A NORMAL DAY. The girls at the University is still glaring at me but I'm getting used to it. Now I'm walking freely at the hallway going to the Cafeteria, meeting my friends when I stop looking at the guy standing a few feet away from me.

Gray hair and gray bluish eyes. The guy is Ethan Rondelle Hayes. He smiled and come closer to me, stopping when we're standing in front of each other.

"What?" I ask.

He smirk and get my hand pulling me to the closest room that I discovered as the lab. What is he doing?

"What do you want?" I ask him frowning and almost glaring at him.

His smirk widens but didn't answer me, he just stare at me like I'm some of amusement.

"What?!" I exclaimed.

Why is he staring like that? Its... uncomfortable. The room's getting hot suddenly and the air is thinning. What the hell did he want?

"Are you crazy?" I ask.

He step closer to me making me step backward.

"W-what?" I stop stepping backwards when my leg hit the professor's hardwood desk.

My brows is getting more furrowed while looking at his amused eyes, looking at him like this, I can see how beautiful eyes he have.

"You're too beautiful." He whispered and shook his head. "I don't think I can give you to him."

Confirmed. He's crazy! What is he saying?!

"You know? I don't have time to deal with creeps, can you please let me eat?" I kindly ask and tried to dodge on him but he hold both of the sides of the desk, jailing me into him. "What the--"

"Call me Eron." He said still staring at me.

"Huh?"

"Call me Eron so you won't tell me again that you don't know me. It hurts." He said in a somewhat real sad voice. Is he acting or he's really sad?

This guy is weird. But handsome. I don't care.

He smirk making me realize it's not true. See? He's a real jerk! He's just acting like a gentleman.

As if reading what's on my mind he said, "I'm maybe pretending a little, but I'm not a jerk." He said slowly like his voice is caressing me.

My eyes widen at that. Can he read my mind? No way! No one can read minds! Maybe I'm talking aloud?

"I think you're thinking of me as a jerk and a creep, I'll accept that. Just please don't hate me." He said and smiled so warm.

I want to hate him damn it! But... how? He's so charming!

Don't! Don't be weak, Rexy! He's a player!

I gathered all my strength to push him and he let me push him. I let an angry puffed of breath and look at him.

"I don't know what you want and you're really acting so weird, but I'll respect you as a person, can you respect me too and don't bother me? I'm sorry but it's testing my patience." I said in annoyed voice and walk put from that room.

When I got out I realize that my heart is beating so loud and fast. What the hell is his deal? He's totally weird.

"LAYLA!" I CALLED sheriff Layla when I come to the park, I saw her buying ice cream at the ice cream parlor there.

"Hi, Rexy? We're meeting everyday, huh?" she teased while eating ice cream.

"You're old for that ice cream." I said seriously at her but she just chuckled at me.

"Age doesn't matter if ice cream is on the menu."

I laugh with her and buy my ice cream too.

"Why are you here?" I ask her when we sat on the near stone bench.

"I'm checking the forest, I need to know who attacked the victim."

"Is that the murder that's you and my brother is working on?" I ask licking my ice cream.

"Yup, that's the one. But it's really a murder, it seems like it but it's not."

"I don't understand."

"The victim is bitten at the neck." She said and I stilled for a moment and touch my neck because it sting a little. "I think by a beast. It seems like a murder because it happened inside his house besides the forest, but there's no remnants of beast attack so, it's really confusing. The investigators are working on it but they can't see something that we've never seen before we called them."

I nod. "You say, it's bitten in the neck? What if..." I know it's ridiculous but, I can't help thinking. "The victim is bitten by a man?"

She look at me, thinking like if I'm serious on what I'm saying. "What are you saying? Blood is all over the victim and--" she stop maube thinking of what to say. "It's impossible. What is it? A vampire?" She joked and I stilled more.

Vampire? "Huh?"

"I'm kidding, because what you're saying is pointing to a vampire. No man can kill another man by biting it's neck, Rexy."

"The how will you explain the case? It seems like made by beast but there's no evidence that can point to a beast, meaning the victim bite himself or he's bitten by another man."

