My Awakening - Part 2
Strength.
That’s what I’m feeling. Unbelievable bone crunching strength.
I cast the girl aside and she crumples. She looks like a rag doll where the stitching has burst apart and made her head almost fall off. The image in my head makes me giggle. The giggle erupts into an uncontrolled burst of laughter, rolling in waves until I am spent.
She is definitely dead, no doubt about it. Why is that so funny? It makes me laugh all over again. What the hell is happening to me? I mean, she’s dead and I obviously just killed her. Why am I not appalled? Disgusted? What the hell is so funny about it? But I just can’t help it. I just lay on the ground and laugh until I hiccup and finally stop.
That’s when I remember him. Just sitting there.
He is watching me, with that same maddening look of amusement on his face.
“Who are you?” I ask.
“Don’t you mean what am I?” he answers with one eyebrow raised.”Don’t you want to know what you are?”
“I’m…” I struggle to remember my name. Why can’t I remember my name? Who, or it seems what, is this guy? Now that my manic laughter has subsided, I felt suddenly very sober, confused and so fucking great! What the hell? I KILL someone and I feel better than I ever have. Stronger, clearer – like I could tear up trees with my bare hands. Hell I feel like Chuck Norris on speed! Now I’m laughing again.
My face feels sticky. Blood mingled with dirt. I swipe my hand across my mouth with the back of my hand and it slices open. I see blood beading across it and then the wound starts to close leaving just a muddy bloody smear and blood droplets from where I wiped my face. I run my tongue over my teeth and feel them. Almost razor sharp.
Fangs. I have fangs?!
“They’ll retract in a few minutes” he says, still with that smug smile on his face. “The dizziness and confusion will subside soon too.”
“Who are you? “ I repeat.
“They call me Nate”
“And what are you?”
“I’m a vampire” he states, kind of in the same conversational tone you’d tell someone you’re an accountant – like it’s the most normal thing in the world to say to someone. “So are you.”
“A vampire?” I sputter. “Like, I vond to suck your bloooood type of vampire?” I erupt into another fit of laughter. He waits for the laughter to die down.
“Well nothing quite that…trite, but yes. Don’t worry, the laughing will stop soon enough, it’s different for everyone at first. Some laugh, some cry, some get tiresomely angry but it will pass”.
That stops me in my tracks.
Jesus H Christ. I’M A VAMPIRE!?!
Suddenly I feel the world tip sideways and the last thing I see is the ground rushing up to meet my face.
© Cheryl Jenkins 2009
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Watch out Anne Rice!
Well I don’t think she has much to worry about but thank ya very much
Fangs for that!
Nice style with just the right amount of bite.
I’m officially hooked now. when is the next one?