Myrenfor Academy wasn't exactly a beacon of sunshine. More like flickering candles and cobwebs clinging to the corners. As the new kid, you clung to any semblance of normalcy, which is how you ended up gravitating towards Jake, the impossibly charismatic student council president.

Okay, so Jake was ridiculously good-looking. Like, could-stop-traffic, sculpted-from-marble good-looking. But there was something...off. His smile never quite creased the corners of his eyes, which were an unsettling dark brown, like the fur of a brown muskrat.. He aced everything, tests, sports, student council initiatives - a human cheat code. Still, there were these little oddities.

He'd zone out during lunch, staring out the window with a focus that seemed to pierce the very walls. He never touched the pizza or fries, always brushing off invitations with a weak "migraine" excuse. During night football matches, the floodlights seemed to cast an almost sickly pallor on his skin, and the guy never seemed to break a sweat, even after sprinting for an hour straight. You always tried to ignore it, convinced it was just the usual new-school jitters, considering nobody else ever seemed to notice.

Deep down though, there was much more to Jake than just charisma and goodlooks. Jake wasn't human - he was a vampire, a bloodthirsty beast. A simple fact that everyone in the school, including you, were blissfully unaware of.