Pounding headache, sunlight, and tripled senses. I woke up feeling like a zombie. The night before a blur, what I said, what I done unknown.
"What happened?" I asked groggily and hung-over.
"You got drunk after I told you not to." Alston said, his speaking voice coming through as a yell to me.
"Can you not yell please?" I asked with a semi pleading tone.
"I asked if couldn't get drunk, you're even lucky that I brought you back to the dorm." Alston said a little louder, "Come on, get your lazy ass up and ready."
"Where are we going?" I asked sitting up and the sun came on through the window.
"The mall, remember?" Alston said even louder than before. He did it purposely, again. I know he did.
I sighed lightly. I hated public places, well not all public places, but that's not the point.
"Come on get your lazy ass up!" Alston chucked a pillow hard at me.
I groaned, "I don't wanna!" I yelled slightly.
"Get up!" He ran over and ripped me out of the bed.
"What the hell!" I screamed.
"I told you to get up." He walked into the bathroom to get ready.
I mumbled to myself hoping he wouldn't hear "Bastard."
"I heard that!"
I looked at the bathroom door with a 'damn it' expression. "Get. Ready. Now!"
I didn't want to piss him off "I'm workin' on it." I stood up and went towards the dresser, a black pair of 511 Levi skinny jeans. I slid my pajama bottoms down to the floor and stepped out of them. I grabbed a pair of underwear from the top drawer I put them on quickly. My jeans were sitting on the dresser I picked them up. The jean material was tight against my legs. I buttoned them when they reached my waist, I zipped them immediately after.
The water to the shower turned on, I sighed a sigh of relief. My shirt drawer opened with a slight creak, I dove my hand into the shirts and pulled out a tight plain grey tee shirt. I slipped my shirt over my head, The sleeve ended halfway down my bicep and was tight across my torso, it showed off my collar bone, which stuck out like it does when someone is physically fit.
"Ready?" Alston asked as he walked out of the bathroom wearing a plain white tee shirt and jeans. They looked exactly like… Mine. I growled a little.
"Yeah." I said as I looked at him. "let me just finish up." I scurried off to the bathroom to brush my teeth and fix my hair.
The toothpaste was a delightful mint flavor. After about 2 and a half minutes I spit into the sink. Toothpaste never tasted good when you spit. I did what any other hygienic person would do. I flossed and used mouthwash.
"Come on! You're worse then a girl!" Alston yelled. I growled as his voice ripped through my hung-over mind.
"Dude, I'm going to punch you if you yell one more time." I said with a glare as I walked out of the bathroom and towards the door.
"Sorry…" He snickered, "Sort of" he walked down the hallway next to me.
My phone vibrated just then, I pulled it out of my back pocket. It was Anna, a good friend of mine.
"Hey loser." The text message read.
I rolled my eyes and replied "Hey, Ho."
We walked down the hallway some more almost to the doors when my phone vibrated again.
"Woman." the text from Anna read.
I laughed and replied. "Bitch"
"Ho" Anna's next text read.
"Thanks!" I replied with a smile. Anna and I had a love hate friendship. We insulted each other, but yet we knew we meant no harm. I opened the door slowly and looked at Alston, "Wait, it's sunny how are you going to walk out there?" I asked.
He held up his arm and showed me a sliver band around his wrist, "It protects me from the sun."
"Oh okay." I said as we both walked outside, we ran at vampire speed towards the school parking lot making it a little race.
We made it to the school vehicle, it was a nice SUV, it was black and could fit 7 comfortably, but with me being royal, Alberta, Darius, and Guardian Saratan had to come with us, so… It fit 4. Guardian Saratan took up 2 seats because he had really broad shoulders and had very muscular arms, he stood about 6 foot 5 inches, his hair was a deep brunette, his eyes were a dark green, he had a 5 0'colck shadow going on. I needed to stop looking at people.
"So, why are you guys here?" I asked Alberta, Guardian Saratan, and Darius.
"You're a royal moroi, strigoi may try to kidnap you." Alberta said.
"Oh… Okay." I said as Darius drove the car down the road at what seemed to be 80 miles per hour.
The ride was silent, I kept my eyes out of the window, the trees thinned and I began to see the city of Richmond coming up. Darius slowed down so he wouldn't draw attention to the car.
We pulled into a parking garage. Darius parked the car on the middle level. This mall was pretty big, it had 4 floors of stores, restaurants, and possible snacks. I licked my lips at the thought of human blood.
The whiff of a close by human hit my nose, it smelled so good. I wanted to bite them so bad.
"Stephen? Is that you?" I heard a girl yell from behind me. It sounded like Anna.
I turned around quick and to my surprise, it was. "Anna!" I yelled, I was glad hang-overs didn't last too long for vampires.
