My Forest Nightmare

Living with a Vampire

It has been 3 weeks since Nathan took me and I have started to get used to my 'new life'. Nathan still scares me but not as much as he used to. He watches me most of the time but I think he might be starting to trust me a little because he's leaving me unsupervised for longer periods of time each day. I've been trying my hardest to stay out of trouble, every now and again when I do something wrong Nathan will warn me but if I do it again he will hurt me... I learned that the hard way. He said for the first month and a bit he will be lenient on me while I get used to everything, but after that I get no warnings.

Nathan only lets me in certain rooms and even then some I can't be in without him in there with me, but that isn't my biggest problem. Every time Nathan wants to drink from me I freak out and either run or resist. He says that sooner or later I have to get used to it because in a few weeks he won't tolerate it and start to punish me; that I don't want. I hate it when he's angry because he's really scary.

"Alysha!"

I squeal snapping out of my thoughts. "Y-yes N-Nathan?"

"Day dreaming again are we?" He says with a smirk laughing slightly as he sits next to me on the couch.

"Y-yeah I guess... I'm just thinking about these past few weeks"

"Well right now I need you to listen to me." I look up at him and listen. "Remember when I told you about my job a few days ago?" I nod and wait for him to continue. "Well I have to go back tomorrow, which means leaving you here on your own. Now before you get any ideas I want to tell you a little story. You know when you were in the woods 3 weeks ago and you heard that little girl scream? Well her name was Amber and she was 10 years old; she had been with me for 6 months. The first 2 months she was me I didn't let her out of my sight because she was trouble. After a month or so after that I went back to work and everything was fine so almost every day I went to work, but that morning 3 weeks ago I went to work she was acting strange, she said she was just a little tired and feeling sick so I shrugged it off and went to work. That night when I got back I couldn't find her, and that's when I realised that she had done a runner. So I hunted her down and killed her!"

"I won't try anything I swear! I'll stay here! I won't even go near any of the windows!" I said really fast, my hands shaking slightly.

"Calm down will you! I trust you, I just thought it would be a good idea to tell just in case you had any ideas."

Calming down a little I stopped shaking. "H-how long will you be gone? I don't really want to be alone because I still don't really know this place"

"I leave at 7 and I'll try to be home before dark but I can't promise anything."

"Okay" I replied quietly "C-can I go to bed?"

"Yeah I'll see you in the morning"

I gave him a small smile and got up. I walked up the stairs and into my room, changed into my pj's and laid down in bed.
'I don't want to be left alone. I want Nathan to stay here... I mean what if I do something wrong and I get hurt when he gets back because of it! I don't want to make him angry, I just want to stay out of trouble and make him happy.'

I got back up out of bed and walked downstairs into the lounge room. I walked over to Nath and sat down facing him.

"Thought you were going to bed?"

"I was... ummm..." I looked away wondering if this was a bad idea.

"What's up?"

I looked back at him, looking him in the eyes. "Do you want any blood?"
I saw his eyes look to my neck hungrily but then back to my eyes.

"Why you asking me? It was only a few hours ago I had you pinned to the wall squirming while I was drinking from you. What's changed Baby?"

"I-I just thought maybe you wanted some more blood tonight... If you don't want me here i-i'll go" I stood up and went to run upstairs but Nathan grabbed my wrist, stood up and wrapped his arms around me from behind.

"Tell me what's going through that head of yours"

'Tell him Alysha! Tell him that you're scared to be here alone! Tell him you want him to stay!'
"It's nothing"
'No don't lie to him you idiot!'

"You're acting weird, tell me what's going on"

"I... I just don't want you to be angry with me" I say quietly, almost a whisper.

"Why would I be angry?" He asks confused

"W-what if when you're at work tomorrow I do something by accident and when you get home you get mad because of what I did? I'm scared I'll mess everything up! I don't want to get hurt" I whimper, a single tear falling from my watery eyes. I hear Nathan sigh then he turns me to face him.

"So you thought that if you gave me blood without me having to ask I'd be more lenient on you?"

"It was a stupid idea I'm sorry I bothered you" I said shaking

"Baby calm down, you'll be fine, and if you do, do something it won't matter. You're still learning so it's okay, just tell me about it and don't lie alright?"

I nodded my head and Nathan pulled me into a hug. I hugged him back and surprisingly felt safe in his arms. He doesn't scare me as much anymore... apart from when he's angry of course! He terrifies the bjibers out of me! But not like this, I could get used to this... It just means doing all I can to stay out of trouble.

A few minutes later I said goodnight to Nathan and went back up to my room. I hopped into bed and drifted off to sleep.