~Chapter 2~

The next day, I was really careful about what I thought. I was trying not to get really angry with anyone. I loved my family, but I would kill myself before I destroy them, if it was possible now. My mother and father came home around six o’clock that evening. They were happy to see us all after seeing three babies.
Vence came over repeatedly through the front door, knocking each time. After the seventh time, he started using my bedroom window. He kept bringing me cups, quarts, and then galloons of blood to me, until Tina found one of my cups lying around in my bedroom while neither Vence nor I was paying any attention to her. She drunk every last drop of blood in the cup. Later that day, her body rejected it and she puked it all up. My parents took her to the doctor, thinking that was her own blood she had vomited. That’s when we decided to supervise my cups and anyone trespassing in my room.
“So, have you decided?”
“Decided on what,” I asked glugging down another cup.
“Um . . . who you’re gonna choose? Either to be human or to be like me.” He looked at me with a nervous yet excited look. His eyes were a dark pink. They were almost a red.
“What side do you want me to choose? Claire said that my ‘gift’ was rare and was only once in a lifetime. But if I change back, I would get to see my family ten times more than how many times if I were still vampire. Decisions, decisions. We make them all our lives,” I choked out. All our lives are what I am afraid of. All our lives. Vence stared at me like he wanted to say something back but he said nothing.
“How about you and I go out tonight. I’ll teach you how to hunt. If you really want me to choose for you, then you’re gonna have to know how to eat.” Vence’s eyes were now a light green like yesterday. I really need a guide for eye colors. I can’t keep up with this ever-changing color. “Well, how about eight pm. Your parents are planning to take the kids out to Goofy Burger.” He ignored my request for an eye guide.
I made a face. I hated Goofy Burger. The last time I went there, about three years ago, I was crushed by the Goofy Burger mascot. It all happened with Cleo. She flicked some food she refused to eat; the food hit a waiter’s eye; the waiter stumbled and fumbled all through the restaurant dramatically; we got up to leave so we wouldn’t be charged with paying for the damages; my dad put our money for our food down on the table and it ended up on the floor somehow; the waiter slid through our money and bumped into Goofy the Burger; Goofy fell on top of me and broke my leg. We were banned from Goofy Burger for a whole month.
“Okay. So 8:00 it is. Dress casual. But look as splendid as you do now.” He froze at what he said and flew out the window. As soon as he left, I smelt that reeking dog smell again. I took a look outside and it was someone in a werewolf form. I was sure that it wasn’t Aaron because this wolf was a darkest brown I had ever seen, almost a black color with white paws and outstanding blue eyes. The wolf smirked at me with extremely white teeth. I then knew it was Adam, Aaron’s brother. He changed into human form and climbed up the tree next to my room window. He landed on my floor with a big thud. I then saw another wolf. This wolf was larger and all white with brown paws. This one also had blue eyes. The wolf changed and climbed up just as Adam did. It was Mariah, Adam’s older sister but Aaron’s younger sister. I really didn’t expect them to be wolfs yet. Oh well. I’ll take it.
“Hey. So Aaron told me he told you about the little, um, character he is. Are you surprised,” Adam asked me. I was shocked about why he would even think that I wasn’t shocked.
“Of course she was surprised. Wouldn’t you be shocked if your best friend told you or rather showed you that he was literally two people?” Mariah was the type to compare and contrast things together. Unlike her brothers, she doesn’t mind being compared to anyone. She finds it pleasure to be noticed at all since her brothers get most of the attention. She’ll take any type of attention she can get.
“Well, yea. But my best friend is myself. If I was shocked, that person would be shocked, too. I mean – we’re basically the same person. Actually, we are the same person.” Adam, being the fabulous person he is, pulled out his pocket mirror he carries in his back pocket and glared at himself in, just about 25 different poses in two minutes.
Just then, Aaron came through the window. He was glazed with sweat and out of every slither of air in his massive lungs. He gave a sharp glance to both of his siblings and they, at the same time, tried to squeeze through the tiny window almost breaking my windowpane. When they finally left, I smelt that rancid smell again. This time, in respect for Aaron and his family, I didn’t plug my nose with my thumb and index finger. I took it like a man and dealt with it. When Aaron finally got enough air in his lungs, he smiled at me and stood tall.
“So we haven’t talked to each other since yesterday?” he rubbed the back of his neck as if this moment were awkward. I didn’t really see how it would be but whatever he thought didn’t bother me. If it was an awkward moment, it was an awkward moment.

“I just had a lot on my mind right now. I took some tests yesterday at the Rose\' house.” I shouldn’t have mentioned them yet. Not until everything was smooth between the two families. I still felt a sting in my side every time I talked to one about the other. Tension was still between them. I knew Aaron didn’t forgive Vence for biting me, and I knew Vence hated Aaron for grabbing me that day and making me feel uncomfortable, temporarily bruising me on the outside and inside.
“Oh. So, do you want to do something tonight like go see a movie, perhaps?”
“Dang. I’m hanging with Vence tonight.”
“Oh. Well, um, that’s cool, Luna. Hope you two have fun at whatever you’re going to be doing.” He then turned toward the window and was about to leave when I grabbed his hand. When our hands touched, it felt as though the clock on my wall stopped ticking just for us; so the moment would last. After a moment, I let go of his hand. I didn’t want to give him the wrong idea. The idea that I still loved him even though I did in a friendly way.
“You can’t leave yet. I don’t go on my – date until 8:00. Let’s talk. When did Mariah join? She looked really cool when in her werewolf stage.” This was true. When I saw her, the way the light hit her bleach white fur, how her blue eyes outlined her eggshell colored face. It was glamorous.
“Well she joined after Adam. She is also the second girl to join the pack since my mom was in the pack. Darlene is the first since my mother.”
I stared in disbelief. “So, your mom, too? Cool. Is all your family werewolves?”
“Just about, except Danny. He is the only one who hasn’t phased yet. He has become really depressed since he became 25. No one in the tribe has been changed over the age of 25. In the past, if you hit 25, you either have it by then or don’t.”
“Wow. Rough moment for him. So, I’m guessing that you got changed during the summer.”
He nodded.
“Well,” I continued, “that is nice. I mean, let me be the last to know about this type of stuff. You know if I wasn’t –.”
He was kissing me. His lips smothered on top of mine. I hadn’t felt this in a while. I didn’t enjoy it either. It made it harder for him and me to move on. Why was he even trying this with me? I was starting to burn with rage. Rage about how I dreamt about Vence the night before me and Aaron broke up. Anger about how Vence had changed me and now was doing anything to keep me happy. Irritation about how my life was gone. Going down the drain as I thought. Disappearing. Slipping through my fingers. Sinking into the sand trap.
