Life.... sucks...

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I sat on the edge of the street, between the two cross roads, like I did every night. I don't know why I did it, why I sat here, hoping by some miracle, Scarlett might run by and I would see my best friend again. I saw her once, days ago, on a beach, sitting there, fully alive, except she wasn't alive, she was dead. But a part of her deep down was still alive, for me, for my brother, I knew that much. I think thats why I sat here every day, every night, waiting for her. I stretched my long legs out and sighed slightly.

I rubbed a hand over my face and looked around, stopping dead on the alley way close to me. Someone was in there, I could see them watching me. I slowly stood up, walking toward the alley way. Why I was going toward it was beyond me, but I was. I stepped into the alley way, my heart rate sky rocketing, stopping dead when I saw the man's red eyes. "Sorry, I thought you were," Before I could run he was in front of me, backing me up against the wall. Crap, I really did it this time. I was an idiot.

[Tristan CarMichael]

I had been following him for three blocks now. I didn't care about them, the whole city treated them like they were people, but they weren't people to me...not anymore. They were dead. They were blood thirsty monsters and I had no pity for them. Night after night I chased them, watching them kill, and it made me somewhat relieved my Scarlett was gone.I often times wondered what it would've been like had she survived, but I don't think she would make it in these times. She was too fragile, my perfect flower, my rose. She would've withered and turned bitter by the way the world had changed after this disaster. I wanted to remember her in her velvet red sun dress, with flowers in her hair, and her hands running across the tops of wheat as we walked on a mid summer's evening. Her laughter echoing in the fields as I stole kisses. No matter how much I missed her, I wouldn't wish her alive for anything. This world was not for innocent people like her anymore.

I let out a sigh, and pulled a stake from my coat pocket, and slid it into an automatic bow weapon. It was like a gun, only instead of bullets it shot little tiny wooden stakes. I watched in the shadows as the vampire cornered a woman in the alley. I couldn't make my presence known because he would be able to smell me if the wind caught my scent just right. I needed him, his blood to collect my pay out. I figured if I hate them enough, why not make a living off of wiping them from the earth? A big corporation pays me $1000.00 a vile for their blood. They plan to use their blood to make cures, and improve athletes and law enforcers. Something more of use, than just a bunch of dead assholes walking around.

I honed in on him, my eye sharply fixed on his blackened heart, every hunt was like a game for me. It was win or lose, vampires rarely left room for a tie. It was kill or be killed. I squeezed the trigger and watched as the stake flew across the alley and into the vamps heart. I cheered silently as I watched his body fall to the ground, "Are you okay ma'am?!" I yelled to her as I came out from my hiding place. I took a vile from the bag I was carrying on my shoulder and started to fill it with blood. I didn't even realize who I just rescued.

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I clamped my eyes shut, wishing I had been smarter, wishing I had not run to the alleyway like this. Why I didn't think with my head was beyond me, maybe it was because I was empty, inside and out, I had nothing and maybe death didn't scare me anymore. I expected the sharp teeth to already be in my throat but when I felt the body slump on the ground in front of me I was lost. What had happened. "Are you okay ma'am?!" I knew that voice anywhere.

I snapped my eyes open, my mouth going dry. My brother was crouched down right in front of me, getting blood from whatever this thing was now. It wasn't human anymore, vampire most called it, but even I knew some of them weren't vampires, they could control themselves, this man was just a monster. I took in a sharp breath. "Tristan?" My voice sounded funny, like I hadn't heard it in months. "Is that really you?" My legs could barely keep me standing.

"I... can't believe... I thought," I wrapped my arms tight around his neck, nearly knocking him over. "Oh, Tristan, I thought you were dead like mom and dad. You have no idea how glad I am to see you." I pulled back, looking him over, he looked older, but other then that he was still my brother. "Where have you been? I looked everywhere for you." I looked for Scarlett too, but I didn't want him to know I had found her and that she wasn't the same girl he once loved. It would hurt him knowing how much she had changed, how ugly she had become on the inside.

[Tristan CarMichael]

"Tristan?" "Is that really you?"


I looked up at this woman whom knew my name. My eyes trying to read her face, my mind searching for familiarities. I started to stand to my feet when she nearly knocked me over, throwing her arms around me.


"I... can't believe... I thought,""Oh, Tristan, I thought you were dead like mom and dad. You have no idea how glad I am to see you." "Where have you been? I looked everywhere for you."

She released her embrace and I took a step back, "I'm sorry miss, I fear you have someone else mistaken for me." I felt sorry for her, so I looked away at the monster I had just slayed. I felt awful that she thought I was someone she were missing, only for it not to be true. Or was it true? I didn't know anymore. The quake had left me with a head trauma that took half my memory. Everyday it came back to me little by little, but I still wasn't sure who this girl was.
I looked back at her, my face filled with confusion, "How did you know my name?" Now I was starting to grow suspicious because I had more enemies than I could count with my fingers and toes. I clinched the weapon in my hand,"Was this a set up?" I started to look around panicked, "Who did this?"

