AUTHOR'S NOTE: I have re-uploaded the first two chapters. Explanation in the third one.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything except Skyler Belmont, Grace Delaurier and other upcoming characters created by me.
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New York City - A year ago
"IDs, ladies," The bodyguard told to the girls. One was blonde and the other brunette. They both stared at him with questionable looks. "I'm kidding, girls. You really believed I was going to ask you that?"
"Not even for a sec, Mike." The brunette one told him with a superficial look and then she laughed.
"C'mon in." Mike winked at them with his right eye. "Oh, and happy birthday, Grace." He said to the blonde one.
"Thank you, Mike! You should come in later. At least for a while!"
"Okay, I'll see. Have fun, girls."
When the girls got in, the club was crowed. The DJ was playing Pursuit Of Happiness, one of their favorite songs. So they went to the dance floor and danced like crazy around some hot guys.
"Hey, Sky, let's go upstairs and have some drinks." Grace shouted at her because of the loud music.
"Yeah, sure. Let's go!" Skyler shouted back. She took her best friend's hand and guided her to the stairs, which was like a suicidal mission. There were thousands of people between them and the stairs. When they finally reached them, the bodyguard recognized them and let them come in. You see, going upstairs for these girls was the VIP section and being known as the most partying girls out there, they didn't even need to wear a bracelet. This was their typical weekend after college.
"Hey, Martin, open us a champagne. It's my girl's birthday!" Skyler said to the barman with a smile.
"Sure." He took the best champagne he had and opened it. "For Grace's 18th birthday and more to come." And he served them. The girls gave a big shout and some other people joined them.
The night was amazing. Skyler and Grace never stopped partying and drinking, a lot by the way. They were with everyone: with old friends, meeting new people, they even went to the bar a tried to serve some drinks to customers while they danced with some sexy moves. That night couldn't get any better until Grace met this particular guy. He was extremely sexy. Tall, green eyes, a messy brown hair and a body to die for. His name was Douglas and she definitely couldn't resist him. They danced for while until it was already 6 a.m. and he wanted to take this girl to his home.
"Hey, what do you think about going to my house and ending your birthday there?" Douglas said to ear with a smirk in his mouth.
"Can my friend come too?" She asked. "She won't interrupt. I just can leave her here like this."
"Sure."
"Okay, I'll tell her and we can go." She winked. "Just wait here." And kissed him on his neck.
She headed to the bar area where Skyler was doing some dirty things to a really hot guy. So, what a better idea than to interrupt them? Grace thought. She always loved to mess with her friend on these situations. It was like her hobby.
"Hey, bitch." She told her and Skyler gave a jump.
"Oh my god, you bitch! You fucking scared me! What did I tell you about doing these things?" But Grace just shrugged.
"Whatever. This guy I met, wants me to come to his house and make a little party, you know. So, if you would like to come, you are more than invited."
"Ew, gross. No way I'm not doing a threesome with you both."
"Are you kidding me right, Skyler? God! I just asked you to come because I'm not going to leave you alone, not to do a threesome, you idiot!" But Skyler just laughed.
"Okay, okay. Can Ben come too?" She said looking at him, who was about to ask for another drink but the barman was trying to tell him that they couldn't give drinks anymore.
"Sure." She rolled her eyes. "C'mon, let's go."
Skyler took Ben from his arm and they headed with Grace and Douglas to his car.
Douglas' home was that typical Upper East Side home when you see it from the outside but inside was really extravagant. Like he seems to be, Grace thought. Almost all the furniture was black and white. There were a lot of very expensive pieces of art, the lamps were enormous and all the sofas were made of leather.
"Wow, I love your style, Dougie." Skyler said. "My parents decorated my house in such a classic way but I definitely wanted something like this."
"Well, thank you…" He didn't finish the sentence as he waited for Skyler say tell him her name.
"Skyler." She told him a bit annoyed. She hated when people didn't know her name. Let's just say Skyler is a bit spoiled.
"Right, Skyler." He said. "So, anyone want some whisky?" Everyone nodded.
After some minutes they all started to get drunk again. The music was really loud and the girls were dancing wildly on the couch while a remix of We Found Love was being played, but Douglas started to get a little violent and rough. Suddenly, out of nowhere, he took Grace's arm and pulled her down off the sofa. She didn't mind, thinking that they were going to have some wild sex but that wasn't his intention. He started to get really close to her neck, smelling everything.
"You smell quite good tonight."
"Thank you." She said, starting to get excited by the way he was touching her.
"It's called perfume for sluts." Skyler said while doing a sexy dance around Ben on the couch. Douglas laughed at this comment but Grace managed to throw her a pillow with no success because Skyler showed her tongue.
"I… just… can't resist." He whispered.
"Just do it. I don't mind where." Grace told him.
Douglas continued kissing her until he opened his mouth and place his teeth on her neck really deep and began to suck her blood. First, Grace didn't say anything, she just felt the pain and was trying to understand what was happening.
Why was this guy drinking… her blood? But then that pain became something worse,it was unbearable.
"Do-Douglas… you're hurting me." She whispered. She was trying to get away but his arms were too strong. "Douglas, stop… Please, stop!"
And that's when Skyler heard her. She turned her head to see one of the most horrible scenes ever. She had already seen this, in those weird visions she had sometimes where she was a girl called Athena and lived in what it seemed to be the middle age. She always thought they were dreams until she started to get those visions in the day. She knew she was crazy so that's why she had never told to anyone, except to Grace over a year ago and even though it was a bit hard at the beginning for her, she later started to believe her friend because she had seen her having those visions and being gone for some moments. Besides, Skyler never lied about anything, so why should she be lying about that? That's what Grace always told her.
A vampire, Skyler thought.
Douglas was a vampire. She felt fascinated for some minutes, she was obsessed about meeting one but then she realized that he was killing her best friend, her sister.
"Hey, dude! What are you doing?" Ben told him. He had a weird look on his face. He didn't know what was happening. "You're hurting the girl."
"No!" She shouted. "Stop it! Douglas stop it!" She said getting down of the couch and pushing him but nothing happen. She looked at Grace. She was getting pale and her eyes were fading away. "Douglas stop, right now!" She screamed like never before and he stopped. He looked at the pale Grace and gave a step back letting her fall down on the floor. Skyler ran into to her.
"What have I done?" Douglas murmured. "I'm so sorry, Skyler. I never meant to do this. I'm not like this. I don't like killing humans. I'm so sorry." He said with his eyes looking nowhere but Skyler didn't hear him.
"Grace. Grace, please don't go away." She said crying. Her friend could barely breath. She couldn't lose her. She was her sister, everything she had. They had run away from their families to have the life they always wanted but she couldn't do this without her friend. "You gotta do something please." She looked at Douglas.
"I can't… I can't save her. I might turn her and I can't do that."
"You feel guilty for this? Now come and save her. I don't fucking care how. Do it." She told him desperate. "Do it! She's dying."
"I can't… I won't wish this to anyone. It's horrible."
"I don't care! Don't you get it?" Skyler shouted. "Turn. Her!"
Douglas went down to the floor to the other side of Grace. He bitted his wrist and two drops of blood pop out. Then, he put his wrist on Grace's mouth and gave her his blood. Some minutes later, Grace stopped breathing.
And that's how it all started.
