Nightmare Vacation

When I was eight years old my family was attacked by vampires. I have tried my entire life to forget that night, but it always lingers in the back of my mind.

My parents decided to take my two siblings and I to the beach for vacation. Caden was sixteen, he was tall, and skinny, with brown hair and stunning blue eyes, Latisha was twelve, she was short and looks a lot like a pixie with blond hair and green eyes, and I was eight, I had dark brown hair and blue eyes like my brothers, I was short and a little pudgy. We packed our suitcases Thursday night so our dad could pack them into the van and we could leave early the next morning. I got up before everyone else so I could go over to our neighbor's house to tell them bye. I knocked on the door and Catona opened it. Catona was gorgeous, she was tall, had an hourglass figure any one would kill for, and brown, honey tinted hair, and the most beautiful brown eyes.

"Oh, hi Savannah how are you?" Catona asked. "I'm okay, I just came to tell everyone bye, we are leaving for the beach today." I replied. "Which beach are you going to?" Catona asked me. "I think we are going to Carolina Beach in North Carolina." I answered. "Where is Eti?" I asked. "I think he is in his room, hold on and I will go check." Catona replied.

I heard her footsteps through the house.

"Etuvaine" she called. "Yes my dear sister?" Eti replied. "Savannah is here to say bye before she and her family leave for the beach." Catona answered. "Okay" Eti replied.

About a minute later Eti came into the living room with a huge grin on his face. I ran to him and wrapped my arm around his waist. Etuvaine was tall, extremely skinny, with brown eyes like Catona's and honey colored blond hair

"Well hello to you too Savannah." he said laughing. "I'm gonna miss you Eti." I said. "I going to miss you too munchkin." he replied as he picked me up and pulled me into a hug.

He put me back on my feet and told me to go back and wake my parents so we could leave. Etuvaine walked me to the door and I left, after I was inside my house he closed the door to his house. I went to wake Caden and Latisha so they could help me wake our parents. I pulled Caden's blankets off of his bed and he woke up rather unhappy, until he saw me standing at the foot of his bed and smiled.

"Ya know all you had to do was shake me and say Caden its time to get up and I would have done so." Caden said. "I know I just thought that would be more fun" I laughed "lets go wake up Latisha!"

We both ran down the hall to our sister's room threw open the door and jumped on her bed, but she wasn't there. About two seconds after we realized she wasn't in her bed we were attacked from behind by our mom, dad and Latisha. After they got off of us we all went to our rooms to get dressed and then we went to the kitchen to eat breakfast, we all ate our favorite cereal. After breakfast mom made everyone go to the bathroom because she didn't want to have to stop ten minutes into the trip for someone to use the bathroom. We were finally ready to go so all piled into our parents van and we left. The sun was starting to rise and it was amazingly beautiful, I had never seen a sun rise before. The ride was quite for most part, aside from the occasional bickering from my loving siblings. All it took for them to get quite was for mom to start counting, she never got past one. We reached Carolina beach late that afternoon. We waited in the van while mom went inside to get the keys to our rooms. She came back out of the main office and we got out of the van. Dad went to the back of the van and opened the hatch to get our suitcases out. We each got our own bag and went up the stairs to our rooms. We got to our rooms and mom opened our door for us. Caden, Latisha, and I were sharing a room and mom and dad had their own room. We went inside to unpack our clothes and toiletries so we could wash up and change clothes before we went to eat. We passed a little Italian restaurant on our way to the hotel and mom wanted to eat there. Caden, Latisha, and I went to our parents room when we were ready to go. It was still pretty light outside so we walked the two blocks to the restaurant. The restaurant was beautiful and the food was great. After dinner we went back to our hotel to get some sleep. The next morning we were up early getting ready to go out on the beach and play in the ocean. It was amazing, it smelled wonderful. My brother and sister had their boogie boards, and mom had mine so I wouldn't lose it on the walk from our hotel. We spent the entire week on the beach, in the ocean boogie boarding or playing in the hotel pool, we had a lot of fun but it just didn't last long enough. We had to go home to Georgia because school was starting back in two weeks. Our last day went by very fast, we packed our suitcases and loaded them in the van and went to the beach one more time. We left later than mom and dad intended to so we had to stop at a hotel so mom and dad could get some rest and we could get something to eat. We arrived at the hotel and mom and dad went inside to see if there were any vacancies while Caden, Latisha, and myself waited in the van. I kept getting an odd feeling that someone was watching us but I didn't see anyone. Then I jumped.

