Silver’s pov

I was fast asleep in my warm and cosy bed. I was having a really nice dream about all the happy mates I put together last night. It’s my job to decide who is paired together as mates. Sometimes there are problems and people come to me for help.

My job is quite easy. When someone needs a mate, a black envelope containing profiles of different people appears out of nowhere. All I have to do is decide who will be good together then join their names together. When I’m done and have sealed the envelope with it’s contents, it disappears to somewhere unknown.

I don’t get to give myself a mate, I’m not sure who will give me a mate or if I’ll ever have one but I would like one. I want to be loved by someone and in return I want to to love them. There is no age in particular to find a mate but most Vampires find their mate between the age of 16 and 25. However, there are some much older cases.

Suddenly, I was woken up with my Mum’s screaming.

“Silver get your butt out of bed now, I’ve been calling you for the last 10 minutes,”

I groaned but stayed in bed ignoring my Mum, I’m not getting out of bed for anyone.

“Silver don’t you dare ignore me, you have to get up for school,” Mum continued but by then I was drifting off back to sleep. I heard footsteps coming up the stairs, they stopped outside my bedroom door. My door flew open, it was Mum and she didn’t look too happy. Her short blond white hair had finger marks through it as if she’d been running her fingers through many times.

Mum glared at me with her blood shot eyes, Her eyes being red means she’s thirsty for blood with being Vampire and all, no wonder she’s like this. Usually, she’s not this bad in the morning. She walked up to my bed and pulled my duvet off me.

“What the hell Mum?” I asked.

“Get up now,” Mum said loudly.

“Ok I’m getting up there’s no need to shout,” I said as I got out of bed.

“Mum?” I asked.

“What?” Mum snapped at me.

“You need blood,” I stated the obvious.

“I know which is why I want you to get up so I can drive you to school and have a drink in peace,”

“You need one now, how will you drive like this?” I asked worriedly.

“You don’t worry about my thirst but about getting ready for school. You've got 15 minutes and then we’re leaving,”

I sighed. I wish Dad and my brother were here but they can’t be. Dad was killed when I was just 3 years old and his killer took my brother Sebastian who’s 4 years older than me. If he’s still alive, he’s 21. I’m 17 now and haven’t forgotten that day.

Flashback

Me and my older brother Seb were in the back garden.

“Seb can we pwease pway hide and sweek?” I asked politely.

“We just played that Si,” my brother said in an annoyed voice.

“I want to pway again,”

“Well I don’t,”

“Pwease,” I begged.

“No,” Seb said which really upset me so I went in tears to Dad who was in the living room with Mum.

“Daddy,” I said sadly going up to my Dad. Dad picked me up into his lap.

“What’s wrong baby?” Dad asked in a concerned voice.

“Seb won’t pway hide and sweek with me,” I sniffled.

“SEB COME IN HERE NOW,” Dad shouted.

A minute later, Seb was stood in front of us.

“What dad?” Seb asked in a bored tone of voice with a yawn.

“Why won’t you play with your sister?”

“I did play with her, she wants to play hide and seek again but I don’t want to,”

“It doesn’t matter what you want, you have to. Now take your sister and play whatever she wants. I don’t want to see her crying again,”

“Yes dad,” Seb said while looking at the ground then he held his hand out to me, I took it and jumped out of dad’s lap happily before Seb took me back to the garden.

“I’m really sorry Si, it won’t happen again,” Seb apologised. “So do you want to hide or seek?

“Hide,”

“Ok go hide. I’ll count to 10 and then I’ll come find you,” Seb turned around and started counting. I ran as quickly as I could to a tree and hid behind it before hearing Seb say “10, coming ready or not,”

A second later, Seb was in front of me with a smile on his face.

“Found you,” Seb said just as we heard someone behind us. It was a man and behind him were 5 big werewolves. I screamed, Mum and Dad came running out to see what was going on with worried faces. The man leaped at Dad and they fought but then one of the wolves joined in.

“Seb take your sister inside and hide. Don’t even think about coming out until I tell you ok?” Mum said.

“Ok,” Seb said before taking my hand and we went inside the house. Seb took us into his room but then we heard loud footsteps coming upstairs towards us.

“Si get in here,” Seb said and he opened the door to his wardrobe. I got in and Seb shut it leaving me in darkness before I heard the bedroom door open.

“Let go of me,” Seb shouted and struggled as he was dragged away. I could see all this happening from the tiny hole in the wardrobe.

I was terrified to go out but I wanted to save my brother. I tried to open the wardrobe but couldn’t. It could only be opened from the outside so I was stuck in there until someone let me out.

After what seemed like hours the wardrobe door was opened by Mum by which time my facee was wet with tears.

“Where’s Daddy and Seb?” I asked Mum with teary eyes making my vision blurry and unable to see my Mum’s face was in a much worse state than mine.

“Daddy’s gone to.......... Daddy’s gone to heaven and those men took Seb but don’t worry, everything’s going to be ok. We’ll say goodbye to Daddy and we’ll find Seb,” Mum assured me with a quivering voice.

I sobbed and Mum took me in her arms and held me close.

Later that day we said goodbye to dad but we never did find Seb.