Part One

A GIRL LOST AND CONFUSED ALONE IN THE DARK AS DEATH SAT AMUSED DEATH AND DARKNESS FIT PRETTY WELL A FIERY DEATH SENT STRAIT FROM HELL A LITTLE GIRL NAMED LILITH SAT AT THE END OF MY BED AND THE GIRL ASKED A QUSTION AM I DEAD LILITH SAID SOON WITH A FIERY  PASSION  AS LILITHS EYES TURNED RED AND AS MERIN STARTED READ ON HER MOTHER ISABELA  KNOCKED ON MERINS DOOR AND SHE SAID YEAH COME IN.  SAID DINNERS READY AND AS SHE WALKED OUT THE ROOM MERINS NEW BOYFRIEND RYAN  TEXTED.  SHE RACED TO HER PHONE AND SHE LOOKED AT HER PHONE AND THE MESSAGE READS (UMM I KNOW WE HAVE ONLY BEEN DATING 3 MONTHS BUT MAY I COME HAVE DINNER WITH YOU AND MEET YOUR FAMILY) SHE FROZE UP LIKE A ICE CUBE AND SLOWLY MESSAGED HIM BACK THE MESSAGE READS (SURE) SHE RAN AS FAST AS SHE COULD TO

MARCIE SHE SHOWED MARCIE THE MESSAGE MARCIE PASSED OUT. MERIN SAID TO HERSELF WAS IT THAT BAD. THEN THE DOOR BELL RANG HER MOM  ISABELA OPENED THE DOOR OH WOW YOU MUST  BE RYAN

YES MA'AM  MAY I COME IN RYAN SAID. OH YES COME IN ISABELA SAID SOO WHEN DINNER GOT DONE THEY ATE

AND THEN MERIN SHOWED RYAN.  HER ROOM AND THEY PLAYED

DARTS AND LISTNED TO LYNYRD SKYNYRD'S SIMPLE MAN. 3 HOURS LATER RYAN SAID I GOTTA GO OR MY MOM IS GONNA THINK IM DEAD OR LOST! HA I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL MERIN SAID YEA SO BYE AND GOODNIGHT RYAN SAID OK THE NEXT MORNING LYDIA CALLED AND TOLD HER  THE WEDDING WAS TOMORROW SO SHE STARTED TO PACK AND THEY LEFT ISABELA,MERIN,MARCIE AND LYDIA STAYED IN ONE ROOM CODY,RYAN AND JAKE STAYED IN ANOTHER. AND WELL IT WENT AS ANY WEDDING WOULD AND CODY AND LYDIA ARE GONNA NEED A SHOWER HA MERIN

SAID TO ISABELA WHY ISABELA ASKED MERIN (lydia and cody walk in)  THAT'S WHY  (isabela turns around) OH MY GOSH YOU TWO ARE COVERED IN CAKE HAHAHAHA YEAH WE ARE  LETS GET IN THE SHOWER SO MERIN,MARCIE,ISABELA AND JAKE HEADED HOME AND WHEN THEY GOT HOME MERINS BEST FRIEND JAYEANNA RAYE GRAYSON WAS ASLEEP IN HER CAR IN MERINS FRONT YARD. JAYE!! MERIN SCREAMED JAYEANNA WAKES UP AND SAYS MERIN WE NEED TO TALK. OK WHAT DO U WANNA TALK ABOUT JAYEANNA MAYBE WE COULD TALK ABOUT THE FACT YOU WERE IN MY DRIVE WAY JEEZ WOMAN  LAST NIGHT I GOT BIT BY SOMETHING WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? AND HOW? ME AND TYLER LISA AND JASON WERE CAMPING AT FUQUA AND IT WENT  AFTER LISA FIRST AND THEN JAY THEN ME AND I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO BE CUZ LISA AND TYLER ARE DEAD THERE DEAD. OK LET ME SEE THE BITE  MERIN SAID  OK. WHAT THE FRAK! IS THAT  MERIN SAID I DONT KNOW ITS GONNA SOUND STUPID BUT I THINK IT WAS A VAMPIRE. DID YOU SEE IT  YES IT LOOKED LIKE RYAN. NO NO NO ITS IMPOSSIBLE MERIN SAID NO ITS NOT AS CRAZY AS IT SOUNDS JAYE SAID YOUR CRAZY IM CALLING THE COPS. NO IM NOT BODYS DRAINED OF BLOOD WITH NO BLOOD AROUND THE BODYS WITH THEIR THROATS RIPPED OUT HANGING FROM TREES 10 MILES AWAY AND IM CRAZY. THAT MEANS YOUR A VAMPIRE MERIN SAID NO IM NOT YET JAYE SAID OH MY GOSH  U SCARED ME WHOA WAIT NOT YET WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT YET WHEN THE ECLIPSE COMES I WILL BE THO (merin starts crying) MER ITS ALL GONNA BE OK. REALLY NO ITS NOT  NOTHING ABOUT THIS IS OK  MER MERIN CALM  DOWN. CALM DOWN HA THATS ALMOST A JOKE BUT JOKES ARE FUNNY MERIN SAID YEAH ITS NOT A JOKE

  OK OK OK PLEASE STOP TALKING  IM GOING INSIDE (merin starts breathing hevily) OK SOO UR NOT TEMPTED TO DRINK MY BLOOD. NOOOO I'M SOOO NOT SAID JAYE

