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We rushed through the entrance of the sterile white hospital doors, agony and panic was plastered in the eyes of those around me. My brain felt rattled, my arms red and blistering from my chronic scratching and pulling of my skin. Karla, my sister, was puzzled beyond comprehension. She couldn’t understand the severity of the situation that had just occurred. She wanted to cry, I knew she did. I could see the pain and frustration in her eyes as she poked at everyone around her, looking for answers to a tragic mystery; one that was too desperately terrible to tell. Although my sister was oblivious to the situation at hand, I knew; I knew what was going on and how complex and scary it was. I began to shake, my eyes started to roll to the back of my head as I shut my eyelids tight, back and forward I swayed. I lowered my back over my legs and hugged my thighs as my body moved simultaneously to the sounds of the fast paced movements in the hospital.

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The car ride home from the hospital was a complete and utter suppression towards my sanity. My uncle tried to comfort my sister and I. His attempts were not only short-lived but also pointless, Soon enough he fell to anguish himself. He was always a soft hearted person, he began to sob.
When we got to my uncle’s house after I had packed Karla and my things, I hadn't realized that he moved to another place until we got to his house. We entered his gigantic house of two stories. When we entered the house, it was a light shade of blue from floor to ceiling; there was a lot of toys and a playpen in the middle of the room.
“ Please excuse the toys,” he said, “ My daughter is staying with me since her mother, also known as my ex-wife, has just recently neglected her and refuses to take care of the poor child.”

“ How old is she?” I asked.
“ She is currently three months old,”
“What’s her name?”
“Mabel,”
“Wow, that's a pretty name,” I said, eyes wide with amazement. .
We walked through his house pointing out all the rooms in the house and he stopped at the end of the hall to the room on the right side . He pointed at a room and said it would be my room then, he pointed to the room across the hall from mine, he said that would be Karla's room. He left me alone to undress. To my astonishment there is a bathroom in the bedroom. This is all very new to me . Totally didn't expect this. When we were done my uncle was gone . He had left a note saying he is going to pick up Mabel from the daycare . So Karla and I just made ourselves at home. After watching two episodes of Dora that Karla made me watch, Uncle Maxwell was back . He had brought Mabel and she was the cutest thing ever.
“ She is so adorable,” I said.
“ Well she is cute,” he said, “ But it is time for her to go to bed.”
“ Kay,”
“ Oh before I forget I registered you guys for a new school. Makaila you will be going to Mayfield High and Karla you will be going to Mayfield Elementary school. The schools are right next to each other,”
“ So I will be taking her to school?”
“ Yes,”
“ Cool,”
I went up to the room and thought about how this new school will be like. I shrugged off the weird feeling. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth, took a shower and tried combing through my curly hair, it didn’t obey, so I just left it down. I went to bed, to my not so much of a surprise anymore, it was a queen size, I just laid there thinking, and I didn't realized I had fallen asleep until the alarm clock woke me up. It was early in the morning and I start a new school today. ‘Great, a new school, how wonderful.’I thought to myself, not long after I heard cries from across the hall. Seems like Mabel is awake . I don’t think my uncle is awake yet, so I decided to put matters into my own hands, I rolled off the bed and prodded groggily down the hall towards her room. I reached down and picked her up from her crib, to stop her from crying, started gently shaking her up and down; like a mother would do to her child. ‘Mom..’ A tear rolled down my face, just thinking of her made me want to cry. After a while, I started to hear soft, shallow breathes, the breath of sleeping. I smiled softly at the sleeping child and gently set her back in her crib.
As I headed back to my room, I was deciding what to wear today, I looked into my closet, groaning, I threw my entire wardrobe unto my bed, while I stood there and tapped my chin. “Aha! This is perfect!” I said, squealing with excitement. I got dressed and decided to straighten out my hair, I grinned and put in the finishing touch into my hair,a butterfly pin. I haven’t straightened my hair in ages, I’ve been letting it grow; so far, it's grown halfway down my back.
6:45 am, my uncle should be awake by now,I found him in the living room, I told him that I put Mabel back to sleep; he smiled warmly at me and said he appreciated my help and that he would take her to daycare later that morning.
