Home Plate

Chapter 1: The Locker Room

I was a star. Everyone ran towards me, cheering, lifting me up onto their shoulders. I grinned widely as my teammates screamed their happiness. The other team slowly walking to their disappointed parents with looks of lost on their faces. Then big gold trophy was shoved into my hands and people looked at me as if saying 'put it up!' And so I did just that. I through up my hands gripping the trophy tightly and I screamed "we did it!"

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3 years later

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"Hey Nicky what are you still doing here?" I turned around, bat still in hand, and looked at my coach. My name was Nicole but it was to feminine for me so I tell people to call me Nicky.

"Just throwing in some extra practice coach." I yelled over to him.

"Ha like you need it, hit the showers sport everyone's already gone." He yelled as he started to walk away.

"I will in a little coach, I'll make sure to lock up!" I yelled at his retreating figure. He waved his handed over his head as he shouted a quick goodbye and then he was gone, lost in the darkness of night. I turned back on the plate and through the baseball up as I swung at it. It went out and over the fence. I sighed as I went to go retrieve it. I pick up all 5 balls I had practiced with and put them in to my bag along with my two bats. I walked over to the girls locker room and was about to walk inside when I heard a scream. I looked around but saw no one there, "hello?" I yelled. I walked around the building but didn't see anyone so I just went inside the locker room and locked the door behind me just in case. I took a quick shower and jumped out and threw on my shirt, I had forgotten my bra, underwear and shorts in my locker. I walked out to my locker and opened it when I saw a figure in my peripheral vision. I quickly snapped back as I took in the persons features.

"Mr. Walter?!" I yelled "what are you doing in the girls locker room so late at night?!" I screamed as I grabbed the edge of my shirt trying to pull it down so he didn't see my privates. A blush flooded to my face as he looked down my body.

"What happened?" He asked sternly and he gritted his teeth. I looked down to see what he was talking about when I remembered the cut I had gotten on my side earlier from jumping a fence to get into the baseball field early in the morning. The cut had reopened during the shower and now I was bleeding down my side, soaking through my white t-shirt. I gasped and looked back up at him.

"It's just a little cut I got from the fence, it must have reop-" I was cut off quickly when I was pushed against the lockers ruffly. I gasped as I looked at Mr. Walters face, he was pissed and his eyes where black! I was breathing hard as he leaned in just the slightest bit and I let out a choked sound "Mr. Walters pleas-" he growled and ripped open my shirt I screamed as loudly as I could but he covered my mouth. He then, with his other hand, put both my arms above my head. I was fully exposed to him and at his mercy. He quickly bent down and licked my wound, I cried into his hand. He snapped back up and I saw his face again but this time he had red eyes and blue and purple veins showing through his skin, and two fangs replaced his side teeth. My eyes went wide as he head went to my neck and I felt the most god awful pain. His fanged broke open my skin, ripping and stretching it. I felt a burning heat start at my neck and excel through my body. I burned and I felt like I was slowly slipping away. I felt his mouth leave my neck as he came in to view again but this time as the normal Mr. Walters just with blood on his face.

"Oh god! What have I done... Nicole..." He yelled but it sound like a whisper as I drifted into blackness.