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“Stop worrying about the baby,” she scolded me

“No, not that Ia vampire Gabriel told me what it’s like” Jonathon had never wanted to tell me about the process, but ere on the run from Selena, Gabriel had told me

She sighed “I guess that didn’t help with the whole wanting to stay hu did it?”

“No, but I’ve made my choice”

“Don’t worry about the change It will go flawlessly but I’ to be in extreme pain,” she looked at my sadly

I closed my eyes I could still hear Gabriel’s words perfectly I had the a vampire?”

His words echoed like a ghost in ine 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 its 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”

Re his words sent a shiver down my spine

“Just don’t think about it,” suggested Diana “That should s you should know”

“Like what?” I asked raising my eyebrows

She bit her lip “Remember when Jonathon told you olves didn’t exist?”

I tried to remember back that far “I think so”

“He lied”

I clenched my jaw What else had he lied about? “So, they are real?” I asked

“Yes,” she frowned, braiding her hair to busy her fingers “They don’t actually turn into wolves but they grow hair all over their bodies, especially their faces, and their teeth grow long and pointed, the fullnear them on a full moon is a bad idea because they lose all sense of their humanity Not that they have et bit by one either, whether you’re human or vampire If you’re human you turn into one and if you’re a vampire it acts like a poison to your system And silver bullets are only a myth by the way”