Vampires Find Love In Winter For A Reason

Vampires Fall In Love In Winter For A Reason

“Emilia! Come on, come back here!”
“No!” I screamed. I grabbed my purse and slipped on my shoes.
“Aw, come one baby, don’t do that. We have guests!”
I left without giving him eye contact and slammed the door.
He opened it after me and shouted, “I was just trying to help!”
I stormed off into the cold, dark night. Winter was closing in, so it probably wasn’t a good idea for me to be outside in 30 degree or so weather with no coat. Then again, people to crazy things when they are angry.
I didn’t care about the cold. I had had it with my boyfriend, Jack. We had only lived together for 6 months and we were already fighting. I knew it wasn’t my fault, though. He was the one calling me fat…in his own way. He was monitoring what I was eating. I had lost 7 pounds since moving in with him. Seven. And he still wasn’t satisfied. This time was, “All right, honey, I think you’ve had enough pie.” Oh, that’s not all. I said, “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Well, I think we both know it’s not making your ass any smaller.”
That’s not the worst of it. One) It’s Thanksgiving. I can eat whatever the hell I want. Two)I had one piece of pie. ONE. Three)His buddies were there. No, I’m not mad because he insulted me in front of his buddies, well, I am because he made himself look cool by putting me down, but I’m also mad because he didn’t even ask me if they could come over. He just invited them to Thanksgiving without telling me, then insulted me in front of them for eating one piece of pie. I was done. Well, not permanently, I just needed to cool off a bit. I felt my cell phone vibrate in my purse. I opened it: Come home, please.
Reply. I’ll be home soon. In the meantime, go f*ck yourself. Love, Emi.
It was 10:30. I should be cold enough in 10 minutes. After all, I was wearing an off-the-shoulder long sleeve shirt, a short skirt, knee high leggings and Mary Janes. No jacket.
I walked to the only place I could think of that would be open at this time of the night: the park. A few minutes on the swing should calm me down. Okay, maybe this was partly my fault. I knew Jack. I knew he could be slightly chauvinistic. I should have expected this, right? Now I can go home.
I left the park and started for home. I hugged my shoulders in the bitter cold night. Immediately, I knew I was being followed. I looked over my shoulder, but saw nothing. Wonderful idea, Emili. Take a walk at 10:30 at night when everyone’s sleeping and nobody is awake to hear you scream. I started hearing voices from behind me but I couldn’t quite make out what they were saying. I could have sworn I heard a scream. My pace quickened. I looked over my shoulder again but still saw nothing. I ran into something and felt hands on my shoulders; I didn’t dare look up to see who was blocking my path. “My, my. What a pretty complexion. And such smooth skin.” He said. I breathing became louder and I let out a whimper. “Aw, are you scared?” he asked sympathetically. I didn’t answer. I couldn’t. My neck was stiff and my mouth was dry. He inched closer to my face and I felt his warm breath on my neck. “You should be” he said menacingly. His words sent a shiver down my spine.
“Hey, Cale! Look what we got!” I heard a voice call from behind me. I turned around to see 3 boys walking towards my captor and me. One of them is with a girl, dragging her from the looks of it. “Looks like he got one, too!” Another boy says. “Let me go, you freak! I’ll kick your ass!” The girl shouted. She looked about 16, 5’3”, and maybe 120 pounds. Her brown bangs blanketed her eyes from my view and the rest of the world while the rest of her hair devoured her neck and shoulders.
“How about you shut the f*ck up?” Her captor shouted back at her. I didn’t dare open my mouth.
“All right, boys. I think we’ve got all we can fit in the car. Let’s head back.” The boy named Cale said.
“Shit. We should get a bigger car. We’re coming back almost empty-handed.” A blond boy said.
“I guess, Elliot, but we could only get one more since I have to drive.” Another boy said.
“Yeah. Good point, Vince.”
“W-where are you taking me?” I said meekly to Cale as he pushed me into a dark red mustang. He climbed in after me and inched close to my face, looking over my body. “I like a girl who’s scared of me. Don’t worry, sweetie, you’ll find out shortly.” He looked out the window. “Hey Vincent, what’s the hold up?”
“This bitch won’t get her ass in the car!” The blond boy laughed as he hopped into the passenger’s seat.
“Shut up, Elliot. I never see you getting any food” He shouted back as he shoved the girl into the car.
