New girl

[ryleeann]

With a smile Rylee started to sketch Alucard. She did watch a little of what he was doing, but she was mainly focusing on his head outline. She wanted to get it pretty good. She got a very rough sketch done by the time he was finished and handing her the food. She looked down at it, it looked fantastic. "I'm excited to try it." Using the fork and knife she dug into the food, It was delicious.

After eating a little bit of the food she put down the fork and picked up her pencil. Turning to face Alucard she started to sketch him better. If he ever looked at her she would only tell him to stay as still as he could, but he could still eat if he wanted. With that she continued to get a better sketch, eating a little bit every once in a while. She had to keep up her end.

After sketching for a little bit she put the scketch book down, the drawing side down and finished eating. "This is really good food. It's not quite fancy restaurant but it's still good."

After she finished eating she went back to her drawing, she was every intent to make this a good one. After what was probably thrity minutes she smiled at him. "Done." Carefully ripping the paige out of the book she handed it to him. "Hope this was worth the wait, and the food."

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard just sat eating his food and glanced at her. She was drawing his head, so he figured it would be best not to move his head from the position he had it in. He had finished eating long before she had, so he just sat still to make it easier for her to draw him. She finally finished eating after awhile and handed him what she had drawn. He took it and looked at it. It was a good drawing for sure. He liked it, but it was weird looking at himself drawn. He set it down and took both of their plates and headed to go wash everything. He finished washing everything as quickly as he could and then walked back over to where they had been sitting. He looked at Rylee.

" I like this drawing very much. It is just strange to be looking at myself in a drawing." Alucard said to her in french. " You have a talent for drawing that is for sure. I would love to have you paint me something to put on my wall, but I don't know what I would want or what you would like to paint for me."

Alucard looked at the drawing and handed it back to her. He had a feeling that she wasn't done with it yet and thought she might want to finish it up.

[ryleeann]

She looked at the picture and back up at him. It was similar but not perfect. That was her goal. To be able to draw a human as close to perfection as she could get. She laughed a little when he said that it was weird. "Thank you so much." She was enjoying the compliments, he was really nice. "I would love to paint you something. You just name it and maybe help me get a canvas and I'll do my best to paint you something."

As the drawing was handed back to her she looked at it. Setting it on her now closed sketch book, for protection, and worked on finishing it. Erasing a bit here, shading a bit more there. Then once she was completely satisfied she signed it and dated it and handed it back to Alucard. "Keep it, who know's but maybe one day it may be worth something." She wasn't exactly sure what she planned to do but if she ever went into art as a career, then she planned on being famous. The whole starving artist thing just didn't appeal to her. She would draw and paint on the side of her actual job, at least that was what she had decided a little ways back.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard watched her finish up the picture and took it back when she handed it to him. He looked at it for a moment then folded it up and put it in his pocket. He wondered what they could do now, but he wasn't sure what else she liked to do other then draw. He looked at her for a moment as he thought about it. He finally sighed though since he couldn't think of anything.

" Say little dove, what is something you like to do other then drawing? I was trying to think about it, but I'm truly not sure since we just meet." Alucard asked her in french. " How about you tell me something you would like to do no matter what it is and we can go do it?"

Alucard waited for her to reply. He didn't have a clue what she might like to do, but he hoped she would tell him what she did like doing. This sounded like they were on a date or something, but that fact had escaped Alucard. He was just waiting to hear what she wanted to do so that they could go do it. He was enjoying his time with her, which was a rare occasion for him and people he just meet.

[ryleeann]

Rylee thought about his question. She knew all the cool places in France, but she only did half that stuff with her friends. Thinking about it a little more she decided to list a few things. "Well I like to cook a little, but we just ate, thanks to you. I also love to dance. And then there's always the girl things like trying on cloths, but I wont make you suffer through that."

She was a normal girl, and they might have to separate soon, she did have some unpacking that still needed to be done. But she thought she could get to know Alucard a little better, and give him a chance to get to know her. She was more than happy to have a friend here. She just hopped the knowledge of who her cousins were wouldn't scare him away. That was one main reason why she was going to keep it quiet as long as she could.

"And I know that you like to train, cook, read and defy gravity. Is there anything else that you like to do?" The way she said it might sound a little weird, but it was true. That was what she had learned.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard listened to what she had to say, and thought about what they could do once more. She mentioned clothes and dancing. He was fine with going with her shopping since they would get to talk more, but he didn't know much about dancing and had never tried before. He didn't think she would be up for leaving the mansion though after having arrived from over seas. He was still thinking it over when she asked what he liked to do. Well what she said pretty much summed up what he did normally. He looked at her as he thought it over for a moment.

