Necromania

by Kyla Pitts

Skye was just a normal girl who had what some might call a hellish life. She had no friends to speak of; she worked every night because her dad refused to provide anything but a room for her. She never saw her dad as he was always out with friends getting drunk and would return home in the early hours of the morning when she was asleep. What happens when she's saved by 5 strangers.

6. Any Day Could Be The Day I Die

I had been walking around aimlessly for a while before spotted a familiar sign. 'Alexandra Road' it proclaimed in black letters. I soon found myself standing in front of my house. Apprehensively I knocked on the door, within a couple of minutes my dad opened the door.

"So you've finally decided to come home, have you?" he sneered.

"I'm sorry I had to work extra hours because a colleague called in sick." I lied.

"Oh right so you thought that it was okay to stroll back at 11 o'clock the next day, huh?"

"Erm…"

"Well?"

"I just came to get changed into some clean clothes and then I'm spending the weekend at a friend's house."

"No need. I'll give you 5 minutes to pack your stuff and leave."

"But…but where am I going to go?"

"You should have thought about that before deciding to stay out all night. 5 minutes that's all." I pushed past him and ran up the stairs to my room. Once there I grabbed my rucksack from the back of my door packing all the clothes that would fit in it plus my laptop, phone, iPod, cables for all of them, my make up bag and my purse with my bank card in and a small amount of cash. Taking one last look around my room, I left knowing that I would never return as long as that bastard I called dad was still there. A quick look at my phone told me that I'd left the hotel only half an hour ago.

Cries of distress drew me towards an alley that I had only been through a couple of times. My mouth dropped open at the scene unfolding before me, the man who had attacked me was in the process of draining a guy that I recognised from collage, Peter I think his name was. Instinct told me that to stay alive I had to stay silent but this was over ridden by the moral side of me, that said no one should suffer that fate.

"No!" I screamed. The vampire turned dropping Peters lifeless corpse on the ground.

"Come back for more, have we?" he asked, his tone intrigued.

"Y…Y…You're a monster." I stuttered through the shock. He started towards me, I wanted to run back to the safety of the hotel but my feet seemed glued to the floor.

Then everything went black…