1 I met a vampire

Lisa P.O.V

I woke up abruptly in the middle of the night when I heard a loud scream outside. At first I thought maybe I was just sleep-deprived and had hallucinations, but as the scream continued to grow louder, I quickly got up on my bed and peered out the window.

My eyes almost bulged out from their sockets from what I saw with my own two rounded eyes. I can feel that my own blood escaped from my body while staring at the horrific event.

There was a woman and a man in the middle of the road, the woman was screaming in pain while the man's face was buried on the woman's neck. A vampire? I asked myself. I could see how the woman got pale as if she was already running out of blood, until the man slowly released her and laid her down on the floor, and when he turned to my side, my presumption was right. There's blood dripping down on his chin and he slowly wiped it with the back of his palm.

I really wanted to go away from my window and hide but I felt like my body froze, I couldn't will my body to move even a bit out of fear, I could see the man slowly looking up to me with a smirk tugging on the corner of his lips.

If I could make my eyes even bigger, I would have done it. I don't know what to do while staring at him, he's whispering some words but I couldn't understand, and he's just staring straight into my eyes.

I've already watched several vampire movies, I know what he's doing, he's trying to hypnotize me using his eyes. That is one of the vampire's powers, right? In addition to their super strength and longevity, they are able to hypnotize mortals.

I don't know where I got the strength to get away from the window and quickly return to my bed. I was about to cover my body with my blanket but a hand stopped me from doing so. And again, for the second time this dawn, my body froze, and I could hardly breathe. I also felt my heart beating frantically, as if it was going to burst and wanted to get out of my chest. Even though I am trembling, I still had the courage to look up to see who was in my room.

And I almost lost my consciousness when I saw the vampire outside earlier, I mean a vampire, a fucking vampire who sucked and drained the woman's blood, he's staring at me, still wearing the smirk on the corner of his lips. I don't know if I should cry or pretend that I faint, because I will die anyway, there is nothing I can do. This is really the end of Lisa Mcklein, I will die at the hands of an incredible creature, a creature I never thought I would encounter in my whole life.

He started leaning closer to my face and I clenched my eyes the same time I fist the blanket resting on my lap and my stupid self tilt my head sideways so he can have an access on my neck, it's still the same tho, He will gonna tilt my head to bite my neck, so I did the honour as he's face getting closer, I could feel the cold breath on my neck from his mouth.

This is it! I really don't have any choice, I'm going to die tonight. I'm just hoping that nobody would come up to my room as of this moment. It's better if I'm the only one who will found dead rather than my whole family, but to my dismay, a few minutes have passed but until now, no fangs have digs in on my skin, I wrinkled my forehead and pulled away myself from him to look at his face and he still had the annoying grin on his lips

"You're taking too long, if you'll continue doing that, I might have a heart attack before you suck my blood.." I said annoyedly and crawled back slightly to lean my back against the headboard.

He laughed out loud and stood up. "Who told you that I'm going to suck your blood?" He asked between his laughter and sat again on the edge of the bed.

"That's what you're supposed to do right?" I asked, making my forehead furrowed furthermore.

"I actually want to taste your blood, but there's something more interesting to you than sucking your blood." He said and heaved himself from the bed.

What does he mean by that? Surprisingly, he supposedly draining my blood right now but here he is, having normal conversation with me and what the actual fuck? I'm actually talking back with him casually. The fear I felt earlier that almost made me think that I'm going to die suddenly disappeared like a bubble burst by him. Even more so, I was irritated because of the long time my head tilted, waiting for him to bite me but he just stayed like that and did nothing.

"What do you mean?" I was irritated.

"Earlier, I was trying to hypnotize you, but it didn't work, supposedly to a mortal like you, when you look at a vampire's eyes, y'all automatically get hypnotism, but in your case, it didn't affect you even a single bit." He explained and he looked at me closely, as if he's scanning my face and trying to find out what went wrong.

"Is it good?" I asked like an ignorant kid.

"Good? How come that it's good? An ordinary human denied the vampire's hypnotism, it's more like a threat to us.." He paused and looked at me with suspicion in his eyes. "Unless you're one of us."

My eyes widened as I heard and rolled out of the bed. "What are you talking about? I'm just a normal person, my dad is a chef and my mom is a housewife. How am I gonna be a vampire?! " I whispered hard at him as I paced back and forth.

"Maybe to your ancestors?"

"That's ridiculous! We have no shit vampire breed!" I still refused and sat down at the end of the bed. "If anything, I wish I was as strong as you are, I wish I had the ability to defend myself!"

