It had always been like this. Humans were lower than vampires, everyone knew that. Humans were basically livestock that vampires would drink from whenever they pleased. They didn’t matter the royal family never allowed human vampire relationships in the royal family, they wanted their bloodline purely vampire Vincent remembered the day Xavier fell in love with a human girl, he had come to Vincent, face flushed red and told him all about the girl, confident that his older brother would not utter a word about it, knowing of their parents wraith Vincent never did say anything but somehow the king and queen found out and had the girl executed by hanging, Vincent still remembered Xavier’s sobs as she died, they found out later that she had been with child when she died. Xavier never recovered and it was weeks later that they discovered Liam had told their parents Ever since that day Vincent vowed to never fall in love, human or vampire, he made an oath knowing that his parents would likely arrange a suitor for him anyway and he stayed true to his oath, until tonight…. despite the king and queen refusing to allow human vampire relationships and seeing humans as lowly they never passed the opportunity to have more guests at their parties the king and queen would often host extravagant events and invite human nobles to said events, they provided food and entertainment openly to please the people you were forced to go, your parents craving the attention they got at parties, you were a human noble, and despite everything you often avoided everyone and only came out to eat from the desert table every once and a while Vincent was dancing to a song with a girl who had asked him, he was quiet and calm, you got shoved into the dance and happened to start dancing with him, when he saw you something in him broke and he realized he had just broken his vow to never fall in love he stared at you and after dancing for a while you were both having fun, he spun you then caught you and before the next song played you both snuck out to the garden, he leaned against a tree after making sure no one was there “So, what’s your name?”