chapter 3

"I still don't think this is a good idea"

"Chillax Via, don't you think the night is great? it's chilly but a nice chill" Monique piped in happily as she skips next to Violet. The five friends are walking at the local park where the attacks happened the other night.

"Yeah Oli, don't be such a chicken. Besides what could go wrong? " add a smirking Violet causing Olivia to scowled.

"Don't blame me if you jinx that Vi" mumbled Olivia as she hoisted her large duffel bag higher causing it to jiggle. The sound of woods and glasses clinking could be heard from the bag.

"This night is a good night for a group walk, though I must say you look hot in that outfit Oli! Definitely OOTN!!" Violet gushed. The others agreeing along with her.

Olivia was wearing a red knee high dress with a leather jacket and a pair of matching knee high boots, her make up was done in a smoky way.

"I agree, you look like you're ready for a night at The Gazelle! though ootn Vi??" Mischa nodded then looking confused at Violet choice of word.

Violet just giggled at her like she's the silliest person ever, "outfit of the night Mish! I can't possibly call it ootd since its night already, duh!".

They just shook their head at Violet, or in Sohee's case. Rolling her eyes.

"and to answer your question Mischa... I am planning to go to The Gazelle after this, you girls want to come?" Olivia asked them while looking around the place, even the darkest place. They all agreed. The Gazelle is their local famous bar, The place allows people 17 above to enter though they will need to be 21 to drink alcohol. The bar serves alcoholic and unalcoholic drinks plus plenty of fast foods which attracts a lot of teenagers.

After 10 minutes of walking in comfortable silence (atleast for Violet and Monique), 4 figures can be seen approaching from the dark side of the park. Olivia and Sohee immediately grew tense and alert at this causing Mischa to also grew tense and worried at her two friends tenseness.

The four figures were revealed to be two girls and 2 men, all wearing an old fahisoned punk rock outfit making Violet cringe at their choice of clothing.

"damn guys... those outfits are soo last season" Violet told them while still cringing. Her fashionista self resurfaced.

The two girls scowled at her then smiled. "Foods shouldn't lecture" Girl one said while twirling a strand of her hair with her finger, she had a messy blonde hair tied in a side ponytail with a big hoop rings dangling on her ears.

Girl two had a straight black hair and was having a stare off with Olivia. She smiled cynically and walk infront of her three friends, "a wolf among sheeps" was the only thing she said while looking up and down at Olivia.

"Oh yeah, I just noticed! I love your outfit by the way!" girl one gushed, looking like a ditzy blonde girl despite her punk rock outfit.

"Thank you" was Olivia's only response while smirking, trying to ignore the questioning and suspicious looks Mischa is throwing at her.

"so...I'm Lou and this is Charlotte, call her Lottie though. And those two are Greg and Crabbe" the ditzy blonde introduced her group. "what's yours?" she asked Olivia, ignoring the four humans (or well three humans and a demon but noone knows that). Meanwhile the two men were keeping eyes on the other four causing Violet and Monique to be uncomfortable while Mischa and Sohee glared at the two men.

Olivia smiled at them though her friends noticed its a fake smile (she rarely smiles at night, acting like an ice block) , her left hand is in her duffel bag for a few second before she pulls it out and answered them, " Olivia " purposely not saying her last name. She then pushed the bag to Mischa who peered inside and nodded in understanding.

"wanna share?" Charlotte asked her. Violet and Monique grew confused at that question though Mischa grew even more suspicious and frustrated at their conversation.

"share? oh! I'm sorry I might have created a misunderstanding here" Olivia laughed, though Monique shivered in horror and disbelief when her laughter turn dark at the end. Olivia causally poked her right hand at a pocket on her leather jacket and take out a white bandana with gold designs. She then proceed to wear it on her right arm and turn to Lou and Charlotte with a smirk, presenting her arm proudly.

Mischa widened her eyes in recognition and disbelief at the bandana while the four new "people" grew shocked. Their faces immediately morphed hideously, growling ferally. Seeing this, Violet and Monique screamed in fright. Mischa who was already prepared as soon as Olivia handed her duffel bag to her, immediately give her three friends a sharp wooden stake and three glass vial of water to Monique and Violet. Sohee gratefully take the stake while Monique and Violet give Mischa a bewildered look.

