Chapter 1
My name is Taylor, and every Monday morning is the same…I wake up at five, wait for my dad to get out of the shower then I go and take one myself. I brush my curly brown hair past my shoulders, put some spray or mousse in it, which ever one I have at the moment, and walk out, with my glasses on, the door at ten after six to catch my bus. Typical day for me…
I get on the bus, and sit with my friend Cody, he's only in sixth grade while I'm in tenth. He's a good kid in all, and most of the people on the bus are annoying, selfish, little brats that only care about how they look. Rich was my bus driver, he was a cool bus driver he's even been to Hawaii, honestly I don't know how he could afford it on a bus salary.
I bring out my brick of a Zune, and listen to one of my favorite songs "My Heart" by the band Paramore, while Cody plays Mortal Kombat on his PSP. I'm on the bus for an hour before we finally reach the school. It's the twenty-third of March and I still have to where a coat, the weather this year is not in my favor. I was excited Saturday because the Twilight movie came out of DVD, the books were much better in my opinion, but the movie was good. I love the Twilight Saga, I always fantasize that I met the Cullens and I myself was a vampire, but that'll never come true. Sometimes I feel that I never fit in anywhere, and to me I didn't. I was waiting for me to feel as if I fit in, but it has yet to happen.
I put my coat in my locker and go downstairs toward the main entrance, where there we pray and worship. As I get there my two best friends, Alyssa and Danny, walk in the door.
Alyssa, my friend for three years, has brown straighten hair, blue eyes, purple glasses, and she's four-eleven. She's only fifteen, while I'm seventeen, but we are really close, we treat each other as if we were sisters.
Then there's Danny. I've only known him for about two years, and I already have a crush on him, but he doesn't know it. He's five-six, blonde short hair, and dark blue eyes. He's sixteen, but I don't really care we're only a couple of months apart from each other. I just wish he felt the same…
I give them both a hug and walk upstairs with them to their lockers. They were already having another conversation so I just walked behind them, quietly.
Then Alyssa said to me, "Are you ok, Taylor?"
I nodded and replied, "Yes, I'm fine. Why?"
"Because Alyssa just called your name three times and you didn't answer." Danny explained.
"Sorry, I was just zoning out. Thinking about the past, as usual."
"Well, you can't change any of that. It's the past." Alyssa said.
"I know…I just wish I could stop thinking about it…"
"Then don't." Danny said. I nodded.
I was thinking about my Papa. He was my step-grandpa, but he treated me as his own. He lived right next door to me and I loved him dearly. He died from cancer January 12, 2009, twelve days before seventh my birthday. I saw him dead in his bed, and that's the image that was in my mind…him dead. To be honest, I just couldn't believe he was dead…I loved him so much.
We walked downstairs and worshiped, we had a 20 minute zero hour today, then the bell rang signaling us to go to our first hour. My first hour was cooking, we made mint chocolate chip ice cream, it was pretty good. Second hour was child development, we just watched a movie on parenting. Third hour was Biology, and I walked to class with Danny half way.
"Sorry, about this morning."
"There's nothing to be sorry about." he said.
I looked into the pool of blue eyes, losing my thoughts. I had to turn away, and said, "Ok." We were at my class now, so I asked, "Do I get a hug?" He came up to me and was about to give me a hug when he ran off into the hallway.
I stuck my tongue at him and he smiled, he was going to get it.
So I walked into Bio, grabbed my paper and sat in my seat, third from the front in the fifth row. But, there was a different feeling to the room today, it felt like someone was watching me…
I looked around the room, and there in the fourth row, fifth seat, a new kid was staring at me. He was pale as a ghost, dark colored eyes, and black spiked hair.
He smiled at me, and it creep me out a little because that smile looked sinister, like he was planning something. I turned around and tried to pay attention in class.
But, I couldn't stop thinking about how that kid looked. He was extremely pale, odd colored eyes, like a black, and just the way he smiled.
I gasped quietly, figuring out what this guy was…a vampire. I got out my assignment notebook and wrote a pass to the restroom, then I was out the door.
But, I felt like I was being followed, I turned around to find no one was there. Then out of no where I was grappled and smashed to the floor. My head was bleeding dark blood, and I was half shocked at the person I saw above me, the mysterious boy…the vampire.
In a silky, smooth voice he said, "Hello." and smiled hungrily. "Sorry, but your blood smelled so appealing to me, and I just wanted a taste."
I was squirming trying to get free from his iron grip, but it was no use…I was going to die.
I felt his teeth graze my neck, then he bit. It was quite painful, and I was losing conciseness, fast. Then, his weight was suddenly off me, and I heard growling, then someone speak…
"Get off of her." She said.
"I was just having my lunch, can't I finish?"
"No, leave or we'll kill you." another voice said, male this time.
"She wasn't that good anyway." I heard a rush of air, then the venom began to spread and I started to feel this unbearable fire, I was trying not to scream, but strangled grunts came out.
"We have to get her out of here." the woman said.
"I know…" the man replied.
Cold arms grabbed me, then the world sped by. I couldn't see anything because they were going so fast. The fire in me raged and I started to scream, but then everything went black…
