Chapter 24 - Hot Riders

Rank among Vampires:

1. Noble Blood vampire

2. Noble-hybrid vampire

3. Hybrid vampire

4. Human Hybrid vampires

Noble Vampires are naturally born with Noble parents while others are made. Those turned by Noble becomes Noble-hybrid. Likewise, those turned by Noble-hybrid becomes hybrid and go on. The stronger they are, the easier it becomes to control the weaker one and even hypnotize/compell.

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"Matt is a vampire, a human hybrid to be clear. He runs a bar in Night Street, north west of the city where all type of people are gathered. It's technically the place where night life is in full active mode. Crime rates are little high compared to other places with hundreds of different clubs, restaurants and bars making the place frequently visited by tourists and adults.

For physical appearance, he have light brown complextion with tall and build up body having dreadlock upto his shoulder which are always tied back. To be clear, he is a dreamboy of any highschool teenage girls and womens. He have thick eyebrows with black eyes, dark brown if torch light is tuned on in front of them and that jawline, it might be sharper than the edge of fresh book page. He have the most stunning smile with dimple only on his right cheek getting uncountable hit on daily by womens who visit the bar and gays included. There are regulars who wanna hook up with him but no one understands what his problem is.

About his family, father was a Maxican businessman and his mother was pure white American nurse, travelled to Europe when Matt was ten making him only heir. His both parents passed away with the inheritance on his name making owner of the bar "Vamp Bar" and other assets and stocks are confidential.

For the name of bar, he changed it because 1. he was a vampire and 2. he was a diehard fan of band named 'The Vamps' , it was like CHECKMATE. Well, he was the one who rescued August i.e. me and taught to adjust in my new form, one and half years ago. I heard that, he turned at the age of twenty and has been same ever since from a decade, that would make him thirty if he was a human ofcourse. At last, he is my good friend who pays well".

Matt nodded in agreement.

"My friend here is the king of some place. He is a Noble Blood vampire so don't get on his bad side. One strong gaze, you gonna fade. He lives in Green City complex, top luxury apartment in Whitedale and unemployed. At last, I am his only friend".

Ariel looked at him with the face saying I WILL CHEW YOU RAW. He could feel blood rushing to his head with jealousy for giving such a short introduction of him when Matt's took five minutes, only to listen.

"We need to get to know each other more first, right?" August faked broken smile and tried to escape from continuous threat gaze, nodding at his master. "Ha..ha... I need to go to washroom please now introduce yourselves". He sucessfully exited from the battle field and acquired victory.

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[One week earlier]

August went to his small crooked apartment after Matt dropped him in his yellow Ferrari S.p.A. It was almost eleven at midnight. He lived in the poor area having cheaper rent, in the city. He including who ever lived there had to climb stairs and him upto sixth floor to reach his apartment. The old elevator with metal chain gate were only used by landlords at the top seventh floor. He had to walk through the hall with some broken lights to reach his door at the end.

He unlocked the door with his keys taking out from his black backpack with graffiti designs unlike Ariel's digital codes. The door opened with him walking first thing over to his brown couch in a small living room with broken springs and sat down slowly adjusting, in front of an old TV.

He had a living room with attached kitchen on left. The bedroom was on right with bathroom on very right corner. The picture of flower was hung at the blue wall which was already there before he moved in. The attached two windows made an apartment bright with light, where he didn't bother buying the curtains. There was nothing much, a book shelf and the floor covered with brown carpet.

Inside his bedroom was a long wardrobe, corner to corner attached with wall and a king sized bed with regular side drawer for lamp. The bathroom, it was small with a mirror on the wall and glass shelves for accessories. The bath tub at the end and heater was broken which didn't bother for his cold body. He would mostly do laundry on sunday and thursday at the ground floor where he had to insert coins. It was the place where he lived for almost two years supporting himself.

He was exhausted and worried with what was going on in his life. He didn't realize what he was watching on TV and got himself out from his position turning it off. He took a shower changing into sleeve less t-shirt and sweat short upto his knees after feeding himself a glass of blood. It took him less than a minute to fall asleep after a long day.

August was an orphan raised in foster care. It was said his mother worked in church and died giving birth to him in the same place. His biological father was never known by anyone. After that, the father and sisters of the church took care of him until they seeked help from the government. The only thing his mother left him was an picture of herself with August in her belly.

His foster parents were financially broken but nice couple in their mid-thirties who took him to get financial aid from government until he turned eighteen. But their condition weren't progressing so instead, he saved money enough to move out from his hometown and live in Whitedale when he was sixteen. He transferred in highschool and enrolled in the college doing part time and even did some illegal activities to cover his expenses for time being until he met Matt, after waking up from the nightmare.

