Vampire Love For The Cold - Charlotte Taylor (fiction book recommendations TXT) 📗

Special Thanks to Kirsty Barlow and Abigayle Barnes who read it first and for the inspiration. xx <3

Yet again the miserable nightmares woke Crystal with a start... she thought she would have gotten use to them by now... nope.
She flicked her dark purple duvet over off her legs and swung out of bed. She walked to the mirror to look at what damage the tossing and turning had done to her hair. She starred into the mirror.
Her dark blue eyes sweeped her pale face and up to her hair. It looked like she had been dragged through a bush backwards in the night, she probably wouldn't have woken up anyway... so it was a possibility.
She went into the bathroom, washed her face with cold water to wake up properly and grabbed the brush from her mum's make up bad that was on the side of the sink. As she ragged the brush through her black, extremely tangled hair she herd her mum getting up from her bed along the corridor. Her house had always been to big. Just for her and her mum and when her friends came over to sleep, they slept in Crystal's large black bed.
'Crystal, hurry up in there i'm late for a meeting!' shouted Crystal's mum from outside the bathroom door.
'Okay mum. I'll be out in a minute.' Crystal called back.
Crystal didn't live her father, just mother, he died in a fire when she was a baby. Izzy (mum) said she would always love him and work for Crystal to be the best mum ever... and she was living up to it so far.
The green of the walls reflected off the mirror and made Crystal's pale blank face greenish, the same color as when she went to Camelot last year.
'CRYSTAL!!!'
'shit' she muffled. She finished brushing her teeth and went out of the bathroom and left it to her mum.
'Crystal, Kirsty and Abi rang, they'll be over in 10 minutes, ok?'
'K mum. Crystal walked back to her dark room and turned on the light, her room was a tip. Crystal picked up a rubbish bag she left on the floor yesterday to remind her she had to tidy up. She went around her room collecting rubbish and empty packets and scrunched up paper. She threw everything she wanted on to her heap of a bed.
5 minutes later her mother ran out of the house with her car keys and reminded her were Crystal's house keys were. another 5 minuets later and Crystal had finished tiding her room as the door bell went. 'COME IN!' she shouted from the top of the stairs. She still had her pajama bottoms on and a purple jumper. she made her bed then ran downstairs.
Kirsty and Abi were already in the living room watching something on telly.
'Hey, wow you look awful.' Kirsty gasped as Crystal walked past them to go into the kitchen, she stopped.
'ermm ok... thanks' she said weakly and walked into the kitchen.
She walked into the kitchen, it was cold, she looked at her reflection in the toaster as she dropped two pieces of bread into it, she thought she looked fine.
She turned the toaster on and walked back into the living room, she stopped at the door, she could here Kirsty and Abi arguing... again.
'.. i know but you don't say it, she won't see until Thursday will- Crystal?'
Crystal peeped in on them,' What are you two on about?'
Thursday was Crystal's 16th birthday.
She rolled her eyes, it was just another reason to argue for them to...
The rest of the day was a blur in music, TV and frozen dinners, Abi and Kirsty slept over at Crystal's house that night but instead of going to sleep Crystal wonder her house in the dark.
She wonder the long corridors for ages but then she saw a big black door at the back end of the house that she had never seen before. She frowned and clicked open the old door knob, the door slowly squeaked open.
The inside was small and round with old blue and white patterned wallpaper. Apart from that it was empty.
Then a whisper bounced off the walls 'crystal' the whisper was like a hiss. ' Crystal' the hiss was getting louder.
Crstals heart thudded louder and louder, she spun to see where it was coming from but all she saw was the same wallpaper and door, so she ran at the door but before she touched it, it locked itself and a mist came from under the door frame, she backed up into the opposite wall and yelled, she smelt the mist, like burning flowers, she closed her eyes and breathed in, then she blacked out.


Crystal woke with a start.Images of last night flashed before her eyes but now, she was in bed. She remembered some images of her running through a thick forest behind two other people after she had blacked out (probably Kirsty and Abi, Crystals best friends) she folded her arms and shivered, the duvet felt warm on her icy skin but didn't change her tempreture. She slowly sat up in bed, her black streaked hair all over the place, blinds drawn and the DVD player on pause...Kirsty and Abi where awake then.
She sat in silence for a minute or two trying to figure out what the dream meant she had that night. She had had it 48 times already, every birthday Kirsty, Abi and she had had. This was the most confusing part.The things she saw just didn't make sense or could possibly be real...

'HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!' Kirsty and Abi chimed at once on the floor of Crystals messy, black and red room.
Crystal couldn't speak for a minute so she just smiled and padded along into the bathroom.
The dark blue blinds were closed blocking the sun from the light blue bathroom and she realized the mirror had gone.. maybe mum smashed it? She started to brush her teeth.

She walked slowly to her room,stopped and turned down the right landing instead of her room. She could just say she was looking for her mother.The sun gleamed in through the landing window. She strolled past waiting for the warm glow if the sun upon her her skin but instead as the sun touched her skin she fell, screaming in pain. The pain was like the sun was right next to her burning her from the inside out.Thats when she fainted.

She shot her eyes open as her mother poured water down her back and the side of her face to cool the burns. 'ARRRGHHHH' the pain was unbelievable She could she Kirsty and Abigayle cringe as she fell to the floor in pain.
'NOO MUM, STOP, MUMMMMMMM!!!!' tears slide down her pale cheeks as she tore at the black carpet of the living room, they must have herd her screams and carried her down stairs.
Abigayle played with her long silver hair, not knnowing what to do or what to say. Kirsty was wearing one of Crystals jumpers again, the black and purple one this time.
'Abigayle, please will you call Vencaine?'
'NOO MUM JUST STOP. its ok. i swear' Crystal lied. Vencaine was the mayor of the small town they live in, he had always hated Crystal. From the day Kirsty, Abigayle and she had gone joyriding through the town and almost nocked him down.
'Please hun, we have to get help..' Her mother pleaded kneeling next to her on the floor.
'Mum.. how is_ ouch_ Vencaine ment to help. Shouldn't you call an ambulance?' Cryystal wondered why she had been burnt anyway but that can wait.
'I could go get dad, he has delt with this before, with mum..' Kirsty said from the chair near the door.
'NO, CALL AN AMBULANCE, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!' Crystal screamed at the top of her lungs. she was confused and in terrible pain!
'Hun we can't do that. Kirsty, ok call your father.' Mum smiled and held up her pink mobile. Kirsty grabbed the phone, went out of the room staring at Crystal like she felt her pain.
Crystal lay on her side for about 30 minutes when there was a knock on door. Kirsty ran full speed at the door, swung it open and slammed the door shut. Making sure no light came in.
'Hun, you ok? and you don't have to do that I'm over 20 remember?' Kirsty's dad, Frank smiled lovingly.
'oh, yes. I forget... Its Crystal.' Kirsty sounded different. Quiet? Hurt? No, broken.
Frank ran over to Crystal's side with a large suit case in his hand. 'Ok, can you tell me what happened?'
He sounded so calm even though the room was silent in tension.
'ermm, I think she-' My mum whispered the rest to Frank. What was she hiding? I mean it was Crystal that had been mysteriously burnt.
Frank gasped which made Crystal even more scared of the mysteries going on.
Frank rolled Crystal fully on to her left side and clicked open the big black case and took something out then said.' Abi, hold Crystal's hand. Izzy, can you go and get the book. Kirsty sit facing Crystal so she doesn't turn around. Crystal. You trust me?'Frank turned Crystal's head towards his face. 'Yes.' Crystal smiled weakly and turned back Izzy ran up the stairs. Crystal waited. She didn't know what for but she did. The book? what book?
Izzy ran back down the stairs within minutes, Crystal tried to turn her head to see what she brought down.She only saw a glim's of an old, thick black book. She saw a something red on the front but Kirsty had turned her head so she couldn't see. Crystal look down at Kirsty's arm and saw a black, thick band around it with a red symbol on the front. Come to think of it, she had seen it before. On her mother, Frank and Kirsty's mother...
Abigayle squeezed Crystal's hand so she took a deep breathe but Frank hovered his hand over her burns and whispered a passage from the book mum was holding.. then it all went black....
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Kirsty-
Crystal fell to the floor in a lifeless heap after dad began the energy transfer, he had to carry on so he left her on the floor as me and Abi went back upstairs. 'This is why he mother should have told her when she was little like our parents.' Abi moaned as they got to Crystal's room. I ignored like usual and took a look around. There was several shelves of books, DVD piles in all four corners of her 6ft room, the air bed was still on the floor with a messy heap of duvets on top left from when they had herd Crystal's screams.
The t.v was still on pause, they had been watching Jennifer's Body that morning.
A photo album lay open, at the foot of Crystal's bed. Kirsty picked it up as Abigayle moaned on, brushing her shoulder length silvery hair.Kirsty sat on the edge of Crystal's silver framed bed and opened the album.

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Abigayle-
When all goes wrong three things never change, no matter what goes wrong. Kirsty pretends that nothing is wrong, Crystal's in the middle of it all and I'm always the one that can't help.
Crstal's screams echoed