I do not own anything...
The next day the girl didn't show up. I waited impatiently all day but when the sun began to set I knew she would not come. My breath came out in shallow gasps. Anything could have happened to her, humans were fragile, she was more so somehow.
I scanned through the towns folk's minds in a desperate attempt to see what had happened to her. I came to a halt in a mind I could barely read, I could just make out the tones of the words he was thinking, but I could just see her face...He was...her father. I couldn't make out her name, or if he had seen her today, so it didn't help me. I remembered his 'voice', just in case, and started searching again.
I saw her face again in a girls mind, I could access this one much easier, but there was nothing much of interest. Just shallow thoughts of herself mainly, how good she had looked when they had gone shopping together. Good, at least she had been OK up to a few hours ago. But where was she now?
I stopped breathing all together, all my attention focused on finding her. Eventually I found another girls mind, she was looking at the girl right now. I breathed a sigh of relief and watched through the girls mind.
'Bye Bella.' I said, slamming her truck's door shut.
I made my way up to the door and opened it, turning to wave goodbye to Bella before I entered the house.
So her name was Bella, I smiled a little at this knowledge. The name seemed so fitting.
Ah, just knowing she was safe seemed to heal me, cure me of a disease I never knew I had until I found her.
I realised with a small amount of shock that I hadn't fed in 3 weeks. I just couldn't bring myself to kill humans when they were so like this beautiful, silent, fragile girl. I had been hiding out in the forest ever since I found her. Either seeing her or checking up on her every chance I could.
She was here today, dancing across the meadow, clearly enjoying the sunlight. I smiled a happy smile, amused by her happiness.
She tripped and fell softly onto her hands and knees.
'Shoot!' she muttered, her skin hadn't broken for which I was grateful, I don't know how much longer I could go without feeding.
Her cheeks flushed the most delicious colour I had ever seen and she glanced around automatically to make sure no one had witnessed her fall. Probably sensing, rightly, that she was being watched.
I longed to go out and speak to her, at least see if she was OK, but the sun was out. While I moved to quickly for cameras to catch my face, even if they froze the screen capture, the pixels were blurred by the speed of my flight, she would still recognise the red haired, sparkling demon that had haunted the world since before she was born.
Surely she watched the news, read the papers, listened to the tales parents told their children about me. Surely she would be terrified if I were to suddenly come out of the shadows.
Already on the ground she rolled onto her back and closed her eyes, letting the sunlight wash over her skin. A small smile playing on her lips. I wished I were able to go speak to her, and hold her hand, I wondered if her skin was softer than other humans, it looked more delicate than the rest.
Just the a light breeze rustled through the trees, swaying the branches, dancing through the grass, playing with her mahogany hair before blowing over my face.
Her scent hit me and at that moment I was transformed into the monster I had been just 3 weeks ago. I would make it quick and painless, well as much as possible. It was the least I owed this girl, the least I could give her...Growling deep in my chest I took a step forward, bracing for the kill...