"What are we suppose to do with a stick and vials of water?!" Violet asked her.

Sohee just snorted and answered for Mischa "kill those rouge vampires with it, the water is holy water, should've burn them".

"You stupid meddling Gardenian!!" Charlotte screeched before she went and attack Olivia. The two men splits up, Greg went to Violet and Monique, Crabbe attacked Sohee and Lou attacked Mischa.

"meddling? you guys are the one that come to this city! this is The Silvett family territory and unless you guys are with the princess, then you guys are not allowed!" Olivia snarled, taking out a stake hidden on her left sleeve and sidestepped Charlotte, then trying to stab her. Charlotte quickly avoid by running in inhuman speed which caused Olivia to grew frustrated and match her inhuman speed. Mischa scowled when she saw it, mumbling lowly which only the vampires (and demon) can hear as "I fucking knew it!" before sidestepping and went on a defense stance as Lou attacked her.

Violet and Monique avoid Greg by throwing the vials of holy water causing Greg to struggle to avoid as he found out, that Violet really really had a good aim. some part of of right arm and face is burned because of it.

Sohee saw the two girls throwing holy water and sighed. She stare at Crabbe with a glowing dark fuschia eyes, this causes him to shiver and shriek "D-D-DEMON!! she's a demon!!" immediately using his inhuman speed to avoid every attack from said demon that suddenly increase in accuracy and speed. The other stopped their fight to look at her, the two normal humans stared in shock and slight terror, Mischa looking faint at the second shocking news that is thrown at her in a matter of minutes, Olivia also in shock but was then turned into amusement while the other three rough vampire just look scared for life at the revelations.

Sohee laughed in dark amusement seeing the rouges reactions "surprise~".

She then hold out her hand and a shadow of a lampost near them grew out into a pair of shadow hand that immediately snatch Crabbe and Greg's body in place before she stab both of them in inhuman speed. Violet and Monique grew pale as they stared at their friend in horror.

"t-t-thank y-you" Monique thanked her meekly, shaking in Violet's hold.

Olivia giggled in delight seeing this before turning turning to Charlotte who grew even paler than possible (since vampires are already naturally pale), "I guess you guys choose the wrong group to prey huh~".

Mischa scowled and immediately uses a spell to bind Lou in place "stringo!" and then quickly stabbed her to dust. "You two had a fucking explanation to do after this!" she said to Olivia and Sohee.

"Oh and you don't little witchy?" Olivia spoke back. She immediately took advantage of the distracted and griefing Charlotte (she might look like a cold leader among the four rouges but who knows that she actually care for her three friends to the point that she's griefing) and stabbed her, Olivia's face morphed hideously as she snarled "disgusting rouges!!".

After Charlotte completely turn to dust, Olivia's face turn back to normal as she sighed in relief, turning to her friends that had been watching. "Vi, Mon you girls okay?" she asked which they relaxed and nodded before turning pale again at Sohee who still sported fuschia eyes.

Sohee pouted at that (which is as rare as the blue moon itself) and said "Olivia just turn into a hideous monster earlier, chuckling and giggling like a sadistic maniac and you guys are okay but my fuschia eyes scares you?! what logic is that?! ". Crossing her arms together in indignation. Violet and Monique chuckled awkwardly at that and quickly apologised to her, even going as far as hugging her.

"well after this whole tiring ordeal, The Gazelle have to be cancelled... so how about we go to my house and maybe we can explain all of this especially to our poor Violet and Monique" Olivia suggested as she retrieved her duffel bag and stakes back. "I'll call a driver to pick us up" she adds on, taking out her phone. She closes her phone after 20 second and look up "or...not, apparently my father already send a car for us since 5 minutes ago... huh, let's go?"

They all agreed, especially Mischa who is definitely ready for an explanation. The five friends went to the parking lot of the park where a limousine is already waiting for them.

20 minutes later they arrived at Olivia's mansion, the grand mansion with it beautiful garden looked warm and inviting despite the owners being cold blooded vampires. Then again, the fact that one of the cold blooded vampire going to a human school in the morning, sporting a cheerful attitude and having a romantic boyfriend to boot probably make the aura of the welcoming mansion make sense.

Once they are infront of the door, it opened to reveal two men dressed as butlers, welcoming them. Olivia brought them to one of the living room, switching on the tv in low volume before sitting in the sofa and armchairs in awkward silence for 10 minutes.