"Ok ok, calm down kiddo. I don't know how you deflect the hypnotism but there's more than that." He said and I shot my head's up to look at him. "I can't smell the scent of your blood."

"What?"

"You're really an interesting kid, look how you were talking to me, aren't you supposed to scream the moment our eyes met? and even now, we are having this casual conversation." He said chuckling as he started to walk closer to the open window, not even knowing how he opened it even though I was sure it was securely locked inside.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"I'm going home, my daughter is waiting for me."

"You h–have a daughter?" I asked in surprised. If he has a child, does that mean there are other vampires in our area?

"Of course I have and she is the strongest vampire you'll ever meet." He said smiling.

"The hell on earth I would like to meet your daughter!"

"See you soon." He said meaningfully for the last time and ignored what I had said before he quickly lost from my sight, leaving me dumbfounded in my bed staring out the window.

Is that really true? Am I dreaming? And what does he say? See you soon?! Does he have plans to return?! That vampire is crazy!

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12 years later....

It's been 12 years and up to this day, the vampire I encountered that night didn't return. I'm not complaining though, I'm even glad that he didn't show up again. Also, since that night I didn't hear anything about vampires, unlike before there were people who were seen dead on the road with bite marks on their necks. They immediately assumed and said that it's monster's fault, but nothing substantiated their imaginations.

Don't they know that vampires exist in the human world? As long as they see a dead body on the road, they will immediately conclude it's a monster doing it. They're addicts! If they just knew what I had experienced that night, having a normal conversation with a real vampire. But on the other hand, I wouldn't let them know that I've encountered one of them though.

And who would ever believe a nerd like me?

"C'mon Lis! I'm begging you!" Sydney pleads on her knees again and tugged my arm that she's almost clinging to me.

"Syd shut up, you're too loud, the librarian will scold us for what you're doing!" I hissed at her annoyingly and abruptly retracted my hand on her which caused her to stumble on the floor.

"Ouch! Damn it Lisa! "She complained before getting up and shot me a dagger look before sitting down next to me.

"You know that I can't go with you, I need to take care of my mom, she's sick and alone." I said a bit harshly but in a minimal voice because the librarian had been looking at us since the moment Sydney came in.

Sydney keeps persuading me to go with her to the underground, she wanted to watch the three famous dancers. Three women that up to this day, no one knows who they are, because whenever they will go to that place just to battle, they are always wearing masks, nor they will say their names, just right after they won, they will suddenly disappear without any traces.

I've been to that place a couple of times even though my parents kept telling me that it's dangerous to be there, I never listened. After the dance battle, some of the dancers couldn't accept defeat. So the tendency, there will be chaos and sometimes the police will raid it because some illegal activities are happening inside that place.

Although I told Sydney several times to stop going to that place, she never listened, especially when she knew that the trio masquerade were coming there for a new dance battle.

Sydney was also a dancer, we were both dancers, but I just stopped when we were in college. Sydney and I met when I was 7 years old, we just moved into this country because of my dad's new job as a chef at the Mizaki's house and I can still vividly remember how Sydney and I met.

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I went out to throw the garbage that my mom asked me to do because we're cleaning the house since we just moved in and I happened to see her dancing on the side of the road. I was really amazed by how good she is at dancing, her movements are really sharp and clean. If I'm not mistaken, she's dancing pamela-mela wan, Vhong Navarro's song, a Filipino comedian. Then she saw me staring at her while smiling, she stopped dancing and walked closer to me.

She asked me if I was in love with her because of how good she is at dancing, I didn't expect that she'll ask that and so I laughed out loud and hit her with the plastic trash I was holding, she got angry and punched me on my shoulder.

After that, we looked into each other's eyes and laughed and that's how we started being friends. She also found out that I was also a dancer so we had more reason to be close. Until we finished elementary school, we joined dance clubs and competed with every school in our town, we always won. Heck! We are the best dancers in our town. I just stopped dancing when we were going to college because I needed to prioritize my education so I could help my parents.

Especially when my mom's illness gets worse and I had no choice but to find a job so we could buy some medicine, and the fact that Dad's income from his job as a Chef was just enough for our day to day life, we were just in desperate need of money because of Mom's medicine.

"It's just a matter of time, just after the trio dance, we're leaving, too." Syd still insisted and shook my arm.

"I really want to crack your skull!" I snarled with an eye roll and I returned my focus on the book I was reading before she invaded my peaceful moment.

"As if you can, c'mon Lisa, go with me! You're always immersed on your books, what a fucking nerd."

"Fine, fine! I'm going now, can you let go?!" I said in defeat and she let go of my arm just to hug me tightly.

