A Vampire's Touch

Chapter 8 ~•Unknown Secrets•~

~•Chapter 8: Unknown Secrets•~

I'm running, running so fast my legs feel numb. I can hear footsteps behind me gaining on me. I dodge trees and plants. I keep taking in big breathes and I can feel my legs going slower. I turn around and I see a shadow running after me.

I look forward and the shadow is standing in front of me.

I skid to a stop and turn to run back. But the shadow is there again. I turn my head all directions and the shadow somehow manages to be everywhere.

"Why'd you leave Grace?" The shadow asks.

"I-I just want-"

"WHY'D YOU LEAVE?!" The shadow screams.

I put my hands over my ears and I squeeze my eyelids shut.

"I know you can still hear me," the shadow is now speaking in my mind.

"LOOK AT ME!" He yells.

I slowly lift up my head to see Cameron.

"Surprise, surprise!" He says while his fangs elongate.

"Lets play a game!"

"No, j-just leave me alone!"

"I'm afraid that's not the answer I was looking for!"

His eyes turn bright red and he runs towards me.

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I scream myself awake. I'm in a sitting position and sweat is present on my face. I wipe the sweat and I think about Ethan. When he was lying down beside me, I didn't have any nightmares.

I get up from my cardboard bed. I left yesterday night and now it's the morning. I found a place in a small alley.

I get up and put my hood over my head, so no vampire will recognize me. I walk out the alley and walk towards my house. I just want to look around my house and maybe get some supplies or clothes. I know Sir William and his vampires are probably gonna check there first. So I have to hurry.

I walk on the sidewalk and don't make any eye contact. There are very few humans walking outside. Ever since the vampires took over, humans have been staying in their homes.

After about 10 minutes of walking, I make it to my house. I walk up the porch and go to the front door. I try to open the door but it won't budge. I bang my shoulder on the door repeatedly but it still doesn't move. I quickly move to the side of my house so no one would be suspicious.

I look up at my room window, and I remember that my window is broken. The glass isn't broken, the lock is. So I can open the window.

I turn around and climb the huge tree. I climb a thick branch and I jump to my window. I'm hanging from my house and I quickly open my window. I jump inside and I sigh. How the hell did I do that?

I look around my room and it's exactly how I left it last. I grab some clothes and I walk towards my parents room. As soon as I walk in, tears start to stream down my face. I look at their bed which is neatly made. I lie down on their bed and cry.

After I'm done crying I get up and look in their drawers. I want some kind of memory of them. I look through the drawers and I find a lever. I slowly pull the lever and I hear something open. I walk into their closet and I see the wall open.

I walk in and I see a bunch of long swords and gears. I stare completely shocked. Since when did my family have this? I see five swords on the wall. They each have names on them. One has Andrew my brother, Mathew my other brother, James my dad, Kate my mother and Grace.

I pick up the one that has my name on it. I hold it in my hands and it starts to glow a bright green. I move it around and I feel like I was born with this. I start to do cool tricks with it and I accidentally slice a picture in half.

"Oops."

I grab a sword holder and wrap it around my waist. I slide the sword inside and walk to a desk.

On the desk is a huge book. I open it and there are a bunch of pictures. They all have my dad and mom. They are holding swords and their swords are glowing different colors. The glow looks like a faint fire around the blade.

All of a sudden I hear footsteps. I quickly turn around and grab my sword. I slowly and quietly walk towards the noise with my sword in my hand.

I hear the footsteps get closer and I hide behind a wall. Once the noise is closer I quickly turn the corner and stick out my sword, so I'm ready to slice the person.

"Wow! Grace it's me!"

"Ethan? What are you doing here?" I ask while putting my sword away.

"I can ask you the same thing! And where did you get that sword? It makes you're eyes glow a really bright green."

"Really?"

"Yes, now why did you leave?" He asks, hurt evident in his voice.

"I just can't take the pressure of getting married to your brother. I just don't want to."

"I understand but you can't live by yourself when there are vampires out there that want you."

I look down, I didn't even remember that vampires out there are wanting me.

"I guess, but I don't want to marry anyone right now," I complain.

"Grace, please come back with me. I'll just say that someone kidnapped you and I found you."

I sigh. "Fine."

I follow him out the front door which is now broken. How did I not hear that break open?

I walk out on the sidewalk and a bunch of vampires surround me. They all go in a circle around me.

"Sorry Grace, it's for your own good," Ethan says while walking back.

"Ethan? W-what are you doing?"

Ethan didn't answer and he walked away. I take my sword out and I start to fight back at the vampires. I cut two vampires but they out number me and they are to fast.

One of the vampires grabs me and slams me to the pavement. I bang my head and I grab it in pain.

I look up and I see a foot heading towards my face. Once it makes contact to my face everything goes black.

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I groan in pain as I slowly wake up. My head is throbbing and the pain is unbearable.

"You're lucky Ethan found you. Some vampire would have found you and taken you," says Sir William.

"I didn't want to be found."

"You've lost my trust, so now I'm gonna have to lock you up."

"Go ahead!" I say.

I sit up from my bed and my head throbs even more. I gasp and I lie back down.

"You might want to stay in bed for a while. I'll bring a maid up for you," says Sir William while walking towards the door. He opens it and leaves then locks the door.

I think about what happened at my house. Why did Ethan just leave me?

And why did he say it was for my own good? He tricked me into thinking he would say that I was kidnapped.

Has he become cold hearted? Or was he cold hearted all along?

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