"Thank you for saving my life." I told Darren, who was in a red jacket and with kinda mess up hair. He had my skateboard in his hand and looked at me.

"I can fix it." He try to fix it by smacking it together but broke it more and it fell to the ground.

"Ok i can't fix it." I laughed a little and he laughed too.

"Do you need help going back to your house?"

"No but i would like to talk to you while i'm going back to my house." Darren and me walked to my house side by side.

"So what was that guy, why did he looked like crap?" Darren looked at the ground.

"He was a vampaneze and he was going to suck you dry." I looked at him like if her was crazy, he contiue to talk.

"They are crazy for blood and if they drink too much, they can go crazy and there skin can turn to purple, they are like vampires a little bit."

"Why are they called vampaneze?"

"I don't know but they are bad news and you are lucky that i was here to save you." I was lucky that Darren was here to save my life but he looked different from other people. We were just 10 blocks away from my house and it was late cause there was no one around, i asked him a question without thinking straight.

"Are you a vampire?" He didn't looked at me just walked and looked at the ground.

"Yes." Was he going to suck my blood? I'm i going to die? He looked at me and knew that i was scared out of my life.

"Hey, i'm not going to drink your blood or anything." I sighed and was calm again but why did he saved me?

"Why didn't you kill me?"

"Cause vampires don't kill when we drink, we make humans pass out and take a slip of blood." I was creeped out now that vampires make humans pass out while drinking there blood.

"I'm not going to drink your blood now, i'm not hungry." I sighed again and contiue to walk with Darren who is a vampire. We were at my house and the lights were on.

"Shit."

"What's wrong?" He looked at my house and saw the lights on.

"My parents work 24/7 at the diner and i can't go through the door without getting trouble."

"Don't you have a window?"

"Yeah but it's 3 storys high."

"Do you have a tree near your room." I looked at the side of the house and my treehouse was near my room.

"I did not think of that." I ran to the side of the house and climb the treehouse's ladder and got inside and went out the window and saw Darren still there.

"I see you again."

"Sure." He ran to the darkness and i didn't see him again. I was at my window and i jumped to the roof and i walked quietly to my window and climbed into my room. I heard footsteps and i climbed in my bed and cover myself with my blanket and preated to be asleep. My door open and more footsteps came.

"Are you sure that she is 16?" My mom knew my age.

"Yes Barbara she is." My dad was a little bit loud at my mom.

"But she is just a child."

"She is the reason why we are poor and i knew that i shouldn't let you bring her to this house! You should let her die in the cold when she was a baby!" He yelled at mom, he wanted me to die?

"She was alone and she was a baby." The door closed and i jumped out of the bed and walked silently to my door and listen to my parents argue.

"She is a demon!" Demon? I had tears coming from my eyes but i fought them back and listened.

"She was just a baby Dave and she was left in the cold and no one was outside to take care of her. I was left in the cold? I look at my notebook on my desk and thought about the story that i made. Just like that little baby who was protect by her mother and she gave her life up to give the baby a new life. The tears came onto my cheeks and the arguing was over, i ran to my bed and cryed into my pillow. They wanted me to die and they didn't care about me. I looked at my necklace that i never took off since i was a baby, it was black opal with a sliver line holding it. I hold the stone and thought about Dixie and Darren, they were the only people that cared about me. I wanted to kill my parents for saying bad things about me but something told me no. I wanted to sleep and forget everything but my mind didn't want to.

I grabbed all of my clothes and put them in my black backpack that said in red "I heart vampires!" I was obsessed with vampires and i had alot of vampire stuff but i gave them to kids when i couldn't have them. I grabbed my stuff that i loved the most and put them in my bag that could hold 100 stuff. I had clothes, shoes etc, i grabbed my notebook and put it in the last pocket that could hold it and grab a t shirt that was white with black and said "WHAT THE HELL." Black skinny jeans, a dark blue hoodie with little ears and black flats. I ran out my door and looked back at my room and reamber my memory of the room, i had this room since i was a little girl. I ran down the stairs to the diner and my parents were there doing the morning special i walked to the door.

"Where are you going?" My dad told me it was saturday and he knew that i don't go to school on saturdays.

"I'm leaving." I wisper

"ANWSER ME!" He yelled at me and everyone was looking at me.

"I. AM. LEAVING!" I yelled at him and mom stopped pouring coffee.

"YOU ARE NOT LEAVING THIS HOUSE!"

"YES I AM! SINCE YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ME ANYMORE!"

"You are not leaving in this house young lady." She was on dad's side.

"I am."

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO GO?!" My dad contiue to yell at me, i didn't know where i was going to stay.

"ANYWHERE THAT IS NOT HERE!" I grabbed my nametag and threw it at dad and ran out the door to my treehouse and grabbed my stuff into my backup bag that was a book bag and black with a skull on it. I jumped out the treehouse and ran to the hosptial to see Dixie. I saw Dixie on her bike and she saw me.

"May! Why do you have a back pack with you?" I looked at her and she knew why i had a book bag with me.

"You are moving out?"

"Yeah."

"Where are you going to go?"

"Somewhere far away from here."

"Let me come with you." I looked at her with my green eyes to her blue eyes. She was serious.

"Are you sure?"

"May, my parents are in jail and i wanted to leave this hell hole. Please." She also had a backbag with her too, we were the only ones who wanted to leave this town that we thought was hell. I let her come with me and she rode on her bike and she knew that i didn't have a board anymore. This guy who was near his cab was talking on the phone and he had a skateboard in his cab's thunk. I looked at Dixie and i ran to the cab and took the board without getting caught and i rode on the board and Dixie rode on her bike.