She gave me a funny look. "Are you really pushing that?"

I laugh when I realize what she's talking about. "I'm kidding, what do I know about that, right?"

She nodded smiling at me, when she finished her ice cream, she stand up. "Well, I have to do another round at the forest."

"But it's getting dark, isn't dangerous?" I ask her worryingly.

"I have flashlights, don't worry."

I snort at her. Fine, whatever! She's a tough woman.

I'm about to get up and go home when I passed by the old library. It's just 5:45 so I decided to stop over and grabbed a book for tonight.

I look for a new books sections and found a new book from my favorite author I grab it go to the library desk to check it out and turn to run when I bumped into someone.

"Ouch!"

"Aw!"

We both whimpered and look at each other and I'm stunned at how beautiful this woman is. She look old but still stunning. She have a ash blonde hair and blue eyes, she's also tall and sexy and just perfectly gorgeous.

"I'm sorry." I said picking up the book that I drop.

"No, it's fine." She picked up her book too and smiled at me. "I'm not looking I'm sorry."

"No, I'm the one who turn recklessly." I said guiltily.

She smiled warmly and it reminds someone. "Okay, what about if we are both at faults and just forgive each other?" she offered that made me smile.

"That's totally fine with me."

"Great, so, see you?"

I nodded. "See you!"

When she walk passed me I run again and go to my car because it's getting dark soon and I don't want a lecture from Mom tonight.

Thankfully I'm just on time when I came home. I lay on my bed and get the book from the library but I gasped when saw its not the book that I checked out.

"What happened?" I ask myself and remembered the woman I bumped into. I shut my eyes close tightly.

We exchange our books.

I sighed and decided to go to the library tomorrow. But I wanted to read tonight.

So, I checked the book. The whole book is color red and there's carved parts where there's blood stains making it more redder than it supposed to be, there is also a stamp shaped like a maple leaf on the far right. How didn't I notice that we exchange books? Mine is more on of color white. Because the woman is stunning.

I read it's title and it's entitled "The Sacred Blood" written by: Arcana. I don't know this author. But the book seems interesting. I look at the back of the book to look for Synopsis but there's none. So, I just open the book and saw that it's immediately the chapter 1.

"Cool." I said not sure myself if I'm being genuine or sarcastic.

We know each other... We love each other... I didn't know that we'll end up hating each other.

I knew from the very beginning that he is the only one that I'll love for rest of my life. I accepted his flaws and everything, but it all seems not enough.

My everything is not enough.

IT'S DARK HERE but I keep on running. I don't know why I'm running but I'm sure its not because someone is chasing me, it's because I need to go to somewhere immediately. I don't know but I can feel it.

The moonlight passes and I saw the tress surrounding me. I stop running and look around, so dark, so terrifying. The moonlight is directing its light on me.

I look at my back and saw a man standing there, he have no face but he felt familiar. He's wearing a hooded coat and normal clothes inside. He step closer to me making me step backwards. He stop his track and look up at me, The moonlight lighten a part of his eyes revealing his red bluish eyes.

I heard a scream making me look at the other direction and when I look at him again he disappeared on my sight.

I run towards the scream, at the dark forest didn't minding how dangerous it is. I stop and covered my mouth when I saw a laying woman at the dried leaves.

She's covered by blood and a part of her neck is bleeding severely, she's laying there like dead. My heartbeat is beating rapidly, I'm losing my breath and I feel my eyesight getting blurred by tears. My throat feels so dry that I can't scream in horror.

I put down my hands but saw blood in it, so many blood... dried blood.

What...

Then I saw the guy in front of the woman's body. He's full of blood and he's looking at me. I'm so scared that when I step backwards I tripped and landed on the ground.

"P-please..." I manage to say and I felt everything fell in the dark.

I opened my eyes normally and saw my ceiling. I calmly look around me and saw the familiar room, my room. I'm at my room.

I breath out and realize that's just a dream. Worst dream that I've ever had. I close my eyes again because I felt so drained. All the emotions that I felt on that dream feels so true that it still lingers on me.

