Prologue

I stood in the middle of a circle of flames…I couldn't run away. Ash and smoke made its way around me in a huge swirl. I collapsed to my knees and cried. My wet tears stung the cuts on my cheeks.

I could barely breathe as the smoke entered my lungs, my eyes stung from the hares wind blowing ash into them. My legs were covered in cuts and bruises. I was numb everywhere but my heart. I could feel it shatter into thousands of pieces under my chest.

I tried to lift myself from the hard dirt ground, but I stumbled and fell to the ground. I laid there for what seemed for days when I heard the sirens go off. Footsteps pounded their way toward me and the bodies.

"We've found somebody!" an officer called out to his comrades.

"How many are dead?"

"I don't know, it seems like a whole family was murdered,"

An officer with stylish black boots came to my side and crouched down to look me in the face. She looked blurry in my vision, the glimmer of flames reflected off her tinted glasses. I saw two people take a body and start to put it in a body bag. Its black plastic seemed like it would melt under the heat.

"Hey, this one's still breathing, can I get the paramedics over here NOW!" she yelled.

I felt her hand on the small of my back. I looked at her with sad, blank eyes; they would ask me questions the second I was able to talk. I would have to tell them the whole story; they would never believe me though, how my whole family is now dead because of me, because I was born, because I was breathing the same air as them…they're dead all because of me, and I couldn't save them, their bodies have been ripped from their souls.

"This is all my fault…I couldn't help them, I couldn't save them from him," I said, my voice was cracking as fast as how the flames had spread.

"Save them from who honey?" she asked me.

"The vampire…."

The woman's glasses fell an inch down her nose. She quickly put them back into place and put her index and middle finger over the middle of my forehead.

"What are you-,"

"Shhhhhh, just rest now…you're safe….as long as you forget about that vampire," she said moving a finger to her lips.

A pang of fear rocketed through my body, I tried to move my arm to swat away her hand, but before I could move anything I was surrounded in darkness, I could feel my memories of this night slowly slipping away.

I passed out with no clue what had happened on what was probably the most important day of my life.