short stories (all Things that I have wrote For School)

The Vampire

“Andy, Andy, Andromeda Becca Levens stop right now!” that must be Jesse I think to myself. Jesse is my only friend in this village ,and he is the only one that knows my name. Logically my parents did too but they're sort of dead. They passed away when I was seven.
     Well you already know my name but you don't know me so here are the basics. My full name is Andromeda Becca Margaret Sophia Levens and I'm 19 years old. I look like your average loner with my petite height of 5 feet 2 inches tall,and my dark black waist length hair that spirals in natural curls. My shining light grey eyes glow at night with long black eyelashes outlining them. My skin is so white it seems almost porcelain and a light natural blush covers my cheeks. I am very shy and recluded. I don't talk much either. Most people didn't even realize that I was in their presence because no one really took notice of me.
      Anyway, I was walking home to my little log cabin in the forest on the outskirts of the village when Jesse stopped me to tell me that a very rich and powerful lord was going to visit the village looking for a future wife. What I didn't know was that sentence would play a very important role in my distant future.
       Three days later it was all hollow’s Eve or Halloween as people now call it, and the village came alive with parties and costumes and dances. But I never really enjoyed that kind of stuff so I just chose to wander around rocky hollow. Soon I got myself very lost among the trees and it was so very dark and very late. I stumbled over the rocks and the leaves on the lightly covered path that I should have recognized, but I can't seem to find what I am looking for. Why did I have to get myself lost in the forest of darkness. The shadows move and I could feel eyes on my frame, they burned holes into my back. I wondered if I would make it out of the Forest alive or would the wolves and other wild beasts eat me alive when I pass out from the exhaustion.
       All of a sudden I heard a “CRACK” of something snapping and I froze suddenly filled with adrenaline. Oh man now I've done it I'm going to die I guess I'm going to die. Then I had a sensible idea I ran, and I ran as fast as I could. Something incredibly large was chasing me and I knew it, I could hear it coming. All I could think was someone help me please. And then I knew I was done for because I tripped over a log in the path and tore my dress to shreds losing a shoe in the process. I layed there accepting my fate knowing full well that I was a goner. Then I heard some sort of a whine almost like a dog got hit. I stood to investigate the noise. I stumbled slightly without my right shoe to balance, but I got my bearings and walked towards the noise. What I saw still scares me to this day. I pushed aside a bush and saw a tall man bent over a wolf and blood, there was lots of blood. It looked to me that the man was drinking the blood. One thought raced through my head ‘vampire’ was whispering its idea to my brain. At this point the man heard me or something because he looked up at me and I saw his eyes. The red orbs looked lethal and deadly. I was so scared and my head was so dizzy I collapsed and my last thought was ‘this is how I end tonight’.
     I awakened from my involuntary slumber in a most interesting room. A red walled four sided room with what looks like oak floors and possibly a birch door. I was laying on a black four-post bed that seems a little bigger than Kings size. And I could also see a White cushioned window bench with built in book shelves. I looked back at the door only to see the mystery man standing there,  I jumped falling off of the bed in the process. He started to talk and I melted at his slightly rough deep voice “sorry for what you had to see, it was in my nature on hollow's Eve and you just stumbled upon it at the wrong time” I still didn't have a name so I think mystery man would fit seeing as I'm stuck in this predicament. Then I heard “my name Is lord Charles Thomas Lupin and you are” I died, I mean come on I found a vampire and now he is a lord. Was he the man Jesse mentioned?
Before I could stop I answered “ my name is Andromeda Levens but please call me Andy.” I focused on the apparent lord only to discover that he was now up to the side of the bed I was on. I found myself asking “ where am I, why am I here, and when can I leave” only to be replied back to with a husky growl. I would say I handled that well but I didn't I just whimpered and he looked at me with an emotion I couldn't place. I felt happy and safe but I didn't know why.
He finally answered with “ darling you are in my home and yours now too because the day you leave is the day I die and you are here because you know of my secret.” I wondered if his death would come soon, is that mean, and would I ever leave alive with knowing the secret? I fell back into a light slumber after Charles left me in the strange room.
       The next few weeks repeated with Charles talking, me responding, and him growling and walking away. I finally got so sick of it that I stopped him and blantly said “ look either let me go or quit growling please because it annoys me and makes me so very mad.” I hoped he got the picture. And for a while it seemed okay and I think I started to gain feelings of a sort for him, I mean who wouldn't fall for a man that had it all, from the height of 6 feet 5 inches, to the chiseled features on his tanned face, to the light brown almost chestnut hair at just the right length. He even had a good supplement of money to use at his leasure. He seemed to enjoy me and my company at least a little better as well because he stopped growling at everything I said. He even let me out of the room with the ability to wander the house at free will, I certainly took full advantage and my new favorite room is his massive library.
He also brought me red roses and asked me for a date, to which I replied ‘maybe when you decide to release me from this captivity’.  He growled again, threw the flowers to the ground, and stormed off up the grand staircase. I decided to just walk back to my room and stay locked in there for a while. I heard a light “Tap" on the door frame and then the door creaked open “ I never said come in so don't you find it rude to waltz in here like you have all of the world's respect” I guess he disliked the answer I gave because he seemed very quiet. Almost too quiet. I froze at the same time I spun around to see a strange blonde woman dressed in a maids outfit shaking in apparent fear standing there. She squeaked out an apologetic “sorry my mistake” and scrambled out in a hurry.  Must have been the wrong room or something.
Within the next two weeks I had fallen under illness from lack of fresh air and good exercise. My illness turned far worst than any of us expected and I developed Hidradenitis Suppurativa. On the brink of death Charles refused to even see me because I looked paler than normal and felt half-way dead with a high fever. He finally decided to visit me as I was bedridden causing quite the fiasco because the young nurse I had was terrified of him and I was so out of it I can't even tell you what they were arguing about, all I could hear was yelling and a mumbled cry, not to mention that I had boils covering me from head to toe and I was in severe pain. Charles seemed like he would start to cry if he could but I Don't think he can actually cry. Did he make that noise? Then it gets fuzzy because I think I passed out.
     My eyes flew open, and I sat straight up thinking that I should be dead. Then I felt it, the excruciating sting on my neck. I looked in the mirror on the wall and saw it, my red eyes and the two little bite marks on the left side of my neck meaning that I am now a vampire never to age again. Then the door opened and Charles slid through the way. He walked to my side and kissed me mumbling something about never leave him again. it was then I knew everything would be okay, and I would be happy and safe in his arms forever.
      

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My story of the fiction genre for hp English grade 7.