Vampire Princess Nikki

I remember it like it was yesterday, everybody tells me that its not my fault but it is. If he didn’t ask me to get him ice cream and to go get this cool video game he would still be alive. If only I listened to my gut and stayed home where we were safe there was no danger, there was no drunk drivers, no vampires. Yeah that’s right I said vampires I always thought they were make believe you only read them in books or watch them in movies. But he was there for me he saved my life but it was too late for my little brother he was dead at the scene.     Two years ago….                   “We will be back at midnight, make sure he’s in bed by nine. Have fun we love you.”             “I know daddy we love you too.”             “Here is some money in case you two get hungry, and the keys to the other car are hanging up by the garage door. Oh if your brother Blake calls from where ever he is tell him to leave a number this time and we will call him back tomorrow.”             “Yes mama go you two are going to be late.”               Mom and dad left at six they left me alone with my eight year old brother, he was my best friend he’s been my best friend since he was born I was eight when Donnie was born they brought him in and put him in my arms and told me this is your new baby brother. He looked up at me and smiled and I fell in love with him ever since, he was wrapped around my finger.               “So what do you want to do while mom and dad are away?”             “Can we go out for pizza and ice cream there is a really cool new video game I want to buy can we go get it? Please Nikki I will love you forever if you take me.”             “You’ll love me forever any ways go get your coat I’ll meet you in the car.”               That’s when I should of told Donnie no we can order pizza in and have the butler get us ice cream but I didn’t we got in the car and went to get pizza we had fun he told me jokes, stories and what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wanted to be a doctor. HE wanted to save lives he wanted to be able to find a cure to cancer. He was a very smart little kid I knew he could do it, we left the pizza parlor and walked to the ice cream store he had his favorite flavors mint chocolate chip, bubble gum and rocky road. A little nuts for me but that’s what he likes. We walked to the game store he bought his game, by the time we got back to the car it was eight thirty. We buckled up we start to drive home, I had the green light I waited the ten seconds like I was taught I was in the middle of the intersection when I saw the lights of the truck I couldn’t move I was frozen in place and that is when I heard the blood curdling scream I thought it was Donnie but it was me and just like that we were being dragged under the truck for ten feet until the guy crashed into a brick wall. I hit my head I was bleeding but I didn’t know where I was bleeding from there was just too much blood, that’s when I started screaming his name I couldn’t find Donnie.               “DONNIE! DONNIE BABY WHERE ARE YOU I’M SO SORRY PLEASE ANSWER ME.”             “Miss help is on the way stay calm.”             “Where is my brother I have to find my brother.”                         I called his name until I couldn’t yell any more I was on the verge of blacking out when I saw the most gorgeous human I have ever seen except I didn’t know it then but he was a vampire and he was there to save my life. The last thing I saw before passing out was Donnie’s life less body stuck in between the car and the grill of the truck.               When I woke up I was in the hospital with machines going my parents and my older brother Blake where sitting in my room mom looked like she had been crying. I couldn’t remember why I was in the hospital until I saw Donnie’s video game in mom’s purse.                         “Where’s Donnie? I have to see if Donnie is okay.”             “Oh Nikki, how are you feeling?”             “A little sore but other wise okay where is Donnie?”             “Nikki you don’t remember?”             “I saw his lifeless body when I blacked out I want to see him please let me see my baby brother I need to apologize to him, it’s all my fault he’s dead, he should be alive this is all my fault.”             “No little sister it is not your fault, it’s the person that got behind the wheel of the car after drinking a twelve pack. None of this is your fault so don’t you sit there and feel sorry for yourself it was not your fault.”             “Donnie was innocent why did they take him, they could of saved him.”             “Nurse could we get a doctor in here, we are ready to go home.”                           Home where Donnie should be I should have listened to my gut I should of stayed home Donnie would understand if I told him why we should stay home at least he would still be alive. My parents sent me to a therapist, my school counselor set up meetings for me to see her every other week. I told them it was my fault but everybody told me it wasn’t. I feel guilty that I am alive and my baby brother is going to be put into the ground tomorrow. Mom and dad had everything taken care of the burial ground, the coffin, the service, and the priest who was doing the service. People mainly neighbors, close friends, and our grandparents on both sides are staying with us, everybody wanted to hug me and tell me everything was fine, but I didn’t want to be around people I wanted Donnie. While everybody was talking and crying over Donnie and thankful that I wasn’t killed as well and looked really well after coming out of a car accident, I walked upstairs to go to Donnie’s room I laid down on the bed grabbing his favorite stuffed animal and cried myself to sleep.             It was around ten thirty when I got a text message from an unknown number:               I’m sorry I couldn’t save his life too, its bad enough I saved yours I will probably get in trouble for this but I couldn’t let the love of my life die. You will make the change when you turn eighteen, I will find you then. Good luck until then my beautiful wonder.               It was strange I couldn’t respond I wanted to ask him so many questions but yet I couldn’t. I wanted to know if this means I am really dead too or if I actually am alive? I turned my phone off and went back to sleep.               “Nikki, Nikki its time to get up and ready to go.”             “Blake I don’t want to see my little brother put into the ground I want to hold him and give him love I miss him. Why didn’t I listen to my gut?”             “What did your gut tell you that night?”             “That I should stay home that something bad was going to happen and look something bad happened we are burying our baby brother today. Its all my fault, its all my fault.”             “Nik it is not your fault. I will not sit here and let you blame yourself for somebody else’s mistake. Nik can I ask you something?”             “Yeah.”             “What do you remember from the accident? And why do you look like you haven’t been through hell?”             “I remember the truck running the red light, I froze in place I couldn’t move, next thing I know I hear this blood curdling scream it was me, then I was calling for Donnie. I saw him stuck between the truck grill and the brick wall, I don’t know how he was buckled. Then before I blacked out I saw this very handsome guy he was too pretty to be a guy, he was wearing a black trench coat and had a tattoo on the inside of his wrist. I got this strange text message from an unknown number, here you can read it.”             “Nik if I tell you something you promise you won’t tell anybody?”             “The only person I would tell is being placed in the ground today.”             “No he isn’t, the guy you saw was a vampire. He was saving your life, the tattoo you saw did it look like this,” Blake rolled his sleeves up and turned up his wrist, I sat there in shock because it was the exact tattoo I saw on my guy.             “Wait you’re a… a vampire? They don’t exist, how did… how did you become one?”             “Remember about six years ago when I went to a party, well I had too much to drink, and instead of calling someone to pick me up I decided to walk it off because I didn’t want to get into trouble, well I fell cracked my head open on a rock and passed out. The next thing I remembered was waking to someone snoring loudly. I found out a couple days later what happened, then I got the same text message you got. Now if you have any questions you can ask me I will answer as best as I can, you should get ready to go we can meet everybody down at the church.”               I went into my room and got dressed as I was putting my makeup on I realized Blake said that Donnie was not being buried. I hurried up and went downstairs to meet Blake, he was holding a black leather jacket and told me to put it on. He opened the door for me and helped me in the car. We drove to the church in silent cause I didn’t know what to say.             They had a closed casket when I asked to see Donnie my parents just shook their heads and walked away, Blake told me it wasn’t a good idea and to let it be. The service was wonderful and the gravesite was beautiful I watched them put Donnie in the ground and went home.