Sarah walked silently along the side of the empty sidewalk on that side of her town, for what must have been the tenth time. She had to keep her senses aware of any trace of her family blood line, for fear that she would be killed on the spot. If she wanted to be dead, she would have walked to her front door and let her mother have the joy of killing her right on her doorstep. In fact, if she had wanted to be dead, then she would have fallen on her knife as soon as she woke up and discoved that Kristopher had changed her. No, she wanted to live, or well live as much as a vampire can, and be with Kristopher. But right now though she needed time to get use to her new life, to get use to being the creature that she had been raised and trained to hunt and kill.

She knew that vampires were not the cold hearted creatures that she had been taught they were, that even one as powerful and feared as Nikolas could be kind and caring. Now that she was a member of that species, she knew that they felt emotion and could love someone just as much as a human could. She wiped water away from her eyes, having just noticed that it had been heavily raining for at least ten minutes. Damnit, why couldn't she have been born into a normal family, or at least a witch blood line other than Vida. Her whole life had been complicated and secrative, and now her after life was just as complicated. She growled as she felt the hunger in her stomache, the yerning for blood. She needed to feed, the one thing that she knew she could never do, she could never kill a human just to appease her hunger.

She tried taking deep breaths, only to be reminded that that attempt was futile. Her hunger was driving her crazy, she had to make it to SingleEarth, maybe there she would find either Nissa, Caryn Smoke, or a willing human donor. She tried to travel by her mind, only to find to her dismay, that she had never bothered to learn of its location, so she could not get there any quicker. She started running almost blindly up the street trying to find SingleEarth. She knew it was on the outskirts of town, near the woods that led into New Mayhem. She could hear the quiet sounds from SingleEarth and smiled as she neared it, running up the small grass covered hill. Suddenly though, she found herself hurtling to the ground as she tripped over a large object. Scrambling to her feet she growled loudly as she looked to see what it was that she had tripped over. It was a human, a teenaged boy she recognized from her school, passed out drunk on the grass. She went to turn away from him, but her hunger got the best of her, and she jumped ontop of him and ripped out his throat savagly with her sharp fangs. She indulged in the sweet, metallic taste of his blood and the wonderful smell it gave off.

Just then she came to her senses and realized what she had just done. "Oh no." she thought as she felt for a pulse on what was left of his throat. "Please don't be dead, please don't be dead." she muttered out loud as she tried his wrist. Nothing. "Oh no, what have I done?" she cried out hysterically, backing away from his limp body. She licked her lips out of habit of when she got nervous, only to be reminded of what she had just done. "No, no,no,no, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" She screamed, her voice muffled by the pouring rain. She bent over and pounded the ground furiously. She had just done what she had been taught was wrong and punishable by death. Vigoroulsy she rubbed the blood off of her lips with her shirt sleeve, making sure every trace of her crime was wiped off.

"The memory of your first kill will never quite leave you, no matter how hard you try to forget it." spoke a voice above her. Sarah looked up in shock, gasping out loud at the site of the woman before her. Her beauty was incredible, her eyes were a piercing green and stood out next to her perfect, fair and porclin skin. Long, silky black hair flowed down her back, untouched by the rain, as it remained protected from the large black umbrella that she held over herself. Sarah recognized who this was immediatly, for she had heard her mother yelling at Caryn for helping her several months ago.

"Your Jessica, the one I heard my mother talking about." Sarah replied as she looked up at her as she remained kneeling on the wet, hard ground.

"Yes, I suppose Dominique does have quite a bit to talk about when it comes to me." Jessica said sarcastically as she briefly looked over at SingleEarth. Sarah just continued to look up at her with fear in her eyes, the events of what she had just done still tormenting her.

"Come on, let's get you up and out of this weather, I daresay, were you alive you would have your death of the cold." Jessica said as she extended her hand down to Sarah. Sarah looked at her outstretched hand, staring at it as if she was contemplating whether or not she could trust this particular vampire. She took it after much hesitation and hauled herself up to her feet.

"Alright then let's take you somewhere to get you something dry to change into." Jessica said as she used her mind to bring them to the house that she and Aubrey lived in in New Mayhem. She brought Sarah upstairs to an empty bedroom, where she provided her with a change of clothing.

