Lailah: A Narrative Fiction

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Lailah knows she is not like the others. She doesn’t age and has no family. She has visions of things she has lived before in past lives. She has no clue of what she is or who she is. There is a face in a her dreams, a light, that breaks through all darkness. She knows his name is Gabriel but she doesn’t know what he means to her.

Walking home from work one late night she discovered an injured person. His name is Jonah. She decides to help him out a little. When she brings him back to her place, she finds out he is a vampire and needs to feed to get well. He took her to his friends and she found Gabriel. Gabriel turns out to be an angel that is helping all the willing vampires change and remain their humanity in their hearts.

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