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  Lillian the Vampire

  A Young Adult Vampire Romance

  The Complete Collection

  by Alice Marcs

  all rights reserved copyright 2013 by Northern Starlight Young Adult Press

  A Blessed Curse

  A Young Adult Vampire Romance

  Lillian the Vampire Book One

  by Alice Marcs

  all rights reserved copyright 2013 by Northern Starlight Young Adult Press

  Lillian sat alone in her room like she always did. She wasn’t always like this, in fact just three months ago she was spending time with her friends, listening to music and doing what a normal seventeen year old girl does. As the first snow of winter began to fall so did her tears. She hated the fact that her parents took her away from all her friends and everything she has ever known. Their excuse was that New York was getting worse and worse, but Lillian knew the truth. The reason they had moved was because she had dropped her old friends and became part of the Goth scene. She was instantly attracted to the entire concept, the music, art, and style of dress; she was captivated from the start. The change was so sudden in Lillian; she went to school one day dressed as she normally did, and when she came home from school she resembled Morticia Addams. The look on her mother’s face was a mixture of shock and disgust. That was the first of many arguments that Lillian had with her mother, and when her father would join in it was even worse. Her parents didn’t know what to think about this sudden change and the usual reasons why came flooding in. Was she on drugs? Was she angry and suicidal? They sat at the kitchen table for hours trying to figure out what they needed to do in order to save their daughter. Lillian’s father came up with the solution, or so he thought. His magical remedy was to move out of the city into a small quiet town. He figured that in a small mid-west town there would be no Goth’s or freaks that could influence his precious little girl any more than she had been. Her mother agreed and they waited for Lillian to get home and tell her the news. Like clockwork, Lillian stormed in the door at three thirty and tossed her back pack on the counter as she sang along with the music she was listening to on her MP3 player. Lillian went to the refrigerator and grabbed a drink and finally noticed her parents just staring at her.

  “What are you guys staring at? Oh let me guess, you are going to give me fashion advice.”

  “Lillian, sit down. Your mother and I need to have a serious talk with you.”

  “Oh great this should be a lot of fun.”

  “Lillian shut up right this second and sit down. I am tired of the way you have been acting and your constant disrespect to us both is getting way out of hand. Your new friends are turning you into something that you are not and it is getting out of control. We have decided that moving is the only option. I have transferred to Indiana and we leave first thing. The movers will be here in an hour to start packing and we leave at six tomorrow morning. We only want what is best for you, and this is the best thing.”

  “Dad you can’t be serious? You can’t just up and move us? My life is here, I mean don’t I have a say in this at all?”

  Lillian knew by the look on her parents face that it was final, they were moving away and there was nothing she could do about it. She stomped upstairs to her room, turned her radio up full blast and started slamming her dresser drawers and throwing books to the floor.

  The tears flowed even more as Lillian remembered that day. She got up and sat at her computer desk, staring at the pictures of her friends that were in small black frames. She touched each familiar face and smiled through her tears, she knew that she would never find friends like that here, this place was to clean cut. She turned on her computer and logged into her Facebook account to see what was going on back home. It was the usual things she read but it reminded her of home. As she updated her status, she received a message in her inbox. She didn’t recognize the name but the picture caught her eye. He was dark and beautiful! She looked at his profile and noticed that not only was he the same age as she was, he lived in the exact same town! She read the message with a smile; it was short sweet and exactly what she needed. It read:

  Hello Lillian! I read your profile and I think you are a Gothic beauty. I know you have no idea who I am but I would really like it if you could meet me and a few of my friends at this local club. It is a teen club so no drugs or alcohol. The music is great and I am sure you will love it. My name is Brandon and here is my cell number 206-555-1176. Text me, if you want and I really hope to hear from you!

  Lillian grabbed her cell and the two began to text for hours. She agreed to meet him that night at the club and she was trying her best not to jump up and down with excitement. She went to her closet to find something to wear for the night and as she looked she found the perfect outfit. Lillian decided to wear her black skinny jeans, a blood red long sleeved corset that tied in the front, and her knee high black boots. It was snowing so she knew that she had to have gloves, hat and a jacket which she did have. Her parents refused to buy her the type of clothes that she wanted, so she would earn money and buy the stuff herself off the internet. Her wardrobe consisted of black and blood red, skulls and band shirts. She reveled in the fact that her parents couldn’t say a word, after all, she bought them all herself.

  Lillian got dressed and paid special attention to her makeup. She wanted to look nothing short of perfect for Brandon. She laughed at the thought that she was putting in so much effort to look good for a guy she never met, but he was very cute. With her eyes perfectly smudged and hair twisted in two tight yet messy knots on the top of her head, she was ready to go. She looked at her cell and smiled. It was time for her to go. She snuck out of her window and started to follow the directions that Brandon gave her. As she walked she smiled from the sound her boots made as they crushed the snow. She looked up into the sky and noticed that the moon was full and had a slight red smoke ring around it. “Blood in the moon” she said to herself and continued her way down the street towards the club. In less than ten minutes she heard the music and saw the lights in the sky. Her heart was beating so fast and she just wanted to run the rest of the way to the club. She sent Brandon a text telling him that she was just down the road and will be there very soon. He responded and told her that he would be waiting at the door wearing a black trench coat that had chains all over it. Lillian picked up her pace and was now just feet away from the front door, and she saw him.

