Last Day on Earth

Last night's nightmare was so real that we were talking about reality in the dream.

In my dream, a couple we know moved from their house to a really nice apartment complex in the city.  I went to visit them and help E move stuff around.  A neighbor called, a blonde girl, and offered M a steak. When she left I stopped M from eating it and sniffed it, cut it apart, all the while freaking out.  It looked like it was cooked, but inside it was mostly dark blood.  Human blood.

"Don't eat this, M."

"...what?"

"It'll turn you into a vampire."

"Seriously, Kaitlin?  This is real life."

"But this HAPPENS in real life, M."

I went to tell E and she believed me.  We emptied the drains in the back room (I think the apartment, which was huge, had been a restaurant) and went back to the kitchen to see that M had eaten the steak.  Elizabeth ran out to pack her car and I stayed in the kitchen with M, waiting.  The blonde girl came back. She smiled and we saw her fangs.

"It's your birthday tomorrow," she purred.

"We'll be bringing gifts."  I knew she meant humans, for food.

M started realizing something was really happening.  He didn't like it but at this point, there was no going back.  I got their dog, Lily, and held her.  I rushed past the girl, who thought I was going to throw the dog at her.  "I love her too much to let her try and fight you," I snarled.

I took her to E, who was crying in the bathroom.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

She came out and nodded.  She sniffed.

"It's just that this is basically our last night on earth, and there were so many things I wanted to do for God," she said.

"I was watching Rosie on Oprah the other day and I was thinking about all the stuff we could do -- all the devotions I never had time for, the things I should have done and didn't, the right things to do..."

We stood there, with Lily, and cried because we knew that even if M didn't want to suck our blood, the blonde vampire and her friends would show up tomorrow and know that we were human and then they'd tear into us.

E had packed the car and we were going to go on the run with Lily but somehow we knew it was futile.  They'd find us.

We spent the early part of the night in shock because in real life, stuff like this isn't real, and in tears because we knew it was our last day on earth.