We watch the sky disappear from a vivid blue to a darkened grey covering up the beauty of the grassy lands before us, in only just a few minutes. “I think it’s going to rain,” I say wanting to leave this place while I shiver in my bikini. I turn away from the lake and reach for my clothes, where I see nerves are making me jingle with anxiety. “Shouldn’t we leave?” I ask desperate to get out of here.

There is a splash, a cascade of water spits out and I can feel some of the remains touch upon my cold fragile skin like a trigger. My eyes dart up to look at the sky still grey and no sign of rain while a thought creeps up on my mind, he hasn’t said a single word to me in awhile. “Cillian?” I turn to face the lake to see not a single soul in sight, not even his.

I walk upon the wooden plank where I hear my footsteps echo like thunder, rumbling with nerves. “Cillian?” I say his name again without making sure I stutter his name, but I do. My voice hurts as it has cracked upon saying his name multiple times without a response. Then I feel forced to jump into this body of water, and there is another splash but this time it is mine. The water trickles on my skin, touching every vulnerable part of me while I bounce in the waves.

I start to calm down as I close my eyes and think of my safe place. _Books, diving into different worlds. Reading transforms me. _The waves ignore me now because it knows I am not their enemy, just a friend trying to swim. “Cillian?” I say his name once more hoping this time I would get an answer. Silence, while the ripples of the waves haunt me.

Then there is something touching my leg, I freeze. It is pulling me down into the depths of this lake. _I thought we were friends. _After my face is plunked into the water, my eyes burn from what seems like salt. But I see him, I see Cillian dragging me down and I try to break loose from his grip that is tight around my leg suffocating the blood from there so now my leg feels numb and I can hardly swim back to shore. I swallow a gasp of water that stops me from breathing, my heart suddenly starts to fall from both the limit of oxygen and the cold temperature of -1 degrees.

But I try to swim, swim away from Cillian who is now trying to take my life. I reach a shallower area where I can allow myself some air spitting out the water stuck in my mouth. However, Cillian has caught up to me as he also reaches up for air right in front of me. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” I ask him bewildered by his attempt of drowning actions.

“I’m killing you before you have the chance to kill me,” he says as he flips his hair where water splashes onto my skin, my pale frozen skin which feels like glass. If he touches me one way or another, he’s going to break me. Cillian moves forwards to be closer to me, but I freeze just by looking at the man who is betraying me. “But before I do, I want to kiss you one more time. Is that alright?” He asks for my permission, but I shake my head refusing to be anywhere near him. I try to swim backwards away from this human monster, but his arms grab onto my legs pulling me closer to him before he can wrap them around my waist. He leans in and his lips touch mine, electricity bounds us together and I am stuck as I cannot defy electricity. Then he lets go leaving me hanging for more of his taste, and has already drowned me with his love which makes me survive.

“Your love kills me, but you won’t ever get the pleasure to see my dead body,” I say before I sink my teeth into his neck and take every drip of blood from him. It tastes metallic like a sword is digging in my back.

“You think I didn’t know what you are?” He says as he pushes me away. “A blood thirsty vampire who preys on sweet boys who gives you affection. It sure bites you doesn’t it? Pun intended.”

He watches me choke on blood that is filled with ivy, a poison that is deadly to me. He watches me drown into the darkness of the lake below, where I am unable to swim back to shore.