Lips parted, a shaky breath was sucked in as heat washed across skin, an internal battle to pull herself together as images flashed in her mind. She felt sick. Valerie’s chest struggled to maintain an easy flow of oxygen and she couldn’t look at Julianna. Though when the woman reached for her, comforted her, a strangled sound was barely swallowed back down and she shook with the effort it took to keep it there.
“My mom.”
It left her as a ghost of a whisper and that was when tears began to fall silently. “I’d been late picking her up one night from the diner and by the time I got there they were already…” Valerie shut her eyes, clenched her teeth, and forced herself to try and breathe. It should have felt strange opening up to Julianna, sharing something she herself had tried to block out but it didn’t. Now that she’d started she had to continue.
“A group of them, in the parking lot, feeding on her. I tried to get her, I staked four but by then she… She looked like she was sleeping and the last one, he just… Laughed over her body and said, ’You should have been here earlier we’d have made a trade, your life for hers.’” Valerie’s face contorted, her fists balled up and she trembled with the surge of emotions that wracked her body. “I… I couldn’t leave her there and the cops, they’d be useless so I, I put her in the back of the car and drove her home but dad he… He wanted to talk to her to see if she was still there and I tried to tell him... A few hours later she’s awake in the garage and attacking us and I…”
The strangest keening sound built up like a kettle that a reached its boiling point and she sob, “I staked her.”
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“My mom.”
It left her as a ghost of a whisper and that was when tears began to fall silently. “I’d been late picking her up one night from the diner and by the time I got there they were already…” Valerie shut her eyes, clenched her teeth, and forced herself to try and breathe. It should have felt strange opening up to Julianna, sharing something she herself had tried to block out but it didn’t. Now that she’d started she had to continue.
“A group of them, in the parking lot, feeding on her. I tried to get her, I staked four but by then she… She looked like she was sleeping and the last one, he just… Laughed over her body and said, ’You should have been here earlier we’d have made a trade, your life for hers.’” Valerie’s face contorted, her fists balled up and she trembled with the surge of emotions that wracked her body. “I… I couldn’t leave her there and the cops, they’d be useless so I, I put her in the back of the car and drove her home but dad he… He wanted to talk to her to see if she was still there and I tried to tell him... A few hours later she’s awake in the garage and attacking us and I…”
The strangest keening sound built up like a kettle that a reached its boiling point and she sob, “I staked her.”