VAMPIRE KISSESIf you like reading your stories with atmospheric music, adding to the suspense, this story is for you!! Just head over to my new blogPlease leave a comment let me know what you think :smiley: Raven Madison, a 16-year-old goth misfit in a town she calls Dullsville has one dream ever since she was in kindergarten - to become a vampire. So when the rumored haunted mansion atop Benson Hill gets inhabitants whom "Dullsvillians" believe to be bloodthirsty vampires, Raven investigates only to be caught in a dreamlike reality that her ambition to become a vampire might be happening after all. https://i.imgur.com/DJ6lw9w.jpg---Hi, I'm OrchidahStraight out of South Africa! I'm the founder and creator of this blog. Besides creating awesome content in Sims 4 (which btw takes out a lot of free time from my everyday life hehe) I'm also a freelance; Graphic Designer, Muralist and Fine Artist. Life is tough in this country I live in...I'm absolutely and utterly new at posting stories on forums. Please be kind lol! There will still be a lot of mistakes and changes to be made as I go forward. Positive input is always welcome. Besides, maybe there's a good book that you would like me to reenact, let me know I'd like to have a look at it and maybe even get to read some new good books along the way as well.The main goal here is to enjoy game play while telling stories, the bonus here is you get to read new stories and discover new books that you might think "where have you been all my life!?" If you enjoy my work, you should definitely join my newsletter not to miss out on new chapters!( I will be posting new chapters for this story, every month for next few months, some chapters are divided in a Part 1 and Part 2. )Please help share my stories, share the love, share the enjoyment. I truly appreciate every bit of support shown and given. ;) Happy Reading!

https://i.imgur.com/kfq1LPJ.jpgSynopsis “I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.” ~ Alexander SterlingA new guy in town. Rumors of vampires. Dangerous first love. This is where it all begins... The mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood empty for years. But one day it seems to be occupied, and its mysterious, handsome inhabitant Alexander Sterling becomes the source of much talk around town. Raven, a vampire-obsessed Goth-girl who has always considered herself an outsider in "Dullsville," is determined to uncover the truth surrounding the secretive Alexander. As she gets to know him, and their spark intensifies, Raven finds herself in some unanticipated situations. Can Alexander make her lifelong dream come true? But love always has its complications - especially when it can only be awakened at nightfall.

Chapter 1: Little Monsterhttps://i.imgur.com/dWGPUzC.jpgIt first happened when I was five. I had just finished coloring in My Kindergarten Book. It was filled with Picasso-like drawings of my mom and dad, an Elmer's-glued, tissue-papered collage, and the answers to questions (favorite color, pets, best friend, etc.) written down by our hundred-year-old teacher, Mrs. Peevish.https://i.imgur.com/9dSQ7on.jpgMy classmates and I were sitting in a semicircle on the floor in the reading area. "Bradley, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Mrs. Peevish asked after all the other questions had been answered.https://i.imgur.com/6Q5iXrV.jpg"A fire fighter!" he shouted.https://i.imgur.com/aKUKmiN.jpg"Cindi?" "Uh...a nurse," Cindi Warren whispered meekly.Mrs. Peevish went through the rest of the class. Police officers. Astronauts. Football players. Finally it was my turn.https://i.imgur.com/1IWkFHt.jpg"Raven, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Mrs. Peevish asked, her green eyes staring through me.I said nothing."An actress?"I shook my head."A doctor?"https://i.imgur.com/g6j3IaJ.jpg"Nuh, uh," I said."A flight attendant?"https://i.imgur.com/EdKhKG3.jpg"Yuck!" I replied."Then what?" she asked, annoyed.I thought for a moment. "I want to be..."https://i.imgur.com/KRLY1KR.jpg"Yes?"https://i.imgur.com/1fIdQD3.jpg"I want to be...a vampire!" I shouted, to the shock and amazement of Mrs. Peevish and my classmates. For a moment I thought she started to laugh; maybe she really did. The children sitting next to me inched away.I spent most of my childhood watching others inch away.

