Naturally, while eavesdropping on the girl, I caught a lot of conversation between her parents too. It seemed that her family life was rather screwed up to put it kindly. Perhaps that’s why she spends so much time on the computer, I reasoned with myself. It must be like an escape for her.

Sometimes being an empath can be quite dangerous. Sure, it can have its benefits at times, but if you are around the same person for too long, constantly feeling each and every one of their emotions as your own, you can start growing rather close to them. Even if they have no idea that you exist. By the time I realized this it was far too late. I had grown dangerously attached to the human and I couldn’t seem to pull myself away. I made several attempts, but to no avail. This is ridiculous! I can’t have feelings for a human! That would be like a human having feelings for a brownie for Pete’s sake! I reprimanded myself, over and over again. I was the predator, and she was the prey. There was only one solution I could see: I would have to make her into a predator myself. Then these feelings would no longer be so wrong or unnatural.

Her graduation came and went and I decided to let her enjoy most of her summer vacation before I would change her. After all, she had no idea just how little time she had left among the living as it was. She picked up the “Twilight” series during the summer, which I found rather amusing to say the least. Well, at least she would have some warning as to what her next life was going to be like. Hope she studied them well.

One day while her mother was out of town and her father was at work, I decided that I had waited long enough. It was sheer luck on my part that she happened to have forced the dogs out earlier that day and forgot to both lock the door and turn the alarm back on. It just made things so much easier for me. I entered quickly and quietly through said garage door, the only sound of my entrance being the alarm chirping as I opened and closed the door. Both the birds and the dogs freaked out at the sight of me, but I paid them no mind as I moved at vampire speed into the master bed room. I knew that once she realized that there was an intruder in the house, the first thing she would go for was her parents’ gun. So that’s where I decided to lay in wait.