“Oh, and Makaila?” my uncle asked me,
“Yes?” I asked, I was going to get Karla ready but I guess that’s going to have to wait.
“The school emailed me the map of the school, I’ve printed it out for you.” He said while reaching for a piece of paper from the coffee table.
“Thanks,” I said gratefully as he handed me the paper. I took a look at the map and grimaced. Complicated. Very complicated. ‘Geez, are they trying to make us suffer even before we enter the school?!’
Suddenly remembering that our time for getting into school is limited, I sped walked down the hall, I didn’t want to mess up my hair, a girl's gotta look good on her first day at new school, right?
I stopped at Karla’s room and walked in. She was already awake. She was fully dressed but was wearing her shoes on backwards.
I bent down to fix her shoes.
“ Karla this is how you tie your shoes,”
“ Okay,” She said in her cute voice that I can’t resist.
We told Uncle Max bye and we got into the Camry. We got to the school early and I helped Karla find her teacher and her locker.
After I was done I quickly hurried to Mayfield High, scared that I might be late.
“ Can I help you with anything?” Asked the front desk lady.
“ Yes. My name is Makaila and I’m supposed to start school here,”
“ You’re the new kid. And you have my condolences,” She found my folder and handed it to me.
“ Thanks,’ I said as I started exiting through the hall,”
I headed to my locker which is locker 167. I got a packet filled with clubs I could join. I just put it in the locker. The school bell rang and I was hurrying to find my class when someone knocked me down. All my books scattered all over the floor.
Some kid just got down and helped me pick up my books.
“ Hi. Are you okay?” he asked.
“ Yeah. Thanks for helping me,”
“ You're welcome. My name is Jason and if you want to stay safe at this school I would advise you to stay away from Tracy and her friends. You're the new kid Makaila right?”
Jason looks like a nice kid. With his dark brown hair and sparkling blue eyes. I dozed off while he was talking and didn't even hear what he was saying.
“ Makaila?”he said
“ Wait! What? Sorry what did you say,”
“ I asked what school you’re from,”
“ I’m From Richfield High,”
“ Oh, okay well, see you around,”
I waved goodbye and went on to class. I had calculus first with Mr. bell. I found a seat at the back of the room. He was teaching velocity and integrals. Luckily for me I learned this at my old school so this wasn't new to me. This might be the most boring class ever. Good thing the bell rang cause if it didn't I would have dozed off. All the other classes I have are also boring. Lunch is next and I don't even know where it is. The bell rang. Lunch time . I quickly grabbed my stuff and headed to lunch.
“ Hey,” said that Jason kid.
“ Hi,”
“ Do you know where the cafeteria is?” he asked
“ No,”
“ I will show you where it is and you can sit at my table,”
“ Thanks,”
We walked to lunch in awkward silence. The cafeteria is quite big. I followed Jason to his table . This table was filled with a lot people I didn’t know.
“ Everyone, this is Makaila,” Jason said
“ Makaila this is Andrea, Ashley, Jessica, Natalie, and Destiny.” He pointed everyone out.
I just waved hi. This school might not be so bad. The pizza was good. They were all talking about the classes they had. I have gym next with Jason so I followed him to the gym. In gym they're doing fitness testing. ' This will be easy' I thought. I ended up being the last person running on the pacer run with a score of 91. Language arts is next and I absolutely hate that class with a passion. Well I will have to deal with it. I was dozing off. Luckily, the sound of the bell that signaled it was time to go home woke me up. I quickly hurried to go pick Karla up from her school because they end the same time that we do. I found Karla at the front door.
“ How was your first day?” I asked as I started down the freeway.
“ It was fun, we got to read hard books,” I just laughed and kept on driving.
My uncle wasn't home when I got home so I just made us lunch. By the time Uncle Maxwell was home it was night so we just had dinner and we talked about the clubs that I could join after school and Karla could do while I’m at after school.
“ How about gymnastics,” I suggested.
“ Do you guys know how to do those flips?” he asked.
We nodded in agreement. This is going to be easy.
“ Well lets go to the basement and check out your moves.”