My phone rang and I lazily pick it up. "Yes, this is Rexy Turner." I greeted the other line with my morning voice.

"R-Rexy..."

I get up when I heard Sarah's crying voice, she's also sobbing and her background is noisy.

"Sarah, are you okay?" I ask.

"Rexy..." She's crying so loud. "Layla..."

"Layla, what?" I felt my heart starting to palpitate.

"Layla... Sheriff Layla... She's dead, Rexy. Kael's Mom is dead." She said sobbing and crying so bad. "We saw it, Rexy. Me and Kael saw it."

I felt my breathing stop when I heard it.

"Layla is dead."

I didn't think anymore. It's just 4 am but I rushed immediately to go to where is Sarah and Kael right now. It's a 20 minute drive to the park.

There, I saw Sarah sitting at the ambulance coated by a thick towel, crying helplessly.

"Sarah!" I called her and when she saw me she immediately hugged me.

"Rexy, it's scary! Layla's... Layla's killed and w-we saw it." she said while crying and cracking her voice.

"Shh, it's okay, you're safe." I soothe her back and hugged her as tight as her hug.

"We saw it." She said and I notice her shivering.

"Where's Kael?" I ask her softly.

"Kael is... is there." she said but I can't see where she is pointing because we're hugging each other so tight.

"Sarah!" it's Mr Gilbert's voice. Sarah's Dad.

"Dad!" She screamed and hugged his Dad when he's closer.

"Honey, I'm here. It'll be alright." Her dad said while caressing her hair.

"I'm so... Dad, Layla's dead."

Mr Gilbert look at me. "What happened?"

"I don't really know Mr Gilbert, she just called me too and I came here a minute before you."

He nodded and continue calming Sarah.

"I should go to Kael." I said and go around to look for Kael.

I saw him at another ambulance, not like Sarah he's calm and looked shocked, just looking straight like lost in the void of nothingness.

"Kael?" I called him softly, sitting beside him. He's shocked... and maybe, traumatized. "How are you feeling?"

He didn't answer me so I guess he wanted to be silent but I didn't go. I'll stay by his side until he's fine and ready to talk. That's what a friend supposed to do, never leave a friend even it feels like they don't need you because they need you.

"Rexy?"

I look at my brother who looked bothered seeing me here.

"What the hell are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here!" He shouted and frustratingly mess his hair.

"My friends needs me."

"No, they don't Rexy! The police are here and their parents--" he stop realizing what he just said. "Go home." He ordered me calmly.

I shook my head. "Look at Kael, Lukas. His mother died, he needs me."

"Layla's not dead." He said in gritted teeth.

I frowned. "But Sarah said--"

"She's traumatized, and there's no body Rexy, a team is currently looking for her. She's not dead." He said but I can hear that he's not sure. "How do you even know about this? The sun isn't up yet."

"You can't say that she's alive either, Lukas. And Sarah called me 30 minutes ago telling me Layla's dead and she saw it."

"If it is!" His voice rise in frustration. "Where's her body?" he ask weakly. "If she's dead, we should've seen it."

"She's dead."

We both look at Kael's who's said that.

"What Kael?" I slowly ask, I don't want to trigger him.

"I saw it. She's really dead." He whispered and I saw his hands begin to tremble remembering what happened. "She called me earlier... she said she's in danger. She saw something she shouldn't have seen... I-I'm with Sarah so we both come to search the forest calling the station at the same time. Then... we saw the monster." He looked at me with his bloodshot eyes. "That bite my Mom on her neck, she trembles... I saw her slowly dying in that hands. Her scream... Her body... It's..." A tears slid from his eyes and flow nonstop. "She's... She's dead... The red eyes. That looked at us." He hold my arm while looking straight to my eyes. "Then come for us... We ran..."

"And we found you." My brother ended his story because Kael look like he's losing it. "Kael, I need you to describe the monster you are talking about.

Kael didn't answer Lukas, he's just holding onto me and looking straight to my eyes.

"Rexy... That's a monster." He said.

His tight hold hurts but I didn't mind it. I hold his hand and look at his eyes too.

"We will make that pay."

