My Life as a Vampire
by Adrianna
(United States)
My story starts in the year 1574, my family was one of the first vampire clans in Transylvania.
The first clan members were Agatha and her sister Hilda. Our story has been told in Romania for generations, we are the most feared because of the way our ancestors fed and lived their lives.
The sisters both married and produced healthy daughters, as many know vampires cannot keep mortal mates for long.
The daughters inherited what was considered an illness and were doomed to live long lives with no friends except one another.
Now that I have bored you with history let me tell you about my life as a vampire. I am an 18th generation vampire, it is not an easy life.
My father has been cursed as a slayer and is an enemy of me and my siblings.
I am going to be frank, my father has never attempted to kill me or any of my brothers and sisters.
I am what is called a natural vampire. I have to drink blood to survive, when I said my father is a slayer, I want it known he is a vampire as well, but is cursed with being a slayer.
I have learned over the years to control the craving. My mother is mortal and has never suspected a thing.
That is trait all mortals share they cannot see things they do not believe in.
Mother is one of them, growing up the only friends I had were my siblings and my cousins because we are all the same.
For the people who wish they could be vampires it is a very lonely life, finding others like you is harder than it seems.
Not all vampires can be sensed. My sister has absolutely no sent so I have a hard time tracking her.
I have pale skin but I don't look dead like most do, actually now that I think about it none of my siblings do.
I can walk in the sun and burn horribly, but none of us spontaneously explode into ash. That was made up by Hollywood, funny when people actually believe.
A really funny part of my story the man that I love is a vampire slayer and found my sister he and I have battled many times. One day he told me that he loved me, as a vampire that is sometimes unbearable and cannot be helped.
He does not understand that I will live much longer than him and am destined to love no one. As a vampire you learn to never become close to mortals you always have to watch them be lowered into the ground.
Sometimes you wish you were the one being lowered not them.
I have watched many mortals be lowered into the ground and sometimes want to be in the casket instead. I have been asked why I have never turned anyone.
Here is my answer why, I have never turned anyone because no one should have to endure the heartache that me and my siblings feel every time we become close to someone.
When you lose a mortal you love then you will understand, my sister told me a few days ago we do not have to worry about losing our adopted mother because she is also a vampire cursed as a slayer.