" I like to trim the rose bushes and swim. I'm rather boring really." Alucard said to her in french. " I would take you into town to go shopping and maybe show you the local club, but you must be tired after your flight here from over seas. We could just go to the living room and talk some more I guess would be our only option of what else to do."

Alucard waited to hear what she wanted to do so he knew what to do next. He would love to talk with her more, but if she was tired he wasn't going to stop her from resting.

[ryleeann]

Rylee thought about the options, and really wanted to go out and see the town, but she was really tired. It was a log flight, and she wasn't up to doing that much walking. Swimming sounded fun, but she wasn't exactly sure where her swim suite was.

"Talking does seem like the best option right now, but we'll have to do those other things later." It kind of sounded like she was planning other dates, but she knew that at this moment, she wanted to just make friends. She was really glad that they had met.

With that decision Rylee stood up and waited for Alucard to be ready to go. She picked up her sketch book and pencil and was ready to head back to the room that she now knew exactly where it was. "So you trim the rose bushes? That's interesting. There is this garden close to my father's house where the lady created a rose bush maze. It's so beautiful. Me and my friends would go there all the time. In the center was a nice place to sit and some food, if you could find it." Rylee seemed to light up when she spoke of something so familiar to her.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard got up and went with her to the living room as she talked about the rose maze back at her home in France. He kind of wanted to see it himself. but he also loved roses. That did remind him of something though that she might like. They had gotten to the living room by this time, but it wouldn't take him much time to get to there and back if he actually wanted to. He turned to her and looked her in the face.

" Little Dove, if you don't mind giving me a moment I'd like to show you something interesting, but I need to go to my room to get it. I'll be right back if you will wait for me here." Alucard said to her in french.

Alucard waited for a reply and then just nodded as he wrapped some of his blood from the cuts on his legs around his leg and jumped up onto the ceiling and started to move more quickly then you would think he should back to his room. He had done this to avoid the people who always seemed to be in the hallways at the worst possible moments. He made to his room fairly quickly and went inside and to the window at the back of it. There was a large pot with a rose vine climbing up a grated wood frame. He touched his leg with his right hand and put some blood around his fore and middle finger and turned them into a pair of sheers. He cut off one of the roses and quickly went back to the living room the way he came. He found her waiting for him and walked up to her on the floor.

" Here you go Little Dove, what to you think?" Alucard asked her in french. " It is a rose I created with some help from a botanist. I call it a Blood Rose."

Alucard handed her the rose that he had with him. The rose was blood red on the outside and it shifted from the red to different shades of purple and finally a blue in the very center of the rose.

[ryleeann]

“Sure, I’ll just wait here.” As he ran off Rylee went and sat down on the love seat again and started to doodle on the sketchbook cover while she waited. She lightly drew this peacock phoenix looking bird in a very cartoon looking style. It wasn’t her best drawing but it was just a doodle, an idea for maybe later. All the time she wondered why he insisted on calling her ‘little dove.’ It was a little annoying but she didn’t want to ruin her first friendship here at a new school.

After a little bit she heard some one approaching she looked at it, amazed. “It’s so beautiful; I’ve never seen anything like it.” She accepted the rose as he handed it to her as she gazed at it.

Looking up at him she smiled. “So you garden, work out, swim, and read. You seem pretty well balanced. For a random question what can’t you do, or what are you afraid of?” it was a fairly personal question, but if they were going to get to know each other she might as well be a little more bold. She knew what she would say, but she waited to see his response.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard sat down on the love seat with her as she looked at the rose. She seemed to really like it and said she hadn't seen anything like it. He enjoyed hearing that very much. When she asked what he couldn't do and what he was scared of he got kind of silent. He knew both of the questions answers, but how was he going to give her a reply that would be fine without having to go into detail? He thought on it for a moment.

" There is plenty I can't do. I can't draw, paint, I'm not a scientist, I'm not a musician, I'm not many things." Alucard said to her in reply in french. " What am I scared of? Well there is something I'm scared of, but it isn't something that is easy for someone outside my family to understand. I guess you could call it being afraid of myself."

