Crimson Delight

The darkness I enter into it I dissolve.

Following her steps they quicken with fear.

Closer to quenching my thirst devours me whole.

Into her neck my bite draws it's treat.

Her body collapses weak from it's drain.

A smile across my face dripping with crimson delight.

Shadows

Cries echo

filling their darkest night.

Crimson red flows

under moon bright.

Shadows sneak to their victims they creep.

None spared

for in spilled blood they now weep.

Playing sick games

only blood it's thirst tames.

Tearing sweet flesh

still running but in vain.

Pieces of wood

forced into dark hearts.

Though once immortal

now turning to dust.

Vampire slayers stand out in the crowd,

Stakes stained red

held proud in strong hands.

As shadows lay dieing, the lives they took

no longer crying.

Instead soon will conspire

for their thirst burns like fire.

Chapter 5: Followed

I sat my drink down on the table, trying to think things thru. Everyone had already left and all I could do was think about what had happened earlier. I was really starting to worry. I thought about heading home, but I had to figure out what was going on. I slid out of the booth, paid my bill and left Marge a tip.

As I stepped out of Frankie's, a shiver came over me. The temperature had dropped and the weatherman had even called for possible snow flurries. I pulled my jacket tight around my neck and quickened my pace down the sidewalk. Puzzled as to why they had gone down the alley together and not knowing quite what to do, I decided to follow them. Trying to stay in the shadows and not be seen, I peered down the alley. I couldn't see past the dumpster, but something wasn't right.

Since Kim had left the bar with Sebastian, she has been acting stranger by the minute. What did she see in this guy, Sebastian. She seemed totally into him, but he did nothing but give me the creeps! I mean, biting her neck? What was that about? Kim hadn't always picked Mr. Wonderful or anything, but this guy was different and definately not her type. Or so I thought.

As I continued to look in the direction of the dumpster, he appeared! It was the guy, Sebastian. My heart began to race and it was all I could do not to step into the alley. Something held me back. Then I saw Kim step back from behind the side of the dumpster and it looked as though she was crying. She turned and looked at Sebastian and then they both went back beside the dumpster, once again out of my view. Was that blood on Kim's face?! As they stepped back again and into the dim light of the alleyway, I could definately see blood on Kim's face. I gasped, wanting to run to her! Did they hear me? I sure hoped not. Where was Marc? Sebastian kissed Kim, said something I could not hear, and then quick as a flash, they disappeared into the shadows and were gone. What the hell was going on!? I had to find out. Maybe this was a joke they were playing on me? What if Kim and Marc were in trouble? Maybe they would head back to Kim's apartment. I decided for now, to go and wait for them at Kim's.

Climbing the stairs and standing in front of the door to Kim's, I tilted the mailbox and out slid the key from a space in the bottom of it. I stopped for a second to listen and see if they were coming, but heard nothing except for the neighbors dog barking. Entering her apartment, I found everything pretty much like it had been when I left her there earlier. Not knowing whether they would come here I curling up on her couch and watching an SNL repeat. I tried to make sense of what I had seen and of Kim and I's conversation yesterday. My eyes grew heavy with sleep. I had to...stay...awake...

Unfortunate

Softer than a whisper,

she decends on her prey.

The moon floating above,

in it's dark pool it plays.

Swift comes her attack,

a violent bite into flesh.

Unfortunate this day,

for in a puddle of blood he lays.

Chapter 4: My Thirst

I awoke again, this time from my thirst. My thirst for what, I had yet to realize. Sitting up in bed, I no longer felt pain or discomfort but was filled with energy. Lainey lay asleep beside me. I leaned over her, watching her breath. Long eyelashes flowing from the eyelids that covered her beautiful sea green eyes. Her jet black hair cascading over her shoulder and across my pillow. Closer I leaned smelling the sweet skin of her neck. Feelings of an insatiable thirst drew me closer still, till my lips touched her neck. She awakened, startled from the brush of my lips and sat up next to me. "Hey, are you feeling better? What time is it?" Lainey asked. Twelve-sixteen a.m. glowed neon green from the nightstand next to my bed.