"Yes! I know you can't resist me!" She said excitedly as she hugged me. I kept trying to remove her hand from me so that we didn't notice the librarian was already standing in front of us.

"Can you please get out if you wouldn't mind? You're too noisy, as you can see, you're not the only person inside the Library!" She scolds irritatedly while her arms resting on her waist.

"I'm sorry ma'am." I apologize before picking up my bag and books hastily and head straight to the exit.

"Annoying old maid nerdy librarian." Sydney hisses and rolls her eyes.

"You clearly know that it's a Library but your loud ass can't understand that! Seriously Syd? This is the first day of our college life and yet we got scolded?!" I scowled and smacked her head.

"Ouch!" She growled and shot me a dagger look. "If you had agreed to it immediately, we would not have been kicked out, and hello? As you've said, this is our first day of college life and yet you're in the library?" She said sardonically as she caressed her head where I hit her.

"Alright then, It's my fault, happy?" I sarcastically told her and I made my way straight to the university parking lot. "I'll go home first for Mom's medicine." I said while removing the chain attached to my bike and placed the books I was holding in the basket.

"Ok, I'll get my clothes changed, just make sure that you'll get out of your house! I'll throw a brick on your windows if you don't come out!" She threatened, I just rolled my eyes before I started trampling on my bike.

We were about to leave the parking lot when a car suddenly passed by in front of me which caused me to suddenly hit the brake and lose my balance.

"Ouch! "I wince as I fell on the floor.

Sydney hurriedly got off of her bike and reached out to help me get up. "Are you okay?" She asked worriedly.

"I'm fine." I assured her then bent down to retrieve my broken glass, it also had a small crack and I flicked my tongue in disappointment. "Great! Dad just bought it for me!" I looked over the car that stopped not too far away from us and a man came down.

"You fucking nerd! You almost scratch my car!" He yelled at me, I was about to retaliate but Sydney had spoken first.

"Excuse me? You're the one who almost hit my best friend and you dared to complain? Just where do you think you are? You're on the highway and you're driving too fast?!" Seulgi shouted back and she was about to storm towards the man but I quickly stopped her,tugging her shirt.

"Wow! How dare you be mad when y'all bunch of weirdos blocking the way!"

"What a fucking dumbass! Do you own the road huh? You're too smug because you have a car? asshole! You also have bad breath when you wake up in the morning so don't be so bumptious!" I giggled softly at what Sydney said, but I quickly stopped when the guy shoot me a dagger look. "What? Do you think we're afraid of you?!"

"Syd that's enough, we're getting attention." I reprimand while tugging at the sleeve of her shirt, because there are some students who are looking at us, it's as if they are watching some action from one of the famous race cars movies.

"What a fucking dumbass!" The guy screamed and walked back in his car, he looked at me with his eyes squinting for a moment before he drove his car away.

"Tsk! I thought he wanted some fight but turns out that he's a coward." Sydney whispered again before turning to face me. "Are you sure you're ok? You were not injured– oh my God! Your eyeglass!"

I scrunched up my nose and sigh. "Unfortunately, Dad just bought it last week, he'll scold me again when he sees this." I said devastatedly before I hopped on my bike.

"You really should have let me beat that guy and let him pay for your broken eyeglass!" She said, still annoyed.

"Nevermind, I'll keep a little bit of my salary from my part time job so I can buy a new one." I said and we both started pedaling again.

"Don't worry Lis, if ever I won the dance competition held in our village on Saturday, I'll buy you a new one." I laughed at what she had said, but I shook my head in refusal.

"Are you crazy? You joined that so you can buy the cellphone you want and then you'll spend it on others?"

"There's a lot more dance competition that I can join." She said with a shrug.

"Stop it, don't worry about the glass, I can buy it on my own. I'll take care of it." I still insist. "All you have to do is to make sure that you'll win."

"I'll win! Don't you trust me?" She said proudly. "But it would have been better if we both joined that competition."

"Syd.."

"Yes, I know. You don't have time to practice because you have to take care of your mom." She says with a penitent expression, I honestly want to dance and participate in dance competitions like we used to do, but since Mom was sick, I stopped wasting time on other things, and dancing was one of them.

"Sorry." I said weakly with a small smile.

"Crazy, why are you saying sorry? You don't even want your mom to get sick, nobody wants it to happen."

"But even so, since mom got sick I was no longer with you in every battle. I always miss everything, but if you win you always shared your prize with me. Sometimes, you're the one buying Mom's medicine, and that makes me wonder. " I trailed off and scratched my chin while balancing myself with my one hand.

She spared me a side glance before looking back in her front with her eyebrows narrowing "What?"

"Do you have a crush on me?"

