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Vampire Legends 1 (sworn) by donielord(m): 8:11pm On May 10, 2018 |
Hey guys, i will like to share a story i just read, it's a vampire story and it's very interesting!!! Please look forward to it |
Re: Vampire Legends 1 (sworn) by donielord(m): 5:52am On May 11, 2018 |
Rachel Wood sat in the back of her
family’s 1997 station wagon,
hating her life. To her right sat her
annoying younger brother, Mark,
and to her left was her older sister
Sarah, who sat there loudly
humming the pop song streaming
through her iPod headphones. As
Rachel’s dad put on the turn signal
and made the final turn off the
highway, Rachel took a deep
breath, held it, and let out a loud
sigh. She couldn’t believe her
family was making her move now,
of all times. Tenth grade.
Rachel couldn’t help but let her
mind drift to places that scared
her. What if she didn’t make any
friends? What if people teased her?
What if she didn’t fit in, or her
clothes were weird? She worried
her sister would make fun of her in
the halls and her brother would
embarrass her: even more, Rachel
worried that her overbearing,
overzealous parents would mortify
her.
Her dad turned left onto a long
winding road.
Is this it? Rachel wondered to
herself.
The car continued, making its way
through the center of town. Out
the window, Rachel saw a pizzeria,
a movie rental store, a nail salon
and a Hallmark store with balloons
and cards in the window. She also
noticed a coffee shop and a
clothing store with “mom” clothes
hanging in the window.
As the car rolled slowly through
town, Rachel saw a few people: a
lady walking on the sidewalk,
pushing a stroller, a man and his
two sons, wearing AYSO blue and
black soccer jerseys and soccer
cleats. Rachel also saw a group of
kids, one wearing a sweatshirt
with a tiger on it that read “AHS.”
Rachel recognized the letters from
the welcome letter she had
received a few weeks back,
welcoming her to Apache High
School. She sighed and wondered if
these could be her new friends.
Rachel looked the kids up and
down and got a pit in her stomach.
Seeing these kids made her feel
even more nervous for her first day
of school tomorrow.
She was embarrassed at how
slowly her dad was driving
through town. Doesn’t he know
how lame it is to crawl through
town? Rachel thought. She buried
her head between her legs until
she felt the car pick up speed.
The family drove for another five
minutes down a suburban street.
She noticed each house as they
drove by, and was surprised by
what she saw. These houses were
much different than the houses in
her old town: they were large and
opulent, had long circular
driveways, and some even had
pillars you had to drive through to
enter their driveways.
Where are we?
As they neared the end of the road,
Rachel’s dad put on the breaks.
Sarah took her ear buds out and
looked up from her lap.
Mark pointed and asked, “Is this
it?”
The pit in Rachel’s stomach grew
as she anticipated seeing her new
house for the first time. She
wondered what it would look like,
she wondered if she would have to
share a room with Sarah again,
and wondered about her bedroom.
“42 Pine Road!” Rachel’s dad
announced eagerly.
Rachel’s thoughts were abruptly
interrupted as they pulled into
their new driveway.
Home.
Rachel examines the house as they
pulled in. This house was different
than the others on her street: a
white house with black shudders,
it was a more modest house, with
no entry pillars and no circular
driveway. The house had a red
front door, with a large brass
knocker in the shape of a lion.
As Rachel got out of the car, she
took another deep breath and
grabbed her suitcase. She raced
inside, along with Sarah and Mark,
to see the bedrooms. Sarah
elbowed Rachel out of the way as
they flew through the front door.
“I get the bigger room!” Sarah
shouted.
Sarah ran upstairs, through the
hallway and slammed the door.
Mark jolted past Rachel, knocking
her suitcase from her hands, and
dashed into one of the bedrooms
and slammed his door.
As Rachel got to the top of the
steps, she saw an open door, the
only bedroom door open, and
went in and put her suitcase down.
Her room was small, but at least it
was hers. She was just glad she
didn’t have to put up with Sarah
and her annoying musical
obsessions.
A few seconds later, Rachel heard a
knock on her door.
“Hurry, it’s heavy,” Rachel’s mom’s
voice was muffled.
“Rachel!”
Rachel opened the door to find her
mom holding a large cardboard
box, which read Rachel’s Stuff in
thick black Sharpie. Her mom
plopped the box down in the
center of the room, looked up at
Rachel and said, “Don’t worry Hun,
you will grow to like it here, I
promise.”
Rachel gave her mom a shrug and
grunted, “Whatever.”
Rachel had been upset with her
parents since they’d announced
she was moving a few weeks back.
It came up one night while her
family was on their summer
vacation in Virginia Beach. Her
parents had been acting odd the
whole trip, and Rachel had a sense
that something was up. At first she
thought maybe her mom was
pregnant but she never could have
imagined they would spring a
move on her.
