The Half Vampire Twins - Gothic

By Kathy Binder

Kyra and her twin brother, Kyle are half vampire twins. They live with their mother in Tomaha, Wisconsin. When they were younger, they were home schooled and started to find out that they were different-they have vampire powers. At age seventeen, both of the twins were able to go to school, but they had to keep their vampire powers a secret from the other students. Kyra and Kyle are both musically talented vampires. Kyle plays the electric guitar, while Kyra plays the electric guitar and the piano. Kyra meets Tessa and Krystal in band class. Tessa plays the electric guitar, while Krystal plays the drums. Kyra, Tessa, and Krystal decide to start a band together with Kyra being the lead singer.
Kyle meets Trent and Johnny in school. They all decided to drive two-man cruisers at the Saleim Speedway. Kyle and Johnny are partners in one car, while Trent has to find another partner to drive with since he loses his partner. Kyra decides to partner up with Trent and learn the ropes on what to do in a two-man cruiser. Eventually, Kyra becomes Trent's girlfriend, after getting to know each other for a long time in school. They end up going to prom together. But mysteriously, Trent has to leave prom early. Kyra tries to find out why, but he is sworn to secrecy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543966602

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Copyright © 2019 by Kathy J. Binder

First printing

All characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Any similarity or resemblance to real persons, living or dead is coincidental.

Cover design and published by BookBaby

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Edited by Ben Graewin

Printed in the United States

ISBN 9781543966602

For my son, Johnny,

whose encouragement helped me to finish this story.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

Chapter 2 – First Day of School

Chapter 3 - The Fight

Chapter 4 – The Next Day

Chapter 5 – Human Anatomy and Physiology

Chapter 6 - Test Time

Chapter 7 – The Weekend

Chapter 8 – Flashing Forward

Chapter 9 – Spring Time

Chapter 10 – The Championship Race

Chapter 11 – Out with Friends

Chapter 12 – Finals

Chapter 13 – Prom Night

Epilogue

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

As I look at myself in the mirror with a puzzled look on my face, I keep asking myself the same question each morning-who am I? Hi. My name is Kyra Spears and I am a half vampire twin. You are probably wondering, what is a half vampire twin? All I can say is that I have to start at the beginning-before I was born.

When my mother was in college, she met my father who was a professor that taught psychology. My mother’s name is Keira Spears and my father’s name is Adrian. She never told me what my father’s last name was so I have my mother’s last name because they never did get married and for another reason.

Anyway, my mother went to a four year university in Wisconsin. She never told me where it was. She went for a major in teaching and a minor in music. She met my father her fourth year in college. Normally, students take all their generals in the first two years of college, but she couldn’t fit psychology in with the rest of her classes. She ended up taking a night class for psychology during her second semester which started in January.

My mother told me that she and my father had a lot in common, so they hit it off right away. They both were very smart, loved to teach, and loved music; Mozart was their favorite. After class was over, they would meet at a restaurant, have a cup of coffee, and just talk until it got quite late or when my mother got tired and needed to go home to rest.

My mother lived in an apartment just one block down on the same side as the college. It was a large white house with two stories. It had two large bedrooms upstairs, two large bedrooms downstairs, one medium size living/dining room and one medium size bathroom with a shower downstairs. It also had a basement that was used for doing laundry. She lived downstairs with a female college roommate who also majored and minored in the same programs as she did in college. The other two female roommates upstairs majored in something different. All four college roommates roomed together in the apartment but each had their own bedroom.

Adrian lived three blocks away from Keira’s apartment in a small dark brown house on the same side of the street as the college. It was a one story ranch-style house. His apartment had two small bedrooms, one small bathroom with a shower, and a small living/dining room. It also had a basement that was used for doing laundry.

After she completed her psychology class, Adrian told Keira that he was a pure-blooded vampire because he really liked her and didn’t want to keep any secrets from her. She accepted that he was a pure-blooded vampire and then he asked her out. Of course she said, yes. They only went out during the night time since he was a pure-blooded vampire who couldn’t go out during the day time because the sun could kill him. He also was her professor and she was his student so he asked her out at the end of the semester, but before summer break. Adrian was doing an internship at the college and was only four years older than Keira. His internship was completed at the end of the semester so it would no longer be a student-professor relationship. They would finally be able to go out together on their very first date.

Because my mother couldn’t fit all of her classes in during her fourth year of college, she ended up taking an extra semester. She graduated with a major in teaching and a minor in music within four and a half years and ended up graduating in December at the end of the semester.

My mother told me that after she graduated, they fell madly in love and took their romance to the next level. She ended up getting pregnant in January. She told my father right away as soon as she knew. They were happy, excited, and scared all at the same time. My mother ended up moving in with my father right after she told him the good news.

My father got a fulltime job after completing his internship during the fall of my mother’s senior year in college. He got a job as a psychology instructor at the same university where he did his internship and where my mother graduated from, but teaching only night classes. My mother also got a fulltime job after she graduated. She started her job in January at the same university but teaching music during the day time.

My mother and father went in for the first ultrasound and saw one baby at two months. It was too soon to tell whether the baby was a boy or a girl. They decided to wait until the next ultrasound to find out if they were going to have a boy or a girl.