"Savannah what's wrong with you?" Latisha asked "I thought I saw something white pass by my window." I replied more than a little scared. "You are seeing things." Latisha spat bitterly.

Caden gave Latisha a really mean look and then turn to me and smiled.

"I'm sure it was only your imagination munchkin." Caden said comfortingly.

I smiled back at him and settled into my seat. A few minutes later mom and dad came out with keycards for our hotel room. Everyone got out of the van and dad open the hatch so we could get a change of clothes and set of pajamas. After we had our thing we found our room and went inside to wash the sand off of our legs and feet. Mom brushed my hair , while Latisha fixed her hair and put on more make up, and dad and Caden waited on the bed behind my mom and me. I asked my mom where we were eating and she shrugged her shoulders and said

"I don't know yet, will you hand me the phone book from under the telephone please?" I handed her the phone book and she flipped to the restaurant section. She picked another Italian restaurant that was down the road from our hotel. It had gotten dark outside and mom wanted to walk to the restaurant because it wasn't far. My brother really didn't like that idea.

"Mom, I think we should take the van, we don't know anything about this neighborhood, and its dark outside." Caden argued "Caden, its only down the road, and it is not going to kill you to walk a little bit." Mom replied

Latisha and I agreed with Caden but we both knew it wasn't going to do any good if we voiced our opinions. We left the hotel about five minutes later to go to the restaurant to eat. We walked to the restaurant in silence. The interior was really pretty. The restaurant was dimly lit, and all the booths had low hanging chandeliers over them, the tables had candles in the center of the table tops and all the tables had white table clothes covering them. The hostess showed us to our table and gave us our menus, then she went back to her post at the front entrance. She was really pretty. She had platinum blond hair and light blue eyes, and was abnormally pale, and she was even smaller than Catona. The waiter walked up to the table a few seconds after the hostess left, he looked like the hostess but he wasn't built as small. He wrote down our drink choices and left. My parents we talking to one another but I wasn't really listening. Caden and Latisha were both in lala land, Caden of course was drooling after the hostess, and Latisha, I'm assuming was focused on the waiter. The waiter brought our drinks to the table and mom ordered for everybody but dad, who ordered for himself and the waiter left. Mom and dad finished their conversation, Latisha kept staring off into space thinking about god only knows what and Caden looked really stressed about something. I got up from my chair and went to stand beside my brother.

"Caden what's wrong?" I asked. "I'll tell you later sis okay." Caden replied. "Okay" I replied and went back to my seat.

Mom eyed me curiously but didn't ask what our conversation was about. Latisha was still very much absorbed in her mind, she was so absorbed that it look her two and a half minutes to notice that we were all staring at her. My sister was never one to sit quietly and mind her own business, she was very nosy and always had to put her two cents in. when she finally realized that she was being watched she looked at us and smiled sheepishly like she had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar before supper. Mom and dad asked us how we liked the beach and we each gave our answers. By the time the beach conversation ended our waiter was back with our food. Everyone talked with their mouths full, and they all talked about things that were totally and completely irrelevant, but in a strange way it was comforting. Latisha noticed that I wasn't talking and I wasn't really eating either.

"What's wrong with you Savannah your never this quiet and you are always eating, is the baby pouting cause we had to leave the beach?" Latisha commented. "What if she isn't hungry, and what if she doesn't want to talk? Just leave her alone Latisha!" My brother replied angrily. "I just don't feel like talking tonight." I finally said.

After that everyone ate in silence, my parents didn't even reprimand Latisha for being mean to me or Caden for stepping up to my defense, which was really shocking. We finished eating while mom and dad went to pay the bill. Mom came back to the table to get us while dad waited at the exit. Finally we left the restaurant and headed back to the hotel. Little did we know, we would never make it to the hotel.