Hello Brooklyn - Chapter 2

Loretta took into a cold dark room and sat us down in chairs, for some reason me and Victoria thought this was the norm for Americans, who knows what they do, we grew up in Paris. But Scarlett was looking wild and scared, breathing shallowly and her eyes were huge.

"I, am a vampire. I have chosen you three to be my children of the night, to join me in my quest for my eternal thirst to be finally quenched. You three have no choice in the matter."
Victoria and I were well schooled in all languages, and I replied in heavily accented English, "Madame, please! Let us go free and we will tell no one!" I just wanted to leave and go home to my dear mama and papa. But this did not happen. At the end of my stammering, she smiled sickeningly and a door at the top of the stairs opened. At the top of the stair, there was a blinding white light which none of us could look directly into. A throaty chuckle came from the top of the stairs, and as soon as it had opened, the door slammed shut, leaving us in complete darkness again.

"Well, what have we got here?"
"I procured three young girls to be our new pets!" She replied enthusiastically. Scarlett was slumped in her seat, all the fight gone out of her.
"Loretta! Girl, you didn't have to do this for me!" He cried and rushed over to her.

"I had to! You've been so depressed since Toby and Nerissa died! These new ones will help you!" He ran over to us in a flash of gold, he grabbed my face in his dark-skinned fingers and inspected my face. "This one's pretty, nice, natural hair color, face coloring, and girl! Your eye color is phenomenal! What color is it?" He asked, "Gold, Monsieur," I answered, feeling very uncomfortable in this position. He nodded still turning my face, and looking me up and down. He moved on to Victoria, and sucked in breath. "Girl, is your hair naturally this color?" Victoria had long black hair, straight as anything down to her waist. She swore it had never been cut, and her eyes were a light sky blue. Her face was heart-shaped, sweet and small. The very image of innocence, and the man said so! He glanced at scarlett and said one thing, "Sassy." I had never heard that word before, but I know now what he was talking about. That is all I remember of this encounter. The next time I woke, I was a vampire.

Present day.
I awoke in my room, my room that lies underneath the bar. Loretta is very careful not to let us go out in the sunlight, and because of this our skin is perfectly pale all year round. There are a labyrinth of rooms underneath the bar that Ambrosias and Loretta built when the bar was first built. They claimed it was built back in the roman days, as that's when they first came together. They also claim they are the first vampires to walk the earth, and what can I do but to believe them! Me and Tory (Victoria) have not changed in appearances at all, except for the facts her hair is now cut in a sleek bob. Mine has not changed at all, it is still long and brown, and growing. Scarlett is still the same, long black hair, although it is straight now.

So back to the beginning! I woke up and got dressed in my waitress outfit, the bar is only open when the sun goes down, as that is the safest time for us to be out. Instead of just being 5 of us, there are now so many, it's hard to keep count! But I'll come to that later. The uniform we wear is a high-necked white blouse, with a short yellow Lycra skirt, the apron of exactly the same shade goes on top, and it is tied in a big flamboyant bow. Our name tag is pinned on the front. Instead of having our birth names, we have nicknames which are names that fit into this century. My name is now Aura, Victoria's is now Tory, Scarlett's is now Scarr.

As I walked up into the bar, everybody was already busy at work. Me, Tory, and Scarr were all waitresses, and we all enjoyed working together. We have a new bartender, that we procured in the late 50s', his name is Chuck. As soon as he came to us, he fell deeply in love with Tory, and she with him. They've been inseparable ever since. Chuck has dark brown hair, thick and wavy. His chocolate-brown eyes still swoon teenage girls that hang around the bar waiting for him. He is always seen with a cigarette hanging from his lips, and when he's on the clock he has a toothpick.

Ambrosias was the man whom I met the day, I was turned. To this day I don't know who turned me, Loretta or Ambrosias, but to be quite honest, I have no interest in knowing. Ambrosias finally came out of the closet as a gay. We all knew he was gay, but now - in this society - he can freely express himself. Ambrosias is of African-American descent. He shaves his head regularly, but always wears a headscarf wrapped around his head. He wears very flamboyant clothes, anything he finds he wears and makes it look amazing. He wears intense make-up, and no one berates him for it, because they don't let him fool you, he kicks butt when provoked. He's sassy, and he tells it how it is.

When I checked in to start my shift, I instantly ran into the two bus girls we got when we found chuck. Alex and Marilyn. The nicest girls you'll ever meet, but not very smart. They haven't got a brain in their head but they're drop dead beautiful. They get no end of tips, and all they do is wash and wipe tables!

Business was slow today, as it was Sunday. We just had a few regulars, I found myself wishing that it was Friday night, that's when the two guys come in that sing and play for us. Every time I think of him, I get this silly smile on my face. All the other girls tease me about it... but they don't go too far. They know I can kick some serious butt when needed. Charlie and Tyler... Charlie has the face of an angel... I swear. If I wasn't dead, and I still believed in heaven, then I would believe he was truly an angel come down from heaven to earth to see me. And Tyler, Tyler looked almost exactly like Charlie. Tyler was a lot more friendlier than Charlie. Charlie was more of the strong silent type, and no one really knew anything about him. Which meant Loretta made me read his mind. This I was not happy about. Me, Tory, and Scarlett had a strict no mind reading policy. We believe everything that goes on in people's heads are private. It's not my job to go peeking into their thoughts.

But I didn't find normal thoughts you'd expect to find in a usual teenage boy's head. All he thought about was music. It clouded his every thought. You couldn't find anything else. The other thoughts disturbed me though, all I could see were images and whispers of vampires. How could he know about us? I didn't tell Loretta though. She would have... 'exterminated' him.

Anyway. Back to Tyler. He had bright green eyes, and gold hair, just like Charlie, although Charlie had ice blue eyes.

Tyler and Scarlett kinda had a 'thing' going on. And when I say 'thing' I mean, acquaintances with benefits. You could tell both of them wanted to be more, but fear of rejection kept them both running around on that rickety old hamster wheel, I call it life.

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