Vampire's JournalUpdated at May 19, 2024, 08:32
Trisha starts her senior year of school in the town of wood's Church with her friends Hope Fernandez , Alina Anderson, and Daniel barnes. Alina promptly becomes competition with Trisha for the position of most popular girl. A mysterious, handsome foreign boy named Caden Scott, also enrolls. As Caden goes to the office, Trisha watches him talk to the admissions secretary, Mrs. Clarke, who looks at a list until he starts looking at the secretary. Trisha notices that Mrs. Clarke looks somewhat dazed and pulls a form out for him to sign, then handing him a schedule for his classes. All of the girls within the entire school want his attention, but Caden just brushes them off. This deeply shocks Trisha, who has never been brushed off by a boy before. As Trisha sits in Ms. Halpern's trigonometry class, she thinks of a way to break the bad news to Daniel that she's breaking up with him. After her class, she asks another student, Frances Decatur, to get Caden's schedule and give it to her at lunch. At lunch, she greets Alina, but is taken aback by the bitterness and hostility that the girl gives her. She joins Hope and Frances at the lunch table, being told Caden's name and given his schedule. Hope reveals to her that the biology teacher, Mrs. Endicott, tried to get Stefan to take off his glasses, but he stated that he had a medical condition. Trisha sees that she has seventh period, History of Europe, with him and Mr. Shelby as their teacher. Trisha decides as a member of the Student Council to show Caden around, but he treats her coldly, which hurts her.Caden joins the high school football team with Daniel and plays the position of wide receiver. Through flashbacks, we learn that Caden is a vampire who was born in Renaissance Florence as the second son of Giuseppe di Scott. There he fell in love with a German girl, Olivia Swartzschild, who had brought to Florence by her father, Baron Swartzschild, and had been changed into a vampire by Nick, who had been brought to Olivia by her maid, Gudren, when she was ill and dying. Although Caden hoped to marry Olivia, their romance became complicated when Caden's seductive older brother, David Scott, appeared. Although Olivia told Caden that she loved him, she also seemed romantically interested in David. Olivia was almost an exact double of Trisha. Vampires survive in sunlight when they wear lapis lazuli. Olivia has a ring of lapis lazuli and gold. Meanwhile, a number of mysterious and frightening events occur in Wood's Church. A large crow exhibits un-birdlike behavior. Trisha and her friends make a blood oath to keep a secret and do whatever Trisha asks in relation to Caden, even giving him the cold shoulder. While at first Hope protests since swearing with blood is dangerous, Mitchell remarks she knows considering years ago Hope had went out with Michael Martin. As it becomes darker, the three girls feel a threatening force that causes them to flee from the town's old cemetery, and Trisha loses her hair ribbon in the flight. When Trisha goes to Bonnie's house, she is greeted by the pet Pekingese Yangtze and Hope's older sister, Mary. Mary asks them where they had been running from last night, and Hope mentions the Fallen Bridge. She tells her not to go out there again, especially alone and at a night as a homeless man had been attacked and partially drained of blood. At first, they thought it might've been an animal, but Dr. Lowen says it's a person, which scares the three girls as they could've been attacked instead.Caden experiences fugue states and fears that he has been attacking people during them, even though he has no memory of doing so when he awakes. He remembers that he saw Trisha,and Bonnie at the cemetery until a strong surge of power came through, leaving them to run quickly. As he joins the football team and desires for Trisha, he goes up the stairs of Mrs. Flowers' boardinghouse and heads to his room. He begins having more thoughts of Olivia as he lays there, remembering what she had told him about she can only go out in sunlight as long as she wears her lapis lazuli ring. While at school, Trishand Hope pretend to not be interested about Caden as Frances comes up to them to tell them a rumor going around. Trisha mentions she wants to be loyal to Josh-Claude, who in actuality was a gardener. Trisha devises various schemes to pursue Caden, but Caden continues to repeatedly avoid her. Caden is magnetically and strongly drawn to Trisha, she reminds him of his past and first love Olivia, and because of this, he is strongly tempted to drink her blood. After Trisha and Hope finish getting ready for Homecoming, her soon to be uncle, Jayden Maxwell, mentions he just realized Trisha's name is a form of Trish . The girls are escorted by Daniel, Raymond Hernandez and Ed Goff to the Dance and Trisha begins searching for Caden.