NIKLAS It was two minutes past noon and I was coming back from a class, feeling a little comfortable. It was the sun. Yeah, I guessed that was one of the things humans got right about vampires; we didn't like sunlight. No, it couldn't kill us but it was quite uncomfortable. Especially when it was as fierce as it was today. While I was in class, I felt very proud of myself. Truth be told, I have felt this way for the past few years. I commended myself for how much I had pushed to be where I was at the moment. It was something worth bragging of. As a vampire, I could hear the heartbeat of every person in the class— and beyond, if I wanted to. Do you know how hard that was? Do you know how disoriented it can make one feel? To make it all worse, there was a never-ending craving for human b

