THREE

Angel POV.

I fell asleep on the sofa, with the TV turned on trying to listen to any news, trying to stay safe, hoping I'd stay safe until I could make up a plan and get away, I didn't have a family, I didn't have any friends to run to or ask them for help. My mother gave me up on birth, she's an addict, not drugs but it's on the adrenaline, she's out there somewhere jumping from a plane or free diving up from some hill.

My father on the other side is an alcoholic, my mother gave birth to me as an adult, she tried pregnancy and delivery and then she was done, while my father was and stayed the same alcohol lover. He named me after his favourite stripper, he took terrible care of me, it's a big miracle that I grew up enough to leave the house and take care of myself, making a future for myself.

I woke up and looked at my phone there were no more warning messages anymore, maybe the government had given up, hopefully, this thing would be put under control soon and we'd get to go back to our old life soon, not that I enjoyed my old life, but it's better than just hiding.

I went to the bathroom first, I had the bad urge to pee, I always suffer from waiting until the last second before I actually go, I don't have accidents anymore, but I did years ago, and maybe when I was younger, it felt like today was going to be one of those bad days, I'm too shaken after last night running events.

I managed to make it in time, and then I went toward the kitchen, I was starving, I hadn't had dinner or lunch yesterday, my boss hadn't send me to get him lunch, we were too busy and my fear stopped me from eating dinner when I got here. I made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it's the most common food I had growing up, and I still love it.

I finished my sandwich, washing it down with a big cup of water, I went back to the living room and checked the TV, the channel I had it on before falling asleep was off, so I turned to the next one and the one after, they all had morning shows, music, reruns of old shows, nothing mentioning the current events.

I thought about calling work, but what if they told me to come over and that seems even worse option than the attackers, so I tried my luck with the TV again, but nothing, I looked at my phone, I was sure there's going to be something, maybe another warning or one that says we're not in emergency state anymore.

I looked out of my shitty apprtment window and saw nothing, just the normal cars driving by and nothing out of the normal, so maybe things are going back to normal, but what where they? Who did we get attacked by?

"Breaking news," the TV sounded from behind me and I jumped, I went toward the TV to see what's going on, what's the news.

"We interrupt this show to bring you the newest news," a very calm voice says, this wasn't the same reporter I've been watching for the last couple days, he sound calm and collected, unlike the panick and fear I was watching.

"During the last couple days, our phones have been filled with warnings, with war declaration, with the news of the death of the current president, then our news have been filled with analysit who said that it's aliens, it's another nuclear war, that it's the end. But I'm here to provide you with the truth and nothing but the truth so stuck around, call your friend, tell everyone to come by the tv or the radio and listen carefully," the reporter says, I turned the channel, I skipped to the next one and the one after, all the channels that had morning shows, and music, and others, all of those channels are now showing the same news reporter.

Maybe it's a national report, I didn't have anyone to call or ask to pay attention along with me, it's just me, so I looked at the TV, and I waited for the reporter to explain what's going on, I'm waiting to hear the truth, or some of it at least, I'm going to hear the official story.

"Humans have been going under attack, but it's not an alien attack and it's not a nuclear war, the one that ended most of the humanity back in twenty-twenty. That war has done more than destorying most of the earth along with it's habitant, that was war has been hard and it revealed that the earth isn't just for the humans, we also live here," the reporter says with a big toothy smile, showing off a perfect set of white teeth he had very sharp fangs, scary, but cute, he had my attention, but he took a full minute of silence.

"Now that I gave you enough time to speculate and think about it, what do you think I'm? What do you think we are?" he asks, and I answered the first thing that came to my mind, knowing it's wrong, but I'd entertain him any day, he had my full attention, he was charming and the way he talked had me calm down.

"A vampire," I say out loud, it's just me in the house, I could talk and say the words out loud.

"Maybe some of you are correct, maybe none of you are correct, but here's the answer to you all, hear me correctly, I'm a vampire," he says and my mouth fell open, I had to physically pull my jaw up to close my mouth, this can't be true, he must be sick or this is just a joke, and then he waited another minute, he went quiet.

"I hope the chance I gave you was enough for you to close your mouths, to say and scream the words 'You're joking!' or 'What a liar' or even better yet 'I don't believe him'" the reporter says and he was right, I have said all of those and a bit more, I didn't believe him.

"Well now that we got all of that out of the way, let's be real, I'm not joking, I'm not lying, it is true, this is what I'm and that's what we are," he says but who is we? Why is he talking in the plural, how crazy could he be?

"Now, now settle down children, I have told you the truth, and it's up to you if you just believe me or you want to wait until you find out it's true, it's not going to take you long before you find out that we don't lie, that we are real, and we're taking over. Humans had their chance and what did they do? They had a nuclear war, they ruined the earth, we've been spending the last eight hundred years trying to fix what was broken," he says and he's right, it's been a long time but the earth wasn't back to what it's supposed to be, or that's what the books of history say.

"What do we want?" he asks out loud, I thought about it maybe they want our blood? Our land, to kill us all? It felt like I was under his spell, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen, I was listening to every word he's saying.

"I can confidently say that most of your answers if not all of them are wrong, no we don't want to hurt you, no we don't want your blood, no we don't want to kill you all or purge the earth from you. You did that wiht your war before and look where it brought us, look what and how we ended up with, it's not the best choice, it's not the best idea isn't it?" he says and he's right the war took us nowhere.

"Then what's our plan?" he asks out loud giving us a minute before he talks again, it's his way to ask and answer.

"We're declaring war on all humankind, surrender humans, and wait for further orders, yours truly, William," he says before the show was cut off and the re-run came back on, I turned the channels checking them and they all went back to what they had before, I decided it's safer for me to stay home, a war with vampire? I'm sure as hell not going to be part of it.