United Kingdom

Durham University

A boy in a sweatshirt and hood sits under a tree, riding a guitar on his slender legs. The mute singing was staccato and finally ended in a murmur of hands clapping on the strings.

The voice of the girl around him is too annoying, he has tried his best to find a corner with fewer people, but he still can't get rid of these shallow human beings.

"Look, that's the youngest associate professor in our university!"

"I'm not young anymore, but I look like a student."

"yes, yes, so handsome! I can! ”

Leaning against the trunk of the tree behind him, revealing a pale and delicate face, the jaw is clearly outlined by the movement of the leaning back. The short brown hair outside the brim swept across the tightly locked thick eyebrows, and the bridge of the nose was high, making the eyes even deeper. It was obviously an impatient action, but it attracted another round of admiration and low shouts. I can't stay any longer! He jumped up, mounted his bike with his guitar on his back and rode off campus.

It's the weekend, and it's time to head home. Although it is a bit far, he still likes to ride.

Because the first time I saw her, I was riding a bicycle in the forest, with clear eyes and crooked corners of her mouth, with a brilliant light and intoxicating aroma. The soul he thought he didn't exist vibrated violently at that moment, as if trying to break free from his hollow shell and desperately get closer to her. It was the most dazzling and shocking memory of his hundreds of years of life, and it was the only force that sustained him for so long.

Now, it's finally almost there. They had just attended Edward's wedding half a year earlier. A little more patient, his cheeks moved slightly, and he gritted his teeth to suppress his urgency, which had been getting more and more recently.

With the manor in sight, Madame Theo is bleeding cattle, she has a gift for healing, can collect the blood of animals painlessly without depriving them of life, and the many animals raised on the estate have become a rich "granary" for their family.

Seeing him return, Madame Theo hurriedly beckoned him to drink the fresh blood of the ox that still had the temperature. Compared with human blood, the taste is naturally far worse, but it is much better than refrigerated. He was not polite, leaned the car against the fence casually, took the blood bag and drank booze.

"Huh! Mom will give you a single meal again! Remio, who had escaped, let out an indignant scream from the window.

Walking into the house, old Teo was watching TV, and Selena was wiping her gun. This is his family in this life, and it is also the relatives of the Cullen family in the UK. In terms of blood, vampires certainly have no relatives, and their definition is based on a shared diet, trust and love, and for him, her.

After drinking the ox blood brought in by Madame Theo, Selena stopped her gun and walked out, leaving a sentence of "Come back in the evening." "It's still so quiet, but it's already a little more human than when I first came to this house.

He still remembered the first time he saw Selena, hanging tied in a corner of the warehouse, his shoulder-length short black hair was covered with dust, and his face was stuck to his face with cold sweat from his forehead, his face was stained, and there were few parts of his body intact, especially his lower body, which was so dirty that he couldn't see the color of his clothes and pants, and the blood stains had dried up. Several men punched and kicked, as if they were asking for some information, Selena was expressionless, and she only snorted twice when she was beaten hard, only her eyes were amazing.

He couldn't tell why he was touched by that look, he just felt as if he had met another self, and pulling her was to save his life from crying on the corpses of his clansmen.

"This girl is so pitiful, she has scars on her body, and she doesn't know how many sins she has suffered." Madame Theo was the most benevolent and compassionate, and when she was healing Selena's wounds, she saw her scarred and tired body, and she shed tears in distress, and some of the injuries were not easy to tell the men in detail, so she had to sigh herself.

Selena, who woke up, looked at them for a moment, perhaps because she had nowhere to go, or perhaps because she coveted the warmth of Madame Theo's gentle quilt for her, she chose to stay.

did not stay in their home, but has been following their footsteps and never moving away, silently guarding the surroundings with a gesture of repaying gratitude, trying to use the fighting instincts honed to protect their family in the chaos of war.

Ben didn't want to transform her, but the accident happened in that cold and biting winter. Mr. Tiou, who was the chief designer of the Arsenal at the time, was marked as an important target and was subjected to both air and sniper attacks by enemy forces. Selena burst out in front of him and shot him in the chest. Madame Theo was far away in the field hospital, and it was too late anyway, and he, who was also in the factory, did not even hesitate and made a quick decision.

The war was full of blood, and Selena's newborn period was particularly difficult, with an unrivaled desire for blood, and an awakening talent for shadows that made it difficult for them to control her.

The family moved to Norway, far away from the crowds, and it took two years to stabilize her vegetarian habits. It was a long time before they were fully integrated into the family, and they learned what kind of purgatory this silent and cold girl had experienced.

