Darkness & Confusion

# Darkness & Confusion; Author's Notes:

Hey, it's Featherstar, finally deciding to write a story here. This story is about a vampire, it doesn't contain about any blood or gorge, I can't promise that it won't later in the story, but so far, I am not deciding to add anything too violent, maybe a few deaths, but nothing crazy.

Enjoy! :] CaNdY!

# Chapter 1

"Hey mum!" I shouted, "Do you want to play with us?"

  "Come on, Alexander!" Snapped my sister, Lori. "Of course not! Why do you still bother asking?"

  "No, go play with you friends, Alex." My mom replied, stretching out on the blanket she brought, and started scrolling through her phone.

  Oh, hello. I am Alexander, sometime called Alex. I am seven years old! I can't wait to be ten like my sister! Ten is such a cool number! Me and my family went out for a pinic! It's my first one in months! Daddy been super busy, so he's not here with us...

  I also have a couple of friends with me!

  "Alex, can we start playing tag?" Whined Halley. Halley's seven. Just like me! She have long black hair, brown eyes and rose petal colored lips.

  "No! I want to play Red Light Green Light!" Derek yelled at Halley.

  "I want to play tag!" Shouted Halley louder.

  "Red Light Green Light!" Derek shouted.

  "Tag!"

  "No!" Replied Derek loudly.

  "Yes!"

  "No!"

  "YES!"

  "NO!"

  "Kids." Lori pulled them apart. "Let's play Scavenger Hunt!"

  "That's too boring." I told my sister. Scavenger Hunt is the kind of stuff teachers do.

  "Not this one!" Lori countered. "I would hide pennies, nickles, dimes and even quarters!"

  "Ooh!" Halley grinned. "Yes! Money!"

  "I still don't want to play Scavenger Hunt." I said stubbornly.

  "Suit yourself." Lori walked away.

  "What did you do that for?" Halley pouted.

  "I don't like Scavenger Hunt." I responded, wrinkling my nose.

  Derek lay down on the grass with his arms stretched out. "Now what?"

  "We got two hours left to play before Derek's mom and my mom come." Halley said, poking a ladybug.

  "Well, what do we play?" Derek asked, his face scrunched up in concentration.

  "Tag!" Halley chanted. "Tag! Tag! Tag! Tag!"

  "No!" Screamed Derek. "RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT!!!!"

  "TAG!" Halley screamed back.

  Please shut up, you two. Alexander thought boredly. His friends argued more than ghosts do.

  "I WANT TAG!" The argument conntinued.

  "Guys! Let's play Freeze Tag then!" I yelled.

  "Ooh! Yes!" Halley grinned.

  "Umm..." Derek hesitated.

  "Stop being so picky, Derek!" Halley shouted at him.

  "Fine!" He shouted back.

  How would they like if I jam a hedgehog in both of their mouths? "You two have to get along!" I yelled.

  "Shut up!" Halley shouted at the same time Derek shouted, "Yeah, Halley!"

  Then we randomly fell down laughing.

  I can hear Lori complaining from a distance, and for some reasons, it make me laugh harder. Suddenly the cloud covering the sun break out, it shone down on me and I suddenly shrieked in pain, I don't know why! The sun just shone at my bare hands (which is the most exposed part to the sun, because I am wearing a hoodie) and it was burning!

  "Alex?? Alex, are you okay?!" Yelped Halley and my mother and Lori race over.

  "Alex?" My mom pulled me into her arms, I was starting to cry.

  It was hurting unbelievebly, my hands are red color now, the sun touched my face and I quickly hid my face from the sun.

  "What is happening?" Lori exclaimed. She grabbed a bottle of water and held out my hand -yes, I cried in pain when she did- and poured the cold water on my hands.

  It helped a little, not so much, but a little is good. Lori's shadow was shadowing me from the sun, and my hands immediately felt a bit better.

  ...wait. Wait. Wait just a second. Is the sun hurting me? How is that possible?

  How?

  My mom frowned in confusion, Derek and Halley seemed to be frightened to silence. Lori continued pouring water, rubbing my pale pinkish hand now. It was getting better.

  Soon my hands were back to the original color they once were, white-tan. But my hands still throbbed slightly, but at least the tears stopped and the weird red burns.

  My mother scooped me up, "Come on, Alex. Let's go rest in the shade for a while." Her eyes were apprenhensive, I can tell something is wrong.

  This is so weird, I never use to be affected by the sun before, sometime it makes my exposed skin hurts a bit, but I always assumed everyone felt the same, but this...

  Then something else hits me. My mom only ever really take me out when it's cloudy or have a lot of shade. And at school, the teachers always seemed to be keeping me to the shade. And even at school, when I get near sunlight, it never really hurted like this.

  Huh.

  My mom placed me down on the pinic mat, underneath a tree's shade. Then she started stroking my hair gently.

  "Mom?" I tried to sit up, but my mom eyes told me I should stay laid down. "Why did that just happened?"

  My mom aimed her eyes somewhere else. "I don't know, sweetie, I really don't."

I want to protest I bet she does, but I felt really tired.

"Alex? Are you okay?" Halley shouted.

"Yeah! Wanna play now?" Derek asked.

"You two!" Scolded Lori, I want to answer, but right now all I wanted to do was sleep. I hear Lori shouted for them to go play by themselves and then I fell asleep.