We started heading to the basement and I realized I have never been to his basement. When we got down there, my jaw fell open. First in his basement was a big pool in the middle. Then he showed us to another room which had a lot of open space. He said this is where we’re going to be doing our flips. So First Karla showed him what she can do. She is in advanced gymnastics with me because normally at her age people can’t do what she can do.I showed him the poses that we do at our gymnastics stadium, too bad we’re not going there anymore and his jaw fell open. He clapped really loudly. He put Mabel to sleep and we each went to our rooms to watch some TV and then fell asleep there.
The next morning was a Saturday so I just took a shower brushed my teeth and took care of Mabel. Karla was still fast asleep.
I gave Mabel her food and sat down. Karla woke up earlier than I thought. This saturday was fun even though all we did was watch dora. It was good to know that I still have a little sister like Karla.
The day passed quickly, and before I knew it, I was having dinner with my sister, Mabel, and Uncle Max.
“Um..so..how was your day?” Uncle Max asked.
“ It was OK even though all we did was watch Dora,” Uncle Max was trying hard not to laugh.
The next morning everyone had to get ready for church. I found my favorite dress and high heel boots. I didn't think my hair would stay straightened, so I put it back into a ponytail. Church was good and I like the songs. When we got home it was dinner time . We ate dinner and I went to sleep. Time to face school. Again. Karla and I went to school. The bell rang for first hour and I went up to catch up with Jason. During science, the teacher said we had to choose a partner for the science project. Jason found me first.
“ So, what do you want to do?” He asked.
“ Um, I was thinking of making a volcano,”
“ That's not a bad idea,” he said with a thoughtful face.
“ So it’s settled then,”
The teacher reached us then and he asked us what we were doing and we said a volcano.
“ So do you want to come over to my house to get started or should I come to yours?” I asked.
“ How about I go to yours,” he said.
“ Sure,” I agreed.
That’s when the bell rang. I hurried off to my other classes and then lunch.
After lunch I went to all my normal classes. I am suppose to meet Jason at the front of the school so he can come over and we can work on the volcano. When we got home Jason was acting weird. He did not walk right into the house like normal people. Before he came in I had to invite him into the house . Maybe he was just being a gentleman.
We went on the computer and found the directions.
“ My uncle has clay,” I said with a surprised face as I was looking through the cabinets.
“ Nice,” Jason said.
“ Oops, oh no,” The clay had dropped to the floor. Jason bent down to the floor the same time I had. He was just so close to me. He was starting to lean in. The clay on the floor forgotten. He pressed his lips against mine. His kissing started to be more urgent. I started to move away for air. I was starting to get dizzy.
“ Sorry ‘bout that,” He said, ” Now where were we?”
“ Oh it’s okay and your lips are soft,”
“ Ugh um,” We both jumped by the clearing of the throat that Karla made which came out of nowhere. She is way too young to be seeing this.
Jason and I got to sculpting the volcano. By nine Uncle max was back with Mabel. And Jason and I were just finishing up.
“ Uncle Max this is Jason. Jason this is my uncle Max,” Jason and uncle Max shook hands. “ Jason is here because he is helping me on a science project and we’re partners,”
“ Okay,” uncle Max said.
“ We were just finishing up,” Jason said.
“ Yeah,” I said along with him.
“Yeah...mm hmm mm sure sure I so believe you guys” Uncle Max said while bumping his shoulder to Jason.
“ So I'll see you later,” I said to Jason as I was walking him to the door.
“ Yeah, sure,”
I shut the door behind him. we all had dinner together and it was a school night so I had to be in bed by eleven. The message alert on my cell phone started beeping. It was Jason.
“ Hi,” He texted.
“ Hey,”
“ Whatcha doing?” He asked .
“ Talking to you,”
“ I can’t stop thinking of our kiss,” He said.
“ Me neither,” I said in agreement.
“ So how you doing?”
“ Good. Great now that I thought of it,”
“ I wanted to ask you...,”
“ Yeah?”
“ Can I take you out to dinner Friday night?”
“ Me? Me of all people. Sure,”
“ Great!” He exclaimed.
