My Past and Future

It was a stormy night, the night of October 18th 1975. The furious rain never ceased to batter my body as I hurried through the streets under the bleak sky that had invaded daylight only hours before. The only light provided to guide me home were the bolts of lightning ripping through the sky for about a split second before dissolving. The wind howled deafeningly and had an evil plot to knock me off my feet. My once hip length hair of tight corkscrews was limp and drenched, and my lilac baby doll dress clung onto me and it felt incredibly heavy as if it had weights accessorising the brim. I was frozen to the bone with no coat and my feet were swamped with water. There was another jagged line of lightning, the cracking sound echoed throughout the city; I wasn't frightened by it though. Living in Santa Carla you had to be brave or your life was in grave jeopardy.

It was the day before my seventeenth birthday and I was charged with every piece of happiness I had in me. I couldn't wait to turn seventeen since it meant only one more year until I was eighteen, then I could abandon my mother for good. I despised my mother; she was the one who named me the culprit for my father's abrupt disappearance when I was one years old, leaving her as a single mother at the tender age of nineteen. She would never admit that she thought it was my fault, but by the way she treated my three half-siblings compared to me, I could just tell. When I was four she remarried to a man I hated with a thriving passion. I was always the one who was cast aside, regarded as the outsider. I wished my real father hadn't have vanished into thin air, I missed him dearly.

I turned the corner into a desolate alleyway, racing through the many inky puddles that splattered themselves over my bare leg every time my feet pounded them, sending shivers up my spine with each trickle that made contact with my skin. The golden heart-shaped locket that held a miniature photo of my father in leaped up and down at the pace of my feet running. Going down an alleyway in Santa Carla was a terrible mistake, especially when you could feel dark presences lurking around it.

Before I could even make another step, I was slammed against the crumbling brick wall, a suffocating grasp was wrangled around my neck. His eyes were shielded by circular glasses with clear lenses and as my eyes drifted behind his tall frame, I could see three other blurry figures behind him. I could relatively see all of them had extensive hair, one of them had raven hair and the other two had blonde hair of different shades.

"Please sir, if you let me go, I- I won't t-tell any-anybody" I stuttered from my delayed shock, who were these men who had so suddenly assaulted me? Little did I know that I would be spending the rest of my days with them.

"Don't worry little one, we're not going to hurt you. We're only going to make you one of us" the man's voice sounded comforting yet sinister "One of the family". What did 'one of them mean'? I would find out very soon who they were. Especially when one man advanced forwards out of his veil of shadows. My eyes increased in size and butterflies released themselves in my stomach, flying freely. It had to be him, I knew it was him.

"Dad?" it was him, I couldn't believe it was him. I opened my locket and took glances of the man in front of me and the picture of my father that was captured the around the same time his existence seemed to be terminated. A smile crawled on his lips and as there was another eruption of lightning, I could see tears of joy forming in his crystal blue eyes.

"It's me Marilyn, don't worry it won't hurt. Just drink this and all shall be explained" this was him – David Hayworth who had been missing and had been astray from his only daughters' life for fifteen years, revealed himself after all those heartaching years. It was my father standing in front of me. It was him. "Think about it Marilyn, we can finally be together after all these years and we can be for the rest of time. Immortality, no worries, just fun"

Only one thing accessed my brain – vampires.

"There're no such thing as vampires though" I repeated my thoughts, vampires were fictitious and only showed up in horror books and films. They couldn't be real, that's what I thought until the five men peeled back their lips and pairs of horned fangs sprouted out of their gums.

My jaw drooped rapidly and I was starting to feel faint as if I were about to collapse. Creatures of the night existed, and I was about to morph into one of them. It was my chance to escape from the mother I loathed so much, to be young forever and to finally be with my father – the things I had desired and dreamed of for what seemed like eternity. I had to seize this opportunity whilst it was still there. My long lost father strolled over to me with a dark amber glass bottle embellished with rubies and diamonds in his hands, the liquid inside appeared the same colour as the gleaming rubies, if not a little darker.

"Forever?" I asked in bewilderment, I cautiously accepted the bottle and breathed in its metallic aroma. It was blood. But whose was it? Suddenly, my face etched with horror of the purest form. My sun kissed skin had been drained of all colour, it was as pale as snow. My breathing rate had climaxed to something I had never experienced before in my former life and the man I had craved to call 'Daddy' for so many years was now my worst fear "You want me to drink your blood?" I exclaimed, I would drink it eventually, the urge to be with the man previously known as David Haywood was far too desirous. Immediately, he wrapped his arms around me and began stroking my hair soothingly whilst hushing me.

"I can't have you with your mother any longer" he whispered, he wasn't the only one who wanted me out of my mothers clutches "I've seen how she treats you. I want you now Marilyn, for the rest of time. I'll take care of you. I promise" his words sunk into the nethermost of my head, he would keep his word like a gentleman. "This is the only way I can look after you, drink it" He unchained himself from my being; his eyes commanded me to do it as he stared at me.

The others commenced in persuading chants, I took one last glimpse of the bottle before I brought it to my lips. The rusty blood enhanced, this was where everything changed. I was about to turn myself into another being. A better, stronger being. I would unite with my father and establish an actual life that I ached for, not the one my mother had already scheduled for me. I tilted my neck back and allowed the thick crimson liquid to slither down my throat; its vile iron taste tingled on my tongue. Everything I knew was about to change. There was an uproar of boisterous cheers, for once a group of people were proud of what I had achieved. I was welcomed into their group from the first drop of blood that entered my mouth. I was one of them.

Within a couple of days, I had made my first kill – transposing me from a half vampire into a full vampire. I had completed the cycle of a vampires life. I was finally like the rest of them; I was like my father at long last. My first kill was my History teacher – Mrs Appleton. I always had a strong dislike for her because she would continuously place me in detention with no relevant reasoning behind it and would constantly glare at me whilst I would be working calmly. Her blood tasted different compared to my first sample, it was warm and sweet whereas the blood from the bottle was glacial and reminded me of rusty coins. I grabbed her one day many hours after the school had closed and sunk my newborn fangs into her flesh before she even had a lucky moment to scream.

That's when I knew nothing was going to be the same. I was immortal, forever able to stalk the earth. The old Marilyn Haywood who was a slave to dolefulness was gone; she died when the new me was born.

Marilyn Haywood, the daughter of one of the most feared vampires in Santa Carla is the new me – and she will roam this earth until it is destroyed.

Hey guys! This is my third fanfic for Lost Boys, and I'm writing the next chapter as you read :D
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