Saving Peyton ( SP #1)

Ch. 1

dedicated to ronald_reagan_ for sticking with me from the beginning.

"Come on, Peyton," Brooke, my bestfriend, yelled.

"Im coming!" I yelled.

I glanced at myself one last time in the mirror before grabbing my wallet and car keys, and headed down stairs.

Tonight was Halloween and Brooke, her boyfriend Micheal, and a few of his friends, and of course me, were all going to the abandoned mansion down the road. This was my first time ever going, but everyone else has been before. Usually I never do these kind of things, but somehow Brooke had convinced me to go this year.

Since all of us couldn't fit in one car we had to take mine and Brooke's. Brooke pulled out of the driveway first, so I could follow.

After about twenty minutes we were parked in front of the mansion. The outside was a horrible looking. The windows were boarded up with wooden planks, and the frame of the house looked like it could fall at any moment.

"Come on, lets go in," Micheal said.

We all nodded and headed into the building. Micheal pushed the metal door and with a bang it flew open. The inside was unlike any other house I have ever seen. To say it was beautiful was an understatement. There wasn't any words that could possibly describe the inside.

We all split up to look around. I went upstairs and looked through every room, they were basically all the same. As I got to the end of the hall, the last room on the right was weird. The door was metal. I gave it a hard push to see if it would open, but it didn't even budge.

I tried three or four more times, and on the fifth time it finally busted open, and caught off guard, I tripped. I felt a sting on my leg and looked down and seen a long scratch that was bleeding.

I got up off the floor and used my jacket to wipe some of the blood off, but it just kept bleeding. I looked around and I thought it was the same as every other room. But man was I wrong.

As I got to the closet, I hesitated to open it, because I got a bad feeling. I eventually opened it, man i wished I never opened it. I looked up and a scream got caught in my throat. Inside the closet there was a man, but he wasn't any normal man, he looked around 18 or 19 years old, just a few years older than me.

The doors to closet slammed shut, closing with me inside. I stumbled forward and fell onto the man. I quickly stood up and backed away. My leg was hurting more than ever now. I looked up, and actually screamed this time, because staring into my blue eyes were the mans bright red ones.

A hand quickly covered my mouth, while the other went around my waist as he pulled me into him.

When I eventually stopped screaming, he uncovered my mouth, but kept his hand firmly around my waist. He turned me around so I was now facing him. I struggled to get out of his embrace, he finally got the hint and let me go, but it caught me off guard and I fell backwards into the door, which busted open, causing me to fall back and land on my butt. The next thing I know, he was crouched down next to me.

" Are you alright" He asked.

I nodded, and quickly stood back up. I backed away, to where he was across the room.

His emotionless eyes staring into mine.

"What are you?" I choked out. He cautiously took a step forward. What he said next scared me to death.

" A vampire." He replied softly.

I start to back away, maybe I can get away. When I turned around to run, I screamed.

There he was right in front of me, when just a few seconds ago he was across the room. My heart was beating so loud, people across the street could hear it, I'm sure.

"Please don't run, I promise I wont hurt you. " he replied to me.

Before I managed to choke out any other words, darkness overcame me.