Night Sky 7

"What I wanted to ask you was, do you drink blood?"

"Don't be afraid to ask any questions. And sadly yes. It's one of the worst parts of being a vampire. Besides the heightened emotions."

"Oh."

"But do be afraid. I don't drink off of humans. I drink from blood bags. Sadly I have to steal them. Buts either steal or drink form people and I can guess you already know which is the better choice."

I nod my head, "So you don't hurt anyone?"

"Of course not. It would kill me if I hurt anyone. But I have to give you some more quick tips. Vampires can heal humans when they are hurt or injured."

"How so?"

"Feed them our blood. If for example you were to get a serious cut on your leg I would usually bite my hand and you would would drink my blood. To humans vampire blood has no taste. But you may get a small headache afterwards. But I may caution you. If you have vampire blood in your system, your bloodstream, it may heal all wounds but if yo die while its in your system you will wake up."

"And how is that a bad thing?"

"Because if you die with vampire blood in your system you will get turned into a vampire. It's a three step process. Step one: Drink vampire blood. Step two: Die with it in your system. Step three: you'll wake up and you have to feed off of a human in twelve hours or you'll die anyways."

"You had to do that? You were forced to feed off of a human?"

"It's your choice. You have a choice of life and death. I chose life."

"And you knew that if you chose life you would have to life the rest of your life as a vampire? And you chose that for..."

"You." I look up. "I chose to live for you. Because I knew that we had something and I wasn't about to give that up."

"Really?"

"Really."

"Well, who turned you into a vampire?"

"Piper."

"Piper! Piper is a vampire? Since when?"

"Since 1492."

"Wait. She's been a vampire for over 500 years?"

"Yeah. But I haven't seen her since she turned me."

"Oh. Being a vampire must also be safe and dangerous. Knowing that you can never die by anything but your never safe by other vampires."

"It is. But there is a way that we can die. It's natures way of restoring the balance on Earth. It wouldn't be fair if everything else could die but the only thing left standing were an overpopulation of vampires."

"That makes sense."

"We watch out for stakes."

"Stakes?"

"Wooden stakes? Anything wooden technically. We feel pain when we get hurt but we heal from it almost instantly. Unless you get a stake to the heart then you die instantly. No way for you to survive. You don't come back to life like if a vampire were to get there neck broken. You just turn pale grey and die."

"Being a vampire can be amazing yet so depressing at the exact same time."

"It is. Do you want to go for a walk?"

"How about threw the trees."

"Wherever you want to go it's fine."

I hop on Austin's back and we disappear Into the woods. When we are in a safe distance from the high way he sets me back in the ground.

"How are you taking this all in?"

"Surprisingly good. Yesterday I was going about my day. And now, there are vampires."

"I know it's a lot to take in but I will keep you safe. No vampires have come across Miami for little of a year so you should be fine for now."

"Thanks. Now for something else we have been ignoring because I found out who you are."

"That is?"

"Austin I think we both know what I'm talking about. In the morning." Austin raises his eyebrows in realization. "We kissed. In bed." I add. "It could have gone somewhere else of you hadn't have stopped us."

"Yeah. I didn't think you were ready and I didn't want to hurt you. And it was also a little out of no where. We are just friends. And I think we should keep it that way. We were just caught in the moment that's all."

"I guess. I totally agree." All of a sudden I get a text. I take out my phone from my back pocket. "It's Trish. She wants us to come over to her grandma's. I don't know why. Hey, it would be a great opportunity for you to meet her grandma."

"Oh, uh. Yeah. Great, um, opportunity."

We arrive at Trish's grandmothers house. I knock on the door and Trish answers it. "Hey guys. Come in. Oh Austin you haven't been here before. This is my grandma Kim." I look behind me and notice that Austin is still in the doorway.

"Austin aren't you coming inside?" I ask Austin.

"Oh uh. Where's your grandma?" Austin asks. I put on a confused look.

"I'm right here deary. Why don't you come in?" Kim comes from around the corner speaking to Austin. He smiles and walks in looking at his feet as they enter the house. That was strange. Not running down the street screaming strange. I mean suspiciously strange. But Austin is a vampire so at this point it really isn't to any surprise that he's acting strange. "Why don't you kids come take a seat?" All three of us follow Kim into the living room.

"Why did Austin and I have to come over?" I ask Trish.

"So I could meet Austin. I've got to be honest I am a fan."

"Thanks." Austin smiles. "Glad to meet a fan."

After the visit Austin and I decide to go to his house.

"So what was that all about back at Kim's house?"I ask Austin.

"Which part? The part where I met a fan who's older than me?" Austin laughs. I couldn't help myself but chuckle a bit. It is kind of odd. I didn't know that Trish's grandma was a fan of Austin Moon.

"No. The part where you just stood in the doorway."

We enter his house. "Oh. Um." He grabs my hand and pulls me to the house and closes the door. "It's another thing that comes with being a vampire."

"Let me guess, you have to be invited in?" I joke as I laugh.

"Actually yes." I stop laughing and smile and raise my eyebrows.

"Really?"

"The owner of the house has to invite me in. That's why I couldn't go in when you asked me to come inside."

"You couldn't." Austin nods his head. "That makes sense. If vampires could roam freely everywhere at anytime it would be a disaster out there."

"Very true."

I take a quick glance through Austin's kitchen. "Suddenly I'm. The cooking mood. Well actually I just want a grapefruit. You still have food right?" I ask Austin as I walk into the kitchen.

"Yes. We vampires can still eat... human food."

"Right." I laugh. I open up his fridge and open take out a grapefruit. I set it down on the counter and take out a cutting board. I grab a sharp knife and cut the grapefruit into slices. "Ouch." I look at my hand and see a big cut on it. "We need the first aid! I just cut myself...bad!" I say in shock. Austin runs over here super fast. As in vampire speed.

"Ally, drink my blood." He bites his wrist and holds the back of my head and lifts his hand to my mouth. I drink his blood which has no taste. He was right. After I'm finished I look at my hand and get this tingling feeling at where I cut myself and the cut closes up. I wash the blood off my hand and look at Austin.

"Austin. That was so cool."

"I wanted you to get a look at what I meant by vampires can heal humans. And now you know."

"That's so cool."

"I know. You told me that already."

"It's just so unreal how you can do that." I look out the window and notice that it's already dark outside. "Oh my gosh! I better get home before my dad starts to worry about me and wonders why I haven't been home all day."

"Ok. Do you want me to take you?"

"No. I got is one. I'm still human and I know how to drive." I wink at him. He smiles and I give him a hug. I felt a spark go through my body and a part of me just wanted to loose control on him but the other part told me to go home. I went home. I jump in the car and drive away from Austin's car. I get to the intersection and stop. As I turn I look to my right and see two large headlights coming towards me. Closer and closer and after that everything went black. All I remember is a white light.