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personal life, this too starts pretty normal, average

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I wasn’t drunk this time either. After all school would start the day after. I

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I turned off of the brightly lid road and into a dark alley I used as a shortcut.
As always the alley was shrouded

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In a reflex my elbow flew upwards to

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But instead of hitting anything solid I only felt air, empty enemy-less, air. Curious as to what could’ve created this sound I turned around. But

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At this point my mind raced through just about every possibility. I went

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Slowly his grey appeared to grow larger. Pretty

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Pretty soon his pupils where larger then his eyes. But it didn’t stop there, the grey grew even more, now appearing as a wall before me for only a brief second. Then

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And as I struggled to breath I inhaled it, the grey, it became part of my being. Or perhaps it became my being. As I lost myself in those eyes.

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First the headaches came. Slowly I grew more and more sensitive to just about anything. Bright

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After two days I couldn’t even look through my window at daytime anymore as the brightness of the sun made me feel as

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After four days my entire biological clock had shifted. I would

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Naturally my parents called the police. He’s

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Yesterday I woke up from my sleep

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I actually felt stronger then ever before.

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But when I got downstairs I noticed not a single light was on, I heard there was no sound and I smelled there was no dinner cooked.

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“They must have gone somewhere.”
I told myself as I walked into the kitchen.

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I grabbed the first thing I saw lying around, and ate it.

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I had tasted once before, but back then tasted horrible. I figured

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By it’s shape and size I recognised it as a grief card. I was intrigued by the fact someone had died. And curious as I am I examined the card. The

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In it I saw the wall behind me. In it I saw the

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back in that alley, I don’t know exactly why I ran there.

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Answers or perhaps, even better, the man with the eyes. If so,

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This time the man with the grey eyes just appeared to me. No

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it or because he knew by now I could see better in the dark then I could at day.

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As the man walked up to me I noticed how the rotting smell had vanished into thin air.

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This was extra strange as my smell had improved as dramatically as my other senses in the time I was sick. Later I’d realise my brain had already

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“Who are you? And what did you do to me?”
I asked the man with the grey eyes as I

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I believe at this time you would call me a… Vampire?

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I hypnotised you with my eyes, and then used my fangs to bite you and to suck your blood out of your body. Just so I could eat and live a considerable time longer then I’d do if I kept a healthy diet. As a result you have turned into a vampire yourself.

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You should be honoured, I rarely let anyone live long enough to become a vampire. Normally I kill them

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As the stranger spoke his voice was cold and dry. As if

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Which I figured would probably be just about correct, if what he said was true. Which I honestly thought it was for some reason too.

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Under any other set of circumstances I would have

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I the mean time I had managed to get close enough by to look into his eyes again.

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shade of grey, no, this time they where just an ordinary bright green. As

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As I replied I couldn’t quite hide the disappointed tone in my voice.

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“So, I’m a vampire too now. How come I’m not dead pale then? And why aren’t I craving for blood? Or craving to kill anyone for that matter.”

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In his mocking reply all the stranger does is laugh, revealing two pretty long fangs.

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You’ll find out soon enough my child.

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With a diabolical laugh the stranger disappears

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that shadow for hours on an end, I must have examined it in every conceivable way.

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When I finally gave up the sky was slowly brightening.

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Without even thinking about it I walked into one of the empty buildings

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The next morning, well you’d call it evening, I got up.

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My mind still slow from the hours of sleep I made my way onto the streets. While

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While walking I caught myself on fantasizing about how

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Dazed I walked through the starlit night when I picked up a scent, I don’t know if it was the scent that stirred my sudden hunger or if it only drew me back onto earth long enough for me to finally notice the hunger.

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But fact was I was hungry, and

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quickly decided, I’d go and check out the thing

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Several minutes later I had somehow crossed my

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Just before I walked into the alley I remember thinking how strange it would be to find food in a deserted alley. But by now I was so hungry I didn’t care anyway.

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When I found the source of the smell however… I was

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from deep within me a great sadness came forth.

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Almost instantly she lets out a high-pitched scream

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Upon the screen I can barely see a glimpse of smoking ashes.

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but strangely this does not alarm me.

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After what seems like decades my thoughts arrange themselves

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For some reason the realization delights my

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It is then that I realize my skin was ice-cold

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As I take the name upon me, imprinting it into my being and making it my own, as slew of memories unlock, flowing into my darkened mind like so many brilliant butterflies

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From my position on the floor I regard him

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wavering half-matured voice of a teenager I hear a silvery sweet tone.

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Don’t argue, just do it.

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Instead there’s a gaping hole inside of me where my emotions used to be.

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of the voice leaning casually against the doorframe, and my jaw drops.

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There was nothing on earth to match it.