One…

One: In the Beginning

This is the ‘introductory’ chapter, and will be short.

ETA 11/10/12: this story began in 2010, before there were any special poses and such. Also I did not use game mods until a year or so later. This is why some pictures/sim facial expressions (for the first 40 or so chapters) are not perfect.

The questions were as old as time. Where do we go after we die? Is there a heaven, or a hell? Do angels or demons exist? Is there truly a god?

In a heartbeat, everything could change. Something could challenge the answers to those questions; because sometimes when people die, they don’t ‘stay’ dead. Like Lazarus from the Bible, they can come back.  

For there are those called vampires, those mythical creatures fancied by generations of humankind. They are immortal, they never die. But how did they become the undead in the first place? At some point, their body died and the vampirism took over.

It reminded one of an essential resurrection. But the real question was: are vampires real? Do they exist? How could one find out?

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Life… the opposite of death.

…as was birth.

Aubrey Cooper blew out a series of breaths, struggling not to faint due to labor pains.

I’m only 18. How could this have happened? she wondered.

“Aubrey,” Dr. Johansen began. “It’s time to push.” He looked down, preparing to deliver the infant.

Aubrey exhaled, then pushed as hard as she could. An excruciating tearing sensation followed.

“Almost there,” Dr. Johansen said, maneuvering the baby’s shoulders.

Aubrey continued pushing, wanting it out of her. The nurse reprimanded her, for the doctor wasn’t finished rotating the baby.

“But it HURTS!” Aubrey wailed.

Blessedly, the child exited Aubrey’s body. After snipping the cord, Dr. Johansen handed him to the nurse.

The nurse swaddled him in a blanket, her back to Aubrey.

“Can I at least see him?” Aubrey complained.

She only shot her a curt glance; nothing more.

Then she carried the infant to a scale. There was no mention of his weight.

“Fucking bitch,” Aubrey muttered leaning back.

She remembered the nurse carrying the baby outside the room.

And that was the last time Aubrey ever glimpsed her son.

She had recurring dreams after that, of standing in a dark tunnel. A little boy stood near the end, staring at her.

Aubrey knew it was her boy.

He gazed up at her, his eyes shimmering like coins.

He looked like an angel; he looked like his father.

She never wanted to give him up for adoption, but her parents forced her to. If only she could’ve told her son that, so he’d know that she loved him and had bonded with him before birth… for now, she only had her dreams.

Aubrey was now a freshman in college. Only a month before, she met Shawn Taylor. Naturally, she’d fallen madly in love with him. He was a sophomore majoring in science, the same subject as Aubrey.

The couple strolled through campus, a hot-air balloon drifting in the distance over Sunset Valley.

“How did you like Professor Plum’s speech?” Shawn asked.

She gazed at him for a second; then said, “it was the most boring yet.”

They laughed.

All the students called Professor Jacobs that name. It stuck because he resembled that character from Clue, and once wore a purple suit during Halloween.

Pausing a few steps away, they turned to each other.

Her heart raced as Shawn drew near, pressing his body against hers.

He kissed her, taking her breath away… literally. She felt as if she couldn’t breathe.

“What would I ever do without you?” he said.

“Likewise,” she replied; but Aubrey would soon be confronted by his question, in the most tragic of ways.

*And there you have it. Start with a little supernatural, add a dash of mystery, a smidge of romance and what do you have: this story.

😛

The next chapters will be longer.

One more thing: I’m going crazy waiting for Late Night to come out. As of 8-26, we have 61 more days. Ugh…