Too Human - Forbidden book 1

Too Human

Chapter One

Violet

Once upon a time...

That’s how storeys with happy endings start, right?

Well don’t be sure this one does.

My Uncle had just left my bedroom; I wasn’t crying like I use to. It had been months since I’d cried after he’d been in. I lay in bed shivering, trying to go to sleep and hoping the nightmares wouldn’t replay what had just happened. My door creaked open spilling light into my room and I held my breath.

“Violet?” Dustin whispered. “Violet, can I sleep in here tonight?”

I sighed. “Dustin, you’re not meant be sleeping in my bed any more, you getting too old. How many other boys your age sleep in their sister’s bed?”

“I dunno. Can I?” The light from the hall glowed behind him, making his blond curls light up. He shifted from side to side glancing out the door and back in at me.

I pulled back my covers and indicated he could come in. He closed the door behind him and in the light behind him before he closed it out I could see his eye was swelling. I turned my lamp on as he climbed in. “Dustin?” I said, taking his chin in my hand but he jerked away. “He did it again, didn’t he?”

“It’s not as bad as what he does to you, if you can handle it, so can I.”

“You shouldn’t have to handle it.”

“Nor should you.”

“I’m your sister, I told you I will always protect you from him, it’s not me I worry about.”

“It should be, he does more damage to you.”

I couldn’t argue with him there but I wanted to say something right. “Only another a year and a few weeks before we can leave. When I’m eighteen we’ll run away forever and never have to see him again. I promise.”

“I know, Vee. You’ll take care of me, always have, always will,” he said, getting comfortable and closing his eyes.

“Always,” I whispered into the dark.

I had to be honest with myself, Dustin may feel safer in here with me, but I also felt safer with him in here too. I’d just rolled over trying to go to sleep when I heard a smash and rolled my eyes thinking my uncle had smashed a beer bottle but suddenly he was yelling and this time it wasn’t at me, then he was cut off abruptly. I climbed out of bed to see what was going on and three men burst into my room. I stumbled back, away from them but they came at me, arms out stretched to catch me.

“Vee!” Dustin cried from my bed.

One of the men grabbed him, covering his mouth with his hand and held him down on my bed. While I’d been distracted by Dustin the other two men grabbed me. I screamed and kicked and fought as they carried me from the house while I yelled for Dustin, but they didn’t release me. I could hear Dustin calling for me, screaming for them to let me go but they continued and I was thrown into the boot of a car, my heart jack hammering I was so scared. The car started and drove down our driveway and onto the street driving me away from my house and my brother. The car had that new car smell as well as something metallic, the boot was tiny and had no release button it the inside, though I continued to frantically search for one. I kicked at the boot and screamed my lungs out until my voice went hoarse and after a few hours of driving the car came to a stop and I was taken out, blindfolded and gagged.

I was carried for a bit and then we went inside. My struggles didn’t seem to bother them much and they ignored my protests as well. Then they were holding me still, my arms above my head and thick, cold clamps went around my wrists and my ankles. And that’s when I knew I was in some serious shit. I tried to struggle the best I could until someone hit me in the chest, knocking the wind out of me. A man shouted at someone, cursing at him that I shouldn’t be bruised. I didn’t sleep that night I struggled to hear any sign of movement around me but the room appeared to be empty. I wouldn’t allow myself to go to sleep in case someone did come in. Hours and hours later when I could only assume it was the next morning, someone came in and explained to me what a vampire was, giving me a lesson on them. I couldn’t see the man because of the blind fold, but I could hear him well enough. I called him crazy, but it came out muffled against the cloth in my mouth but he ignored me and continued with his lecture.

“Shut up, girl, I’m trying to help you the best I can. It will come as a real shock if I don’t explain this to you. Now listen carefully,” he said. He told me about vampiric laws and what was real and what was myth. “They can’t go into the sun or they will crumble to dust. Many vampire’s live in houses like you and me but either their houses have no windows or they are sealed so as no sun can penetrate them and come through. Also vampire do not need to sleep in coffins, that’s an ancient myth created by vampires themselves so that if someone suspected them of being a vampire they would look for a coffin and when it was not found they would dismiss them as a vampire. Because of the sun they do sleep during the day but that does not mean he or she can’t wake up during the day...”

I didn’t really listen because I thought he was nuts and it sounds like a history lesson and I zoned out, trying to think of a way out of here. I couldn’t even think of any crazy idea to get out of here let alone plausible ones.

I didn’t get to eat at all, I asked one or twice but I’d received no answer or food. I thought of Dustin and my horrid uncle and what uncle would be doing to him. What would Dustin have thought happened to me? I couldn’t sleep that night either, I didn’t eat or sleep and finally someone came into the room I was in.