Authors Note: I put this here in the interracial section and not the non human section because the two main characters in this chapter are a black woman, and Japanese man or demon making out. And also I was having a hard time writing this chapter out, so therefore this chapter is not my favorite, but hopefully there's someone out there that like's it.
Today was going to be a long day. Actually, every day is a long day when you are constantly looking over your shoulder for a possible threat of being killed. Ever since the day she drove a sword through the heart of an evil demon lord, she has never gotten a break.
She made her way to the bathroom, thinking of how she can avoid his vengeful minions today. She hopped into the shower, letting hot water cascade down her body. The water smooths her tension from what she had just endured. Although it was eighty years ago, reliving the past on the birthday of her parents felt like it happened yesterday.
She goes through this every year. From the time she woke up that morning, she remembers almost being raped by Jackson and getting fired for it and having her parents killed by the very same man who sexually harassed her twice. If it wasn't for Josephina that night she would have been hung up in a tree just like her parents. But thankfully that didn't happen.
At first, she hated that night that she got turned. She hated the fact that she would no longer be with her family, and that she would be all alone in this god awful world. Most of all, she really despised the fact that she will never get to see her younger brothers again.
They either died in some passing war, or they just got old and died from the natural causes that old humans die from. Once she got turned, she had no way of getting in touch with them and Josephina had told her she shouldn't risk the chance. She told her that she needed to stay hidden from the hunters and the Klan, but especially the hunters. Being a baby vampire, she was an easy target for them to kill her.
The Babies, as the vampire community call them, had to stay hidden and keep close with their sire until they grab hold of their blood lust; it depends on the vampire to know just how long that will be.
She stepped out of the shower with fog lingering behind her as she approached the mirror. She stared at herself as drops of water trickled down her smooth, caramel honey skin. She would let her body air dry itself as she grabbed the blow dryer to dry her hair.
She had an hour left to get ready for work and her hair was a hot mess. She didn't know what to do with the red bushy mess and she had so little time. She would have flat ironed it but that would take up too much time, so she just decided to put it into two French braids.
With her vampire speed she was able to dry and dress herself in less than two minutes. Soon, she was off to start the day.
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"Hey there you sexy thing you, do you mind if I get to know you better honey?"
Eliza looked to her left to some young thug looking boy hanging out the window of a huge red Hummer sitting on top of even bigger shining rims. Just by looking of the car she wanted to vomit.
She looked back at the young man trying to get her attention. He had gold teeth, extremely bad breath, and extremely bad body odor. She didn't have to read his mind to tell that his attitude was awful and that he was an arrogant asshole. Just because he was driving around in the passenger side of a Hummer gave him the right to be a cocky asshole. His cockiness oozed out of him.
"Sorry sweetness you are not my type, you are too young and stupid for me."
"You—"
Before the young man could say anything else, the light turned green and she was off. She looked in her side view to mirror to see a dumbfounded expression on the man's face and she couldn't help but laugh.
Despite this day being the anniversary of her parent's death, she hoped she could find a little happiness today to ease the pain.
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She pulls into the parking lot of the magic coffee shop ten minutes later.
"Wow, ten minutes late Eliza, you are early today, is something special going on in your life that I don't know about?" she heard her boss say.
She looked up to see her boss at the front counter either making a potion or making
"I know Bella, but since you are a wonderful boss I am pretty sure the penalties won't be too steep. Wink wink."
"Oh don't try to butter me up vampire, get your ass back there and start making those muffins and cupcakes; an elementary school is coming by for their field trip. Yuck kids."
"Oh Bella, you are the only witch I know that hates kids, but yet you invited them over," Eliza said grabbing the nearest apron.
"Yeah I know that's why I charge twenty bucks per kid, so I won't have them for that long."
"Damn, Bell, that's pretty harsh, don't you think? You could have gone a little easy on them, don't you think?"
"Nope. Children like to mess with things that don't belong to them, and they are definitely fond of breaking things that are very expensive. Hey, did you get a hold of that new girl? I really think—"
Bella let her sentence die down when she realized that nobody was standing there listening to her. She looked up to see the swinging doors to the kitchen going back and forth. She gave a 'hmph' and went back to stirring the potion that she had in front of her. There were a few things Bella disliked strongly: kids were one and yelling was another so she refused to talk to Eliza until she came back out.
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"Woooow that's awesome," the children said with cheerfulness in their voices.
Despite Bella not liking children, she hated being broke even more. She did all the little magical tricks she had up her sleeve to impress the children.
Eliza stood in the background as Bella did all of her tricks with such ease. She had always wondered what would it be like to be a witch, to have all these powers, have the ability to do all sorts of tricks, and maybe if it was possible she would bring her family back to life. But she heard those types of things don't go well.
"It really doesn't, you know," a smooth, familiar voice whispered in her ear.
"Hello, Sage. How many times have I told you not to sneak up on me like that? Ahhhhh." Eliza let out a moan when Sage gently caressed her stomach.
"But it's so much fun when you don't except me to show up. You are so fun when you are surprised." Sage lowered his head down to nuzzle her neck. She gave a little yelp when he slightly bit down.
