introduced the new student. I wouldn’t care. I never care. What made me look at her was the smell of her blood, it’s type AB. The strongest and most delicious blood of humans. I have never seen one of her kind for quite some time.

But it wasn’t the blood that made me stare at her.

It was the fact that she was the girl who disappeared last night.