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I gingerly sat on the bed that was supposed to be h

“Gabriel?” I asked

“Mh away fro you would have thought the as telling him a story Maybe it was for all I knew

“Does it hurt?” I asked “Beco a vampire?”

He sighed and I saw his shoulders sag He closed his eyes and ran his hand through his hair

“Yes, you can’t begin to iine how much You’re on fire all over but you’re cold too and you shake uncontrollably Your veins feel like they’re going to burst and your eyes feel like they’re going to explode Your skull feels like it is splitting open Your throat burns with thirst Every bone in your body feels like it’s been broken and knitting back together You think youbut you can still feel your heart beating because it’s beating so fast You think it ht out of your chest You just want it to end You beg and plead but you can’t tell if you’re speaking or only hearing your own thoughts Everything hurts Everything burns You welco for it even But it doesn’t come and never will And then you wake up some indeterminable time later and then you really wish you would have died You’re so thirsty but not for water Blood It calls to you All the tioes away even after you’ve had a meal The pain of thirst is so a vampire”

“If you had been given the choice to stay human or become a vampire which would you have chosen?” I asked softly

“I would have stayed hu hu to be huo on and live h so s that no one should ever have to I have to live every day with blood on my hands I’ve killed people, that’s common in the first years after you turn, at least now I kno to control oes that far There’s so much that I’ve done that I wish I could take back There’s so uess I have a hero-co tiood I’ve had to build a shell around ainst the

“So, you understand why I don’t want to becoht?” I asked timidly

He chuckled, “I do and I don’t I would give anything to be huain but if I found my soul mate I’m not sure I would still think that A lot of times I think that I’ll never findthem kill Lea That I’ll never find happiness You have no idea what it’s like to live forever being miserable Do you knohy it is that vampires have to drink blood?”

“No,” I shook my head, “J

onathon doesn’t tell ”

Gabriel gwaffed and shook his head, “It’s because we’re not holy We aren’t meant to exist and therefore in order for us to live we have to have sustenance through soives us our powers, ouras there’s blood there will be vampires”

Just thenme jump Gabriel picked it up off the shared end table a tossed it to ht it and flipped it open to read the text Isaac

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