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Prologue

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It was a hot, muggy day at my house in Cedar Park, Texas as we packed up everything that we owned so it could be moved to our new house in Pampa, Texas. I had just graduated two days ago and was officially out of high school. I was kind of upset by the move - I had lived here for eighteen years of my life, after all - but I had no choice except to go along with it for now, at least until I went to college. Even then, I'd have to end up living with it - no way was I living on campus. The move was effortless for me, because I got stuck with the easiest job of all - watching my five year old brother while everyone else did all the hard work. It was a wonder they ever got finished moving almost our whole house in just one day.

The first night that we slept there, I had to sleep in my brother's small bed because my parents said that they "didn't have the time to move any of my stuff" to the new house. Most of the nights for the first week, I barely slept because there were a lot of sounds that I wasn't used to yet - the creaking of the wood floors or the clicking of the air conditioner. Finally, when the weekend came, it was time for all my furniture to be transported over to the new house. I didn't have much, but I did have enough that it took half the day to get it all into the new house. We were beat by the time the day was over, and for the first time since we moved in, I slept throughout the night without waking up from the strange sounds.

With my newly found way of sleeping through the night, I now worked hard each day so that I could avoid the sounds. Then I had to start watching my brother during the day, and I didn't get to tire myself out enough. I started hearing the usual sounds - but eerily, there were other, newer sounds. They weren't your normal bump in the night sounds, they were more like whispers between two people or two things. It didn't happen every night, but on the ones that it did I had very vivid dreams. Some of them so vivid that i could recall every last detail down to the exact description of the people that i had seen. It was like having high definition television in my head that recorded every part of my dreams. Once that I could replay at anytime that I wanted.

One of the stranger dreams that I remember starts with me going to college even though all the students had been advised not to. There has apparently been some kind of killings on campus and they did not want more to happen. I had gone on to my night classes anyway because I was worried about my grades. Then in the middle of class a bunch of people bust into the room and kidnap me. I was carried way then everything go blank for a while. When I wake up I was in a strange room somewhere . I left the room and explored the house only to find that I had changed into a vampire. I screamed and ran out of the room only to find my family about to be changed if I didn't marry the man who was going to change them. Then all of a sudden I was stabbing myself through the heart and dying. Then I woke up. It was a really weird dream. I did a lot of things that I normally would have never done in real life.

By the end of the week the dreams had gone away and it finally quieted down enough by the end of the week at home that i was ready to venture off to shop and meet people in town.
The prologue to my book. Any constructive criticism is appreciated.
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kporsche72's avatar
It looks very good.