Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24686384-20150609091712

Its cold, then again, its always is in winter down here and exactly the opposite in summer. Today, mum and I were going shopping, I put on my best purple dress and, since it was cold, put on my white fur-coat. I waited for what seemed hours, almost days for her to finish up in the makeup isle so we could depart from the store and head back home. "Mum" I ask, impatiently "can I go look at some clothes while youre doing...well...youre thing?" "what was that dear?...Oh, okay, I guess" says my mother in a reluctant tone.

I walk down the isles upon isles of clothes stocked at wear and tear, our local clothing store. They had everything you ever needed, from hats to sandals, and those jamacain beanies that were always out of stock. I got what I wanted and headed back over to where mum was....one problem....she wasnt there. I ran around aimlessly trying to find her but in every store I checked, I felt I have only just missed here beforehand. I decide to wait outside the shopping center for her, but she never came, I dont blame my mother, she had gotten quite old and hadnt been what she used to be at late, so I decided to walk home. It was almost dark out and mum would probably be wondering where I was, dont get me wrong, she has an awful memory, but still has her motherly instincts.

As I start walking slower and slower from exhaustion, the night gets darker and darker, so dark its almost too hard to see. I feel that I have gotten myself lost, we have only just moved here about a year ago and I still dont know how to get around most of town without some guidance. I call for a cab with the last of my battery, used the rest on my phone while waiting for mum,  eventually a car pulls up, a white commadore that looks like it had been recently repaired and freshened up pulled over. "Hop in, I'll take you wherever you want to go, for a small price, of coarse" says the driver, with a inviting, but somewhat overexcited grin on his face. I hop in and tell him my address, he starts to introduce himself, which ive never seen a cab driver do before at all, "names' Darren, Pleasure to meet you".

We arrived at my home, probably 10 at night, as soon as I opened the door, i relised I needed to pay my fee for the ride. I turn to grab my wallet and panic, "I've left it at the shops, I'm sorry but I cant pay you right now". "No worries" he says in a calm voice "You can pay me in...other ways". After that I have no memory of what happened. All I know know is that I'm something far beyond human, something that lives of others, a parasite. Mum knew her daughter well, well enough to know that it was her that devoured her.

My heart is filled with hatred. My mind is set on nothing but hunger. I'm not the person I once was.

I was Charlotte Ley. Now I'm dead, now I feast on the ones I once called my family and friends.

I am now what they call. A vampire. 