I sat at the kitchen island, watching Alex and Josh prepare breakfast. The tension in the room was suffocating and any attempt I tried to make to start a conversation was answered in grunts and shrugs. Josh deliberately moved away every time Alex got too close, almost as if being too close was burning him alive. Josh wanted to be with Alex but other than supernatural forces threatening his life for it, she was the mate of a werewolf— further complicating their relationship. I wasn't hungry after my unsuccessful conversation with Levi, but Alex and Josh both insisted on breakfast, and I knew better than to argue with another angry vampire as well as a fuming witch, that could turn me into a frog with a single hand gesture. Alex placed a stack of pancakes in front of me. "Eat up," she dusted her hands, "I can't guarantee it will be as good as yours." Joshua moved to the fridge grabbing jars of berries and other fruits and juices, as well as a tomato. "I'm surprised there are so man
Darkness was consuming, deceitful and blinding. "Where am I?" I thought aloud. The sound of my shoes kept me company, from the soundless madness. "Hello?"I began to panic this was becoming too weird. I took off running but where was I going to run to? I was hoping I'd hit something eventually running in a straight line. There would have to be a wall, a tree, or anything.But running was pointless. There was no end and no beginning to the darkness.The sound of a child giggling git my head to snap up again. "Hello" I called after the child."Marco," I heard the child whisper and I swallowed hard at the familiarity in his voice. "Marco," he called again stunning me into silence."Jake?" The name fell out of my mouth instantly. "is that really you?""No, that's not how you play," he said walking out of the darkness. "I say Marco and you say polo, May.""You're alive," I smiled and he looked down at the ground. "But where are we? How can I see you but nothing else?""Did you ever forget m
Hannah was gone, and I wasn't human anymore. In less than twenty-four hours all our lives changed majorly stunning all of us into silence. The silence wasn't even awkward, there was no where to start the conversation. So silence would just have to do. I walked to Levi's room to take a minute to gather my thoughts. I was starting to feel myself again –emotionally– but it felt like I now had an alter ego. My vampire side that would take control at the scent of human blood. I had no control over it. The blood left my mind with no room to reason. It was a demanding, self-consuming force and I was afraid because I didn't know who this other half of me was or how far it was going to go to get that drop of blood.It was safer for the students if I didn't go outside for a while. The last thing I wanted was a mass slaughter on my hands. I was so used to protecting the school from threats and now I was one of their biggest threats. I shut the bedroom door behind me and fell back on the bed.
It was Christmas eve and it was snowing. The castle looked beautiful covered in snow. I walked out of my last lecture for the day to see Levi waiting for me outside the building. "We could be anywhere in the world right now but you choose to be in a lecture." He held his arms open for me. I hugged him and he entwined our fingers as we walked. "We've been through this. I want to finish university." "Come with me," he said, taking me towards the forest. "Where are we going?" "Since you've been so good, playing human. I got a surprise for you." "You didn't have to get me anything." "But I did," he smiled, "I've realized that I never got to take you on a real date." "What," I smiled, "we went on dates before. Remember the time you took me to Vinny's in town?" Levi laughed. "That was not a date. I got kidnapped." "Okay in Arizona we went to the mall and we sat on a cliffside and kissed." "You have low standards," he said. "Says the man that married a murderous psychopa
Darkness, that's all that surrounded me. Little did I know that this darkness would follow me like a shadow once it sunk its claws deep within me, binding us together for the rest of my existence.Screams ripped through the air. My father yelled at my brother to get the shotgun while one of the creatures mercilessly attacked him, mixed with my father's screams I could hear my mother pleading with the creatures for them not to hurt us.I peeped from behind the couch, my heart was pounding in my ribcage, terrified that they would see me and I would be next. I saw one of them with their hands wrapped around my mother's throat.Pointy fangs protruded from the creature's mouth and it latched its fangs on the side of her neck breaking the skin and draining the life out of her. My mother's head fell lifelessly to the side as her eyes rolled back in her head and then I realized it wasn't my mother... it was me.The creature looked up at me his eyes bl
They had taken everything from me. With faces like mine and yours but teeth like a snake, they came at sundown. There were screams but nothing could halt their blood lust.Blood was a must for their survival and I was next but fate had other plans for me. It was something much crueler than death. •~•"What are you writing there?" My brother nudged me with his elbow, stopping my pensive thoughts.I didn't answer him but looked ahead instead. We were parked in front of the university gates. The grey bricked castle, with cobblestones and long green lawns was a sight for architectural sore eyes. The country's blue and white flag was holstered at each high tower, flapping proudly in the harsh winds.The large silver gate with a raven on it was almost symbolic. Once inside I knew my life was going to change yet again, but I felt numb. Fear, shock, and maybe realization that this moment I had anticipated for months on end, was finally here, but I had nothi
I had missed dinner last night. Death was the only natural occurrence that felt unnatural. The concept of here one day and gone the next felt like an unfair deal due to its unpredictable terms. Though death seemed unfair, I knew it was necessary. For all good things cannot live forever, for they would seize to be good and turn wicked with time. But this death was unjust. He was just a boy and seeing the first friend I made here dead just minutes after speaking with him left me stumped. Death followed me like a shadow sometimes taking away people I loved and leaving me whole to witness the carnage and heartache. For a long, while I had come to the conclusion I was cursed only to have the packs Oracle Reuel laugh in my face, and Reuel never laughed. These thoughts were consuming and due to being stuck in my head recoiling back into my shell of numbness, I had missed breakfast. Besides, the thought of foo
Streaks of purple lightning lit up the dark and gloomy night sky as rain poured down relentlessly. There was not a star or moon in sight, just darkness above and thick fog below.I attempted my walk back to my dorm room. The flashes of lightning were my only guidance through the darkness. The day my family was slaughtered in cold blood was the day I met a peculiar woman who I had grown to love during my brief stay with her.Though she was as wicked as some of the creatures she killed in her lifetime, she believed she did the right thing by not trusting monsters and putting human lives above theirs.She saved me and my siblings from monsters. But her hatred for something that wasn't human had no bounds. I feared I'd become like her with the hatred I had for vampires.The thought was disconcerting and one I never shared with my family. I cast it to the deepest pits of my mind and the next ten years of