Alucard had started thinking about it some, the madness of his family. He had felt it and could feel it laying in wait at the edge of his mind just waiting for a chance to break free and do as it pleased. He didn't want to lose control of it, ever.

[ryleeann]

Rylee smiled at Alucard. It was sweet that Alucard gave her a rose. “I understand, well… I’m sorry, it wasn’t right for me to ask that. It was a little unfair.” Now she was running out of things to say. But it was getting a little late and she did feel bad about asking that question. It was an odd thing, and she didn’t even know exactly why she asked it.

Rylee grew very quiet, looking down at her little drawing that she had been working on before. She started to make the lines a little darker, and more visible. She could tell t hat he was thinking about someone, or something else. She didn’t want to disturb him, partially because he never disturbed her when she thought about something.

This was starting to feel a little awkward. She did feel really bad, but what more could she say other than ‘sorry.’ She turned the sketch book around and started to doodle other little cartoon style animals on the back. One was a tiger wolf, another was a parrot rat. All of them mixes of random animals. Most of them looked like odd little creatures, while others actually looked pretty cute.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard wasn't sure how long he had been thinking on the madness of his family, but he finally came back to what was going on and noticed Rylee had started drawing again. He felt bad about what had just happened since he had most likely been lost in thought for a time. He looked at her for a moment.

" I am sorry about that. I got lost in thought there. It was very rude of me to do, so I do hope you will forgive me." Alucard said to her with a slight frown on his face. " What might you want to talk about now? I'll talk about anything you want to talk about."

Alucard waited for her reply and didn't think about his family madness again. He just listened to what she had to say to him. He wasn't sure what all she would ask of him or want to talk about, but he was willing to talk with her about anything she wanted him to. He was having a very enjoyable evening and was glad he had gotten to meet her. He hoped that they would get to meet again and get to spend more time like this together.

[ryleeann]

Rylee didn’t pay close attention to how long the silence lasted. Not really looking up to see when he would come out of his trance. But she jumped slightly when the silence was broken. Looking up to Alucard she smiled. “It’s fine, it’s actually my fault.”

Thinking of what they could talk about Rylee’s eyes wondered to the clock in the room. Some time had passed and it was getting closer to curfew. She didn’t want to admit it but Rylee would probably take a little bit of time to find her room again, and she didn’t want to get in trouble on her first day back. “Honestly, I’m at a little loss of questions. Plus it is getting a little late; I should get back to my room and meet my roommate.” Thinking for a little bit she smiled. “Why don’t you give me your number and I’ll give you mine, then we’ll be able to catch up some other time.” That was a plan. “And maybe you and I could go swimming, or you could show me the rose garden. She was also feeling a bit tired, but the last thing she wanted was to sound rude. She really was glad that Alucard and she had met.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard waited for Rylee to respond and agreed with her when she had. It had gotten late and she was probably very tired. He didn't think she would ask for his number though, which kind of surprised him. He pulled his phone out though and handed it to her.

" Just put your number and name and then just press the save button on my phone. If you want, I can do the same for your phone." Alucard said to her in reply.

Rylee handed him her phone as well and he put his information in as she did the same with his phone. They traded the phones back to each other when they had finished and he put his away. He stood up and stretched some. He looked at her after he had.

" It was a true pleasure to have meant you Rylee, and I hope we can do this again some time." Alucard said to her with a slight smile. " You look like your tired and I'm sure you need to finish unpacking so as you had said, lets just part ways here. I hope to see you around again some time."

Alucard waved goodbye to her and left back to his room.

[ryleeann]

“You do the same with mine.” Rylee smiled taking his phone and giving her phone to him. She typed in her number, then her name, putting a little smiley face next to it. She wouldn’t mind if it was changed, but she thought it was funny. Then she saved it to his phone and waited for him to finish as well.

After receiving her phone back Rylee double checked the number that Alucard had typed down then stood up herself, leaving her sketch book on the love seat. Placing her phone into her pocket and looked at Alucard. “Like wise, it was fun.” Smiling back to Alucard she thought back on the day. “Text me any time Alucard.”

Rylee watched as Alucard left the room, a little sad that they had to part, but it was for the best. Plus curfew was getting close as well. She grabbed her things from the couch and then headed, herself, to her room, hoping that her roommate was there so they could get to know her.

Leaving the room herself Rylee found her self heading towards the girl’s dormitories. Finally reaching the room that she had preiviously dropped her stuff into, and somewhat unpacked she took a deep breath, before entering the room.