Black Midnight
It was a dark Saturday night as my boyfriend, Aaron, and I walked hand-in-hand from the movie theater to his house. It was a small town so mostly everyone could walk downtown and since Aaron's house was closer to the movie theater than mine we walked to his house first even though he argued he should be the gentleman and walk me to my house first but I told him I'd be ok. As we arrived at house he said "Are you sure you don't want me to walk you to your house?" I replied "Don't worry about me I'll be fine." Then he gave me a warm goodnight kiss and said "Alright but be safe." "Ok goodnight Aaron." "Goodnight Grace." As I walked down the street I glanced back and saw him standing at his mailbox watching me walk off into the night, not knowing that, that'll be the last time he'd ever see me again. Usually when I walk back from his house I'd walk through the park but that night I decided to take the shortcut past the edge of downtown to my house. I normally don't like to walk that way at night, alone because of all the alleyways you have to pass but I had a science test that I had to study for. As I was making my way down the dark street I heard a rustle of noise behind me I quickly turned around but no one was there. I quickened my pace then I heard the noise again, I stopped, looked behind me but no one was there as I turned around to run someone grabbed my shoulders and then I felt a sudden pain in my neck, I screamed and then everything went black. I woke up and I was lying on a damp, cold floor, everything was dark except for one candle farther away then I noticed the bars around me as if I were in a jail cell I looked around and saw a girl no older than twelve in the cell beside me. She had dark brown curly hair unlike my strait blonde hair she suddenly sat up and I quickly asked, "Where are we?" She quickly turned her head toward me she looked frightened, she had brown eyes that went well with her brown hair she then asked " Who are you? I haven't seen you here before." I answered, "Ya, I'm guessing I just arrived."
"Then you must've come while I was sleeping"
"Ya, must've, but do you know where we are or what we are doing here?"
She moved closer to my cell and whispered, "As far as I've overheard we are in the underworld you know where the vampires live, but I have no idea why we are here." After she had told me that I remembered the sharp pain before I got here I quickly looked down at my neck and I was surprised to see dry blood all over my neck I looked at her neck and saw the same thing. To distract myself from this reality I asked her " Oh, I forgot to ask what is your name?" she answered, "My name is Sophie."
"Nice to meet you Sophie, I'm Grace."
"I'm glad you're here Grace now I have someone to talk to, many people come and go but none of them ever talk to me."
"So how long have you been here?"
"I think about a week-"
"Have they fed you?"
"Ya, bread and water two times a day."
My stomach rumbled I was hungry the last thing I had eaten was popcorn at the movies. "Aren't you scared since you've been here for a week?" she answered, "I'm really scared I cry myself to sleep." After a little while Sophie drifted off to sleep I rested my head against the cold stone wall and right before I fell asleep I heard a door open at the end of the hallway and then I heard someone running toward my direction and then I saw a guy about sixteen he ran down the hallway looking in each cell as he passed then he came to Sophie and I cells when he saw us he stopped reached into his pocket, pulled out a whole ring of keys, and unlocked our cells then he said "Come on we don't have much time!" I quickly nudged Sophie awake while I headed out of the cell; she quickly woke up and followed me out. When we got into the hallway the guy said, "What ever you do keep running and follow me!" We had no choice but to follow him so we quickly followed him out of the hallway.