Scarlet

Chapter 2: Running Away

Chapter 2: Running Away

A few weeks later I didn’t want to live with Kim anymore. I needed a break from all her rules and I knew she would kill me if I didn’t do what she asked. One time I pushed it too far and she broke my arm. I wasn’t going to see what else she would do to me. I ended up running away. I wanted to do things my own way even though I barely knew anything about what I could and couldn’t do.

Jake had been teaching me how to be a vampire and other things like that but half the time I was too busy daydreaming about him and myself to listen. At times he would be a little annoyed and would threaten me so I would snap out of it; it worked for a few hours. Jake hadn’t really told me much about himself and Kimberly and what they could do but I knew I would find out soon enough.

I wanted to do things my way for a changed and not just survive on animal blood. It was alright but human blood was sweet like sugar and just ran down your throat in a soothing way. Animal blood was sweet like chocolate cake but tasted funny. It just wasn’t the same.

I was still newborn and trying to get used to the smell of human blood without reacting but it’s harder than you think. It doesn’t help I’m newborn therefore go out of control when I smell blood. Being newborn means you haven’t learnt much and have no control over your blood lust. I didn’t mind being newborn but it didn’t help when I was trying to be social and blood appears. I end up walking off quickly at human speed before anything happens. So normally I look like a ditcher. Since I’m newborn, I could drain a human and still want more blood if any was around.

Even vampire blood attracted me. Normally it was Jake that would purposely cut himself to check my blood lust. It wasn’t very nice because he would do it without warning and I would, most of the time, jump on him and lick the blood off him. I knew he was doing it for a reason but it would annoy me because I couldn’t control myself. My body would also react, like the jumping on him and my fangs would automatically come out no matter what I did even if I did control it.

Anyway, I needed to run away because I needed to stretch my legs and have my fangs bite into something that would try and run. Jake had taught me that vampires have an obsession with hearing humans suffer but Jake had got past that and Kim did it every now and then but was really good. I on the other hand was newborn and would do anything to make humans suffer. If I had better control I wouldn’t do it but I’m newborn and that’s in my nature.

School sucked another reason to run away. It was hard to control myself and I had to make sure I walked at human speed. It was annoying really and when no one was looking I would just go and have a quick run somewhere and back. Once I got caught by Jake and he told me off and punished me with no blood for a few months.

First I went to New York. I took a plane of course but I ran to the air port. In New York, I would walk around the streets at night, looking for some late nighters to feed from. It was winter there so I didn’t have to worry too much about the sunlight.

A few months later, I flew to London and stayed there for a year. I hated summer though. It wouldn’t get dark until 11 o’clock at night and the sun would come up at about 5 in the morning. So I only got about 6 hours a night to enjoy myself. In winter, it would get dark at five and bright at around eight.

It was wonderful there. I loved winter and I knew I always would from now on. I never knew what would happen to me when I went in sunlight. I didn’t want to find out the hard way so I just hid from the sunlight. I knew it wouldn’t be good seeing as Kim and Jake live in my old home town where it is never sunny apart from those 2-5 days a year when it is.

Every night in London, was me killing at least two human adults. Sometimes they would be drunk therefore their blood tasted horrible so instead I snapped their neck instantly killing them.