Sarah looked around the bedroom, which had a large balcony window, but was draped over with thick black drapes which were obviously there to keep the sun out. The room was modest, nothing that reminded her of vampires or the supernatural, but more of one of those bedrooms you see in Homekeeping magazines. The only difference was that it was apparent that the room was hardly touched. She turned around out of habit to check her reflection once she finished getting dressed, only to be reminded by her almost non-existant reflection, that she no longer was a part of the mortal world.

"I see your finished." Jessica said as she walked gracefully into the bedroom.

"Why are you doing this? I thought you hate my mother?" Sarah asked, her voice almost cold.

"I knew that question was coming sooner or later." Jessica started with a grin.

"Yes, I do hate your mother, with a passion at that, but you aren't your mother. Yes, you did hunt and kill a lot of our kind, but now you are a member of the vampire race and it'll take a lot for our kind to learn to trust you. You need to have someone on your side to turn to." Jessica answered truthfully, something that she rarely ever did.

"Your willing to befriend me after all that my family did to you?" Sarah asked emotionally, as she looked at Jessica.

"Of course. Let's just say we have a lot in common. We both loved a vampire while we were human, and continue to still love them." Jessica pointed out with a smile as she thought of Aubrey, who was Las Noches at the moment, most likely putting a beating on Fala for some unknown reason.

"Kristopher..." Sarah whispered, looking down at the floor.

"Yes. Mind you he not only stole your heart, but with the help of his dear brother, they made you an extremely powerful vampire, something that I'm can assure you will catch the attention of the vampiric community." Jessica stated as she looked over at Sarah with a smile.

"Just like you when Aubrey changed you after Fala attacked you that night. My mother knows about how powerful you are, after hearing it from some vampires before she killed them." Sarah replied as she thought back to the night when her mother had flew into a rage not to be tested, yelling at Caryn for helping Aubrey save Jessica. Her mother had continuesly blamed Caryn for allowing Jessica to become one of the strongest vampires ever, that was not as old as those like Risika and Aubrey.

"Yeah, just like that." Jessica said with a laugh.

"But that means that, my mother will eventually know about me." Sarah said, her eyes growing wide in fear.

"Then let her. What can she do? Charge into Los Noches some night and try to kill you?" Jessica questioned seriously, pointing out a important point.

"Good point, but she's my mother, I don't think I could kill her." Sarah replied honestly.

"Maybe, but just wait till the moment comes when she's looming over top of you with her knife ready to behead you. Then you will think twice before you debate letting her live or not." Jessica pointed out.

"You're right." Sarah said with a fake sigh.

"Come on, let's go down to Los Noches. Time you start living the vampire lifestyle. The number one top reason for being dead is something that you should know and love." Jessica exclaimed happily.

"And that is?" Sarah asked curiously.

"No school. Unless of course you want to go I suppose." Jessica answered thoughtfully.

"Hell no! I always went by the philosophy of the sooner I get out of there the better." Sarah replied.

"I like you, you know that? Ha! Now c'mon, come enjoy the life of drink till you bust and never get drunk." Jessica said with a laugh. The two of them appeared in Los Noches, which was pretty much empty aside from a few lone humans that had decided to take their chances in not being stuck in the middle of a vampire brawl. There was no bartender, and sitting ontop of the counter was none other than Aubrey, who looked quite content with himself.

"So the rumors ARE true. The Vida has become one of us." Aubrey said with a smirk as he emptied his glass, throwing it over his shoulder onto the floor.

"So there are rumors already." Jessica said as she walked up to him, giving him a loving kiss on the lips.

"Of course. It wouldn't be New Mayhem without rumors flying around now would it?" Aubrey replied as he hauled Jessica up on the counter next to him.

"Who all knows so far?" Sarah asked, taking a step closer towards Aubrey and Jessica.

"Those that count, which would be few really. Fala of course heard some how, so I can garuntee that your mother will know very soon, if not by tonight." Aubrey said as he reached behind the counter and hauled out a bottle of wine, handing it to Sarah.

"Thanks." Sarah said as she opened it up and took a swig.

"Damnit this really screw things up. When my mother finds out, sure enough she'll come looking for me." She continued, sitting down at a small table next to the counter.

"Don't worry, should she come down here, you could handle her easily enough by yourself. I doubt it if she would try anything with the three of us all together, but then again that woman never ceases to amaze me with her hunter born stunts." Aubrey said reasuringly.

"I hope your right." Sarah said with a sigh.