Kate Sharp was your average seventeen year-old girl.
Until that one afternoon where everything changed,
life's no longer ordinary when you're special,
but is it for the better or worse?
Only one way to find out! Read and Review, please. =)

Sorry if there are any typos!
Enjoy!


It was a cold, rainy Monday afternoon in Ely, Minnesota. The sun barely shone through the ominous clouds that paved over the sky with shades of gray. I had decided not to take the school bus back home as I usually did, that was my last mistake.

7:30 AM – Earlier that day

"Good Morning Mom! Dad!" I said as I ran, practically flew, down the creaky wooden stairs.

"Hey Kate!" Dad said, not the least bit surprised I was running late, again. "Hurry up, I don't want to have another talk with the principal due to tardiness."

"Don't worry Dad. I'll make sure to smile while I wait to be called down by Mr. Ruebenson." I grinned and flew out the door with half my sweater on and a bagel in between my teeth.

"Kate! Don't forget to come back early, you don't want to miss your seventeenth birthday surprise!"

"Okay Mom! Guess it's not a surprise anymore though!" We both smiled and waved at each other, and then I started sprinting to school again.

I ran past Massie's house, only to do a double take to see her waiting for me.

"Kate! Happy Birthday!" My 5'8" inch Barbie friend said, "Here's your present!"

"Er… Thanks, Massie, but I said I didn't want anything." I said as she handed me a small silver box with an abnormally large bow.

"I know, but I never listen," her smile of satisfaction filled her face. "Well, we better get going, only five minutes until the late bell."

Oh, crud. I thought to myself. "Let's go! I can't be late on my birthday, of all days!" She laughed as I said this and we sprinted the last two blocks.

Seriously, I should be in the Olympics. I made it to class on time, even before the warning bell rang!

"Happy Birthday, Kate!" Sam, my other Barbie friend said, her chocolate curls bouncing as she walked towards me.

"Thanks, Sam." I said out of breath. (Was it just me or are all my friends part of an unknown supermodel convention I don't know about?) "Can you help me with my books? I'm super tired."

"Sure, where's Massie? She said she was waiting for you," Sam said opening my locker and taking out my A.P. Statistics and my various Spanish books. "How can you take A.P. Stat?"

"I needed a higher GPA, and A.P. Literature was already full," I said with a sheepish smile at the end.

"Whatever, good luck with that," She said handing me my lump of books. "Well, see you at lunch."

"Thanks, Sam."

English, History and Spanish flew by quicker than usual. Lunch was next.

"Hey, kiddo!" Chris said, his turquoise eye twinkling as he spoke.

"Hey, Chris! What's up?"

"Nothing, just wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday, I baked it from scratch!" He said handing me a small chocolate cake, too ornately decorated to be homemade.

"Thanks, but you were never a good liar." I said giggling.

"You're right, I just scratched the box. Get it?... Okay, I know it was a bad joke."

"Well, at least you admitted it." I said rolling my eyes.

"Ouch, that hurt," He said rubbing his chest as it something had hit him there.

"I think you'll live," I teased.

We giggled throughout the entire lunch and ate the yummy cake. The rest of the day zoomed by just as quickly.

3:00 PM

I was walking home after school when I decided to take a short-cut through the small forest. There were huge trees with moss and roots all over. The trees were mostly bare with the winter's weather. Leaves, brown and crunchy, were on the floor crunching with every step. I walked slowly, looking up as I walked. Under the shadowy sky, the forest looked spine-chillingly unfamiliar. Then I heard a loud snap!

At first, I thought it was one of those rabbits that had been hopping earlier. I turned around quickly, glancing nervously in every direction.

There was nothing.

I started walking faster, stealing glances around me. What was I thinking, going through the forest today of all days!? I thought to myself.

I lost focus and fell flat on my face onto the frozen ground. My foot was caught under a tree's root and I could not get my foot free from its mighty grasp.

"Hello there," A man, perhaps in his twenties, said coming out of nowhere. "Are you lost?" His voice sounded like velvet, but it also sounded desperate and hungry. "Let me help you."

"H-Hi, w-where'd you come f-from?" I was suddenly cold and nervous.

"No need to worry about trivial matters, this will soon be over." His black eyes rimmed with a mysterious dark crimson, what very peculiar eyes in a face that look like it belonged to a marble angel. A face I won't soon forget.

"What do you m-mean?" I said realizing he was talking about my foot anymore. My voice changing from being filled cold and nerves to fear and panic.

"Then he snarled a beastly sound and bit me. I don't remember anything else as clearly as this one day. What happened sin that day, I'm still confused about. For there's only one thing I can be certain about, I'm a vampire, and very thirsty.


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