The silence was broken when a middle age maid came in with a warm smile and asked them what they wanted to drink.

"well girls? hot drinks? cold drinks?" Olivia asked them with a strained awkward smile (again rare, at least it's not fake).

"I'll have... whatever Mony's having" Violet shrugged.

Monique was fiddling with her finger before answering "do you guys have hot cocoa?".

Muscha nodded in understanding "that's fitting, cocoa had a calming effect for those who ate it... after the chaos earlier even I would want one". Sohee just shrugged and agree.

Olivia turn to the maid at that and said "then five hot cocoa with marshmallows mrs. Ann". The maid, mrs. Ann looked hesitant for a bit before going forward to whisper something to Olivia. Seeing this, she stopped the old maid and said "it's okay mrs. Ann...they know. So you can tell me what you want to tell aloud".

The maid made a small 'oh' before asking, "just hot cocoa for you young miss? you haven't drank any... blood...since yesterday".

Despite already knowing what she is since earlier, hearing Olivia's maid confirming that she's a bloodsucking vampire really felt heavy on Mischa's heart. 'how many secrets does Olivia and Sohee holds that I don't know... ' She thought glumly.

Olivia flinched at her maid reminder and sighed in defeat "I'll drink some later before bed". The maid accepted it and immediately excuse herself to prepare the drinks.

Sohee was staring at Olivia and with a thoughtful look which she caught on. Giving the demoness a raised eyebrow.

"how do you guys get humans to serve you, I noticed from the driver to the butlers and the maids... all of them are humans" Sohee finally asked.

Mischa, Violet and Monique perked up at this, turning very curious. The latter two thought that the whole staff must have been vampire while Mischa just noticed that point once Sohee mentioned it.

Olivia just shrugged at that "oh they are family servants, their ancestors had been serving us since long ago... we didn't force them, in fact some descendants actually asked to quit and live their own lives. Some of those descendants even go to our school".

"wow..." was all Violet and Monique could say in awe.

Mischa who also looked shock at the news, sighed and shook her head in tiredness. "enough about that...I thought we're here for the explanations".

Maid Ann come back to the room with a tray filled with five cup of hot cocoa, giving them all one each before leaving the room.

Sohee took one of the marshmallow on her cup and chewed it. "So.... who's first" she shrugged.

Violet put her cup down untouched before saying "how about Oli first, I had a fright when I found out vampires exist and almost got a heart attack when I found out one of my friend is the very being I laughed about since yesterdays!" she was almost shouting by the end of the sentence, taking a couple of deep breaths to calmed herself before taking a sip of her hot cocoa.

Her eyes widen after sipping it and exclaimed "this is good".

Olivia took a couple sip before replying "don't be afraid to ask for refills, chef Ren would love to know that there are more people liking her hot cocoa". She then stared straight at Violet and Monique with a serious face causing the two girls to be uncomfortable. "I'm sorry that you guys have to find out... I was hoping that you guys would be protected from getting involved in the supernatural world though I guess with me being a vampire, Sohee being a demon and Mischa a witch might ruined that" She apologised, sighing deeply.

"But yes vampires exists and I'm one, the oh so mythical supernatural creatures that featured in lots of movies and books are actually real... just maybe not in the way that the tvs and books portrayed, well maybe some books have some truth...I'm sorry for lying to you guys but what choice do I have, the supernatural world need to be hidden from the public-the mortal world!".

She took another few sips of her hot cocoa before continuing, "first off... you guys got to know that not all vampires are the same, just like how humans have different countries and culture...we also have that. Vampires are divided by clans or tribes, five large clans are peaceful meaning they don't go around killing people...they try to blend in with the humans and even protected them. The others large clans are hidden too but they don't have the desire to be peaceful with humans like the five clans but they are not active in term of killing humans. There is also the rogues, they are like the group we encountered earlier...they have no qualms against peace but unlike the other clans, they actively seeks humans to feed on. As they are called rogue, they don't belong to any clans...they refused to join any clans, even the non-peaceful ones. Some of them even created group of cults that bent on destroying the worlds or conquer human, they are a pain to the slayers and hunters. "

Monique stared at Olivia expectantly, "which clans are you then? is that bandana on your arms indicates your clan? " while admiring the designs of the bandana. Violet also look curious at this.