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He stepped away from me, his face saying it all, he was confused. But why? Did he think I wouldn't look for him? "I'm sorry miss, I fear you have someone else mistaken for me." I wrinkled my brow, tears clouding my eyes. No, he was wrong, I knew my brother. But apparently my brother didn't know himself. He didn't remember me. Why? Was he hurt that bad during the earth quake? Is that why he never looked for me? My heart felt funny in my chest, like it might just break in half.

"How did you know my name?" I bit my lip, swallowing hard. "Was this a set up?" He was panicking it was all over his face. "Who did this?" I went to step toward him and decided that was not the best of ideas. "Tristan, I'm Amber Anne CarMichael..." I stepped further away from him and the man, my back hitting the wall of the building. "I'm your sister. This wasn't a set up." I lowered my eyes to the ground. "You don't remember me... you probably don't remember anything...," Except he did. He at least remembered his first name, right? I looked at him. "Your my brother Tristan CarMichael." I swallowed, sighing heavily. I wanted to cry, but that wasn't fair to him, it wasn't his fault he didn't remember.

[Tristan CarMichael]

I let the grip on the weapon loosen feeling like I was in the twilight zone. I looked at her my breathing starting to get a little heavier. I knew I had a sister, I remembered that much, but I couldn't remember her face. I wanted to hurt her, but I also wanted to hug her. I wasn't sure if she were telling the truth or if this was all a game, "How did you know my sisters name?" I looked at her even more puzzled than before, "Who told you about her? Please?" I asked my voice shaky.
She kept telling me over and over that she were Amber and I Tristan CarMichael. I wanted to remember so bad. I closed my eyes for a moment trying to draw any recollection but my mind felt blank.

There were a lot of things I didn't remember, but I knew I had a sister named Amber. Her and I were very close. I just assumed she perished like Scarlett. The longer I looked at her, I felt my body start to relax and my mind flash back to us as children. Amber sitting on her bedroom floor playing Barbie's, and she looks up and smiles saying my name, "Look Tristan."

I felt my weapon slide to the ground as I realized she were telling the truth. Flash back after flash back came to me with her, even the one before the quake, "Amber." I mumbled. Suddenly I didn't feel so alone anymore. I didn't remember everything but I knew this was my sister.

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He didnt believe me. But why would he? In his mind he didn't know me. But he did, he was my brother, the best friend I had besides Scarlett growing up. "Tristan," He said my name and I stepped closer to him, taking his hand every so slowly. "Do you believe me?" I asked, trying hard not to get my hopes up. My eyes filled with tears and spilled down my cheeks. "I'm your sister,"

[Tristan CarMichael]

My eyes moved slowly downward as she stepped forward to grab my hand. I looked up to her eyes when she said my name, "Tristan," "Do you believe me?" "I'm your sister,"
I don't know what I believed, but I knew she was trying very hard to convince me of the fact that we were related.
"I..I'm not sure but for some reason I trust you." I said as I looked back down at my hand in hers. Our hands almost looked alike and I could see other characteristics we shared.

My mind quickly jumped to the vile I had to get back to Bio-components before it grew too warm to use, "Look I'm sorry. I have to go."

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"Okay," I nodded, not wanting to force him to stay here. "Wait," I grabbed the pen out of my pocket, wrote my address down and stepped away. "That's my place. Please come find me... when you want me." I bit my lip, tears filling my eyes. "I love you, Tristan. Be safe." I walked away, knowing if I stood there and watched him walk away it would hurt worse. I made it to the corner of the alley way and sprinted off toward home, hoping by some miracle if he needed me later he'd come there. I wanted to find Scarlett, but I had no idea where she lived. Or stayed. I couldn't find her, she had to find me.

[Tristan CarMichael]

. "That's my place. Please come find me... when you want me." "I love you, Tristan. Be safe."


I took the piece of paper from her reluctantly and just nodded before disappearing back into the shadows I had come out of. Everything about me had changed and I didn't mean just my memory. My whole face had changed. I wasn't sure how she recognized me. The injuries I sustained from the earthquake threw me into a coma, after smashing some bones in my face. I recall the doctor telling me they had to reconstruct a few things. Maybe I looked more like myself than I thought. I was always afraid to look in the mirror for fear I wouldn't know myself.

I had also given up on finding any of the people I loved alive. I figured I didn't have to look in the mirror because there would be no one I would have to convince of whom I was. But now there was Amber. Maybe. Maybe it was time to look in the mirror.


I stopped walking and leaned up against a wall. "Scarlet." I breathed as a pain struck my heart. I missed her, and at least if she were Amber Anne, she could tell me what happened to her so I could find some closure.

I scurried off to find my car so I could get the vile to the lab, and maybe pay my...sister ... a visit.