I never thought I was a pretty girl. I'm not. Now I'm the most beautiful girl in school. Very soon I'll be the only one left.

品<br><br>****<br><br><br>I never thought I was a pretty girl. My face is too angular, my eyes are too narrow, and my lips are too small. One day though, I woke up prettier.<br><br>****<br><br><br>It's impossible to explain what happened, but it was as if a switch was flipped. When I first looked in the mirror that morning I was still ugly, but it was just a mirror's reflection staring back at me. Still the same face - now different in every way. When I took a shower, my skin was smoother. My hair was thicker. During breakfast my eyes were brighter, the shape of them more precise. Every morning I woke up prettier still. I think it's harder for my parents to watch than it is for me to see myself change, each day erasing one more bit of the girl they raised into an adult. This is who I am now. It's impossible to explain what I am. I'm just beyond what's humanly possible in terms of beauty.<br><br>****<br><br><br>School was the hardest part. I'd never been popular before, but now I was a center of attention. So many kids and teachers stopped to take a second look at me. I think one of the worst experiences I had was lunch. I was sitting down at an empty table when a group of jocks came over. One of them offered to buy me a milkshake from the cafeteria, and just as he did a cheerleader screamed at him, daring him to do something sexual to her. I freaked out and started screaming back at her to get her away from me. The cheerleader said I was threatening her and a teacher overheard, dragging me to the principal's office. I was sent home for trying to fight one of our school's most popular people.<br><br>****<br><br><br>Also startling was waking up in the middle of the night to a guy in my room. I screamed, and in my panic I threw him out my second story window. It was so cold that night, and I heard him shatter on the ice-covered flagstones below. I looked down, and all I remember is that he was faced away from me, so there was nothing to see of his features. I screamed, and my parents came into my room. I told them what had happened, and they searched my house, but there was no one. I was so confused, but figured I'd dreamed the whole thing. When I went to school I saw the guy I'd thrown out the window. He was in my history class. He looked over at me with the most sinister smile, and I was so relieved.<br><br>****<br><br><br>The first time it happened at school was so...shocking. A group of guys walked by me in the hallway, and one of them just dropped dead. I was so startled, I jumped away from them and knocked over my locker in the process. I started screaming, and everyone panicked. All the teachers came running to see what happened, but by the time they got there it was too late. Half of the hallway was dead.<br><br>****<br><br><br>I've been absent from school the last few days, and I've just been staying at home with my parents. They've been watching me, like I'm an animal or something. I don't blame them, but I'm so tired of being treated like a monster. I didn't choose this.<br><br>****<br><br><br>I was alone in my room when I heard the window shatter. This time I didn't scream. I pulled out the knife I'd been hiding and prepared to attack. When I turned around, a man was in my room by the windowsill, staring at me. His eyes were black as coal, and his teeth were so sharp. He had no face, and his skin was like...like porcelain. We talked, and when we did, it was as if we'd both been waiting forever for this moment. He was so handsome, and I think I'm in love with him. He told me everything. We've both been given powers, the ability to become irresistible to others. And once they're within our grasp...we eat them. He could tell I was horrified, so he showed me how it was done. My first bite of flesh was so sweet and savory. I can't believe I've lived my whole life never eating it.<br><br>****<br><br><br>As I said, I think I'm in love with him. But I don't know what to call him. He never told me, but he's been waiting for me for centuries. He told me that centuries ago, the first to exist were called incubi and succubi. He said that he'd been a succubus, but that's not what they call them anymore. Now, they're called demons. They're the devil's children, or so he said. That was all he told me. He said there was more that I didn't need to know, that I would learn it in time.<br><br>****<br><br><br>I know you guys are going to think I'm crazy for this, but I really think he's an angel. Not literally, I know, but he's so sweet and gentle with me. He doesn't want me to eat my own kind. It's forbidden to kill humans. All of the creatures we eat are demons like us, and we have to fight to kill each other. Humans just die on their own from being around us, and when they do we can feed on them. But killing them is against the law. He doesn't want me to get myself in trouble, and I've tried my best to explain to him that I just want to go to school and be a normal girl. I didn't get to choose this, and I don't want to. I just want to live a normal life.<br><br>****<br><br><br>He never listens to me, so he wasn't happy when I decided to go to school anyway. I packed my bag, not bringing my knife with me, and walked out the door. He didn't stop me, and my parents didn't say anything. It was so convenient, but I didn't really think about it at the time. When I was at school I felt like such a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be my friend, and I started to like the attention. It's fun, but what will happen if I get bored of them all? Was I bored with the guy who came into my room? I don't remember. But when I killed everyone in school...I don't know how to explain it. I can't feel anything about it. I killed everyone in school. There was no one left when I was done, and it was such a long process. So many bodies to eat, and I was so full when I'd finished. I think I ate everyone in the building. I didn't want to do it, but I couldn't stop myself.<br><br>****<br><br><br>I'm so weak. I think school's cancelled for a while, but I'll be back in class eventually. I wonder how long it'll take them to realize everyone's dead. I wonder how many more classes I'll be in before I've eaten them all. I can't escape this fate. I'm a monster, and I'll always be a monster. I killed everyone, and there's nothing I can do to bring them back. I was stupid to think I could choose to be a normal girl. I'll never be normal. I'm something else entirely.<br><br>****<br><br><br>&#x200B;