  Brandon looked much better in person than he did in his pictures and her heart was now his. He looked at her and smiled instantly. Lillian blushed and walked up to him, and they were now face to face. She was drawn into his stare and the entire world just stopped. She no longer heard the music, what she heard was his voice inside her head telling her that he had waited a very long time for someone who was as beautiful as she was and that he knew that this was going to be for forever and longer. Lillian didn’t know what was going on and nor did she care; she wanted him to hold her in his arms and never let go. What Lillian didn’t know was that the beautiful Brandon had other plans, but one thing was for certain, he would never let her go.

  Brandon took her by the hand and led her inside the club. Lillian knew the music was loud, but she was deaf to it. All she heard was his voice inside her head telling her that there was nothing to worry about and that he would hold her for all eternity, then she would soon forget all her pain and she belonged to him. Lillian was in a trance as she was lead to the corner of the club. Slowly she began to hear the music and Brandon was standing in front of her smiling. He wrapped his arms around her and once again his voice filled her head. He told her that she had to want this to happen, that she would have to want to forget her
past and be reborn into a world that there was no pain or tears. Lillian slowly mouthed the words yes, and before she knew what happened, Brandon changed before her eyes. His eyes were now black as pitch and his fangs descended from his gums. The last word she heard from his lips was “Vampire” before he sunk them into her neck. Her mind was now flooded with over a thousand years of victims he fed upon, wars of the past, his mortal life and all that he had suffered. Tears flowed from her eyes once again and she was becoming weaker by the second.

  Her heart was fighting as hard as it could to hold onto life, and Brandon’s voice once again filled her head telling her to just let go. Her eyes fluttered in her head and she gave in. Brandon held her tighter to his chest to keep her from falling to the ground. Lillian’s heart beat slowed down to the point of her death, and Brandon ripped a gash in his wrist, brought the bleeding wound to her mouth and told her that she must drink. Lillian grabbed his wrist and did what he had told her to do. Her entire body came alive once again and her senses were soaring. As she drank she couldn’t help but notice how beautiful everything was! It was like she was looking at the world for the very first time and it was alive. Brandon laughed as he read her thoughts and told her that this was the beginning, that there was more to come.

  Lillian got her fill of his blood and watched as the wound on his wrist healed before her eyes. Brandon kissed her and they both left the club to an old cemetery that was nearby.

  “Lillian I know you want to touch and look at everything and you will have plenty of time for that trust me. But for now you must hunt and I will teach you. After you feed we will rest in my crypt. It is pretty cool and not dingy so no need to worry. Now, ignore all the books that you have read, we love crosses and will not burst into flames if we walk into a church, those are just stories. The sun, starvation, drinking dead blood and having our hearts ripped out is the only way we can be destroyed. I will teach you all that I know. But for now let’s get you fed my love” Brandon said as his arm was wrapped around her waist.

  Lillian looked up into the sky once again and smiled at the moon. She knew what had just happened; she knew that she had been given a blessed curse. She knew that she was now a vampire and this made her feel more alive than she had when she was mortal.

  A Thirst for Blood

  A Young Adult Vampire Romance

  Lillian the Vampire Book Two

  by Alice Marcs

  all rights reserved copyright 2013 by Northern Starlight Young Adult Press

  Lillian continued to look up into the night sky as Brandon’s arm was around her waist. As she looked through her new vampire eyes, it seemed everything had a life of its own. The trees were talking, the snow was singing and the cemetery itself was alive! She reached her hand out and touched each and every tomb stone that they walked past. Each object that she touched sent electricity deep inside her new body. It was if when she touched them, she took away some of its life and it was now blended with hers. The smile on her face never went away, it only got bigger. Brandon watched as she looked at and touched everything. He knew that she could get lost in an object if she stared at it too long, just as all fledglings can and have done in the past. “Lillian, you can’t get so caught up in all of this stuff. If you stare too long you will get so captivated that you will stare until the sun comes up. I have seen it many times. The only thing that you need to focus on is the hunger that is building inside of you. I can sense it, Lillian look at me.”

  “Brandon, everything is alive! I can hear the entire world talking to me! I can’t ignore them!”

  “Lillian you have too. Look at me. Time for you to feed and after you feed we can go back to the club. Just wait until you hear the music!”

  “What is the smell? It smells like...”

  “That is blood, my sweet. On nights like this people come out here on every full moon. They think that they summon demons and crap like that. They never do, but they do get us! You and I will feed and then you will meet the others when we go back to the club.”

  “There are others?”

