The Donor House: Melody: Becoming a Vampire (part 1)
Follows on from Rex: Saving Melody
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
The first thing Melody noticed was the sound of snoring. At first she wasn’t really awake, so she thought it was the end of a dream, because she was sure she could remember her car going into a tree and a vampire saving her life. It seemed so utterly impossible that even when she was awake enough to open her eyes that she couldn’t quite believe that she could hear snoring. Being able to hear someone snoring, when it wasn’t something she would normally hear in her bedroom, could mean only one thing. Her dream hadn’t been a dream. Slowly, breathing deeply, she sat up and stared down at the vampire who had saved her life.
It was a surprise to see the vampire, who Melody thought had told her his name was Rex, sleeping on the floor. Part of the surprise was due to him still being asleep, because she didn’t think it was possible for a newly created vampire to wake up before her creator, and part was because she couldn’t understand why he hadn’t shared the bed, as it was more than big enough for the two of them. Shaking her head, unable to believe that the vampire had not only saved her life but had also given up his bed, she slipped out of the bed. Her first urge was to look at herself in a mirror, even though she wasn’t certain she would be able to see herself.
Quietly, not wanting to wake Rex, if that was his name, she slipped out of the bed and wandered across the bedroom. At least she thought it was a bedroom. It had a bed in it. Shrugging, she pushed open the door, and found herself glancing back at the sleeping vampire. For a few seconds, maybe even as long as a minute, she stared at him, wondering who he was. The longer she looked at him the longer she found herself thinking she recognised him, but she couldn’t be sure where from.
Melody had only taken a couple of steps away from the door when she realised where she’d seen him before. Biting hard on her lip she turned back. He hadn’t changed at all in the time since the photographs of him and her mother had been taken, because he hadn’t died. The vampire who called himself Rex was the boyfriend her mother had lost when he disappeared, only his name wasn’t Rex then, and she knew that he saved her because of who she was. As his eyes opened and he stared at her she couldn’t work out how she felt.
“How are you feeling, Melody?” Rex asked, breaking the silence before she was anywhere near ready to talk.
Stalling, she shrugged, trying to find her voice. “Better than I would be if I was dead, I guess,” she replied, unsurprised when she whispered. “I was going to find a mirror. I wanted to look at myself, see how much I’ve changed now that I’m a vampire.”
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.