CASSIE'S POV

Chapter One

I was born on August 19th, 1997. I was christened Cassandra Hope Baker, and I've been living a normal life since my birth. Although, there was one slight complication that altered my lifestyle. 

I grew up in a family of five, two older sisters, and my little brother and sister (they were twins). I was the middle child, sort of the peace maker. I always knew I would have an important role in my life, and as a child, this seemed to be it. Bickers, arguments, fights, I would always calm it down. I didn't know how, but I obviously was the super glue holding the family together.

When I was 12, my eldest sister, Skye, became pregnant with twins. The father left her soon after he found out she was pregnant. It was really sad, because they had been together for almost five years and it felt like he was going to propose soon. Darcy and Xavier were born the day before my thirteenth birthday.

It was on that day, the 18th of August, two years later, was when I was bitten. We had moved to Rocky Plains, which is a desert, a few months earlier, and Skye, Darcy, Xavier and Matthew (Skye's boyfriend) came along too. It was my turn to walk down to the nearby suburban area and get the week's groceries.

I was calmly walking, whistling the song I was currently writing, when it pounced on me.

It was a Cactus Vampire.

-=END OF CHAPTER ONE=-
(Sorry the image is round the wrong way)