• Written by: Skellia Enwilde


    If you’re reading this looking for something full of action you’re out of luck this is just my life it’s pretty normal except my name it’s Crys Bryson and the fact that I’m albino so my hair and skin look like I bleached them and my eyes are a kind of reddish color at least I thought I was normal until I turned 15. At school I get a lot of comments about my hair or about my friend Jake Bones who has bright red hair and a skull shaped scar on his back. We’re both outcasts so we stick together but it doesn’t matter we still get beat up and made fun of but what get the bullies to do it to me mostly is this stupid cross bracelet that my mom and dad make me wear they always say “don’t take it off unless you positively have to like if you’re getting into a fight.” Well the stupid bracelet really annoys me but I leave it on anyways. I was walking to school with Jake when some big guy with his hands in fists blocked our path he said, “You can’t pass until I’ve gotten out all my anger. So who’s first?” I tried to walk past him ignoring him until I got punched in the gut and fell to the ground Jake saw this and tried to help me by punching the big guy but only to get a nice hard punch in the face knocking him out cold. I decided to forget my parents stupid rule about the bracelet I yanked it off and threw it somewhere with out bothering to look where it went. Then I stood up to him and give him a hard kick in the gut flinging him into a tree I didn’t check to see if he was ok, I just picked up Jake by the arm and ran to the school to bring Jake to the nurse. When I went into the building everyone looked at me weirder than usual I just ignored it and went to the nurse and put Jake on a cot then the nurse just looked at me and said, “I’m sorry I thought I knew most of the students here but who are you?” I just looked at her for a minute then said, “It’s me Crys Bryson.” “No Crys Bryson has white hair your hair is crimson red.” She said. “I am Crys Bryson!” I yelled at her looking her in the eyes and I saw something I’ve never seen in her eyes before: fear of a student. She looked at me as if she was in a trance and said “sorry my mistake.” But I noticed something off about her it was almost as if she didn’t have any emotion at the time. She looked back at Jake trying not to look at me and said firmly “You should go to class Crys. Unless you got hurt too?” I shook my head “I saw Jake get knocked out and I ripped off my bracelet.” I said showing her my wrist and realizing that I had to go get it. “I’ll be back later.” I shouted as I ran out of the room. Its all just so weird the nurse saying my hair’s red and how did I fling that guy in to that tree its all impossible. Wait I’ve got it an adrenalin rush that’s how I hit that guy so hard I still can’t figure out why the nurse said my hair was red back there. I start to see the blood spots on the ground from where that guy punched Jake in the face. I started to look around for the bracelet, I noticed the guy I kicked getting up. He looks at me with such fear in his eyes it was like he thought I was going to kill him. He walked up to me and says “Look man I’m sorry for what I did just don’t hit me again, by the way I’m John Franklin.” I just ignored him and went back to what I was doing; I looked by the tree where I kicked John and found the bracelet just lying there in one piece even though I was sure I tore it off my wrist but oh well at least now I don’t have to have to explain what happened today with the bracelet. So I just put I on and tried to walk but then it was like the world was spinning I heard John saying, “What are doing? Hey are you alright?” But then every thing went black; I heard somebody whispering to someone else “When will he wake up? I need to know if he’s alright!” that was all I heard before drifting back into the cold darkness. When I came to I was in my families living room. My parents were sitting across from me just looking at me waiting for me to wake up I guess. I would have gotten up to go to my room but I was so exhausted it hurt to even try to move I don’t get why I passed out in the first place or how I got home. But didn’t care I looked at my parents they look nothing like me they both have brown hair and green eyes finally I spoke “How long have I been out?” “A few hours. But how did you just faint like that?” my dad asked sounding as though he already knew how. “I’m not sure I remember some guy named john Franklin punching me in the gut and Jake in the face I got mad so I tore of the stupid bracelet.” I said lifting my wrist to show them as I winced in pain. They didn’t seem to notice so I went on telling them what happened. “After I took off the bracelet I felt different and I kicked John into a tree. I grabbed Jake and went to the nurse’s office and she said my hair was red and when I said that she was wrong, that couldn’t be she seemed like she was in a trance after words I went and got my bracelet when I put it on I got dizzy and I guess fainted.” “You took off the bracelet!” my parents shouted in unison. “Well you said I should only take it off it case of a fight or something. Right?” They just looked at and all I could think was that’s what happened over and over again in my head for some reason I felt like they were trying to read my mind or something. They gave up and my mom left the room so my dad could talk to me alone he said “son I know you wont believe me but we’re not a normal family and its not just that your albino our whole family is vampires.” “Ha ha ha. No way I mean vampires aren’t real right?” I laughed at him. “If you really don’t believe me then I’ll have to show you what I’m talking about.” He said as putting his hand up to tell me not to interrupt him… he closed his eyes and started focusing then suddenly his brown hair turned blood red he opened his eyes and showed me his teeth. His canines had sharpened them selves to the point of where they can be called fangs! “Do you believe me now?” he asked looking at my face obviously noticing my dropped jaw “I’ll take that as a yes. So I’m sure you have questions so hear lets hear them.” “WHAT KIND OF POWERS WILL