Love Bite

Chapter 1: Introduction

"Remember to bring back some milk and bread!" My mother yelled to me from the kitchen, only days before the accident, she was so full of life.

"I know Mum!" I yelled back "Bye!"

"Bye princess!"

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Now I sit here, on this old chair with barely any fabric on the seat, next to my mothers hospital bed praying that she can get through this.

"I remember when you were little and you used to call out to me from the treehouse and ask for more juice" my mother says to me as I hold onto her hand "and when your father used to pick you up and twirl you around when he got home every day. You are so beautiful Eva, don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise, you're my little princess"

"I know Mum" I say.

"If I don't make it, I want you to stay happy"

I feel my heart shatter into a thousand pieces at her words and I put my other hand over hers "Mum, you aren't going to die" I say "you cant, you have to stay, you cant leave me"

"I'm so sorry honey, but I don't think I'm gonna make it" I see the tears in her eyes as she looks at me and I hear her heart rate monitor start to go up in speed.

"Mum no. You'll be fine, I'm sure of it"

But I wasn't so sure, I was a mess, both she and I knew she wouldn't make it and it was breaking our hearts, I couldn't deal with this.

"Lets just enjoy the time we have left" She says, smiling at me and I take a tissue and wipe away my tears along with hers.

"Sure. What do you want to do?" I asked, forcing myself to smile for her. I need to toughen up, if shes going to be gone, then I need to be able to get on with life, and I need to show her that I will try to be happy for her, no matter what.

"Lets watch all those movies that we always said we would see but didn't" she says to me "and the notebook"

We laugh together at her add on and I smile as I grab out my phone to call one of my friends. I ask her if she can get some movies for me and I'll pay her back, I list off Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, the other woman, bridesmaids, Nemo, and ask her to get The Notebook from my house.

A little while later she calls saying she'll be there in five and I get the T.V ready to watch, after making sure we were allowed, but with it being my mothers dying wish, I'm pretty sure they couldn't refuse.

We watch the movies in a peace and happiness but knowing in the back of our minds that this is our last moment together, and every time I laugh, I feel a pang in my heart at knowing I wont be able to laugh like this with my mother ever again.

Nonetheless, we tried to forget our troubles and watched all the movies over 2 days, and I never left her side. People from her work would come over bringing flowers with them that I try to keep them alive best I can. One time I left for a moment to go get a drink and came back to a bunch of flowers left by an S and O Baxter, nothing else, just their last name really. My mother was asleep, so she had no clue.

We kept getting more movies and things to do, like play card games and she finally watched the infamous, Frozen, and hated Hans, like everyone else, but her favourite song wasn't 'let it go' it was actually Anna's and Hans' song, the love one, that wasn't like everyone else. She said the song itself reminded her of my dad and how they felt for each other.
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A week later she passed away, peacefully, her last piece of advice to me being "always be happy, and don't let anyone get you down, because when you're happy you're like a beacon of light, shining so bright and beautiful" and then "and don't fall for some shitbag, only ever date people who you know and trust and are good for you" the way she went from a beautiful quote worthy sentence to "and don't date some shitbag, made me laugh a little throughout the sadness.

I cried for weeks after, almost a month after her funeral I still couldn't bring myself to go back to school, and I realised that some of my close friends really weren't all that great, they showed little to no sympathy. But my best friend Anne, who got us the DvD's, and on some occasions, watched a few of them with us, was the most sympathetic she could be, crying sometimes when she was with me. I started to stay over at her house, being alone in mine, picturing my mother everywhere I go, was too much for me.

Her family was accepting and sympathetic with me, always treading carefully on eggshells. Her brother, Thomas, had always been a kind person, and tried to console me, the whole thing must have been difficult for him seeing me that way, because he had confessed to me a couple months ago and I had been considering it at the time of the accident. Now I felt empty and wasn't in any mood or mindset to think of being able to love someone or be happy.

Another month later and I was slowly starting to get back on the horse, I didn't quite know what was going to happen to me as far as where I'm living, whether I'd be put in foster care or not, I was sure I didn't have any living relatives or godparents, so that was probably what was going to happen to me. I started going to school again, no one really knew what to say around me, I tried to put on a face and be happy, but I still only felt heartbroken on the inside. I got sent flowers again from S and O Baxter and tried to keep them alive, the card actually had something written this time "sorry for your loss" and "we will miss her too, you are not alone". Seeing as they cared enough to send flowers a few times, I tried to keep them alive and nurtured them.

And another month later I was starting to live with my mothers passing, and was dealing with the fact that she was gone but she was happy when she left, and she was with my father now. She'd want me to be happy. I still hadn't heard much from child services on what was happening. Last I heard, they were tracking down to see if I had any relatives, they found that I in fact, did have godparents, which was something I wasn't aware of, and they were getting in touch with them.

I was beyond upset when they told me that my godparents had arranged for me to live with them and I was going to have to leave my current town. Saying goodbye to my house that at least wasn't going to be sold, because my parents owned it so it was now mine, saying goodbye to my friends, and trying to say goodbye to my mother once and for all, deciding that I had to be happier for her before I left.

Though when I arrived at my new house, I was greeted with a very shocking surprise, and I have to live with it for the next 2 years.

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Hello anyone and everyone reading, hope you are having a good day and I really hope you enjoy this book.

I decided to start off with backstory since it was something I wanted explained in depth rather than throughout the book from being mentioned.

I think out of my books so far, this is the one that I like most, maybe tied with Walk The Line (cuz I like me vampires, don't judge)

But anyway, I do hope that you will comment and vote and hopefully stick with this book and read it until the very end!

Bai

- Rae