https://i.imgur.com/8jiEr51.jpgI was conceived on my dad's water bed--or https://i.imgur.com/EXbX3Kd.jpgon the rooftop of my mom's college dorm under twinkling stars--https://i.imgur.com/bqEP8RY.jpgdependinghttps://i.imgur.com/x0wsEW1.jpgon which one of my parents is telling the story. They were soul mates that couldn't part with the seventies: true love mixed with drugs, some raspberry incense, and the music of the Grateful Dead. A beaded- jeweled, halter-topped, cutoff blue-jeaned, barefooted girl, intertwined with a long-haired, unshaven, Elton John-spectacled, suntanned, leather-vested, bell-bottomed-and-sandaled guy. I think they're lucky I wasn't more eccentric. I could have wanted to be a beaded-haired hippie werewolf! But somehow I became obsessed with vampires.https://i.imgur.com/AYR3ZRr.jpgSarah and Paul Madison became more responsible after my entrance into this world--or I'll rephrase it and say my parents were "less glassy eyed." They sold the Volkswagen flower power van that they were living in and actually started renting property. Our hippie apartment was decorated with 3-D glow-in-the-dark flower posters and orange tubes with a Play-Doh substance that moved on its own-- lava lamps--that you could stare at forever. It was the best time ever. https://i.imgur.com/DJCMxPs.jpgThe three of us laughed and played Chutes and Ladders and squeezed T(w)inkies between our teeth. https://i.imgur.com/Xx5VgBG.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/mSnhC0E.jpgWe stayed up late, watching Dracula movies, Dark Shadows with the infamous Barnabas Collins, and Batman on a black-and-white TV we'd received when we opened a bank account. https://i.imgur.com/F0fhoXE.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/GddOGU0.jpgI felt secure under the blanket of midnight, rubbing Mom's growing belly, which made noises like the orange lava lamps. I figured she was going to give birth to more moving Play-Doh.Everything changed when she gave birth to the playdough-- https://i.imgur.com/DouwD0G.jpgif only it wasn't Play-Doh. https://i.imgur.com/6YP6Lcm.jpgShe gave birth tohttps://i.imgur.com/y2SwAza.jpgNerd Boy!https://i.imgur.com/fKjXPoW.jpgHow could she? How could she destroy all the T(w)inkie nights? https://i.imgur.com/U8Cajrk.jpgNow she went to bed early, and that creation that my parents called "Billy" cried and fussed all night. I was suddenly alone. It was Dracula--the Dracula on TV-- that kept me company while Mom slept, Nerd Boy wailed, and Dad changed smelly diapers in the darkness.https://i.imgur.com/SQUqlRs.jpgAnd if that wasn't bad enough, suddenly they sent me to a place that wasn't my apartment, that didn't have wild 3-D flower posters on the walls, but boring collages of kids' handprints. https://i.imgur.com/oAoN7Ao.jpgWho decorates around here? I wondered. https://i.imgur.com/UCEHoVe.jpgIt was overcrowded with Sears catalog girls in frilly dresses and Sears catalog boys in tapered pants and perfectly combed hair. Mom and Dad called it "kindergarten."https://i.imgur.com/Hi4PsKh.jpg"They'll be your friends," my mom reassured me, as I clung to her side for dear life. She waved good-bye and blew me kisses as I stood alone beside the matronly Mrs. Peevish, which was as alone as one can get. I watched my mom walk away with Nerd Boy on her hip as she took him back to the place filled with glow-in-the-dark posters, monster movies, and T(w)inkies.https://i.imgur.com/PleAo9S.jpgSomehow I made it through the day. Cutting and gluing black paper on black paper, https://i.imgur.com/fgijxP8.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/ypeqLVU.jpgfinger painting Barbie's lips black,https://i.imgur.com/n2vQlJz.jpgand telling the assistant teacher ghost stories, while the Sears catalog kids ran around like they were all cousins at an all-American family picnic. https://i.imgur.com/SPml48z.jpgI was even happy to see Nerd Boy when Mom finally came to pick me up.

