• When I awoke, I awoke with the moon. I stepped out of my bed, and crossed the room to my wall-sized window. I gazed at the silent silver stream, which glowed in the moonlight. As I sighed, I flitted over to my vanity and began my night.
    I knew not of what it was like to be awake during the day, for I would onlybe a creature intended for night. I was one of the eternaly cursed, forever to walk on this earth as alone as I could be. I gazed at my reflection and saw what had hauned my dreams for centuries. My sister's face. She and I were twins of a powerful line of vampires. Then the final revolt struck us.
    I can still hear my mother's cries for us, and for my father to help her. My father was holding my sister and I tighly, yelling for the people to let us be. My older brother, Marcus, was trying to save our baby brother, Jack. My sister and I were the only ones left, clutching each other for all we were worth. Then as I closed my eyes, she was torn from my arms. I can still hear her screams.
    I suddered away the thought, and made my way out of the room twards my enormous fireplace in the living room. Living room, I thought. No one in this house is living! I was in a sleepy American town, not knowing what my life was left for.
    "Onyx," I whispered, touching the pendant my sister had given me. I was overcome with emotions as I thought of her. No tears, of course not. I was finally aware of her death.
    Death. She wasn't coming back. None of my family was coming back. I am left here forever, never to see something that made me happy again. I knew I could not cry, yet I was concerned by the lack of tears. I continued to sit there pondering the thought when I knew something new was going to happen. I got up, pulled on a blood red tank over a black, bell-sleved top, dark jeans, and ballerina flats.
    I ran with my speed. Over a century had passed since I had truely run like this, so fast nothing could deteect me. I could hear her voice inside my mind telling me what I was. Who I am supposed to be in this life. Luna, the voice hissed inside my head. You know what you are, what you should be. Don't fight it. Don't fight the thirst that is going to overcome you soon enough.