Chapter 1

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Shawna POV It was the end of the summer. Sandy and I were at Blue Moon Camp. Sandy was tall 5 foot 6 inches to be exact, blond straight hair with sea blue eyes like the ocean, not that I’ve ever been there, exacly like our dad's eyes, has all the curves and she likes showing them all off, especially since she’s probably slept with every guy here. And myself I’ve got all the curves as well but I don’t like showing them off as much as Sandy does, and I’m 5 foot 4 inches and have red curly hair and green eyes like our mother. I was looking for Sandy. As I looked for her, I realized that everyone was happy. I thought, why is everyone so happy when this is a sad day… Everyone is leaving. After a while of looking for Sandy, I finally found her and some of the other girls surrounding a boy, who I recognized as Liam Greenwood. Liam was very popular and always got girls’ attention, including Sandy. I mean, it's no wonder he does. He is 6 foot 4. Blond, muscular, blue eyes, just plain hot. I shake my head to stop the thought, thanking, where did that thought come from. Shaking my head again as I watch her, one of my friends, Rachel walks up to my side. She says, “I know who you’re watching.” I say, instead of answering, “do you see the pair of short shorts she’s wearing? They show half her butt. And look at her top it shows almost all her boobs. And on top of that she's not even wearing a bra.” Rachel laughed saying, “You’re jealous of your twin sister aren't you?” I roll my eyes saying, “No.” I mean, maybe I am jealous. I mean, look at her she's the total opposite of me. 5 foot 6 inches tall, skinny, straight blonde, even though she colors it and ocean blue eyes and a set of thick lashes. Where I'm 5 foot 4, curly red hair. Not heavy set but about average, and I've got emerald green eyes that stand out because of thick lashes. But she also wears makeup. Black mascara, black eyeliner, little bit of pink blush, and bright red lipstick. I, on the other hand, don't wear makeup. Which I prefer. Oh, and she's popular where I'm considered the loner… As the thoughts slid away, I watched Sandy, as she leaves Liam's side and starts walking into the woods with another boy, who I also recognized as Emmett who is Liam’s cousin. Who is also tall, at 6 foot 2 muscular. Tho he's auburn and blue eyes. I run after her leaving Rachel behind. Once I finally get her to stop walking I ask, “Have you started packing up your clothes, because dad’s probably going to be here at the crack of dawn tomorrow?” She answered, “No, but I’ll do it later.” rudely, Emmett's arm around her shoulders as they smiled down at me. I said, “Well if you need any help I can help you?” Sandy answered rudely her smile disappeared as she rolled her eyes, “I said I’ll do it later.” I answered sadly, “Sorry I just asked.” Emmett asked to distract me from getting into a fight with Sandy still smiling, “Hey, are you going to the midnight party?” Answering, I said, “I don’t know?” Tho thinking to myself, Honestly I’m thinking about going but I’m not sure if I really want to. The midnight party was supposed to be a bone fire for all the junior and senior counselors, to have one last hara of fun. There will probably be drinking there as well. Emmett said, “Well, the party is for all of the junior and senior counselors.”Stilll with the smile. I said, “I might be there, but... I don’t know?” I turn around and walk away. I head back to my cabin to start packing * * * * * A couple of hours later, I decided to go to the party after all. When I get to the clearing where the bon fire is. Sandy is with a group of people sitting in Emmett’s lap with 5 other Senior counselor’s all having a glass beer bottle in their hands laughing. But Liam is nowhere to be found. I roll my eyes, shaking my head thinking, I don't know why I'm even thinking about him. Then I look to my left and see my best friend sitting next to her is her boyfriend leaning against him. They both have a red solo cup. Rachel also has a red solo cup in her lap. I smiled and walked over to them. Sitting next to my best friend as she handed me the solo cup that was in her lap. * * * * * At the end of the party, I was heading back to my cabin. I was walking through the woods when Liam came out from behind a tree. Scaring the s**t out of me “Liam. Jeez!” I yell, almost running into him. He said, “I’ve been looking all over for you.” calmly like he didn’t just scare the s**t out of me. I say, “You… have? I didn't even see u at the party.” confused. Mentally slapping myself because now he knows I was looking for me. He answers, smiling at my statement, “Yes… Would you like to take a walk down by the lake with me?” Without thinking I say, “Sure.” As we walked through the woods, Liam said, “Why don’t we