I then came to my senses and pushed Aaron across the room with one mighty fling. He almost fell out the window but regained his balance and realized what he had done wrong. He looked sad and then angry at himself.
“Luna, I am sorry. I didn’t realize that I had done that.”
“It’s alright. It’s not you. I was thinking about something.” I was pierced with anger beyond nature. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I turned to my TV on its stand where it was supposed to be. The next thing I knew, my eyes were burning. I could see my eyes glowing dark red; giving a mighty glow compared to my snowflake face. I started to buzz like a swarm of attaching bees. I then used my new powers to crush my TV into a bite size cracker. I didn’t realize where my TV went until I looked down at it and saw how itty-bitty it was. I looked at Aaron with irritation written all on my face. You. Should. Go! I need time to think what is wrong with me! I stared at my face in my mirror as I thought this. I was hoping he got my message. I felt like if I opened my mouth to speak, I would do something to Aaron that I didn’t want to do. That I couldn’t control. He would be so helpless to my new strength.
“I’m not leaving you alone. I am always here to help you. Tell me what is wrong. Are you thirsty? I could run out and get you something. I can get . . . Vence if you wish?” he was frantic. His face was flushed with care. He really did care for me. He was truly my best friend in the world. I just don’t get it. I pushed you into a cabinet and you still aren’t mad at me. You should be mad at me! Be mad at me, now!
“I can’t be mad at you if you didn’t do anything to me. You pushed me head first into a cabinet, so what! You are always gonna be my best friend. No. Matter. What.” I felt sympathy all around me. It tangled me in a tight web. I wanted him to be mad at me but he was refusing. He was rebelling against me.
Just then, I saw Vence fly through the window and zoom to my side. I felt the cool breeze as he sped past Aaron. He was angry also. His face showed that he was now stressed. “Aaron, help me get Luna outside through the window. We don’t want her parents to see that she is leaving without an explanation. You go out first.” My eyes were blurry and my arms felt as though they were blazing with flames of ice. I burned horribly inside my ice-cold body. I wanted to yell out but struggled not to cause anyone any more pain. I was helpless.
Then, the burning stopped torturing me. I smelt a fragrance that was new to me. It was calming and natural like a love spell made of candy and flowers. It swirled around me in a cloud of sweetness. Before I could even really enjoy it, a tingle went through my spine. I then felt needles everywhere poking into the painful body of mine. I felt as though I were lying on a bed of spikes. I was screaming in my brain. I didn’t know how much more I could take.
I saw Aaron disappear out the window and a smash hit the ground with such anger and force. “Already down here! Send her,” I heard Aaron call from the ground in the dark, possessive night. The moon was a crescent smile. It was highlighted by the shimmering stars above the world. The stars that dotted the sky were peaceful, but they still weren’t making me feel any better.
“Okay. Luna. Jump into Aaron’s arms down there. I can promise that he’ll catch you correctly.” Vence’s voice was trying to sound relaxed and comforting but underneath the thick layers of head, he was just as worried as Aaron. Maybe that was what Aaron and Vence had in common. Me. I was in both their lives. I meant so much to them. Vence was my vampire friend forever, I hope, and Aaron was a part of my family in a way. I loved them both in different ways. If anything happened to either one of them, it would scar me internally forever.
Vence picked me up with my head in his right arm and my legs in his left, and I was out the window and in Aaron’s arms in seconds.
“Okay. Aaron, since you can run fast, takes her to my father’s house up north of here. I’ll make conversation with Luna’s parents and wait for them to leave to Goofy Burger. Luna, I’ll be there as soon as I can! Hurry,” Vence said fiercely. I was on the verge of screaming out from filling the tension in the air.
Aaron raced off into the woods towards the house of Isaac Rose while holding me. All the way there, he kept whispering in my ear of the good days when we were kids to calm me down. “Don’t worry, Luna,” Aaron said after coming into view of the house, “you’ll be okay. I’ll make sure of that. I’ll always have your back!” I looked at him with remembrance of a childhood memory that had that same line.
He promised to be there for me no matter if he was dying or if his own sister were dying. But he doesn’t like Mariah that much so I have an unfair advantage of love from him.
Isaac was outside on his porch already. “What happened? Wow, Luna. Get her to the table upstairs.” Isaiah took me, rushed me upstairs, and put me down gently on the table. I started to have massive headaches. My lungs and heart felt tight and shriveled up. I couldn’t see at all. I could hear fine, though. I was starting to fade out of all type of visual access. I could only see blobs of colors around me.
“Is she going to be okay,” I heard Dayan call. My mind kept rushing in and out of my visual sense. Isaac was hovering over me like an obsessed ghost. Isaiah was by his side with light and tools.
“What’s wrong with her? Is it a seizure?” I couldn’t make out the voice well enough to recognize it. I then saw one last vision of Vence hovering over my face with Aaron on side.
“You’ll be alright,” Vence was saying.
“Be strong, Moon,” was the last voice I heard. Apparently, it was Aaron’s voice. How convenient. I then blacked out.
I could only see stars and the sun and the planets and their moons. It was a lovely sight to see. I could touch the stars. As I went to prove my theory, I then tripped and fell straight down into a black hole. Immediately, my grandmother appeared.
“Don’t give up reaching for the stars, Moon!” she was dressed in gold and silver. She looked gorgeous in the uptown dress.
“I don’t understand nana?” I was so surprised to have seen her. My thought of her being able to communicate with me through my dreams was the truth. I kept falling as she spoke to me in a light tone.
“Look.” She pointed upward. I then realized what she meant by reach for the stars.
There on actual stars were Vence and Aaron. Their outstretched hands were tempting. On the left was Vence’s star, a real fantasy star with all five points and yellow colored. It looked like the ones kids drew or found pictures of in kid magazines. On the right was Aaron’s star, a reality ball of burning gas. I knew what they represented. Vence was supposed to be a fantasy; dreams come true; unrealistic, and Aaron was supposed to show reality; real life; non-fiction. I needed to be saved by one of them I just couldn’t choose. Reality or fantasy? Reality or fantasy? “Help me nana!” tears poured down my solid face.
“I would like to help but I am not you. Only you can decide for yourself.” Her face started to fade away from my mind. She disappeared in just three seconds.
“Nana! Nana! Come back,” I called but knew she couldn’t hear. She was long gone now and I started to be able to hear and see again. The first thing I saw was Claire and Dayan.
“She’s coming back. Get Vence!” I felt a rush of air past me and saw Vence stroking my cheek. I rose up and stared into his light blue eyes that almost sadden me to see them again. They were as blue as the Pacific Ocean and blessed him with grace.