I HAVE? HOW STRONG WILL I BE?” I shouted as I jumped up ignoring the pain “that’s what I thought but if it hurts to move you should sit down as for your powers we wont know until you test them out.” As he said that I guess the pain and exhaustion got the better of me cause the next thing I know its cold and dark again then I see this weird pale light that just keeps glowing brighter until I realized that it was a person. Not just any person I think its me only my hair is crimson red and my eyes are silver I just looked at myself I was going to say something but the other me spoke first and he said “So you finally took off the bracelet restricting my power huh?” but that was I could hear before the vision faded. That’s when I woke up, its morning assuming that I have to go to school today I got dressed the usual skull t-shirt and black jeans. I went downstairs my parents were waiting for me at the bottom of the steps “Hold out your wrist.” My dad said with his hand out ready to grab my wrist. I stuck out my wrist, as I was about to ask why, my dad pulled off the bracelet without warning. “You need to learn to change when you want to without the bracelet so go to school like this. Ok?” said my mom all of a sudden “SWEET! No annoying bracelet today. Wait but how do I change back to my white haired self?” I said surprised. “No one can teach that you have to figure it out on your own. But good luck Crys.” They both said as they pushed my out the door. I met Jake at the corner he was waiting for me. “You ok?” I asked him as I walked up to him “Yeah don’t worry I woke up as the were bringing you into the nurses office you were carried in by that guy that knocked me out. Who is he?” he said in response “Oh him. When I went back to my bracelet he introduced himself he said his name is John Franklin.” I told him. “Hey did you dye your hair its red?” he asked me as he finally noticed the difference in my hair. “What? Oh yeah I got tired off my white hair so I dyed it.” I lied. After that we walked to school in silence we stopped when we got to the door afraid of what people might say to us today. I expected the usual ‘what’s up whitey?’ but when we walked through the doors of the school people looked at us but it was almost as if we weren’t the same people. I walked away from Jake to go to my locker when I got there the people around we all had a weird smell emanating from their skin. It was intoxicating I felt a sudden urge to attack them. I know I had to resist the scent so I grabbed my books and took off to homeroom thinking I would be saved from the irresistible scent only to be proved wrong. I took the feared seat in the back nobody sat there because the tough kids sat back there so unless you had a death wish you didn’t sit there but I didn’t care it seemed like everyone was afraid of me. No one bothered me until forth-period gym class we were playing soccer and I couldn’t figure out why everyone suddenly wanted me on their team and we hadn’t even started the game yet. As it ended up my team won the game because of the insanely strong kicks I had. Next class is lunch I didn’t feel hungry so I skipped the food and just had a soda but it tasted horrible for some reason. After lunch I had health class but something in my head just told me not to go, I ignored it and went to class. I realized I should have listened to the voice in my head. When class started Ms. Brown sat at her desk and took attendance, everyone was present then she got class started with an easy question “what is in our bodies that makes our hearts beat?” no one said anything “anyone?” she asked obvious that she was getting annoyed so she shouted “ Its BLOOD that makes our hearts beat!” she may have been annoyed but I felt thirsty at the mere mention of the word blood. So she called two students up someone name Brittany Jones and me of course. Brittany volunteered I didn’t but that didn’t stop Ms. Brown she pulled out a stethoscope, a syringe and a pare of rubber gloves. She gave me the stethoscope and told me “Take Brittany’s heart rate then tell us what you think” so I took the stethoscope and listened to her heart and the snickers of the class as I did so. Her heart was pounding faster then it should like she was excited over something I took the stethoscope away from her chest and said “her heart is beating really fast I think she’s excited” I didn’t know about how she felt but just listening to her heart got me nervous but then Ms. Brown gave me the gloves and the syringe. I put the gloves on and she said; “ now take the needle and take a some blood then we’ll see how that little bit of blood loss affects her heart rate.” I knew what she was doing everyone knew the Brittany is anemic so even I little blood loss would affect her severely but I was more worried how it would affect myself. Ms. Brown pulled up a chair for Brittany, she sat down and I know it wouldn’t do any good to stall so I stuck the needle in her arm and we both cringed a little but then I started to take some of the blood into the syringe. I pulled it out of her arm she immediately grabbed the spot where I pulled the needle from. I was still holding the syringe when I checked her weakly beating heart but then I felt something sharp in my mouth I realized that my fangs were poking through my gums. I dropped the syringe and was out of the classroom before it hit the floor even though I was out of the classroom I still heard the quiet breaking sound as the syringe hitting the floor. As I walked to my locker I heard footsteps following me I turned around to see Jake chasing me “wait up. What happened to you back there I’ve never seen you act like that at the sight of blood. Are you alright?” he asked as soon as he caught his breath “ I don’t know what came over me but I’m going to leave early your welcome to come with me” I told him as I realized that he had two different scents on him one was the same thing I smelt off everyone else’s skin who even saw me today the other was the most intoxicating of all the blood that was probably on the floor in the health class. “ Sure I wouldn’t mind missing one more class,” he said as we started walk out of the building. We