"Actually, it's nothing, someone has to do this kind of thing." Selena's tone was flat.

She was an orphan who was raised by the government to be a spy, and her childhood was full of brutal training and competition.

Even if she pretends to be indifferent, she gritted her teeth and insisted, because there is righteousness in her heart; But even if she pretended to be strong and fearless, she chose them in the end, because she would also need to perch.

Just like later, she will never be idle, unlike Alice and Rosley of the Cullen family, who go to school or travel in the mountains and rivers, but join the military again and again, as a pilot, special combat unit, commando, bomb disposal expert, and special service officer. The more dangerous the place, the more they rushed into their heads, and then they returned in a body of gunpowder, and the moment they saw them, their eyes flashed with a gentle smile.

A "clang" interrupted his memory, it was Remio who saw Selena going out and hurriedly got up and knocked over the chair. Hurriedly grabbed this reckless boy, frowned and asked, "What are you doing with you?" Slowing down? "Selena is now an anti-narcotics policeman, and her tasks are extremely dangerous, and it is not something that a child can mix casually.

"How long will we have to wait!" Sitting down, Remio's ruddy and blood-colored face wrinkled into a ball of chagrin: "Brother, you have to help me, I know you are very powerful, you teach me first, I... I want to keep up with Selena so that she can't get rid of me again! His still green face was full of anticipation and determination.

"Good," he said, agreeing to his heart, but regretting in his heart that no one could teach him how to get close to his beloved girl as he would teach Remio.

Remio was originally an orphan, and his host family happened to be a neighbor of the Tio family, and from the time they moved in, they liked to revolve around the cold and beautiful sister Selena, like a puppy who found flesh and bones, and later became a wolf dog. In the face of Selena's indifference, impatience, reprimand or threat, there is a scoundrel smile on her face, but her eyes are always persistent.

At that time, Remio must have thought that they could continue like this, and when he grew up, he could stand side by side with her, and never be separated again.

Unbeknownst to him, the host family suddenly had to move out. Remio panicked all of a sudden, stubbornly snatched his luggage from the car, turned around and came to Tio's house, his lips trembling when he spoke, and said that he wanted to stay and work as a laborer in the manor. Everyone only thinks of him as a child's heart. That family is not good to him, but after all, he is still human, and he is about to be 17 years old, and he can apply for independent life when he goes to college, and he can always get by by enduring.

Without saying a word, Selena knocked him unconscious and threw him at the door of his host family's new home. He knocked on the door of Tio's house in the pouring rain, his eyes seemed to be drenched, and he stared at Selena desperately and stubbornly, and finally collapsed under the porch with a high fever.

Madame Theo cured his high fever, but not his obsession. On the hospital bed, Remio was stiffened by the neck, looking like I was here alone.

"We're vampires, and if you stay, we're going to be dinner." Selena's clear voice made him jerk back.

"You're finally willing to talk to me!" There seemed to be a fire in her dark eyes, and Selena staggered her gaze.

"Are you deaf?" She pretended to be fierce: "I said we are vampires and will kill you!" ”

"I don't care!" Remio propped himself up, "I'd rather be killed by you—" His voice choked up, "It's better than being abandoned by you!" ”

Selena turned around in embarrassment and ran out as if she were running away, almost knocking out Mr. Theo outside the door. Remio fell back into the pillow in a fit of strength, covering his eyes with his arms.

"She's telling the truth, we're vampires and can't take you in." Old Theo sighed.

"What I said is true, I don't care." Remio's eyes were red, and his tone was stubborn and cold.

"We shouldn't be discovered by humans, and we can only kill you unless we convert you to our kind."

"What? Can you turn me into a vampire? Same as Selena? ”

"Yes, but-"

"I do!"

"You don't know what this transformation means, you lose the chance to live a normal life, you can't see the light, you can't eat human food, you don't get old, you don't get sick and die, but you don't really live."

But Remio didn't care, he willingly accepted the transformation - when he came of age. Knowing that he still had a chance to compete with Lina Senior, at least in appearance, Remio was simply overjoyed, and one day he would stand tall and strong in front of Selena and be her man, not a boy.

The whole family knows Remio's heart for Selena, only Selena herself is unwilling to face it. Two people are as awkward as children, one chases and the other escapes, and it is always rare to have a normal conversation at home.

But God knows how much he envied Remio, at least, Remio could be under the same roof with his beloved, calm and peaceful.

And he, who waited for 7 centuries and suffered 7 centuries, eradicated all the threats she might face, but still did not dare to appear in front of her, lest he repeat the tragedy of the previous life.