“I thought I was going to be gone permanently. I thought I wouldn’t see your beautiful face again.” I stood, shocked, surprised. My face would have been blushing if it could have.
“Well, we’re going to go. Let you two talk or what not,” said Dayan gushing out giggles and then laughs. The Rose family left out of the torture room swiftly and quietly.
“Ow!” aching pain was in my head. “What happened?”
“Well, apparently, you did have a reaction to the new ways of the vampire. All the blood you consumed gave you some pain, which is normal. Usually, it’s minor pain or agitation but with you, it was more than that. It was like all anger you felt in your lifetime. That or something made you think really hard about your life.” He looked at me with such glory and gentleness. I peered into his mind and saw nothing but pictures of me when the two of us met, when I invited him in my house the night I was changed, when I woke and craved blood. It made my non-beating heart shiver.
“Nothing happened,” I said glancing over at Aaron, who was now standing in the doorway looking nervous, scared to even glance up from the floor his eyes were glued to. “Not that I could remember,” lying to not only Vence but myself, too. I could remember everything. The whole moment was a tattoo on my memory.
Vence looked concentrated on my mind. I then remembered that when I fell into Aaron’s arms back at the house, I knew someone would want to figure what I was thinking so I put a lock on my thoughts. I didn’t know how I did it but I knew I did it right because I tacked into Vence’s mind and saw he was trying to find my thoughts.
“Don’t worry she’s fine. You may go back to your family now,” Vence said to Aaron without looking from my face. “Luna, we should get going. You need to learn how to catch and eat.”
“You’re staying like this?” Aaron was mad and hurt at the same time. His voice had many levels to it but I could hear just how he said it he was hurt by my decision. “You told me that they gave you a choice to either be human again or stay with them!”
“Yeah but she haven’t even chosen yet. And besides, what if she chose my side?” Vence arched his eyebrows at Aaron’s comment; how he emphasized the word “them.”
Aaron was silent. He had nothing to say. Even though I still had my mind cut off from any outsiders, I was able to weakly tap into Aaron’s thoughts. He was thinking of how he would kill Vence if he said something else he didn’t like. I don’t think he knew that he was in a house of vampires. Don’t. Just cool it. These vampires will kill you if you kill him.
“Even you?” his eyes showing a bit of water. He should have known that I wouldn’t try. But I wouldn’t try to force it not to go on.
Maybe. Maybe not. Most likely no. It isn’t my decision. I might just jump in because of the blood. I am still a newborn vampire.
“Wow. Really low even for you.” He did a smile that almost looked as nice as the crescent moon outside.
“Aaron, who are you talking to? No-one said anything.” His face was somewhat tense.
“You mean you didn’t hear what she said?” Aaron seemed pleased with himself. He just loved making trouble between people, including me and Vence.
“How come I didn’t hear? I can’t hear any of your thoughts. Maybe because he’s here that I can’t be in contact with you. His stench when he was an animal must have shocked my system.” He snarled at Aaron and Aaron growled back.
“I’ll tell you later. Right now, I’m hungry. We should go.” I grabbed his hand and pushed him to the door ahead of me. Vence scooted through the doorway and bumped Aaron on his way out. Vence then disappeared down the hall and I glared at Aaron. He then grabbed my wrist gently. This time, I was on my guard, ready to flip him out the window if needed.
Thanks for not telling him what happened. I really don’t want to fight while in a house of vampires. He smiled weakly at me then growled at someone behind me. I knew it was Vence and that he wanted me to speed up the process of leaving. I turned to Vence with the look of patience. He walked away discouraged.
“See you later!” I kissed him on the cheek. That’s a “you’re welcome” from me! I smiled at him and walked away. I could feel his blushing cheeks as I came into view of Vence. It didn’t mean I liked Aaron it just meant that I thanked him for not thinking about what had happened because if he did I can guarantee that Vence would attach.
“Ready to go, Vence? I am now starved to – death!” he smiled and we headed out the door. The air was so quiet and still. I could hear the rapid heartbeats of the sleeping birds. I could smell the blood of nearby raccoons and possums. Rustles in the trees above me shook with anticipation. “So what do we hunt first? Bears? Wolverines? You name it and I bet I can take the biggest one down before you take three small ones down,” I joked with him. He didn’t seem amused by my sense of humor.
“Tell me why I can’t get into your mind? I know you are thinking things, aren’t you?” he focused again on my guarded head.
“Well, yea I have thoughts but I gained power to block out any unwanted guess trying to break in, not that I’m saying you’re unwanted. I really enjoy your company. You’ve made me feel special and wild. I haven’t felt this way since I was twelve.” He was staring not at my forehead but at my mouth, the words I had said shocked his knowledge.
“Did you just say you control who goes into your mind? Impossible. Nobody has been able to do that since Lord Calione, leader of the Europe vampire clans. Didn’t your adopted mother say that your real father was French?” he was being mysterious. I didn’t bother looking into his brain because all the information was excluded out onto his face. “How do you send any messages, like you did with Aaron back at the house, if you’ve had your brain under control?”
“It isn’t hard, really. You just focus on the person you want to talk to and focus on the person or people you don’t want in your mind. It’s a sense of multitasking.” I was confused. Why did he ask was my dad French? Why was he boggled? Did he think that I was somehow related to Lord Calione? How silly. My small-populated family couldn’t be related to him, such royalty. There was no possibility. Was it?
I saw a humongous bear staring at us as if he knew what we were. I lunged and he took off running in the opposite direction. I was in the position to chase it when Vence grabbed my arm. I hissed at him with disapproval.
“That bear could have filled me at least halfway up and he now is gone! If I hurry I can still catch him!” I pulled away from him excitedly and ready to eat. After that rude mishap with Aaron and the reaction, I was hungrier than ever and didn’t need to talk about anything related to that.
“That can wait. You can hunt him down by his scent later. I want to know your father family tree. The whole story.” He seemed like he didn’t care if I was starting on the verge to my second death. That’s when fury built up in my veins. I could feel pressure from my head to my toes. I finally unlocked my blocked mind and let him have everything he wanted.
Well, I’m leaving! All you do is talk about my ability and how I got it, and talk about eating, and then go back to the conversation about my ability! I’m tired of this rat race. I licked my lips to the thought of a rat. I was extremely hungry enough to eat a rat. I just don’t get it! For a minute, I would like to talk about you! I just can’t believe I almost liked you. Your brain is everywhere. Learn to keep your mind in one place! I turned and walked away. I then ran up a tree and caught a family of possums. Mm! 1/5 of me is filled. I just need more. I thought quietly to myself but loud enough for Vence to hear.
