Monday, 04 April 2011

• Dating a Vampire 101

  
  Before I get started I would just like to say that no I’m not on drugs, I’m not drunk at the moment, I am completely mentally sane and this story is 100% true.

  It all started a few months back when I was surfing the internet for random awesome people to talk to. Yes I know, nothing good can possibly come out of chatting with people you don’t know over the internet but let's just say that I was feeling a little…risqué on this particular night. I was sitting in a group chat with some of my friends and it was nothing new.

  We were just talking and goofing off. Now, there was this one particular boy that "kept in the shadows." He was quiet at times but always enjoyed our company. I was new to this friendship circle so everybody else knew him better than I did but I had spoken to him on a few occasions so it's not like we were total strangers.

  This night I was not...hm, myself? Like I already said, it was feeling a tad off and a bit crazy. Long story short, we ended up getting how do you say...intimate over instant messenger.We both had somehow shared a connection that night because the nights that followed were the same and were more intense. I didn't know what to make of this at all.

  Who was I? The girl who frowns upon this sort of thing actually doing it and enjoying it? Who was this guy, really, anyway? How did he get me to do what I said I’d never do again, even though it was only through a computer? Thankfully he wasn't just any other guy. We gradually became closer emotionally and decided to give us a chance even though the odds were definitely against us. 

  Thamuz (Tham-eu-th) lives on his own in Iceland, while I reside in a small town in Connecticut. Tham is the most amazing and interesting man I have ever come across in my almost 21 years on this earth. I’m pretty sure you’ve guessed who the vampire is in this story.

  For those of you who don’t know, vampires are very much a real thing. They are not like the ones from books and movies but they do walk among us. They are just like us, actually, with a few differences. They can still eat food and walk in the daylight. Any wannabe vampire that tells you any different is lying. There are three types of known vampires:

  1) Sanguinarian- These vampires are the “blood drinkers.” They get energy from the blood they drink to replace their own. No, they don’t drink gallons of blood or stalk you in the night. Sangs get their blood from blood donors and they do firm background checks on all of them.

  2) Psychic- They draw energy from others to replace their own. Unconscious or subconscious psychic vampires are probably the most common type of vampire. Some of these people don't even know they're vampires but they can make the people around them feel tired or drained. Conscious psychic vampires are people who've realized they're vampires and have learned some psi-feeding techniques. 

  3) Hybrids- Basically a mix of Sangs and Psychic vampires. 

  Thamuz is a hybrid vampire even though he mainly gets his energy through group psychic feedings (which means he feeds off the energy of large crowds). He would never feed off of an individual without permission. How do you become a vampire? For him, its a long and painful story but for most...you're just born that way.

  I know you must be thinking "ffuuuck this girl is crazy" and I would have agreed with you when I was first learning about all of this. But, now I believe that there is more to this world than we all know. They may not be creatures from fairy tales but they are definitely out there.

  Before we got to know each other on a more personal level he was very closed up, if you can understand what I mean. He was cold, but something about us brought out a light in him that nobody thought was possible. His personality started to shine and all of our friends saw the change. I never asked him to change, he did it on his own. We've both agreed that he's better off this way. I would hate to see him go to that dark place he was in again. 

  Honestly, he's the best boyfriend I have ever had and if we end up living closer (like he's planning to; he said he wants to move closer to me) then who knows what great things could come out of this relationship. We connect on a much deeper level than I knew existed. We "get" each other, plus he has this way of making the whole world right again if I'm freaking out over something, which I think is a rather important skill to have since I tend to freak out if something goes wrong. 

  Dating a vampire is both interesting and well....it's just like having a "human" boyfriend. Although, he's much more calm and understanding for anybody his age that I've met (19) even with him being bi polar. You could say that he has an old soul. 

  I hope that this relationship goes farther than just long distance and I know he does too. I adore the fact that I have the security in knowing that we're on the same level. I have a feeling that meeting for the first time is going to include fireworks and possibly be a tad funny/awkward, but that's only because trying to kiss him is going to be a task, since I'm 5'4 and he's a whopping 6'9 (darn his viking blood!).

  Any questions? :)

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