Eternal Love

Today is the day I turn 18. Nothing big or exciting ever happens around here in this small town. At least not to me. I don't really get out much. I don't enjoy crowds at all. I don't know why anyone would. My friend Catherine has decided that we are going to have fun and get out today. She says that if I never get out I'll never find the love of my life. Honestly? Love of my life? What a crock of s**t. There's no such thing as true love. Everyone just wants something from someone. All my life I have watched people love and end up hurt. That is why I have never wanted to date. I never have kissed anyone or obviously never had s*x. Gross. The thought of s*x is disgusting. Ring .... ring..RING... "I guess I can't avoid going out with you tonight can I Catherine?" "Nope! you need to get out. The love of your life is out there waiting for you somewhere and you're sitting at home like you're on lockdown or something. You haven't so much as held hands with a guy. Come on stop being lame!" I rolled my eyes at her. She was so ridiculous. Her and her boyfriend have been together since middle school. So they were eachothers first ... EVERYTHING. "I don't know why you think that I need or even would want to date anyone. Not everyone is like you and Stefan after all. You two are annoyingly adorable. That's not how it ends up for everyone Catherine. I am going to go so calm down." "Okay well get ready and... actually I'm coming over I have an outfit for you to wear tonight. " "I was going to wear my jeans and a t shirt and maybe my Hoodie.... I don't need to look like a w***e. " "You aren't going to look like a w***e you're going to look like a girl. You are gorgeous Allie, it's time we get you to realize it yourself. " I sighed "Fine. come over and torture me then. see you soon." She giggled and hung up. I was about 5'1 dark brown hair, green eyes and a big a** that I hated by the way. I have average size breast and I am pretty fit. You would never know any of this because I am not comfortable with my body so I cover up and wear loose fitting clothes. I don't wear much make up, my hair is constantly in a pony tail because it's so long I just get tired of it. I think I'm just an average looking person, but Catherine sees more than that. I don't know why, but she does. Apparently, Stefan had a crush on me before him and her got together. He was cute I guess but he was just so goody two shoes. I felt like he would think I was a disaster if he knew my thoughts. Since he and Catherine got together I have gotten to know him and he's a good guy. I will say that. Weird, with odd behaviors at times, but a good guy nonetheless. I decided to jump in the shower before Catherine showed up so that I could be ready for when she got here. I know her and she will go full on stylist on me so best to prepare. When I got out of the shower I just wrapped my hair in a towel and put on my bra and panties, and then threw my robe on over it. No point in even trying to get dressed. I heard a knock at my bedroom door and just before I could get to the door it flung open. "Well hello! Geeze! Glad I wasn't naked!" "Oh hush. I've seen you naked before nothing new there. " I rolled my eyes at her and she placed her gigantic bag on my bed. "Geeze are you moving in or something?!" She rolled her eyes and shook her head. she had a few hangers with some dresses on them. great a dress. " Which one do you like best? I have the plunging v neck black one that is lacey here and it will show off all your assets. Or we have this red one, it's got a lace open v back and it comes to mid thigh with the off the shoulder sleeves. this little v in the front will show off some cleavage but leave some to the imagination as well. " I sat and just looked from her to the dresses and back. I didn't want either of them. They are pretty, sure. It's just they would show off so much of my body. "I don't know Catherine. They're both really revealing. I just don't wear stuff like that..." "I know... I know. but hear me out, you have the perfect body and you're 18. Just try it out and if you hate how tonight goes then we won't ever do it again. deal?" "Ugh fine whatever... I guess the black one. It's the color of my soul after all. " "Oh geeze. okay. go put it on miss dramatic!" I rolled my eyes and giggled at her. I went to put the dress on. I stood in front of the full length body mirror and just looked at myself. This dress was absolutely gorgeous. It was short but not uncomfortably short and the lace felt good on my skin. I wasn't sure about the plunging V neck but I actually liked this. I went out to go show Catherine. " Okay so I don't completely hate it. What shoes am I wearing? " "These!" she squealed handing me a pair of heels. They weren't too high but they were really cute. "Okay I these are cute. I'm getting to be okay with this after all." I smiled. Maybe this won't be terrible after all. Catherine fixed my hair in long loose girls and did my makeup light make up, kept it pretty natural looking which I was thankful for because I didn't want to look like a clown by the end of the night. "So where are we going anyway? " I asked curiously. "That's the whole point of a surprise isn't it? If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise now would it?" she smiled. I shrugged and we headed to the car to head wherever it was she was dragging me. I didn't recognize the area. We finally parked, I looked around and saw a neon