Third Person’s POV
“It is so stuffy in here, Eli. I am still wondering how you managed to live in this kind of environment for four years,” said Ross Deere a.k.a. Boss R, the leader of the powerful Deere pack, and the father of Eliana Deere who is the one and only heiress to the throne.
“Dad, can you stop complaining for a second? You blabbering about your complaints like that would not make the situation in favor of you, yeah?” Eli responded, trying to sound annoyed but failing to do so.
Today is their graduation day. Finally. After four long years of studying, working so hard in every exams and recitations, even cramming for the major tests, things had finally paid back. They had already came to this moment. They could finally get ahold of their long-desired diploma, face the real world, and apply the knowledge that they had learned in the workplace. Now, this is true for most students, or should we say graduates
Hello! We finally came to the end! As you guys know, I actually didn't think that this story would come this far and I actually come up to finish this one; for I always have a tight schedules and so on. I am so thankful to those who give my novel a chance to read, I promise I will develop my skills in writing so for the other next instances, my writing will improve more and be far more exciting to read. Once again, this is september. Until my next novel here in this platform... (i guess?) I am currently working on it and will be written in Tagalog English! Thanks!
Eliana's POV “Strawberry is still the superior flavor of like, anything, especially ice cream,” one of the two best friends that I have, Kat, says as she bites into her ice cream on a cone. She was obviously daring Lucas, who is sitting opposite of her right now, to speak against it. And the latter did not let her down, contradicting her claim as soon as possible. “You misspelled mint chocolate, because it obviously is the top tier flavor of all. And is that a cone?” he retorted before taking a spoonful of his dessert from a cup. Kat made a face, annoying the man more and expressing her distaste towards his choice of flavor. “Eliana, what do you think though?” she said afterwards, involving me in the silly conversation that they were having. “I think that you guys should just keep eating so we could finish and go to our next class. Fighting about flavors, really, and for
Hugo's POV“Oh, this place is bigger than I thought it would be,” I said to myself as I entered the main gate of the university I transferred into. As I let my eyes wander around while walking, I cannot help but get mesmerized to the beauty that this place serves. I mean, I am a man, and very much alive, but appreciating the beauty of such things does not make me feel less of a man, does not make me less of a human – I mean, temporary living here in a human world meant to live temporarily here as if I am one of them. Powerless. Yikes.As I continue walking into this big place, there were always tall trees that are erected from literally everywhere. I also noticed their field that has an enormous size. It would be heaven for a vampire like me to have that kind of training ground. Maybe I can also build myself a field like that in the near future, when the most awaiting event already came. I am confident with the result
Eliana's POVIf my feet could talk, it would already be screaming by now. I stayed up late last night trying to do some advanced reading, which I should have done a long time ago if only I was not too preoccupied. I am a vampire, yeah, and sleep is not the biggest deal for us. But when I decided earlier that I would grab some before going to school, I was unaware of the time, making me lost track of it completely. And whether it is a blessing or a curse, I have this case of always trying to arrive twenty minutes before the first class. I do not know but I just got used to it and it is just too late to stop that now. I am thinking of all of this as I speed walked my way towards the classroom. By the time I reached the door, Lucas was there waiting, as always, like a routine.“I wonder if you intentionally memorized my habit where I always arrive at least twenty minutes before the class so you could arrive earlier than me. That is
Chapter 04Hugo’s POVI was being awakened by the wild grumbling of my stomach as though someone’s throwing a fit there. Upon sitting on my bed, I smell something strange inside my room that shouldn’t be there in the first place. I sniff everywhere and realized that the clothes that I have been wearing yesterday all day and had a physical contact to every single human I’d bumped myself into are the clothes I’d been wearing as I am asleep. I literally can’t stand the smell of it in the morning with my stomach grumbling so I immediately unbuttoned every button that was tailored in my black button-down shirt along with my black pants.I hauled myself up and turned my head to the clock that was hanging just above my bed. It was still quite early to get myself ready for school so I walked directly towards the kitchen and rummaged for a pack of blood from the cabinet where I store the thi
Hugo’s POV“What even was that, Hugo? Starting a fight but could not finish it? Could not even throw a decent punch? What are you, a little girl?” My father’s words rang in my ears, like the howl of a wolf in the middle of a peacefully silent night.“B-but Father, it was his fault. And he was obviously bigger,” I responded, almost close to crying. I would probably cry, but not in front of him. Never in front of him.“Older, bigger, it does not matter! In this world, if you are weak, you lose. And if someone is a loser, then they are not my child. Are you my child, Hugo?” He said, ever so calmly, but with the same venomous tone that he always used with me whenever he asks me that question. Are you my son, Hugo? Are you a loser, Hugo? Are you giving up now, Hugo?Questions that have b