pretend that it isn’t the end of the summer… Ok.” Confused, I ask, “Why?” He rolls his eyes, saying, “Whatever nevermind.” So we walk in silence. When we got to the grassy shore of the lake, Liam said, “Why don’t we sit down.” We sit down. After a while of just silence I ask, “You’ve brought almost every other girl down here, How am I any different?” He answers, “You just are?” I roll my eyes at his answer, and ask again, “How am I any different than the other girls?” He rolls his eyes saying, “Because I’ve wanted to bring you down here all summer but every time I went to ask you, you were in your cabin. Or your sister got in the way.” Satisfied with his answer I don’t say anything. After a long silence I ask, “Can I ask you another question?” He looked down at me saying “Sure.” I say, “You have to tell me the truth no matter what… Ok.” He says, “Ok.” I pause before asking “Alright… What are you… I know you're not just a human… Because I’ve seen you at night… You hunt out here in the woods… Are you a… vampire? Tell me are… you?” Instead of answering, Liam asked looking down at me, “Shawna… Do you even believe in vampires?” I looking up at him, answering “Um… Honestly I don’t know. Should I?” Answering he says “Yes… because I am one.” I asked after a pause of just looking up at him, “What do you want from me?” He answered, “I want you to be like me.” I ask, “Why do you want me like you? I'm just a girl who isn’t even pretty?” At this point I’m confused as to why he wants me. He chuckled at my answer. He answered my question as I glared at him for laughing at me, saying, “because... Shawna… I love you... From the moment I laid my eyes on you for the first time 4 months ago I fell in love with you…” he paused, thinking, then saying “It’s hard to explain… But the only way I can explain it is we are mates. I've known since the moment I met you.” I look at him before he can say anything else saying, “What the f**k are mates?” He chucked at my answer like he knew that's what I was going to say, smiled and answered, “Mates are like… Soulmates. It means we’re meant to be with each other." I was shocked thinking that would be why I was drawn to him the moment I met him. I wanted to say something smart assy, but then Liam leaned down and kissed me. After we let go of each other Liam looks at me, and says, “I know I don’t know you very well and you don’t know me very well but if you're like me we can get to know each other much better and I promise that I will never let anything happen to you, I will protect you with my life. I promise Shawna." I look at Liam as I go to protest. Considering this is a lot to take in. He'll protect me with his life. Ha right. Only if. No guy in my life, not even my dad who is the sheriff, has been able to protect me. I just want to tell him that he has to be joking. But he says bringing me out of my thoughts that are going through my head “Shawna you are literally the only one I have EVER asked to change. Everyone I have brought down here I have just fed on and then made them forget what I did or we have just sat here. Shawna I swear I will never hurt you or leave you.” I wanted to tell him to just f**k off but I find myself saying instead, “Ok.” Liam smiles. Lifting me up and placing me on his lap, my legs wrap around his waist and my butt on the soft grass between his spread out legs. As he kisses me moving down to my neck as I tip my head back so he has more access to my neck closing my eyes enjoying the feeling, as I feel something like a bee sting my neck. When he lifted his head licking where he bit me. I feel very weak. I see fangs that look almost like dog canines in his mouth and his eyes are silverish blue. I knew what he was but until I saw it with my own eyes I don’t think I believed it until now. He brings his wrist to his mouth biting into the flesh bringing it to my mouth. When I refuse it he says, “It will help with the weakness and if you don't you can die from the lack of blood.” He brought it closer to my mouth once again as I put my lips to his wrist holding onto his arm as I drank his blood. It honestly tastes nothing like blood. It tastes sweet almost like cherry juice. As I thank, wow this tastes nothing like blood. I hear Liam's muscular voice saying in my head, it's because it's vampire blood. Vampire blood is fruity instead of coppery like human I look up at him, surprised he heard me but his lips weren't moving. His expression just as supposed as mine. He says out loud to no one in particular, "I've never been able to do that. Unless with family and only my cousin and I have figured out how to do so… Interesting. It might be a mate thing." As he pulls his wrist away I ask, “What now?” very weak and sleepy. He answers, “You go to sleep." I leaned up against his chest and I found myself whispering, half asleep, “I love you.” Liam whispers in my ear, “I love you too little mate.” Kissing me lightly on the forehead. He picked me up bridal style standing up walking me all the way to my cabin. After putting me on my cot, he started walking out and almost runs into Sandy, like literally. She asked, “Liam?