We were past the town's limit and was in the woods, the sun was going down and i felt a werid feeling that someone was behind us. Then we saw a little person in a hood walking towards us, he was limping and i bend down to him.

"Are you ok?" He didn't say anything then he point at the trees and me and Dixie looked at each other and i walked to the tree that he was pointing at. Then a dark figure jumped down out of the tree and i looked at the figure closely and it was Darren.

"Darren."

"May what are you doing here?" He looked at my backbag and he sighed at me.

"You are running away are you?"

"Yeah."

"May who is this guy?" Dixie was looking at Darren and he walked to her.

"I'm Darren Shan."

"I'm Dixie Berry."

"Do you guys need a place to stay?"

"Yeah we do." He walked away to the darkness and stopped and looked at us and waved his hand at us.

"Come on it's near." Me and Dixie looked at each other and followed Darren and the little guy was limping.

"Hey you can get on top of my bag." He nodded and Dixie helped him get on top of my backbag and we walked to the place that Darren told us. He said that this place is a cirus and told us to not stare at them. When we got there it was filled with lights and the sun was down, we walked to the entrance and saw that everyone had a talent. A guy that had 2 bellies, a girl that had big two front teeth and a guy who was walking on his hands. I put the little guy down to his friends that were like him and we walked to a tent and stopped.

"Wait here and don't move." Darren walked into the tent and didn't come out for mintues. Me and Dixie were bored, we sat on the ground and stare into space until this handsome guy was in front of us.

"Hello." I looked up at him and he had a old shirt that was like 17 century and was black.

"Hi."

"Why are you girls at Mr. Tall's tent?" He point at the tent that Darren was in.

"Mr. Tall?"

"Yeah he is the ringleader kinda." Mr. Tall?

"We are waiting for a friend, Darren Shan?"

"Oh Darren. Nice boy, well we are having dinner if you want to join." My belly and Dixie's were rumbing and i didn't want to be rude to him.

"Sure." We walked to the hangout and sat down, there was a fire and hot dogs, ham burgers were out and ready. Dixie loved ham burgers and i loved hot dogs we ate and the guys were talking to us. The 2 bellies guy was name Rhamus Twobellies, the girl with 2 front teeth was Gertha Teeth, the guy walking on his hands is Hans Hands.

"And i'm Alexander Ribs and my girl is Corma Limbs." She was blond and i shook her hand and said hi.

"What can you do?" Dixie asked Alexander.

"Oh no we are not doing that, Alexander." Rhamus told Dixie and Alexander.

"Now wait if Dixie wants to know what i do, she can see."

"He can show you his real life ribs." Corma told me and Dixie.

"And i can take off my limbs and they can grow back." I thought that was a little bit weird but it was also cool too.

"So what are your talents?" Rhamus asked us while eating 12 hamburgers in once. Me and Dixie looked at each other.

"We sing and dance." Dixie said out loud

"Dixie." I bumbed her in the shoulder.

"Can we see?" I was shy about singing and dancing to people that i didn't know well but Dixie wanted to do it.

"Sure." We got up and turn on the radio and turned to our music.

"Ready?"

"Yeah."

"LA LA LA LA."

"Why am i always hit on by the boys i never like? I can always see em coming from the left and from the right. I don't want to be a priss i just try to be polite, but it always seems to bite me in the. Ask me for my number, yeah you put me on the spot. You think that we should hook-up but i think that we should not. You had me at hello then you opened up your that is when it startes going south, Oh! Get your hands off my hips before i'll punch you in the lips stop your staring at my hey! Take a hint Take a hint. No, you can't buy me a drink let me tell you what i think i think you could use a mint. Take a hint take a hint.T- Take a hint Take a hint. I guess you still don't get it so lets take it from the top. You asked me what my sign is and i told you it was stop. And if i only had a dime for every name that you just dropped, Youd be here and id be on a yacht, oh! Get your hands off my hips before i'll punch you in the lips stop your staring at my hey! Take a hint take a hint. No, you can't buy me a drink let me tell you what i think i think you should use a mint. Take a hint take a hint.T-Take a hint take a hint. What about a "No" don't you get? So go and tell your friends i'm not really interested, It's about time that you're leavin i'm gonna count to three. And open my eyes and you'll be gonnneee. One, Get your hands off my. Two, Or i'll punch you in the. Three, stop your staring at my. Hey! Take a hint Take a hint. I am not your missing link let me tell you what i think, i think you should use a mint. Take a hint take a hint, take a hint take a hint. Ohhhh... Get your hands off my hips before i'll punch you in the lips stop your staring at my hey! Take a hint take a hint T-take a hint take a hint. La, la, la, la ,la, la" We bowed to the guys and they clapped, i similed at them and they stopped. I turned around and saw a tall guy in a blue chinese suit with a big forehead and a goattee looking over us with a guy with crazy curly orange hair and a red cloak and Darren was beside them.

"Is this May and Dixie?" The tall guy said and i knew that he is Mr. Tall.

"Yes Sir we are and we need a place to stay." He looked at me closely with his brown eyes. He step back and had a scared look on his face.

"No, you can't be!" Everyone walked to him and he felled to the ground.

"Mr. Tall are you ok?"

"Sir are you ok?" I asked him

"Get away from me!"

"What did you do to him?" Darren asked me while everyone was helping him.

"I don't know."

"I can answer to that my dear." I turned around to that voice and a fat man with sunglasses and a guy with crazy brown hair and crazy eyes. I knew that he is a vampaneze.

"Who are you?" Dixie asked him

"I'm Destiny but you can call me Mr. Tiny." He made a simile and i knew something was going to happen.