I felt my canines lengthening and becoming sharp as I was sneaking down the alley way towards my unsuspecting victim. It was a cool, dark night on the night of the full moon. It was high up in the sky, but there were so few stars and the shadows around me were so useful to hide in when the young girl in front of me turned. I heard and felt my phone buzz in my pocket and I whipped it out and pressed the hang-up button, I couldn't have any interruptions from my annoying younger brother again. Up ahead of me I saw my prey turn the corner, and just as I stepped around the wall of an old, rundown, brick warehouse my brother stepped in front of me. "Annabelle!! Why didn't you answer your phone when I rang?" he said in his annoyingly whiney voice. I had begged my mother for a puppy and instead I got a little brother. "What do you want Vlad?" I said in a hopefully harsh voice.
"Mother called, she said she wants to see you" He answered oblivious to my cold tone of voice.
"Well can't you see that I am busy?!?" this time changing my voice to a hiss while pointing at a now empty street.
"She says it's urgent! You were going to kill that girl? I know you were, just look at your fangs." He whined.
I clapped and in a sarcastic voice I said "Very good, Vladimir, you really are growing up to be a very smart boy" once again returning to my sour, cold scowl I said "Now leave me alone. That girl has already gone so now I will have to find another person thanks to you."
"what happened to you, Anna, you used to fully understand our way of life and you used to be horrified by the thought of drinking human blood and now you have turned into a bloodthirsty monster" My little brother said as his face fell and he turned on his heel and walked to his car. "Mum said to meet her at the playground near the house at about five-ish but I will tell her you can't go into the sun and it probably isn't a good idea to let you anywhere near the people of our suburb. I'll let you know where and when to meet her" How could I ever have thought him adorable. I guess as a child I was more susceptible to my family's ways which also included finding my little brother cute.
I guess I have changed quite a bit I thought as I walked down the silent footpath of the backstreets. But you can't blame me. This is the way we vampires were made; it's in our nature to feed on the blood of humans. Why else would we have been given fangs? Anyway it isn't any of my brother or mother or anyone's business how I choose to live my immortal life. I don't mind not being able to go into the sun or to go into churches or touch crosses. Its no big deal why do they have to care, they never cared when I was little as long as I followed their rules and way of life! Well I have news for them I am not going to be a sheep anymore; I am a wolf, a predator. Meant to be feared not treated like any other stupid human!
Then I caught the smell of a human in the next street. I silently stalked my way around the corner and saw a young man standing at a payphone. I could smell his delicious scent and hear the pulse of his blood pumping through his veins. I felt the tingle in my teeth as they lengthened into fangs and knew that my eyes would be changing into a shiny, red colour. I silently walked almost floated up to the coloured glass and couldn't help but overhear his conversation. "I told you, honey, I would be home by tomorrow but I just got a bit lost so I will probably stay in a motel somewhere until the morning then see if I can find a tourist information centre so that I can get some directions." I heard a female voice on the other end say OK then the man replied back "Ok, well I better go now, there is a woman waiting for the phone-box." I chuckled to myself. This man has no idea that he will not be going home. Just as he opened the door I heard a noise behind me. I knew who it was even before I turned my head, my Mother. She was standing right behind me giving me that look she used to give me when I was little and had accidentally almost bitten the next door neighbour's children. That disappointed look that just made me feel like a child again. "Excuse me." The man that I was about to kill said. I turned back around and saw the look of fear and horror on his face. The look that gave me such pleasure to see on the faces of my meals. "Oh my God! What are you?!?" He whimpered with shock.
"BOO" I shouted into his face and he ran down the street screaming for help. I was about to chase him and forget all about my mother standing right behind me watching what I did. But before I could my mother put her hand on my shoulder to stop me
"Don't. Leave him be. You have done enough to him." My mother said in her oddly calm voice. She was always like that; calm. Never stressed or was scared. Just calm and collected. I shook her hand off.
"What do you want, Mum. Why are you here? What do you want from me?" I said.
"I know that your brother came to see you, told you that I wanted to talk to you"
"And?" I asked in a bored tone.
"And I know that you were not going to come" She said in that annoyingly calm voice.
"Wow, my family has gone and gotten all smart and physic while I have been gone." I said in a sarcastic voice. "I haven't wanted to talk to you in almost a year, what makes you think that I would want to talk to you now?"
"I am not here for you to talk to me; I am here because I need your help." My mother said.
"What on Earth would YOU want MY help for? You guys haven't wanted my help for anything in a long time so why now have you come to ask for it?" I asked
"It's your sister. She is going through some changes and she won't talk to me about them but I remembered the way you were with your brother."
"Mum, if you can't handle a teenage girl going through puberty then why would I be able to?"
"Not puberty Anna. I don't know what is wrong with her but she can't handle her abilities anymore. She is getting in trouble at school for being aggressive and I don't know what to do. Will you help her? If not for me then for your sister?" She asked. I listened for even the slightest hint of fear or anything in her voice and I found nothing. She was as calm as ever.
See my mother would be the perfect predator because she shows no emotion in her face or voice. She looks and sounds like an angel and is almost to perfect. But when she met and married my father she gave up her vampire predator life and took on the life of a housewife living with the human and hid her vampire ways.
"I will think about it. Now leave me alone." I said to my mother as I turned around and walked back down the street.
As I was walking down a dark alley way my watch started to beep. The alarm was signalling that the sun would be coming up soon. I was so busy thinking that I couldn't smell it. I sniffed. There it was as clear as day (pun intended) the scent of the hot, bright sun. So I turned around and walked to my blacked out windowed silver La Beron and drove home, went into the basement and went to sleep on a mattress in my very small, dungeon-like bedroom.