Hey this is the rewriten version of chapter one...its not much better but its better than the origional...the second chapter rewrite is soon to follow so yeah...... Reviews?

I'd Rather Die

chapter one

by: c.a.s.1404

'Life sucks….and then you die.' I thought grimly to myself as I stared vacantly out of the window. It was 4:32 pm and I knew it would start to darken soon, and then they would be out.

They were what normal people tended to call vampires…….I called then bloodsucking parasites…..It never failed to disgust me how so many people would walk around aimlessly at night, searching for them. Praising them for their inhuman beauty, and carelessly flaunting their blood for the vampires temptation. The humans wanted immortality, the vampires wanted some easy food, and perhaps even a good lay.

'Disgusting!' I screamed to myself, as I silently cursed all humanity for their ignorance.

My mother and father were slaughtered by their kind, and later on they also took my sister away from me. They took her as a bride and swore that they'd come back for me later, when I came of age. Unfortunately for me, that day was fast approaching and has been for the last eleven years. Now, that date remained ominously dead-set for tomorrow, when I would turn sixteen.

Unlike all of them fools who dared to call themselves 'humans', I wasn't stupid. I would never fall for their fake façade. I knew just how monstrous they were. How they killed you slowly….Drank your blood night by night until they drank you dry……

I knew, that there was no equality between our species. They saw us as food, livestock, playthings! We were just entertainment to them. Just dolls to play around with until our usefulness died out, or they lost interest.

I would be the first one to admit that I was bitter. I chose to hold my grudge against them. It was hard not to if you watched them murder your parents before your eyes when you was only five years old, and then a year later take your older sister away from you…leaving you all alone in the world…left to take shelter from an orphanage.

Of course, I didn't stay in that orphanage long before they found me again and relocated me to an orphanage for the claimed.

To put it kindly, this certain type of orphanage was established to house, clothe, nourish, and raise the children that drew the eye of influential vampires for future pickings. It was here that, through I had already coached myself to hate vampires, I fully grew to loathe all supernatural species.

From what I had understood at the time the orphanage took me in, I was being relocated to better suit my needs. Years later I realized that this was not the case, that I was here for the sole purpose that a vampire wanted me but had not the time to raise a child. I was meant to be handed over like a possession to the one thing I hated more than life, a vampire.. And so here I was, eleven years later, dressed up in a plain dress, behind a locked door, in the cell I had lived in since my arrival, only a day away from the exact moment I would turn sixteen and be whisked away by a vampire that I don't even know, to become his bride, just like my sister did for another years previously.

Everything about this screamed bad news.

It was custom, for the bride-to-be to stay locked up in her room, the whole day before her sixteenth birthday, hence my current predicament. This meant also that at this exact moment in time, the vampire that had claimed me was roaming around the same halls that I had haunted for the last some odd years, learning from the workers of the orphanage my achievements over the years, relative background information, and observing for himself the environment I had grown up in. He could be standing right outside of my room at this very moment.

The point of this tradition was to make sure that the vampire was satisfied with his claim, and could finish up all arrangements needed to be settled for the final transaction, being handing me over to the voluptuous bastard.

The only hope for me now would be a miracle escapade. And believe me I had tried since day one, but had never gotten pass the gates at the bottom of the hill before I was captured again. The workers played particular attention to me due to my flight record which was almost as constant as the minutes in a hour.

Unfortunately for my caretakers and the vamp who claimed me, I had a plan that would get me out of here. And believe me, once I was out, there was no way in a cold day in hell that I would ever let them catch me again. The vampire would have to find a new toy because I didn't care how big he was. No vamp was ever going to own me. Surely I'd kill myself before that day ever came around.

It was dark out now, and I could hear the footsteps outside of my door.

Patiently I waited for the headmistress to let me out for the rest of the day, noting the hesitation in her actions. You could almost hear the turmoil going on in her head, Should I really risk letting Scarlet out? What is she tries something?…What if I just left her in there till…?.

Regardless of the hesitation, I heard the key turn in the lock and the deadbolt slide free. She was going to let me out. Perfect.

I had approximately one day to get the hell out of here.

yeah...the ending kinda sucked...im sorry about that but what can i say? its a start right? ...lol tell me what you think.