Bloody Twilight

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ought here fifty-three years ago. It had been just Jhan and Jereum before Tia's impurification fifty-three years ago and lastly Leya, who was impurified just nine months ago. She told me that vampires

a Tuesday, Jhan and Jereum were not at home when I woke up. It had been a very boring day up on

e went so I could bombard him with the mountain of questions I had mentally piled. I was s

idea of what he could mean by that. The attic was officially my bedroom now, the house h

steriously appeared behind me to the other side of the sofa and sat behind me. She was also still in pyjamas. I kept my gaze on the small table

Tia said, brushing her hands over the silky material

I could not remember anything from my past except that I was a cancer patient would trouble anyone. Nobody gave me a

later... It's this place where vampires me

not to hear her althou

of questions... I can help you." I turned to meet her

I did have s

Leya had told me something like that. She did not answer instead she s

out five seconds—she was beautiful. I had almost gotten lost in her pretty blue eyes when she very suddenly pried apart the curta

pped over the sofa, catching her before she hit the floor and closing back the blinds to prevent the dangerous rays from doing any more damage. The skin on her face and neck looked like it

go into sunlight," she mumbled while ta

o quickly from those burns an

didn't answer, she just looked at me

hospital but she continued, "It's how we keep up the population, we vampires don't just impurify anyone. You see, w

reasoned to myself. "But I don't understan

ople who are dying—who want so

ow could you tel

if those three words had magically endowed

few vampires possess; the ability to read and mani

ounded all too c

ated than that, truth is we without it c

re saying is that, 'I' d

She nodd

I knew I wanted to die before I pulled th

closer to me, "I can help you f

l never let me, unless I sneak out,' The thought was tempting, I could sne

? Parents? Siblings? A whole life probably? School, friends? Places I loved visiting, foods I loved eating, TV shows I loved watching. Or was my life was always hooked up to a life suppor

u want I could a

that I wanted to know about my past life, because then, they'll keep a closer eye

question but desperate for a change of topic, "So... Te

know about me?" She a

dded, ignoring

gret asking the question now—"and didn't stop, we were going on a family vacation... My family was killed. I had to watch my sister bleed to deat

her family die while slowly dying on her own. My imagination had already pictur

ing and that I had less than five minutes to choose between life as an impurified vampire or a peaceful de

tears at the corners of her eyes. The room was so qui

t after I made my choice I woke up in this house; in my room." She finished and there was

get your revenge?"

I did, Jhan helped me locate him. It was an eye for an e

e darkness that covered her features, made her

orry Tia," I said,

trailer driver’s family. They didn't deserve what came to them, although the trailers driver did. I dithered on the thought of to which side would her actions

he floor could be heard. Tia abruptly made her way up the stairs

d. Her long blonde hair dropped with water and she was still in a light-blue night dress. She stopped short at the sight of us. I looked

"K

them. They were both dressed in brown leathe

to introduce you to

uild up in Jereum's face as he contorted his face in the same way he did with Leya who

I had failed in doing) she brushed past me, scurrying up

hoping that he'd say 'No, tomo

Or do you have something b

u moron!’ The thou

court wants to meet you and their word is l

e was dressed similarly. Leya wore a yellow rain coat over her smaller jacket and long black socks, and Tia wore black joggers trousers. We had all gotten into a small black minivan. Tia had told me it was given to us by the higher court, but I was yet to g

"L

refly beep-flew out the window only

Jhan?" I asked her. He had

five seconds, each passing second onl

hundred and sixty,

ell open, I had guess

brights and dims. We drove past a car that was moving in the opposite direction and I had only about a second to look at the driver but that was enough. I h

etched over Leya, staring after the girls red sedan,

vampire?' I asked

eard her the first few times—I was too eng

more persistently. That was

f my thoughts—"Never mind. Yeah, what is it? Tell me about the blood—that's what you

" she said, eyes scanning the pat

urt, they are among the oldest living vampir

upt stop; throwing Leya forward, and Tia to the left, making her shoulder crash into min

okay?" Jhan asked. His

t hit or something?

he pulled herself from me. Leya just loo

n a flash, Jereum was out of the car, bello

. My heart was pounding and I did all I could to suppress th

's going on?" I asked

s the dalaz boys." ‘Or at

ng closer to them with every curse he threw. The street lamp that shun above, casted gloomy shadows around them. They stood beside each other,

t with Jhan a while ago now they won't let us use their side of

apons Jereum still closed

he stop? Can't they hurt him?" But nobody se

t convinced. The odds of the situation if it excavated into a fight did

I heard Tia call after me but I was already closing in on Jereum. The air was chilly—compared to the warmer air in the miniva

l asses off this road before I tear you to SH

ching the sole of his boot into the mid-sect

of painful rolling. It surprised me greatly. The attack—which looked like a simple kick—sent the person

ereum caught his hand by the wrist, lifting the tyrant off the ground and threw him with an incredible force against the build

Maybe this was the reason the others didn't even

him as they took cautionary steps back. All their pupils seemed to

ts threw the bottle at Jereum's face. The bottle shattered on Jereum's face and immediately the skin on his fa

ead slamming into the tar—cracking the solid ground. The tyrant swung the stake b

wards the assault it was like I had warped through space and just somehow teleported in front of the tyrant. I pushed

"Woah!" I

sharp pain lanced through the spot between

that had pierced so deeply into my body. The skin around the stake started to bur

The red glint in their eyes was gone a

t are you?" On

Can he be a

filled with so much rage my

wed, sending my first to anothers

udden powerful force sent me tumbling backwards. I slid acr

hit me. I saw the others; Tia, Leya and Jhan. They were out of the car and approaching my assailant; Jhan was mouthing something to me but

everything had paused all around

ound with an incomprehensible speed, getting below me and grabbing me by the jacket. Pulling, throwing and sending me with my own velocity head