I swung through the trees to my house and through my bedroom window with a light tap on the ground. My family was not home yet and we were out of any type of raw meat. I didn’t want to go hunt. I was too afraid of running into Aaron or Vence. I had not one dollar on me right at the moment so I walked towards the bank. I didn’t bother to get any when Vence transformed me though because I wouldn’t need to eat chips or drink soda anymore. I didn’t realize that raw meat isn’t free when you don’t have time to hunt. I would need to hurry knowing my family could be home in minutes.
I went outside and ran towards the closest bank possible.
When I went into the bank, people looked different than how I would have seen them a few days ago. I saw one guy with a hat on looking suspicious and I froze tensely He was wearing baggy jogging pants with a navy blue hoodie and Nike’s and had a duffle bag on his shoulder even though it looked empty. He had a bulge in his back pocket and I, almost as a reflex, tried to reach out and touch it but had to refrain when people looked at me confused.
I was too nervous to concentrate on him but I rather knew what his plan was already. His green, scoping eyes checked the perimeter. There was only one security guard in the whole place. His rapid heartbeat was tempting to rip out with force and suck up the blood in it. His blood smelled of beautiful O positive and was delicious and pure.
No drugs? No alcohol? Ninety-five dollar pairs of shoes that was brand new? This person is an idiot already.
Then, in a flash of light, he pulled the bulge out of his back pocket and aimed it at the bank tellers. The security officer did nothing about it. Everybody ran screaming from the building. I stood there being bumped into. He held the bank tellers that were already up at the counter hostage. Pure adrenalin rushed right through me lighting up my whole body.
“What are you looking at? Leave!” the person said to me when the room was empty as the blankness inside my head. I could tell he didn’t know what he was doing. He had sweat running down the side of his face and his heart pumped in the rhythm of newborn baby rabbits. The guard moved quickly next to the armed robber. “If you don’t want to leave, Bob get her and put her with the bank tellers now!” I saw the officer with no hesitation grab my arm while the person, now holding a gun and knife, pushing people into separate rooms and locking the doors.
“Come now, pretty. You don’t want to make the boss mad!”
Boss? Was the security officer working for the bank robber? Inside help? Obviously. If you can’t trust the authorities, who can you, trust? I then could feel my ice-cold heart getting colder. My eyes I knew got red as the blood I would drink in moments. Bob backed ten paces backwards and looked frightened at me; my eyes. I then felt a hand on my elbow that was holding me from attaching.
Who do you think you are touching . . . .? My thoughts trailed off when I saw Aaron behind me with Vence.
“Let’s take these boys down! I’ve been wanted to kill something for the longest!” Aaron glanced at Vence over his shoulder. He was hype and raw. He cracked his knuckles and changed into the big, beautiful wolf he was. Bob was shocked and wet himself a little. I smelt the urine and cringed my nose. By now, “the boss” was staring. He thrust out the gun in our direction and started firing at me and Vence. He was shocked when the bullets bounced off our cold skin and hit his ear now gushing out blood.
“Now I’m mad. Aaron, will you do me a favor and get rid of,” I sniffed the air once more, “the O negative officer.” I pointed to Bob and smiled his way.
I had barely finished my sentence when he already had the person by the shoulders. He was flinging him around like he was playing a corny game of cat and mouse. It was sad but amusing in a way. The officer looked like a plastic doll compared to Aaron’s height and ferociousness.
“Don’t damage him too bad, Aaron. The police will be here in exactly three minutes,” Vence said showing his fangs towards both men. “Don’t try to get blood everywhere. Luna is still having a little trouble with human blood.” He nodded to me a signal to attach. I lunged at the boss and had his neck next to my face. He smelt so perfect and juicy. His bleeding ear was tempting and lushes as if speaking to me. I was about to bite into him and drink every drop of that road kill runt’s blood until – “Wait, Luna! Someone is watching!”
We turned around and saw Claire glaring at us through the bulletproof glass with a bag in her left hand.
“What are you three doing? I knew you were wreck less but to kill an innocent man? You are lucky that you have me to watch you!” she was appalled.
“He is not innocent!” I hissed through my teeth at her. “And I can’t help it if I have a taste for O positive blood. Vence is practically starving me!”
“Well just because you’re starving doesn’t mean you can get all vampire-ish on them. Just leave them.”
I didn’t know what to say. I knew she was right but I had to much pride at the time.
“Well if we leave them, they’ll expose us to this experimental world. We can’t have that!” I was sniffing the neck of my poor victim and saw Aaron’s confusion, as always.
“Just knock them over the head or something. The police will think they had a nightmare and won’t believe a word they say. Their hypothesis would be that some heroic people probably knocked them over the heads, and ran away to exclude from being known.” She smiled as if she had just thought of the best getaway plan ever known to humankind.
“Alright, hit him Luna, nice and hard enough so they remember nothing.” Vence was looking like he enjoyed this. I sighed and hit the criminal and his partner in crime hard enough so they would fall asleep.
I don’t think I killed them. But if I did, you never saw me! I heard sirens of police cars and quickly tied the two mischief-makers with extension cords and ran out the backdoor. Aaron ran with me and changed back to human form as soon as we jumped over the security fence. Vence took a long time coming out the surrounded building and I then worried if he got out without being seen. Then I worried about the security cameras. What if it had captured Aaron changing in its film? They would recognize his face since his uncle was the chief of police in town. We would be caught and be forced to die or be tested. At that time, Vence and Claire sped out of the building.
“About time! Where were you?” I was surprised that Aaron wanted to know. Maybe they were getting along better now. Yes!
“I needed to get the camera tapes. You know that bank has about five cameras. They love filming. I need to go. Isaac and Isaiah are worried about the both of us. Aaron, can you walk Luna home for me? Come on, Claire. I bet you twenty dollars that I can beat you home again!” he took off running.
“Aaron, make sure Luna gets home safely. She has done enough for one night. Here. I knew you were hungry, Luna. Bye!” she sped off toward the house after handing me a bag.
“Well then, right this way my lady,” Aaron said stretching out his hand in the direction of my house. “To be honest, I always wanted to know if in a race would a werewolf win or a vampire. Want to find out?” I nodded excitedly. He seemed better now than the past few days. The day I – broke up with Aaron, he seemed depressed and had no approval on Vence and his family. But now he seemed happy for me like in my dream. I followed Aaron and we started running. When I came in view of my house, I saw that they were still not home; I looped around the back to my window. I shimmied up some trees and jumped right through to my room. I didn’t recall leaving my window open but I was having too much fun to care. Aaron then also jumped through with ease.
“Wow, that was an extremely good work out if I may say so myself.”