Eliana’s POV“Thanks, but you don’t really have to,” I told Hugo after he pulled a single beige colored chair for me to sit myself into. It’s a big puzzle for me why, of all people, Hugo seemed to grow an interest towards my existence although I can consider myself as the most not approachable looking and gregarious living thing in our class. We just clearly met two days ago but he’s already managed how to make a friends and how to get to know them well. He clearly knows what to do to make the people around him be aware of his existence. Unlike me, who’d been here for two years, but allow myself only to speak with two best people with that span of years. It’s like I’ve reached my limit with that. It's sucks, but nonetheless, I am truly grateful.Hugo smile and raise his hand in front of me, indication for me to wait for his reply. I can clearly hear the popping sounds of the lollipop he h
Eliana’s POVIt did not strike me as something that Lucas would do, but here we are now. At the university’s cafeteria, with me trying to dissolve the tension between Kat and Lucas, while the two just seemed to be getting more and more annoyed with each other. What really happened? Simple. A professor of ours assigned us a task which requires the work to be done by pair. Lucas being Lucas, went to me automatically, just like what would normally happen. Since Kat is obviously more on the extrovert side, she gets along with others easily and is friends with almost everyone in the room, so it is really not hard for her to get a partner. As for Lucas and I, it is quite the opposite. That is why during by-pair tasks like this, we automatically go to each other. But this time, as he was about to go to me, Hugo beats him to it. And Lucas’ knee-jerk reaction was to tell Hugo to go off.And as if the situation was not awkward enough
Eliana’s POV Flashback… “Mom, I want my dress as simple and elegant as yours. And I rather not wear any jewelries that Aunt Maria suggested, I can already envision myself struggling, by just the sight of it,” I told my mom as I scrub my skin gently with my body soaked down by the tub that contains fresh milk and few petals of roses. In normal days, my body’s contented with a normal bath, but that won’t work today with my mom. I could hear Mom saying something but I cannot fathom it clearly. “What?” I ask. “I said finish your bath now! Your father’s asking if we’re already dressed and ready to go!” Mom shouted. I am hearing her foot going back and forth inside my room, probably getting ready all the stuff that I’ll be wearing and use. “Coming, Mom!” I shouted back as I hauled my body up from being soaked. I turned on the shower and stand in front to make the runn
Third Person’s POV “It is so stuffy in here, Eli. I am still wondering how you managed to live in this kind of environment for four years,” said Ross Deere a.k.a. Boss R, the leader of the powerful Deere pack, and the father of Eliana Deere who is the one and only heiress to the throne. “Dad, can you stop complaining for a second? You blabbering about your complaints like that would not make the situation in favor of you, yeah?” Eli responded, trying to sound annoyed but failing to do so. Today is their graduation day. Finally. After four long years of studying, working so hard in every exams and recitations, even cramming for the major tests, things had finally paid back. They had already came to this moment. They could finally get ahold of their long-desired diploma, face the real world, and apply the knowledge that they had learned in the workplace. Now, this is true for most students, or should we say graduates
Hugo’s POV“Don’t you think it’s time for you and your brother to have a clean slate? I mean… I am not trying to omit the fact that he caused pain to you that made you do some unexplainable things; that made him worse, but… I just think even after all the chaos and all the fights either of you had put up, that did not imply that you guys do not deserve a peace of mind. You deserve it, Hugo. Even the most vile and obnoxious individual deserved to have it,” Eliana, in the middle of nowhere said.I actually think of that thought lately, it messed with my head the past few days. I thought if I had the mess between Eliana and I cleaned, my mind will function smoothly right away. It’s not like I am not contented with what happened to Eliana and I, because dude, do not ever get me started because if I have time, I could have all the things that Eliana brought to my existence listed. More like, the t
Eliana’s POV Remembering the events from last night had me smiling like an idiot. For months, I had missed the feeling of being this contented, at peace, and just happy. So many things had happened in the past few months of my life. Thinking about it now, I do not know how I even survived it and stay well until now. It felt I was sleepwalking. Yeah, that is the right way to describe it. It felt like I was fully not in control of everything that have been happening to me. It was very awful, all of it, and I do not ever want to go back there ever again. It is all in the past now. I had learned from it, but I would not keep on living in it. That is why when Hugo and I got to talk yesterday, I listened. It was his chance to explain his side to me, and I let him have that. When he elaborated all of his reasons behind his actions, I really listened. That was what I failed to do in the course of three months that I avoided him and stopped talki
