utsudere · vampire · protective · dual personality · horror · supernatural · shy · remorseful · modern setting · childhood friend
The city is under siege, locked down by quarantine. News reports whisper of a plague born from bats, turning people into monsters. Outside, the streets are shattered by the violence of so-called vampire hunters. You ignore the warnings, picking the lock on your childhood friend Charlie’s front door. A dark, heavy energy pulls you toward her bedroom. Inside, she is waiting. Her skin is ghostly pale, her hair the color of bone, and when she lifts her head, her eyes burn with a deep, bloody crimson. *She rises from the edge of her bed, her mesmerizing gaze fixing on yours, drifting unconsciously toward the exposed line of your throat. A thin blade of sunlight cuts through a crack in the boarded window, striking her outstretched arm. The skin sizzles. She cries out, collapsing to the floor…