https://i.imgur.com/YidFnvc.jpgThat night she found me with my lips pressed against the TV screen, trying to kiss Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula.https://i.imgur.com/lGw4G2C.jpg"Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"https://i.imgur.com/ME4hBu9.jpg"What?" I said. The Hostess cherry pie that I had been eating fell to the floor, and my heart fell with it.https://i.imgur.com/MHYKee5.jpg"But I thought it was just the one time?" I said, panicked.https://i.imgur.com/pAuOVBi.jpg"Sweet Raven. You have to go every day!"https://i.imgur.com/gcJfXzV.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/TxVlkt5.jpgEvery day? The words echoed inside my head. It was a life sentence!https://i.imgur.com/CocIKyR.jpgThat night Nerd Boy couldn't hope to compete with my dramatic wailing and crying.https://i.imgur.com/mM7jSrm.jpg As I lay alone in my bed, I prayed for eternal darkness and a sun that never rose.https://i.imgur.com/zfcJvNC.jpgUnfortunately the next day I awoke to a blinding light and a monster headache. https://i.imgur.com/h0in3Vi.jpgI longed to be around at least one person that I could connect with. But I couldn't find any, at home or school. At home the lava lamps were replaced with Tiffany-style floor lamps, the glow-in-the- dark posters were covered with Laura Ashley wallpaper, and our grainy black-and-white TV was upgraded to a twenty-five-inch color model.At school instead of singing the songs of Mary Poppins, I whistled the theme to The Exorcist.

https://i.imgur.com/A4Z0Te5.jpgHalfway through kindergarten I tried to become a vampire. Trevor Mitchell, a perfectly combed blond with weak blue eyes, was my nemesis from the moment I stared him down when he tried to cut in front of me on the slide.https://i.imgur.com/jwUi5cT.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/L6rnDGm.jpgHe hated me because I was the only kid who wasn't afraid of him. The kids and teachers kissed up to him because his father owned most of the land their houses sat on. Trevor was in a biting phase, not because he wanted to be a vampire like me, but just because he was mean. He had taken pieces of flesh out of everyone but me. And I was starting to get ticked off!https://i.imgur.com/m5oPmSB.jpgWe were on the playground, standing by the basketball hoop, when I pinched the skin of his puny little arm so hard I thought blood would squirt out. His face turned beet red. I stood motionless and waited. https://i.imgur.com/X9KaK63.jpgTrevor's body trembled with anger, and his eyes swelled with vengeance as I mischievously smiled back. https://i.imgur.com/z1TG7Za.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/A7UopSY.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/X1aMFCQ.jpgThen he left his dental impressions in my expectant hand. https://i.imgur.com/dIhTZMb.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/JCyRQlR.jpgMrs. Peevish was forced to sit him against the school wall, and I happily danced around the playground, waiting to transform into a vampire bat.https://i.imgur.com/TLyCFvW.jpg"That Raven is an odd one," I overheard Mrs. Peevish saying to another teacher as I skipped past the crying Trevor, who was now throwing a fit against the hard blacktop. https://i.imgur.com/YogRLPi.jpgI blew him a grateful kiss with my bitten hand. https://i.imgur.com/IrOgCt9.jpgI wore my wound proudly as I got on the school swing. I could fly now, right? But I'd need something to take me into warp speed. https://i.imgur.com/FrcIvOW.jpgThe seat went as high as the top of the fence, but I was aiming for the puffy clouds. The rusty swing started to buckle when I jumped off. https://i.imgur.com/knNu6tM.jpgI planned to fly across the playground--all the way to a startled Trevor. Instead I plummeted to the muddy earth, doing further damage to my tooth-marked hand. I cried more from the fact that I didn't possess supernatural powers like my heroes on TV than because of my throbbing flesh.https://i.imgur.com/P2FSZja.jpgWith my bite trapped under ice, Mrs. Peevish sat me against the wall to rest while the spoiled snot-nosed Trevor was now free to play. https://i.imgur.com/Ti3qj49.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/olGKGM5.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Avr8HOG.jpgHe blew me a teasing kiss and said, "Thank you."https://i.imgur.com/tIhBY76.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/nTiCvWN.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/DcxZHFL.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/L9C0U3w.jpgI stuck out my tongue and called him a name I had heard a mobster say in The Godfather.https://i.imgur.com/gSsMJNC.jpgMrs. Peevish immediately sent me inside.https://i.imgur.com/U0Ultk3.jpgI was sent inside a lot during my childhood recesses...https://i.imgur.com/c3rabeK.jpgI was destined to take a recess from recess. Stay tuned for Chapter 2 ;)