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[Next day]

It was a fresh morning. He walked out from the bedroom to his living room filled with bright morning light. The first thing he always did was to take a shower and treat himself a cup of blood and extra cup of juice to make himself feel more alive. For the first time in many days, he prepared himself to go to college changing in grey hoodie and black pants with sneakers on.

They announced student to be present for better grade but it didn't mattered to be more precise. Those who wanted to graduate seriously would be regular which was August one and half year ago. He was a type to never miss the class in highschool even though he did a part time work to support himself. But that changed when he turned immortal. He wanted to take everything slow and not feel empty at the end.

His college was near, about fifteen minutes by walk. It was a huge area with long semi circular buildings having tall tress and beautifully trimmed gardens. It was about eight in the morning but all the students were already there. It was never a quite place to talk about. Everyone getting on their own lectures and busy lives.

He entered the building with some books and his laptop. It took him about five minutes to reach his class and sat on his regular seat at the back, near the stairs so he could walk out faster than others. He wasn't a crowd person. He rather would be alone to walk out than smell everyone's scent.

August was alone rather than others who talked with their own friends before professor entered. He would get peep from some girls who might be confused for seeing him for the first time in his white messy hair falling on his forehead. He could be a lousy type with people who he liked but when alone, he would become same as a statue who only blinked and typed in his laptop.

His first lecture in history sucessfully ended. For skipping so many days, he actually forgot about the assignment of the year with deadline until next month. He didn't even know about his other three members from the same group.

August exited the hall and wondered out in greenary before going to next lecture. He walked through the hall entering the class and professor was already setting his projector preparing for his presentation. As usual he took a back seat gesturing some guy to move little. He was taking out his book and a laptop,

"BOOM" two strong hands gave him a huge dab at his shoulders from back.

"WHO THE F*CK... ?" he yelled.

Everyone inside the lecture hall turned their eyes at his voice before professor snapped the light off for better view of the presentation and the room was dark. The random guy beside him with rectangular glasses slided far away from him.

"Come on, now move a little" the one who gave dab whispered feeling August's shoulder with his fingers before his eyes adjusted to dark.

"F*ck you Liam" he said moving aside giving Liam the space.

"I am sorry. Did I scare you ? Where have you been dude ?" Liam said with chuckle and opeaning his backpack taking out his Mac book.

"Nah... just here and there actually. Why are you alone ? Where are Charles and Mark ?" August opened his own laptop placing side by side with Liam's Mac book which looked like a military laptop.

Liam couldn't help but laugh at his so called 'Hacker's Treasure' that was also used to take notes for normal lectures. The professor already started but they talked with mur-murr and he loudly cleared his throat at them.

Before Liam could say anything he was stopped instead he opeaned his chat and typed on his laptop.

Group Chat: Hot Riders.

~tut~

: B*TCH !!!

: what?

: professor. LOL

: what do you want ? Focus on class.

August gave a quick glare at Liam who turned back towards him with grin.

: I was with you in History lecture. I saw you after long time and I thought I dreamed ;)

: okey. Where is Charles ?

: He went in his bike trip to mountains. Maybe will be back soon. He asked me to take notes for him. WTH.

: whatever. Why didn't you call me in the lecture before?

: Damn, there were this two chicks in front of me. They were talking about you the moment you entered bro. The hot one was totally into you. I just sat there and listened for a while but time flew so fast. Phew!

: I got it.

: what's up with you, why you pissed at me bro? Did I do something?

: No, I am sorry. Just not feeling well these days. Lets focus on the presentation, shall we ?

: You win. Let's go to cafeteria later.

Liam exited the group and started to focus on lecture with August doing the same. Liam was introduced to him by Charles on the first day. They were both funny and savage types who got well pretty quickly. Charles and Mark were sophomore students, friends of Liam and August who were freshmen. They always meet up at cafeteria with own squad accompanied by others as well.

Charles knew August way before from highschool. They first met when Charles was a womanizer and August was good fighter with amazing grades. They accidentally met with a girl problem.

The highschool queen was in relationship with Charles but he cheated on her with so many others and she made a move on August after seeing his fight on street unfortunately. He was a quite type in school who never skipped any classes and always would be on his own world.

After not getting any attention from August, the girl fell for him and officially dumped Charles in front of everyone. The whole school thought about their fight but Charles wasn't serious in relationship with her but somewhat jealous while August wouldn't fight if no one provoked him. That way they later met and befriended each other giving sidekick to girl problem.

After Charles knew about August going through so much, he became his real friend. Since then, August completely changed gaining his trust by the end of the year returning back to happy guy. He even swore getting to same college as Charles did.