“Sure but I let you win, Luna. I wanted to see you happy. That is all I really care about.” He smiled and then looked down at the rug. “Earlier today, I didn’t mean to do – that. I honestly tried to stop myself. I did!”
I looked at him and touched his face with the palm of my hand. I could see he was telling the truth. “I. Believe. You. That was the past. This is now.” I then heard my favorite little footsteps come through the front door. “Tina! Is that you?” Her little pitter patter feet marched upstairs and jumped into my arms and gave me a big hug. She smelled delicious. After the person with the bleeding ear, I\'ve been thirsty and thriving for something down my throat. Aaron then saw my reaction and put his huge hand on my shoulder. I put her down and Lyle came galloping in. Unlike other 7-9 year olds, Lyle doesn’t mind girls kissing him on the cheek or himself giving a kiss. He kissed my cheek and went back playing his game that was planted in his palms and had his thumbs glued to the buttons. Then the big, bad girl wolf came stomping in my room. She wore a shirt that was even too big for me to wear. It said “I LLLOOOOVVE Goofy Burger!” on the top. Her shorts were wet a little and she looked sticky.
“Dinner was terrible, Luna! When we got there, there were thousands of people there. We waited for our table for a half hour. Then the waiter was so clumsy to spill someone else’s drink on me. You know, I wouldn’t mind if it was mine because they’ll give me two free refills, but it was someone else’s so I can’t get a refill. But they are paying my dry cleaning bill. Then on the way home, the car broke down and daddy is now fixing it himself. Ugh. Dinner was terrible. Hi Aaron! You’re looking handsome as always.” She glanced at us together and snickered. She then left to get the ringing phone.
“It’s for you Luna,” my mom sung in a flirty tone, “it seems like it’s a boy that isn’t Kyle or Eli or Mike.” I grinned embarrassedly at Aaron.
There was a howl from outside and I knew it was Mariah calling Aaron home. “I should probably get going. You and Vence may have a lot to talk about. See you at school, tuna fish!” he headed for the door instead of the window.
“Yea. See ya later! I’ll text you before you decide to sleep, ok?”
He nodded in response and zoomed down the hall. I heard my mom drop a bag of left overs on the floor as a shock to seeing him. I then heard mumbling, a giggle, and the door close gently. I picked up the phone and spoke with a ring in my voice I just couldn’t hide.
“Hey. So you got home safely I see. Well, Claire says to open up the bag she gave you and you will find a surprise. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I\'m sorry for only talking about you and not anything of me.”
I was surprised. “This coming from the guy who worries only of me or think of his existence.”
“Did you ever think that my reason of existence is you?” I could feel the bell tone in his voice. If I had any blood in my body, I would have blushed. He sounded so sweet.
You are cutest and sweetest ever in my lifetime. I like you a lot. I realized that he read my mind and I wanted to kill something. I sucked on the meat harder until it was completely dry and tasteless. I took the other one out and drunk it up. “I didn’t mean to think that. It kind of slipped out.” I felt really . . . dumb. What if he didn’t like me that way? What if he thought of me as a best friend? Not likable? Why would I not be likeable? I have a great sense of humor; I am creative; I’m not girly (I’m more of a rough at times girl but not a tom-boy); and over all, I look awesome, especially now since I am a blood sucker.
“Luna, I can smell the chicken legs all the way through the phone. You should really save those as a midnight snack because when you get so hungry you can’t ignore it, you might go hunting for humans again but you’ll think you’re dreaming.”
Dreaming. Now, I hated that word. I’ve been having dreams and daydreams since this all went into my mind. I dreamt about the weirdest things now a days. I use to just dream about me on a beautiful Alaskan Husky dog fighting crime and helping little children cross the street (go figure about the children), but now all I daydreamt about were rivalries against vampire and werewolf. Vence’s vicious vampire family or Aaron’s wild werewolf clan? I was never good at making decisions. They seemed to me unnatural or hard.
I put away the chicken. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. All I heard was something about dreams,” I pretend shuddered, “anyway; it’s not hard to resist the hunger. Back at the bank, I was kind of hoping that you were going to stop me. And when I got home and my human family stepped in I smelt their blood but resisted until you called me, then you reminded me of why Aaron had to take me home alone.” I smiled thinking of how much fear both criminals had in on faces. Vence just blabbed on about dreams and his first ones. Five minutes later, I had tuned him out completely.
Then I stared at my TV that I had crushed. It was still bitty. I messed with my mind a little and something moved it. I thought it might have been an insect since I left my window up all day I assumed. I focused on it again and it lifted upward just as I wanted it to. Instead of getting all hyped, I focused a little harder and it unraveled and sat gently back on my wall. I was even amazed. I wanted to show everybody how awesome I was but I couldn’t. Before I knew it, my mom was telling me to cut off my lights and go to sleep. I wasn’t about to sleep, though. Since I was a vampire now, I did not need rest nor have relaxations or anything like that.
I then realized I was supposed to text Aaron before he went to sleep. From all the way down the street, I could tell he was yawning tiredly.
I whipped out my cell phone since I was talking to Vence on the house phone. I have him on speed dial. Number two actually. Number one is the police.
“Huh.” I heard Vence over the phone.
“Nothing, thinking to myself.”
I typed on my phone and sent it.
Goodnight little mutt. See you tomorrow!
He texted me back:
Yeah bloodsucker. See ya tomorrow!

~Chapter 3~
When the sun kissed the sky and made a painting of a perfectly ripe peach, I got up and took a nice ride out my window. I flew through the new morning trees and enjoyed the smell of the dew droplets on the leaves of bushes and the grass. I hadn’t seem to notice that it was almost time to go to school until my hearing heard Tina started crying. I rushed the way I came and found her sitting outside of her crib bleeding a little on her leg. Someone left a butter knife in her reach and she got a hold of it. My mom was in there with her.
“Moon, get me the Band-Aids out of the Aid closet.”
I dreamed on and ignored her request to me. I just couldn’t concentrate. The blood smelt nice. It smelled sweet, sugary, natural, and spicy. I then came to my senses and slowly backed out of the room trying not to move too fast or my mother would suspect something. The silence of the house was confusing a little. My nerves just waited for some noise to stir up the house full of excitement.
I rushed to the closet and got the Band-Aids. I rushed back into the room and handed them to her standing about five feet away so I would not be tempted. The cut was clean now and little Tina was smiling at me with her adorable not-yet-have-many-teeth mouth. I smiled back at her.
“There you go munchkin. All better. Luna, why aren’t you dressed? Its ten minutes ‘till school starts,” she said while scowling at my night clothes that was still on me. Then looked at her watch to make sure she was right.
