Chapter 5

‘I’m sorry William’ I said, not being able to control it any longer.
I was crawling to him, and he was beckoning me. This was much more than I could handle.

‘Eliza!’ I stopped as I heard a familiar voice in my head. What was happening?

‘You monster!’

‘My name’s William’
‘Violet! Nice to meet you! I’m Cornelia, this is James’

Words that I have heard in the past swirled in my head. I was listening to them but I couldn’t make them out. They were telling me something I couldn’t figure out. They weren’t helping me at all. I tried to stand up only my body wasn’t listening to my brain. My body and brain was in conflict. The brain belonged to the human while the body belonged to the vampire.

‘Big sister, can you tell me mom’s stories?’

Hearing my sister’s voice again woke me up. It was like waking up from a nightmare. My sister’s voice, which I thought I would never hear again.

That’s right. I’m Elizabeth…I’m not letting myself fall prey into these blood-sucking monster’s needs. I shall be myself and who I am not what I hate. I will control my life.

I stopped, gasping. The syringe! I had forgotten that I had placed it in my back pocket.
Reaching back weakly, I pulled out the syringe that professor had given me.

“Eliza,” William said reaching out “what are you doing?”
I stabbed the syringe in my neck, the pain nearly throwing me backwards.
“I said it before,” I gasped, standing up weakly. “And I’ll say it again, I’ll NEVER become one of these monsters.”

They stared, astonished as if they had seen a dead person being resurrected.
“I have to leave,” I said. “I’ll be back for Chrissie tomorrow.”

“Eliza!” William said, grabbing my hand. “Why do you hate the vampire race so much?”
I looked at him in his blue eyes.
“Because,” I told him, my voice bitter and icy but low so that only he can hear what I was saying “They threw me into hell. They turned my life upside down and plan to make my living days a misery. I would have even killed myself but due to the fact that I’m hunting the vampire that turned me, I have that one reason to live. ”

I jerked my hand away and took off, back into the perplexing route, that brought me back into the house. I saw professor sitting on his favourite armchair, asleep.

He had been waiting for me to come home. I tired not to make too much noise but I was to weak to even have the skill to walk with silence. Professor stirred awake from his sleep and gazed at me.
“Elizabeth?” he asked. I looked at him, then in a blur, I couldn’t hold out my emotions and I cried to him, telling him about hearing my sister’s voice again.
He patted my head and hushed me, treating me for once like his own daughter. He ran his hand through my jet-black hair and I fell asleep, crying my heart out.

Ë

The next morning, I felt myself try to move but my body was in extreme pain. Nevertheless, I still tried to get up.
I took small piece of paper and wrote on it, a simple thank you message to professor. Then, I went to school. Just because I feel sick doesn’t mean I should stay home. If I always stay home, I’ll be missing at least half a term of school due to the vampire side effects, especially from ‘the hunger’. See, when I have any vampire fights, my body may not be of a normal human that would not be weak so easily. Still, it needs a period of repairing damaged muscles and attaining energy. So, it’s a massive pain to wake up, or even move, the next day when my body hasn’t fully recovered yet.

When I reached school, I didn’t see James or Lila so I took my sweet time going to the classroom. Well, that is I never managed to get to my classroom because the only person I didn’t want to see had stopped me.

“Violet!”
I turned to find William, who was looking worriedly at me. Sure, he was unavoidable but I should point out that, to him, I was Violet Terrison, a normal 17 year old who loves to study. Should he, a vampire slayer who had his family killed by a clan of vampire, find out, let’s say that it would be better not to mention what would happen. Besides, I haven’t thought, and I do not have any plan in doing so, about what would happen if the secret of me being a vampire would leak out.

“William!” I said, surprised.
“I’m sorry about yesterday,” he said. I thought for a second as my heart skipped two beats that he had found out my secret identity. Then I remembered about the kiss that he had tried to give me.
“Oh!’ I exclaimed, my face in peril of being crimson. “That’s no problem, at all!”
I do not, in any circumstances, want to reveal to him that the reason I ran away was that I didn’t have any experience in love.
“I’m really sorry…” William said, looking really regretful.
“I said it’s fine,” I told him, clearly not getting the point on why he has to apologize so much.
“Im relieved,” he said, his mouth breaking into a big beam making him look so adorable.