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Orchidah
5 years ago

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I was eleven when our family went to New Orleans for vacation. Mom and Dad wanted to play blackjack on the Flamingo riverboat casino. Nerd Boy wanted to go to the aquarium. But I knew where I was going: I wanted to visit the house of Anne Rice's birth, the historical homes she had restored, and the mansion she now called home.

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I stood mesmerized outside its iron gate, a Gothic mega- mansion, my mom (my uninvited chaperone) by my side.

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I could sense ravens flying overhead, even though there probably weren't any. It was a shame I hadn't come at night--it would have been that much more beautiful.

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Several girls who looked just like me stood across the street, taking pictures.

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I wanted to rush over and say, "Be my friends. We can tour the cemeteries together!" It was the first time in my life I felt like I belonged. I was in the city where they stack coffins on top of one another so you can see them, instead of burying them deep within the earth. There were college guys with two-toned spiky blond hair. Funky people were everywhere, except on Bourbon Street, where the tourists looked like they'd flown in from Dullsville.

Suddenly a limousine pulled around the corner. The blackest limo I had ever seen.

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The driver, complete with black chauffeur's hat, opened the door, and she stepped out!

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I freaked and watched motionless, like time was standing still. Right before my eyes was my idol of all living idols,

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Anne Rice!

She glowed like a movie star, a Gothic angel, a heavenly creature. Her long black hair flowed over her shoulders and glistened; she wore a golden headband, a long, flowing silky skirt, and a fabulous vampirish, dark cloak. I was speechless. I thought I might go into shock.

Fortunately my mom's never speechless.

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"Could my daughter please have your autograph?"

"Sure," the queen of nocturnal adventures sweetly replied.

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I walked toward her, as if my marshmallow legs would melt under the sun at any moment. After she signed a yellow Post-it note my mom found in her purse, the Gothic starlet and I were standing beside each other, smiling, her arm around my waist.

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Anne Rice had agreed to take a picture with me!

I had never smiled like that in my life. She probably smiled like she'd smiled a million times before. A moment she'll never remember, a moment I'll never forget.

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Why didn't I tell her I loved her books? Why didn't I tell her how much she meant to me? That I thought she had a handle on things like no one else did?

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I screamed with excitement for the rest of the day, reenacting the scene over and over for my dad and Nerd Boy at our antique- filled, pastel pink bed-and-breakfast. It was our first day in New Orleans, and I was ready to go home. Who cared about a stupid aquarium, the French Quarter, blues bands, and Mardi Gras beads when I'd just seen a vampire angel?

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I waited all day to get the film developed, only to find that the picture of me and Anne Rice didn't come out. Sullen, I retreated back to the hotel with my mother.

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Despite the fact she and I had appeared in photographs separately, could it be possible that the combination of the two vampire-lovers couldn't be captured on film? Or rather it was just a reminder that she was a brilliant bestselling writer, and I was a screamy, dreamy child going through a dark phase.

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Or maybe it was that my mom was a lousy photographer.

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Orchidah
5 years ago

Chapter 3 - Monster Mash (Part 1)

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My Sweet Sixteenth birthday. Shouldn't all birthdays be sweet? Why should sixteen be any sweeter? It seemed like a lot of hype to me!