“Food?!” I kind of shouted. Elliot turned around and smiled. “That’s right, cutie. Food. We’re Vampires.”
“Shut up, Elliot. You sound like a dumbass.” A boy said climbing into the driver’s seat.
“How about you shut up, Wade, and drive the stupid car.”
Wade glared at Elliot and started the car. That car ride was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced in my life. Not just because I was being kidnapped (by vampires, no less), but there was a girl next to me who was begging to be killed. I didn’t want to get caught in a crossfire.
“I’ll freakin’ kill you!” She screamed. “I’ll cut you in your sleep.” I spent the entire car ride listening to this girl emotionally bash Vincent. I kind of felt bad for him. I mean, sure, he kidnapped her. But she was saying some pretty mean stuff.
When we arrived to our destination, I stood outside a fairly normal looking house on the outskirts of town.
“You vampire freaks! You die and burn in hell!” She screamed. Maybe I should have fought back. She’s doing it and nothing’s happened to her.
Vincent threw open his door and pulled the girl out by her hair. He pulled her head back and sunk his teeth into the side of her neck. I could hear his teeth pierce her flesh.
Nevermind. I’m glad I stayed silent.
“Vince, what the hell? That has to las for a while!”
That? I’m pretty sure humans aren’t THAT. Aren’t things. Monsters and things. Vampires are things.
Cale pulled me out of the car and led me into the house. I expected to see a normal house, which I did at first, until Cole kicked the mat on the bathroom floor, revealing a trap door.
“Go” he told me. Of course, I opened it up and walked down the stops, tears streaming down my cheeks. I walked down what seems like a thousand stone stairs, though I’m sure it was only about 15 or 20. The staircase looked very old. It led me to what looked like the inside of a castle. It was a huge room with an old looking chandelier and many doors along the walls.
“This way” Cale said, dragging me to the large double-doors in front of me. The closer we got, the more I thought I heard something. He opened the doors. I was right. Sobbing. There were people in cages. There must have been about 5 cages, each 5x5x10, about 4 people in each cage. Except for one. Cale led me to the cage in the back which had only one person occupying it. A young girl about my age with blond hair. He unlocked the cage, pushed me inside, and proceeded to lock it. I looked directly into his eyes the entire time he locked that cage. I begged, pleaded for him to let me out with my eyes. No words, and my tears had dried. It was just his eyes and mine in a silent battle. He locked the cage and left. He had won the battle.
Chapter 2
I turned around to face the blond girl in the cage with me. I had questions and maybe she had answers.
“Um, what’s going on?” I asked. The girl looked up at me.
“We are awaiting our deaths. The vampires have trapped us here for food. My name’s Maggie by the way in case you were interested.”
“Uh, hi. I’m Emilia. Do you know..Why don’t they go out daily or whenever they need to eat and get humans one by one instead of locking us up and saving us for later?”
“Typically, they would. But it’s almost winter and winter doesn’t bode well for vampires. First, vampires hunt at night. Who goes out at night in the winter? Nobody. It’s cold and everybody is sleeping. Number 2, think of why Vampires go out in the night. So they won’t be seen. What happens in the winter time? It snows, and snow brings light, even in the dark. Anyone who’s ever been outside at 1 in the morning in the winter can tell you it may as well be 7:30. Someone could see them. Last thing. Snow keeps footprints. If someone sees you and they follow your footprints, you’re done.”
“Did they tell you that?”
“Some of it. But mostly I’ve just had a lot of time to think about it. And it’s nice to meet you, Emilia.”
“You can call me Emili. How long have you been here, Maggie?”
“3 days.”
“That’s horrible”
“Not compared to how long everyone else has been here for.”
I sat silent for about a minute. “How were you captured?” I asked.
Maggie sat silent for a while before tears started to well up in her eyes.
“Nevermind” I said, “It’s not important. What is important is getting out of here.”
“It’s impossible. The only way out is by going upstairs, and they are all up there. Elliot, Wade, Cale, and…Vincent……..If they caught us out of these cages, they’d just kill us faster.”
“Sounds like a plan” an elderly man said. Everyone had given up hope.
We sat silently for about a minute before I heard footsteps echo through the walls. The door flung open and Cale walked through the door. He walked directly to my cage and stopped. “Give me your purse and empty your pockets. We can’t have you communicating with the outside world. I did as I was told and continued to beg him with my eyes. He kept his eyes on my bag as I handed it to him and then finally looked me square in the eyes. After what felt like hours of staring at him, he left without saying another word.
