15 years ago
She tucked her jacket tighter around her. She hated walking home, especially on nights like this. The incessant wind blew sheets of freezing rain against her as lightning cackled and boomed across the sky. At the last roar of thunder, she jumped, splashing into a puddle which filled her new shoes for work which she had spent half her meager paycheck on. "Crap. I just got these. Ill have to wear my old shoes tommarrow while these dry out. Crap." She thought.
Just then she heard faint choking gasps from around the corner. Eager to put the skills she had learned at that day's First Aid class to use, she hurried to the corner. What she saw froze her into place.
A man crouched in the alley, his lips on a young girl's neck. By now the girl's breathing had stopped and the woman knew the little girl was dead. The freezing wind gusted from behind the woman, blowing her hair in her face. The man stiffened, standing slowly and turning to face her with a wicked smile on his face.
He was inhumanely beautiful. More like a god than a man. The idea of him being supernatural was strengthened by his eyes. They were a brilliant ruby red. The man pushed the dead girl aside and took a step closer to the woman frozen before him. She stood perfectly still. She felt no fear-rather she felt drawn to him in a way she couldn't explain- but something in her knew not to move. But while her body was frozen her mind raced. What was he? She only had one word to explain it and no matter how much her mind shied away from it, she kept coming back to it- vampire.
Suddenly, in a movement so fast she didn't see it, he was in front of her. "Please" she breathed
"Sorry gal, it's nothing personal, just thirst. I promise, you wont feel a thing." He took a deep breath, "Exquisite."
Some times she acted without thinking. Instinct she called it. This was one of those times. Reaching forward, she placed a hand on his cheek. As their skin touched a spark like lightning ran up her arm. Instantly he was ten ft back. "No." he whispered. "It can't be. No." And with that, he was gone. She stood in shock for a long time, then she snapped out of it and began running