CHAPTER SEVEN:
                         FIRST MEETINGS
                           AND LOVE


     As we kissed memories flooded in my mind, memories of a deep love 
and of my death.
     I remembered how Grey and I first met. It was at a party my father 
was giving for all the nobles in the land. I was to choose a husband 
among them. At the time of the party I had no wish to marry and was very 
angry with my father.
     I was standing in the middle of a crowd in the main hall. The crowd 
was mostly of would be suitors. I felt like I was being suffocated by 
these men, by my father and by society. Through the crowd I spotted a 
tall young man with long black hair and gray eyes. His face was deathly 
pale and he was very sexy.
     As our eyes met, I felt this strange connection to him. He crossed 
the room slipping easily through the crowd. he held out his hand towards 
me, I took his hand and he led me outside away from the crowd and from 
the hot room. The cool air felt really good against my skin. Music from 
inside the castle floated outside to where we were. He pulled me closer 
and held me in his arms. We began to dance, our bodies slowly swayed in 
unison. He was an excellent dancer
     He leaned in closer to me, his lips grazed my ear as he whispered. 
"My name is Sir Grey of Kail and what would be m'lady's name?"
     "My name is Lady Jenice of the house of DeFayne. How did you know I 
wanted out?" I asked in kind.
     "M'lady looked as if she was drowning," he said taking my face in 
his hands. "You are beautiful."
     "No. I am not m'lord," I said shyly.
     "M'lady. Believe me when I say you are beautiful physically as well 
as spiritually" he said pulling me close to him.
    "Good sir! We hardly know each other," I exclaimed.
    "M'lady. Can you not that we are connected Somehow our souls are 
one. Do you deny this?" 
     "No I cannot deny it. Even if I wanted to because I feel it too," I 
said in wonder.
     Grey smiles as he took a strand of my hair between his fingers "We 
are meant to be."
    "I know," I whispered. A smiles crossed Grey's lips. I also smiled. 
Without warning, Grey kissed me gently, slowly, making me feel safe.
     But we weren't safe for long. Ash was Grey's sire. Meaning Ash was 
the one who turned Grey into a vampire. When Ash found out about us he 
wanted me for himself.
     I didn't know that Grey was a vampire at first. We met at night. I 
thought it was because my father didn't approve, but I was wrong.
     At one of our nightly meetings I found out how wrong I was. We met 
in the castle tower that night. We were happy kissing, holding each 
other, and giggling as we did so.
     As we were kissing, the tower doors burst open. A tall young man 
rushed in. This young man had blond hair and clear blue angry eyes. The 
new arrival's hair was so blond that is was almost white. "Ah," Grey 
whispered.
     "Grey what are you doing with this mortal?" Ash asked, with his 
fangs bared.
     Grey also bared his fangs. "Ash! You don't understand. I love her!"
     "Love? Our kind cannot love," Ash hissed.
     "Yes. That is what you taught me, but now I know different. I love 
this mortal woman with all I have and there is nothing you can do about 
it," Grey said, with passion in his voice.
     That is when the realization hit me. "You both are what is called 
the Vampyre."
     Grey turned to me with blood tears in his eyes. "Yes m'love. That 
is exactly what we are." I gasped.
     I turned to Grey ignoring Ash. "M'love. I care not what you are. It 
is who you are that matters and what matters most is that I love you," I 
told Grey lovingly.
    "She has to much knowledge about us," Ash interrupted. "Either kill 
her or embrace her."
     "NO! I will not kill her!" Grey cried.
     "Then embrace her make her once of us," Ash barked.
     Grey stepped in front of me and said. "And have her cursed as we 
are cursed? No. I could not live with myself."
     Then I shall kill her myself," Ash said, knocking Grey out of the 
way. Before Grey could stop him, Ash pulled out a dagger. Ash jumped on 
me and stabbed me...
     The kiss ended and so did my memory. "I know you," I said. "I love 
you."
     "You remember. Good m'love. Go to bed now, you must be tired," Grey 
said.
     I nodded and went to my room and went to sleep.