Some may say that mysterious creatures are the entertainment of the world. I'd definitely say it's a good possibility. Now, you may think we don't exist but I assure you, we do. We're hidden in the depth darkness of the night, the deepest trenches and caves. Nowhere to be found in the eye of mankind. Though recently, I have been curious. What could it possibly be like to live a normal human being life for it has been ages since I felt that.
Which is why I'm going back to my home town of Lawrenceville, Georgia. To finally, after 130 years, seek peace and happiness. Although this is the town that I ended my life in, I'm prepared to start a new, fuller one.
I'm Austin Moon. I'm 17 years old logically. But in reality, I'm 147 years old. When I was 17 years old back in 1868, is when I turned into a blood sucking monster. A vampire, if you will. It definitely was not by choice, I would never choose to live my life killing innocent people. I still don't but sometimes, I go off my rocker and it's never pretty. I'm not alone in this though. I have two other people. My sister Payton, and my brother, Aaron. We're vampires and we all died the same day. Payton's 15 or 145, and Aaron is 19 or 149. But I keep forgetting to tell you the best part.
On May 19, 1868, We were walking back from the creek when three things attacked us. We didn't know it at the time, but they weren't animals but vampires. All we know to this day is we were attacked and the next morning we woke up and had blood all over us with huge headaches but had massive amounts of energy. We didn't even know we were dead until a few hours later we walked up to a funeral and it had our parents and family there with pained looks on their faces with our headstones.
Now you've seen what else has happened through time. We've gotten older, stronger, wiser. Not older in looks, just age. Since we're in our hometown, we're staying in an old, secluded mansion so we don't risk anyone finding the place and seeing anything they don't need to see.
"Austin, get up!" Aaron says as he bangs on the door. I groan before standing up and trudging to the door.
"What could you possibly want?" I ask as I peak my head through the door.
"It's time for your first day of school." he says smiling cockily.
"Oh yeah." I say before closing my bedroom door again. I slowly walk to my dresser and pull out some simple jeans and a black v-neck paired with some black shoes.
I mess my hair up a little before I grab my bag and walk out of my room and into the kitchen. "Where's Payton?" I ask as I grab something
to drink from the fridge.
"She's still getting ready." he says with a roll of his eyes.
I just chuckle and before I know it, my sister comes downstairs with a frown on her face. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I ask.
"Why should I go to school? You're the only one who wanted to have a 'normal life'" she says putting air quotes around normal life.
"Considering we're back in this town we need to blend in and be normal and a 15 year old who goes to school is pretty normal." he says handing her her bag.
She just groans before grabbing a blood bag from the fridge and walking out into the garage. Aaron and I look at each other. "She'll warm up." we say in unison before I chuckle and walk away.
I go outside and get into my car as I see her pouting in the passenger seat. I start the car and pull out of the driveway before making any type of conversation. "So you're totally excited. I can tell." I say in a girl voice.
She just rolls her eyes. "I don't know why you're mad at me I'm not the one who's making you go to school." I point out as a matter of fact.
She continues to ignore me as we pull into the school parking lot. "So, would you like me to walk you to your first class?" I ask cheekily before she throws up the middle finger and gets out of the car.
I grab my bag and get out as I look around at the student body and smile. My new life starts now. I walk into the school and get some states, not as many as I expected. I navigate my way to the office and greet the lady at the desk. "How may I help you?" she asks as she crosses her fingers.
"I'm new here. My name's Austin Moon." I tell her as I look around admiring my surroundings.
"Ah yes, Austin Moon. Here is your schedule, your locker essentials, and the textbooks for some of your classes. If you need anything just let me know." she finishes with a warm smile.
I nod and say thank you as I grab the things and make my way to the door. Once I open the door and step out, I bump into someone. Catching myself and the person from falling, I move my feet and my hands to hold this person up. It's not until a few seconds later when I notice the person. I look up and my breath hitches at the sight of her. She's easily one of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen. I quickly snap out of that trance as I see her picking up the books she dropped. "Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were behind the door." I say as I rub the back of my neck.
She chuckles before standing up. "It's totally fine. I'm a klutz naturally so something like this was bound to happen. At least it was only my books." she says thankfully.
I nod, not looking at her. "Well I better go find my locker." I say casually looking down at the paper. "I'll see you later..." I stop remembering that I don't know her name.
"Ally. My names Ally." she smiles. "You are?"
"I'm Austin." I say confidently.
"Well it was nice meeting you Austin and I hope to see you around." she says as she moves to the side. We end up doing that really creepy thing where the other person moves in one direction that just so happens to be the same direction you were moving in. Yeah, that happened about three times.
I walk to find my locker as I see my sister laughing and talking with some girls. I can't believe this. With all of the crap she gave me this morning about not wanting to go and here is. Best friends with the entire Sophomore class. I roll my eyes as I get out the book for my first class, History.
I walk into class and try to find an empty seat before the teacher notices me and instructs me to go to his desk. "Who are you?" he asks while glaring at me. Wow, first class of the day and the first teacher that I already seem to hate.
"I'm Austin. I'm new here." I say as I look out to the class.
"Where did you think you were going?" the man asks.
