This story isn't about romance, Bella and Jasper are not going to fall in love. It is about Bella's days in training and her life with Jasper after.

Reviews are most welcome, as are PMs, negative or positive, I am a big girl I can take criticism.

No under 18s please, naughtiness and unsuitable themes for minors will at some point occur.

Summary:

In a modern world, young girls are chosen by vampires to become their mates. On the day they come of age, they are taken to live and learn in the vampire capital of Volterra. The castle in Volterra will become their home and school until they reach their eighteenth year.

The choosing of mates is based on instinct, but everything else in their world is based on millennia of vampire tradition. The mates must not be touched or seen by any male until the 'breaking of the mask' coming out ceremony, a masked ball in which their vampires will come to them, destroy the mask that hides their faces from all others, and claim them at midnight, in the hall amongst their peers.

Each mate is to be trained to their vampire's standards, everything from diet to beauty regime is decided by the vampire, so when they are delivered they are deemed perfect.

At Volterra they will be split into four houses based on personality, temperament and training specifications, classes are designed to prepare the human for life as a submissive mate.

The mates must live amongst the castle walls in long, flowing robes, their hair and faces hidden in cowls and porcelain masks, each unique to the girl underneath. The uniforms are only to be removed in the house halls, where no male but the head of house is allowed to enter.

Whilst this happens, the outside world continues, the families of the taken girls forced to move on and not speak of the school or the vampires, though most of the population are aware of both.

What happens behind the walls and with a strong willed girl who refuses to give up her mind and her right to live free, outside the castle?