Betrayal
By:Julia Randall
I woke up to the hum of my air con, and the sunlight seeping though my curtains. It was Saturday, and I had made it through the night. The night of horror, and pain, and sorrow, and fear that would haunt my dreams forever. But it was just the beginning. I knew that. Stating it was just a known fact. It was the night I had fed one of my best friends to Vampires.
Please don’t automatically judge me as some kind of selfish person that doesn’t care who lives or dies. I wish I had a choice to let everyone who has risked their lives last night live, waking up to the sun just like I had. But it wasn’t that way. And I guess I couldn’t live with it because as I rolled over to stare at the other side of my room, I lazily tilted my alarm clock to check the time. One thirty pm. I decided it was time to get up. I sat up, but no sooner had I done so, it immediately felt like the air had been knocked out of me and I fell back down against my pillow. Then the nausea came. I got up and ran over to the bathroom and lifted the toilet seat. Ugh. Hang over.
At that moment, I had an entire flash back of last night. I could see my pale skin in the moonlight race through the jungle as I lead the way through thick air that was closing in around me. I had no idea where I was going. But I had to keep him safe. We had to get out of here. And that was far too late. Because as I looked over to try to yell over to Brendon, I couldn’t; he was gone.
“No!” I screamed, my voice echoing through the walls of trees.
I turned back to find a trail of blood, and then my guts twisted and my muscle tightened, because what was in front of me were four vampires, feasting on my childhood friend Brendon.
His guts were all over the place, along with an eyeball, skin torn and flung across the forest floor landing on plants and insects. I was angry. And I could feel it. I was changing. My skin ripped as my bones grew, but quickly reforming over them, pale as the moon and as strong as kyptonite. My teeth turned pearly white and 4 teeth extended over the others, sharp as a blade. And then, my eyes turned black and red. Soon the transformation was complete. I had transformed into a vampire.
I woke up to the hum of my air con, and the sunlight seeping though my curtains. It was Saturday, and I had made it through the night. The night of horror, and pain, and sorrow, and fear that would haunt my dreams forever. But it was just the beginning. I knew that. Stating it was just a known fact. It was the night I had fed one of my best friends to Vampires.
Please don’t automatically judge me as some kind of selfish person that doesn’t care who lives or dies. I wish I had a choice to let everyone who has risked their lives last night live, waking up to the sun just like I had. But it wasn’t that way. And I guess I couldn’t live with it because as I rolled over to stare at the other side of my room, I lazily tilted my alarm clock to check the time. One thirty pm. I decided it was time to get up. I sat up, but no sooner had I done so, it immediately felt like the air had been knocked out of me and I fell back down against my pillow. Then the nausea came. I got up and ran over to the bathroom and lifted the toilet seat. Ugh. Hang over.
At that moment, I had an entire flash back of last night. I could see my pale skin in the moonlight race through the jungle as I lead the way through thick air that was closing in around me. I had no idea where I was going. But I had to keep him safe. We had to get out of here. And that was far too late. Because as I looked over to try to yell over to Brendon, I couldn’t; he was gone.
“No!” I screamed, my voice echoing through the walls of trees.
I turned back to find a trail of blood, and then my guts twisted and my muscle tightened, because what was in front of me were four vampires, feasting on my childhood friend Brendon.
His guts were all over the place, along with an eyeball, skin torn and flung across the forest floor landing on plants and insects. I was angry. And I could feel it. I was changing. My skin ripped as my bones grew, but quickly reforming over them, pale as the moon and as strong as kyptonite. My teeth turned pearly white and 4 teeth extended over the others, sharp as a blade. And then, my eyes turned black and red. Soon the transformation was complete. I had transformed into a vampire.
