FIRST CHAPTER
The wind is cold, the sky is filled with light pink clouds, a sunset can be seen on the horizon. Delencia Is however locked inside her huge mansion, a long hallway down was her room, she starts walking towards it and once reaching the door frame, she enters inside while locking the door.
She falls exhaustedly on her bed in a dramatic way, giving a loud sigh as she buries her head in the pillows and tries to reassure herself that the light will not shine on her again. As she hates the sun regardless of not being a vampire. She manages to reach for her phone to check the time, it was already evening six p.m.
Our lead character didn't get to get home early because of her meetings with her personal teacher, Marquise. Delencia decides to let her hair fall free after removing her hairband and then she quickly falls asleep in the same clothes. Soon The moon shines brightly over her small figure. Delencia smiles in her sleep and sleeps soundlessly.
It was only until past midnight that a nightmare woke her up. It was a scary dream that repeated itself in her head like a youtube ad you keep seeing without being provided a skip or close app button. Delencia had seen herself getting attacked and then being locked up in a closed room with only a small window far above sticking to the ceiling which showed the loud bright rays of the sun.
Delencia would see a vision of a boy with dark brown hairs, age 7. Trembling with blood over his clothes, he was searching for something. He looked at her terrified but then lowered his eyes realising delencia was no threat to him. They were they same age, existing next to each other for completely opposite reasons. The boy lost his dad, the girl's dad was protecting her from getting killed by the boy's dad.
It was far easy for delencia to understand simple concepts like that. However, her father thought of her like his little daughter who knew nothing of the world and needed protecting.
He wasn't wrong. She needed to be protected.
Delencia remembers further about her nightmare how that boy got almost brutally bruised by her own father infront of her just because that kid tried to walk towards him with a knife, trembling on his feet like the little kid he was. How can a fragile child cause harm when he can barely walk?
She watched her father pick the boy by his head and throw him on the ground like a Soccer ball.
The pain she couldn't imagine that boy must have felt, but she knew it was worse enough to kill any fragile creature her age and size existing. She remembers being her face cupped by her father as she cried and fell unconscious, she had forgotten to breath there.
The losing of that breathe, woke her up. Her head having a hard time trying to adjust to her current surrounding, she was in her room she was older now she was better now. Or atleast she told herself that.
Delencia cursed herself silently and then opened her eyes once more, she looks at the dimly lit room of hers, and outside the window. The moon glowing beautifully over her.
She closes the window and starts to walk outside her room and into the long hallway, soon she gets at the end of it, walking down stairs there's another long hallway. She walks slowly trying not to make any big noises.
Delencia finds the place she was looking for, a rose wood door, she opens it and enters inside. She turns on the switch of lights next to the inside of the closed doors
The dark room is lit with white bright lights making deneria squeeze her eyes shut as she curses silently to herself again.
"Maybe I should try wearing some disguise again" delencia says with her silky hoarse tone of voice. Delencia proceeds to remove her clothing and wear some business man's black suit and pants. Finally she puts on her contour while using a hair mask to hide her actually hairs, so she could put up a wig of black short hairs on it.
She planned to leave the home that night wearing a man's disguise. Having heterochromic eyes, she chooses to hide her blue eye with a brown eye contact lense matching her second eye colour.
Delencia looks in the mirror in the closet like room which had all of her favourite outfits. Delencia checks if her disguise is perfect or not, and once she's done with that she clicks her tongue and leaves from the room closing the lights inside beforehand.
Delencia walks out the mansion on a thin pebble stone pathway surrounded by a scenery of a beautiful garden filled with different coloured roses and carnations come into view, the flowers looked flawless in the moonlight. A smile creeps up on the fifteen year olds face as she walks out the place and starts walking towards her favourite bar.
Delencia finally reaches the bar. It has a very elegant door made out of oakwood. A sign outside the door reads "open from 9pm to 3am" delencia does not know why it is only open at night time like this, however she knows it's the only place she had found a nice company of friends.
"Ah look who's here late at night" one of the men at the front bar tables says, he wasn't alone there were two other men who looked in his same direction. At the main lead disguised as a man. "Oh look who got rejected again" delencia says smiling like a menace, making the man sulk.
