User blog:EwImTrash/Left in the Woods

Chapter 1: Bit in the Woods
Lucy slouched against a tree. "I thought Dad saying he was going to leave me was an empty threat." She mumbled.

She tried to fall asleep, but the squeaks and chirps of woodland animals kept her awake, frightened.

"I usually love the dark, but now that I'm alone with animals staring at me...it's kinda frightening. I miss Lynn...and Lincoln...and Luan...and all my family."

She crawled to a dark cave and fumbled around, looking for a place to rest. She heard a squeak.

"Hello?" she called.

Yellow eyes glowered back at her in the dark. Two more appeared. More and more until Lucy discovered a flock of bats.

"Hey?" she grinned.

They squeaked back at her. She leaned in to touch one, hoping they were vampires.

A bat bit her.

She pulled her hand away. "You better be a vampire, because that hurt!"

Her gums began to hurt. She grinned, and laid against a rock. The squeaks of the bat lulled her to sleep.

She woke up a few hours later to a shadowy figure shaking her and calling her name.

"Lucy! Lucy, wake up!"

Lucy's eyelids bolted up. "Uh, who is it?!" She wiped her eyes, her gums still aching. "Lincoln?" She smiled and hugged her brother. "Take me home! Please!"

Lincoln grinned, wrapping his arm around his sister. "Let's go."

He lead her to the car, where Rita waited, biting her lip and fiddling with a tube of lipstick. She swiveled to her daughter and son. "Oh, Lucy!"

Lucy ran in the car and hugged her mother. "Thanks for coming back, but I am angry at Dad still." She crawled to the back seat with Lincoln and buckled her seat-belt.

Rita began driving home.

Lucy fiddled at her hurting gums with her tongue. She turned to Lincoln. "My gums hurt, Linc." She pouted, her mouth aching worse with every word.

Lincoln shrugged. "Why do you think it's hurting?"

Lucy bit her lip. "Um....I may have been bitten by a vampire bat and I'm slowly turning into a vampire."

Lincoln snorted. "Yeah, right."

Lucy nudged him. "This happened in my book, Vampires of Melancholia. Edwin bit a mortal, and the first symptom to becoming a vampire is aching gums."

"What's the next symptom?" Lincoln asked, suddenly interested in Lucy's vampire interest.

"A thirst for blood."

Lincoln paled, scooting away from her. "When does that usually happen?"

Lucy shrugged. "If I'm correct, in a few minutes."

Lincoln's eyes bulged. He turned to his mother. "Step on it, Mom!"'