• ~Chapter 6
    It is Saturday after noon and i placed the 4 photo albums out. I called Eric over and Emily was already in the room. She sat on the ground beside me. Eric came running up the stairs and into my room. "whats the emergency?!" he asked frantically. I chuckled. "sorry, dude, i just had to say something to make you come up here so early in the day" I chuckled a bit more and smiled pointing at the albums. "guess what i found when i went to my old house" i looked at the two to see their reactions. Emily raised her eyebrows. "nuh uh, you went into the house by yourself? yeah right" she smirked and picked one album up and examined it. "sorry Demetri but i agree with Em. Did you seriously went in there by yourself?" he sat down beside me and looked at the books.

    I narrowed my eyebrows and growled under my breath. "yes why would i lie about that?" i asked irrtated because they didnt believe me. "come on lets look at some pictures" i said eagerly. Emily smiled. "okay okay i believe you and this should be fun,lets look" she said her voice filled with curiosity.

    We looked through all 3 albums now only 1 left. The 3 had many pictures of Emily, Eric, and I. We looked so young back then, there were a few pictures of my parents though. I picked up the last album and started flipping the pages. This album had pictures of my parents and their friends.

    I came across a picture of my dad and mom standing happily beside each other in casual clothes. But what caught my attention was the guy standing beside my dad. A woman that had long jet black hair and pale skin. Her eyes a beautiful chocolate brown......like mine. I stared at her. Emily noticed her as well. "Demetri you look so much like her....." she said quietly. Eric was still there, but he was on my bed he got bored with the pictures and had fallen asleep.

    Taking the picture out of the slot in the album and i ran downstairs, Emily right behind me. I found my aunt in the kitchen and showed her the picture. "auntie, wh-who is this lady?" i asked a bit out of breath. She examined the picture her eyes widening a bit. She raised an eyebrow. "where did you find this?" she asked her voice getting a bit quiet now. "i went back to our old house and found some photo albums and took them with me. So who is this lady? Is she family?"

    Auntie had sadness in her eyes and took the album and picture from me. She pulled out a different picture and handed it to me without saying a word. I took the picture and looked at it, my eyes got bigger as i looked closer at it. The woman was there once more and a guy with dark hair and eyes was behind her his arms around her waist. In her arms laid a baby with black hair, pale skin, and chocolate brown eyes......

    ~Chapter 7
    I felt so uneasy seeing me as a baby in another woman's arms that wasn't the woman i thought to be my mom. Auntie looked up at me. "demetri.....this is your real family.....this woman is your mom and she was a wonderful woman. Her name was Melody and she loved you very much so did your father. But something happened.....and......." she trailed off and tears streamed down her cheeks.

    Emily stood there behind me her eyes wide and she took my hand. "auntie what are you saying? so this whole time Demetri wasnt my real brother?" she asked her voice shaking a bit we were both confused. Auntie looked up at sighed. "lets go to the couch and ill explain everything, okay?" she said and sat down on the couch, emily and i sat in a chair across from her, we sat side by side.

    She looked up and held the photo album in her hand and sighed. "okay so here goes, but watch out, its pretty long....." she took a deep breath before she started to tell our secret story, the story about my childhood, that i cant remember. "so, your mom, demetri, or Melody was a very kind woman. She has been my friend for a long time now, so has Emily's mom, Stephanie. We've always been a trio and always there for each other. This man in the photo." she pointed to the picture of my real dad. "his name was Derek and he was your mom.....Melody's true love. They met during high school and well he had this......secret...." She looked up at Emily and I. "you guys arent going to believe me, but i am telling the truth." She took a deep breath and let it out very slowly. "your dad......Derek's secret was that he wasnt your normal human being. Actually he wasnt human at all. You've heard tales of vampires. Well Derek was a Vampire.......but not like what you hear about the stereotypes he was one of the kindest person i have met in my life." Emily interrupted with her perky but worried voice. "if derek was a vampire, but melody is human......does that mean Demetri is a half vampire?"

    We sat there in silence as we all pondered over that on little question.

    ~Chapter 8
    Auntie looked at the ground, it felt like it has been silent for hours. "im not sure, if Demetri is like his father, or not....so far he hasnt had any signs of being a vampire." Demetri wasnt really paying attention to her he was lost in his mind which was cluttered with questions. i might be a vampire? the 2 people that I believed were his parents were just my biological parents friends? No, then am i just cousins or something with Emily? all this time i thought we were twins. Does that mean my real parents are still a live? Questions danced around in my mind. I looked over at Auntie i wanted to ask her every question i had but my throat felt clogged. I looked at her for along time. i knew i should have told demetri sooner, he doesnt need all of this dumped on him. I need to explain why his parents werent there to raise him. I heard her thoughts and jumped a bit. "wh-what was that?" I said in a shaken voice.

    Emily looked at Demetri worriedly. "whats wrong?" she asked. I looked over at Emily and could see the worry in her eyes. poor demetri....i need to be here for him. I guess we arents twins after all just friends or cousins...i guess... I clutched my head not understanding why he could hear every ones thoughts. Running up the stairs he slammed the door behind him and got on the computer. "i cant be a vampire. How can i become a vampire? Im already not normal now this has to happen?" I went on google and typed Vampires in the search section.

    I clicked on a website that sounded pretty interesting. "i have to learn what i can about vampires...and see if these things happen to me....." he said quietly to himself, he had locked the door so Emily and Auntie couldnt distract him from his research. The article said:
    Vampires are said to be mythical creatures......but are they truly myths? The stereotypes that you see and hear about vampires are that they can not handle garlic, they drink blood, and are beasts in human form. Most of those things are true. How do you think i know this? well thats my secret. This article will tell you what a true vampire can do.
    Vampires are much stronger than humans, and have are very fast. Some can fly, well its not exactly flying more like hovering. They are a bit sensitive to the sun, only some are. But even if a vampire isnt sensitive to the sun, they stay pale as a sheet. They lurk in the shadows and prefer the night life over the day life anytime.
    The diets are pretty simple. They can eat whatever we can, they just need blood. It doesnt have to be human blood it can be animal blood as well. As long as its a liquid and was from a living creature thats all that matters.
    Some of them are very talented. Most vampires have Telepathy, being able to read one another thoughts. Some just have a different power than others, like having the abilty to see the future and to shape shift into whatever they want. It is heard that vampires can even turn into a black shadow, thats usually the thing that haunts someone, just a vampire diguised as a shadow.

    I stopped reading it when i read the part about a black shadow. It seemed so much like that mysterious thing in the haunted house. The guy who wrote the article signed it with his name. Derek Shan I furrowed my eyebrows as i read the name. "my fathers name is Derek....he was a vampire....is Shan is last name? if thats so then....." i trailed off in thought and searched for the date when this article was made. September 7th..........yesterdays date........