The abandoned city

The fall

Aiden

     We were both walking out of school, ready to feast for Zacks eight birthday. Mother allowed him to stay at home so we could celebrate his birthday together. Zack's parents weren't really caring about him, so mom accepted right away when i asked her if we could celebrate his birthday all together.
      Zack was a year younger than me. Well actually 9 months and 22 days, but don't tell him that i counted ! Zack is my best friend and always have. He is my confident, my best buddy. We always play pranks on every one and we always find a way to have fun together. We live in a norms (non magicians) city.
    We both come from magicians family and we are waiting to be both ten to be sent together to the Magic Academy to learn how to handle magic. We aren't allowed to practice magic in our city since it is dangerous if norms found out that magicians still existed, and were not just fantasies.
   But on this day we had no other choice but to show ourselves, use our magic to protect not only the magicians but the norms and the whole city. It was a small town but vampires have decided to make it their next target. Vampires usually don't attack in broad daylight and in such big numbers. But this day they did. It was chaos.
There were screams everywhere. People were trying to light vampires on fire. There were only eights magicians in the town and all of them were awful at magic.
Zack and I were making our way  home when the attack started. We all tried to understand what the heck was happening. When we saw them, we froze.
Vampires. Blood suckers. In front of us. Blood dripping from their mouths. They all look so pale.. and thirsty. I grabbed Zacks hand and started to run in a building.
We continued to run until i reached the door handle. I opened the door and rushed in, still pulling on Zacks hand.
I had an odd feeling.
A very odd felling.. it felt like his hand became wet and.. lighter.
I turned around and screamed.
Zack was gone. I was holding his hand and dead arm. Vampires slashed his arm and probably took him to finish him off somewhere further away.
I held on to his bleeding arm from two days. The smell was terrible. I was so hungry. I was dirty from the blood and the tears. I was sleepy but i wouldn't let myself sleep knowing I had just lost my best friend.
"Zack.. come back to me ! You can't be dead now ! We haven't pranked Mrs.Welkern yet ! You said you were expecting this more than anything ! Zack.. I hate you.. Come back to me !"
I cried and cried until i finally fell asleep after what felt like an eternity.
I felt someone picking me up but i was too exhausted to fight back.