Caroline's View

Chapter 2

Caroline walked the path along side the balcony and jumped out. It was just two feet from the ground. Caroline found her stash of cigarettes and lit one. Her mom really got on her nerves. A little bit of nicotine just eased the pain a little.

"It is really unattractive to see a lady smoking, you should really think about quitting." 

"Who are you?", Caroline asked nerve wracked.

The man who had addressed her suddenly appeared right in front of her just a foot away, impossibly fast for a human who was behind her just a moment ago.

"Well , a lady who doesn't know me , I am sad."

"Wait!"

"I never wait for anyone."

"You are the mysterious informer on my Mom's radio. You are Damon Salvatore." Caroline implored her intruder with her bright blue eyes.

"Congrats , I was waiting for you to figure it out."

"What are you doing at my house? I don't like you, you sneaky jerk! "

"Oh , Miss you think you are the queen of pain. You don't know anything."

Damon's face gorged with veins and his eyes turned a bright piercing red. Caroline began to scream.  But a second latter she felt nothing. 

She opened her eyes and woke up from a dream.

And saw the raw bite on her neck. Where two holes had pierced her skin , they looked a little like animal bites. But no dog had just two teeth.

She had forgotten about the intruder to her house and her recent fight with her mom.

Smoke , she thought. Caroline ran back into the house to find the source of smoke.

Inside the kitchen was filled with smoke and fire raged from the oven imbued with a roasted beef and onion smell. Caroline found the fire extinguisher and put the fire out. 

The roast was unrecognizable as beef anymore. Caroline took her mother's credit card that she had left in her hurry to answer the radio call and ordered pizza from the grill. 

Caroline didn't care whether her Mom noticed the theft , she won't start being my mother all of a sudden. Caroline passed her cheerleading outfit on the couch and began to munch on pizza. And the thought of two red piercing eyes came unbidden in her memory.

Caroline shuddered. And a black crow with thick reflective feathers smiled outside. A smile that didn't look crow like or human like.