Bloodstream

Chapter 9

I remember when I was about 6 years old, my father and I were riding these huge horses at my uncles farm. We took them on a track through the forest and as we rode through some trees, a deer popped out of no where in front of my horse, mento. He leaped forward into a gallop and I fell from his back to the hard ground. The wind was knocked out of me and there was a searing pain in my chest. I thought I would never fell something as painful as that again. But here, right now, the same breathless, searing pain is running through me.

When I heard the door open and close, the footsteps, the crash I expected to find a crazy vampire. Or katlyne about to rip my throat out with her bare hands for messing up my reputation. Or Cameron coming to take me away from danger. Or even Ed coming to apologise. But what was in front of me was nothing from the list above. I wouldn't of called it, not in a million years.

Ghosts, I thought, didn't exist. Although I know vampires do, I thought ghosts and werewolves and all those other monsters were myths. I couldn't be more wrong. Because here in my kitchen, standing before me...is James. My James. My dead James.

I want to run. But I want to leap into his arms at the same time. But I just stand there, my back pressed to my fridge, my body shaking with fear.
"H-h-how is it possible?" I say. My fingers reach out to touch him, but I quickly pull them back as he takes a step toward me.
"Please don't hurt me" he shakes his head.
"Sky...I won't" A sob falls out of my mouth and rattles my bones. His voice, oh his voice.
"Sky..baby, I'm sorry" I'm still afraid and I'm not calm but I let him come closer.
"Why are you sorry James?" I go to take his hand, but it's painfully cold.
"I have been looking for you for years, Skyler Harrison. I have been unable to leave for the afterlife because of my unfinished burdens on this earth. To go to the afterlife I must revel my biggest secret. One that I should never of kept."
"What are you talking about James?"
"I got someone else pregnant." My heart drops to my stomach.
"W-what?"
"When you were just starting your career and you were away...I got..bored. I slept with a girl and she said she was on the pill and I-" no no no no! I stop listening. I don't want to hear it. I can't. So I scream and fall to the floor pathetically, the knife pierces my leg but I don't feel it.
"Shit Skyler your leg!" He says. I pull it out and throw it at him but it goes right through his chest. I lift my fridge with my vampire strength and throw it like it weighs no more than a feather. He backs away in fear, around the corner into my room.
"What happened to you?!" He screams. I bear my fangs at him and hiss, my eyes growing from green to red like fire.
"I'm a monster too!" I scream and lift my bed. Throwing does no good to hurt him but it makes me feel powerful. But then he starts fading, slowly at first then more rapidly.
"I'm sorry sky, I'm sor-" but he's gone. For good. I collapse onto my floor and drag myself to the bathroom. Screaming, crying. I drink the bathroom products, the drugs to keep me slim and all the rest. It's enough to make a human over dose but for me it has no effect. I grab the knife I hid in the cabnit and stab repetitively, my wound from minutes before already gone. I want to feel something other than this pain! I throw myself to the ground and see my reflection in the tiled floor. I'm pale as a sheet and my eyes are black and red. My hairs a mess and there's scratch marks on my precious skin from where I have clawed my face in frustration. I cry and cry. I want the vampire to find me. To kill me.
My bathroom door opens.
"James?" I say.
"Skyler!" My eyes widen.
"Ed."
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You're welcome.
-Grace xxx