Blood Dripping Fingertips by Meghan Escott (read ebook pdf .txt) 📕

increased and got way worse. She realized that the silver bracelet was back on the Turners wrist but her cheek was still a mess. She worked out that it was sewing itself back together.
The pain weakened and Lucy sat up and opened her eyes. By now she had stopped screaming but the thumping on the door had increased. She could hear Tom screaming her name and she knew she must have been screaming really loudly to let it through the otherwise sound proof door. As she looked up to try and see the Turner a mirror was shoved in front of her face. She tried not to look but she couldn’t stop herself.
As Lucy looked in the mirror and looked at her cheek the Turner looked away from her as if looking at her was painful. She looked closely at the cheek the Turner had put the bracelet. She expected to see a mush of flesh, blood and skin but she was nicely surprised. There was a pitch black and shiny white tattoo on her cheek. The design was amazing. It had lots of swirls, dots and a bit of Latin writing entwined in each other making an intricate and beautiful design. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. It changed her face completely. It looked pale against the black but bright against the white. All of her bruises from where her mother had hit her where completely gone.
“Are you in any pain Lucy?” the Turner said like he was genuinely worried about her and he hadn’t just inflicted near death pain on her.
“All the pain has gone. What have you done to me?” Lucy replied in awe of what she now looked like.
“I have changed you. You are now a Vampire Lucy.”