Rachel had lived in Pennsylvania
her whole life, in the same town, in
the same house, and in the same
bedroom since she was a baby. She
had never anticipated moving,
especially during high school, of all
times. |
Re: Vampire Legends 1 (sworn) by donielord(m): 1:03pm On May 12, 2018 |
“We’ll see,” Rachel said back to her
mom.
Rachel’s mom walked out of her
room and pulled the door shut
behind her.
BEEP BEEP BEEP.
Rachel looked out the window and
saw a big white truck backing into
their driveway, “AL’s Moving and
Storage” printed on the side. The
beeping stopped, and two men
hopped out of the truck and flung
open the back door.
Rachel saw box after box. She
couldn’t help but feel that her
whole life had been abruptly
uprooted and put into boxes, all
because her dad got transferred.
Rachel saw her mom and dad
talking to the movers and labeling
each box with colorful Post-It
notes, so that the movers would
know exactly which room to drop
each box in.
Even though Rachel was mad, she
was still anxious to see her new
house. She walked quietly out of
her room and down the steps. She
didn’t want her family to see her
curiosity, and to know she was
excited to be peeking around.
As she got to the bottom of the
steps, she turned left and walked
into the family room. She saw a
fireplace and two large windows.
Rachel’s mind began to wander,
thinking about celebrating
Christmas in this room, and putting
the tree up in the corner and
decorating it. The room looked
bare now, except for a few boxes
stacked up along the wall.
Rachel continued through the
family room, which joined onto
another room. It was a bright
room with a bay window, which
looked onto the front lawn. Rachel
figured this was the dining room,
but wasn’t sure. This room was
painted an ugly brown color,
which Rachel despised.
As Rachel walked out of the ugly
brown room, she entered the
kitchen. She flipped on the light
and looked around. She felt
depressed by the black Formica
cabinets and the dark linoleum
floors. There was a stale smell in
the kitchen that made her miss her
old house even more.
Rachel kept exploring the rooms
and bathrooms and felt a kind of
withdrawal she had never knew
she could feel for a house. She
never realized how attached she
was to her old house in
Pennsylvania.
Rachel heard the movers entering
through the front door, her
parents’ voices directing them as
they came through with boxes,
furniture, chairs, picture frames, TV
and computer. Rachel had seen
enough, and went back upstairs
without anyone noticing her.
She shut her bedroom door and sat
on the floor next to her box of
stuff. She fumbled through her
navy blue Kipling backpack to find
her keychain: she knew she had a
small scissor attached to it. She cut
open the tape on her box, weary
about how she would find its
contents.
Rachel remembered she had been
furious when she had to pack up
her room and had just thrown
things in the box without any
rhyme or reason. When she
opened the cardboard flaps, she
wasn’t surprised at the mess that
awaited her. It was as if her whole
life, fit into one measly cardboard
box.
On the top were some dusty
pictures of her and her group of
friends from Pennsylvania. She
missed her friends and couldn’t
imagine ever being apart from
them. She was not in the popular
crowd at her school, and never had
been, but Rachel loved her friends
anyway. Her friends were simple,
no frills, no drama.
This specific picture was one of
Rachel’s favorites: it had been
taken at the Dutch Fair this past
spring, a carnival with rides and
games, and people wore colonial
clothing. It was a pretty wacky
place, but Rachel looked forward
to it every year.
Rachel picked up another picture
and began to get choked up. It was
her, and her best friend Dana,
hugging and smiling. The two had
been inseparable for years since
they met in fifth grade. They were
on the same volleyball, tennis and
soccer teams at school and they
were hoping to try out for varsity
cheerleading together in the Fall.
They had loved to go shopping
together at the mall in
Pennsylvania. Their favorite stores
were JCPenney’s, Aeropostale, Gap
and American Eagle. They also
loved shopping at Wal-Mart, and
always managed to find cute
accessories there.
A tear fell onto the picture. Rachel
quickly wiped it off, but it left a
stain right in the center of the
photo.
Rachel put the picture down and
began to cry. She hated this house,
she missed her friends, she was
mad at her parents, and she
couldn’t fathom that tomorrow
would be her first day at AHS.
Rachel’s thoughts were interrupted
by a loud Britney Spears song
blasting through her walls.
Ugh, I can’t stand her.
Rachel stood up and walked over
to a door in her bedroom, which
she thought, was her closet, she
opened it and saw Sarah standing
there, singing and dancing loudly
to the music. Rachel’s heart
dropped at the sight: they had an
adjoining bathroom.
“Shame on me, to need release,
un-uncontrollably… I I I wanna go
o o all the way ay ay takin’ out my
freak tonight.”
Rachel couldn’t believe it; did she
really have a connecting
bathroom? As if things couldn’t
have gotten any worse.
Rachel slammed the door. Sarah
was the antithesis of Rachel; Sarah
was a girly-girl, popular and liked
by everyone. She had a hot older
boyfriend in college, and the two
talked about getting married.