… What are you doing here?” jealous, as anger flares in her face. As she watches him. He answered, “I was putting Shawna to bed. She fell asleep while we were sitting by the lake.” She said, “Oh… Well I need to talk to her.” getting more jealous and angry trying to walk around him. He protests, saying, stepping in her way, "She needs to rest." She goes to protest but he says, “Sandy, why don’t you just go back to ur cabin.” sounding tired. She huffs as she turns around angry and goes back to her cabin. Liam comes back into my cabin, as he walks up to me and kisses me on my forehead, whispering, "I love you my little mate." Then he leaves and goes to his cabin. * * * * * In the morning Sandy comes into my cabin and says, “Shawna time to get up, dad’s here.” I woke up startled saying, “I’m up… I’m up.” turning toward the wall. Sandy leaves rolling her eyes. After she's gone I turned back around. Sighing I get out of bed and go over to my suitcase, opening it, grabbing clothes and walking into the bathroom. Looking in the mirror I drop my clothes and back up away from the mirror almost falling into the tub. I walk back over to the mirror examining my eyes which were silverish emerald greens and the canines that are elongated from my gums. I bring my finger up to them, rubbing my finger over them as they shrink and my eyes go back to my normal emerald green color. As I get dressed I admire my now muscular body. I go outside, the sun is up and my dad, Charlie is loading the trunk with Sandy’s three suitcases. He looks so tired from working all the time. As I watched him turn to grab the third suitcase, turning back around and putting it into the trunk. I roll my one suitcase to him as he turns and gives me a hug as I tense. He asks, not noticing my tenchen, smiling “How was your summer?” I answered, “It was good.” fake smiling. I look over at him. He's wearing a blue and gray plaid button up shirt and his normal lee's dark blue jeans. His blond hair is a mess. And his sea blue eyes look exhausted. I say, "Dad you look exhausted. You've been working yourself too hard again haven't you?" He smiles saying, "I'm fine baby, I promise." Touching me on the shoulder reassuringly. After getting everything in the trunk Sandy, Dusty, our 11 year old brother, and dad climb in the car. And as I take a deep breath I climb into the car. * * * * * After a long silence dad askes, “Where do you girls want to eat?” Sandy and I exchanged glances knowing exactly where we want to eat and say simultaneously, “Donkey Doo Little’s.” All of us laughing. * * * * * After arriving at Donkey Doo Little’s we walked into the restaurant. After finding a spot to sit, which was one of the empty booths in the corner. The waitress orders our food. I order a rare cheeseburger and some curly fries. When I asked for a rare cheese burger the waitress, my dad, sister and Dusty all looked at me with disgusting faces, then the waitress asked, “You want a rare cheeseburger.” looking at me concerned. I answered, “Yes, please.” Sandy ordered a regular cheese burger and some curly fries. Dusty ordered 4 chicken fingers and some curly fries. And Charlie ordered the same as Sandy. After writing our orders down the waitress left. About a half hour later she came back with our food on a try. * * * * * About an hour later after eating our food we leave. Leaving an $18 tip. * * * * * When we got home Sandy and I go to our room upstairs and unpack our clothes. * * * * * After we get done we sit on the bed not talking. While we are sitting beside each other we hear someone coming up the stairs and then we hear the person say, “I have come to drink your blood.” Sandy and I exchanged glances and run to the stairs looking over the edge of the balcony. When we see Ash, one of our friends, he laughs at our faces. Sandy and I say, “Ash!” glaring at him. Ash came the rest of the way up the stairs still laughing. We give him hugs. * * * * * After a while of catching up with Ash on our summer. Sandy’s phone goes off. Sandy gets up and grabs her phone off the bedside table. She pushes the talk button saying, “Hi Ashley.” After listening to the person on the other end she says, “Yeah come on up…” then she hangs up. I ask, “Who’s all here?” Sandy answers, “Everyone.” smiling. When everyone comes up the stairs and into the room. After giving everyone hugs we sit on the beds as Ash puts in his favorite movie series The Vampire Twins season 4 episode 16, the new one that came out 3 days ago. I reached over and turned out the lights. As the