In These Lyrics

My First Kill

Erens POV

I looked on YouTube the next day to see the progress of my video and was expecting nothing, so to say I was shocked was a bit of an understatement. It already had around 700 000 likes and over a million views. I scrolled through the comments. Some people had hatful messages like "Get a life and stop whining over the past" and "Emo faggot" I tried to ignore them and drown them all out with the nice comments about how my song brought this one person out of suicide consideration, and another about how beautiful my voice was. I smiled at the small screen for the first time in a good while. A text notification appeared at the top of my screen.

Annie Leonhert: Hey, can I book an appointment today? Can we meet at the Colossal Hotel lobby? Thanks

I sighed, I was hoping not to have work today, I felt like crap. But, I needed the money. I got dressed and head out. When I got out I was hit by a barrage of sound. Like thousands of drums beating at different paces. I looked around, but didn't see any street performers. The cars passing left lingering roars in my ears. I felt like I was hearing everything in overdrive. But what were the drumbeats? Feet? No. Those were a separate sound completely. The only sound that I could think made that sound was, no it couldn't be, a heartbeat? Was I hearing these people's heartbeats? Wow, to be honest that's pretty cool, but its annoying as hell.

I soon arrived at the Colossal Hotel and looked at the picture that this Annie girl sent me, a blonde with bored blue eyes. I instantly noticed her booking a room at the front desk of the grand hotel. I walked over to her and introduced myself she nodded and pulled me to the room she booked.

"Payment?" I said, I always asked to get payed beforehand. She nodded and reached into he purse and pulled out what looked like around 250 dollars. Perfect. I grabbed it and shoved it in my pocket. I looked up at her and met her eyes. They widened. I heard her heartbeat increase, it sounded oddly... Appealing.

"You- Your the guy from the video!" Oh, she recognized me. I put on a sly grin and placed my finger on her lips.

"Shhhh, let's get to work shall we?" I said with the same sly grin that made me the most popular prostitute in the city, and I still didn't have enough to get by.

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She fell asleep immediately afterwards and I got dressed and slipped out of the room with practiced silence. I noticed at that moment that I was really hungry. I hadn't eaten anything since yesterday.

I looked up at the cloudy sky, it was going to rain. I had better hurry up and get home.

I opened the fridge with a lot of energy. My hunger now gnawed angrily at my stomach. I snatched a piece of cold pizza out of the small fridge and shoved it into my mouth with force. I almost immediately spit it out. It was disgusting. It tasted like sweaty socks that had been dipped in milk and left out for a week. I gagged, though nothing came out of my empty stomach. I loved pizza, what happened. I than grabbed a Pepsi from the fridge and tried to drink it, but it felt like I was drinking cleaning supplies. I spit it out. What the hell! Why couldn't I eat!

I left the building while still pulling on my coat. All the heartbeats just sounded so much more appealing now. I was going insane. I can't keep on like this. The heartbeats that I just wanted to stop, to devour.

NO! I started running. Away from the People. Away from the sound. Away from civilization. Holy shit! I was running so fast, people weren't even looking at me I was going so fast, that, they couldn't even see me. What is happening to me.

I started to feel a dull throb in my mouth. My teeth. I ran my tongue over them and felt my canines growing longer and sharper.

I stopped running. By now I was in a big park and it was raining. I was all alone. Except a jogger who seemed to have been caught in the rain and was trying to keep dry while running home. I all of a sudden couldn't control myself anymore. I dropped into what I can only describe as a predatorial crouch and launched myself at the unsuspecting lady.

Everything slowed down. My nails looked more like claws designed to rip out throats. I could feel my canines extend further and dig into my lower lip. I smelt blood. I saw the lady look at me in shock. I saw my face reflected in her eyes and with my heightened senses I could see the rain soaking her jacket. My face horrified me. Mouth open in a primal growl, canines at least an inch long and eyes, glowing red. A vampire. That is what I saw. That is what I was. And I couldn't control it. I needed to accept it or I would die.

I landed on the lady and instinctively sunk my teeth into her neck. She immediately went limp. I removed my teeth and placed my lips over the two holes my teeth had made. I drank and it tasted so good compared to that pizza and Pepsi. Like anything delicious, it was better than anything I had ever eaten. The warm liquid traveled down my throat and immediately quenched any thirst or hunger that I had before. But I couldn't stop, I drank the poor jogger dry.

I killed someone.

My eyes widened at the dead body before me. She could've had a family, a husband, a wife even, people who cared about her. But I had to, or I would have died, but nobody really cares if I die, so is it better if I die instead of killing all of these innocent people? I wouldn't decide this now, I needed to get rid of the body. I picked the cold corpse up and dragged it into the woods. I felt horrible doing this.

"I'm so sorry" I whispered to the body before laying her on the dead leaves and exiting the forest.

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I started walking back into the city when I noticed the footsteps behind me. I whirled around and saw a really tall blonde guy.

"Why are you following me?" I said with malice leaking into my words. His massive eyebrows raised.

"I am Erwin Smith and I run The Scouting Legion record label" My eyes widened. He continued.

"And earlier today I received notice from one of my old clients Annie Leonhert that she knew your whereabouts." Shit, had he been following me... this whole time.

"How long have yo-" He interrupted me.

"Since you left your apartment building" He said, his expression not changing one bit.

"Did you see-" I asked quietly, cutting myself off because I couldn't bring myself to say the words.

"Yes I did" I looked up at him.

"And your not scared of me?" I asked, my voice cracking, I was a monster and he saw what I could do.

"Not at all Eren, I believe you did what you had to in order to survive, and I want to give you a job at our record label, your music has inspired millions of people in only two days, please accept my offer" He said earnestly. I considered for a moment, than I noticed my situation and honestly saw no way out of it.

"Will you keep my, uh, situation confidential" I said awkwardly while rubbing my tongue over my still lengthened fangs. Erwin smiled.

"Of course Eren, nobody needs to know but me" He paused, considering something.

"I have connections, so I could possibly get you, um, food from a blood bank" I smiled, I wouldn't have to kill anymore.

"I-I accept" I smiled wider than before.

"Thank you so much!" I called, smiling. Erwin too, smiled.

"No Eren, thank you"

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We kept walking until Erwin spoke up again.

"Here is my car, lets go" I nodded eagerly, prepared for what is to come.

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