It had only just turned daybreak as Ambrose wondered quietly along the side of the graveyard. His feet padded softly across the grass, his trainers getting wet dew to the wet morning due. To his chest, he held three books. One on chemistry and physics, one on the late Darwin and the other an old shabby journal he had kept for years. As he took one glance back at the derelict house he now lived in, he could just see his breath amongst the fog in front of him.

He placed his books carefully on the side of the small stone wall and climbed over, taking extra care not to make a noise. See, Ambrose was one to believe that once you died, you didn’t really just disappear. He believed you stayed on this world and walked amongst us only we couldn’t see you and you couldn’t see us, unless we chose for you too and vice versa. This is why he respected the place and kept as quiet as he could.

He actually found it peaceful to be amongst the silence of the dead, something he had given up hope of ever being a long time ago. It saddened him to think that in graveyards just like these around the world lay old friends, acquaintances and family finally at rest and that he might never get the chance to join them. He had seen people come and go, watched them grow old and sat by them on their death beds. He’d held their hand and told them that everything was Ok and that they weren’t really saying goodbye. They were just going a way for a little while. This is truly what he believed. Then again, he believed in a lot of things that people branded him crazy for.

He also believed that everyone was given a certain amount of time of earth, lent to their families and friends before it was time to return to their proper home again. He often wondered if this was his proper home and that’s why he hadn’t died yet. Heaven knows he had tried enough times.

Slipping silently of the wall, he picked his books back up and held them tightly against his chest. The school was on the other side of the cemetery and down the hill in the center of town and would take him half an hour to walk there. He didn’t mind though, he liked the cold air in the mornings as it helped clear his head. He let his feet kick gently at the grass as he walked and watched as the dew sprinkled off around his feet. Somewhere ahead, a bird started singing and the clock in the town centre started chiming. He could make out the sleepy town from where he was and knew that people would just be waking up in a rush to get ready and start their daily routines. He liked having the head start though. It made him feel like he was the only one in the world, if only for a little while.

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Having much free time on their hands, Sydney had been doing a lot of staying their dorm room since their mother had dropped them off. Without knowing much about the town, Sydney decided to go wandering and see if they could make any sense of this weird little town. They knew it would be too early for any normal person to be around seeing as it was just before dawn. The one trouble that they might have had would be being out this close to the sunrise. Scouting around their room, Sydney found their daylight bracelet fast and put it on. Throwing on some random clothes from the wardrobe in the room, Sydney was almost ready to go out.

After passing through the common room which joined the boys and the girls of the dorms rooms together, Sydney moved their sunglasses from their pocket to hanging off the neck of their t-shirt. Whenever it would get a bit too bright for them, they would put them on. It wouldn’t be good for them to get a headache and then act like a complete ass for the rest of their first day at Somber Falls High. Sighing as they walked around the streets for a bit, Sydney looked in a few windows of shops that weren’t open just yet. They let out a light noise of unhappiness to the fact that they mightn’t be able to get sweets or some form of sugar before school began a bit later.

Walking on a bit, Sydney stopped for a second before having a slight vision. He was looking down at the grave of Taylin and it didn’t look all that familiar to him. Once it had finished playing, he sighed and set his nose to find the smell of rotting bodies, somehow knowing that it would be possible that she was buried in Somber Falls. It didn’t take along for the tall vampire to find the direction of the cemetery. Smiling lightly, Sydney speed along, following the pavement until there wasn’t any anymore. They stopped as they spotted a few grave stones. All that was left to do would be to find the grave and pay their respects to it. After a few minutes of looking they had found it. Sitting down at the end of the grave, they just stared for a bit. Watching the head stone for a while, Sydney was thinking of the things that they would say to her if she was there and not dead. It was really was all his fault, wasn’t it?

After feeling the sun start to rise against their back, Sydney pulled on his sunglasses, still watching the grave. It was a few moments later that they felt another person in the cemetery. Sydney wasn’t sure what it was, but they could hear a heartbeat and breathing, and the sound of pages being turned in a book. A bit weird to be reading in a cemetery but to each their own, they thought, taking a glance around them, they spied the boy over by the wall of the cemetery. Sydney would take this opportunity to find out where the high school was after realising that the boy was probably around their age. Gliding their way over to the other, Sydney thought about what he would say to the other.

Hello, would you be able to tell me how to get to the High School from here? Sydney asked politely, wondering as to what the other was studying.

Ambrose barely ever went anywhere without his nose stuck in one of his books and today was no different. He used the wall that divided the cemetery from the field on the other side to direct him and make sure he didn’t wonder off track. From the corner of his eyes, he could see the white/ grey stone wall and made sure he followed it and kept the same distance from it so he wouldn’t accidentally walk in to it.

His attention to Darwin’s many different theories was broken by a voice that spoke out from the graveyard somewhere in front. Of course, Ambrose jumped at the sudden break of silence and the book from his hand nearly fell to the floor. His initial thoughts were that the dead had got so utterly lost that they had actually had to ask for directions. This obviously wasn’t the case. He stumbled to catch the falling book but soon it was clung back to his chest again as he stared at the stranger.
At first, he was rather confused by the man’s looks. He had the very defined features of a man yet the long hair and feminine frame told otherwise. He blinked his eyes in confusion before he smiled warmly and nodded his head.

“Of course I can. You must be new. Most people know where the school is see. You can walk with me if you like?”

He actually would have appreciated the company. It wasn’t too often he had the chance to talk to someone, especially not someone as unique as this boy clearly was. He held the smile on his face as he gestured to the gate at the far end of the cemetery, the direction he was walking in anyway. As his feet barely made a noise across the grass, his expression changed to puzzlement yet again and his nose wrinkled up in thought.

“What brings you up anyway? It’s very rarely I see anyone here, especially not at this time in the morning.”