THE SUN WALKER AND HER BONDED MATE

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HAZEL

"They say the world is a beautiful place; you sometimes wonder what makes the world so beautiful, is it the beauty of nature? Or maybe it's the stars, the solar systems or probably the landscapes, the seas and the ocean or maybe it's the beautiful things man has created over the years, life was beautiful indeed, but for me the most beautiful thing about life was waking up early in the morning and climbing the top of the highest mountain just to look at the sun set, that feeling of the sun touching your skin was what many others of my kind would crave for.

They say a vampire is a creature of the night, cursed to feed on blood and never to see the sunlight, well yes, that's what the legends say, but even though the legends were true, there were those of us that escaped the curse of the night, a sacred bloodline of vampires that has the ability to walk under the sun, we were called the Sun walkers, for centuries we were haunted by the night vampires, chased and killed, our kind were feared by the others, so they haunted us, out of fear for our existence we fled, many years past and I am the last Sun walker in over a hundred years, cursed to carry my secret alone and protect myself from monsters of the night that would seek to kill me, for years I have lived among humans in the shadow, until I met him and he changed my story".

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PHILIP

My name is Philip Baker, I was just a normal boring high school kid from the little town of New Orleans, I was seventeen and I was a virgin, a title that many high school kids hated, being a virgin at seventeen was like being a priest with the robe and all "oh, that was lame" my jokes had never really stuck, I was the goofy quiet kid that nobody recognized, the only thing I loved doing apart from reading comic books of half naked superheroes was watching Japanese Anime on Netflix, my parents were divorced, mom had an affair so when my dad found out , he left, I hated my mom for cheating on my dad, of course I never really understood why anyone could cheat on someone they loved, but then again, what did I know about love? I had never been in love, of course saying that would be giving myself some credit, I was a total loser when it came down to the ladies, I was always too shy to walk up to a girl and talked to her, my friend Cody has tried helping me out, One time Cody even asked his sister Maddie to pretend to be a girl I wanted to ask out and role play with me, but I still froze, Maddie told me it was impossible for me to ever have a girlfriend and honestly am starting to believe her.

Cody and Maddie lived next door to my house, after the divorce I decided to stay with my Dad, even though I was angry with my mom for hurting my dad, I still couldn't live with her and her new husband Matthew, I hated Matthew, he was my mom's boss, he was rich, proud, a pompous asshole, I was angry at the fact that my mom could fall for that prick, "Asshole" why do all the Assholes always get the girls?" a question I often ask myself.

It was the first day in school after the summer break; I was excited to begin the sophomore year at BELLE CHASSE HIGH SCHOOL this year, I had decided I was going to ask Bella out, "Bella combs" she was the perfect girl for me, the one girl I have had a crush on since the eighth grade, Bella was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen, she had dark curly hair that rested on her shoulders, you could smell her perfume from across the hall and her smile was more beautiful than sunset, "if ever an angel was a person" as I saw her coming down from the red mustang that dropped her in front of the school that morning, I stood there just staring at her as she smiled and the wind waved her hair, she seemed to be walking with Ty and they looked pretty close as Ty's hand was over her shoulders

"Dude, you are too late" Cody's voice quickly interrupted, has he been standing behind me all along watching me drool over Bella?

"Dude what do you mean too late?" I asked, not sure what Cody was talking about

"Everyone in school is talking about it, and didn't you just see it just now?" Cody had his gossip face on, the school had a blog where random interesting gossip news about student's life was posted, when anything new was happening, the school blog would definitely be the first to post it, which is why whenever you are looking for some hot gossip about anything happening in school, all you have to do is just to pick your phone and logged on to "SPILL THE BEANS" Official website, that was the name of the school blog, I always thought the name sounded stupid, and I always wondered who was the dumbass that came up with that name?, but Cody seemed interested In today's headline

"What's going on Cody? Is there something posted on the stupid blog again?" I asked, watching Cody pressing his phone with anxiety all over his face

"Here, look lips" Cody always called me "lips" it was short for Philips, Cody showed me his phone and on the Headline on SPILL THE BEANS was the topic; "NEWEST SOPHOMORE COUPLE" under the headline read "the summer was a season of love and romantic sparkles for some of our students as some found love while others found a soul mate, among some of our students that had this magical experience, top on our list was our last year junior valedictorian student BELLA COMBS and our junior prom king TYLER HARVEY both of whom found love this summer and had a magical experience, here's what the new couple had to say in an interview with SPILL THE BEANS..."

"What the hell is this, Bella is with Ty?" I yelled out in frustration,

"Am sorry lips, you should have asked her out when you had the chance"

Even if I had asked her out, why would she agree to go out with a nerd like me? meanwhile Ty was the captain of the football team, he was also from a rich family, people say his dad owns a multibillion dollar company and he had a red mustang, on top of that he was hot, every girl's dream, all the girls in school would give anything to be with Ty and of course he was a total playboy, I had caught him a few times at the bathroom hooking up with random girls but of course I could never tell anyone, if I did, no one would believe me anyways and Ty can knock the hell out of me and he'd still go scot-free, I just didn't think Bella would agree to date someone like Ty, she always looked like she didn't care about Ty, even when all the other girls would drool after him, Bella wouldn't care, she wasn't the type to be moved by guys like Ty, at least that's what I thought, turns out I was wrong about her, and now the only girl I liked, no!, scratch that, the only girl I have ever loved was with someone else, maybe Maddie was right after all, maybe I should give up on love

"Hey Lips, there is a way to get Bella back" Cody had an exciting look on his face, I could tell he was about to come up with one of his crazy ideas again, he was always coming up with crazy ideas, but he was my best friend in the whole world.

"What are you talking about Cody?" I asked curiously

"Okay so, you want Bella to recognize you right?" he asked

"Yea so, what makes you think she would recognize me now that she is with the hottest guy in school?" I asked in frustration

"Well, therein lies the solution to your problem buddy" Cody placed his hands around my shoulders and we started walking as he kept explaining his crazy idea to me, even though I knew his ideas would end up yielding no result I just listened anyways as we walked into the school hall