My girlfriend's a Vampire

Chapter 1

She put her hand on my head and started stroking it.

"Lets go inside, unless you don't want to learn more," She knew I wanted to know more. I sat up and opened my door, she opened hers and we walked into her house. Both of her parents worked so we had about 2 hours of time for her to explain... No! Not explain, she didn't have to explain anything to me. She would do this because she wanted to, not because she felt that she had to. I grabbed her wrist, we stopped and she turned around.

"You do know you don't have to say anything to me. No matter what you are it doesn't matter what you are, your still Rebeca," I told her sincerity flowing into my words naturally.

"I know," she said with a smile, "But I'm doing this, not just to appease you curiosity, which I bet you won't admit to yourself you have. But also so I can confide in someone, someone to talk to, someone I... I don't have to keep any secrets from," she answered.

Her bed was a large one, queen sized, the sheets were white, the pillow cases were black and the top blanket was red, I couldn't see how she slept with such absolute and opposite colors. But every time I asked she would simply say that she closed her eyes.

"I guess I'll start at the beginning. In the late 1340s the Black Death or Bubonic Plague hit Europe like a ton of bricks, for want of a better term. Famine soon followed, leading to a shortage of food."

Back in that time, despite how despicable it was, people turned to cannibalism to save off starvation. Almost all cannibals died from either accidental or intentional eating of plague victim's bodies. However about 10 families, or clans, of cannibals survived the plague after being infected by eating the corpses. In their blood, was a cure to the Black Death. After the plague passed in the early 1350s. The church found out that these clans were cannibals and that they ate from the plagued corpses, they guessed these clans had a cure to the plague. But since they didn't come forward and give their blood to the masses, the church started to persecute the cannibalistic clans.

That is where the legend of vampires began. The clan members of cannibals had started to develop strange powers, they found, every generation had longer canine teeth then normal humans, but at my generation the teeth are only about a quarter inch longer then yours. They found that the blood of humans gave them powers beyond that of a normal human. Lets say for example, if a vampire drained a body completely of blood, then, for a time of 24 hours, they would be twice as strong, resilient, agile than a normal human. The power last as long as the vampire wants, suppressing it at any time, but will be expended after about 24 hours of use. The vampire's heart can work about 2 to 5 times as hard as a normal humans, given blood, but the heart can not produce more blood than the human norm. this is how vampires can use this power. Unless the vampire has blood in "storage" then the vampire will not use this power unless threatened with death. This is because after using the power the vampire is severally weakened. The vampire is severally weakened because the vampire's heart produces a normal amount of blood, which is a "baseline" for sustaining a normal human, if a vampire uses the power using their own blood it is like they lost the blood they used to invoke the power. How much blood that is lost depends on how long the power is invoked.

As you might have guessed, all the Hollywood myths are false. I go to school, I bathed, I don't particularly like garlic, then again neither do you, I have a crucifix on my chest, so cancel that one out, you know I've aged, but I will explain that one later. Vampirism is not a curse that is passed on through contact, even intimate contact, it is bound-by-blood, a family curse. When puberty hits, your vampire unique power manifests, your canines grow, and you can start reaping the benefits of drinking blood. Not that your body is already going through immense changes, what is vampirism added to the list?" She said, trying to lighten up, but not seceding.