What are you doing? I asked myself as I stood watching the boy continue to walk. I didn't want to kill this child, but it was just so tempting. If I do this now then I won't ever get the chance to go back. Just when I was about to turn away the boy fell and scrapped his hands, blood seeped out of the tiny cuts on his hands and I felt my animalistic instincts taking over. No! I won't do this, not now, not ever. I took off running and then I smelled blood again, but this time it was defiantly not human blood. I raced to it and found a large buck deer that had a small cut on his back. Without giving it a second thought I leapt in the air and snapped its neck, quickly draining it. I found an option! I was so happy that I didn't need to feed on humans to survive.
After a few more large deer I was full and went back to find the red haired woman. When I found her she was stalking a small girl who looked to be about seven, she was short and had blond curls framing her face .The girl was trying to hurry to get home because it was threatening to rain. Just as the woman was about to pounce I leapt at her, there was a sound like boulders crashing when I made contact with her. The little girl leapt and turned around to look at us, her blue eyes were filled with fear. Why wasn't she running? Maybe she was in shock.
"Run, get home and don't look back!" I shouted frantically at her while trying to restrain the woman. This wasn't easy because she was several inches taller than my five four.
"What the hell?!' she screeched "I was about to get her!" I was disgusted with her and stepped back.
"How could you kill her? She didn't do anything to you and she was a little girl!" I yelled back.
"I needed that and you ruined it for me!" she leapt at me and I crashed into a tree which on impact broke and fell. She was on top of me trying to claw my face and eyes. I managed to get my feet under her and kicked up into her stomach. She flew off of me and onto the ground a few feet away. While she was still on the ground I ran at her and started ripping at her blindly. Within seconds there were pieces of her lying around. I did it. I killed her. I instantly felt terrible. But part of me argued that she would have killed the little girl and many others if I hadn't stopped her when I did. That made me feel less terrible. It wasn't an excuse for killing someone, but it made me able to live with myself.
I ran to the nearest store and stole some gasoline and matches. The man at the counter was too busy checking me out to notice anything else. When I got back to where I had fought I gathered up the woman's remains, doused them with gasoline, and set them ablaze. Thick black smoke rose up above the trees. When everything was taken care of I just started walking.
I wasn't really going anywhere; I just needed to get away from everything. As I walked questions swam through my head. Why did she change me? Who was she? Those questions would never be answered now. After a while it became dark and I found a nice clearing to rest in. I closed my eyes and just relaxed. A few hours later when the sun was about to come up I went out hunting again but this time I found a bear, so far the bear tasted the best. Just as I was disposing of the bear carcass the sun peaked out from between the clouds. I gasped as I saw my skin. It was sparkling like it was embedded with diamonds I loved the way it looked when I moved. I was starting to enjoy the sight of myself, but the clouds engulfed the sun once again. I could tell it wasn't going to reappear again because of the dark clouds that covered the entire sky.
I found a trail and decided to follow it the trail went through a think patch of trees, and when I got through it I found that I was standing in a campsite with two men sitting by a fire roasting some hotdogs. Both looked up when I came into their line of sight. Their blood wasn't tempting so I thought it wouldn't be dangerous to be near them.
"Hi, sweetie, are you lost?' the older of the two asked, he looked about Charlie's age. The other man looked a few years younger, but not by much. The man seemed pleasant and kind.
"Yeah, I am a little lost right now." I said
"Well, where are you from. We can help you get there." He said, he seemed familiar, but I couldn't quite place him in any of my memories.
"Um, I'm from Santa Cruz." I replied.
"Well, so are we. Lenny and I are just up here for a camping trip. By the way, my name's Larry." That's where I remembered them from! They lived next door to me when I was living with my mom and Phil. I couldn't believe that I didn't recognize them.
"No way, it's me Bella!" I said. As soon as the words left my mouth I knew that I shouldn't have said anything. Now this is only going to lead to trouble I though to myself.
"Bella? Wow, you look so different. Why are you here, everyone though you ran away." Said Lenny.
"Well, yeah I did run away." I needed to lie to them because there wasn't a reasonable explanation for the things that did happen. "I just needed to get away from everything. But then I got lost and stayed in a few places, then I bumped into you guys. How long has it been, I really haven't looked at a calendar and I lost track of time. Oh, do you guys happen to have any mirrors? I haven't seen what I look like in a while either." I said. Larry got up to go get the mirror while Lenny answered my other question.
"Bella, it's been four months." He said, he sounded very sad about something, but I couldn't tell what.
"Oh. It's been longer than I thought. How's my mom and Phil?" I asked wanting to know how they were handling the whole situation. At my question an immense sadness filled his eyes. I was starting to panic and he still wasn't answering my question.
"Well, when you left your mom and Phil were both really broken up. Then about two weeks later they were both involved in a and run. They caught the guy who did it, but your mom and Phil were both killed in the crash. You missed her funeral; it was three days after it all happened. Your dad Charlie came and took care of things. I'm so sorry you had to learn about it this way." He did look sorry.
There was a pain in my chest where my heart used to beat. I sank to my knees and started crying, but no tears came out. My body was heaving with the magnitude of my sobbing. Sometime after I sank to the ground Larry got back. Both men tried to get near me, but I growled when they approached. They gave up trying after a while so they both just sat there watching me. When I had sobbed as much as I could I got up off of my knees and looked at both men.
"I'm sorry, but I needed to go through that by myself." I stated.
"It's completely ok." Said Lenny, Larry nodded his head in agreement. I guess they both weren't going to mention the fact that no tears were actually shed by me. For that I was thankful. By now the pain in my chest had subsided to a dull throbbing.
"Do you still want that mirror?" Larry asked hesitantly.
"Yes please." I said forcing a slight smile onto my lips. When he handed it to me and I looked into it I wasn't sure what I was expecting. My eyes weren't the evil red color, they were a nice color of topaz, my hair had grown out a little and though it was tangled with twigs, and other things I could tell that it was wavy. When I was human I considered myself very plain, I had straight dark brown hair, pale skin, and my lips were a little too big. Now I was paler, and I noticed that I had curves that I didn't have before. I was still wearing ratty blue jeans, and a torn and dirtied pink shirt. Both were the only clothes I had.
"Thank you both so much for telling me what's happened. And it was nice seeing you both again, but I have to go now." I said putting down the mirror and jogging off very fast, a little to fast for humans, but I didn't care, I needed to get away from them. Once again I was running. I could hear their shouts for me to come back, and I could hear the fain sounds of them trying to follow me, but they wouldn't find me.
My mind went back to the night that I was bitten. I had been walking on an empty street on the edge of town on my way back home. It was about to rain, and I was trying to get home faster. The last thing I remember was seeing a pair of red eyes in the ally next to the shop that I was walking by.
I think that I'm going to go and stay with Charlie.