Peach Hills

1823

"I grew up with my parents and my sister Mia. When I was 14 I met a boy, older than my age, we became good friends. When I found out he's secret we talked and I wanted to be like him but something was telling me no. I said when I'm 18 I'll turn. On my 17th birthday someone who was friends with Peter, my friend, showed up. My mother invited him in the house thinking he was a friend of ours. He knew about me, being Peter's human friend, and he wasn't a good person, he chose to live a different way, vampires also have the ability to shut off emotion and feel nothing, he chose to live that way. He came in and while I was with Peter and he tried to kill him. I remember him, he's name was Finn, I remember him throwing Peter and then he came up to me. He broke a piece of timber from my bed and stabbed me with it, my stomach. I was only human. I knew I'd die. He sped off in a blink and Peter ran up to me, he fed me he's blood because vampire blood heals humans and is also the reason we heal so quickly. While I was drinking he's blood I died, the blood didn't heal me quick enough. If you die with vampire blood in your system you'll be come a vampire. When I woke up I was in transition and to pass transition, you need to drink human blood to become a vampire and that's what I did. I wasn't meant to turn when I was 17 but I hid the truth for many years from my family. When I was 20 Finn came back to my house and family in England when I was away and he murdered them. All of them. Except for my sister Mia who was only 12 at the time. He turned a 12 year old girl." He explains to me. Poor Mia, poor Cory. "What happened to Mia?" I ask him. "She is alive, she is with me, she's all I have left. After Finn killed my family Peter hunted him down and staked him. It took him 13 years of hunting Finn down before he slaughtered him. I have been with Mia ever since, we have learned to control it, the urges, and everything was calm, we were okay. We are okay." He smiles a sad smile and I feel the need to hug him. "What about Peter?" I ask after pulling back from he's hug. "You know the guy with the blonde hair, that I usually hang out with?" I nod. "Peter." He tells me. "Peter, you and him go to school, you live together with your sister?" He nods. "We have been together for a very long time. I chose to come back to school with Peter but my sister doesn't want to live that way." He tells me. "Can I meet her?" I ask. "Oh my goodness I'm so sorry I asked that's so stupid." I tell him. "No, you can if you want, might be nice for her." I nod. "So how were the other years?" I ask giggling. "Wow, well there was the 1920's, and the 1960's and 1980's. Some good decades some bad but I guess I just spent my life living in the moment." He tells me. "So where are you living?" I ask, looking around the park. "In a cave, just outside Peach Hills." He says seriously. "Show me." I demand. He bursts out into laughter. "Your so stupid Tash, and gullible. Peter, Mia and I live in an apartment down the road." He smiles. "Do you want to come over?" I nod, even though I know it may be a bad idea. We both take my car, him telling me the directions.

Throughout the whole drive, I never tell him what Mary has told me. About what she knows, about none of it.