“ Nice, see you at school,”

3

Now I didn't know what to do. I’ve never been asked out before. While I was thinking of what to wear, I was thinking of something else. I felt like there is something that I left back at my old house. So I talked to Uncle Max about it and he said we would go back to the house tomorrow after school and check it out.
After school we went to the house and I went into my parents room first before that's where I believed what I am looking for will be.
“ I think this is what I'm looking for,” I said as I held up a binder with my name with. Before my parents died, I gulped at that thought, before my parents died I saw it and wondered what it was. I opened up the binder and saw a whole bunch of baby pictures of me. Inside it wrote...
‘ Dear Makaila,
Happy 18Th birthday. This book is filled with all your memories and you can fill it with more. We wish you a Happy Birthday Makaila. From mom and dad.’
I felt tears starting to dew up. My birthday is coming up. It’s on Sunday and it’s pretty nice of my mom to write this. It was hard not to keep the tears from falling. I suddenly felt arms around me. Uncle Max was comforting me and for once it was working.. When we were done we went to go pick up Mabel from the daycare. when we got home it was dinner time.
Friday came quick. I was trying to find the perfect outfit to wear to a restaurant. Well I don't even know if we’re going to a restaurant. I put on makeup and found a perfect purple dress with a purple headband and I also found purple high heels.
“I just love purple,” I said with a grin on my face.
I also curled my hair up and put it in a ponytail with a purple ribbon. When I was done the doorbell rang. I went downstairs. It must be Jason.
“ Makaila where are you going?” Karla asked as I walked down the hallway.
“ Oh I’m just going out with a friend,”
“ Whoa, you look nice,” Uncle Max said as I entered the living room.
“ Thanks, “ I said shyly.”
I opened the door and found a Mercedes parked on the driveway. I waved bye to Uncle Max and Karla.
He opened the door for me. So nice of him.
“ So where are we going?” I asked
“ I was thinking of an Italian restaurant called Restuarante Italiano ”
“ Is this your car?” I asked as he was getting the engine started.
“ No it was my brothers,” He replied.
“ Nice, It’s beautiful. What happened to him?”
“ He went to college.”
It was a twenty minute drive to Restuarante Italiano. No one spoke. It was an awkward silence like before when we were walking to lunch. We got to the restaurant and we got out of the car.
“ This is a nice and expensive restaurant,” I said as I looked at the menu.
“ Well my father is the owner of this restaurant,”
“ He is?”
“ Yeah I'm on my break right now,”
“ Oh really?” I said leaning in.
“ Jason,” someone said from behind me interrupting us.
“ Hey dad..,” Jason said embarrassed and shy at the same time.
“ Who is this girl?” Jason’s dad asked.
“ Makaila. She is um...um.... a friend from school,”
Jason’s dad held his hand out for a handshake. I stood up and shook his hand. I did not want to be rude, he seemed like a nice man.
I looked at my watch and it was half past nine. I quickly stood up.
“ Oh my god. I have to get home right away or my uncle will kill me,” I whispered to Jason.
“ Well it was nice meeting you Mr. Mirez,”
I waved to him and Jason and I went into his black Mercedes.
“ I did not expect you to meet my dad,” Jason said after he started driving.
“ Oh its cool . He seems very nice,”
“ You know I sometimes wonder how you do it,”
“ Do what?” I asked confused.
“ Act all calm when you know something is wrong,”
“ Well I have faced a lot of challenges when I was a kid and I would rather not talk about it,”
“ Ok,” He said.
He stopped in front of my house and Kissed me goodbye. It was a long kiss.
Then I opened the door and he offered to walk me in and all of a sudden as I opened the door he was out of my sight.
“ Jason?” I stared around in confusion and saw his car still parked out. ‘ Well there goes my date,’ I thought.
I walked into the very quiet house and saw Uncle Max and Karla sitting on the couch watching ‘ Criminal Minds.’
" How was your date with jason?" Karla asked as I walked into the quiet house.
" Ok," I said as I walked slowly towards my bedroom.
" Not so fast," Uncle Max said. " Spill. First where did he take you? Second was it someplace romantic? Was it someplace expensive? Third did he make a move? Did he try to kiss you?"
