Eleven hours later, I'm at home. I have a support bandage put on my left arm and an excuse to get out of Phys Ed for three weeks to heal. Every two weeks I have to go to my local hospital, Our Local Health Centre, and have tests. It is not really a health centre, the building is huge. After the whole class has recovered we had to go to the police station, I don't know why, and give some sort of a statement. That is, all but Mrs Filler, who has extended sickness leave. Funny, nobody actually died. I will just say that I was unconscious for most of it, but when I woke up I went straight into action. The whole class was asleep, then Bryony woke up so I helped her. They should buy it as it won't be totally lying. I will just miss some stuff out.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDwLaj39oWj
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I've started hanging out with Bryony recently. Since my fit Marie-Anne has been giving me the evil stare. It might be because that gash in her shoulder is now a scar and her mummy says it has totally ruined her (thin to me) chances of being a supermodel. So that is me barred from her house.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTDW2NMGyn
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Bryony is unwell. She is at home. I am walking to her house now. Five Riverway Walk. Knocking on the door, I tremble slightly. Her mum answers.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aufoXvFSm
"Hello Emily, you must want to see Bryony, right?"353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDw22gLWCyZ
"Yes, Mrs Randa," I smile. "Oh don't worry, I'm pretty resilient to most things."353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBujj31jgPo
"If you insist..." I walk up to her bedroom door and knock. After waiting a little while I quietly entered. She smiles. I sit on the end of her bed and, like a doctor, ask what her illness is like. She has been having painful flashes through her body at high speeds.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjYxrLQjGac
Recently her temperature has started creeping up. I remember those symptoms. They were in my first two weeks of my start-of-blood-craze mystery illness.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2d1SL4xWv1
"Bryony..." I whisper - I do not know why.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2GNrEWxrE
"Yes." She whispers back. I grab her hands and tell her to search. Afterwards she says. "Do you mean...?"353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0r6fAQxgX9
"Yes." I give her a straightforward answer. "You have to hunt." We sit still and think for a while. We come up with a solution to help her get better.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXosHAnyFjm
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I will bring her some blood tomorrow morning via her bedroom (luckily facing the back garden), using my mind strength to fly.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjLzMa81IlG
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Finally it is the day after. I give her the drink. We carry on until we work out a hunting plan.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjjdnHpewl
"What will you drink it from?" I ask.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNjBLwkUgp
"Hmm, good question, will one of those test tubes work?"353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfxFO7FRzMq
"Probably not, it took me a whole drip before I got better." I think for a second. "I got it! Look for a cola bottle made of glass." I was going to use it but it has to go to a better cause. I can always refill it.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxkb26UUjkZ
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Wow, this is cool. I have never flown properly before. So the daunting three stories high I'm going is the highest I've ever been. My tummy feels like it has been left on the ground. Before I set off I throw a couple of rocks at her double glazed window so she knows I am coming. Hah, her hand, it is opening the window.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeV03gs8MZK
"Hey." I quietly call.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ57ifegpgj
"Hello." She calls back. She does not sound too good, much worse than yesterday. Luckily, she is not yet as bad as I was. Surprisingly, her mummy has not taken her to the hospital yet. I float in, sit down and release the lid on the bottle. Reluctantly, Bryony takes the bottle and, with a shaky hand, puts it to her lips and gulps. She puts it back on her desk.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG4KgLKjvFk
"It tastes like metal." The six year old smiles.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjXalWS1Yk
"Yeah, you get use to it." I reply. She picks it up and downs it in two. Her face lights up.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡltqHn2XGwg
"I feel great!" She beams.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLK7SqY2Gv5
"You look it." I beam back. " Same in two days." I smile a gappy smile. Why is it gappy? My tooth just fell out on the carpet.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZwtxxvxHT
"Okay." She smiles, picking up my tooth and returning it to me. "Just do not forget the immortal glug." She reminds me. I put the tooth in my pocket and walk home.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJFKviqyPME
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Two days later and I bring her a fresh test tube. I do the same as last time. Quickly she pops the lid off and downs it in one. We will work out the hunt. I will come to her house at nine with the test tubes. We will hunt once a week. We are doing the first one tonight.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdxNwGfsCpq
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Knock! Thud! The rock makes noise as it clatters on the window and bounces back to the dry mud. Bryony jumps out the window.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2fa7ScSFE
"Feeling immortal already?" I ask.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6zTk4JP4m
"Yeah, never more alive," She says. "Are you ready?"353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl78EtXX77I
"Planned as anything." I take a wad of folded up paper from my pocket and unfold it.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk07xQE71Zu
"This is a map of the town." I point to the blue lanes. "These are the lanes I found easy." I point to the red ones. "Here places not many people sleep well or they have alcohol or drugs in their blood. This will spike us and lead to bad effects. The white lanes however," My fingers skin the long road going down the middle of town. "Are places I don't try. Quite public." I think, was there anything I missed out? Oh yeah. "If I'm ill and cannot hunt do not go here ever." Constantly whacking my hand on the black square. "The dead man's estate. The blood here is druggy, alcoholic and tar-filled. It leaves you hungry for more. Addicted, almost as if you are directly taking the drug. But here is my suggestion." Tracing the route to Enclosed End and Sleep Street. "Enclosed End is better but farther away. Sleep Street is a walk away but mostly they are single people or happily married couples doing what Mummy calls making love." She chooses Enclosed End. We go off into the night.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mUH0nSuX2
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Bryony makes quicker process than I thought she would. She says it's because when she touches me she has access to all my memories and secrets. Even my birth, which I don't remember! So basically if I was ever there she can be there too. So she fortunately knows all about my hunts. After we have our fill she holds my hand and finds out what to do with it. When we arrive back at her house we make a new date. Nest week 11th June still in 2006. Exactly four months until my birthday: 11th October. I will finally turn six like Bryony is now.353Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5aAcK4LSrg
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