talked while we walked home but I couldn’t pay attention to what we talked about as we walked past an old building I don’t know how or why I did this but some how I pulled me and Jake from across the street into an alley knocking Jake out when he hit the old brick building I couldn’t control myself I felt my fangs grow as much as my thirst did. Suddenly I felt my cold teeth tearing through human flesh and blood gathering in my mouth almost as if I was really using force to get it. I tasted something besides the blood in my mouth it was fear. And I enjoyed tasting my best friends fear but I knew if I drunk too much of his blood I would kill him. I removed my fangs from his neck. I could feel my fangs shrinking back into my gums then I saw an unconscious Jake slump to the ground I knew I couldn’t leave him there and I couldn’t go through the street to take him back to his house while I was covered in his blood but I had no choice. I picked him up and took him in the direction of his house I got there in a matter of seconds but I couldn’t open his front door while I was carrying him. I saw his parent’s car in the driveway so I ran up and pounded on the door with my foot until his parents opened it. When they did I gave them no time to react I ran in and put Jake on their couch and realized I was exhausted. So I tried to catch my breath when his parents were staring at me “ What have you done to our son! Get out of our house now” they shouted at me I ran out the door before they could get a gun or something. When I got home my parents weren’t home but I didn’t care I just went up to my room and locked the door. I heard my parents come home but I didn’t unlock the door. I heard them coming up the steps to my room but I still didn’t unlock the door not even when they started to pound on my door yelling at me to open it. I guess they gave up on trying to get me to unlock it so they started asking me questions “ What happened to Jake his parents called and said you nearly killed him.” My dad asked in the same way he always did acting like he already knows the answer. I finally got up the nerve to talk to them “ I lost control of myself and bit Jake.” I waited for my parents to start to freak out. “ You bit him? I know this will probably sound like a weird question to ask you now but what did you taste? Also did you enjoy it?” my mom asked and she was right it was a weird question to ask me now. I paused before answering, “ I tasted fear in his blood and I really liked it. I know it’s probably normal for me to like blood but did it have to be Jake that I bit?” What should we say to him it is normal but oh I don’t know what to do any more? Its ok we’ll figure out what to do as long as he doesn’t do anything big to expose us. Ok. I heard it but was so confused that I didn’t know what to make of it. I opened the door and looked at them they were looking at each other. “ Did you guys say something?” asked but then before their mouths started to move I heard something again is he hearing our thought I know its common but I didn’t expect his powers to show up so fast. I know but he always was gifted. “ We didn’t say anything we were thinking to each other could you hear us?” my dad asked a little wary now. This was a first; my parents didn’t know what to say to me. What’s going on I can’t hear his thoughts any more normally I can always hear his thoughts but now I just can’t hear him. I can always hear a vampires mind even if they can hear mine. “ Dad have you always been reading my mind? Mom can you read minds you too? YOU GUYS KEPT THIS FROM ME AND NOW I FIND OUT WHEN I CAN READ YOURS TOO! BUT NOW YOU CAN’T HEAR ME WHAT IS THIS? IS OUR FAMILY BUILT ON LIES? YOU ALWAYS TOLD ME NEVER TO LIE ABOUT ANYTHING BUT NOW I FIND OUT THAT JUST ABOUT MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE!” I shouted angrily at my parents as my eyes started to go blurry. Now I smell salt water. “ Just go away I don’t want to hear any more lies I can’t take it anymore.” I said in a weak voice. I was about to go back into my room when I saw my parents walking away but they didn’t look like they were leaving of their own free will. Just then I started to hear their thoughts again. What is this has never happened to me before or any other vampire for that matter. I could tell it was my dad thinking that. I noticed now that my arms had gone numb and my legs were also going numb. I was slowly falling to the floor just like when I put my bracelet back on for the first time the only difference was that I’m completely conscience this time. Even though I was mad at my parents right now but I had no choice “ MOM! DAD! HELP I CAN’T MOVE MY ARMS OR MY LEGS!” by now I was on the floor. My parents busted into my room screaming “ WHAT HAPPENED?” “ I don’t know I was walking to my bed when I realized that my arms and legs are and I started to fall.” I told them trying to be calm well as calm as you can be when you lose all the feeling in your limbs. Quick we have to get him to a doctor! No we can’t we have to get him to your brother Ryan he’ll know what to do. “ Ugh. What’s going on it hurts worse now?” I asked as they started to move me to the family car “ Why are you taking my to uncle Ryan?” I asked wincing in pain. How can he can still hear our minds even through the pain? “Ugh. I think this is happening because I can hear your thoughts.” I said thinking out loud. “You maybe right but we wont for sure until we see your uncle Ryan. Ok? Can you hang on till then?” my dad said, as we got closer to my uncle Ryan’s driving way faster than he should. I couldn’t see out the window but I could tell we were nearly to uncle Ryan’s house and he’s a doctor so he should know what’s going on. Mom and dad said that our whole family is vampires so is- the car came to a sudden stop interrupting me mid-thought. My parents got out of their seats and came around the car to get me out. They wrapped my arms around their shoulders and carried me to the house. My head hung down so I couldn’t tell who but one of my parents let go of me to open the door. We bound into uncle Ryans den where he was sitting in his chair like he was waiting for us.