I followed my brain telling me to glance at myself and I saw how ridiculous I looked. I ran to my room and got my clothes. I wanted to wear my red top that had silver print on it with my black leggings but I thought that in my condition I should not wear red. I found my blue tank top, a leather jacket, and my black jeans, hung them over my arms, and scooted to the bathroom. Before I reached the bathroom, I found out that I wasn’t the only one late waking up. Cleo came out of her room with her clothes and eyed me then the bathroom door. We both knew that Lyle was in there for his “before school” potty break.
Lyle heard the early morning silence also and knew we must have woken up late again. He opened the door slowly and ran screaming from the room. Cleo and I paused a minute to laugh aloud. Then I zoomed into the room and managed to lock the door before she realized I was gone. Cleo kept banging on the door yelling at me until my mom marched up the steps and dragged Cleo to the adult bathroom. My mom then yelled to me about I had three more minutes. But I didn’t need three. I was done before Cleo was done deciding if a shower was faster or a sink wash which usually took her about eleven minutes to decide. I turned the shower on, got in it for ten minutes, dressed, and was out the bathroom.
I grabbed a bottle of blood that I squeezed out of the meat package Claire had given me last night, and rushed out the door. I saw Aaron coming out of his front door and racing to my side well rested today than any other day I have seen him.
“How is your day so far?” I asked him with a look of confusion.
“Great! Mariah caught some sort of bug and she is sick. That also means she won’t be on watch duty for any evil vampires tonight with me. That also means that she won’t bug me on advise about this guy she sort of likes at her school.” His face was lit up like a bunch of fireworks. I was somewhat worried about how he said “evil” vampires. I hadn’t seen any other vampires since I was turned into one. I wasn’t even sure there were any in Oregon at all. Maybe not even in all of the west coast of this nation. Was the Rose clan the only clan for miles?
“Oh, I’ve been meaning to ask you something for the past two years. Why don’t they go to our school? You know, Mariah, Adam, Tommy, Paul, Terry, Ben.”
“I guess they just got attached after a while. In addition, it’s actually a tradition for at least one werewolf in every clan to go to a normal school to snoop out any other vampires, even though there hasn’t been a vampire here since the Roses’ moved in town. You know that the forecast calls for sunshine all day after ten o’clock. Shouldn’t you stay home?”
“No. Claire, Vence’s sister, gave me a make-up that keeps light off me for at least nine hours or so. That’s all day plus an extra hour! When I have it on, I can withstand even the strongest heat wave. It even keeps my human color in my face so it won’t look like I’m losing color or what not.” I pulled out the make-up for him to see. I started to put some on when some light beams beamed from behind some clouds and landed on my tibia bone. It stung a little and left a mark.
“Well, whatever you say, but I’m running to school. You can be late if you want.” He got smaller to my eyes as he ran up the street and turned the corner. I decided I didn’t want to be left alone so I jetted up next to him and we jogged. Aaron and I were on school grounds three minutes before the warning bell even rung.
“Well, if it isn’t the happy couple.” Taylar called out next to her car parked in the school parking lot. “Been kissing today yet?” Taylar asked when she saw us out of breath. Taylar and Kaytlin looked at two of us with interest.
We glanced at each other and spread about three feet apart.
“We kind of broke up over the weekend.” I thought that my chuckle at the end would have released some tension from the air, and it rather helped until they realized I wasn’t joking.
“What happened? Tell me details! Why? I heard a rumor but I didn’t know it was –." she stood there shocked. “So you’re single now? Oh no. This is not good. We need to find you a boyfriend before the Halloween dance next month.” She grabbed my hand but I pulled away. My matchmaking friend never wanted any of us single, even though she was single.
“Before you get out of control, I already have someone in mind!”
“Who? You need to tell me!”
Before I could say his name, Aaron tugged on my arm and I saw Vence pulling up in his slick, black Mercedes behind where Taylar and Kaytlin were standing. I smiled and Aaron gave a smirk.
Of course. Aaron joked. The prince of blood arrives in style. He needs to make a good impression on people who don’t care. Aaron gave me a shove through my rib cage.
Be nice, Aaron, I thought to him and knew he got my message when he grunted with disobedience. And he is not the prince. He needs to make an impression because that’s who he is. And my friends do care for your information. Now hush.
Vence got out the car and headed for where we were standing. The whole school seemed to be staring.
“Wow. He can make an impression,” I heard someone behind us say. It sounded like Mike stopped playing with his ball just to look at the black Mercedes.
“The boy can be a gorgeous beauty when he wants to be.” Kaytlin nodded in agreement to one of her cheerleading friend.
Claire was in the back of Vence driving her green Corvette that had Dayan and John in.
See, my friend care!
“Hey, Luna!” He kissed my cheek and Aaron snorted a snort of jealousy. Ignoring his geeky comment, Vence continued, “May I walk you to your first class?” Vence put an arm around my shoulder.
“Yes you may.”
“Oh, and Aaron, thank you for inviting us to your formal party, tonight.” He winked at him.
“You are completely welcome, prince demon, see you around.” Aaron bowed lightly at Vence and disappeared into the school’s front doors, happily skipping along to his own rhythm.
“How come I didn’t get invited to this party?”
“Well actually Luna, you are invited. It’s really just a meeting between my family and his family.” Vence nodded to me as trying to signal me some type of clue. I then picked up the signal and realized it was a deal between the vampires of the northwest region and the werewolves on the west. Since both the Rose and the Vitaro families are the oldest of all the clans on the west, they get to host the annual treaty party.
By now, Kaytlin and Taylar were confused and pissed off at me. They left our presence and headed to their first classes.
Besides that incident with the invite this morning, the rest of the day went along just how I planned it. The sun didn’t shine until later on; I barely got mad, and when I did, it wasn’t over the top like it was the first time; things weren’t awkward with me, Vence, and Aaron last period. Everything went smoothly. When the last bell rung, I was out the door before any of my friends. When I did see Taylar, Jayne, and Kaytlin together waving their hands over to where they were sitting, I skipped over and planted myself near the bench.
“Hey! So you have plans tonight? Oh wait, you do.” Jayne rolled her eyes. Kaytlin tried to roll her eyes too but she never learned how so she kept her eyes together.
“I'm sorry! I didn’t even know it was tonight. I barely knew there was a party. I wish you all could come but it’s traditional. You wouldn’t understand what was going on.”
“And you will?”
“Yea. I’ve learned in the past few days that would take the average human a month to understand.”
“So now you’re better than us. Wow, way to keep the sisterhood.”