"Stevan rather was unable to make his female boss happy today" says the other man next to the now known as Stevan. "She doesn't needs to know that bard" says Stevan as he puts down his glass of beer on the table in front of him. Delencia takes the free seat next to Stevan ordering a beer for herself. "What brought you here today?" Says delencia's third comrade at the table who had been quiet for some time because of drinking too much.
"Nightmares nightmares all over again!" Says delencia as she puts her hands on the table in front of her and puts her head down on it.
She moves her head to the side her of her friends and now looks at them while squinting. "What brought you guys here, except that I know about Stevan"
"Me? I am just here usually incase you didn't notice I find my comfort here after a long day at work and the cycle repeats the next morning."says bard who now looked at the wine addict next to him. " No I didn't got into any messes like Stevan, it's rather more like... I just am obsessed with the taste of wine itself... you know me delencia...i am your typical Darwin."
Delencia just looks at the three men next to her in a oblivious face expression.
"You guys need help" she says as a matter of fact only to be spat back by the three men at the same time with the "says the one wearing a disguise of the opposite gender, you need more help."
Darwin proceeds to continue to use his free speech further ",Besides the bar is empty this late at night, it's always just us three men around here, you only enter rarely and it's always like this"
Delencia's beer finally arrived and she takes a sip of it while looking down at the table infront of her, her eyes getting lost in the moment. "I don't really want my parent to know I am leaving house every night so I have to be a bit tricky" delencia says. She then looks up next to Stevan next to her and plays with his long black hairs. "Besides it's much more fun being in disguise than taking it off just because I have managed to leave the house without letting anyone know it was me" says delencia before going to back to finishing her drink.
The bar counter is a bit quiet for a while before bard opens up a conversation, "hey...i remember you saying something about having a drama performance hosted by you in your school?"
Delencia looks at the pictures at the front of the bar counter, it had new paintings on it at the moment.
"Yes... i am hosting but I have yet to find the main lead character of it..so to find someone for it, i will have to attend school tomorrow because of that..." said delencia half heartedly.
Stevan laughs and so does Darwin. "You can make your cousin do that for you though" bard says, but delencia just moves her head side ways in disapproval.
"How long will I have him do my work anyways."
"Just make yourself the main character then" says bard making delencia choke on her beer as Stevan and Darwin laugh a bit more louder making delencia a bit mad as she coughs and tries to say something, "we are looking for someone of the same verticale profile as given in the play" after delencia saying this it makes more sense to bard about Delencia's situation, while the other two block heads are laughing carelessly.
Stevan finally stops laughing too hard and then asks bard to make a prediction if delencia will actually find someone in her school or not. Bard pauses and looks down at his drink and then pulls out a cigarette from his pockets. He then motions for Darwin to hand him a lighter, and darwin understanding the guesture of his long old friend, hands him the lighter.
"She will surely find someone, and also make a new friend...might as well get obsessed with that person" says bard as he smokes regardless of having a teenager around in the place. "Well well the predictions been made" says darwin as he raises his beer. "I am betting on bard being right about this" Stevan chimes in.
"You guys can be insufferable at times like this, i am not looking to get obsessed with anything or any person I am just watching the days pass by uncaringly" says delencia as she finally finishes her glass of alcohol.
"You look pretty energetic to me though, otherwise why would you take part in throwing in a self written drama play at your own school?" Says darwin questioning Delencia's thought process.
"You need to know I have not attended my school in years and always sent a body double all the darn time like I never cared enough about it. But deep down, i truly never had any care for it. Since my body double has always kept a low profile in school never going out to do something unusual, I think that if I do something now, just when the school is about to be over. It will be the best experience to leave on people. Not like I care, but I just want to do something interesting you know...? My tutors not so good everything's getting boring with him now so I need to do something new and focus on something new to pass the time."
Delencia after saying that looks at her group of friends, they had all rested their head on the table infront of them, sleeping soundlessly.
Delencia being mad about this, she kicks stevan's leg waking him up. While Stevan unconsciously hits his hand on the sleeping darwin next to him, making darwin fall over bard. They both fell off of their seats and onto the ground. They didn't wake up at all they were fast asleep.
"Argh what was that for? Sorry I fell asleep during your small speech but I heard almost all of it" said Stevan as he rubbed his eyes and fixed his hairs later looking delencia who glared at him.
