Sweet Red Blood

First Day

The sun was filtering through the window scattering light across the room.

Mia was laying on her bed staring at the ceiling in total despair. She had thought that after a day of rest she would wake up perfectly fine.

But that doesn't seem like something that's happening, her head still felt heavy, her legs still a bit shaky, and the worse one of it all was the red love bite on her neck.

The bite was itchy and everytime she scratched it it started to pulse with pain and then small amounts of blood would leak out.

It was a pain to deal with and it made her want to regret letting a random guy anywhere near her.

She wondered what sort of person bite people this deeply.

For a few minutes she just sat on the bed, staring into nothingness, then her second alarm rang. She quickly turned it off then got off the bed.

Today was her first day of college and she wanted to start the year with as much strictness as she could possibly master.

She started getting ready and from her room she could hear her roommate getting ready for their own day.

She was done by 8am and her first class was in an hour.

She left her room and when she got to the kitchen she found her roommate already sitting at the counter and having breakfast.

"Hey." She greeted as she walked to the fridge and taking out a tube of yogurt that had a sticky note with her name on it.

The other girl just gave a nod, then they both just continues eating without a word to each other.

The silence was a bit awkward and Mia thought it was because they have not gotten to know each other so she asked. "So... what are you majoring in?"

The question was met by silence for a while, the black head girl stared at her for a while before answering. "Criminology."

Mia nodded slowly and the quite came back.

She knew she wasn't an awkward person or shy but something about the girl was off-putting and made it seem like a wall was always surrounding her.

"I'm going to go now, can't be late on my first day." Mia awkwardly laughed and went for the door taking her bag on her way out. Ember have her a little wave of good bye and went back to eating.

Mia left the apartment and went to her car, she was excited to start this new chapter of her life.

Before leaving she pulled out a pocket mirror, checking to see if the hickey was covered. When she didn't see it she huffed a breath of satisfaction and put away the mirror.

She started the car and drove towards campus, Willsvill college was four hours away from her hometown. It was not far enough that she couldn't go back home anytime but enough distance that her mother will never want to come and visit.

When she arrived she parked and got our of car, she took out her phone and looked at the map trying to remember the way to her Economics class.

She got out and started walking to the building, as she walked in she heard a voice calling out to her.

"Mia!!" footsteps rushed behind her.

She turned and saw one of her new found friends running towards her. The girl finally reached her and hugged her.

"Girl, how are you?" The shorter girl asked whiles linking their hands together.

As they started walking the girl continued to talk, "I know you said you were fine the other day, but I wanted to make sure."

Mia laughed a little. "I'm really okay, I might even say I'm better than okay." She finished with a wink.

Minnie laughed out loud and swatted her in the arm, "I bet you do, disappearing with mister mysterious and all."

Together they laughed again and started to walk towards their class. The whole way was filled with Minnie teasing Mia and Mia dropping little details of what happened that night.

By the time they reached the classroom, the door was open and a couple of students were already inside.

But what caught Mia's attention was the man sorting out the professors desk.

She felt cold dread sneaking up her feet and the moment the man turned around and faced them her stomach dropped.

Something cold washed over her and she felt like she was going to faint.

She couldn't believe it, what are the chances this could be happening.

Man, f**k my life.