In Dullsville, they celebrate today, my sixteenth birthday, as any other day.

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It all started with Nerd Boy's shouting at me. "Get up, Raven. You don't want to be late. It's time for school!"

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How could two kids come from the same parents and be so different? Maybe there is something to that theory about the mailman. But in Nerd Boy's case my mother must have had an affair with the librarian.

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I dragged myself out of bed and put on a black, cotton sleeveless dress and black hiking boots, and outlined my full lips with black lipstick.
Orchidah
5 years ago

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I shook the light package in my hand and heard a rattle. I stared at the Happy Birthday wrapping paper. It could be the keys to a car-- my very own Batmobile! After all, it was my sixteenth birthday.

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"I wanted to buy you something special," my mom said, smiling.

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I ripped the package open excitedly and lifted the jewelry box lid. A string of shiny white pearls stared back at me.

"Every girl should have a pearl necklace for special occasions." My mom gleamed.

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This was my mom's corporate version of hippie love beads. I forced a crooked smile as I tried to hide my disappointment. "Thanks," I said, hugging them both.

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I began to put the necklace back in the box, but my parents glared at me, so I reluctantly modeled it for them.

"It looks gorgeous on you." My mom glowed.

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"I'll save them for something really special," I replied, putting them back in the box.
Orchidah
5 years ago

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The doorbell rang, and Becky came in with a small black gift bag.

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"Happy birthday!" she shouted as we went into the living room.

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"Thanks. You didn't have to get me anything."

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"You say that every year," she teased and handed me the bag. "By the way, I saw a moving van last night outside the Mansion!" she whispered.

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"No way! Someone finally moved in?"
Orchidah
5 years ago

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"Guess so. But all I saw were the movers carrying in oak desks, grandfather clocks, and huge crates marked 'Soil.' And they have a teenage son."

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"He was probably born wearing khaki pants. And I'm sure his parents are some boring Ivy Leaguers," I replied. "I hope they don't remodel it and chase out all the spiders."

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"Yeah. And tear down the gate and put up a white picket fence." "And a plastic goose on the front lawn."

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We both giggled like mad as I stuck my hand into the bag.

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"I wanted to buy you something special, since you're sixteen."

I pulled out a black leather necklace with a pewter charm. The charm was a bat!
Orchidah
5 years ago

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"I love it!" I screamed, putting it on.

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My mom leered at me from the kitchen.

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"Next time we'll give her money," I heard her tell my father.

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"Pearls!" I whispered to Becky as we left the house.

To be continued...

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allykatz77
5 years ago
Love this story cannot wait to read more! I love your CC!
Orchidah
5 years ago
"smurfy77;c-17387154" wrote:
Love this story cannot wait to read more! I love your CC!

@smurfy77 Thank you!! :D <3
Orchidah
5 years ago

Chapter 3 - Monster Mash (Part 2)

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I was in gym class wearing a black shirt, shorts, and combat boots instead of the required white-on-white and gym shoes. Really, what's the point? I thought. Does a white ensemble make a student a better athlete?

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"Raven, I don't feel like sending you to the office today. Why don't you just give me a break for once and wear what you're supposed to wear?" Mr. Harris, the gym teacher, whined.

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"It's my birthday. Maybe you could give me a break this once!"

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He stared at me, not knowing what to say. "Just today," he finally agreed. "And not because it's your birthday, but because I'm not in the mood to send you to the office."
Orchidah
5 years ago

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Becky and I giggled as we went off toward the bleachers where the class was waiting.

Trevor Mitchell, my kindergarten nemesis, and his shuffling sidekick, Matt Wells, followed us.

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They were perfectly combed, conservative, rich soccer snobs. They knew they were great looking, and it made me sick that they were so cocky.

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"Sweet sixteen!" Trevor said, obviously having overheard my chat with Mr. Harris. "How lovely! Just ripe for love, don't you think, Matt?" They were close on our heels.

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"Yeah, dude," Matt agreed.

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