"What is it look like?" Lukas tried to ask again.

"That looked like us." Kael said in a trembled voice and. "The monster..." He hold my another arm and his hold got tighter and tighter that I whimpered a little.

"Kael, let go of her." Lukas said when he saw his hold of me.

"The monster..." Kael slowly closed his eyes and faint.

"Kael!" I hold his head and checked his pulsed.

He's still alive! Thank god!

"He's fine. He's exhausted and traumatized, it's normal." said by the nurse when we called about Kael's fainting. "But we need to bring him to the hospital right now."

"I'll go with him." I said.

"No." Lukas hold me in my place.

"What?"

"You're going home."

"No! Lukas my friend needed me! I can't stay home waiting for what will happen to them!" I said angrily.

"Did you saw him earlier? He almost hurt you!"

"Don't be protective now! I'm an adult Lukas! I'm 19 and not a little girl. I cam handle myself and I'm willing to risk myself for my friends." I said and shove his hands away from me and look at the nurse. "I'm coming."

I heard Lukas's deep breath. "Make sure you're safe."

When we arrive at the hospital all I did was sat and take care of Kael. He's still asleep and I remember who's with Lily that her mother is still no where to be found and his brother is here.

I called their household and shocked that Lily answered it.

"Hello Gibson Residence!" Her cheerful bright voice that she inherited from her mother greeted me.

I felt my heart drag down from my chest. How can a little girl handle this? "Hey Lily, y-your mother told me if you can stay on our house for the mean time?"

"Why?" her innocent voice and I can imagine him pouting at the phone.

"B-because she have something to do. Can you stay for while with us? You can play with Styles."

"Hmn, that doesn't sound bad." She said and I chuckled a little but feeling my throat forming a lump.

"G-good, I'll just call on the house to pick you up, okay? I'll even let Styles to go with the driver."

"Okay!" She shouted happily.

I smiled faintly and said goodbye. I have a deep breath and look at Kael. I hope she's not dead like what you said, I hope my brother is right. Why am I having this kind of feeling that she's dead? I don't know.

I close my eyes only to snap it open again when I saw a woman laying on a dried leaves at the middle of the forest. Looking lifeless.

My eyes pooled with tears in unknown reason and the lump in my throat is getting bigger that it's hard to swallow.

What the hell?

I called to the mayor's office for the first time commanding to do something for me. I request for a driver to pick up my brother and then pick up Lily and bring back the kids to the house but Dad caught the call and told me that he will do it himself. He received the news about Layla. I didn't say something more and just continue looking for Kael.

I've been here for 7 hours now and I felt so tired but I don't want to go home because I want to talk to Kael. I want to know who killed or attacked Layla. It seems like he knew, he saw it clearly. Then I remember Sarah. But she's too traumatized, I don't want to bother her questions.

I sighed. Why am I too bothered? Because my friends is involve? Yes, maybe.

My phone rang and I look at the caller ID, it's Mom.

"Hello, mom?" I answered.

"Wherever you are don't come home." I notice her trembling voice.

"What? Why?"

"Just don't come home!" She hissed in a whisper.

"Ahh! Let me go!" It's Jane's scream and I heard loud thuds.

"Mom! What's happening there?" I ask in alarmed voice.

"Just don't go home, I'm begging you." Then the line ended.

"Mom!" my breathing gets faster and I run going out of the hospital.

What's happening now?

I open the door of our house and rush to go to the living room and I see Mom, Jane, and Celine there with a stranger.

They all look at me and I can see how afraid Mom is.

"Rexy!" Mom shouted. "I told you to don't go home!" She said hysterically.

I look from her to the stranger. The guy is old, maybe in his 50's or 60's, he black hair has many mixtures of white hair strand and his body is lean, he look so old in his wrinkles but I can tell that he's strong in his posture.

"Who are you?" I ask and he bowed at me.

"I am butler Peterson, you can call me Pete. I am here in the name of Lord Blood, he wants you now." He formally said that brought my mind into space of formulation.

"I have no idea what are you talking about." I said honestly.

"My Lord wants to marry you."

"Pardon?!"