Chapter 4 The Hendrix family

Jason and I had been dating for a month, and I realized during geometry that I still didn't know his last name. So when I saw him at lunch I asked him. "Hendrix." He sounded like he didn't like the name at all.
"Well Jason Hendrix," I said lightly, "You've met my mother, maybe it's time I met the Hendix family." Jason's face grew hard, as if in pain or sorrow.
"My family is dead. I am the last of the Hendrix bloodline."

This news took me off guard. I choked on the sweet tea I was drinking. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. How did they die?" It must not have been easy. They were vampires after all. jason took a minute to collect himself, then he took a deep breath, and launched into his story.

"My parents, Linda and Daniel Hendrix, were both fifty-five when they were changed into vampires. My little sister, Gabrielle, was thirteen, and I was sixteen. That was back in the thirteenth century. At first we...we killed alot of innocent people; This continued for centuries,
then in the beginning of the twentieth century, a Spynx clan attacked us.
My mother and father stayed to fight, but my mother told me to take Gabrielle to a safe place. My sister and I lived for years without anything happening. Then, last year I left Gabrielle home-alone while I went to buy groceries.

"When I got back to the house, I saw a Sphynx footprint, and my sister was gone. Following that day, I refuse to drink human blood.
I want to make my sister proud of me. She was always repulsed at the thought of human blood, of taking someone from their family. The leader of the Sphynx clan, Casadino, has ben hunting me down ever since my sisters' disappearance." I was in tears before he finished. "So you told me you had an older brother, why havn't I met him and your father?" Jasons' voice was constricted, as if something was stuck in his throat. I had to say something, so I told him my sad story.

"My brother, Justin," I began, "Died at the same time as my father, Larry. They were taking a plane to London so Justin could go to Oxford, when the plane crashed into the Atlantic ocean. Police found large footprints on either side of the shore." While I was telling this story I was no longer in the school cafeteria. I was years away, on that flight with my father and brother. When I blinked and saw his face, I wasn't happy with what I saw.

"I'm sorry about your family." I had to say something. His face had changed from curiosity to sorrow while I was telling my story, when his families fate was much worse. "I'm okay. I've had years to cope." He said with a slight smile. "I'm just afraid that when Casadino and his clan find me, they will take you as well."

"Why would they want me?" I heard the terror in my voice, but I hoped he didn't.

"Because you are special to me. They would want to hurt me." suddenly his expression changed, like he'd had a revelation. "You said the police found large footprints?"

"Yes." I said, puzzled.

"Alondra, I know why that plane went down. Sphynxes brought it down.
People say that when a Sphynx has its' eye on you, it will track you for years, waiting for the right moment."

I was scared, terrified even, but my terror was masked by happiness. I was happy because I finally knew the truth about my famly's death, I was scared because a sphynx was after me, and if it found me it would swallow my soul.

That night, I had an unusual dream. Jason starred, as always, but this time he had dark red eyes, blood was dripping down his face and the front of his shirt, and he had fangs, really sharp fangs.
We were outside my house, just talking like normal, then I noticed Jason was shining with an inhuman glow.

I rubbed my eyes, and when I opened them again, Jasons' teeth were barred, and he was crouched low, as if ready to spring. He jumped at me, I screamed, and the next thing I knew, he was behind me fighting a monstrous creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion.

As I looked closer, I noticed that it was my face on the lions body. For the first time I noticed that I was empty, life had no meaning,
I was hollow. I felt myself fall, down...down...down.