Revelations

Chapter twenty four

"You know the part about the transfusion when you were a baby you almost died?" I nodded. Yeah, I remember her telling me that. 

"Well the part you don't know is that 85% of your blood is my blood.

"Then, when you were four you were playing by the river. We had all gone out for the day, it was meant to be our last outing with you before you and your parents left. You loved the little duckies. You jumped in after them, Gracie. You drowned resulting in your 1st death that day."

I was shaking my head in disbelief. Evie put her arm around me, "We took you back to ours, and five hours later you woke up! Your parents didn't want you growing up a vampire, Gracie. They wanted you to forget that part, so we erased all the memories. It was always hard on you, but over the years it got easier, and you too ended up forgetting."

Everyone was looking at her shocked, Jo was looking how I was feeling. "Mum how could you keep that from us, and from Gracie? She could have protected herself."

Her Mum shook her head, "No she couldn't have. It's laid dormant for fourteen years Jo. She couldn't have awoken it on her own, but because she has died for a second time, and is now an adult it's now been awoken."

They all looked at me and this sudden anger was building up inside me coming from nowhere. "No, Gracie, keep calm. It's not anyone's fault. You're still you. You'll always be you." But I wasn't was I.

I had flashbacks and was taken back by the beauty of it all. Mum, Dad, Jo with pigtails, Joshua and Fealan running around as we all played by the duck pond. Then there was screaming; I had fallen in. it was true.

I suddenly felt calm, "So I'm now a vampire, no longer weak."

Jo shushed me. "Gracie just cause you're a vampire, you will never lose your humanity. One thing you never were, was weak. You brought shame to all of us, because after everything you've been through, you were always the strongest of us all."

Everyone was nodding in agreement, All of a sudden there was a crashing noise, and we heard someone running in our direction, Jo's Dad pulled out a gun. Joshua, Taylor and Fealan were crouched in front of me, at the ready.

"Jo, Joshua, Dad, it's me. It was Hayden They all returned to a normal position. Hayden looked at me as he came in the room.

"You ok sweetie? I came as soon as I heard you calling. What happened? Jo's Dad relayed everything and Hayden just looked at me.

"Well I think we best get her home she looks pallid. I called aunt Simone she is flying back tonight she will need to know the details." Jo's Dad nodded and lifted me up into his arms and carried me out to the car.

Jo got in next to me and I layed my head on her shoulder. She soothed me by stroking my hair.

The journey home was peaceful, but my mind was playing havoc with me. All the memories were enveloping me, things I never knew, there were some memories I didn't want to know.

How the hell am I going to be able to look Taylor in the eye again? I have too. I have to know why he erased those memories. Was it shame? Did he not want to make love to me? Was I a mistake? What was it? We shall have this discussion another time, I was sure of it.

Right now the idea of going home sounded perfect, for what seemed like hours of torture, I was getting out alive, with not a scar on me, nevertheless I was a different person all together now. But was this new person someone I could live with?

I never was good with change, and this was a huge change. I was a blood sucking vampire.

Back at the house Jo took me upstairs and helped me get changed. I felt increasingly weak. I was shaking and could barely pick up my legs to put my leggings on. Jo did everything. Then Jo's Dad carried me back downstairs and into the kitchen.