Samantha had quickly wearied of the school routine. It was a miracle in itself that she possessed even a fraction of the discipline it took to get her to school nine days out of ten. The people in this town were so fake to her, she knew every person she met had no idea of reality as she saw it. She knew they were luckier for it and she despised and ( Read more... )

Samantha wasn't made to walk alone. She could, and she would, but she found herself drawn toward crowds, seeking out vicarious conversations about nothing and missing her hundreds of false friends. She missed thin smiles spread over bad intentions and some days she even missed the guys with their rude roving hands and uninvited fingers, mouths, ( Read more... )

Los Angeles felt like home. More than any other place, anyway. And it must have been because no one there was really home. In the night time the forlorn and helpless vagabonds of the street wandered the avenues and alleyways, and in the day, everyone did their best to pretend that wasn’t true. Celebrities outsourced charities, because only ( Read more... )

A tight bodied, hard angled Samantha jumps off a dumpster onto rain slicked cement. Water drops from the tips of her eyelashes and the folds of her coat as she brushes her damp tank top down with her thumbs toward her defined midriff. "Thought it was vampire bat, not vampire rat?" Her prey is crouched near the the ground over the hunched figure ( Read more... )

Maybe I should have known better. But how could I have known? How could I have known it would be this big, that things would get that bad? It seemed so simple to me. Why should anyone have to be what they don't want to? I guess no one else thought it was that simple ( Read more... )

( Memento Mori )

( Denial is my greatest defense against the truth )

The big score of the month. I'd been tracking these assholes for weeks, it's not hard, none of them are especially paranoid, especially not about humans. We're like cute little meals that follow them around and as long as I'm not wearing anything especially skanky I don't get noticed much. I might as well be one of the bricks in the walls. And I ( Read more... )

I'm not the sortof person to make plans, so saying I never planned to be here now is more or less pointless. I didn't plan to be anywhere, but I didn't think It'd be LA. I have nothing against LA, per se. If I have to be anywhere in this country it might as well be where the best shopping is and the prettiest people are. But everything here has a ( Read more... )

Despite my repeated insistance that I am all grown up and don't need a big man-type escort back to my place after dark, that's what I got. I'd really have rather made sure he got home safe, overly interested vampires lurking around and all, but I'd raised enough suspicion acting wierd all night about that Caleb guy. In truth I should have just let ( Read more... )