Chapter Two

The Turner tried to act as if nothing had happened but he couldn’t stop looking at Lucy. He knew from that moment he knew he had done the right thing and he knew that he loved her.
“No! That’s not true. Please say it’s not true,” Lucy screamed at the top of her voice. “Why today? Why at all? Please say it’s not true.” She started sobbing and scratching at her cheek trying to get the tattoo off. Now she knew what it meant, what it symbolized, she didn’t think it was beautiful. She thought it was disgusting and horrible. How could she ever have thought it was beautiful?
While she was sobbing on the floor Tom had been let in and ran over to her. He pulled her into a warm embrace and then pulled away. Kissing her he whispered “I thought you were dead. What did he do to you?” He hadn’t noticed the tattoo which meant she could still be with him. She just had to cover it up. Like a bruise on her face so no-one would know.
As soon as he stopped kissing her she grabbed some of her black, long hair and flung it over her cheek. Tom, thankfully, had looked away from her and stared straight at the Turner who was still staring in awe at Lucy.
“What did you do to my girl? What did you do to Lucy?” Tom shouted at him wanting an answer.
“I helped her in ways you would not understand human.” The Turner sneered back at him not wanting to shout at the person he loved cared about.
“What does that mean?” Tom said back to him looking from Lucy to the Turner. He did a double take and looked back to Lucy. “What’s that on your cheek Lucy?” genuinely worried.
“Nothing.” Lucy said slapping her hand to her cheek so that Tom wouldn’t see it. But she was too late. He was already striding over to her and inspecting her cheek.
“She’s a Vampire now, “the Turner said, still looking at Lucy. “I helped her to be a Vampire. She doesn’t need you any more”
“No. I’m not one of those things.” Shouting at the Turner then turning to Tom. “Can you help me up?”
He helped her up off the stone cold floor and into his arms. As soon as she was into his embrace she started kissing him. He kissed her back and she felt loving, caring and worry in his kiss and pulled back from him. Pulled him into her embrace and held his hand.
“I’m not dead. I’m fine. I just need a lie down. Will you help me home?” She tried to say as calmly as possible in her condition. He nodded silently and put his arm around her and began to walk out of the room.
“You know I’m right Lucy. There is no turning back now. You’ll know where to go soon enough.” The Turner said dryly as he started losing the love of his life.
Both Lucy and Tom ignored the Turner and walked straight out of the school hall. Lucy realized that her tattoo was on full display and flicked her hair back over it.
As Tom and Lucy got back to her house, her mother was waiting for her outside. She ran up to her and took over from Tom. He still followed Lucy though because he wanted to know the truth about what had happened in the school hall. The person Lucy was with said she was a Vampire but he couldn’t believe that would happen to his girl and even if she a Vampire, he would still love her.
By the time Tom had got back to his senses, they were all in Lucy’s bedroom and her mother was lying Lucy down on her bed. She left the room straight away and left Tom and Lucy alone.
“What happened in there? Why were you screaming? What did he do to you?” Tom asked as soon as her mother was out the door. “Come on Lucy. Tell me what happened.”
“OK I’ll tell you but you’re going to freak Tom. You won’t love me any more I know you won’t.” Lucy said nearly bursting into tears but just holding herself back.
“That boy. He is called the Turner. He is a Vampire. When he looked straight into my eyes, the process started and so did the pain. He took me away from everyone so no-one would see the pain I was going through and what he was doing to me. His silver bracelet. He took it off and rested on my cheek. My skin melted against the silver. That’s why I was screaming. After my cheek was burnt through, he took the silver off my cheek and this is what I found.” She moved her hair and showed Tom her tattoo. He just sat in silence while she explained and couldn’t stop staring at her cheek. He thought it was beautiful and he thought it suited Lucy down to the ground.
“I’m a Vampire Tom. I can smell your blood. I want to bite you.” Lucy started moving towards Tom expecting him to flinch but he didn’t. He pulled Lucy into his chest and held her there. He lowered his lips to hers and kissed her gently but lovingly.
“I don’t care what you are Lucy. I don’t care you want to suck my blood. All I care about is you. You and me together. I’ll love you whatever you do or are.” He said and lowered his neck to her mouth. As he did she opened her mouth and surprised herself by biting his neck. As soon as she did it she knew it was wrong but she couldn’t stop herself.
The taste of blood was like nothing she had ever tasted before and she had been all over Europe. It was sweet on her tongue and it was hot in her mouth nearly burning her throat as it went down. Tom moaned. She didn’t know whether he was in pain so she forced herself to stop remembering who she was sucking blood from.
“I’m sorry Tom. Are you al right? Did I hurt you?” she asked looking at the bite marks in his neck. She looked around for a tissue to cover up the blood seeping from his neck but a voice made her stop. Her mother was standing in the door way of Lucy’s bedroom looking worried but pleased at the same time.
“Rub your finger over it and it will heal over.” Her mother said directly at her not looking ashamed or embarrassed or any of the things Lucy was feeling. She looked happy for the first time Lucy had ever known. And that’s when she realized that she must have known all along what she was going to turn into. She had hurt her all these years to prepare her for the pain of going through with the Turn.
“Thanks Mum.” Lucy said as she did what her mother had instructed. Tom gasped again as Lucy pressed her index finger on the wound and rubbed. As she did this, Lucy couldn’t stop staring at what was happening. The wound was healing right in front of her. Just sealing over like nothing had happened. She grabbed Tom by the waist and pulled him into a strong and loving embrace.
“Did I hurt you? I didn’t mean to.” She whispered into his ear so her mother wouldn’t hear her.
“That was awesome. You didn’t hurt me at all. I love you.” He whispered back just loud enough for her to hear.
After that she relaxed into him and she felt him hold her close. She also heard her mother leave the room and shut the door behind her so she and Tom could have a bit of privacy. When Lucy squirmed out of Tom’s embrace, she looked into his eyes and saw his tasty green eyes staring back at her. When he went into kiss her, they sparkled and Lucy had always loved that but before their lips could meet her brain nearly exploded in pain.
“Holy Shit!” Tom said when I had collapsed on the bed, head in my hands, curled into a little ball, trying to get away from the pain. My brain was shouting at me. Shouting so loud it was a wonder why Tom couldn’t hear it. It was shouting for one thing.
Blood.
My brain was shouting for blood and as soon as I realised what I needed, I was up off the bed and making my way to Tom before I could stop myself. “Lucy? Are you alight?” Tom said freaked out about what was going on. “What do you want? What do you need from me? I know those eyes Lucy, what do you need?”
Tom knew me so well that he knew that I needed something and I needed it right that moment. Before the realization hit him, I bent low to get him out of the chair he had collapsed into. He stood up and looked down into my eyes with a worried look across his face.
I had no idea what I must have looked like to him; a crazy teenager with a tattoo on her cheek and wanting blood. While I was thinking