When my mother and father went in for the second ultrasound around the fourth month, they found out that she was carrying twins. The doctor said that one baby must have been hidden behind the other one so he never saw the second baby. The doctor let them know that one baby was a girl and the other one was a boy and both looked very healthy. They were so excited; both of them had tears slowly going down their faces coming from both of their eyes. They had really big smiles going down from cheek to cheek and they couldn’t stop laughing out loud because of the love and joy that they felt in their hearts.

My mother told me that when Adrian went to teach class one night, after their second ultrasound that day, that another pure-blooded vampire instructor, Adrian’s closest friend, told him that Keira was in danger. He told Adrian that because he is a pure-blooded vampire and Keira was not a pure-blooded vampire, but a human, that other pure-blooded vampires might come after her.

In fear for my mother and the twins that she was carrying might end up being killed, the next day late afternoon, Adrian sent Keira with the unborn twins to his old home town in Tomaha, Wisconsin. He had a hobby farm where no one was living. She could stay there for free and take care of me and my twin brother. But before my mother left my father to come to Tomaha to save her life and ours, they came up with names for us. They named me Kyra and my twin brother, Kyle before we were born. We kept our mother’s last name to make it harder for others to find us. My mother was four months pregnant when she left my father.

Kyle and I were born at Tomaha Memorial Hospital in Tomaha, Wisconsin on September 1st. Kyle was born first because he came out two minutes before me. Kyle and I were both 7 pounds and 20 inches long. I came out fine, while Kyle came out pale white and cool to the touch. The doctor worried that he might be iron deficient; but my mother refused to have any tests done in fear that the doctor might find out that Kyle was not normal and run more tests. My mother left the hospital the same day that she had us. She was admitted in the morning. Then, she had both of us early afternoon and then later was discharged late that night.

My father sent money every month to my mother in Tomaha to help raise us. He sent cash and a letter in an envelope to my mother with no return address. He also never mentioned his name to keep his identity a secret and in case the letter would ever fall into the wrong hands.

I asked my mother what my father and she looked like in college. She said my father had short, straight dark brown hair, almost black in color that was cut just above the middle of his neck with short bangs, and very bright blue eyes that when you looked into them you’d feel as if you were in a trance. He was very tall, about six feet and four inches in height. He was somewhat muscular in the arms, chest, and legs, but not built and not quite as thin as some of the college students. My father’s skin was pale white and cool to the touch. He always dressed so very professionally for work. Most of the time, wearing a black suit with black dress pants, a white long sleeved dress shirt, gray tie, and black dress shoes. She said that she had long, curly light brown hair that went down to the middle of her back with short bangs and brown eyes. She was tall, about six feet in height and was pretty thin. She said that she looked kind of like a walking tooth pick, not muscular at all. When she was pregnant, she never really showed until her eighth month. Her skin was dark because she tanned so easily from the sun’s rays. She dressed professional for school wearing a dressy long sleeved blouse that went over a short sleeved shirt, black dress pants, and dressy leather boots with a one inch heel.

She told me; in college she did not have a lot of money so she would wear the same dress shoes. She would buy clothes on clearance or on sale that looked nice enough to get by just until she graduated from college. Then, after she graduated, she would be able to buy nicer things with her new job that she hoped she would get shortly after graduating.

When my mother moved to Tomaha, she got a job teaching fourth grade English, Math, Science, Reading, History, Music, and Art at an elementary school. She did this in April and May, during the summer months for summer school, and August before she had us. She then quit her job to be a stay-at-home mom and ended up home schooling both of us.

My mother said that my twin brother, Kyle is exactly two minutes older than me because he was born at 2:00pm and I was born at 2:02pm. She told me that she never sent us to school because we are half vampire and half human. We had to learn how to control our hunger for blood and emotions, especially when we get angry and nervous.

She also told me that she found out when Kyle and I were only two years old that I could be out in the sun as long as I wanted to be and not get a sunburn or a tan on my pale white skin. However, my twin brother, Kyle could not be outside longer than one hour because his skin turns from pale white to very bright red after an hour of exposure from the sun’s rays. When my mother saw this, she rushed him into the house and put him in a bathtub with many buckets of ice cubes to cool him down. He sat in the bathtub for two hours before he started to cool down. He was sunburned for one month.

My mother had to put the highest level of sun block on his skin, cover most of his body in clothing, and limit his time outside to prevent the same thing from happening again. She made sure that she timed him for about half an hour outside and at least an hour or more inside the house. She called him a night walker and me a day walker because of the sun exposure.

Kyle and I fought a little because I could be outside longer than him. When we fought, my mother found out that my brother was twice as strong and fast as I was with his vampire side of him. My mother also noticed that because we are twins, we didn’t fight a lot because we have the sense and instinct of twins. We could think and feel a little of what the other twin was thinking and feeling. So, when we fought, when one of us got hurt, then the other one started to feel their pain.

At age four, my mother started home schooling us in English, Math, Science, History, Reading, Art, and Music. Kyle and I were both very smart and learned really fast because our vampire side allowed us to read at an extremely fast speed. We also had very sharp hearing which helped out with our music class because it allowed us to play pretty much any instrument we wanted to play. I was really good at memorizing things, while Kyle really didn’t care to memorize anything that dealt with homework.

At age sixteen, both of us were reading and learning classes at a college level. Also, at age sixteen, we both learned how to drive. When my mother was teaching us how to drive, my brother got his driver’s license in the summer time one day before me because he is two minutes older than I was. But, when he drives, he has a lead foot and likes to speed to see how fast he can go when our mother was not around. Now that my brother and I have our driver’s license, my mother felt that it is time for us to start