It was a calm and gentle night, not a cloud in sight, the moon was huge and full and the stars sparkled, twinkling merrily. Somewhere a young couple, human and vampire, were enjoying the scenery as well as each others company. If they knew what was going on they would not be so relaxed...

However they didn't know so they enjoyed relaxing against one another basking in the calming presence as they looked at different stars and told each other of their childhoods of stargazing.

In a room across town a young man was shaking in the dark. If the weather would reflect his mood it would be storming with thunder and gale force winds, it would be different but the young couple on the other side of town would enjoy the rain just as much. Not thinking of the weather, honestly having no clue as to what the weather even was, he stared at it...the one thing in this world that meant anything to him. His shrine...his shrine to her.

He was lucky to be in her classes each year, luck had nothing to do with it actually; he made sure he was in her classes. Though he could never get the courage to be a man and tell her how he felt he did make sure that he stayed in her heart, even though she hated him for what he would do and say she still thought of him and that was enough for now.

It had been easy before, she never showed any interest in anyone so he was fine. But now...now she was with him. He had seen that vile thing put his hands on his girl! She was his dammit! Not that things! He had even kissed her soft looking dark lips and held her close. How dare he? She, the dark beauty, was his and his alone!

"Soon my sweet Raven," he promised looking up at his shrine. It was impressive, though after a decade of work it should be. It was in his closet where his parents would never see it. He had each year's picture taken from the yearbook as well as odds and ends that he had taken, a pencil decorated in skulls she had accidentally left on her desk, pictures he quickly snapped of her on his phone and then printed out later, photocopies of her school work that he would take sneaking into different classrooms, anything of her he could find. He even had a black hairband that had strands of raven silk black hair, though it had lost the scent long ago as she had taken her hair out to fix it back into a ponytail and gotten detention for paying more attention to her hair; though in reality she was trying to get it out of her eyes, and left it on her desk and he had taken it while walking out of the class. That had been three years ago but he could still remember her scent; pomegranates, roses, and honey, dark, passionate, and sweet. The light was provided by black candles he always bought around Halloween, he knew she'd love it once he showed it to her, showed her his utter devotion...how much better he was that him.

"Soon I will finally confess all to you, he is in the way! That stupid Alexander..." the young man growled his eyes expressing complete hate. "I don't know what you see in him...though you are so kind...so good. That's it, isn't it? He asked you out and you didn't have the heart to tell him no? You see the good in him and give him a chance?"

The young man then chuckled, "it's okay, I forgive you. I forgive you because I love you. How can I fault you on being a sweet, good, kind person? It's one of the reasons I love you." He sighed, "I love you so much!"

Suddenly, by no determinable reason, he started crying, and not gentle tears and soft sniffles. His sobs racked his entire huge body, shaking like a leaf as he held his face in his hands sobbing uncontrollably. Luckily he didn't make that much noise, he was good at keeping silent as he cried from practice.

Finally getting control of himself a full twenty seven minutes later he wiped his eyes looking at the smiling faces of his black haired beauty sheepishly. "Sorry...it just overtakes me sometimes..." he whispered blushing. He opened his mouth to say more but then he heard someone calling for him.

"Son? Come down here please! Dinner!"

"Coming dad!" He called back before looking at the shrine, "I have to go now, I can't have my parents getting suspicious." He chuckled a bit to mask his sorrow as he didn't want to worry her, "I'll be back soon, I love you Raven." He leaned over and kissed the picture that was his current favorite, a picture of her with her best friend, Becky Miller, smiling happily, her eyes sparkling in a way that he had rarely seen directed at him but with this picture he could pretend that he had taken it and she was looking at him that way. He had cut out the useless farm girl and blown up the picture to be bigger and cleared it from being grainy. Blowing out the candles he left his closet, shutting it tightly, and headed downstairs, his green eyes hurting as they adjusted to the bright light.

"There you are Trevor, how was school?"

"It was good, what's for dinner mom?"