I awake to see... Nothing, but the smell of rats and mold reveals the place of imprisonment, the old Montgomery house. My eyes well up with tears.
I scream a mercy plea, "help…help…help," my voice breaks.
"Keep it down, stupid mortal." Screams an English accented voice. Even when she screams she sounds lovely, cold, but lovely, almost charming
I can hear muffled coughs and growls. I am flat on my back staring at the tall ceiling, a small light bulb hands from the top along with a string, dark brown wall paper with gold diamonds peel around the corners of the small room I am in.
The left side of my face is swollen, I can feel the pressure and tension, and it is overwhelming.
Shadows by my head start to move, I hold my breath and build up courage, my body drenched with worry. I swing only to miss my imagination by a mile.
I move my agonizing legs, so cold and numb, so numb it hurts, like this body isn't my body anymore. Like a card trick done by a circus magician I move my body into a corner, beside what feels like a pile of clothes
"Awe..." laughs a distant voice," I think it's awake. The female voice starts to giggle again. A hand reaches for my throat; I can only see the slender silhouette, a dark misty hand coming for me. "Can I play with it; you never let me, have a puppy." A growl emerges from a shadow hidden in the corner; the concrete against my palms is ice cold. My eyes are confused, all voices no faces. I start running, I don't know where but the cold breeze becomes my destination, it grows stronger and stronger, then weak. I pray it leads me to an open door or window. No one needs to tell me what is going on; I am in some kind of vampire nest. I trip over a body and go face down on the swelled half of my face with a piercing scream of pain. My eyes adjust to the dark and I get up off the body of the homeless man who saved me just a few hours before. His face mauled and dull, I look into his yellow, beady eyes and a tear drops from my eye to his. His eyes are empty, there is nothing like looking into the face of death when your whole world is falling apart.
"Awe you found your friend again, he was very salty to me," the English vampire laughs heavily at her own joke.
I look around me cradling the man's head in my lap, my hands tangled in his blood matted hair. I look back down at his body "thank you" I say. Putting his head down cautiously, making sure I don't break anything, I look towards the female who stood at a doorway to mock me.
"You bitch," I said with my teeth gritting and my eyes narrowing, gritting so hard my whole body is trembling.
"You're lucky I'm full," anger erupts from her expression but her voice stays calm and firm. Her teeth are gritting as well. A warning escapes her lips in the form of a growl.
She starts toward me, a cat walk stroll. I crawl up from beside the body and walk backward toward a door, she lunges in my direction and I turn and run through the door, just as a slam it shut I hear the thud of her failed landing. I giggle with my back against the door. She slams herself against the old door. Startled I run, I go through three doors and into a hallway, down a flight of stairs, until I open a door and find one door with a rusted lock and key, the maroon paint had started to peel off, I stare at the door. Only a portion of the knob was silver. I walk toward the door, nervous, afraid what I will find. I take a one slow step forward and two quick steps back. I hear rumbles and movement, I think its footprints. I look up and sure enough tiny little dust particles fall from the above floor. I rush toward the door and pull it open, throwing myself in. I notice a light coming from a hole in the wall. The hole is about 3 feet high and 4 inches wide.
A ray of light shines in, almost glowing, and the light is conceived from a slither of the wall missing. I can barely see the daylight. I walk into the closet and shut the door. Heat flows all over me and I grow tired, I sit perched against one of the four walls looking out the whole to see daylight disappearing , my eyes droop and my nightmare ends for a short time, I dream of reality.