" Ok. Restaurante Italiano. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes and he did and remember I have kissed him before,"
" That was a very nice answer and now you're free to go,"
I quickly darted up to my room afraid the talk was coming.
I found Jason in my bedroom sitting on the bed.
“ What are you doing in here?” Are the first words I actually manage to say. I was about to say how did you get in here but I saw the open window.
“ Well I wanted to see you,” He said as his arms went around my waist. I couldn't stop staring at his beautiful face . My Daydream was interrupted by his kissing.
“ Hey,” I exclaimed.
“ What I can't kiss my girlfriend every now and then,”
“ Yes you can,” I said kissing him back. It was good to know that we were a couple now with the new school and everything. I hope rumors don't spread quickly.

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It has been three months since she died. 91 days, 2,184 hours I have not been taking it well. I refuse to get out of my room. Uncle Max tries to come in but I don’t let anybody in. I hear voices from down the hall. Uncle Max is talking to someone .
“ She won’t let anyone in,” Says Max.
“ Not even the boyfriend?” asked someone else.
“ Yeah,”
Someone very unfamiliar walks into the room. I throw my pillow at the person.
“ Go away,”
“ Makaila I am doctor Johnson,” He says.
“ What do you want,”
“ I want to help you get over her,”
Her. He was talking about Karla. Karla, Karla. All of a sudden the ground rushes to me, and the darkness rushes over me.
I wake up to an unfamiliar room. Has white walls,blue curtains. Something is hooked onto my hand and I hear beeping. I see Jason and Max standing in the corner. Jason walks over sensing I am awake.
“ Max can you please give us a minute,” Jason asked. Uncle Max just sighed and left the room.
“ Makaila, do you know how worried we were?” I didn’t answer. “ Hey listen to me. I will find who killed her”
“ Who?” I asked. “ Who killed my sister?”
“ Makaila calm down. Let me explain. So I was looking at the body,”
“ Wait,” I said. “ You were looking at the body. Did you open the casket,”
“ If that’s what you want to call it. Anyways I was looking at the body and I found what the police called ‘scratch marks ‘ were actually vampire teeth marks,”
My body froze. I couldn’t get the words right in my brain.
“ What?” I was very surprised.
“ Nobody in my family knows who killed her but it must be someone that has contact to your family,”
“ I don't know anybody who would do such a thing. I mean she was only seven. “Sometimes I wish I was the one that died and not my parents nor Karla,”
Jason held my face with both hands, “ Snap out of it Makaila. I would kill myself if something happened to you,”
“ Why would you kill yourself?”
“ Because I love you,” Suddenly he held my face with both hands and kissed me with joy I have never felt before..
I am going home today. Uncle Max is making me go to school tomorrow. I am still trying to get over Karla but, that can never happen. When we got home it was nighttime so I just went into my bathroom to get ready for bed and that is when I saw her. She looked perfect. Not like the last time I saw her. Her clothes were not spattered with blood. Her hair was not out of place. Her face was perfect.
Karla.
I screamed at the top of my lungs. My head was starting to hurt. It hurt more than a migraine. Like I was being stabbed in the stomach. The migraine stopped abruptly and she was gone. Max was by my side rocking me back and forth. I don't know how long we sat there . I must have fell asleep because when my alarm sounded I was in bed. I checked the time and it was seven. I quickly got ready for school. I did not even bother to straighten my hair. I left it in its curly self and got into the Toyota. When I got to school there was a girl I have never seen before in my seat.
“ Excuse me. Hi,” I said. “ My name is Makaila,”
“ My name Isabella,” She said with a thick puerto rican accent.
“ Ok. We sort of have assigned seats and you would be seating in mine,”
“ Oh. I so sorry,” She said seating in the seat next to me . The bell indicating class has started rang.
“ Class today we are going to learn about integrals,” Everyone groaned.
The bell rang after 45 minutes of boring integrals. As I stood up I felt a tap on my shoulder.
“ Hi. Will you help me find my next class.” Isabella said as she handed me her schedule. I saw we had the same schedule.
“ What instrument do you play?” I asked noticing she also had orchestra.
“ Cello,” She said.
“ Cool I play the violin,”
We started walking down the hall. I felt arms around my waist.
