• I sighed as I looked out my window, the sun slowly crawling up the horizon. How I despised the sun, in its rays I felt weak and tired. But at least that one myth that vampires, like myself, would burn up in the sun wasn’t true. If it was I would have died long ago. So would have the last several generations of my family.
    It brought a smile to my face as I thought over my family, as I thought over the deeds we had done. All the blood my family had spilt and all the lives that had been stolen by us. For most people that would have been a disturbing feeling knowing that your family would be considered murders, but for me and my family it wasn’t bad. It was a way of living, a way of survival. To us it was nothing more than eating a cow or perhaps a hog. But either way it wasn’t any different to us as it was to humans that eat animals for food.
    Most mortals would disagree with me on that, they’d say that just because humans are not animals just because they belong in the mammal category. But they are dead wrong, humans are animals.
    I heard a bottle cap snap open, and the scent of blood filled my nostrils. I breathed in deeply. My door opened
    (What ever happened the knocking?)
    and my mother walked in. Behind her was my grandmother, and they both had smiles on their faces. I raised my eyebrows at them, wondering what they were doing. My mother had an opened bottle of fresh, delicious blood in her hands. She walked over to me and sat down on my bed, while my grandmother stood beside her.
    “What is it you need mother?” I asked,
    “Have you forgotten what day it is?” she said with a playful smirk.
    I was silent, not knowing what the day symbolized. It was the 30th of October. It hit the bell, but the bell did not ring. I looked at my mother, and then my grandmother, nothing.
    “I’m afraid I have forgotten, mother,” I said frowning.
    She let out a soft chuckle, and handed me the bottle of blood. “I’m surprised, “she said. “It’s your birthday, Blair.” My birthday, how could I have forgotten something as important as that. Especially since it was my 15,000th birthday, one of the Sacred Birthdays that all vampires get excited over. It starts with the 10,000th birthday and happens every millennium and goes on for the rest of eternity.