movie started there were 4 teenagers running from a shadowed figure. When the figure caught one of the teenagers it sank its fake looking fangs into his neck. Fake blood ran down the side of the teenager’s neck and onto the ground. When I see the blood I tensed and all of a sudden I felt something poke into my gums in my mouth. I say quietly, scared to speak, “I’m going to go to the bathroom, I'll be right back.” Ash asked, “Do you want me to pause the movie?” about to turn on the light. I say knowing what my friends would see if he turned on the light they’d see the thing I saw in the mirror this morning, “Don’t turn on the light… And… You don’t have to pause the movie. I’ll just be right back” walking out the dark room before he could turn on the light. I walk into the bathroom breathing hard turning on the light. I go over to the sink not looking in the mirror afraid to see the thing that I’ve become. I close my eyes then facing the mirror I open them, my eyes like I expected were silverish green. I sigh trying to calm my breathing. I grab a cup out of the medicine cabinet. I feel it up with water and bring it to my mouth to take a drink, then dropping the cup, my eyes going wide as the cup falls into the sink, I go closer to the mirror examining my dagger like canines. I rub my tongue over them. As I stand in front of the mirror looking at my new self. There’s a knock on the door. Knock, knock, knock. I stiffen saying, “I’m in here.” Walking over to the door leaning on it. I could tell it was Sandy. I close my eyes because I could smell her blood. . She tried opening the door. I pushed harder onto the door saying, “No don’t come in.” opening my eyes as they go wide. She pushed harder on the door, saying, “Let me in.” I whisperer, knowing she probably couldn’t hear me, “Sandy please don’t come in here.” She pushed harder on the door, saying, “Come on Shawna let me in.” I punch the door to make her go away but instead the next thing we know the door has split in half, half was still in the hinges the other half had fallen into the bathroom. As I jumped out of the way of the door Sandy had wide eyes as I did, but Sandy was staring at me when I realized that my mouth had fallen open in shock. She started to back up then she turned around and ran to the top of the stairs. Without thinking I followed her running after her. She went to go down the stairs yelping as I pulled her back. She was on the ground as I climbed on top crouching over her holding her down. I growled, her eyes going wide at my bared canines. Our friends came out of the bedroom, our little brother and our dad came up the stairs, running to where we were because of the big bang that echoed through the house. They all had wide eyes when they saw me. I growled, bearing my canines acting like a wild animal. Sandy was gasping for breath like she was having problems breathing, like she was being choked to death. When I looked down I realized that my hand was around her neck. I quickly let go of her and ran away past my friends, my little brother and my dad, across the long hall. When I stopped I was against the wall crouching, closing my eyes hyperventilating, trying to calm myself. Everyone still had wide eyes. One of my friends, Rose, started slowly walking closer to me. My eyes opened and went wide as he walked closer. I scooted closer against the wall. I growled softly, whispering, “Rose… don’t… I… I don’t want to hurt you.” He keeps walking slowly, whispering, “I know you won’t hurt me.” Afraid to scare me. I just look at him. As he walked up to my side, squatting I tense as he put his hand on my hand as he held his other wrist to me. I just look up at him like he was stupid, when he saw my look he said, “Drink… You’re hungry.” his eyes sad. Ash, who was just staring like he was dead and dumbfounded, came back to life saying, yelling ecstatically, “Rose what the hell are you doing she’s a monster.” Running up to Rose’s side and pulling him away, who stood up angry and got into Ash’s face saying, “She's not a monster she’s our friend.” Ash just looked at his best friend like he was stupid saying, “What the hell are you talking about? She is a fucken vampire. Who just tried to kill her own sister. Twin sister to be exact” Rose, pissed off, pushed his best friend away saying, “Don’t you ever call her a monster because she’s not. She’s only hungry.” He pushed his left sleeve up to his elbow, turning back to me and squatting in front of me once again holding out his arm saying, “Go ahead.” watching me as his short red hair fell a little into his eyes. I look at him scared, asking sadly, “Are you sure?” He nodded his head, smiling a sad smile. I took his arm in my hands then bit into the flesh as the fresh blood flowed into my mouth. I close my eyes as the liquefied goodness goes into my mouth