"I am sorry but even after waking up from that little nap... you look like a disfigured platypus" says Stevan rubbing his eyes once again. Delencia then tried to pick up the glass empty alcohol bottle next to her in plans of wanting to smash it through the guy's head.
Stevan easily dodges the bottle by moving his head to the side but then delencia swings back the bottle on his head from the other side and comically, Stevan dodges it while laughing like a hyena. Delencia just gives up at this point as she removes her hair wig and the hair mask, letting her real long hairs fall down her spine, delencia gracefully removes the brown eye contact from her eye and looks at Stevan. A defeated look on her face.
"It will be fine. You will surely find someone suitable of that role, don't overthink or stress yourself" said Stevan trying to reassure delencia. As delencia then gets up from her seat and starts walking out of the bar, before leaving she looks back one time towards the three drunk men and then sighs. "Whatever, I'll be here again tomorrow to make sure I get to smash a bottle on you Stevan"
"Challenge accepted."
After walking all the way home, delencia goes back to her room while making sure her steps are light as feathers to not awaken the people of the mansion. The girl lays restlessly on her bed and tries to go back to sleep. The curtains are slightly parted letting in the moonlight fall on the Delencia's long shining blue and red hairs. Her room door slightly opens without making a sound, and a boy with messy dark brown hairs can be seen peaking into the teenager's room.
The boy had a similar set of heterochromic eyes like delencia, he looks at her with his lightly exhausted eyes and then leaves the room while making a click sound of the door nob alerting delencia. The girl smiled with her closed eyes and carelessly mumbles "a goodnight wouldn't hurt, brother."
The next day delencia has already managed to make breakfast for herself and then left the kitchen, but she was stopped by her cousin brother who was shocked to see her there and had been staring for a whole five minutes without alerting delencia.
"Do you want me to cook for you too...?" Delencia speaks up after seeing him looking at her with his brown messy hairs falling on his eyes. "I do trust you, however...your cooking is a different subject" says her brother as he gets near the fridge and pulls out a milk carton from the lower compartment of the fridge.
Wide heterochromic eyes glare at her brother who was drinking the milk straight from the carton.
After the brunette finishes the milk completely from the carton, he stares back at his cousin and starts to speak "so you're joining me in school today? Is your body double finally sick?"
"She's completely fine. Incase you forgot, I am incharge of entertaining the public with the play I have wrote for the farewell's day." Delencia says as she starts to walk up to her closet to change clothes. Her cousin watches over his sister's moves and starts walking in the same direction.
"You? Writing a play? What even is it about?-"
"Pandemonium"
"That barely makes any sense"
"I have written it in the most simplest way, they will understand it. Regardless if it doesn't works, the comedy will save the day"
"I still don't get it, but good luck"
"Thank you for understanding"
After a good exchange of words, they go back to their work. Delencia had finished wearing her school uniform and putting her hairs in two separate braids side by side, showing their variation in colour, as half of her hairs were lightly red coloured and the other lightly blue but the roots of her hair were black, her eyes being heterochromic giving her a look like that of a clown.
Her uniform consisted of a white plain shirt with a waist coat over it. And a short skirt that had stripes pattern on. To elivate her uniform, Delencia's used a corset and made sure it was not too tight or too lose and just perfect fit for her curves. As she had also put on some designer black stockings, and wore her black high heel boots.
After doing some light make up, delencia picked up a handkerchief and also her backpack she hadn't touched in ages, the weight of the bag was not too much as before anymore. But she managed to take it with her and as she left her closet she was met by her father who was just walking up the stairs on the long hallway, his half tired eyes stared at her and widened after looking at the backpack in delencia's hand.
"Ah father, let my body double know she will not need to attend school today, i will go-" before delencia could finish, her father had come up and rested his hands on his daughter's shoulders. "My dear you have a week of holiday because your class and a few other chosen classes have holidays as they are incharge of taking care of the farewell party and managing it"
Delencia feels zoned out as she awkwardly smiles and realises why she didn't see her body double in the morning in her closet. "Ah... well am I the director of a play I have written that I will be showing in the farewell party" she says looking away from her father.
"Have you finished all the preparations?"
After hearing that question delencia just looks down at her boots a bit defeated to reply back. " the costumes are ready, side characters are chosen... however, the main lead, is yet to be chosen" says delencia.
