Past

The little girl laughed, her laughter resonating and ringing around the house which was quiet where she was being chased by her little brother. Her small feet ran past the main hall, stepping out of the house with her bare feet to feel the hot ground burning which made her run back inside.

"Miss Vivian please refrain from going out of the house. It isn't safe to be out," the housekeeper who had been asked to supervise the children spoke to the little vampiress. The girl looked up with her dark red eyes which were darker than the others in the household. 

"It is hot!" her small voice complained looking back outside the house. 

"It is the time of noon, miss. The ground is bound to be hot because of the sun," the housekeeper was a young woman who was in her early twenties. 

The little girl stared at the ground, her eyes then looking up at the woman to ask, "Why?"