and down my throat as my eyes roll back at the amazing sensation. When I opened my eyes again I saw Rose growing weak so I let go of his wrist licking the wound as it healed and pushed it away. As he crumples to the ground his eyes go shut. Ash runs back to him and pulls him away, kneeling down and feeling his faint pulse. I just look at him sad. The rest of my friends and family walk up to Rose and Ash. Ash just glares at me. I come closer to Rose as Ash looks at me saying, “Get away. You monster.” Rose says, opening his eyes, saying weakly, “She’s not a monster.” I say, sadly my fangs still elongated, “Yes I am… Rose I just fed off you and you’re my friend. And you still think I’m not a monster.” Rose looked at me sadly, saying weakly, “You were hungry you couldn’t help it.” Ash looked at his best friend like he was stupid angrily saying, “Yes she could… Do you not understand that?” Rose looked at his best friend mad but too weak to yell or look to mad saying, “You know what, go f**k yourself she couldn’t help it.” turning his head away from looking at Ash. Ash looked back at his best friend hurt because he told him to go f**k himself saying, “Rose… do you not understand that she could have killed you.” Rose looked back at him saying, “But she didn’t and yes I do realize that. Anyway, whether or not you were listening I told her to.” Ash just rolled his eyes. Rose’s breathing was very weak now. I scoot closer grabbing his wrist feeling his pulse was weak but still beating but also not getting any better. I looked at him then Ash who was watching me scared. I let go of Rose then standing up I ran to the bedroom and grab my cell phone homing that Liam put his number in my phone. Scrolling through my contacts till I got to the L’s I found Liams name and and internally smiling as it reads ‘Liam your Mate and Love’ pressing call I brought it to my ear and listening as it rings. Ring, Ring, Ring… Thanking, Come on Answer, Please Answer. Liam said, on the other end of the phone, “Hello?” I say upset, “Liam… It’s Shawna… I… I need your help…” Liam said worriedly, “What’s wrong?” I answer by asking, “Can you come to my house?” Liam answered, “Yeah… Where do you live?” I answered, saying, “13452 South Maltbey Ave.” He says, “Ok. You live about 4 miles from me. I’ll be over in a few minutes.” And hangs up. I run back over to Rose making sure he was still ok. He looks up at me saying, “I’ll be ok.” Ash had already called 911 and an ambulance was on its way. A few minutes later there’s a bag on the front door. I run and open the door. It's Liam and his cousin Emmett. After they come in Liam shuts the door behind them, his cousin running up the stairs to Sandy’s side and Liam comes to me and asks, “What’s wrong Shawna?” He looks at me then sees my eyes and canines he understands and asks, “Where?” grabbing me, hugging me. I turn my head looking up at the people watching on the stairs. Liam and I both run up the stairs. We walk up to Rose. Liam grabs his wrist feeling his pulse. Looking at the almost all healed pink mark on his wrist He looked at me not saying anything, his eyes going silverish blue and his canines elongating as he brought his wrist to his mouth biting into the flesh. He brings it to Rose’s mouth saying, “Here it’ll help.” Rose just looked at him turning his head asking very weakly, “Who are you? And why should I?” Instead of Liam answering, I say, “Rose please just do it… I… I drank too much… please if you don’t you’ll die.” I look at him sadly. He looked at my sad face. Sadly saying, “I don’t need it. I’m fine.” Liam looked at Rose frustrated, saying, “Oh my god you stubborn ass fucken human… If you don’t drink you’ll die.” Rose just glared at him then looked at Ash asking, “How far away is the ambulance?” Ash looked at his phone, “They're pulling up now.” As we heard the siren from the ambulance. Then turning back to Liam glaring at him saying, “I may be a stubborn ass human but I don’t want to be a vampire.” Ash and my dad carry Rose down the stairs, my friends following behind them as Sandy opens the door for 3 EMTs as they bring the gurney in through the door. Charlie and Ash lay Rose on the gurney as he passes out from the lack of blood. The EMTs strap him in and wheel him to the ambulance loading him up. 2 of them climb in, hooking him up and checking his vitals as the other one shuts the doors. Climbing into the driver seat and driving off with the sirens going as Charlie and Sandy climb into Charlie’s cruiser and take off behind the ambulance. My friends climb into Ashley’s car and follow the ambulance. After they leave Liam and I decide to go into the garage. It's set up like a mini living room, with a 3 set couch, a recliner and a small TV stand with a 32 inch flat screen TV on it.
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