BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 77: What’s Real?

Chapter 77: What’s Real?

Dace dropped me off at home, he really didn’t have to do this, I eyed the latest iPhone model I now personally own, merely ogling it like it was dropped from the sky. I begged him to just get me my old phone model. I was cool with that as long as I could browse and make calls, but he was stubborn and insisted I needed this, both embarrassment and slightly feeling light-headed, I had no choice but to agree to it.

I sighed, but I couldn’t help but admire my new phone though, the body was gold just like Dace’s eyes sometimes, and a smooth texture and perfect unlike the other phone I had, I smiled and both blushed, he was sweet, really sweet, and it made my heart flutter multiple times.

I remembered murmuring a ’Thank you,’ and still blushing in embarrassment and as usual, he teases me and flicks my glasses, making me blush more like a kid, my gaze leveled the entire time.

I shook my head, my prolonged daydreaming will make me catch a cold out here, I should get inside, it was late and the skies were dark already. My hand found the door knob. It’s locked? That means Vanessa wasn’t home yet, so I quickly searched for my keys in my bag. Why was the entrance dark? The lights were always on, I couldn’t see anything, did the lights malfunction again?

"I can’t see anything" I murmured and the lights mysteriously flick on, okay, maybe having a touchy switch then.

I found my keys and unlocked the door, the lights were flickering but with my presence, they stopped. I sighed, but then I became puzzled because my release breath was of cold steam, odd because the weather wasn’t that cold, it wasn’t even winter, so how?

Seems like I got an answer to my question when I suddenly shivered from an unknown cold. I rubbed my arms together and my teeth chattered, okay now it was really really cold, I was freezing, this was no mountain but yet it seemed like it.

That wasn’t enough to freak me out because the floors were suddenly being covered in ice, okay what the heck was going on?

I watched frozen and wide-eyed as the mysterious ice covered the entire house, like a white blanket, this looked like a movie playing in some sort of 3D but I knew it wasn’t, this was fucking real and the more I experienced this, the more I was starting to freak out.

"What’s happening?" I muttered drawing on my breath, I suddenly couldn’t breathe almost like the mere air I was breathing was being frozen, next, I coughed, it was ice particles and my body shuddered more, my heart slamming heavily than I could contain.

I coughed continuously and I watched as the small particles of ice dropped to the ground, were my insides icing? The sheer thought of it, made my blood run cold, this was even way worse than the ice.

"Hello beautiful"

I was frozen, not by ice but by that cold familiar voice I heard, my blood chilling within me and my lungs ceasing their airflow.

I was ignorant to avert my eyes to the standing figure now before me, I was shaking because I knew exactly who it was, my body tense and my heart hammering, I shouldn’t look, I shouldn’t raise my head but my paralyzed body betrayed me, I was moving both on fear and terror.

I followed from his shoes and then took the rest of his dark figure, my wide eyes of terror focused on his red eyes that always haunted me, it was that sick vampire.

He wasn’t smiling this time or amused like he always was but rather he had a murderous look, it made my insides turn, and more terror filled my body, this look made my legs weak and his eyes weren’t helping, they were gleaming bright red.

"You reek of them!" he snarled showing me those dangerous fangs, but they looked like endless pointy teeth, even sharks weren’t as deadly as this.

I could already imagine them breaking my skin and terror filled my lungs, I drew backward to run but now it seemed like the house vanished. And he was already coming for me.

I screamed at the top of my lungs but he kept coming. I bolted to wherever but I couldn’t make out my environment but I knew I needed to get away from him as fast as I could, but gravity was a bitch because I tripped on ice and slammed on the ground.

"You reek of those beasts!"

"Stay away from me!" I yelled, going backward with the help of my hands on the dark floor, my breath picking up like a wave.

And he laughed, almost like he was amused watching me scramble like a scared cat, which was exactly what I was, what could I possibly do other than run away? I was helpless, I was powerless, I could only throw tantrums and scream.

"Stay away!"

He bared his fangs.

"STAY AWAY!"

"Emma"

"Emma"

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"Emma!"

I jolted awake, my teeth chattering, I was still cold, I still felt COLD.

"Are you okay?"

My eyes diverted to the lady before me, giving me a worried glance. "You look pale"

"W-W-What?" I stammered confusedly.

"If you’re sick you can go to the nurse’s office" she clarified, adjusting her clothes properly.

"N-Nurse office?"

"Yes, if you’re done writing?"

I leveled my gaze to my exam sheets. And the realization struck me, that’s right! I was here, in the exam hall, currently taking my exams and this lady was our social studies teacher, supervising us.

Was that a dream? Was that really a dream? My lips quivered slightly, it seemed so real, too real and I could still feel my panic and my lungs and body still cold like I jumped into icy water, I was still shaken.

"Emma, oh my god you’re so cold" she panics, feeling my skin. "Are you okay?"

I don’t think I am...