I saw my first vamp when I was fourteen years old. It’s not something that leaves your mind, even when you try to fill it up with good things instead.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJATU3lVWT
It happened at an arcade. Dad had brought me to show some retro game he used to play with his cousins. I was winning, about to set a high score when I heard the screams.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeypKTXR8N
They were blood curdling. I looked at my Dad, my heart had dropped somewhere into my stomach. He was pale, he was as scared as I was.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2FDdsLR9Q
We knew what those screams could mean. We saw every morning on the news a new face, someone who had turned and killed or someone who had been killed by a vamp.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKYeSLeLu0
Dad didn’t wait to see who it was. He grabbed my shoulders and guided me straight to the exit.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJPoRxLrfp
I shouldn’t have looked back. When I did, I saw a picture that branded itself into my brain, forever. The kid was cute, blonde with big blue eyes. Little overalls. He was clamping his teeth into his young mother’s breast, sucking furiously as she shrieked in pain.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfm35dF05Fd
The nursing cloth that used to provide privacy was now spattered with blood and lay idle on the floor. It’s something I noticed as Dad rushed me out.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2jhVMShdv
I don’t know what happened to the mother. All I knew was that she would never see her baby again. Not after the cops showed and took it to REHAB.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf9bGT7YNXA
Everybody knows once you try human blood you can’t ever stop. It’s why young mothers are warned to stop breast feeding as soon as the babies develop teeth.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpGu0Mw8w3
Dad said it was rare for this to happen, that it was likely she already had a scab or a small cut and the baby had bitten after the initial taste. He gave a small seminar about her stupidity, not paying attention like that.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFHloRTBoa
I thought that it was pointless to criticize her. Her baby was gone. She had learned her lesson, and so had I. I would never breastfeed in my life.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA4KFmHrA1l
I was paranoid for a long time. I refused to floss despite knowing it was impossible to turn with my own blood. I wouldn’t share chapstick, or kitchen utensils. I lived in constant anxiety and fear.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLGx07Uw7G
Then one night, my worst nightmare came to reality. I was walking home, when I saw a man rapidly approaching from across the street. His mouth and chin were covered in dark blood. Fresh.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGOG14GTqS5
I froze in fear, I couldn’t move a muscle.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMDsw3zm44K
Something clicked when I saw he was wielding a small knife, tipped with blood. I can’t die. Not like this. I ran, with energy and speed I hadn’t thought possible.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOcfHUgTSh
While running I tried to think of what to do, how to protect myself. I scanned the area in front of me and located a trash can on the corner of the street. Litter surrounded the bottom. I saw the top of a glass bottle peeking out of the top. I ran as fast as I could toward the trash.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNChTQjuL2
When I arrived at the bin I speedily grabbed the bottle out, scanning it first for traces of blood due to years of paranoid habit. I closed my eyes when I crashed the bottle down on the curb, creating a makeshift knife. I did all this in the ten seconds it took for him to reach me.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLqi2xDMOxr
I didn’t let him make the first move, I was aware it was my life or his. I aimed for his throat, my heart pounding in my ears. I screamed when I stabbed him. I was still screaming as blood gushed out of his neck.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL351qLMaSg
He tried to stop the blood with his hands, clutching the hole in his neck. In doing so he dropped his knife, which clattered onto the road. He faltered, gasping for air.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSa3l9P4PVr
After I stabbed him I wanted to run, I mentally commanded my body to move as he bled out. But I was frozen.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwmFF0pV8W
He looked at me with desperation and despair in his eyes. Even in my intense fear, for a moment I felt pity for him. Then, with the speed of a striking snake his hand left his bleeding wound and he grabbed my hair. He pulled so hard I yelled in pain. When I did he stuck his fingers in my mouth.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpAR42tIAe
I couldn’t process what had just happened before I felt it. The most amazing feeling. It was like every worry was melted away. I was calm, floating up and up and up till I went from happy to ecstatic to a place where I felt like I was dreaming. This happened in 20 seconds, but it felt like time had frozen.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxh3J1aUR25
When I came to, the man was lying on the street. Blood was still oozing out, but the animation had left his eyes. He was smiling. I knew why. He had chosen to do a noble thing in death. He had opened my eyes. Something I had been running from my whole life was something I should have been chasing. I now couldn’t imagine life without another taste, as many as I could get.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDerAoQKqK
I knew I needed to run before anyone saw me and the cops came and took me away. But I had to take some with me.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5L9bWZxzbK
I took off my jacket and saturated a sleeve in the blood coming from his neck. As I did I made sure that the sleeve didn’t touch the road. I was gonna drink every drop, and who knows what germs could be on the street? I wrapped the sleeve with the rest of the jacket and ran in the direction of my home, holding tightly to my new found treasure.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNmpSOQvTbE
As I ran I wanted so badly to try another drop, but I knew I would black out and didn’t know for how long. As I gasped deep breaths of the chilly autumn air, it registered. I killed someone. I shook the thought out of my head. It was self defense, and I had a whole new life now.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZc8lthNXIo
When I got home I squeezed all I could from the sleeve and stored it best I could manage.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4qVFFimLI
Life has been somewhat surreal since then. Every day is stretched out endlessly now. I’m timeless.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7bUbawftB
The blood is going bad. Soon I’ll run out.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHSbpSV4oZ
It doesn’t matter. I’m free. I’ll live eons in days. I’m timeless.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuJNfhH3UA
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