“I didn’t say that. All I'm saying is that it’s boring. There will be old men saying native chants. The food isn’t the best.” Technically, I was lying but it was for their protection. I thought my friends were kind of being total brats. I took three short breaths to calm myself down. I continued our conversation, “Come on. I would really like you to except it. I can’t turn this down, my whole family is going and they’re expecting me to go. It is required!” I heard a buzzing in my head and knew that my mind was just itching to control their brains. I knew it was possible I just didn’t want to try it.
“I guess I can forget about it.” Kaytlin tried rolling her eyes again but didn’t succeed.
“Yea. I mean it’s for your family, right? No one can go against their family.” Jayne swung her long ponytail and gave a smile.
“Okay. I’ll forget about it if you let me pick out your clothes. Actually, let me in your closet and go through your items.”
I was stuck. I never allowed anyone in my closet before. Not even my mom. I hated people in there for some reason since my grandma died. I never understood why but to me it seemed cursed; Ghostly; Creepy to let anyone enter.
“Don’t go in. I’ll take my clothes out for you to see. Deal?” I extended my arm out to the fashion expert herself: Taylar. She hesitated first and then shook my cold hand. A shiver went down her spine to the feel of the arctic ice cold.
“A deal. Now, the party starts in an hour and a half, right? We need to go and find you something to wear. Let’s go!” she grabbed my hand and whipped me from the table. But when I started running towards the woods, she froze in her spot.
“Come, come,” I called to her like a dog, “we need to get going.”
“I am not going through there. There are bears and wolves. Please, can we take the other way?”
“No. There’s no time. If we take that way, we won’t get home in time for you to pick out my clothes.”
I gave a pleading face and she shook herself free of the steel that was holding her feet to the ground and followed me. We began to run but didn’t get very far when a wave of rancid smells hit my nostrils. I knew it was wolf, since Taylor couldn’t smell the potent aroma, but it was an unfamiliar wolf smell. I looked around to see if I could spot the snoopers anywhere. Rustles were in the shrubs around us. I couldn’t see much from the distracting whimpers of my friend in fear, thinking up every possibility of us perishing, and hugging my right arm like gravity to falling objects. If I were regular, I would have shook her off and told her to “man up” but the only thing stopping me from revealing myself and attaching whoever was watching us was her gravitational pull on my arm.
I swung my head from right to left, trying to keep up with continues of the shrubs being disturbed. I knew it was more than one of the sickening creatures. I heard one whimper of a wolf and the rustling stopped completely. Mariah came out of the green scenery first. She gave a smile and nodded for the others to come out. I didn’t feel comfortable around them all that had hatred eyes locked on me.
“Are we gonna kill her, Mariah?” A kid asked anxiously.
“We should tear her limbs from limb for even betraying her own people for . . . one of them!” a young girl no older than thirteen said shaking her head.
“Puppies, this is my friend, practically my god sister Luna. And just for the record Karie, it was an accident. The . . . I’ll tell you later. Anyway, don’t you know we have a tribe meeting tonight? Why aren’t you at home getting ready?” Mariah asked with her eyes curiously on Taylar. “Your family already left and told me to tell you to get your behind there.”
“Yea. I'm on my way now.” I slid past them easily but Taylar was shocked out of her cloud white skin. She kept murmuring “wolves” and “monsters” unaware that all eyes were on her. Mariah mouthed something to the younger wolves and disappeared into the woods without a wave goodbye.
“Well let’s go and makeover me up!” I grabbed her arm and jogged the rest of the way home hoping she would snap out of the trans.
Instead of going through the door, I climbed up the tree next to my window of my second story bedroom human-normal and excited to get ready for the party. It just felt good to climb up something. Taylar was shocked of how fast I got up to the top of the tree. I didn’t use my real speed so she shouldn’t have been so surprised. It took her five minutes just to climb up half the way. The tree wasn’t big but still she would look down at the height and shiver.
“Alright, now I have a few dresses that I think will be kind of cute on me tonight.” I laid out three dresses on my bedsheets.
One was purple with black, glamorious designs going down the back. It was gorgeous and elegant. I had two purses that went exactly right with the dress. The second option was a torquoise strapless with a slit going up to my left caf. I had shoes to go with it that had a heel almost two inches high. The last dress was a sexy, short black that I personally thought was too much just for a . . . she still wasn’t talking. The fashionista wasn’t even admiring the dresses I had picked. She was just looking at me with a hint of fright.
“What are you staring at? Look at the dresses!” I became irritated.
“I know you know what’s going on. I saw what was in that forest.” She pointed a skinny finger outside towards the trees.
I froze. Was she kidding, trying to do reverse-phycology on me to get the truth? Or did she really know? I peered into her brain and saw pictures of just a few minutes ago in the trees. She did indeed see the one known as Karie change back into her human form and that’s why she was murmuring. I hung my head and tried to think. My mind was boggled and clustered with asumptions.
“Well, what did you see? My other friends? So what?”
“No, the wolfs! If you really don’t know what’s going on, your other friends are wolves and I bet my soul that Aaron is one of them –.”
“Ok,” I interrupted, “Yes. So you saw them. Happy days for you!” I went on trying to choose between the outstanding dresses.
“No!! Don’t you see, we can expose them and become famous and heroes to exposing the monsters of the northwest! Then, if there are more, we will be the ones that notify the military, and sector nine, like in Transformers.”
“We can’t do that. I will not have it.”
“Why not? When we die, on our headstones it’ll say R.I.P Great Heroes of Portland, Oregon! Don’t you want that?”
“Maybe. But I can’t have it. It isn’t that easy for me!” I was really hoping that she wouldn’t say anymore so I wouldn’t have to say more; to reveal more.
“Why NOT? You’re as normal as I am! You're not trying to protect your ex. After what he did to you.” she hissed at me.
“I am a . . . VAMPIRE.” I stopped motionless.
“Your what?” she whispered under her breath as if the secret I told her was common to her. She stared blankly at the wall of my room, “It makes a lot of sense now. But how come you can be around me or in the sunshine? Don’t vmpires die in sunlight and drink people’s blood?” she felt her neck uncomfortably.
I was surprised that she hadn’t yelled yet. “No, only in the movies. Vence gave me make-up so I wouldn’t have to miss school, unfortunately. I can be around you because I’m strong enough to hold my urge in. Besides, humans don’t appeal to me anymore, I'm more of an animal type.”
“So Vence is a vampire, too. Yeah, I kind of figured for some reason.” She tapped her temple.
“Well it looks like your going to have to come with me to the party. Let’s dress up!”
“Wait, why do I have to go?” she frowned.
“So I can make sure that you don’t say anything! I don’t trust everyone. You might say something on ‘accident’ and that person might blog it and I'm dead. I’ll take the torquoise.” I zoomed over using my real speed and grabbed it of my bed and flung to the bathroom in the hall.
