Bite Me

I didn’t know exactly where I was going. The moon was shinning bright, thought to be honest you couldn’t really see it through all the city lights and the smog. That in itself was enough to get me rushing through the crowds to get out of this hell hole. Even when I had been mortal I had hated people. It was hard to trust people you’d never met before when you couldn’t even trust the people you lived with.
My dark brown hair fell in front of my face, hiding my right eye from everyone around me. I hated the city, though it suited my cause. It held me from the outside world, and from him.
If it hadn’t been for that little boy I would have been sitting in front of the TV in my little run down apartment eating Ben and Jerry’s right now. It was his fault that I had let out my power to search around for his little sister who he had somehow managed to lose.
He had held onto me so tightly, like I was his parent or something. It made my heart warm even at the thought of him. Stupid human.
I could smell the man I had been hiding from. Could sense him close by. If I didn’t hurry, he would catch me. Twenty years of false freedom living in fear, all that time of careful planning to escape his palace of a house, and it all came down to this. A stupid mistake that would cost me everything.
My mind wandered back to the last time I had felt and warmth. I was eighteen, and I had just gotten my acceptance letter to Princeton, and my parents had taken me out to my favorite restaurant. We had just ordered when my father got up to use the restroom. When fifteen minutes had past my mother went to go and find him.
I remember waiting there for forty-five minutes before getting up and heading to the front desk to ask if they’d seen them. The man told me that they had both left with another man.
More worried then upset, I had paid the bill gotten into me dinky little car and headed back home to find them. The window at the top of the house was smashed to pieces, as if something had fallen through, and my parent’s car had a huge dent in the center as if something had stepped on it. Something very big.
I pulled in next to the other car and almost threw up. My father’s body lay in the center of the dent. His eyes were glazed over, and an almost dainty line of blood dripped from his mouth to pool around him.
I didn’t scream, I never did. Screaming just drew attention to you, not only of others around, but more then likely of the thing that caused you to scream in the first place.
I did however, run inside searching for my mother. I found her body, lying on the couch. Pain had torn through me as I remembered that only hours before she had been sitting there with my father and me as I opened my acceptance letter.
I took another step towards her, then stopped in my tracks as I saw the two tiny pin prick marks on the side of her neck. It couldn’t be….vampire bites? Doubt didn’t even have enough time to sink in, before I heard a very male sigh come from behind me.
The beauty of the man held me immobile. His blonde hair looked so soft that angels would be jealous, and his eyes were the most amazing sapphire blue she had ever seen. Sapphire happened to be her favorite gem, she even wore fake sapphire earrings.
“Maggie, my name’s Ash. Are you ready to go home?” His voice was smooth, and she shivered involuntarily.
“What the hell do you mean? I am home. What the fuck did you do to my parents?!” He laughed and then took a step towards me. Before I could even blink, I found myself up against the wall, with him pinning me in place.
“Your parents and I had a deal. Imagine my surprise when earlier today I received a phone call telling me that they were going back on their side of the bargain.”
My head was racing to keep up. It was all so much. My parent’s death, this strange man standing in my living room…way to much.
“A deal?” I heard myself ask the question, but my head was getting fuzzy. “For what?”
He laughed again then bite me lightly on the side of the neck, almost playfully. “For you of course, what else? Now, are you going to come peacefully or…” I didn’t really have much of a say, seeing as how everything started getting dark.
“Maggie, Maggie.”
I snapped out of my memory as I realized that the voice wasn’t coming from my mind. Much as I had done that night, I spun around to face Ash.
“Hello Maggie. Are you ready to come home, or is this going to get physical again?” It only took seconds for panic to kick in, and without saying anything I turned and ran in the direction I had been originally heading in.
Something inside me snapped as my legs lost feeling and I fell to a heap on the ground. I struggled to stay awake as the same drunk dizzy feeling came to me. He leaned over and whispered something, but I couldn’t make out what it was, as the world caved in on me, and I was surrounded in black.