“Don’t” Maggie said.
“Don’t what?”
“Don’t let him have your heart.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I saw you look into his eyes. Don’t let him have your heart.”
I didn’t know what to say. I was speechless.
“Vampires aren’t like you and me” She said. “They are gluttonous, lustful creatures. They don’t care about our feelings.” Once again, Maggie had left me speechless. What was I supposed to say? No, they are loving creatures. And I couldn’t agree if I was trying to cheer everyone up. I sat there for hours just thinking of what to say.
Finally, more footsteps broke the silence. The doors flew open. “Okay, people. Time to eat.” Elliot said, unlocking a cage close to the door. Cale walked in and came directly my cage again except this time, he actually opened the cage door. “Come on, let’s go.”
“I’m not hungry.”
“I don’t care, get up.”
I stood up. “Come on, Maggie, let’s go.”
“No. Maggie stays here. She’s already made it clear that she’s never leaving this room.”
I followed Cale out of the room and up the stairs. I stopped midway and turned around to see Elliot lead a group of 4 people to a room by the double doors.
“Where is her taking them?” I asked.
“To eat.”
“Why am I not with them?”
“I want to talk to you.”
He led me up the rest of the stairs and into the kitchen. He handed me an apple.
“What did you want to talk to me about?” I asked and took a bit out of the apple.
“What did you do to me?”
“I don’t know what you are talking about” I said.
“When I put you in that cage, you looked into my eyes. Why? Aren’t you scared?”
“Of course I’m scared. I want to know what’s going on.”
“But you’re not scared of me?”
“I….I don’t know.”
“I’m a vampire.” He said. “I capture people, put them in cages, and feed off of their blood. That doesn’t scare you?”
“I don’t know. I just don’t believe you would deliberately hurt anybody. I mean, I did, but when you looked me in the eyes, I didn’t see a mean vampire. I saw a sadness. I feel kind of bad for you.”
“Why?” He sounded offended. “You’re the one with relationship problems.”
“How do you know about that?”
“I read your text messages.”
Cale’s P.O.V.
This was the first time I had seen her angry.
“Why? Why would you do that? That’s my phone and my business. You have no right to go through my personal life. I don’t care who you think you are, you have no right to do that!”
Her eyes started getting wetter and glossier. I saw shame in her face.
Original P.O.V.
I was furious. As if I wasn’t vulnerable enough, but now I’m going to be known as a girl who can’t handle a relationship.
“I’m sorry” Cale said.
I was shocked.
“I shouldn’t have read them. It’s none of my business.”
“W..why are you apologizing? Aren’t you going to kill me?”
“Why would I kill you?”
“Well, Wade killed the girl in the car for yelling at him.”
“Yeah, but that girl was kind of a bitch, and that’s Wade, not me. He’s got a bit of a temper.”
I sat silent.
“Why are you still with your boyfriend?” Cale asked.
“What?!”
“I know I shouldn’t meddle, but really, he’s a total jerk.”
“Yeah. He’s the reason why I’m here in the first place.” I said under my breath.
“What?”
“Tonight. I was out because we got in a fight. I took a walk, and now I’m here.”
“You mean yesterday. It’s 2 in the morning now.” He said.
“What is she doing out of her cage?!” Wade screamed. He was furious. “Cale, what’s going on?”
“Nothing. We were just talking.”
“You can’t. Don’t you learn anything? She’s going back – now.” Wade grabbed my wrist and pulled me to the bathroom, moving the rug, and dragging me back the cage room. The Dungeon. He was too fast. I couldn’t keep up. My wrist felt like it was breaking.
“Stop!” I screamed, “Slow down!”
He turned around and slapped me with such force; I stumbled backwards and hit the floor.
“Don’t tell me what to do!” He shouted.
I whimpered and rubbed my wrist.
“You…STOP CRYING.”
It must have just hit me that I was captured by vampires and that they would murder me because I burst into tears. I hugged my ankles and sobbed into my knees.
“Shh. Shut up. Stop crying.” He ordered.
“I don’t wanna die!” I sobbed. My eyeliner smeared against my black and white stripped leggings.
Wade’s P.O.V.
“I don’t wanna die!” I heard her say. It was times like these that made me hate being a vampire. I didn’t want to kill her. I didn’t want to kill anyone, but I didn’t want to live forever starving. I never wished for this. I never wished to be feared.