"To a seat?" I say but it comes out as more of a question.
"I have a strict searing policy in here and you must respect and follow it." he says pointing a finger at me.
"Okay... then where do you want me to sit?" I ask looking back at the class.
He points to the seat in the back. The exact same seat I was headed to. "But that was the—Nevermind." I start but stop myself.
"That's what I thought." he says before sitting back down and taking a sip of his black coffee. Of course it's black. Dude, I could jump over this desk and run and break you before you could even swallow that.
As the boring class drags on and on I can't seem
to get that girl Ally out of my head. There's just something about her that intrigues me. Once the class finally ends up being over I get out as quick as possible—only to end up bumping into someone again. "I am really really sorry I'm such a— oh it's you." Ally says as she notices me.
I chuckle. "Yeah.. and it's you." I say pointing to her.
"We really need to quick meeting like this." she says blushing.
"You can just admit that you're obsessed with me and this will be all over with." I smirk.
"Oh okay." she scoffs.
I shake my head. "I'm kidding. But I do have to go so I'll see you around and let's all hope that I don't see you again by bumping into you." I say as I start walking away.
"Got it. I'll lose my obsession." she jokes as she turns and walks away.
As I'm walking to my next class I see Payton so she stops and talks to me. "So, how's your day been going?" I ask cheekily and she knows exactly why.
"Okay okay. So this school isn't so bad but some of these people are annoying and I'm hungry." she says looking at some innocent people and licking her lips.
"Hey would you cool it? Stop looking at people like you're going to eat them for lunch." I say with a roll of my eyes.
"I mean... I could." she says honestly.
"No," I deadpan. "You can't just go around eating people. Especially not here, not in this town, not in this school." I say walking away.
So, high school isn't as awful as any of us expected it to be. It's necessarily not as fun as I had hoped it would be but its not totally awful since I know and lived through most of the events they're talking about anyway.
Finally, the day ends and as I'm walking to my car I can smell something. Blood. It's like a mile away probably but I can smell it as if it's right in front of me. That's one of the downsides to vampirism. You can smell when anyone within a certain mile radius is bleeding or has blood on them and the. you can track them down. Some of the upsides are very good hearing, super strength, and super speed.
I ignore the smell as I get into my car and drive out of the parking lot of the school. But as I get farther, the smell gets stronger and the urge to go and find this person is getting harder to ignore. Once I turn a corner, I see someone on the ground gripping their ankle. I try to get a closer look and I immediately wish I hadn't. It's Ally. I try to lean down and drive past her but once she looks into the car, I know she can tell its me so I quickly turn around and get out of the car.
She has tears in her eyes and it's a really sad sight to see. "Here, let me help you up." I say wrapping my hands around her under her knees and her back. I fight the urge as I can smell and see the blood on her ankle as I lift her onto the seat of the car and get in on the other side.
I start driving again as she finally speaks, "you can just take me home."
"Isn't your ankle broken or sprained?" I ask.
"No probably not." she says and then there's just more silence.
"Thank you." she says after that awkward brief silence.
"For what?" I ask honestly.
"Helping me. especially since you didn't know me." she says and smiles the first smile I've seen since we got in the car. It's a really pretty smile. Here I go again...
"It was nothing. Anything to help a pretty girl." I say with a wink.
She blushes and looks out the window as she continues to hold her ankle. "Are you sure you don't need me to take you to the hospital?" I ask focusing on her as we're at a red light.
"Yeah I'm sure. I don't even think it's broken. It doesn't hurt that bad anymore, it just looks swollen, and bleeding." she says.
I wince at that sentence as I lean back in the back of my car and pull out a towel. I hand it to her and she looks at me crazy before wrapping it around her ankle. "So care to tell me why you have a random towel in your car?" she asks as she looks at me.
I smile. "It's not mine. My brother drives this sometimes because he's always wrecking his car so he must've left it in here after he did something." I shrug.
She hums and nods her head as she applies the pressure of the towel onto her still bleeding ankle. I look over and see the blood seeping through. I cringe and twitch in my seat as I readjust my hands on the steering wheel. I would ask again if she wanted to I go to the hospital but I'm trying to make it a little better for me considering I hate blood and it would only make the need and want stronger.
Once we finally, and I mean finally, make it to Ally's house, I quickly help her out of the car as I pick her up and bring her to the door. I knock twice and wait, and wait, and wait, and then finally a lady opens the door so I help Ally inside.
"Listen, I really would like to see how it goes with," I gesture to her leg. "your leg and all but my brother needs me home soon." I say gesturing to the clock on the wall.
Ally looks at the time before smiling. "Oh yeah I'm sorry for keeping you," she says while trying to stand up.
"Oh no it's okay," I say helping her sit back down. "I'm glad I could help." I finish with a smile.
"Well thank you so much. Really, I don't even want to imagine what I would be doing or where I would be right now if it weren't for you." she says gratefully.
"It was nothing." I say nonchalantly.
"Bye Austin." she waves.
I wave goodbye as I walk out of the house and get into my car. I sigh as I drive away and soon her house isn't in sight.
I think I'm going to like High School. For now.