A Hunger to Share ( Book One )

chapter 6

Gerard Butler, Scottish actor, as Steven

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Ada

Today marked the first anniversary of their death.

The others didn't seem to care. They preffered to refer to it as rebirth. But Ada didn't like suger coating shit.

Ada remembered last autumn when her Dad had gone hunting with his friends. They were waiting for him in the kitchen to start dinner. Hours went by but he was a no show. Mom got worried and called him but he didn't answer. It wasn't like Dad to miss out on a family night.

When he finaly did show up, he was covered in blood.

Ada remembered feeling afraid for him, rather of him. She remembered Mom's worried expression, Nora's protective presence right beside her.

Mom tried to get him to sit down, to call 911, but Dad wouldn't let her. Ada had never seen him so scared. He looked like a trapped animal, waiting to be slaughtered.

She wanted to help but was helpless. Mom didn't seem to know either and she always knew.

She finaly got him to talk, to tell them what had happened. He did in broken sentences. While hunting, some people had attacked them. He was the only one who had escaped. He diden't say why, or how it had happened, even when Mom pressed him about it.

Mom had tried to calm him down again, to take a closer look at him, make sure he was Ok but he wouldn't let her.

Eventually, he got tired of her fussing, took hold of her arm, and whispered. "I've been turned into a vampire Grace. I'm so sorry."

Ada recalled their shocked, incredulous faces. Nora's hand on her shoulder, ever the protective older sister, even if the age diffrence between them was no more than two years.

No one had believed him at first, thinking he was drunk or too shaken up by the death of his friends.

Dad sprang up so fast Ada's eyes couldn't follow his movements and burried his face in Mom's neck. She had screamed and tried to wriggle free of his hold, but he'd been much too strong for her. Too...Hungry.

Ada had never seen her Dad like that. It wasn't him. It couldn't be. She's been scared out of her wits, unable to move, to help her Mom.

Nora had yanked on her arm, dragging her out of the kitchen, away from the horrors unfolding in front of them.

Ada had tried to yank herself free of her hold, but she wouldn't let go. "We have to save Mom." She had shouted, voice trembling. "We have to do something."

"We can't." She hissed, frantic. "There's something really wrong with Dad and we can't fix it. We have to run, or he'll kill us too. Go on now. Get out of here. I'll hold him off as long as I can." She'd ripped open the back door, shoving her out.

"But I can t leave you..." Ada had tried to be strong like her sister, but it was impossible, specially with Dad probably killing Mom in the next room.

"Yes you can."

"Nora please, at least come with me. He'll kill you too. You saw what he's become. You can't fight him on your own..."

"I know but you have to survive this mess he's gotten us into, even if I can't. Someone has to..."

Ada had hugged her, clinging to her like a koala. "Nora please, I'm so scared."

She'd hugged Ada back, so tight she hadn't been able to breath. There were tears in her eyes, but unlike Ada, she hadn't let them fell. "You can't be. Now run like hell. I love you little sister." She had shut the door in Ada's pleading, wet face.

Ada wanted to go back in,  but she had been too scared, so she had turned around like a coward and ran in the oposite direction, leaving her sister at the mercy of their Father.

That was the last time she saw her family alive.