Amira tore her eyes away from her phone after thirty minutes of scrolling into her sister's profile. She did this thrice every week and sometimes five times if she were in deep anxiety.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

The picture she swooned at the most was one where Akira and her mom hugged each other with a wide smile, dressed in the Christmas sweaters, and behind a snowman.

They seemed to live without guilt, at least that was what it looked like. "Many of the times she swore that she wouldn't think about them, but fell right back breaking her promise. She had been yearning for her mother's presence in eight years and it still felt like yesterday, did she think about her too? Was she the only one that waited?"

After successions of memories washed through her, Amira switched off her phone recurring back to her high school reality. The class trip bus was full of noise and jokes, fakers and haters, couples and cheaters, but somehow she didn't hear their chatter until she switched off her phone.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

The sentiments still stirred in her, but she wanted to get rid of it and hangout like a normal eighteen year old.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

All of a sudden, cold breeze rushed into the moving bus leaving everybody static including the vehicle, "a moving thing like vapor teleported itself into the vehicle, draped in a dark hoody and pants, his grey-black hair sprawled all over his face accompanied by the dark face mask that covered his mouth making it hard to access his full features."<span class="Apple-converted-space">

He stood in front of the driver, whose eyes were clouded with darkness. "Information spread to him that witches were using humans to test their dark magic, it would possess the human and render it to follow every of the sender's orders." He watched the possessed man intensely before moving a finger that forced the magic out and captured into a ring on his finger.

A wicked grin fell on his face as he stared at the ring on his hand, he was about to come out of the large vehicle before he spotted a young female, she was standing when he released his power, but what caught his eye was the tears that slipped . It intrigued him.

<span class="Apple-converted-space"> "Curiosity swept his face as he pulled closer like she called him to her, he could hear little whispers grace his ear while he drew closer, and when he finally did."

"The girl's hair that was packed in a short curly bun became loose in an instance, hair falling to her waist right in front of him and this man's heart clenched tightly." He had been living for a thousand years but this was the first time he heard his own heartbeat, his dead heart was making a loud thump as he stood in front of the girl and he couldn't explain it.

<span class="Apple-converted-space"> "His hands reached for her face as he made contact with her soft skin, the sizzle of electricity fumed his whole being that he couldn't decipher why his hands vibrated at the feeling of her skin, and goose bumps drove all the way to his neck, feeling every strand of hair that stood on his body."

"Lord," Are you okay? A lady dressed in full white rushed into the bus to find him staring at a female in a way she had never seen him stare before. The man tore his face from the girl with great difficulty before facing the lady that called him, still trembling within the girl's presence.

Yes.

He said while he retreated from the bus in a rushed manner, the lady followed behind and pierced one of the tires of the vehicle so as to make things seem more natural as to why the bus stopped. The male released power to set free the static students before disappearing out of sight on the quiet road.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

Fortunately, Amira landed back on her seat as the bus pulled to sharp halt earning gasps and some screams from her mates. "What the fuck man! Rio yelled as he stood up from the ground, walking to the driver's font."

"I think we have a flat tire," the driver said before Rio could get to him.

A flat tire? Goddamn, how the hell are we going to join the rest of the team at this rate? Sarah, his girlfriend yelled behind Amira.

"We could walk." Amira said sharply, earning a stare from everyone.

"How can we all walk to the camp? It's gonna take a whole lot of energy and sweat. Richard said facing Amira while removing his headphone."

We are currently in the middle of nowhere, it would take time to get there but it's better than waiting here, in the middle of the road till who knows when. She replied facing him and picking up her bag.

Shit! Sarah cursed.

"Guys, are you sure it'd be safe for us to move like that? I heard thirsty vampire keepers live in the forests around here. Andrea who sat in front of Amira quipped in causing everyone to shudder."

Vampire keeper? Jennie said, seated beside Richard. But, I heard they don't randomly look for trouble except you anger them.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

My uncle saw a vampire keeper once few months ago, the trauma shook him so badly that he doesn't know how to speak anymore. Andrea said, fear filling his eyes.

"Your uncle must be a real pussy dude, just like you. Rio said laughing really hard. Andrea got up from his seat and yanked Rio by the arm."

This has nothing to do with strength punk, if we are going to move by foot in this desolate place were vampires may be, we should be prepared. Andrea replied, determined, releasing his hold, roughly on Rio's sleeve.

"Dude, if you touch me one more time I'm gonna punch you...."

Amira stomped her way out of the bus fiercely before she got to hear the whole of Rio's tantrum; she wasn't surprised of his bossy behavior, if only she had left earlier in the first bus with her friend, Lisa, she wouldn't be stuck in this fucked up team. Her complicated and over-thinking personality landed her in the middle of nowhere, headed to a camp where she swore she would leave all her guilty baggage behind.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

Baggage.

She ran her hand over her head, tucking her soft curls behind her ear and unfolded a map that had been handed to each of them as soon as they started the journey.

"Amira," Wait up. Richard said as he tried to catch up with her along with Jennie, his girlfriend. The bus was almost empty at this point, except the driver, who stayed in the bus waiting for someone who was going to aid in retrieving the bus from the middle of the road. Amira was silently glad that everyone were walking too, deep down, she was scared that no one was going to accompany her, especially when she heard Andrea speak of Vampire keepers. She was frightened.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

"As fortunate as she felt knowing her mates were all coming along, she was not happy that perhaps she was going to have to be beside Richard, her ex, with his new girl, all through the walk to the camp grounds. As usual, Amira forced down a grunt, bloomed a smile on her face, after all she was the one who left."

"Mind if we walk together? Jennie asked with a smile."

No. Amira answered beside Richard as if everything was really all fine.

Amira allowed herself to reminisce back to the time when he asked her out, and how things first started. She grew up believing that people weren't going to stay long with her; she had feelings for him but the feeling of being left was far greater. "Was it being overly suspicious or protective?<span class="Apple-converted-space">

She didn't remember the actual words that he called her but things ended up in a heat. She remembered their first kiss and touch, their first love making, they explored their hearts together, and even the things they didn't understand. He was her first everything, how did it go so wrong?"

They both stayed single for months, until she heard he was dating someone new and she gave up, he and his memories. He didn't change his attitude towards her after their breakup, he smiled, checked up on her all the time but she didn't want it.<span class="Apple-converted-space">

On her own part, she stayed away from him, hoped he would too, but here they were. Amira didn't realize how deep she was thinking until she felt Richard's hands pull her; she faced him and saw the way his jaw tightened. "Right in front of them was three huge masculine blood shot eye vampires, saliva hanging at the tip of their sharp fangs, long claws ....."