"Hey!" She said as she walked a little faster up to me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked looking down at her with a confused look.
"Spring break." She said with a slight smile.
"Right…" I chuckled.
"Lets go Stephen." Alston said from back by the car.
"Sorry, I have to go. Maybe we can hang out sometime." I said backing up slowly.
"Yeah we should." She nodded.
Anna had dark brown hair, she was about 5 foot 1 inches, her eyes were deep brown color. I used to like her as more than a friend back in middle school, but that changed when high school came along.
"Who was that?" Darius asked in a protective tone.
"A friend of mine, Don't worry." I said as I rolled my eyes.
"Okay, just doing my job." he said as we began walking, Alberta was right next to me on my right and Alston was on my left. Darius and Guardian Saratan were behind us.
"I thought I needed 4 guardians." I stated as I looked at Alberta.
"You have 4" she said with a smile. Either she was bad at math or I was going blind.
"There are only three…" I said.
"Alston is one too, He has been training with Darius and Paul while you were sleeping." She said.
I looked at Alston and he smiled, I just shook my head "Thanks Alston, That actually shows that you care about my life." I looked back at Alberta, "Wait, Who's Paul?" I looked at her confused.
"Guardian Saratan." She said as we walked into the mall, It was pretty crowded, people everywhere.
"Oh…" I said. I heard the crying of a child across the mall, probably because they couldn't get the toy they wanted.
"Where to first?" Alston asked.
"Um… HotTopic? I don't know… Where ever" I said with a shrug.
"Then let's go." Alberta said pulling me towards HotTopic "This is my favorite store."
"Okay then." I said as we entered the store, I went over to the graphic band tees, I picked up a few in my size. The jean section was next, I grabbed a few pairs, unsure of what size I was in these. "I'm going to go try these on." I said to Alston and Alberta motioning them to stay put.
I walked into the tiny dressing room area and found a room in the back of the store, I set the jeans and tee shirts down as I shut the door. I went on to pick up a pair of jeans, my back was to the door, I heard a small creak and just thought it was the next room's door.
There was a cold breeze, an arm shot out from behind me grabbing me into a headlock, another covered my mouth so I could scream.
I was dragged out of the dressing room and was going down the hallway backwards, The wall where the mirror had been at the end of the hall was now an archway. I saw Alberta's eyes widen when she saw me, She ran to get the others, but by the time they got to the hallway, I wall began to close back up. The light was gone, The outside world and the people seemed to mean so much right now.
I thrashed around trying to get free, the skin of my captor was pale, almost grey. I knew what was happening at that moment, I was either going to be drained of my life, or I was going to 'die' as they say at the academy when someone turned into a strigoi.
My life was going through my head, I kept thrashing hoping they would let go, I tried to scream. My oxygen was cut off, I could get it to my vital organs, my vision was getting hazy. I felt stairs under my feet, I knew we were going farther under the mall, I wanted to cry, I wanted to beg and plead, but I refused to show weakness.
"Stop moving!" My abductor hissed, their voice was threatening, like how a murderer sounds. I stopped moving, I didn't want to piss them off. I knew what this creature was, they were strigoi, I was moroi… I was going to be lunch.
"We found him." The voice said as they turned me to face the way we were going. It wasn't just one strigoi, there were 10 to 15 red eyed, grey skinned, immortal vampires in front of me.
"The Vandermill Wechsler." One of them said.
"Can we eat him?" The teenage looking boy said.
"James, not now." The woman standing next to him said.
"But, mom…" James said.
"But nothing, you're not going to eat him." The woman said.
"Oh, Ada, stop being so stern" A man said.
"William, you do not boss me around." Ada said.
It then hit me, These three strigoi were Alston's family, his mother, his father, his brother, but where was his sister?
The strigoi holding me in the headlock threw me to the ground, I tensed my body up when they surrounded me. I wanted to get out of here, I thought of one possible way to save myself.
"I know your son!" I shouted towards Ada and William.
They looked at me like I was crazy, "How? He is in Italy!" Ada hissed at me.
"He's not in Italy, He's here, in Richmond, with me, right now, in this mall!" The circle around me was getting smaller.
"Really?" James asked with a slight drop of hope in his voice.
"Really…" I said wishing they would be some what kind and let me go. I wished I was out of there.
My wishes weren't granted, I was ripped up off of the floor, slammed against the rock wall, the bright red eyes of an intimidating strigoi were staring me down, it was the one Paige had killed in my dream.
He began compelling me "This will hurt so much, you will experience the worst pain you've ever felt." I nodded slowly trying not to. His compulsion was a success. He bit into my neck, I screamed as the deeds he said kicked in, the pain filling my body. I tried pushing him off, my body was getting weak, my arms fell to my sides, I couldn't fight anymore… I was as good as dead.
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