Chapter 5 - Introductions

Abby POV

"Kids, come down here." Mum shouted up the stairs "Now!" It sounded like a herd of elephants running down the stairs.

"Mum why has the spare room been decorated?" "Why is the spare room filled with Goth stuff?" "Is someone staying with us?" All three questions had been fired at her at once.

"Well if you come into the kitchen, you'll find out the answers to all of these."

They walked in and all gasped in unison. "She looks just like Al!" exclaimed the girl.

"That would be because she's Al's twin sister. We thought she had died on the day she was born, but now we've found out that there had been a mix up at the hospital." She explained to the three teenagers standing in front of me.

"Hi, I'm Abby, I guess we'll get to know each other quickly and we'll probably hate each other just as quickly." I exclaimed, making myself stand clear.

"Well you can all do that now, upstairs." Making it clear that we needed to leave the kitchen.

"Sorry, can't do that, I've got band practice in half an hour and have to get to the other side of London"

"Oh, right. I'm sure you can all catch up on things later. What time will you be back?" Mum asked me.

"Um . . . well it all depends on how much we get through and how we all feel" I explained, telling her that I didn't really know. "I'll try not to stay out too late." I tagged on at the end to make her feel better. I then picked up my leather jacket and my bag, and left the house.

While it was true that I did have band practice in half an hour and that I had to travel across London to get there, it wasn't true that I had to leave at that moment. In fact it would have only taken me two minutes at the most to get there at the speed at which I could now run, but I needed to hunt and think some things through.

First I was going to see the friends I had just recently cut out of my life without one word of where I was going or what I was doing, or even goodbye. They were going to be mad at me.

Secondly I was about face my 'brother', Tony, for the first time after running away from home. I didn't know if he would drag me back or if he would be cool and let me be, but I didn't really want to take the chance. As I had hunted the night before this was my main reason for hunting, I needed my strength.

Last, and the one I was dreading the most, was my ex-boyfriend, Tim. I would be seeing him for the first time after I had dumped him, just after my birthday, four months ago. It was going to be an awkward reunion as we still loved each other, sort of. I had to dump him because if I didn't he would probably be dead by now. I would most likely have killed him myself by drinking his blood. It wasn't good to be close to a vampire if you were a live human being.

As I was walking along a deserted road I found a homeless person sitting at the side of the street. I decided he would make nice meal, as he was unwanted and lonely. I would only lessen his pain by killing him.

I hate being a vampire! I hate that I have to kill humans and that I have to drink their blood. I hated my 'parents' for what they had turned me into, even though I had been prepared for it my whole life, dreading the day I would turn 16.

It was what had stalled me from finding my real parents, as I couldn't risk hurting them. I had also needed to get to grips with what I had become, and my new reflexes. OK so there were some cool parts of being a vampire, but overall I still hated being one.

After finding one more homeless person a few streets later, I headed to Jenny's house, which was where we held our band practices. This was because her parents had nicely given us a whole room in their house to ourselves just so we had somewhere to practice.

I slowly walked up the pathway to the house, afraid of the reception I might be receiving. I knocked on the door and was greeted by Jenny's mum.

"Come in, come in. Wow it's been a long time since we last saw you around here. How are you doing?"

"I'm fine, I've had a couple of things happen to me recently, but it's all been sorted out now." I told her trying not to elaborate too much, whilst trying not to intrigue her too much either.

"Well all of the others are just upstairs getting ready to start" She told me, making it clear that I was the last to arrive.

I hesitated outside of the room for a second before opening the door. I was immediately bombarded by two girls crushing me in a hug.

"Why did you stop contacting us? We missed you so much!" They asked me, loosening their grip on me a bit.

"Well I just had a lot of stuff going on recently, and I missed you too Kate, and you too Jenny." I tagged on at the end just before she could enter a hissy fit about me forgetting her.

"Hey Probie, pass me that cable over there" Tony said to Tim

"Hey don't call him that" I told him while pulling out of the hug to go over to them.

"Well long time no see!"

"Yeah well, you know the reasons" I told him blatantly.

"Fine we'll talk later, and we will be talking later!" He said telling me that there was no way out of it.

"Hey Timmy, How are you?" I asked to try and break the ice between us.

"I'm good, how about you?" He asked just playing along.

"Oh same old, same old. I've written a couple of new songs."

"I've baked you some cookies if you want to come down and have them!" Jenny's mum shouted up the stairs. This was followed by us all running downstairs to grab a couple before Tony could get his hands on them.