  “Of course! Millions actually, but they are all scattered around the world. Now listen to the sounds you hear. Focus on a heartbeat. Good, now try to find where the noise is coming from. Find the person and imagine that you are in front of them.”

  Lillian closed her eyes and did what Brandon told her to do. She followed the sound with her immortal hearing. She opened her eyes and was now just feet away from a young male. His clothes were dirty and he was shivering. Lillian listened harder and was able to read his thoughts. He ran away from home because he was tired of his father beating him all the time. Lillian saw his thoughts in her head as if they were her memories. She actually felt sorry for this kid and didn’t want to drain him, but her hunger took control and now looked at him now like he was prey. She was able to see his heart pumping throughout his body and her fangs began to descend. Brandon smiled at her and she knew what she had to do. She had to find the jugular vein in his neck, and drain him to the point of death. She knew not to drink the last drop. As these thoughts passed through her head Brandon nodded his head in agreement.

  Lillian walked up to the young man and startled him. He looked up at her with his tears still streaming from his eyes.

  “There is no need to cry, you will forget it all soon enough.”

  “Who, who are you? Are you an angel?”

  “My name is Lillian, and if you want me to be your angel I will.”

  “I just want it all to stop. I can’t handle all this anymore.”

  Lillian looked at him and smiled, showing her fangs and wrapped her arms around her victim. The young man turned his head to the side and Lillian was able to see the vein. She kissed him on the spot and sunk her fangs into the vein.

  His blood was pumping hard and fast into her mouth and she gulped it down. With every beat of his heart she drank his life’s blood away. All of his past came flooding into her just as Brandon’s had only an hour before. This poor soul had lived a life of pure torture and Lillian was actually doing this mortal a favor by ending his pathetic existence. Something about his suffering made his blood taste like candy to her, it was so sweet. Her victim began to slip into unconsciousness and go limp in her arms. Lillian became greedy, like she was a starving animal, and began to drink even heavier. His heart slowed down and Lillian continued to drink. Brandon walked up to her and whispered into her ear that she must stop, that she could not drink the last drop or else she may follow him into death.

  Lillian was so lost that Brandon’s voice fell on deaf ears. Brandon knew that she was lost in the blood and had to stop her. He yanked her away and her teeth ended up making a large gash in her victim’s neck.

  “What the hell did you do that for?”

  “You almost drained him dry you idiot! Did you not hear what I told you?”

  “I am not an idiot. This all new to me so don’t yell at me or call me names!”

  “You are right, I am sorry Lillian. Come on, we need to dig a grave and bury him. We always do this. This way he is never found and people don’t get any odd ideas. The last thing we want is to let the mortal world know that we actually exist. Come on so we can get back to the club.”

  Brandon grabbed the body and they started to walk towards the back of the cemetery. He dropped the corpse to the ground and they both began to dig a hole. Lillian was surprised at how fast the grave was dug. She knew that if they were mortals this task would have taken over seven hours to do by hand, but it took only minutes. The grave was dug; the body tossed inside and was filled back up with the dirt. Lillian and Brandon both shook the dirt off of their hands and walked back towards the club. Lillian looked back up at the moon and could still not believe how beautiful it was. Brandon looked at his new fledgling and he was confident that he had chosen a companion wisely. Lillian had a hunger for blood that matched his own, and granted she is a bit greedy, but in time she will learn when to stop. As the blood put color in her cheeks, she once again looked as i
f she was once again mortal, and she was very beautiful. Lillian looked over at Brandon and smiled. He smiled at her in return and pulled her close to him and they kissed their first immortal kiss.

  They walked hand in hand back to the club, and just like Brandon said, the music was intense. Lillian felt the bass and every note that oozed from the speakers attached to walls. The DJ looked so beautiful and the ear ring in his lip reminded her of a diamond. Everywhere she looked, she saw beauty and Brandon just laughed as he remembered the way he acted when he was born into immortality. He watched as she grabbed strange guys and either touched their hair or their flesh. Brandon finally grabbed her hand and made her follow him up a flight of stairs to the second floor of the club.

  When they reached the top, Lillian saw red velvet couches and lounge chairs all over, and sitting in them were the most beautiful people she had ever seen, even more beautiful than the ones down stairs! She looked at each one for seemed like hours on end. Brandon started laughing and told her that they were the friends that he was telling her about. She had never seen anyone so beautiful in her life and she walked up to each one and touched their faces just to make sure they were real. Each face she touched was as cold as ice and as hard as marble. If they didn’t smile or blink their eyes, you would think they were statues. There six of them, not including herself and Brandon. Three beautiful young men, two with brown hair and one with blonde and the other three were females who all had brown hair and green eyes. Lillian noticed the females all had a striking resemblance and figured they were sisters. When that thought passed through her head one of the females spoke up and said they were triplets. The two males with the brow hair laughed in unison and Lillian realized that they were twins! She walked over to the corner where the blonde male sat and reached out to touch his face when he grabbed her arm and hissed at her. She recoiled in fear and looked over at Brandon who was immediately at her side.