Crimson Bonds - ALL GXG VERSION (Hailee Steinfeld X Bridgette Lundy-Paine )

Chapter 4: A Vampire's Lullaby

"Papa?!"

I see my father lying on the ground, looking to me with eyes that had no traces of life left within.

My mother lay dead next to him just as they had been left behind that night , their murderers' bodies scattered around them.

"Papa! Mama! NO! WAKE UP! PLEASE WAKE UP!!"

Suddenly I am surrounded by a circle of flaring flames, the remains of my parents and their killers now gone.

"Fate brought us together young one..."

I look all around me, no one in sight.

Suddenly a pair of arms wrap around me from behind.

"I've been waiting for you Liza...you cannot fathom how long..."

Annabelle's nose brushes my cheek, her mouth trailing down to the column of my throat.

"And soon my dear...nothing will keep us apart..."

I feel her fangs now grazing me.

"Please...leave me alone!"

"I'm afraid it's too late for that Liza. It is impossible to end what is only just beginning."

Then an abrupt piercing pain engulfs me, suffocating for air as I feel Annabelle's bite coursing through my veins.

I pull at my neck, yet it is no use.

I am dropped to the floor, the flames raging on as I lay weak on the ground.

I look faintly as Annabelle is hovering close over my body, her crimson eyes boring down on me.

She approaches my face slowly, her mouth soon only inches from mine.

"So here's to new beginnings...to us."

Just as her bloodied lips meet my own I am consumed by a sea of fire.

I awoke in a sweat and crying from my nightmare. It had been a few days since the fatal night I lost my parents. And just the night before I discovered that vampires were not only creatures you witnessed in story books. My dreams were taunting me, a reminder I had been helpless to save the ones I loved most. I saw the lifeless eyes of my parents, now haunting my very soul. I then saw the lifeless bodies of my family's murderers, lying dead on the floor never to hurt anyone again. And lastly I saw Annabelle, a woman of mystery yet also possessed a yearning hunger that sent chills through my entire being. My mind went back to the very bizarre end of my dream when Annabelle kissed me at my brink of death. Or was it truly just the beginning of it all as Annabelle had said?

"It was only a dream, just a dream. Wasn't it?"

The turn of events of being saved by a vampire, only to become whatever I was in the immortal's home made me wish I could turn back the clock. I felt a chill that made me bury myself in the pillows beneath me.