A mistake that cost a life

“It feels great to be back home.” said Logan. Welcome home brother!” his sister replied excitingly. Jenna was unaware of the danger Logan had brought with him. The undeniable urge of human blood, the constant sound of one’s heart thumping couldn't stop him from getting in his real form. He was a vampire. After living for years in a supernatural town filled with vampires and witches, called ‘Arcenia’ this was inevitable. A week had passed since Logan had returned, in that week his hometown, Hartford in Connecticut had faced 10 deaths. All mysteriously done by him. Logan would get out at late night to satisfy his hunger and to do so he would rip people’s flesh and drink the blood from it as if he was drinking a beer. 

One night, a girl was passing by when he was roaming on the road covered in blood. She saw him and freaked out, she tried to shout but logan compelled her and told her to forget everything. “What's your name?”, Logan asked very sweetly. “Veronica”, she replied in a terrified way. This was the first time when Logan didn't want to tear apart the person standing in front of him. Since the day he came, he was always alone and had no friends because he didn't want to make any in view of the fact that he knew that he would end up hurting them. 

Logan always remembered Arcenia and the vampire friends he had there, especially his best friend, Mia. She was 250 years old and lived in Arcenia since she was a kid. Logan missed her every day and the moments he had made with her. For all the time that Logan had lived in Arcenia, he spent his time mostly with Mia, they used to race, play tennis, watch movies, eat food together and so much more. All Logan wanted in those moments was for him to have his friendship with Mia to remain forever.  But now that he was in Hartford he had to get distracted from Mia. He went out for a walk and noticed Veronica again. “Hey” said Logan in a very sweet voice. “Hi!” Veronica replied. She politely continued, “Are you new here, I haven't seen you before” she had forgotten that she had seen the vampire side of Logan. “Uh actually yes, I am new in this town, I just came last week and so far, I barely know anyone here.” Veronica smiled. Logan had never seen anyone this beautiful before. She had blue eyes and brown straight hair, and she was wearing a sea green turtleneck sweater and a black skirt with a burgundy color muffler. Logan couldn't get his eyes off of her. “Would you like to have coffee?” Logan asked desperately. “I am sorry, but I have plans tonight how about tomorrow?” “Oh yeah sure.” logan replied. 

After meeting Veronica, Logan did not want to commit any more murders. As a surprise, his hunger for a few moments had stopped. But he was a vampire, no matter how much, in his heart, he wanted to change, his hunger had consumed him, and he had to drink blood. So, he murdered two people that night. The first time he had guilty for his own nature. The next day when Logan met Veronica for coffee, he had forgotten everything about the dark side of this life. He felt safe and comfortable with her and thought that he could share anything with her, even though he is a vampire. But he didn't because he was afraid Veronica would leave her. “So, tell me more about yourself,” Veronica asked curiously. “Um there is not much to know about. Hartford is my hometown, and I recently came back after studying for a while in another city.” Logan answered nervously. “Which city?” Veronica kept the conversation going. “Um you might not know it, it’s a very small and secluded town.” “Uh okay.” Veronica stuttered. There was a long pause. “Hey coffee’s here!” Logan exclaimed. It was an awkward first date but Logan was happy, after a long time. For the first time Logan didnt feel pressured about anything. After meeting Veronica, Logan had sweared off murdering people to satiate his hunger. He decided to go for blood bags. 

For the next 3 weeks, there were no murders in the town. Everyone in town was glad and joyful. Veronica had called Logan over for dinner. When logan came to her house she hadn't prepared the food completely and said “Hey you are annoyingly on time.” Logan laughed and replied “I am sorry if I have the good habit to be punctual. Anyways here I’ll help you” Both of them laughed and Logan started cutting vegetables. While he was cutting vegetables, he got distracted and cut his finger. “Ahh” Logan cried. “Logan!” Veronica screamed. When she came to Logan, the wound had healed on its own. “Uh w-what was that? I-I just saw blood on your finger and now-” “hey it’s fine I’m fine why dont we go back to making the dinner.” logan tried to cover up. “No I-I’m su-” “I am fine Veronica dont you understand!” Logan yelled and as he yelled his eyes turned completely red and his fangs became enormous. Veronica was astonished. “Ahhhhhhhh” she yelled and started running. “Veronica wait!” Logan howled continuously. 

Veronica locked herself in a room and shouted “get out of my house! Who are you? A monster?” Logan couldnt control his anger but he had to because he was with the girl he loved so much. “No veronica, please hear me out. It is nothing what you imagine it to be.” “oh yeah? Did your eyes not turn red? Did your wound not heal? Did your fangs not grow? Was all of that my imagination huh? Am i some kind of great hallucination master now?” veronica said in a frustrated and scared voice. “No you didnt imagine any of it.” both of them got quite but Logan could hear her panicking and heart beat increasing. “Okay, Veronica, I will tell you everything but please you will have to listen to me and trust me that I will not hurt you, no matter what.” “Who are you?!” Veronica asked furiously. Logan answered. “Veronica if I tell you what I am you will hate me forver and never even want to see me again but just know one thing that I never intended to hurt you and neither I have. I love you Veronica and always will and if I wanted to hurt you i would have already but I didnt. Doesnt that count from something? anything? ” “Just answer my question” Veronica answered unsympathetically. “I am a vampire” Logan finally told her. 

A wooden stake came through the wooden door into Logan’s hand. “Ahhhh” he cried and fell to the floor. A woman came out of the room. She was not Veronica. “W-h-o are yo-u?” Logan stuttered. “I am certainly not you so-called forever love, Veronica. Although I wonder what her reaction would have been after your big revelation” “Where is she? And who are you? Tell me right now!” “I am Emilia. You might not remember me. I lived in Arcenia with my family. No one over there was a prt of the supernatural world and all of us were living a happy life until one day you came and murdered everyone in my family. You had even killed me.” “T-hen how are you- ” “Alive? I had vampire blood in my system. I came back from the dead and since that day I have been follwoing each step of yours, just like your shadow.”

 As emilia described her tragic story, Logan was automatically walking towards an excruciating death. “Where is Veronica?” Logan asked and Emilia scoffed and said “Oh I am veronica. I pretended to be her andd bumped intoy ou the other day and showed genuine interest in you which led us over here.Also, that night, when you first saw me and compelled me I didnt get compelled, just pretended to not know anything about that heinous act.” that was the most disheartening moment of Logan’s life. Not only was he knocking the oor of death but he was also betrayed. The one person that kept him from falling apart was also a treachery. “I could have killed you the moment I had found you but that wouldnt have been this interesting for me and you would have not experienced the pain my family did!” “I-I—” logan was dead “this is for you mom and dad” Emilia declared. Logan’s biggest mistake was to return to his town where he had no support or anyone who even knew about him as a vampire. If he would have been in Arcenia, his friends could have saved him.