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Chapter 4

~The Next Night~

I went to visit that bench again, that bench where everything happened, where things happened, things that had changed my life forever. I was not human any more; I was among the living dead. A creature that was not to roam the lands of the living, though, it wasn't my fault.

If he had stayed, if he had listened to me, if he hasn't knocked me out, if he hasn't left me there, this would never have happened!

Then it struck me, I haven't thought of him in so many years, the impact of my emotions had taken control, it was like I was going to cry. But being the vampire I am, I can not cry any more.

My emotions were taken away from me, when the transformation was complete. After all that pain I went through, I still had pain. My heart was broken, into so many pieces; I believe that no one would be able to put it back together again. I gave up hope that he would return, even after word had spread that he had completed his goal. He never said he would return, he never claimed he loved me back. I just lost all hope.

I had to find something to distract me from my thoughts, anything. So I decided to go to a bar, my favourite bar. The bartender was my personal friend, she knew what I really was, and she knew nearly everything about me, that's because she was my best friend, Ino.

"Hi there Sakura, what brings you here this late at night?" asked the bartender, Ino

"Needed to clear my head, pass me some whiskey would you." I had told her as I walked over to the counter and took my usual place on a stool directly in front of my best friend.

Ino had filled a few shot glasses of whiskey for her friend and had lined them up in front of her.

"You know that don't help" she mutters under her breathe, so that only she is able to hear, and not the other luring old men hear that also sit by the counter.

"You know I don't care, it soothes me and I'm fine with that."

I then took the first few shots of whiskey down, with no expression at all. It was because it was a naturally routine for me, once I was able to drink; legally I started coming out to bars to drink. Before, I had my friends, bring me bottles of drinks, beer, wine, whiskey, rum, I didn't care what it was, as long as it soothes my aching heart I had enjoyed it.

"So then, how was you day?" asked Ino, while she was washing and drying a few beer glasses.

I looked around, and noticed it was only me and her, with a few other drunks in the back, and some prostitutes also with the drunks.

"Just fine, same old things happen. Hey, you didn't tell me it was closing time."

"You know your welcome here anytime, plus don't leave me with those drunks, who know what would happen."

"Do you want to me get them out for you?"

"Please, will you. I rather not do it, there so drunk, that stupid bartender before me gave them too many drinks, like usually." She said this, while shaking her head.

I sighed, as I took one more shot of whiskey, and got up and finally started moving towards the men and their little toys.

"Sorry boys and girls, its closing time, do you want a cab?" I had asked, oh so calming.

I hated it when people were drunk; it pissed me off so much. They were so clueless to what was going on around them. Someone can get shot, and they wouldn't even realize it. An explosion can happen a block from them, though they were so clouded by the alcohol, they wouldn't even notice it. It just ticked me off so much, though I found it strange myself, that I would never get drunk. I just it was just apart of being a vampire. We can't just afford to lose our senses, not even for a second, or all hell would break lose.

"Why don't you come and join us" One of the drunks said, as his words slurred, and winked at me. I can now see why Ino didn't want to tell them to leave.

"Sorry sir, I'd rather not. Tell me where you would like to go and we will call you a cab."

"Too bad, we could have had some fun" Said another drunk, as he got up with his toy.
"We don't need a cab; we have a limo outside waiting for us." Said, more like slurred, the first drunk, as he got up wit his toys, which probably charged him thousands just for one little night.

"Good to know, thank you for coming" I said with a smile, more like forced smile. I had lent them out of the bar and locked it with a key that Ino had given me.

I sighed as I turned and looked at Ino and saw her relief reaction.

"Thank you! They usually try to persuade me to join them," She said with a disgusted tone, "How come they didn't try for you?"

All I did was point to my head, and she knew. I was a rare type of vampire, as I was an odd child, while I was human. I had powers, not like the inhuman strength that I had while I was human, or the abnormal speed gained by being turning. I had other powers. The one I used on the drunken men was sort of like, changing their plans in their mind. I already knew how to read minds, as one of my other "amazing" abilities, but, I am able to alter their plans and thoughts as well.

"They were married men to" I said, as I approached the bar counter and finished off the rest of my whiskey, and waited for her to refill the shot glasses.

"I noticed when they first came here, those poor women, they probably don't even know." She said, as she shakes her head once more.

"They do know."

She looked up at me shocked. This is why Ino was like a sister to me. She always forgot what I was turned into. She plainly accepted it, once I showed her my true form that is. All my friends had accepted it, but a few "lost" contacts with me. I knew instantly why they had. They feared what I had become.

At first, I couldn't accept it. Why would my dear close friends, just abandon me when I needed them the most. But as time went by, I understood why. Humans are weak creatures, no matter if they are the top of the food chain, there are creatures in the dark, in the shadows that lurk that are stronger than them. When they find out, they get scared. It's the way humans think. I figure that out after being turned. When humans get scared, they killed what scares them. So, since some careless vampires left prey still alive, the government has put a secret organization, a secret from the public, to find and erase the vampire race quietly, so we would only remain a myth.

"Wait, how do you know they know?" asked Ino very curiously.

"Ino, remember what I am?"

"Oh, RIGHT! I remember," she says chuckling quietly, and goes over to turn on the news on the TV in the corner.

I sit there quietly and watch the news. They were talking about someone being murdered in an alley.

"Want some?" asked Ino out of the blue.
"I've been craving for a while, sure." I said, without removing my stare at the TV.

Ino lifted a floor board, and pulled out a few packets of blood. Yes, blood, that red stuff that flows through humans and animals bodies. That stuff we vampires crave for. Usually, most of us are able to control our hunger, but sometimes we can't, and we end up dead since the vampire hunters catch us before we are able to show any one our true forms. That's how they track us, when we lose control.

Then of course, vampires do mate for life, so when a vampire hunter kills a vampire with a mate, that mate is easily found. That is because they want revenge. Once a vampire's mate is killed, they will stop at nothing to kill the person who did it. That is how these vampire hunters have limited our species to so little in the pass few years. Most vampires had mates, once they found out; they only targeted vampires with mates, which is quite smart.

"Looks like someone was a little bit messy this time," I said while looking at the TV.

"What are you talking about now?" asked Ino curiously, as she was pouring me a glass of a red liquid.

"Vampire didn't do such a good job this time, thank god it was another vampire that found that body and cleaned it up before those humans came along," I muttered, as I picked up the glass n drank.

"You saw all that, FROM A NEWS REPORT?!?!?!?"

"It's not hard Ino, quite simple, but I can't tell you how I know that" I said with a sly smile on my face.

My blonde friend stands there, dumbfounded staring at me, and all I can do is shrug my shoulders and drink more of that delicious red liquid.

"So then, how is that play toy of yours coming along dear?" I asked, while blocking out her train of thoughts, so I wouldn't read her mind.

"Oh! He is so dreamy and really kind-hearted too! I never expected that from him of all people. I mean, we have known each other for what, a few months, and we act like a married couple!" She told me, and continued with stories about their dates and such.

I don't ever read her mind, unless necessary. I don't feel it is right to. So I sat there, listening to every word she said, blocking her mind from my own, so I would seat there and actually listen, instead of zone out on her.

As I listened to her, I couldn't help but feel a bit a jealousy. I was only seventeen years old when all this happened. I wasn't even officially an adult. I had my whole life planned out in front of me. What university I wanted to go to, what I had planned to do with my life, what age I had planned to quit my partying ways, and settle down with the love of my life and have children. But all of that, all my plans, everything was taken away from me, in one lone night. My whole world had changed, and I was unable to stop it.


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