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For one vampire to make you a vampire, they have to suck your blood. A lot. Pretty much until you're almost dead. And then you have to suck their blood. So it's an exchange. Like Secret Santa, only with blood and probably STDs.
Once you're done with the sucking part, you die. It probably hurts a lot. Your family finds the body and sticks you in the cemetery, six feet under. After a while, the vampire Easy-Bake Oven timer goes off, and you wake up -- only, like I just mentioned, it's not really you, because you're dead. Instead, it's a demon in a nice fresh you-suit, who will then go off and kill all the people you've ever cared about. It has all your memories, see, but it doesn't love those people the way you did. [ if she understood Spike better... maybe she would hesitate about this part. but it's what she's seen for herself over the years ]
Anyway, if you live in Sunnydale, the demon in the you-suit won't get that far. I patrol the graveyards every night and kill them when they rise.