Olivia smiled at that and lean on her chair, "my family belong to one of the peaceful clans... The Gardenian. We had been one of the loyal families that had serve the leader of our clan since ages, given the title of 'The knight' in our clan" raising her hands in a bunny ear indicating the quotation mark on the words 'the knight'.

The two girls looked at Olivia in awe while Mischa gives her an impressed look.

Violet suddenly sat up and exclaimed "wait! I know it's rude to ask a lady's age... I mean I am a lady so I'm sorry but.... how old are you really" stressing on the word 'old'.

Olivia just chuckled in amusement, her smirking and chuckling make her look like a badass girl. "Don't worry but believe it or not... I am in fact 18 years old. You see since we vampires are technically the undead the chance of a vampiress to get pregnant is very very low bordering to impossible but there is some instances that they do get pregnant. So yeah my mother got pregnant 18 years ago and out came me... I'm the first born vampire, most of my relatives like cousins are human turned vampires who are sired and adopted into our family and my father, uncles and aunts are pretty ancient"

This causes all four of them be impressed. Sohee hummmed in awe before saying, "that is pretty impressive and rare... your parents must be blessed or something for that to happen".

"maybe" Olivia shrugged.

Monique let out a strained breaths "okay...whooo.... this is pretty overwhelming but I guess my grandmaw's ranting makes sense now"

"yeah about that... Mon... you're grandma is a seer" Mischa piped out sheepishly.

"I... am not... surprise anymore... "Monique said, shaking her head while chuckling. Violet chuckling along with her.

"Okay.... now it's either Mischa or Sohee next" Violet concluded.

The two mentioned person stared at each other for a few minutes before Sohee raised her hands in defeat, "me first then... ".

She looked at all of them in the eyes before taking a sip of her nearly finished hot cocoa "okay so... I'm a demon and no I'm not here in the mortal world to steal soul or raise hell to earth or something as bizarre as that, I'm just here to live a normal life. I'm curious of humans and so what better way of flushing it than living among humans myself, I'm a powerful demon hence why you two can't detect what I am but I do know what you are. At first it was just my curiosity but then befriending you guys make me develop...fondness... at you all to the point that I don't even want anything happened to you all". She pursed her lips at that last words as if the confession leaves a sour taste to her tongue.

They all- except for Olivia who smirk widened in amusement- awwed at that and chuckling at her sour expression calling her a tsundere demon to which she deny with a blush - something that they can't believe they ever witnessed before in Sohee.

Mischa pulled her feet up and get comfortable on her comfy armchair before starting. " So I'm a witch just like my sister, just like my mother and grandmother and my ancestors before me... but unlike any other witch we didn't really do an active ritual or stuffs, we prefer to lay low and live normally. I mean we still do the important rituals like winter solstice...et cetera but other than that... just normal yeah" she ended her sentence with a shrug.

"geez... I don't even know people still use et cetera anymore" Violet giggled which earn a smack to the face by a pillow courtesy of Mischa.

Olivia turn to the clock in the room to see it was 11,30. "well it's late... you guys can stay here or I could have my driver send you home...though it's best you girls stay here, it could be a sleepover. Don't worry about clothes I got tons and tomorrow is a holiday anyway, what do we have tomorrow anyway? ".

Mischa answered "it's teachers day tomorrow Via... I swear you are pretty forgetful for a vampire". Olivia just shrug at the teasing.

They all agreed for a sleepover and Olivia had the maids prepare the sleepover room. apparently she have a room dedicated for a sleepover where there is no beds but futons, pillows and blankets were kept in the wardrobe and tv and love seats are also put inside. There is also two connecting bathrooms. When asked, Olivia just answered with a "I just always wanted a sleepover you know... as hard as it is to admit" to which they all - except Sohee of course awwed and coeed before hugging in a group hug, against Sohee and Olivia's wishes.

The girls also got to meet Olivia's father and were told they knew with Mischa and Sohee introducing themself with mentioning their species.

That night the girls have fun watching movies while drinking their third round of hot cocoa, they even got to watch Olivia drank a tall glass of blood before bed. Violet and Monique just imagined that she's drinking tomato juice to keep from going green.

Safe to say their night ended up being fun in the end.