Writing a Vampire

By: Lain E.

They claimed I was mad. The only thing I know about is that I was chased by something I couldn’t explain about; it was this…man with dark hair and cold blue eyes. He wore glasses and was as pale as a ghost. His expression was menacing and cruel, the one thing that entered his mind was me.

“Helen,” I hear him purr my name. “I await you, my dear.” And here my family and other people (possibly a psychiatrics) believe that I’m just plain nuts. Today, I don’t think I’m crazy and I think this man in my head was just a stupid figment of my imagination. Yes, I think my family is right and I was wrong. I awake in the morning, laughing to myself. Silly dream, silly yet creepy dream. You cannot haunt me anymore just because you’re all in my head, you, sir, don’t exist. I walked down to the kitchen and noticed my parents were gone to work early, so I got dressed and headed off to school. That morning was, however very strange and I noticed people were jabbering about some murder of a girl named Lisa. Sad, Lisa was such a kind girl who loved to read. But the question was what killed her? Or who killed her?

After school, I came back home looking for my parents. They’re not there!

Where are Mom and Dad? I thought. I called for them around the house, no response. Then again. Still no response. My handbag hung from my hand and I placed it on a chair in the kitchen, and then grabbed a bite to eat. I heard the sound of the wind hitting against the house fiercely. I jumped.

“Helen…” I heard that calm voice again from my dreams. No. It can’t be, can it? Or- then I noticed the man in front of me again. He was smiling. “I was looking for you, dear.” My eyes went wide. Who is this man? What does he want?

“L-looking for me? How did you g-get into my house? Where are my parents?” I questioned. The man smiled with clear, white teeth then appeared fangs-wait, fangs? Oh good lord! This man…is Eli! A character I made up in a book, no, he isn’t real. I made him up, I created him.

“Helen, why do you hate me so much? You created me, now I will turn around and feed on you.” He says with a smile, his blue eyes made me freeze to the ground, then I ran away as fast as I can and up to my room, knowing Eli, he’d catch up to me sooner or later. And when I did think that up, he appeared smiling at me.

“What’s wrong Helen?” He questioned. “I did everything you could ever dream of…I murdered Lisa for you.” I froze in fear. He killed Lisa! I was jealous of Lisa for her writing skills and beauty, it made me so mad but I had to keep quiet. He went over to my neck, running a soft finger across it.

“Why don’t you just be a good little girl so I can have you to myself, little Helen,” He laughs calmly. “And don’t you scream and shout at me because I am not human.” I shoved him away in fear of being grabbed and bitten by him.

“Get away from me!” I yelled. “What do you want!” He smirked and pinned me to a wall as hard as he could, he was smiling contently.

“Helen, you don’t seem to get what I want, exactly…” He whispers. “You.”