“Hey,” I said turning to see Jason. “ Jason this is Isabella she is new,”
“ Hola,” Jason said to Isabella in fluent Spanish.
“ Hola,” She said back. “ Como Estas? “
“ Bien. Y tu?” Jason said.
“ Bien,”
I just stood there like what the heck are they saying.
“ So Isabella how do you like the school so far?” I asked.
“ It is good. It is so big. Schools in puerto Rico are not this big,”
The one minute bell rang. Jason gave me a quick peck on the lips and went the other way.
At the end of the day I grabbed my keys from my bag and started walking towards my car. As I was walking to my car there was the migraine again. I screamed and grabbed my hair. I dropped to my knees. I saw her at the window of my car. This time she was not alone . My parents were sitting next to her. I closed my eyes and reopened them. They were gone . Jason was next to me . Followed by Isabella, followed by the nurse. Jason helped me get up. Suddenly I noticed everyone was staring.
“ Are you okay?” The nurse asked, “ What happened?”
I took a deep breath. “ I don't know what happened. One minute I was walking to my car, the next I have this huge migraine,”
The nurse indicated for me to follow her. “ Follow me,”
She led me into her office . She indicated for me to sit down. I watched as she was typing something into her computer. She checked my blood pressure and my temperature . My bp was normal but, my temp was a little over 101.
“ Looks like you have a fever,” She said. “ I am gonna have to call your uncle to come pick you up,”
“ No. Thats okay. I can drive her,” Jason chimed in.
“ What about my car,”
“ Isabella will drive it,” I even forgot Isabella was in here .
“ Yes. I will drive your car,” Isabella said.
“ Okay It's settled then,” The nurse said picking up my printouts with medications to get.
When we got outside I asked Isabella for my car keys.
“ The nurse said Jason should drive you home,” she said.
“ Well In my car,” She handed over the keys. I handed it to Jason. We waved bye to Isabella and promised that she would pick me up up in the morning.
Jason and I got into the car. He started driving but he stopped at Mcdonalds. He pecked me on the lips and got out of the car and went around to open my door. So gentlemanly. We sat across from each other at a booth.
“ What are we doing here,” I asked as we settled in.
“ I know what happened was not because of a fever,”
“ Okay. This is not the first time it happened,”
“ What do you mean?”
“ I was in the bathroom. The day I got back from the hospital. I had saw her in the mirror. I had this migraine, like the one I just got. I saw her in the car window this time,”
“ Wow. I don't know what to say. What do you think it means?”
“ I don't know. I have never experience this. But get this, I saw my parents with her this time,” I said. I felt hot tears coming down. Jason got up and put his arms around me .
“ Hey. Its okay. Come on. I want to show you a place,” We went into my car and drove for what seems like an hour into a big high meadow. The snow was covering up a lot of the meadow. We got out of the car.
“ This place is beautiful,” I said breaking the silence . “You could see the whole city here . Places like the town center and the museum of art. I have always wanted to go to an art museum. Learn visual arts,”
“ We could go to the art museum. I can teach you how to draw and sketch thing,”
“ We can. I could teach you violin if you want. You know what's weird?”
“ What?” He asked.
“ We have been together for more than three months and we don't even know each others birthday,”
“ Weird. Okay I will go first. Mine is in October. October 27th,”
“ Happy belated birthday,” I said. We were in February now. “ Mine was November 1st,”
“ Happy belated birthday too. How old are you?”
“ You don't ask a lady her age but, I just turned 18 so I am technically a legal adult. How old are you? In both vampire and human years,”
“ I am 22 in human years. I am 130 in vampire,”
“ Why are you in high school?” I asked.
“ Because my parents wanted me to get a degree in college so I have to pass high school first,”
“ Oh. You know we have to start applying for college soon. “
“ I figured. What school were you thinking of? I was thinking SUU. Southern Utah University,”
“ Oh really? What does that have?” I asked.
“ It has theatre, dance, performing arts, and Spanish,’’
He shrugged
‘’ I’m not sure yet which college I'm going to,’’
‘’ look at us we're talking about ‘school’ ‘
“ Do you always come here?” I asked.

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