“Violet!” I heard someone call and I saw Lila, arm in arm with James, who looked in the edge of depression, walk towards us.
“Can I speak to you for a moment?” Lila asked, giving her best smile to William and dragged me with her out of earshot, leaving James talking to William.
“Vi,” she said sternly “You did not tell me that you knew William!”
“Oh well,” I said with a relaxed shrug, “I wasn’t really close to him so I didn’t think it would be that important.”

“But Vi!” she protested suddenly, making me surprised. Lila was always calm and composed; she was never protestant “William had never even exchange more than 3 lines with any girl!”
I looked at her, surprised.
“Oh,” I said, a little surprised. “That’s…unexpected.”
She looked at me, her olive eyes, wide and clear boring into my blue ones.

‘Oh no’ I groaned.

The famous ‘Lila killer stare’ that made anyone, even her parents, give into any of her pleas.

“Should I introduce you to him?” I sighed. She nodded rather vivaciously and I heaved yet another sigh.

“William!” I said, simulating joy. “Sorry for the wait! I’d like you to meet Cornelia Redwood, my friend.”
Lila and William shook hands and James looked rather relieved.
“It’s great to meet you!” she said and I could see wheels in her head rotating rapidly, preparing an attack. I guess she had a crush on William.

William turned yet again to me, which took me by surprise. At this point, other guys would have fallen for Lila. Lila, behind William was nodding and smiling to herself, as if having come across a new conclusion.
“Do you want to go to class together?” William asked.
“Of course she wants to,” Lila said pushing me gently to William. She shot a wink at me that made me suspicious.
“Come on, Jamie!” Lila said, hooking her arm around James.
“That’s not my name!” James protested and Lila dragged him off. I felt sorry for James but the scene was funny, so I thought maybe I shouldn’t meddle into their affair for now. I went in class with William, where first period was Literature.

“We are having an overnight stay so that you will have more inspiration in learning literature and being able to come up with good topics. Everyone will be required to submit a report about your experience during the stay. Please pass these notices to you parents.” The teacher said. This information perked me up from my usual lack of concentration in Literature class. They passed on the notice and I grabbed one.

I glanced at it. Professor would never let me have a stay that long. I mean, I was a vampire and I might have dangers of turning into a vampire during the stay. I tried not to look to miserable as I put the sheet away.

Lessons continued throughout the day and I tried not to rise from my seat too often. My muscle pains were killing me and I wondered why it took so long to repair vampire bodies.

“I’d love it if you could come,” William said appearing beside me suddenly. “I wouldn’t even come if you wont come.”
I glanced up at him in surprise as I prepared to leave.
“Could I ask a question?” I asked.
“Sure,” he said.
“Why do you bother with me?” I said. “Sorry to break your bubble, but I’m not one of those out-going girls who are friends with everybody.”
“True,” William said “But you have this alluring aura pulling me in and pushing me to make friends with you. You also remind me of someone I know.”
Obviously, the answer to that was Elizabeth. Also known as the vampire me.

“Look,” I said to him “If you want me to replace that person, I’m sorry but I won’t. If you can’t see me as me, I suggest that you shouldn’t bother making friends with me.”
“I didn’t mean that,” William said cutting my next words. “I just said you remind me of someone. To me, Violet is still Violet.”
I was speechless for a while, my brain digesting what he had just told me. It gave me another feeling. It was breaking my defences like oil through water and I was beginning to lose control.

“Here,” he said, “Let me walk you home.”
“Oh that wouldn’t be necessary.” I said, taking my books.

“No I insist,” he said, trying to take the books from my hands.
“Oh no that wouldn’t be-” I said but as I was trying to grab back the books, my scarf fell over my shoulders and leaving the vaccine mark from last night seen.
I tried to cover it up but it was too late.
“Violet,” William said, stopping abruptly. “What was that?”
“Oh nothing!” I said, but he had already taken hold of my scarf and was taking it off my neck slowly.
A sweat fell from my forehead as I realized it was too late to stop him. William was about to find out about the real me.

“It doesn’t really matter, I still like you!”
-Christina (Chrissie)