Chapter 5
The fire red eyes
When Rose came home it was almost noon but she wanted to read a little. So Rose read a couple pages and fell asleep like Elmira said. But during the 3 hours that Rose was asleep her mom started a fire by accident in the kitchen. It spread through the whole house. As soon as Elmira saw the smoke through her window she had a vision and saw Rose in trouble. She only had time to save one person so she picked Rose because she was the youngest.
“I have to save Rose!” Elmira thought and came to Rose’s side and lifted her up. She disappeared and appeared a couple feet from her house where no one could see her.
A lot of people came running to see if there was any survivors and fire trucks started to come. Elmira saw that Rose was burned a little and was staring at her house with tears in her eyes.
“M-my parents… are they dead? And my house is burned… I-I feel sleepy.” Rose said quietly and then fell asleep again. Elmira did a spell to make the burn go away and made Rose sleep for a couple more minutes.
15 minutes later….
When the fire was out Elmira saw Rose’s dad on the other side of the street. He was completely burned and would not make it, and for Rose’s mom, she died in the fire. She had no choice she would have to keep Rose with her. So she picked up Rose again and disappeared to her house. When they came to Elmira’s house she put Rose down on her bed and when to close the door. When she came back they sat Rose crying.
“Honey? What’s wrong?” Elmira asked sitting next to Rose.
“What’s wrong? WHAT’S WRONG!?!? My parents are dead! I saw it in my nightmare! I always hated them but now I miss them. And I don’t have anything else! Not parents not money and not a house! How could they die?! Why didn’t you save them!?” Rose asked quietly.
“Rose please don’t yell. I only had time to save one person. You mom died already and your dad was already running outside. He did not make it because of the smoke in his lungs. And you can live here. I have an extra room and for the money we will figure out a way. Now please don’t be mad, try to get some sleep. Tomorrow you can stay here; you don’t have to go to school.” Elmira said as she started to walk out the door.
“Wait! Thank you, Elmira. You saved my life. But how am I going to sleep? I can’t sleep remember?” Rose said confused.
“Now because you transformed you can sleep. You can but if you don’t want to you don’t need to. Now I am going to go to bed and if you don’t want to here is the computer and the TV, Good-Night.” Elmira said and walked out of the room.
“Night” Rose whispered and fell asleep in a minute. She had a nightmare about what happened. She slept from 9 to 12 in the afternoon. When Rose finally woke up she went to the kitchen and saw Elmira making food.
“Hi Elmira. Sorry about last night. I was angry. What’s for breakfast?” Rose asked as she sat down by the table.
“Hey honey. It’s ok. We are going to eat eggs, bacon, toast, with a little bit of pink milk. Is that ok?” Elmira asked as she put everything down on the table.
“It’s ok. Wait PINK milk??? What is that?” she asked.
“Its milk with blood in it, you have to drink a little bit of blood because now you are part vampire. Don’t worry it tastes good.” Both of them took their milk and drank the whole glass.
“That was really good! How can blood taste so good? Is it because I am a half vampire? But what if I forget to drink blood one day?” She asked as she drank another glass.
“You like blood because you are a vampire, yes. And if you forget to drink blood one day you will turn into a full vampire until you get some blood. When I was young I forgot to drink blood one day and at school my eyes turned black and fangs grew out of my mouth. I was so thirsty I tricked my best friend into the closet with me and drank all her blood. I never forgave myself. I never did and I never will. So that is why you will have an emergency pill with you at all times. Understand me?” Elmira was now washing the dishes.
“I got it. I am going to go up to my room.” Rose pushed the chair in and went up to “her” room. She laid down on the bed and started dreaming. Then she fell asleep.