Sarah was thin, had blond hair,
blue eyes and always had perfectly
polished nails. She loved pop
music, dancing and singing, and
wouldn’t dare play a contact sport.
Sarah was pretty and poised, none
of which defined Rachel. |
Re: Vampire Legends 1 (sworn) by donielord(m): 8:35am On May 14, 2018 |
No, Rachel was smart, had brown
hair, average weight (not skinny
but not heavy). She was decent
looking, but had never considered
herself to be beautiful. Rachel
loved sports and being outside in
nature. She was a good girl and
always obeyed the rules. She had a
handful of good friends, but was
not in the popular crowd. She’d
never had a boyfriend, although
she had many crushes.
So to say the two didn’t
understand each other would be
an understatement. Rachel went
over to her box of stuff and
rummaged through it, in search of
her diary. She had been writing in
her diary every night since 7th
grade, and didn’t want tonight to
be any different.
Rachel found it stashed at the
bottom of the box and blew the
dust off. Her diary was her life.
Purple velvet, with a skull on the
front, it was thick and heavy with
notes from friends, ticket stubs,
and pictures taped inside. Rachel
wore the silver key to her diary
around her neck and never took it
off. She was a very private girl, and
would rather die than have anyone
read her diary.
Rachel lifted her diary up close to
her necklace, and then opened the
heart-shaped lock. She had become
a master at unlocking it while still
keeping the key attached to her
necklace.
She picked out her favorite pen
from the box and leaned forward
to write:
Dear Diary,
Today has been the worst day of
my life. I am sitting here, in my
new room, going through all my
pictures of my friends, and I realize
that I don’t have any friends here
in Westchester. Not one. School
starts tomorrow and I’m scared. I
bet nobody will talk to me. I spoke
to Dana and they’re all having a
last night of summer party tonight
while I’m sitting here in this
empty, cold room. God, could
things get any worse? I’ll write
more tomorrow to let you know
how school goes – if I make it
through.
XOXO,
Rachel
Rachel put down her diary and fell
back onto her soft bed. She put her
head onto her feather pillow and
pulled her red and white striped
blanket over her head. Rachel was
too tired to cry, but too anxious to
fall asleep. She lay awake, running
different scenarios of how her first
day would go over and over in her
head. Each scenario was more
daunting than the next.
Around one in the morning, Rachel
fell asleep. |
Re: Vampire Legends 1 (sworn) by donielord(m): 8:38am On May 14, 2018 |
Rachel bolted out of bed to jarring
Latin dance music blasting from
her alarm radio. She stumbled out
of bed and fell over clothes,
trinkets, pictures and papers she
had scattered on the floor in an
effort to organize her life. When
she finally reached the switch, the
alarm mysteriously stopped.
Now that Rachel had been so
rudely awakened, she walked over
to her bathroom door and reached
for the handle: locked. Rachel
knocked, as she heard the shower
turn on and Sarah’s voice, belting
out a Demi Lovato song. She
knocked louder, hoping Sarah
would hear.
“What? Can’t you hear I’m in the
shower?” Sarah said.
“How much longer will you be? I
have to get ready too, ya know!”
Rachel said loudly putting her face
to the crack in the door.
Rachel waited, but Sarah did not
answer.
Rachel walked over to the mess of
scattered clothes that lay on her
floor. None of it was organized:
mismatched socks, sweaters, tank
tops, shorts, jeans and her favorite
Rolling Stones Tee, all lying lifeless
at her feet.
Rachel rolled up her blinds and
opened her window about
halfway, to gauge the
temperature. It was September
8th, and already she could feel the
cool breezes of Fall. The leaves
rustled in the large trees outside
her bedroom window and she
took a deep breath of the crisp air.
Out of her window, she saw a long
front lawn with a few trees
scattered near the edges. One of
the trees had an old tire swing
hanging from its limb, which
Rachel assumed had been from the
previous owners. The lawn was a
dull green color with patches of
brown throughout. There was a
small garden off to the left with
overgrown flowers and weeds.
Rachel stared at it for a moment,
then shut the window with a bang.
What to wear? Rachel thought.
She suddenly remembered a trip to
JCPenney’s that she took with Dana
about a month ago. Penney’s
always had their cutest Fall things
out over the Summer, and Rachel
and Dana had gone shopping early
for the season. Rachel remembered
buying a cute new pair of worn-in
boyfriend jeans, with patches and
small tears in the knees. She knew
those would be the perfect match
with her Stones tee.
Rachel lifted up bags and belts and
peered into her large box of stuff.
The jeans were nowhere to be
found.
She opened her bedroom door and
yelled down to her mom; “Mom,
where did my new jeans go?”
She stood in her doorway and
waited for her mom to respond.
“How should I know what you did
what your clothes? Don’t blame
me if you can’t find them. You’re
the one who packed in a huff last
week, not I, Darling,” her mom
yelled back up, in a snarky tone.
Rachel grunted and slammed her
door. |
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