• "kristin? hello?" i feel something tugging at the edge of my concious.

    "WAKE UP YOU IDIOT!"

    "gah!" im startled awake by Matt, the star athlete of everything but baseball.

    "what? is class done already?" i ask sloshing the word.

    "its been done for the past ten minutes, ive been trying to wake you since, but it seems i couldnt get throught that think skull of yours!" he snaps at me and starts to walk away.

    "whats with you always falling asleep in the middle of class?" he asks.

    "man im hungry, lets go eat." i say

    "depends on whos buying?" he gives me a sideways glance. i smile and say "you are you numskull!" then i run to my car and jump in.

    were on our way to Buger King when this crazy kid in a black hoodie runs infront of me and acroos the road. i slam on the brakes and honk the horn but when i look hes already gone.

    we pull up into the parking lot and he runs out the door. by the time i lock the car hes at the bugerking door laughing.

    "whats so fuinny?" i ask.

    he then pulls my wallet out from his pocket, i then scream and charge at him. we run into the resturant breathing heavily, we order our food and sit down.

    After were done eating we rush back to school, were fifteen minutes late.

    The bored secretary asks “reason you’re late?”

    “We were held up at the counter, some guy had a big meal, and it took time to make, then we got stuck in a traffic jam.”

    “Sign here.”

    After we part for class, I’m walking down the hallway. Alone. I feel someone watching me, I stop, look around, still no one; all of a sudden my left arm flies out mysteriously and strikes the locker, a dull echo rings out, then a muffled moan, the locker opens and out comes James, my personal stalker.
    “What are you doing?” I ask, angered that he was spying on me.



    “I needed your help but was to shy to ask.” He looks down timidly.

    “You need my help?” he usually never spoke to me, let alone ask for help.

    “I need your advice really; I need you to help me ask out Lisa. C-can … you help me?

    He wanted me to help him ask out Lisa? The most popular girl in school.

    “You want me to help you ask Lisa out!” I yell a little to loud as Mr. Dalton our science teacher pops his head out the door and asks “is there a reason your not in class?”

    I look at James evilly and say “we were late at lunch.” I show him my late slip, he snaps his head at James, James cowers from him in fear of getting in trouble.

    Lisa, Long blonde hair, tall beautiful body, while me emo-ish black hair with long hot pink streaks, and sharp cheek bones. I wasn’t even tall. John, tall slender body, good athlete, short dark brown hair, bright blue eyes.

    John and I were friends since grade 4, we did everything together, Icouldn’t believe I was going to help out James, John had like Lisa for a year now. While James only a month. I liked both James and John.

    “Fine ill help, I wont like it but ill help.” With that we walk to our next class, English.

    “we will be reading from Romeo and Juliet this class, so I expect that you all have your text books open and ready at the right page?” asks Ms. Biss, I barley heard, I was already day dreaming about vampires, werewolves, withes, warlocks, I love vampires best, I always wanted to be one.

    It wasn’t until that weekend that I found out the horrible truth, why James always was so dark around people, why he seemed to stalk me, always watching me. why he asked for my help, even though he could get any girl he wanted. But ill tell you all that for when the time comes, in exactly one day.

    It was 8pm, I was walking home from working at the library, when I saw him, waiting like he said, on my doorstep.


    “Hello” I greet him calmly.

    He looks at me, smiles and greets me back, im unlocking the door when I notice my mother hasn’t come home.

    “How odd.” I state

    He looks up, and gives me a questioned look.

    “My mom said shed be home by seven o’clock.”

    We walk in and I flick on the lights, we both wait to adjust to the light, then we sit on the couch, I ask if he wants a drink but he declines kindly. I’m in the kitchen when I her him breathing down my neck, I spill the Pepsi over the counter, I rush to get a towel but he already has one. I thank him and mop up the spilt drink.

    “I’m sorry,” I apologize

    “No harm done, see it’s already cleaned up.” He states matter-of-factly.

    Were sitting down on the only couch, a loveseat. As were sitting I turn on the T.V but he quickly shuts it off with saying his eyes can’t stand the light from the television. So were sit, he moves ever so closer, inch my inch, centimetre by centimetre, until were basically touching each other.

    He looks into my eyes and I feel the sudden urge to be closer to him, to let him touch me, with his oddly cold hands. He reaches for my neck; I jump slightly as his fingers trace invisible lines that only he seems to see across my baring skin. Then his ice cold lips seem to trace over my neck, then I feel him kissing me, his teeth suddenly sinking into my flesh, I gasp with pain but am unable to move, until my mother walks in the front door.

    “What is going on!” she thunders, but James has already licked my wound and is standing preparing to leave, he walks out the door and I race to the bathroom feeling like I’ about to puke, I’ve never felt this sick in my lifetime. I puke up my lunch. Disgusting. I chugged down a few glasses of water.


    “Are you ok sweetie?” my mother asks through the doorway. But I’ already asleep, she leaves a glass of water beside the bed and closes the door. I faintly hear my window opening, then I feel invisible hands lifting me up and out the window, James whispers into my ear, “I’m sorry, it wasn’t supposed to be like this, but its to late to kill you, ill have to finish the ceremony, before you…truly die.”

    I open my eyes slightly; I see were in a dank, dark house, the curtains drawn. I see James biting his wrist till it bled.

    I manage out a gurgled word “n-no”

    “I have to, if I don’t you will die, do you understand me? You will die

    “What will happen?”

    “You will become one of us”

    “And what are us exactly?”

    “Were….” He pauses.

    “Tell here James.” I notice that someone else is here, James father, Theodor.

    “You… us…were vampires Kristin. You will become one of us soon enough, it will be painful but it will only last three days, I promise.” He try’s to cry but no tears show, I don’t think they can cry.

    “I’ sorry Kristin but this wasn’t the way it was supposed to end.” Theodor says sadly.

    “n-no” but I’m cut off as James put his cut wrist to my mouth and orders me to drink, I struggle but it oddly tastes good, to good, I drink and drink, for about two minutes I notice nothing around me but the bitter-sweet taste of his blood, until he slowly pulls away, and I notice the sleek shine of sweat on his forehead.



    I am about to ask him what’s wrong but I black out, I notice first the warmness of a fire but then its like I’m getting close, to close to the fire, I try to pull away but its impossible. I’m now fully into the flame, its burning my skin off, I cant breath, it goes on like this for god knows how long, I don’t know where I am, all I cant think about I when this blinding pain will end.

    I feel it receding now, fading farther and farther away. I wake, the first thing I see is the blinding light, and then that recedes too, then I see him, James, still standing by my side. Then it all goes to hell.

    For him.




    END OF CHAPTER 1