I ease out onto my balcony and take a deep breath. It's Autumn. I glance around my five acre yard. The trees in the distance are slowly changing colors. It's a nice symphony of browns, oranges, and yellows. The leaves look as if they are dancing around the sky in the wind. A small gust of wind blows my hair out of my face. I take another deep breath.
BLOOD...
The aroma grasps my attention in a tight grip. I try to hold back the urge to follow it, but my instincts are too great. I jump off my balcony and start running like its the casual thing to do on a Tuesday morning. I run into the forest behind my house. The scent gets stronger the deeper I go.
I soon come upon the source of the smell. I was shocked to find nothing but a puddle of blood. I bend down to inspect the blood. Dipping my fingers in and smelling it. By smelling the blood I can tell where it originated from.
HUMAN...
In the community I live in, it's frowned to eat human blood. It has to be animals blood (Yes I said eat). I go against everything I grew up knowing and ate the blood right off my fingers (I guess you know what I am now). It tasted like iron, but sweeter. It was the best taste I have ever tasted. Nothing like animal blood.
My body starts to tingle. I can feel everything in my body grown stronger. Every sense got stronger by 10 times. My strength was better too. I can see father than I did before. I can hear for miles and miles. I feel like I can conquer the world. I don't want this to end. I have never felt this great in my whole life.
I took a few moments to eat the rest of the blood, then I decided to head back to the house. The penalty for eating human blood is unknown. But people who get caught are never seen or heard from again. I have to hid this from everyone. There are only a handful of people I can trust with this.
As I open the door to my house and quickly scamper up the stairs. I start to open the door to my bedroom, when I get a bad feeling. Something seems off. Like someone has messed with my stuff. My room has an old style to it. Everything is intricate. 90% of my room is white.
In the middle of my room there sit a queen sized bed. It was an elegant white headboard and foot board. On the right side of my bed there is a night stand that holds a lamp and a bottle of perfume (which I never use). On the left side of my bed there's a glass sliding door that leads out onto my balcony. The door was surrounded by gigantic windows. The windows have black trim that went very well with the beautiful silky black curtains. The window itself wend from floor to ceiling. Alongside the windows I have my dresser. it definitely looks as if it was from the Victorian era. On the floor about a foot under my bed there lay a round black fuzzy rug.
I walk closer to my bed slowly. Still weary about the feeling I have. Out of nowhere, I get pinned down on my bed. The assailant releases their grip on my arms. I rolled over to see who my assailant was.
JETHRO!
Using my free hands, I pull him closer, and start kissing him. His hand rises up to my face and starts rubbing it. After a moment or too he pulls his hand away and slaps me. Hard. I lay there in shock. Jethro never laps me. I thought as I try to get up. He quickly places his had on my chest and pushes me down.
"You better stay! I don't want to hurt you my love." He never calls me his love. In the 2 years we have been together he has never said that to me.
"Jethro! Let me up! I don't find this fun..." In the middle of me talking he buts in.
"Why would I let a little no good for anything slut like you get up?" I look at him unfazed.
This isn't Jethro...
Knight is one of my ex-boyfriends. He is overly controlling and abusive. Physically, emotionally, and mentally. I totally forgot that today was the anniversary of our break up. Every year he comes to my house and terries me. He tortures me Physically, but since I'm a vampire, I heal very quickly. It's impossible for anyone to believe me with little to no evidence.
I used my new and improved strength to shove him off me. I quickly get to my feet and jup off my balcony like I did this morning. Once I hit the ground I started running to the cow pastures. There I would find the only person I can trust. Eden is always around cows. They are her favorite animal. She would rather die of starvation before ever eating one of those 'sacred' animals.
When I get to the pasture, I tackle her to the ground. Before she realizes it was me, she growled and tries to bite me. A wolf bite can kill a vampire, so I quickly get up and take a few steps back.
"Eden! It's me!" I raise my voice slightly with a hint of terror in my voice.
"Dude you know not to jump on me!" She exclaims while get up off the ground.
"Sorry, but I needed your attention." I walk up to her and help Eden up.
"You do realize there are other ways to get my attention instead of scaring the shit out of me, right?" She gave me a hug
"Yes, but that was the most effective one." I hug her back and start walking.
"Where are you going?" Eden questions me.
"Somewhere... You are coming too." I answer with no emotion in my tone, remembering what was actually going on.
"Is everything okay?" She asks.
"No, I will tell you when we get to one of my safe houses. Grab on." I order and she does as told not asking any questions. I use my new and improved speed to start running towards my most secluded safe house.
I slow down as we come up to the front door of the run down house. The outside look like it has been abandoned for years. And technically it has. I unlock the door to reveal a newly refurnished inside. Everything is modernized and black.
The walls are a light gray with a darker gray trim. The floor was pure white linoleum. From the kitchen there is a small hallway that leads to the living room. Standing at the entrance I can see everything. The couch is in the middle of the floor with the tv on the wall in front of it. From the Livingroom there are two doors, one leads into a bathroom. The other leads to a small bedroom. Just big enough for a bed, nightstand, and a dresser.
"Okay. So why are we here?" Eden asked me cocking her head slightly.
"Two words. Todays date." I turn to look at her. "Does that sum it up for you?" She nods as I sit on the bed.
"But why am I here with you?" She questions.
"I need your help deciphering who I should and should not trust. Since Knight doesn't like you, he won't choose you to shapeshift into." Eden nods and walks over to the bed and sits next to me.
"This is such a small room." Eden complains.
"Yeah, I know." I say pulling my phone out. "So, are you up to helping me?"
"Of cores Nevaeh!" She smiles. My phone starts to buzz.
My anxiety starts to build as I unlock my phone to see who messaged me.
Unknown Number:
Them: Hey
Me: Who is this?
Them: Someone with a message
Me: What message?
Them: Come out or I will find u
Them: If I have to find u I will kill u
Me: WHO IS THIS?
Me: And what do you mean you will kill me...
Them: I will break ur neck n stake u in the heart
