First of all allow me to introduce myself. My name is Erin Banks, I'm eighteen years old and I go to high school. I have no brother or sister that I know of... I say that because I live with my dad. My mom, or that bitch, as we usually call her, left us when I was three and we haven't heard from her since. I have a boyfriend. His name is Mark, he goes to the same school as I do. We started having sex last summer. He tends to be quick shot, if you see what I mean. But I like it when he kisses me in the neck and he's sweet and well I think I love him. Yeah, I know, big words and everything. How could an eighteen year old know about love? Well maybe I do or maybe I don't but at least I love being around him and talking over the phone for hours with him and when we make love I feel a strong heat in my chest. Am I being too blunt talking about sex like this, out of the blue? Is it too crude for you? If I do I must apologize but it's not entirely my fault. You see, at the moment, I'm watching a vampire movie.
Where's the link? Well I'm a bit embarrassed to say, but I've always been turned on by vampires. Weird right? It's a secret I've never told anyone. It all started when I was around eleven. That evening my dad had to stay late at work. I was alone and bored so I started watching this old Hammer movie "Dracula A.D. 1972" with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. I don't know if you've seen it, if you haven't you should, it's a pretty good one. Anyway, at the beginning you have this scene where Dracula is brought back from the dead by his disciple and obviously the Prince of Darkness is hungry but his disciple has thought of that and he has this hippy girl with him - yes the story takes place in the seventies so there are hippies around. So the girl is bitten and she loudly shows her appreciation...
Imagine me all innocent and all, with my head up my butt, with a sticky fluid between my legs, with my heart racing, with this tall guy with a terrible dental hygiene looking at me through the thin glass of the TV screen... Quite an experience as you can imagine. And that was my first orgasm. Not that at the time, I knew what it was but since I had liked that so much, I did everything I could to replicate the experiment. So I am a big vampire movie fan and books and comics and role-playing games and pretty much anything that is related to the great fanged ones. I won't tell you that Edward Cullen can go fuck... I mean stake himself because I feel that you don't need to hear my point of view on that. You do understand me; there is dark side to vampirism, a part that Implies blood and sex, not the kind of bullshit that sparkles in the sunlight...
Anyway, for the last seven years I've tried to watch every single vampire movie out there. There's a lot of crap but from time to time you find a neat one. Either it has fangs, or lots of turning or even vampire sex... Sorry again with that... Anyway the one I'm watching right now is the lousy reboot of a remake from a great franchise that came out in the eighties. The plot holes are deep but with all the biting and hot vamps I must say that my own holes are soaked wet... Okay, if this is bothering you, you should go elsewhere because I'm not apologizing anymore for this.
So, the movie finishes. The hero and the heroine are humans again and they'll live happily, not forever but happily, and make many non vamp kids... Yey... I don't really care, I've peaked already during the scene were the girl who has just been turned by the old but pretty good looking vampire countess turns her boyfriend in a pool of blood and I'm dosing off in front of the end credits. My dad's off for the weekend, I think itยดs work related, and Mark is busy somewhere doing something, so you can imagine that I am completely awake when I hear a key turning in our flat door. I jump to my feet, run to my room and close the door behind me. Fuck, I left my phone in the living room. I peak through the door but itยดs too late, the intruder is already in. I lock the door. I try not to breath, I listen.
"Erin?"
I know that voice. Where do I know that voice from? I feel like it's a voice I hear everyday...
"Erin? Stop messing around, I know you're in here, I can smell you..."
Smell? What the... Wait is that my... My voice?
"Erin, you have to trust me, you have to open this door, you have to help me."
How can it be my voice?
"Go away," I say under my breath.
"I can't Erin; you have to help me, please..."
Fuck, fuck, fuck... What should I do?
I stand still. No noise coming from the other side of the door. I wait for a while and then a little more. Still no noise, nothing. I unlock the door and have a look. Nothing to the left, nothing in front of me, nothing to the ... Fuck!
I realize that I haven't told you about myself. I am a true redhead, yup true. I am a redhead up there; when I don't shave which is like ... err... every now and then, I'm a redhead under my armpits and of course I'm a proud redhead down there. I have freckles all over my face and body; as I grew up I wasn't too fond of them but now that everything is where it should be I must say that they do look nice, and Mark says they look so kawai - yeah, sorry about that but Mark can sometimes be a bit of an Anime geek. I have my curly hair straightened and I cut it short. My height is under average. I have tits, yey! They grew pretty late and it made me pretty worried when I was around sixteen. I'm a bit overweight. Oh, and I have what the French call a "grain de beautรฉ" just above my pubis and I love my "grain de beautรฉ". You get the picture. Now, I've been catalogued as a Goth at school. It's not that I actually follow the whole spirit of the thing but I do like wearing black. What can I say, it goes with everything, on every occasion and it's a bit vampy too, I have to confess.
Why do I tell you all this? Well it's because for the first time in my life I get to see myself "live". Not in a mirror, not in a picture or a video, live. In front of me, there's me. Same round but sweet face, same nice butt, same hair cut, same everything. Three little things diverge: I am much paler than me... That sounds weird but you get the drill... My eyes glow with a reddish tint. And my teeth, no wait not my teeth, my teeth aren't teeth they look much more like fangs... Yeah so I am pretty much you're standard vampire...
I fall back on my ass. I was already on all four so the fall isn't really painful, furthermore it's not my ass I'm worried about right now, itยดs my... that thing, right there in front of me. Just like your typical crab, I crawl back into my room trying to close the door by kicking it. I'm not totally successful and the door opens to reveal... Yes, you guessed correctly: me as a vampire.
"Erin, please, don't be afraid, you have to trust me."
"..."
Yeah I could have been more explicit, more original but put yourself in my shoes: VampMe, or in this case I should say VampYou is standing in the doorway to your room. You would be terrified, right? Actually now that I think of it, the fact that I didn't scream my lungs out is a proof of high self control. Well that and the fact that I live in New York...
"What..."
No wait, thatยดs quite offensive.
"...Who are you?"
VampMe is looking a bit embarrassed.
"Itยดs a bit complicated... I am you... Sort of..."
"..."
"I am ... you"
Seeing VampMe insecure like this makes me feel more ... secure.
"Well thatยดs clear, but how come you are me?"
"As I said, it's complicated."
"Well then uncomplicate it!"
"Yes, yes of course... But are you sure you don't want to sit and have a drink or something?"
"Yes, you're right..."
I stand, she doesn't move, I don't move. We are staring at each other. She realizes she's in the way and she takes a few steps back. I step into the living room. We hesitate, observing each other with great attention.
"Oh fuck this," I say taking the lead towards the kitchen.
I open the fridge; my hand goes for the orange juice. I stop in mid air. I grab a beer. Tonight I need something stronger.
"What can I get you?" I say
"Err... nothing," VampMe answers.