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Chapter Two

Chapter Two

         Last night is almost a blur.....I remember  I was running down the street ......then someone was screaming but  I didn't stop. I remember getting a rush from attacking the person, from drinking their blood....sucking the life out of them. But by twilight I wake up in my bed looking around to see Zayba and Josh sleeping quietly. Just a dream I guess? shrugging off the thought, I reflexively get up too fast from my bed so I go to reach for my shoulder to massage the pain.....only to realize I'm not feeling anything?

"That's really odd...."

 I stumble towards the bathroom and begin to unroll the bandage Josh made me. What I find underneath the bandage horrifies me.  " Is...Is that even possible?!" I start to feel faint and catch myself on the wall behind me. Slowly and carefully I touch my shoulder and I don't feel any pain at all.

" This is so...so...weird!" I whisper.

I walk out of the bathroom towards the kitchen to find Zayba. She stands at the window looking out as she drinks a cup of coffee. My foot causes a floor board to creak and she spins her head quickly in my direction.

Slowly relaxing." Oh Erin. Its just you."

" Yeah.....okay...can you explain my shoulder?" I point at my shoulder and her eyes widen.

" Well I do say.....it's gone and healed itself!" She begins to poke my shoulder.

" I can see that.....what did you use on it?"

" I didn't use anything that would cause this. Just rubbing alcohol  and bandaged it up." She turns around to fill her cup up with more coffee.

" You know what's really strange....the dream I had last night." I shiver just at the thought of it.

" What was it about?" she takes a long sip from her mug.

" Well....it's kind of hard to explain. I was outside and-"

Josh walks in rubbing his head. " What's so hard to explain?" 

Zayba hands Josh a mug full of coffee." Thanks love." she nods and both take a sip of their mugs as I continue on with my story.

 " As I was saying. I was outside and walking down the street....It was dark outside, all of the sudden I see a person but......its like it was inferred vision.....t-then....I attacked the person. The worst part was I was getting such a rush and I...I enjoyed it....."  I rub my arms slowly from the chills I was getting.

" Hmm.....very interesting."

Josh smirks." Sounds like you dreamt you were a bloody vampire!"

I stare at josh with disgust," No way! that's one thing I wouldn't dare dream about!"

" Josh is right. Its normal to dream about stuff that we think a lot about during the day and it sticks with us when we rest."

" I hope your right.....well we can't just sit around talking, I need to take care of some business."

Both Zayba and Josh look at eachother then back at me but ignored any further questions. I quickly run to my bedroom to begin unchanging, man pajama shorts are already off and now is the tough part.....getting my shirt. somehow the damn thing got caught on my bra hooks in the back, I was fixing and pulling the shirt up when....he spoke.

"Bloody hell!"

His eyes were wide open....I couldn't tell if he was smirking or was still trying to wake up. different reactions were going on in my mind, should I yell? should I laugh it off? should I just let him look, its been how long since he's probably seen a girl's.... Hell no! I can't let him see. So I did the only rational thing I could do.....I reacted like any girl would.