With only a couple people truly knowing Victoria’s darkest secret of requiring blood to live the girl had to maintain a façade of normalcy for everyone else. This meant that every so often she would make her way to the kitchen and find some regular food stuffs to eat. A bowl of cereal, a sandwich or even a microwave meal here and there. She could taste everything like most others would, but even if she was truly hungry it wouldn’t do anything to quench the thirst.

Tonight half of a fillet of salmon was selected for the false meal. She wanted to have the appearance that she at least seemed to eat healthy.

Serena yawned as she finished her cup of tea and planted the cup down, quickly grabbing a fresh teabag and dropping it into the mug, flicking the kettle on after checking it had ample water in it for another cup of tea. She splashed a little cold water on her face. It had been a while since she slept, she'd been working as an excuse to not sleep.

She swiftly made up her cup of tea, milk, sugar and hot water, not in that order. Stired it all so it was smoothe and then cleaned up the counter and strolled off with her fresh hot beverage, only to see a small figure in the dimly lit mansion halls. She squinted to see the person, turned out to be a rather familiar blonde girl.

She grinned brightly when she realised who it was and approached quietly. "Victoria!" She exclaimed, giving a small wave.

A familiar voice called out her name. She hadn’t seen or heard from Serena in a while. The taller girl didn’t seem as nervous as Victoria remembered from when Serena first arrived at the mansion. It made the little vampire smile as she thought her friend had grown to feel comfortable being here.

“Hi Serena! How are you? It’s been a while.”