Hugo’s POVBefore I have fallen in love with Eliana, the only thing I really want was to sit on the throne and rule our pack, and by the means of that, I have to cross all the line and do what I have to—so I could grasp the power in my hand, so I could beat my brother down; so I could make my father proud. But all that reasons seemed not able to make my heart ponder anymore, because as cheesy it may sound, it was only the thought of her that could make my mind be capable to be sane and my heart to beat. So the first thing my eyes landed into her—right in front of me, only had a few inches to make our arms touched, with almost three months I hadn’t be able to go near her—it was as if my tongue was being cut, I was unable to speak; and was only given an eyes to look through her, only to her.But my mind went back to reality. There are so many things I should clean up first, I know, and I should start doing that. I
Eliana’s POVIt had been two months, going three, since the talk happened. The talk being the one where I confessed to Kat what I truly am, like my real identity, me being a vampire and not a human like them. The talk obviously did not go well. Kat was mad, really mad, to the point that I did not even get the chance to elaborate myself and my situation. That day with Kat walking out of my dorm room, Lucas following him because I told him to, and me being left all alone there. Alone to cry and crumble, feeling like the whole world is against me, suffering the consequences because of my own doing.What was worse was that Kat started ignoring me after that, too. She would avoid me in every way possible. The routes to school, to the places where I eat, and she even stopped sitting with me in the classrooms. Lucas would always invite us two at his place, or anywhere, just to get us all together. But Katelyn would always, always reject. She
Eliana’s POV“I will see you tomorrow with Katelyn, okay? Please do know that whatever will happen, I am always here, ready to be confided in, alright? And please… please use this whole night to have a rest. I know in your kind… sleep isn’t really necessary but please… please do rest, okay?” Lucas said, ruffling my hair that temporarily assuaged what I have been feeling since I turned my back on Hugo. He’s really too good that made me realize how cruel the world he’d been living in, how worst the person he’s been ruffling the hair with.I nodded my head at him and smiled, hoping the exhaustion would somehow go off of my face. I really want to express my gratitude to him, but even smiling is preventing me to do so. I am afraid if I would move my limbs something will snap within me. I am just beyond exhausted and just wanted to be engulfed by solitude, in a claustrophobic room wher
Lucas’ POVAn hour. It had been exactly an hour since Eliana and Hugo departed. Kat went straight home, claiming that she still have something important to do. As for me, I went directly to Eli’s place. We had decided that I would just wait for her here, although I insisted that I should come with her. For safety purposes, obviously. But she reasoned out that Hugo and her are both vampires and if I would go with her, I am going to be the one who would need protection.She called me last night, saying that she wanted to confront Hugo as soon as possible. She decided that she would just do it casually, reasoning that there would be no use holding back. She knows the truth now and wants to know everything behind the truth as well.I, too, Eliana, want to know everything. I smiled bitterly. Love really has its way of clouding up your rationality, yeah? In all the years of my life, I had never once thought that I
Hugo’s POVI already tried browsing the internet, hoping to stumble with an answer in the homework that our professor assigned to our class but my head hurts from all the terms that was being used to the explanation I have seen related to our homework; the reason why I didn’t get to answer it, for the explanation was vague to me and my mind cannot seem to recognize nor digest any of it. I am already certain that being a student, in the human world, is such a tiresome. Though I should not worry if I flunk or pass, a tiny bit of something is kind of pushing me to strive to study, that’s why I sent a message to Eliana for help.My phone beeped, indicating that I received a message. I open and close my eyes to set aside the tiredness I am feeling. I clicked the link that Eliana included in the text she have sent me for an enlightenment. Had I known that the thing called ‘Youtube’ exists, maybe I wouldn’t stay
Eliana’s POV“I do not like how you are getting too close with that guy, to be completely honest with you,” Lucas said.We are now in his room, with me sitting on his bed while he sat on the floor, his back leaned against the foot of his bed. After our last class, we mutually decided that we needed to talk, and that we should just talk here because it is private. I have just asked him what the matter is when he gave me that response.“Hugo have been with us for a while now. You still calling him ‘that guy’ is just rude, Lucas. Like, what really is your problem? I got it the first time, you were skeptical of his existence because he was new. But now that he have been around long enough already, you are still acting like that. I do not get it, Lucas. He is even nice to you even when all you ever do is breathe down his neck whenever he is in your presence. I am not asking you to be friend