Ethan was a normal 16 year high school boy who was bored with his everyday boring life. He wanted to have some fun in his life so one full moon night he looked at the moon I wished that he can get super powers.
Next day he woke up feeling a headache. He ignored the pain and got ready for his school. He went down and sat on the table for his breakfast to be serve. It was just his mother and him living in a apartment. His father already died when he was small but he didn't knew how. He tried to ask his mom about it but she would always ignore that topic. So in the end Ethan stopped asking about his father's death.
His mom walked out of the kitchen and placed the food on the table.
Mom- Enjoy your food
she said with a smile and Ethan started eating. His mom also sat in front of him and started eating her food. While eating his food he looked up and saw "1" written on her mother's forehead.
Ethan- Mom.. Why did you write 1 on your forehead.
Ethan asked his mom while in response her mom looked at him with a confuse face.
Mom- what are you talking about son... there is nothing in my forehead.
Ethan- no mom... there is... you go and check in the mirror.
Her mom went and stood in front of the mirror which was placed in the living room.
Mom- See there is nothing on my head. Stop pranking with me.
Ethan- but mom...
Mom- No but... eat your food quickly and go to school.
Ethan didn't say anything more and ate his food quietly. But the whole time he was thinking about the number written on her mother's forehead. With the same thought he went to school. On the way he saw all the people had some numbers on their forehead. But mostly all the numbers written were 0 . He couldn't understand what was happening.
Like this the days passed and it's been 1 week since he started seeing strange numbers. He searched in internet about this topic but he couldn't find anything. Throughout this whole week he saw different numbers on people's forehead but all the numbers were less than 10. Not a single number he saw was more than that.
It was all a mystery to him and he wanted to solve this mystery.
One night he was late to go back home as he was doing a school project with his friends. It was midnight and the streets were mostly empty as the people don't go out late at night nowadays because of a serial killer who ran away from the prison. The news got out last month but still the killer was not caught. And many people was getting killed at night.
So people are afraid to go out at night due to this. But Ethan totally forgot about this killer and was walking on the street freely. Suddenly he heard some grunting voice from an Alley. He was confused and curious about the voice so he quietly went towards the alley. There's a saying that "Curiosity kills the cat" and here Ethan is doing the same thing. He went towards the alley and saw two figure standing there. One was leaning against the wall while the other one was pinning him.
Ethan hide behind a dumpster and was trying to see their faces. There was not much light in the alley so it was hard for him to see their faces. But their was a lamppost due to which he could see their faces as he leaned a bit from behind the dumpster.
He was shocked to see the face because the man who was pinning the other one against the wall had number " 198" written on his forehead. It was the first time he saw a number more than 10 written on someone's forehead. He couldn't understand why the man had the number 198 written on his forehead while the other people hardly had any number more than 10.
He was busy in his thoughts when he suddenly gasped as he saw the man with the strange number sink his teeth on the other man's neck. The helpless man screamed in pain but their was no one who could heard his scream other than Ethan and the strange man.
Ethan was so shocked that he started trembling in that spot. Only one thought came in his mind and that was.... Vampire🧛♂️.
He is a fan of fantasy stories so he knew everything about the supernatural world but he thought all those was just a fantasy... but now he is seeing a real vampire in front of his eyes who was sûcking all the blood from the man's body.
Soon the helpless man's body turned pale and he fell on the ground. The vampire looked at the man and licked his lips which was full of blood.
Vampire - His blood was tasty *smirks*
Ethan gasped in fear. He was so scared... he just want to ran away from there and go back to his home. So he slowly slowly started going back but to his bad luck he stepped on something which made a loud noise. The vampire sharply looked towards the voice and his eyes locked with that of Ethan's
Ethan saw how the number on the vampire's forehead changed from 198 to 199. That's when he understood when the numbers means. The numbers shows how many people had the person killed. At that time the only thought came in his mind was why there was number 1 written on his mom' s forehead...? So it means that his mom has killed someone? But whom?
He couldn't get to think anything more as he was soon pinned against the wall by the same vampire.
Ethan tried to struggle and scream but the vampire put his other hand on his mouth.
Vampire - 🤫shh... it you try to make any noise then I will make sure that you die in here.
As soon as he heard that he stopped struggling as the tears flow out of his eyes.
The vampire put his nose in Ethan's neck and sniffed him.
Vampire - You smell so good~ Looks like I will have a good meal today.
Ethan tried to struggle again but the vampire held him tightly and sinked his teeth in his neck.
Ethan screamed in pain as tears flow out of his eyes. He was regreting everything. He regrets walking alone in night. He regrets following that voice. He knew he should have walked out of the alley as soon as he saw the mysterious number written on the man's forehead but he just stood at that place curiously. And this curiousity brought him to this situation. The biggest regret he had was to have this super power to see the number.
That's how Ethan's life turned up and down because of the mysterious number.
~ End ~