"Understandable, i wish you goodluck in finding someone for it today" said her father as he then left her in the hallway just to go to his own room.
The teenager walks out the mansion and meets her personal cab driver and tells him to take her to her school.
Delencia finally reaches her school grounds and starts walking towards her class, even after never being there. She had managed to find her class by looking at each floor's class nameplates.
Delencia sits on the last seat of the class and notices the person next to Her. She gets really suspicious of the person sitting next to her, believing she has never seen her there. It was another thing delencia rarely sent to her own school.
The teen next to Delencia notices the stares and waves at the person looking quizically at her. "My name is Belle and I am new to this school. Nice to meet you"
Delencia smiles warmly, "despite i am the least active or social person of this class, i think I can try being friends with someone for the first time in here."
The seemingly short dark haired girl smiles at delencia and they smile at each other before exchanging more of their information with each other. "Hey so, you're a new student... would you like to take part in a play I am writing?" It came out of Delencia's mouth without any logical reasoning or thinking, she just asked her to play that role as if she was asking her to have lunch with her. "I'd like to try, even though I have never officially worked in a drama or play-"
"Perfect."
They both held hands, and belle found herself being chilled by the coldness of Delencia's hands but she simply blushes and let's it pass by.
"Alright class it's time for attendance" snaps their teacher who had entered the class without making a sound like a smooth criminal. "New student, please introduce yourself" said the teacher without looking up from her table.
Belle leaves the hands of Delencia's after staring one time in her eyes and goes up to introduce herself while standing near the teacher, and facing the class.
"Hello, My name is Belle Willowers. I just transferred to this school this year, as I live closeby to it. I like calm music and stewed tofu. It is nice to meet you all, I hope we can all be good to each other. And I hope you will help me learn better about this school. Thank you very much" belle after her speech lowers her head to the crowd of students gawking at her beautiful black hairs. And green eyes. Her beautiful features mesmerising everyone.
"Thank you for your introduction Mrs. Belle. You can get back to your seat now." Said the teacher as she fixed some of her documents on the table, the poor overworking lady had not once left her eyes from her table because she was too focused on her documents and work laying on it.
"That was a decent speech" said delencia as she looked at belle who walked over to her seat and sat. "Well I tried, i also wanted to mention I like quiet places as well but then I choose to be a bit more childish, chosing a food dish over a preferable place to be at."
"Well you wouldn't want the teacher questioning you for mentioning certain of your likes anyways, so it's good to keep it short and precise, something people can understand or maybe relate to. Or nonetheless at least be able to comprehend" delencia bites her thumb as she says this, and then pauses noticing Belle's confused look at her.
'why are you over analysizing something I didn't even think too deep about' said Belle's expression. However it just made Delencia grin more. "Welcome to the class partner" said Delencia.
Belle laughed and closed her eyes as she nodded her head agreeing to Delencia.
Soon arrives the lunch break and Delencia takes Belle to the cafeteria and then shows her about how inovated the cafeteria is, as it has a wide menu and certain foods are free for the hostel kids and also the ones who forget their lunch or don't have money to buy any.
Belle is flabbergasted by this news and gets some free food while Delencia chooses to buy some extra food for Belle out of geniune likeness.
Belle thanks Delencia for the extra food and eats it happily. Delencia watches and observes Belle and makes good friends with the new girl as the new girl also finds Delencia of her interest. "Would you like to come to my place today so we can get your measurements for your costume...?" Asks Delencia to Bella.
Belle pauses for a moment and looks at Delencia and nods her head, "Alright."
"Perfect."
Delencia turns around to find her cousin brother grinning at her. She didn't notice his presence until he spoke up.
Belle looks up at the guy next to Delencia, who she seemed to have recognised as Delencia's brother because they have similar heterochromic eyes.
"What are you doing here Damian" says Delencia and then turns away from him folding her hands on her chest annoyed. "I thought you had better things to care of today" Damian just laughs at Delencia's taunts and then looks at Belle, who was looking back at him. Delencia realised this and stood between the two and then sighed.
"Look, Belle this is my cousin brother called, Damian Kramozovsky" says Delencia as she moves to the side to face Belle. "Nice to meet you belle, i hope we can be good friends" says Damian, completely ignoring the blank faced Delencia. "It's nice to meet you too, i am new to this school." Said belle trying to be nice and make friends with Damian.