12 January 2013
I took Jessie in my arms, she was incredibly light, and seemed so frail. It seemed as if one sudden movement from me would break her bones. I could feel her heartbeat, practically taste her blood, and it terrified me. "I will go with you if you stop her becoming one of us" I said quicker than I ever thought possible. "Not possible" He replied. "Then make it possible," I replied then added, "Please, for me." He shook his head. "I'm sorry, Blake, she's already one of us. Her heart has stopped" Then he turned and leaped out of my open window. He was right. Her heartbeat was no more, I couldn't feel it, and she was slowly healing. She was only young, why had he done it to her? "Are you okay?" I whispered. She nodded slowly as she wrapped her arms round my neck. "We have to go, Blake, don't we?" I turned towards the window. Down below Robert was waiting for us, ready to make us monsters. I turned away from the window and left my room. I wasn't sneaking out of my home, I was leaving it. I was going to use a door, like I had done my whole life. "Ready?" I asked Jessie as I opened the front door. She nodded as I put her back on her feet. She was stronger now, much stronger, and we left our home hand in hand. Robert was waiting for us.
He took us on our first feed that night. He called it an "all you can eat buffet" but I saw it as a party. A party I should have gone to and should be at now, collapsed on the floor like everyone else my age. I sat in the tree in the back garden. Some had fallen asleep in the garden, where they'd dropped, and I watched as Jessie massacred them quickly and effortlessly. Feeding on them. A monster.
But I had to admit, their blood smelt so good.
"Come on, Blake." Robert grinned at me. "You need to feed" "No, I don't." I replied. As a human I had always gone a while longer than most without eating. With me it was either let my sister go hungry or go hungry myself, so naturally I chose to feed her. And then, when Jessie looked up at me with her stone cold eyes, I saw a type of unrequited joy that I hadn't seen in years. I cried. Turned my head to the inky black sky and cried silent tears of regret and fear and everything that I had left locked up over years after my parents had left me and Jessie. I wept until I fell asleep in the tree. Robert and Jessie let me while they continued with their feast. Their feast of my peers, who still slept, unaware of their impending death.
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