The Pledge

  In the midst of the hall, five girls standing, with eyes fixated down the floor. The way they look undeniably showed how nervous and dreadful they felt towards what was about to happen to them. 

Are they ready, obviously they're not. Could they stop what was about to happen, it seems they couldn't. They even tried skedaddling, but they failed. 

Now all these five girls could do was close their eyes, accept their faith. They could take it as a struggle of their belief or a blessing for eternity. That is what being a vampire meant. 

Ella shook her head silently, she didn't want to reach up to this moment. She came back to that place pretending ready to pledge, but all she wanted was only to get her brother Gavin out of that place.

However, it seemed now wasn't yet the chance for her. At some point, she had to play the game and go with the flow, then wait for the perfect time to take her brother out of that place.