I had moved to Forks a few days before when I knew EJ. I arrived late for my first lesson of the day because of the rain and so I sat in the only place available, next to him.

I had just sat down and was about to introduce myself when he turned to me end our eyes met.

There was something in that look that intrigued me, but I never imagined how much.

“Hi, I’m EJ. Are you Elis, aren’t you?” he told me. At first I was unable to speak, then finally I  answered: “oh…Hi. Yes, I am Elis. I have moved a few days ago and this is my first day in this school”.

Unfortunately our conversation ended too early due to the arrival of the professor.

We didn’t speak until the end of the hour and then he quickly greeted me and ran away.

In the days that followed he never came to school and somehow I thought it was my fault.

So, when he finally came back, I went to him and, to make him turn towards me I touched his hand.

“Waw, but you are frozen. Are you ok?” I asked him surprise by that contact.

“Yes, it’s just the cold. What’s up?”

“oh, okay. I will like talk to you in private, can we go to a quieter place?”

“mmh… okay” he said.

We went to an empty classroom and finally we could talk in peace.

“You have disappeared in these weeks and it seemed to me it was for something I said or did…” I stated quickly.

“No, it isn’t your fault. I have been out with my family.”

I didn’t have time to reply that Ellen, EJ’s sister, arrived and interrupted our conversation.

“EJ, can you come with me? I have a problem” she asked.

“Oh, yes. Here we go.”

Then he turned to me and greeted me, after which he left.

Ellen followed him, but before leaving the classroom she said:”Leave EJ alone, it isn’t suitable for you, you belong to different eras”.

With that statement she greeted me and I was immersed in my thoughts all day.

I was going into the parking lot towards my car, when I heard the wheels of a car screech.

I didn’t have time to understand what was going on.

In a instnt I saw EJ beside me who, with one hand, made sure the car didn’t hit me.

Later he ran away, without even giving me time to thank him.

It was eleven o’clock and I was still trying to understand how this was possible and in particoular how EJ had done what he had done.

I remembered seeing him away from me before the car came…but above all, how did he stop it?

I started writing down all the clues I had on a notebook:

-cold skin

-speed

-strenght

I did some research and everything was clearer.

The next day I went to him and took him to the forest near school to speak without being under prying eyes.

“What’s up” asked him.

“You have skin as cold as ice, you have an indescibable strenght and superhuman speed…

I Know what you are!”

“Oh, yes? And what am I, Elis? Say that!”

“You are a vampire…” I said with a bang of courage.

So he asked me: “And do you know what vampires eat? Aren’t you afraid of me?”

“No, I know you would never hurt me” I said.

After a few moment of silence he said: “Oh Elis, you don’t know how much I wish you were right…”.

He saw me in the eyes and continued: “I don’t understand how, but from the first moment I saw you I understood that there was a special bond between us. It may sound silly, but with one glace I fell in love with you...”

By hearing those words I was surprised, I too had felt all those emptions, but I didn’t have time to tell him this that he continued: “…but just because I love you, I know I can’t be near you. If I hurt you I would never forgive myself. I will always be near you even if you don’t notice it. I’m sorry but now I have to go. It was nice to meet you. You know that I do it for your sake.

Goodbye, my impossible love”

Those were the last words I heard him say, then I never saw him again.

Silvia Pauroso, 3D