Yellow Skin

I looked in the mirror and had to double take. I was staring at eyes I didn’t recognise, skin that had dulled to a jaundice colour in a matter of days. My eyes were the same shape, but the colour of my iris had changed to a mustard brown. It had been six days since I’d been bitten, and I could no longer deny they’d gotten me trapped this time. For years I’d carried round the antidote, and every time I’d been bitten I’d shot the pen into my leg. But this time I’d risked everything just for another shot at seeing Lara before she left for university, I’d rushed out the house and it was only when I was half way down the road had I realised I’d left it behind. How was I going to tell my mother that I’d been bitten and had 4 days left until I became a Jud. My computer screen flashed a message at me and I broke away from staring at my changing appearance.

“You can choose Simon. Be at the museum of natural science at midnight. Tell no one. It doesn’t have to be this way.”