sign that read 'Club Fang' and has some ridiculous vampire fangs around it that has blood dripping off of it. "Okay so a club. Cool... but that is the most corny sign. Vampires don't exist. So is this going to be a bunch of weirdos that like vampire crap in here ?" "You are such a negative person today. Come on. It's better than it looks trust me. " I Shrugged and followed her to the ropes that had a giant man behind them. "I.Ds please." he said holding out his hands. I went to get mine out when I saw someone come up from behind the man and say something quietly to him and the man turned to us "Come on in ladies." We hesitated and the man that was absolutely gorgeous by the way nodded and smiled and then walked away into the crowd. Who was he? This was a new feeling for me. Why was I so drawn to this random gorgeous stranger. He had to have been at least 6'4" black spiked hair, broad shoulders muscular arms, and the most gorgeous jade green eyes. "Earth to Allie ! hello anyone in there ?" "huh? oh uh yeah sorry." "Come on before he changes his mind. " she said gesturing to the man behind the ropes, he was a security guy ans his name, according to his name tag was Maurice. I quickly walked past Maurice and looked around inside. I wasnt going to admit it but I hoped I would see that sexy stranger again. "What are you thinking about? " Catherine asked me. "Oh..um nothing. it's nothing. " She looked at me and c****d her head "Oh I see, you got a glimpse of that dreamy guy at the front of the club that basically had the security guy let us in with no ID check, didn't you ?" she smiled. I could feel my cheeks turning red and I definitely couldnt hide that she was right so I sighed and nodded. "who is he? do you know him?" "Do I know him? I mean I know of him. All the girls always try to go after him but he's just... I don't know different. " she shrugged her shoulders. "Oh okay well, I am going to just have fun and hey if it's meant to be then fate will bring us together... or something extra corny like that. Right ?" I said and laughed a little too hard. "My gosh Allie you are just an a** sometimes" she rolled her eyes but I saw a smile. "So we aren't of age to drink... what are we going to do?" just as I finished my question someone gently tapped my shoulder. I turned around and the person before me made my insides stir with butterflies fluttering in my stomach like crazy. A feeling I had never felt before. "uh.... I.... we... ummm" Oh my God I was speechless how embarrassing. I could feel my cheeks turning red as a tomato. "Hi, I saw you at the front, Allie right ? " I decided to just use gestures instead of trying to form actual words. I nodded in response. "I heard today is your birthday, I am Damon Saltzman. I am the owner of the club. I always like to make everyone's birthdays special, so if you would like a drink, just let me know and I will make sure you get whatever you want. You and your friend here. Hi Catherine. " he said and smiled. I turned to look at her and kicked her gently and without saying it let her know we would be discussing this later. I turned back to Damon "Thank you. that is very sweet of you. " "You bet. if you need anything I'll be upstairs in VIP. Don't worry about being denied access up there, I will make sure that they allow you two in. Have fun ladies." and with a blink of an eye, he was gone. I turned and scowled at Catherine. "Well well well, he knew who you were. And he knew my name and that it was my birthday.... what is going on here ?" "Fine... Stefan is really close the the Saltzmans. Apparently both families have been around a while and they kind of grew up together. So I asked a favor and Stefan made it happen. Okay? you caught me. Sheesh. now let's go dance. I'm no wall flower." She pulled me on the dance floor I felt so awkward and out of place though. I needed liquid courage. "Hey, I am going to go get a drink. Do you want anything?" "Of course I do! A margarita on the rocks extra salt please ! I will meet you at the bar after this song!" "Okay sounds good. " I walked over to the bar and I felt like someone was watching me, I turned around but didn't see anyone. I was obviously being paranoid. I shrugged it off. I placed our orders for a regular margarita on the rocks extra salt and then a strawberry one with extra sugar on the rim. The bar tender looked at me for a moment and then smiled and went to make the drinks. weird but okay. I sat down on the barstool and waited for Catherine to join me. The song was almost over so I knew it wouldn't be long. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It sent a shiver down my spine- not in a good way. My whole body tensed. I turned to see who it was and it was a very intoxicated man and I had no idea who he was. "Can I help you ?" I asked. "Yeah I think you can." he said and smiled. Next thing I knew his mouth was on my neck and he bit down fairly hard. I was about to scream in pain but he put his hand on my thigh and whispered "if you scream, nobody will hear you and you won't make it through the night, birthday girl. " I could feel my eyes filling with tears. What did he mean nobody would hear me ? Was it because it was loud in here ? This man was sucking on my neck and it hurt but I found myself not able to move or even speak. Nobody was reacting to this. I don't understand what's happening. All of a sudden I got light headed and fell from the stool, hit my head and everything went black.