Call of the Vampire
“I asked. We’d been sitting in silence since Daniel left, Jessie lost in his own thoughts. There was a small stool in the cell, and I moved it over near the bars with the excuse that I didn’t want to disturb Blossom. But the truth was it was because I wanted to be close to him.
“Too long,” was the reply.
I humphed, hating those kinds of answers but realizing he was evading the question.
After a few more moments of silence, he said, “I was born in 1918.”
That was hard to digest. He looked no olde...r than me, but he was closer to my great grandmother’s age. “Have you killed many people?” It was a question that I should have been afraid to ask, but I needed to know.
He shook his head. “Just one. And that was a long time ago.”
I wanted to ask him how he stayed alive without drinking human blood, but a large part of me didn’t want to know, so I satisfied myself by asking, “Have you always been a vampire?”
“No, vampires aren’t born; they are made. I was human for my first seventeen years,”MoreLess
“Too long,” was the reply.
I humphed, hating those kinds of answers but realizing he was evading the question.
After a few more moments of silence, he said, “I was born in 1918.”
That was hard to digest. He looked no olde...r than me, but he was closer to my great grandmother’s age. “Have you killed many people?” It was a question that I should have been afraid to ask, but I needed to know.
He shook his head. “Just one. And that was a long time ago.”
I wanted to ask him how he stayed alive without drinking human blood, but a large part of me didn’t want to know, so I satisfied myself by asking, “Have you always been a vampire?”
“No, vampires aren’t born; they are made. I was human for my first seventeen years,”MoreLess
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