Looking for the electric board

It wasn't like Melanie didn't know that this was how it would be, but she hadn't thought that her parents would go to the lengths of strapping her to a chair where the vampires were operated. Treating her like she was not their daughter anymore and it hurt her. 

"You do know you are not a disappointment. You have a generous heart," said Simon, and he sighed when Melanie didn't respond to his words. "Do not doubt yourself for a moment. Just because people cannot see what you see, doesn't mean you are wrong."

"They hate me. So much that they didn't care if I would be alive after they returned," Melanie's eyes watered, but the tears didn't fall from her eyes. She took a deep breath. "I sometimes don't get why there's so much hate in this world, when so many things can be resolved by talking."