"Damn you!" She shouted so hard that I couldn't help but to laugh out loud. "I can feel the thickness of your face until here, and stopped stealing my line!"

"Oh why can't you answer? Maybe you really have a crush on me?" I teased and hastened my trampled to get away from her.

"I'm having goosebumps Lisa, I will never like you, I might even put you on the sack, you animal. " My laughter grew even stronger as she laughed with me. I know she wouldn't really like me, because first of all, we both like women, we considered ourselves as a top, so it was really not gonna happen that we liked each other. And Sydney and I, we're like sisters, we even almost adopted her because she was always in our house anyway.

When we got home we both parted our way separately, we just decided that she would be waiting in the corner of our street so her mom wouldn't see her going out again. For sure she'll go out again without telling her mom. What a crazy girl.

When I got inside the house I hurriedly padded to the yard to visit my Mom, because she was always there to get some fresh air. We have a lot of plants and trees in the yard, Dad and I planted that for Mom, she has Acute Myeloid Leukemia, it's a rare kind of cancer. We only found out two years ago, the doctor says it's hereditary disease, but that's really rare case, so when we found out that Mommy was sick, our world fell apart and crashed, we were so devastated that time, so I was forced to stop from dancing and find a job so that I could help my dad. It would be hard for us to rely on my dad and my dancing.

"Mom?" I called softly as I approached her.

She looked up at me and her broad smile immediately rose. "You're home, do you want me to get you a snack?"

"Thanks mom but I'm not hungry. Have you taken your medicine?" I asked as I sat beside her.

"Later, it's still not time for my med, why are you so early? Don't you have a job? "

"It's my day off, and Sydney invited me out." I replied as I fixed the pillow behind her and I carefully leaned her over.

She looked up and smiled even more when she heard what I had said. "Is that a dance competition?" She asked.

"No mom." I said softly and I avoided her gaze when I saw her frown. My mom was really my number 1 fan when I was still dancing. She also encouraged me to participate in dance competitions, so every time she knew I was leaving and it's not about work or school, she'd immediately ask if Sydney and I had joined a dance competition, just like today.

"Lisa, what did I tell you? Just keep dancing, wouldn't it be you and Sydney's dream is to be recognized worldwide as famous dancers?"

I took a deep breath and reached for her hands and held her in my arms. "Mom, I already told you, taking care of you is more important because you are the most important in my life." I said softly as I looked straight into her eyes.

"I know how important it is for you to dance and I don't want my illness to cause you to throw away your dream."

"Mom, I didn't throw it away, that's still my dream, but I need to take care of you first before anything else." I told her pouting.

She gently cupped my face and looked me in the eye. "Lisa, listen to me and make a promise." I shook my head even if she hadn't said anything. Because I know that I don't like what she was about to say. "Aish, listen to me first! "

"Mom, we are always like this, you won't gonna die because you'll be fine, don't even think about the money because it's easy to earn! What you need to think is that those things will happen when you get better, I can go back to dancing while you're supporting me in every fight as you used to do! That's what you have to say! Not those– ouch!" I cried as I held my head when Mom hit me.

"You said too much that you didn't even let me speak first!" She said angrily and smacked my head again.

"It hurts!" I complained as I stood up.

"You're too annoying! That's what I was going to say but you didn't let me! I know that I'm saying that over and over again, but I'm not going to say it again!"

"Oh oh, calm down, aren't you sick?" I said jokingly, Mom had given up on me and was about to hit me again and I had to retreat so she couldn't reach me.

"Just get going, just be careful and don't stay out too late if you don't want your Dad to chastise you!"

"Alright, that's just for a moment. We'll be home soon, just don't forget your medicine, okay? You're old enough, you know what you need to do." I instructed and quickly kissed her on the forehead and walked away before she could pinch me on my side. "Love you mom!" I yelled as I entered the house.

I quickly changed my outfit and I wore a black hoodie and ripped jeans partnered with white sneakers, I also wear contact lens so I don't need to wear glasses, I'm not going there with my nerdy look for fuck sake. If I did, I would probably get bullied.

"I'm leaving mom, I'll be right back. " I shouted as I came down from my room.

"Ok, just please be careful."

"Yes ma'am!" I shouted back and stepped out the door and shut it, I took my bike that I am only using when we're going underground and I drove to the corner of our street where Sydney and I decided to meet, while approaching on the meet up place, I could see Sydney standing on the sidewalk next to her bike. She was also wearing her favorite hoodie and ripped jeans and her black Vans. "Let's go?" I asked as I stopped in front of her.

She lifted her eyes from her shoes and smiled. "Let's go."

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