Vapor in the Darkest Night

Chapter One

Dark nights have always lured my twisted soul out. My fascination for all the Supernatural called me out of my dark, inspirational home once again to explore the nightly beauty of the outside world. I found myself in the city, for some strange reason tonight the bats gathered even here. Normally they wouldn't, so my attention laid on the sky, the moon and the bats making it a beautiful sight. I definitely had to write about this, bats were always inspiring and I always thought *where bats are especially in a city- a Vampire can't be far*. I walked for a while and then made my way into an alleyway. A quarter in a handsome guy came my way licking his lips, as he saw me, he stopped looked at me and put on a smile. "Hello pretty lady, what are you doing here this is not a safe place for young women like you." I looked at him with a serious face "and who tells me that you're not trouble?" I asked confidently. He ran his fingers through his black hair and smirked: "I am Raven Stone, and if I meant trouble, I'd lead you more into this alleyway then out of it wouldn't I?" I looked him in the eyes and backed up a little. "You might be right Mr. Stone, but one can never be careful enough." The tall man got closer, put his hand on my back and led me out on the open, well-lit street. "You should get home now it's late." He smiled bright and for a second, I thought his teeth were glistening in a red tone but that could be just the orange streetlight. I turned around to leave. I walked a few steps and heard him follow me. "Wait, what's your name young lady?" He asked. I turned around put on a smile and answered sweetly "Maggy Harlow it is, Mr. Stone." He smirked wickedly and as I walked away, I heard him say "Call me Raven you beautiful thing, I'm sure we'll meet again." I started walking faster to get home.

I opened the door frantically and slipped through the door fastly. "Lilith? Are you back?" I got scared as my best friend entered the hallway. "God Maggy!" I exclaimed and looked shocked at her. "What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost, is everything alright?" She really sounded concerned. "I'm fine, you simply scared the shit out of me Maggy." I took my leather jacket off and threw it on the floor then proceeded to go to the kitchen and took a can of Coke out. Maggy had followed me and sat on a barstool across from where I leaned on the countertop. "I had the weirdest interaction with this weird AF guy in an alleyway down in the city." I said. Maggy looked scared "What the fuck? What happened?" she asked and I took a sip. "Well he was being creepy and as I was leaving, he asked for my name ... So, I might've told him your name..." Maggy slapped the countertop "You're not fucking serious right?" I took another sip before answering, my mouth felt so dry and my chest was tight. "I'm sorry, I was panicking! He was creepy, he knows my face and I didn't want him to stalk me. He's never seen your face. You're safe, I am not! He said he's sure we'll see each other again." I slightly teared up. Maggy calmed down a little "God okay, fine... If a crazy guy breaks in I'm out though." I sighed "I'm sorry, I'm sure everything is going to be fine." Maggy just left to her room and I sat on the counter and sighed more. All of this was running through my head again. Raven Stone, I was sure I had heard that name before, there were definitely rumours going around about him. I just couldn't remember what they were. All I knew was that he had been more than creepy and that he said he was sure we would meet again gave me the chills. How could he be so sure of that and what even had he been doing in that alleyway earlier? I grabbed some snacks and went to distract myself with writing, I really wanted to describe that scene from tonight with the bats swarming in front of the moon in my Vampire book. But despite what everyone expected the Vampire in my story wasn't dark and emo. He was blonde and his clothes were all the colours of the rainbow. And he was in love with the most generic girl you could imagine. I wrote through the rest of the night and went to sleep once the sun was already up. I had nightmares of being followed all night there was a twist in every single one. One time I was being followed by Raven, and by the next, he had saved me from the one who followed me. I woke up sweaty and scared, I chose to take a long bath to relax and get some writing done until it was dark outside in a couple hours. I had to admit Raven Stone had me fascinated and for some reason I really wanted to see him again. I was curious if his words were true if we were really meant to meet again. Before I went out, I wanted to check on Maggy, but she was nowhere to be found so I headed to the city.