Stay Awake (Book 1)

Chapter 7

'Amber, stay awake, I need to tell you something' I heard Issac say while Micheal was by him. I sat up and saw Issac with red glowing eyes and I screamed. 'Don't worry Amber, We won't kill you, this will just hurt very badly.' Micheal said with a devilish grin. 'I turned Issac into a vampire and now I will do it to you. 'AMBER, DON'T LISTEN TO THEM, THEY ARE JUST YOUR IMAGINATION, WE ARE THE REAL ISSAC AND MICHEAL!!!' I heard  someone scream. I look over and see Micheal and Issac waving. 'Amber this is just a dream, stop sleeping and stay awake, try to wake up and this nightmare is over, they can actually kill you right now.' I looked at him in confusion but the fake Issac is running to me and I screamed 'NO!'

I wake up fast to a fluffy bed and I was in my room and Cory and my parents were staring at me in a worried way. I slowly opened my eyes more and sat up feeling scared because I almost died in a dream. I look at mom and she slowly walked over to me and started to rub my back while my dad sat on the bed slowly looking at me.

"Honey, are you alright?" My dad said holding my hand and looking at me in the eye.

"Yeah I guess, my head just hurts. Did I miss dinner?!" I said getting up fast but my headache hurt so bad that I sat back on the bed.

"No darling dinner is at midnight so you just slept until an hour before dinner." dad said rubbing my hand with his thumb.

"You passed out right in front of Aunt Ellen's room and hit your head on the door frame while falling, I tried to catch you but I wasn't fast enough but I got to you before any more damage happened." Cory said adjusting the bandage on my left wrist. "There was blood coming out of this wrist, I don't know why but there was, I yelled for your dad to come help me." Cory said while finishing the adjustment on the bandage.

"Oh, I forgot about what happened, the only thing I remember is that Grandma..." I said cutting myself off when my grandma walked in.

"Continue darling, 'that grandma' did what." My dad said letting go of my hand and looking over at grandma.

"Oh she was helping me adjust my dress and whispered in my ear saying I looked beautiful." I looked over at grandma while I said that and she smiled a nice one. Why was she smiling nicely? Was she possessed at the time?

"Awe how nice of her." mom said looking back at grandma smiling. Cory looked back at her with no smile but a nod.

"Well we should let Amber get ready, Amber there are some pills right there for your headache and if you need to, lye down if your head hurts, we are going to have Cory sit in the desk and make sure you'll be okay." Dad said looking at Cory nodding at him while Cory turned to look at me with a smile.

"Oh okay." I looked over at the two pills and the water and I grabbed them and drank them down pretty fast to get it over with.

My dad nodded and grabbed my mom's hand while my mother placed her hand on my knee and they got up and left. My grandma was already gone. Cory got up and sat in the computer desk and looked at me. There was silence for like a minute or two. I got up and walked into the bathroom and looked at the mirror, I was a mess. I went to the sink and splashed some water on my face to wake me up more. I redid my hair and adjusted my dress and then slipped on the shoes by the bath tub. I put on a little bit of makeup to get rid of the dry tears and acne. I started to walk over to the door and there he was, Cory staring at me.

"You look beautiful." He said putting his hand out for mine, I took his hand and we started walking.

"Thank you." I said stopping us from walking and us looking at each other. "Thank you for catching me before I got more hurt." I said looking at his hazelnut eyes.

"Oh yeah, of course, I'd do anything for you if you're in danger." He said rubbing the back of his neck with his other hand. "Well we should probably get going." He said grabbing my hand more tightly and we started to walk down the stairs into the living room. The room was big, it had a gray tiled floor with light brown walls and a fireplace. There were family portraits all around the room. I noticed that Cory was wearing a black tuxedo with a light blue tie matching my dress.

"Are some of these your family portraits?" I started to walk around the room.

"Yah but just one, both of our mothers are very close, they're like best friends and we are considered family to your parents, our family portrait is right over there on the left." He pointed to the portrait on the left of the fire place and I walked over and so did he.

"Wow, I am guessing this is a very old photo, maybe 1910." I said touching the frame that was very dusty but smooth.

"Yeah, maybe 1897, I was maybe in my teen years, I started to grow slowly around there because I was born vampire." he said pointing at his younger self. He used to have long hair and he was wearing a brown vest with red old clothes under it. The photo looked very vintage, it reminded me of the photos people took in Tombstone, Arizona where they dress up in old century clothes and take a photo with family or friends. I didn't answer Cory but I did smile, the photo was so cute and I wished I was there to see it but I can only look at the memories. I looked over to look at the fireplace and there was small photos with photos of friends. I saw a photo of Cory and Micheal standing by each other laughing while staring at the camera, my brother was so young, he literally only looks like a 15 year old but he was probably 87 when this was taken. I looked at Cory who was smiling at the photo and then looked at me and smiled.

"Do you miss him?" I said breaking the silence while Cory's smile went into a face of sadness.

"Yes I do, he used to me about you when you were a teenager, he told me about a lot of things and we were such close friends until those bitches Issac and Dalayla took him and imprisoned him from the world." He took making his hand into a fist. I placed my hand on his cheek and rubbed it with my thumb.

"You're not alone, I miss him dearly too, I thought he was dead when I went to college but one night I had this dream and he in it and when I woke up I knew he was alive." I said thinking of that day.

'Amber, darling, 10 minutes or else I will leave you here and you can do college online.' I heard Uncle Jeff yell from the kitchen in the apartment while I was waking up with tears on my face. I was smiling because my brother was alive and I could feel it. 'Coming! I slept in a bit too late! I'll be out in 2 minutes.' I yelled from my room.

"I remember it like it was just last week but it was 7 years ago."  I said looking at Cory. He was looking at me with a smirk.

"It's funny how I had a similar dream but it was way different but we can talk about it another time, people are already starting to arrive." Cory said turning me around seeing everyone around the living room, it's funny how I never noticed.