My thoughts were a blur. Feelings were surfacing that I could not yet comprehend. Whatever these feelings were I felt frightened by them. And little did I know, for good reason. So I asked Lainey to leave, telling her I needed time alone to gather my thoughts. The truth being that I was afraid. Afraid of what? Hurting her? Maybe. I was so confused. As she left, puzzled and worried for me, I felt I needed to find this man Sebastian. I brushed my hair and caught a glimpse of my neck in the mirror. Amazed, my wound was but a mere speck. Gone...healed. I quickly threw on my clothes and ran out the door to my apartment. Hoping I would find Sebastian, I headed 4 blocks down to Frankie's bar where we had first met.

I stepped down the stairs from my apartment building onto the sidewalk. It was chilly but I wasn't cold. As my feet carried me quietly towards the bar, my thirst almost feeling like a hunger, would not be denied. Staring at the faces of the people I passed along the way, my thirst grew more and more intense. Two woman smiled as I passed them. Funny, I did not feel the hunger for them as I had the others.

Almost a block away from Frankie's, I saw Marc walking towards me. A good friend he was, we had known each other since high school. As we met on the sidewalk, in a friendly gesture, Marc grabbed my hand and held it as we walked together. I felt myself leading him down the alley next to Frankie's. He looked me in the eye not questioning me for the reason, but willingly following. Shoving him into the dirty wall next to a dumpster I kissed him hard. Biting his lip, ahhhh...the sweet taste of his blood filled my mouth. Before he could utter a sound in pain or question, I had moved to his neck and my teeth easily sunk into the soft flesh of his neck. His warm blood tasted so sweet and satisfying. No longer was I thirsty. Hearing laughter behind me, snapped me back to reality. I stood up, looking over Marc's lifeless body. Tears welled up and I felt as though I was choking, not able to catch my breath. What had I done?! I spun around to see who the laughter was coming from. Sebastian was there with a devious smile crossing his strikingly pale yet handsome face. Looking back at Marc again, I could not control my cries of horror at what I'd just done. I knelt next to Marc and Sebastian knelt beside me, smelling Marc's neck he would not drink of his blood, for Marc had already passed. "Never drink from someone who's heart has ceased to beat" he warned. My instincts told me to run, to get away. But I couldn't. Hate for Sebastian was growing, but I needed him. He took my hand, pulling me close and licking the blood stained corner of my mouth.

"Come my dear"...

Her Curse

This monster uninvited,

has entered her world.

Her chest no longer rising with breath.

This monster unforgiving,

has bled her to death.

She did her best,

pleading for his mercy.

This monster his curse he...

just could not control.

Her life has now been shattered.

Not caring for what once had mattered.

Now herself a monster of the night,

she must take flight.

This monster of the night,

her curse she must fight.

Chapter 3: The Mirror

I felt a hand touching my shoulder. Then felt myself flinch with her touch. Lainey drew back her hand in surprise, not expecting my reaction. I know she thought I was crazy and was finding it hard to believe a word I was saying, but then her eyes grew wide in disbelief. She was staring at my neck. I reached up and touched two small raised bumps. They hurt and the memory of the pain from Sebastian's bite came flooding back to me. "You should get that checked out! It looks almost infected Kim." Lainey urged in concern. I moved across the room to my mirror where I saw his bite. My head started spinning and Lainey rushed to my side and helped me back to bed. The pain came quick...my head, my joints, inside every part of me ached. Sharp pains pierced thru my head and my muscles tightened as I lay in a ball on the bed. Lainey said she was calling an ambulance. NO! I shouted angrily at her as I grabbed her arm. I was hurting her, I could tell. I loosened my grip and thru the pain, pleaded her not to call anyone...just to stay with me. I was scared. What was happening to me? Something was invading my soul...changing me. What had Sebastian done? What was Sebastian? The thoughts in my head, were hard to accept. A vampire? No way! There is no such creature! Was there?


...I was so thirsty.