Bite Me

Chapter unu- An Insightful meeting

Panting, I'm running through the forest leaping over logs and barging through bushes. My thoughts are running faster than Hermes would fly. I'm stuck with a beast chasing me, and it's out for blood... Now you may be wondering how the hell did you get stuck in this situation. Well let's start from the beginning, or at least what I think is the beginning. It was around halloween and I was trying to enjoy my senior year in high school. For some reason I, still naive, thought that nothing would go wrong that year and the worst was behind me. Boy could I have been more wrong...

October 20 Wednesday

I rest my head against the bus window and look down at my fantasy journal. You see, I loved and cherished learning about mythical creatures. Once I did learn about one I wrote everything I knew about it in the book as well as some sketches. My newest page is on vampires because for Halloween in History class my teacher is giving us lessons on the history of certain mythical creatures, one of them being a vampire. I was interested in how vampires have changed over the years. When we think of vampires today we think of Dracula and sexy men and women who just want to suck your blood. But originally vampires were just dead people that would crawl up out of their graves and seek revenge on the living by drinking their blood. In Fact I remember reading an article about it, people would break the dead's jaws and put a brick in them because they were afraid of the dead crawling from their graves. Imagine zombies but more ugly and they drink blood. Yeah that's about right. Opening my eyes I notice that the bus driver is standing in front of me. She gestures towards the door and I look around to see I'm the last one on the bus. Grabbing my bag and book I whisper a small thank you to the bus driver and

walk off the bus and into school. My parents and I live in a small town in Virginia, near a dense wooded area. Grabbing my Airpods I put them in my ears and started playing a playlist I had on spotify. Luckily History was my first period for me so even if I was exhausted I could pass the class with a breeze. Walking through the doors of Sunview High I see people conversing about the upcoming halloween party. Sighing, I stop at the cafeteria morning drink window and offer a small smile to my friend whom worked there every morning. "Morning Benji" My timid friend turns around quickly and lets out a sigh of relief when he realizes it's me.

"Ahhh good morning Antanasia. You startled me." He rubbed the back of his head and smiled.

Laughing a bit I respond "Uh-huh, apparently I always startle you. Bu-"

Before I can finish he says " Large hot chocolate with an extra pump of chocolate, a pump of caramel, peppermint crumbles, whipped cream and marshmallows. Not to mention exactly in that order?"

Giggling I say "Okay so apparently I drink too much hot chocolate, and you know me well enough to nail my order." We continued to talk while he made my hot chocolate. I didn't even realize the bell rang "So that's why I believe we should've kept the gold standard, not to men-" Suddenly Ben is tugging me towards our hallway for our first class. "Hey wha-"

Rolling his eyes he smirks and says "You missed the bell." He then hands me my hot chocolate and pushes me in the direction of my classroom. "See ya later Nerd."

Letting out a breathy laugh I reply "See you later Dork" I hear a "Hey!" and I chuckle. Hopefully Mr. Dorin will let me be late again. You see, there has been a rising problem for me. I'm finding it harder and harder to sleep. Every night I see a woman that looks like me in my dreams; Dirty blonde hair, flawless tan skin and beautiful emerald eyes that could catch any man. Not only that but she always seems to be talking to someone. It's constantly recurring every night. I've also noticed it's always around 3:00 in the morning, which honestly scares me. Shivering I shake the thought and continue walking to my class. Turning right I hear yelling and someone being slammed into lockers, the cause of the noise suddenly being revealed. I see Jake Swert and Gerold Heisner messing with what seemed to be a new kid, knocking him into lockers. Glaring I march up to them and cooly say "Swert, Heisner let the new guy alone."