It was lunch before Violet noticed any more changes. She was talking with her friends like she normally did, when she began to eat some of the garlic bread from her lunch. At first she didn't notice anything, but gradually the began to get a spicy sensation in her mouth, almost as if she had eaten a hot pepper. Quickly she found water and drank it.
"How much garlic did they put in that?" she looked closely at the rest of the bread.
"Hey Kari, tell me if you think this has a too much garlic in it," Violet tears a piece off and gives it to her friend. After tasting it for a moment the girl swallows it.
"It tastes like regular garlic bread, why?"
"Oh, nothing," Violet stayed quiet through out the rest of the day. It seemed that there was only one more thing to do to test if she was changing.
Slowly she walks over to the window. The sun shone brightly through, giving the tiling floor a danger zone if Violet really was a vampire. She had thought about just jumping into the sunlight, but her fear of the truth made her decide just to sick a limb into the direct sunlight pouring in.
"Here we go," she tried to reassure herself, "I'll just put my hand out pull it out, and nothing will happen. Yeah."
She knew that probably wasn't the case but she wasn't ready to come out of denial.
She carefully sits next to the sunlight, and reaches with her hand toward the beam streaming in. She closes her eyes and quickly flung her hand into the sunlight. Screaming she pulled it out faster than she had put it in.
She looked at her palm, sunburned in the brief flash of sunlight that she had exposed it to. She sank down in her chair, the pain of her sunburn forgotten, "Then it's true. I'm turning into one of them."
Just then Tony comes over to her and asks her about her scream.
"It's just a sunburn, set something on it," she lied.
"Well if your sure," he says sitting next to her, "You know you've been acting strange today, are you sure you're doing okay?"
"I don't know," she says looking at him, "Look I might need your help after school, my sunburn really hurts if it touches sunlight. None of the rest of my classes have windows, but getting home might cause some difficulties."
"No problem, ill rig something up," Tony says getting up, though she thought she saw some skepticism, "You sure there's nothing you want to tell me?"
"I'm fine," she say and he leaves.
At least she was able to avoid direct contact with the sunlight until the end of the day. Tony would get something she could hide in, he wasn't the kind of guy who didn't notice things were strange. He probably figured something was up, and would want to help in anyway he could.
The only thing was whether or not to tell him. Violet knew she could trust Tony, but was she ready herself to admit she was a vampire, or at least turning into one?
That after noon as she waited for Tony at the door, she thought hard about vampires and such. She looked at her previously burned hand to find it completely healed.
"Must be vampire healing," she told herself. She had a cross necklace she had borrowed from her friend, and was preparing to touch the cross its self. It would burn but she had to make it look like she was still burned from before.
"Hey Vi," Tony says seeming to appear out of nowhere. Violet jumps and hides the cross behind her back.
"Hey Tony, you got the thing," she waves at him with the hand that was sunburned before. The cross falls into her hand and she has to concentrate to keep her expression regular.
"Wow, you hand," Tony says pointing the raised palm, "It's healed."
"Oh, no," she answered dropping the cross and catching the string it was on, "It was this hand."
She raises it to show a cross shaped burn. Seeing this she quickly closes her hand, but it makes the cross land on her forearm making it burn slightly.
"What the!" he exclaims as Violet quickly pulls the cross by the string and gives it to Tony. He catches it expecting it to burn him too, but finds it cool.
"How…" he was confused.
"Tony," Violet says as she watches as the wounds slowly heal and disappear, "There's something I have to tell you."
A/N: Thanks again for the reviews. LikeI said these 3 are going up together.