“I won’t tell, I promise. And the way you described the party, it sounds boring.” She sighed as I came back out the bathroom.
“I only said those boring things because you were on my back about it. Now choose yours and we can go!” I looked down at myself and thought I did look rather dazzling. I allowed Taylar to glaze over the other two since we were practically the same size.
“Will you have regular people there, too? Does your family know? Are they vampires too?” she went into the bathroom and closed the door.
“Yes. No! No! Any other questions?” I yelled to her.
“Just one more: Does purple look good on me?” she came from the bathroom and stood in the doorway.
“It looks like a statue when you wear it. Twirl a little.” She twisted and I gave her a thumbs up for trying.
Then there was a slight breeze coming in through my open window. Vence was standing on a branch outside and flew right through it without warning. He gazed in shock at me and my dress, and then slowly turned towards Taylar still standing in the doorway. He looked back at me and grinned.
“I didn’t see anything!” Taylar exclaimed.
“It’s cool. You can relax, Tay.”
Another breeze came through the window and in came John staring at me with his mouth open then at Taylar that was shocked for the second time.
“John, do you mind taking miss Taylar here to our little party tonight?” Vence grinned.
“Sure, I’ll take her!!” he jetted over to her and held his hand out for her to grip.
“Ew! Don’t even think about trying to do that, she is older than you!”
John swirled his head around to face me, “Is she, Luna? Is she really?”
Not really, but she wouldn’t go anywhere with you alone! She knows about us. I glared at him and gave a smile wider then the circumfrence of earth itself. His goofy expression lowered and he became a normal gentleman.
“So, we ready to go?” Vence asked looking down at me.
“Yes. Yes we are. John, you're carrying Taylar!” I demanded without taking my eyes away from Vence’s flawless, pimple-free face.
We lunged through the window on to the branch and, with my gorgeous shoes in my right hand, dashed through the trees. I didn’t know how Taylar felt, but I sure knew how I felt. I felt excited to be dead. To be with Vence forever, until I actually die. My world was clearer with Vence around. When he wasn’t around, my life was a big blur of nothing but colors. He was everything I needed. As long as I had him I didn’t want or need more.
The four of us went deep into the woods and found a cottage that looked small but wasn’t on the inside. The huge cabin had only one big room. That one room was livlier than New York City was during the new years, even though half of all the guest were vampires. The people were divided by an invisible line right down the middle of the cottage starting from the door. The vampires were on the left and the werewolves were on the right. The first people I spotted was the Vitaro family. Adam nodded to me and Mariah motioned me to come over with them and chat. I argued with myself about going, I finally skipped over to them jollyly and planted my feet next to Adam.
“So Luna, nervous being around all these people? Especially vampires. Those bloodsuckers are evil but that is why we have this party!” he laughed and I knew he was talking about me.
“How do you know?”
“Well, your boyfriend Vence didn’t get all the tapes from the bank and my nephew is the chief of police and found one. But don’t worry, I haven’t told anyone else.” His face relaxed.
I never thought that vampires could forget anything but I guess they can.
“Thank you,” I whispered as soon as I saw my mom coming over. Oh gosh, I'm in heaps of trouble.
“Young lady!”
“Oh, hi mom. Before you say anything, I already know. You're going to say something about school ending and me not being home. Then you're going to go on and on about how there is no reason for me to be late. Finally, you’ll finish off with a big groan and mumble about how teenagers are so hard-headed and I'm becoming someone you don’t recognize. Mom, I've heard it and I know it by heart.”
She bit her lip, “Am I really that predictive?”
“You have no idea!” I patted her on the shoulder and waltz my way next to Claire.
“Well, look at you Ms. Glam. Looking fabulous tonight. And you brought a straight human. I’ve smelt her and she smells devine. How did you managed all day with her?”
“Oh, just stood away from her for awhile. She doesn’t just smell good, she’s also really smart, she figured out that the Vitaros’ are werewolves and we are vampires. She said she wouldn’t tell but I took her along just in case she changed her mind.” I then froze. I heard someone’s thoughts clear as day but I had the feeling the person didn’t know that I was listening. I knew it was a vampire because it was thinking about blood and how he couldn’t stand it for much longer but I saw no blood anywhere in the room besides under people skin.
Then I heard a sentence that I knew wasn’t good: Taylar, I’ll save you! I searched with my eyes for Taylar and found that she wasn’t in the room. I went outside with Claire and Dayan on my heals. I sniffed the air and caught a whiff of blood. I followed my nose and found Taylar with closed eyes and gasping for air on the ground while John was fighting some other vampire up in the trees to the north.
“Don’t worry sweetie! Everything is going to be alright!” I knelt down next to her and rubbed her head feeling how hot she felt. She was burning up close to the tempature of a flaming asteroid. She had a bite mark on her wrist and a cut as deep as the pacific ocean on her left arm.
“She’s loosing a lot of blood, Luna! What do we do?” Claire was shaking frantically at the blood on the grass.
“First, maintain your shaking! Second, we don’t do anything. We got here to late. She’ll be awake in a minute.” I was furious.
I looked over my shoulder and saw John struggling with destorying a destroyer. I recognized the guy from inside the log cabin with us. His name was Ronald Leather. He wasn’t like the Rose family who could contain their thirst, he was blood crazy for humans and secretly ate hikers who were unlucky to fall onto his path up in the mountains in canada. I snook into the enemy’s thoughts and saw the whole story. I rose up and ran towards the killer. I kicked him in the back with all my might; he hit a tree and his left arm shattered into pieces. He shrieked with anger but I knew no one would hear it since the music in the cabin was turned up so loud, I could bet people in town would hear some of the sound even though we were miles into the forest. Dayan and Claire got up from Taylor’s side and took Ronald by the shoulders and held him still while he figdet trying to be free of their grip..
John came over and gave a happy smile and said, “Hold on to your balls ladies and gents! This will be an ass kicker!” He moved to the side and cleared a perfect view for me. “Since Taylar was your best friend, Luna, you may do the honors!” he bowed and I knew exactly what he meant. Since I was the newborn, I was the strongest of them all. I moved up to him and horizontally sliced Ronald in half. Dayan, wanting a piece of the action, ripped his other arm off his body. It was dreadful but satisfying. We heard mumbles and saw Taylar rise up like those vampires on the movies that usually be in coffins.
“Am I dead?” her eyes were wide and her pupils were a dark red.
“Sort of. Welcome to the vampire world!” Me, Dayan, John, and Claire smiled.
Taylar’s mouth dropped open in shock.