THE NEXT MORNING MERIN RACED TO HER DIARY AND WROTE DEAR DIARY JAYE DIDNT EVEN TELL ME THAT THE ECLIPSE WAS TODAY IM MAD BUT ITS HER LAST DAY AS A HUMAN BEING SO IM GONNA TAKE HER SHOPPING OK AND MERIN CLOSED HER DIARY AND TOOK HER CAR AND TURN ON THE RADIO. AND HER FAVORITE SONG WAS ON SHE KNEW IT WAS A SIGN THAT GOOD THINGS WERE GONNA HAPPEN SHE PULLED UP AND A FRIEND THEY HAVENT. SEEN SINCE 4TH GRADE WAS THERE  HER NAME IS  "CHRISSIE MARIE MANSON" SHE RAN UP TO CHRISSIE AND HUGGED HER SHE SAID OH MY GOD I HAVENT SEEN  YOU IN. FOREVER WOW ABOUT 4:00pm HOPE LEANN SPENCER AND JAXSON EDMUND BROWN HAD SHOWN UP AND THEN JAYEANNA RAYE SAID LETS PARTY SOO SHE WENT TO HER TRUCK GOT HER PHONE CALLED RYAN AND A FEW "80" OTHER PEOPLE THAT WENT TO SCHOOL WITH THEM AT DUNCAN. HIGHSCHOOL AND EVERYONE DANCED TILL 1:30am THEN EVERYONE LEFT EXCEPT CHRISSIE, JAYEANNA, MERIN AND HOPE THEY ALL WENT TO GET BREAKFEST AND THEN JAYEANNA RAYE DROPED OFF CHRISSIE AND HOPE

AND TOOK MERIN DRIVING TO FUQUA AND SHOWED HER WHERE THE ATTACK HAPPENED BUT RYAN WAS THERE WITH LISA AND TYLER AND RYAN TOOK. MERIN HOME RYAN AND MERIN WALKED INTO MARCIES' ROOM AND SHE WAS LAYING ON THE FLOOR WITH TEARS RUNNIN DOWN HER FACE SHE WAS BARELY ALIVE NOT EVEN RYAN COULD SAVE HER MOMENTS LATER SHE QUIT BREATHING MERIN STARTED SCREAMING AND CRYING RYAN SAID MER. SHES GONE IF ONLY I COULD OF SAVED HER SO THE NEXT DAY A BUNCH OF PEOPLE ALSO CACEE BREEANNA AND JACEE ANNA MACCORMACK AND GRACIE LYNN DIAZ

THEY BULIT A RAFT AND PUT REAL ROSES' AND THEN PUT MARCIE ON THERE  AND AS THEY PUT HER INTO THE RIVER RYAN AND MERIN  SANG IF I DIE YOUNG BY THE BAND PERRY THE NEXT MORNING SHE WOKE UP SHE WAS HAPPY SHE STARTED BLAIRING WALKING ON SUNSHINE IT WAS LIKE SHE FORGOT  AND IT WAS WEIRD BECAUSE THAT NIGHT SHE INVITED EVERYONE EVEN PEOPLE SHE HATED  AND EVERYONE KNEW SHE WAS A GAMER AND A DANCER SHE WORE MMO AND RPG AND KATERINA GRAHAM TEE SHIRTS EVERY DAY TO SCHOOL SHE EVEN HAD WORLD OF WARCRAFT "PJS" AS SHE PUT IT WELL SHE GOT NIKOLINA DOBREVA SING A SONG IT WAS. "SURVIVOR" AND IT WAS AWESOME AND SHE FOUND OUT THAT  EVERY THING SHE KNEW ABOUT VAMPIRES. WAS NOT TRUE THEY DONT EVEN NEED JEWELRY TO WALK IN THE SUN  LIKE IN VAMPIRE DIARIES THERE REALLY WAY. BETTER MIRRORS NOT TRUE THE SUN NOT TRUE THEY GROW OLD IF THEY DONT DRINK BLOOD AND SHE WAS SOO HAPPY. SHE HAD ALOT OF BAD THINGS TO THINK ABOUT BUT SHE TRY'D NOT TO ONE OF HER FRIENDS SIERRA DAWN GOLDEN I CAME. UP TO HER AND SAID "HEY I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN A WHILE AND MY BIRTHDAY IS TODAY AND I WANTED TO SEE IF YOU. COULD COME AND SHE SAID YES AND THAT NIGHT SIERRA WENT AND MET HER BOYFRIEND DRACON MIKAEL REESE. AND THEY SAT DOWN AND TALKED UNTIL THEY WENT HOME AND WHEN MERIN FINALLY WHEN WENT HOME SHE THREW HER. BAG DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND THEN RAN UP TO HER ROOM AND LAID DOWN AND WENT TO SLEEP WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING AND TURNED ON HER RADIO AND. WALKING ON SUNSHINE CAME ON AND SHE JUST KNEW SOMTHING GOOD WAS GONNA HAPPEN AND THEN IT CAME TO HER TODAY IS COMIC - CON THING AT SCHOOL AND SHE THOUGHT WELL NOW MY LIFE IS LIKE A GAMING SYSTEM I GUESS BUT WHY NOW? WHY RIGHT BEFORE MY 18TH BIRTHDAY? I DONT CARE NOW AT LEAST ITS HAPPNING. ITS NOW OR NEVER SO JUST ACCEPT IT RIGHT. NOW IM GONNA GO SEE JAYE SO MERIN GOT IN HER CAR AND ONCE AGAIN THERE TWO FRIEND SHE HASNT IN WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THERE NAMES ARE FELICITY LEANNE REESE AND KATHRINE MAE ANNE TAYLOR AND THEY ALL WENT OUT TO EAT AND RYAN WAS THERE WITH CODY LYDIA AND JASON CAUSE HE HAD GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL