The Vampire Luna

Pizza Rolls, Pepper Spray, and Wild Wolves

Chapter 5: Pizza Rolls, Pepper Spray, and Wild Wolves

Harper's POV

I've officially been a vampire for 8 days now and 7 of those days have been spent sulking in my room. The only time I've come out is to get blood or use the bathroom. I've discovered that vampires do sleep so that's a plus.

Lexis has been trying to pry me from my room since day three of my sulking, but I refuse to budge. Why should I come out of my room and face a world where my parents hate me. They think I'm a monster, which I basically am. But I didn't ask to become a vampire!

I'm almost convinced that being abducted by aliens would've been better than this. Almost.

I'm currently laying in my bed, staring at the ceiling and letting myself sink into despair. I hear footsteps nearing my door and prepare for another one of Lexis' speeches.

"Alright Harper, I'm putting my foot down! You are going to come out of that room today! You're going to take a shower and put on some clean clothes that aren't Scooby-Doo pajamas. Then you're going to stop sulking and we're going to start vampire training," Lexis huffs outside my door.

"None of that is going to happen. I'm most definitely not taking off my Scooby-Doo pajamas and you're going to leave me alone," I call back.

I hear Lexis stalk off and stomp down the stairs. Hmm he usually argues longer than, but I'm not complaining since I don't have to be bothered.

I lay there for about 15 more minutes before I smell the mouth watering aroma of pizza rolls. Whoa since when do we have human food here? I hop off of my bed and out of my room, down the stairs and into the kitchen in 5 seconds.

"Well look who decided to come out of hibernation," Lexis mocks.

"Never mind that, since when do we have human food? Are you trying to torture me with food I can't eat anymore?" I ask staring longingly at the pizza rolls that look like they've just come out of the oven.

"Who said you couldn't eat human food anymore?" Lexis asks with an eyebrow raised.

"I thought all we could ingest was blood," I say confused.

"We need blood to survive yes, but we can still eat human food. We don't need it to survive and our hunger for it is usually overridden by our thirst for blood," Lexis explains.

"Why didn't you tell me this before!" I exclaim.

"You didn't ask. Plus you would've learned it in vampire training if you ever came out of your room for it," Lexis says in a chastising tone.

"Yeah, yeah. So can I have those pizza rolls?" I ask excitedly.

"I made them for you," he smiles at me. "I don't usually eat human food."

"I love you so much right now," I say as I dig into the pizza rolls. My tongue feels like it's been burned by Hell's fire. I forgot pizza rolls are insanely hot when you take them out of the oven. Normally I wouldn't be able to taste anything for at least the rest of the day, but with my vampire healing I can already feel my tongue healing.

"So will you finally begin your vampire training today?" Lexis asks.

"Yeah after I shower," I say with my mouth full.

He looks at me kind of grossed out. "Okay close your mouth now."

I finish off the pizza rolls in record time and head upstairs to clean up. After I'm done showering, I pull on a white v-neck, ripped blue skinny jeans, black and white converse, and of course my army fatigue jacket. I wear my army fatigue jacket a lot. I run my fingers through my hair a few times trying to tame the wild curls, but that doesn't work out so well.

I find Lexis in the living room lounging on the couch and watching TV. "I want to go for a quick run before I start my vampire training," I tell Lexis. I love running as a vampire and I haven't done it in a week.

"Alright," Lexis murmurs with his eyes still glued to the show in front of him.

I walk out the door and into the woods. There's actually a whole half of the forest I still haven't explored. It's the bigger part of the forest and as a human I knew I'd be exhausted before I even explored a fourth of it.

But as a vampire, I should be fine. I start by running a lap around the side of the forest I've already seen, the side with Lexis' house. I feel weightless and free. I venture into the side of the forest that I've never been in hopes of extending my run.

I'm enjoying the breeze whipping across my face and through my hair. The trees are huge and the leaves are beautiful. There are flowers blooming at the base of some of the trees. Everything looks so much prettier with my heightened sight. I stop and smell the flowers and they smell so much sweeter.

I can hear things miles away with my heightened hearing and I hear a waterfall a little further ahead. I run to it and see a small waterfall flowing into a small lake. It's beautiful and I even see a bunny scurry past.

I decide to take a swim in the small lake. I take my clothes off until I'm left in my black lace bra and matching panties. No one's ever seen me in my underwear, but they still have to look cute, ya know? I'm pretty deep in the forest so I'm not worried about flashing anyone.

I swim around for a bit until I hear a twig snap. Why is it always the twigs snapping!? I sink lower in the water and scan my surroundings for that Vector creep.

"Vector if that's you, I have pepper spray and I will spray it in your mouth you pedophile," I call out.

Two huge wolves jump through the trees. Well they're not Vector. I don't know if I should be relieved or not. I go with relieved since I don't really have pepper spray and I'm 99.9999% sure Vector could beat me in a fight. With these wolves I can just throw a stick or something and they'll chase it.

"Phew! It's just two wild wolves. Look if you want to play fetch I'll just grab a stick, okay?" I say stupidly. I swim to the edge of the lake and get ready to get out, but then both the wolves start growling.

"Okay that's a little scary," I say swimming back to where I was. "I don't have any bacon and you're not going to eat me! Shoo!"

They growl again and one of them steps forward, but the other one seems to stop it. I decide to just chill in the water until they leave. That idea works for about 15 seconds until wolves move closer and start circling the lake.

"Alright that's not weird at all," I murmur. "It's totally fine just two wolves circling me like I'm their dinner."

I sit there for about 15 more seconds before I break. "LEXIS," I scream at the top of my lungs. Pitiful, I know, but I'm really creeped out right now.

About two minutes later, I hear two people running, or more like one person. The other sounds like it's on all fours, most likely another wolf. I hope with all my heart that the person I hear coming is Lexis.

I hear a rustling in the trees, but the scent isn't Lexis'. Then another wolf burst through the trees. This one though is at least a foot taller than the other two.

I'm so dead.