Busted

Anna

I pace around my bedroom. Shaking my head in worry about Joel. It's 7pm, he better be home soon. Mum and Dad are going to be worried if he's any later. They have dinner set up. It's dark outside and he's...

I read the note he put in his diary again.

I've decided to become a vampire.

Well that solves it.

I have decided I can't live like this.

Why didn't he come to me? I had no idea he felt like this.

I can't handle Anna's stupid connection with me.

A one way connection at that.

It's for your own good.

He's so selfish.

I put the paper down, and decide to do some research. I know it's now upto me to make sure mum and dad don't find out he's changed until, well, until it's too late. I can help him feed, I mean, I've had enough practice I suppose. I'm not that good at keeping secrets.

I enter, "How do I get turned into a vampire?" Not very grammatically correct, but who cares?

Only a few things show up. One of those is a youtuve video. Okay.

I click on that link and press play.

There is a man of about 40 in looks, trying to seduce a young female who must be about 15. poor thing. She's mesmorised by his eyes. I know from my own reflection that my eyes change colour when hungry, so she must know something is wrong. He has her hypnotised. He bends her neck to the side and bites her. She goes limp straight away. It didn't look like the normal blood tranfusion change. I clicked on the tap that gives more information.

"Warning: Do not try this without further consultation with the recipient.

First remember, you do not need to give a blood transfusion to change a human into a vampire. There is a far simpler way. First, make sure the human is fully incapacitated. In other words, make sure/he won't scream before anything is finished. Second, tilt the head so that the neck and veins are fully clear and bite hard enough to make a small cut. Not too big that you break an artery, but just big enough to be able to spit. Now make sure your vampire glands are in working order, and allow a small amount of spit to enter the wound. The toxins in the spit contains enough vampire cells to attack the body so that in a matter of hours your human will become vampire. Now the wound should heal on its own given the healing abilities of the spit but if it doesnt, just kiss the wound to make sure it does. Now remember to rest the patient on a bed or something comfortable as the transformation can be uncomfortable at some stages and they will forget the scenario once awake, thanks to you practically knocking them out. Have fun my beauties. And be safe."

I watch the full 5 minute video with my mouth wide open in horror. How could something so big, be so simple to perform.

I hear the door open downstairs.

Joel P.O.V

"Hey honey. You're just on time. Dinner will be ready in 5 minutes." his mother said as she gave him a welcome home hug as he walked in the kitchen sidedoor. She didn't seem to notice anything off which was good. He walked past her and up the stairs to his bedroom.

Busted, he thought. Anna was standing at the top of stairs, smiling down at him. She backed up a few pages as he tried to walk past her to his room. She followed him.

"What did you just say?"

She knows something's off.

He opened his door, said really quickly, "Hey yeah I'm all good thanks, see you at dinner" and closed the door in her face.

He wiped his forehead, he was sweating but only a small bit. He wondered if his sweat smelt different to other vampires. Wait, he was a vampire now.

Walking over to his diary, he remembered writing something in it before he left. Someone knocked on the door, "Dinner's ready Joel" It was Kim. Her bedroom was on the otherside of Joels, but she usually kept to herself.

Anna P.O.V

I swear I just heard him. I must be going crazy. It was only one word, so it could have been him just whispering.

I went to dinner with the family. Mum and dad told me since I managed so well at the party that I could go to dinner as long as I controlled myself. But what they didn't realise was that it wasn't just me that had to control themselves.

We all sat around the table in the big open plan kitchen. I decided to sit opposite Joel so I could watch him.

While mum was serving roast chicken around the table, I had this funny feeling. I swear I was going mental. I could hear someone talking in my head.

Why do they keep staring at me? I'm fine. Look see, I can eat perfectly fine. Eww this carrot tastes weird.

Who was that? I looked around the table to see who I was hearing, because I knew it wasn't myself.

Joel looked at me for a moment then and frowned. Everyone else was now tucking into their meal. Dad was next to me and he wasn't paying much attention to anyone other than himself. He was also picking at the food like myself and Joel except he makes it look natural. Joel just looked fussy and weird and was going to attract mums attention if he didn't -

"Joel, sweetheart. Are you okay?" Mum called from the other end of the table. Everyone stopped what they were doing to look his way. I knew then that it wasn't my imagination. I was hearing Joels thoughts!

"Oh yeah, mum. I'm fine. I'm just not that keen on carrots anymore. That's all. Sorry" he shrugged and gave a guilty smile.

Oh s**t! How am I going to deal with this?

"Um, Joel? If it's okay with mum and dad, could I speak to you for a second out in the hall please?" I politely asked him making sure I sounded neutral.

Dad nodded and mum just said "Okay dear but don't be long. Your food is getting cold"

"Oh we won't be long" I said, smiling at them all.

We went out to the entrance hall and I pulled him around the corner where the staircase was.

"Joel, I know what's happened to you." I grimaced, "But that's not why I wanna talk. I think something went wrong with you trying to break our connection." I muttered to him, while he had his eyes closed and I could clearly hear him praying, please god don't let her tell mum and dad.

"Don't worry lameo, I won't go telling mum and dad" I said and gave a cocky smile.

He broke away from my grip in surprise, holding his arms out to seperate us. He was utterly scared now.

"How did you.... what....?" he stuttered. I stood there at the bottom of the stairs as he started walking backwards.

"I heard your thoughts dumbass. So your plan to quit our 'connection'," I said, my hands airing quotation marks, and walking to him to whisper the rest, "Failed, dear brother. Unfortuntely, for me I can now hear your thoughts." I sneered. I was not happy. Before this, the connection was one way. And thankfully not my way. But now -

"So you can hear... all my thoughts?" he whispered, with my face only a few inches from his. If we weren't related, I'd probably be aiming for a kiss right around now. But �" eww gross.

"Yes!" I said exasperated. I started to pace back and forth infront of him. "Now, I've told you. So please, please try to keep your thoughts clean. At least until I figure out a way to shut them out." I hissed at him, rubbing my temples. I muttered, "I never thought this would happen."

"You, what?" Joel stood in my way of pacing.

I looked away from him, "I never thought this would happen to us. Not just the whole 'you turning' part but the whole 'I can read your mind' thing. I read about it in stories and stuff, but -"

"So you're saying it's happened in the past, with people, I mean... twins?" he added.

I turned to face the walkway that lead to the kitchen.

"And can I ask what is taking so long... Anna?" Rachelle looked at me and then to Joel, "Joel? Your food is cold and mum and dad are kind of losing their patience. This is supposed to be a family meal. Where family includes the actual whole family, not just a few of us." she raised her eyebrows at me as if to say "so get your butts back inside!"

"I -, yeah I'm coming." I shared a quick glance with Joel, "Come along brother. We'll discuss this after."

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