Prologue

It was daytime, about high noon when my world was changed. It was also very cloudy and dark that day, and no sign of the sun coming out any time soon. I was walking home like I did every day from my overly proud high school. Only difference was, I wouldn't be going back because of the winter break that had just been let out. Being an eighteen year old girl that strays from the rest of the world has its advantages for certain times.

I was usually by myself or with a maximum of two friends that I would walk with. Today however was different. I'd decided to go solo, then again I didn't even care to ask anyone if they wanted to tag along. That was the first mistake.

I was so close to the orphanage where I lived, but I found myself curious after hearing some really profound noises coming from the alley right in front of me. Out of curiosity I decided to check it out and turned into it. My feet sank into the snow as I continued along. The noises got louder, and the louder they got the more grotesque they sounded. With each step I felt my stomach flipping, wanting me to turn and my brain telling me to turn around, but I pressed on.

I found myself right at the source of the noise. It was a small alcove area in the alley where the dumpster was usually located except on Fridays for trash pick up, which so happened to be that day. It was just around the corner and all I had to do was look, but I found I couldn't. My conscience kept getting in the way. What if I get caught? What if they decided to do to me what they were doing? What if? Questions, questions, and still more questions formed in my head. but I was too curious to care. Then the answer hit me as a light from the house hit the floor in front of me.

On the snow in front of me was a broken mirror that had been tossed out. Full of fear I decided to pick up a loose shard and aimed it around the corner to see exactly what it was that had caught my attention. I froze. Fear held me in place and so did curiosity and anger.

Two people were standing there in the alcove with snow falling onto their bodies immediately melting away from their warm temperature. One was the most gorgeous, honest looking man I'd ever laid eyes upon. His uneven, shoulder length, dark brown hair with his light olive skin tone. Curves on his body were in all the right places and his muscle tone and rock hard abs were just perfect. It was as if he had been born the perfect man on earth.

The other though, was just some ordinary female. Actually, one that I hardly seemed to ever like. Her name was Candy Calvin. One of the cheerleaders at my school, who believed she deserved all the better things that life had to offer. Her blond hair, her attitude, her breasts; it was all fake. We used to be really close friends when it was just she and her mother. I'd go over to her house and hang out and we'd have a lot of fun.

That all changed when her mother started dating some guy that owned one of the top dollar restaurants in the city. We stopped hanging out, and after her mother married the guy she hung out with the 'in crowd'. That's when she decided I wasn't worth spending time with since I wasn't rich like her and her new buddies.

I admit I was jealous of her at that moment for getting the cute guy, but most of that was pure rage and anger. The tall, dark, and handsome man was screwing her and hard. His hand was covering her mouth to keep her from screaming or moaning, but from that look on her face, she was rather enjoying it. Of course she was! It was just another thing in life that she got, that I didn't get.

His speed went faster, almost too fast and certainly too much for Candy to handle from the looks of it. Candy opened her eyes and tried to slow him down and move his hand, only provoking him to go faster. His hand on her mouth tightened and she began crying, fearing for her life. I found myself smiling at this. I was getting happy to see her miserable and watching her suffer. His head that had been on her shoulder the whole time to hide his face began to move toward her neck. I herd a small growl and looked around to see if it was a dog, or some other animal, but found nothing. I realized it was coming from the guy.

The growling progressed and got louder, making a shiver go up my spine. When I looked back at the two lovebirds they'd switched positions rather fast. She was now on the ground and his hand over her mouth, with him kneeling still pumping into her rather quickly. She was still crying and trying to get him off her, but it was inevitable. His head moved to her right breast, the one closest to where I was. My thoughts were that he was going to pleasure himself by suckling on her breasts. I was dead wrong.

Candy screamed and I was forced to look at the cause of her scream: the man. He wasn't sucking on her; he'd bitten down into her flesh and made blood run down her chest onto the white snow and up to her throat. He was smiling; I was too horrified to make a move, let alone pick my feet up to run away.

He licked her blood from the chest area, like it was fresh milk from a mother's breast, and in a sick and creepy kind of way, it was.

Candy bit down on his hand forcing him to pull it away from her mouth. She took a deep breath gasping and screaming for a minute fighting him out and off of her. She managed to get away, but only for a second. My eyes widened in shock as I watched him get up so quickly; too quickly for any human. My hand trembled, but I couldn't turn away. He'd caught her like a fly in sticky paper. Her screams filled my ears. Her cries for help.

"Help me! Somebody! Anybody! Please!" It came out of her mouth, but my body only tensed with fear. My brain was functioning fine, telling me to do something, to help her anyway possible. But my body was in too much of a shock to listen to my brain. Laughing came from the man, which made me wonder what he wanted from her. Money? Sex? She had it all. And she'd give it to him to get away. That was for damn certain.

"No one is around, my dear sweet Candy." His voice was like heaven to my ears. Rich in tone. Dark, but at the same time soothing. Candy screamed and then he put his mouth to her neck. Her screaming stopped with a sudden jerk. Her eyes went completely void of any sign of life. Her hands that had struggled to get herself free went limp and fell down to her sides. The man brought his head up and blood ran down his mouth and neck. Blood covered his sharp looking teeth and I looked at her neck. A large hole was there, but not torn out. It was more like he'd left teeth holes in her neck. He grabbed her body before it fell onto the cold ground and gently laid her down in the snow delicately. He draped her right arm over her naked breasts, and her left hand on her womanhood. "Such beauty."

My heart pounded and beat like a drum. My hand trembled so bad that the shard slipped and fell onto the other pieces of mirror. It landed, shattering with that death striking noise. A small chuckle turned into a full laugh from the man, alarming me and all I did was run as fast as my feet would carry me.

"Where do you think you're going?" A leather whip wrapped around my ankle and I tripped to the cold ground, scraping my elbows on the broken beer bottles in the alley. I was dragged back, all the while me trying to grab onto anything. I stopped and then flipped onto my back to take a long look at the killer. He had pants on now, but he was still shirtless.

His mouth still covered in blood and what looked like fangs showing over his lower lip. Blood also on his chest. The first time I noticed his necklace that looked like a locket was right then. His eyes were hazel, but had a velvety look to them. Lust was what it was. His lips curved into a smile, making me tense with fear once again.

"I knew you were standing there, watching me fuck her." He kneeled down in front of me and I could feel the heat coming off his body. He took hold of my legs pulling me to him. "And you." I tensed even more when he hovered my body and placed his hand on my neck. "You're coming with me."

He squeezed that side of my neck and made me lose oxygen, but not enough to kill me. I felt dizzy and before I could react I was lost to the world of nothingness.

~waking up~

"that same dream again..." she rolled out of bed and hit the alarm clock that had buzzed. it was why she was even awake. She groaned and looked at her hand seeing there was a knife in it. her life had changed since then. since then. her life had become like a nightmare no one could imagine...