16 January 2013
After the blood incident, I went up to my room. It was there the guy found me when it was approaching dusk.
"Ready, Blake?" He called through the closed door.
I ran to the door and opened it a little more forcefully than I had expected and pulled it off it's hinges. He laughed at me but that just seemed to make it okay.
"Robert will put your door back on" He winked at me as he took my hand when we were hidden from view of the house.
I nodded. "What's your name?" I replied, realising I didn't know.
"Peter" He replied.
"How old are you?"
"As in?" He replied, grinning.
"Both" I replied.
"Okay, twenty and I guess you could say two"
I nodded. "Did Robert change you?"
"He changed me into a vampire, yeah, but he doesn't like what I am now. They say that my kind are traitors" He replied.
"Your kind? There is more than one kind of vampire?" I asked, confused, and then I gulped as if there was a lump in my throat. I hadn't said the word since I changed, since before I changed, and somehow it didn't bother me.
Peter laughed again. "Not exactly." He replied. "There are those who drink straight from the neck, like Robert and your sister, and there are those who drink from a bottle or bag, like me and you"
"Is there a name for people like us?" I asked, unsure.
He laughed again. "Of course not, the others are just scared, I guess. Scared that we're too different. They aren't too different from humans, you know?"
I nodded. "Everyone can be scared of the unknown" I replied.
"But you" He mumbled.
"No, even me." I grinned. "I just don't see why I should be scared anymore"
Peter stopped and watched me with his brown eyes. They seemed to be challenging me as if he knew that really, underneath, I was terrified.
"We need to go down there." He said, pointing towards a cliff. "Two ways down, jump or hike for an hour"
I stepped towards the edge of the cliff and looked down at what lay below. It was a little town but the cliff wasn't too sharp so I took a few steps back and lunged myself off the side.
Sometimes I acted before thinking. That was now. I was falling towards the bottom of a cliff and I didn't know what would happen when I hit the bottom. When I heard Peter screaming with joy behind me, I couldn't help but wonder how many times he had done it before, but it was soon taken from my mind when I started screaming too. I had never done anything so crazy and the ground was getting nearer.
It was then that Peter grabbed me, pulling me close to him, and holding an arm out to brace our fall.
"Close your eyes" He whispered and, despite being scared, I did. I closed my eyes as we fell together and felt that, although I'd just met him, I could trust him.
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