New Life
I stood outside of the modest house in the freezing cold and rain. If I hadn't been completely terrified out of my skin I would have probably not have been able to take it. I'd never been more confused and scared before in my young life. About thirty minutes ago everything had been completely normal, I'd been in the bookstore for most of the day reading an exciting mystery novel. I spent a lot of my time at the bookstore because I loved to read and most of the books at my orphanage were to young for me. I was only thirteen but my reading level was very high. I was almost finished when a young man walked up to me. He was excruciatingly beautiful and I'd gasped at the sight of him. Better than that, he had come and sat down right next to me and without even introducing himself, told me to come with him.
I had no choice but to follow him.
Then he'd taken me with him to where I was now standing, dressed only in a light jacket, in the rain, in the middle of an Alaskan winter. It will be a miracle if I don't get pneumonia. That's when I started to hear voices from inside the house. It sounded as if the man that brought me here was trying to convince someone about something. I heard different words that'd been spoken louder as if to emphasize them. 'Don't understand… extremely rare… powerful…nothing I've ever seen,' were about all I could hear. Then I heard what I thought to be a couple of girls mutter 'okay'.
Then the man appeared through the door and grabbed my freezing wet hand with his hand, which seemed to be somehow even colder than mine, and pulled me into the warm house. He led me silently into a sitting room where the three most beautiful women I had ever seen were sitting casually on the couch. I immediately felt self-conscious. He went and sat down next to them and motioned for me to sit in the armchair diagonal from the couch.
"Hello," the man said, "I'm Eleazar, and this is Carmen… Kate… and Tanya," he introduced them then stopped talking; I waited in silence until I realized he was waiting for my name.
"Oh, I'm Aubrey," I said quietly.
"How old are you, Aubrey?" the one called Tanya asked.
"Thirteen," I answered promptly.
"Who do you live with," the same one questioned.
"Orphanage," I mumbled and I could swear that I saw Eleazar grinning triumphantly.
"Would they notice if you didn't come back tonight?"
"Probably not," I answered truthfully, scared out of my wits.
"I told you so," Eleazar whispered to Tanya sounding like a two year old.
"Whatever." Tanya rolled her eyes.
"Aubrey, we are creatures that you have never seen before, we are deathly fast and deadly strong, we are centuries old and immortal. We survive on blood, and we want to make you one of us," Eleazar said. i was shocked and scared and could not process anything fast enough.
"Vampire," I whispered as he lunged for my throut.