I loved going to the movies especially with my friends. So I was pretty happy while we were going to the cinema, even if it did mean walking through lots of small roads and deserted places, inculding the oh-so-creepy-park. At night. But who cares about the dark when you've got a bunch of friends to party all night?
"so what movie are we seeing this time?" Emily asked.
"Dunno, Let Kylie choose, so she won't whine in case she doesn't like it" retorted Peter smirking at me.
"Excuse me, what's THAT supposed to mean?" I hissed at him. So while we were arguing, we didn't notice Emily had stopped until we heard her scream. We both turned around at the same time, and I yelled, horrified. A black figure was standing over her body, lying on the floor. My scream turned his attention to us, and before I knew it, I was thrown to the ground 10 yards from were I was before, with excruciating pain in my right ankle. I managed to get up, ignoring the pain, but I wished I had stayed down. Tha figure was holding Peter against the tree, his lips at his throat, with blood dripping down.
I turned around to try to look for Emily and I saw her unconcious. Then some lights started to appear and the....vampire..wait, vampire?...ran off, making Peter fall down. A car passed by. A tear appeared on my cheek, and I brushed it away. No time to cry. I crawled to Emily, fortunatly she became conscious right after I had reached her.
"Where's Peter?" She whispered, horrified.
I jerked my head in his direction, and Emily muffled a shriek. She had a huge crush on him. she quickly got up and started running towards him, but stopped when shesaw that I wasn't following.
"come Kylie, get up!" she screeched at me.
"I'd like to, but my ankle's broken!" I yelled back at her
"Oh....sorry" she helped me get up and we walked towards Peter. I gasped as soon as I saw him. I mean, I swear, I had seen a huge wound on his neck just minutes ago, and now nothing. Gone. Where was all the blood? His clothes were only a bit dirty, but other than that, he appeared to be sleeping. Emily helped me sit down, then she started trying to wake up Peter.
"Peter...Peter!" when she finally got the hint that he wouldn't wake up, her face was covered with tears.
"What...the hell...happened?" She whispered.
I bit my lip. I was going to have to tell her sooner or later. I put my arm around her shoulders and tried to ignore my throbbing ankle.
"Emily...you've got to listen to me carefully, and do exactly as I say, ok?" I said seriously. When she nodded I continued. " I'm going to call my parents now. We're going to say that Peter got in a fight and got knocked out, and I hurt my ankle trying to stop the fight, ok?
Still cryng, she nodded. "Ok, but you have to tell me everything right after." She looked at me accusingly.
"Sure" I got out my cell phone and called my mom. " Hey, mom...yeah, it's me....well, we have a problem"
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I looked back at Peter. He was lying on the bed, his face emotionless, deathly pale. Almost 24 hours had passed since the incident. The adults had believed all my words about the street fight. And the doctors had been just as stupid:"nothing's wrong, the boy just has to rest for a while". NOTHING'S WRONG? No, we had just been attacked by a bloodthirsty vampire, had almost been killed, and peter had almost been drained of his blood and still hadn't woken up. No, nothing was wrong.The only good thing was that my ankle wasn't broken only badly sprained.
I glanced at Emily. She was staring blankly at the computer monitor, not seeing it. I turned my back to peter and lightly shook her shoulders.
"Em? are you ok?" I half whispere. She looked at me with fearful eyes.
"Ok?" she craked " No, i'm not ok Kylie! How could I be ok? The person I love might turn into a vampire, and I still can't believe that they are real! I frowned and turned to the screen. I typed in "vampires" in the google search box. Dang, peter's computer was slow.
We had insisted on staying at Peter's to keep an eye on him. What if he really turned into a vampire? We had been searching the net for like, four hours, but probably it had been lost time: who knew if the stuff posted on there was truth or hogwash? I nudged her and we concentrated on the screen.
PETER'S POV
I opened my eyes. everything was so....clear. And weird. My last memories started flooding my mind. I shook them off. I was distracted. There was a sound... a beat. No, two beats. Two stedy beats, sounding right here in this very room. My throat started burning like hell, and I felt my mind getting cloudy. i HAD to reach the beating, because that was the only way to end the pain to taste the delicious, red- I froze for a moment. I wanted to drink blood?
But the desire was too strong and I felt another part of me take over. A part that knew what it was oing, but didn't care. I slowly turned my head towards the sound. Two girls had their backs at me. I sprang-was i that quick?- pushed one girl away and bit into the other's neck. sweet. warm. red. The taste flooded my mind.
I heard a shriek and turned my head around. As i stared deep into Hilary's horrified eyes, i could feel the blood dripping from my chin, my fangs coming out, and the frantic breathing of a human in my arms.
