Starry Falls

Today is probably the worst day of my life. That’s saying something as a vampire who’s 164 years old. My dad is forcing us to move. After 164 years of life you’d think I was old enough to make my own decisions, but in the vampire world, we don’t mature until 180 years old. On the rare occasions that we interact with humans, I say that I am 16 because that is my equivalent in human years. Even so, I think I’m plenty mature enough to stay with my boyfriend even though my dad and step mom are moving. We were living in a vampire coven near Santa Fe, NM. However, politics within the coven have gotten very heated lately and they’re about to go to war with a clan in Phoenix, AZ. My dad said it’s not safe for us to stay anymore and there’s a new town where all supernatural beings live together peacefully. Bunch of bullshit in my opinion. That can’t last long term. There’s no way in hell that vampires, werewolves, fairies, witches, and worst of all skinwalkers will stay living in peace for long. I guess we will find out though since we are 10 minutes from the town. “Dad, why is the town so close to human towns? Won’t people notice all the supernatural beings nearby?” I ask my dad as we pass through the last human town before arrival. “The witches cast a protection around the entire town. I’m told it’s something like a dome. It repels humans from getting too close and if they did somehow push through the repulsion, there’s an illusion in place and they wouldn’t be able to see any of us or our buildings while in our area. It would look like undeveloped desert to them” dad replied “We’ll be hiding but in the open. We’ll be free but still protected. Isn’t that right, James?” My step mom Angelica interjected. My step mom and I do not get along at all. She and my dad have only been together for about 20 years. My mom died 21 years ago. When I was 143 I watched my mom die as she was found by human “hunters”. At the time we lived on our own. No coven, no group, no town. Just us in a cabin about 5 miles from the nearest town. Somehow the hunters found out about our family and they came for us. I was hiding, just as my mom had told me to when she smelled and heard them coming. I had reached out to dad through our family bond and he was on his way. They had her staked through the heart before he could get there. They started looking in hiding places and I was scared they would find me, but dad arrived just in time and killed them. Mom turned to dust before our very eyes. That’s when dad decided we would move to the coven. Dad moved on fast. He and Angelica got together within a year. She seemed nice at first but shes fake as hell. Oh, and her son, Kevin is spoiled rotten. The disparity is huge. Kevin is perfect and can do no wrong, even though it’s more like willful blindness to his wrong doings. Meanwhile she hates me for mistakes I made a decade ago even though I have tried several times to make amends. My sister, Amanda, she’s starting to see it too. I honestly don’t even know why Kevin is with us. He’s 210 years old. He should’ve moved out 30 years ago. He’s “disabled” though and milks the s**t out of it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not ignorant or hateful towards disabilities. He just has IBS though. Which I still think its crazy for a vampire to have IBS but whatever. My sister is 149 years old. Shes the baby and is definitely treated like it. I’m just the black sheep of the family. I wonder if I’ll ever escape it. We pass a sign “Welcome to Starry Falls” “We’re here everyone” Dad says I guess we’ll find out what this town is all about soon.